We (lurk and I) have been building up our collection of consoles and handhelds, yep going all the way back to ones now considered as Retro. In our little collection we have the following (in no particular order):-
AJAX
Amstrad CPC-464 (non-console)
SNES
N64
GameCube
DS
Sega Mega Drive & CD
Dreamcast
PlayStation (original)
PS2
PSP
XBox
We still have a few that we'd love to get, I want the new Nintendo Wii and he wants a XBox 360 but the one we both want is the Panasonic 3DO.
Tell me, what consoles do you own? Do you collect them? What console would you love to have?
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Well i've had
Playstation
Sega
Super Nintendo
And some others
I'd love to have Playstation 3 o.O
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My list is like this... N64, PSone, PS2, SNES, Amstrad cpc464, gameboy colour
I really want a game cube though just to play zelda on
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Xbox
PS2
Xbox 360 (the better one with an extra wireless pad and wifi)
Nintendo DS Lite (black)
To list all the one's I can remember owning (probably more than this though):
Comadore 64
NES
SNES
Gameboy
Gameboy Pocket
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo DS (at launch)
Nintendo DS Lite (at launch, selling at some point)
Nintendo Game & Watch: Donkey Kong (I hate the fact that this got broken as they fetch a fortune these days)
Gamecube (with the GBA dock and GBA link leads, one of which I still have somewhere)
N64
Sega Master System I (with the card slot)
Sega Master System II
Sega Megadrive I
Sega Megadrive II
Sega Gamegear
Sega Dreamcast
Atari Lynx
Atari ???? (can't remember which one it was, not the Jaguar)
Xbox (selling at some point)
Xbox 360 Premium (at launch, but that one died because Microsoft put out a bad patch, so I got it fixed)
Playstation
Playstation 2 (selling at some point)
PSP (at launch, just sold it with 13 games, 3 movies and an extra memory stick)
Basically, I've had every Nintendo console available to me to date (not importing) other than a Gameboy Colour and Gameboy Micro and I used to be a fan of Sega consoles, so the only one I never bothered to get was the Saturn, for obvious reasons.
Had Sega pushed the Dreamcast more and had they done a better job on the controllers, it could have worked for them.
I don't really bother with consoles much these days as I spend a lot of time on my PC, but I might think about picking up a Wii at some point down the road, but only once I've had the chance to actually play on one as I still don't trust the controller fully and the DS wasn't a big hit for me, but then again, neither was the PSP.
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Atari 2600
The first Atari
Comodor 64
Texas Instrument (first one with the tape drives, it was both a computer and a game consule combined)
I'm a collector =P:
- Sega Master System
- Sega MegaDrive 1
- Sega Dreamcast (PAL)
- Super Nintendo (SNES)
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Gamecube
- Gameboy Advanced
- Playstation II
Okay, my list isn't that long, I just collect certain games to certain consoles ^^.
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In our list the really old school one is the AJAX. For starters it takes batteries, it has no power supply hole. It has 4 pre programmed games (and one of those is a practise for the others lol), the controllers have one turning switch on them that enables you to move your | up and down on the screen to help you hit the . that bounces about. It's not quite as old as the Pong game but it's close!
My favourite one has to be the dreamcast I think it was underated. Also I spent hours on the final fantasy games on the playstation .... I think I need to go get a life!
An original pong console - only played pong...
NES
Sega Mega Drive
N64
PS2
GameBoy
GameBoy Pocket
GameBoy Colour
Nintendo DS
Though I can't remember the last time I seriously played a console game...
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nintendo
super nintendo
n64
playstation (had it for a month and never played it)
I never really played my n64 either i was a PC boy by then
Yeah, the Dreamcast was a landmark console really, but the lack of advertising and the inability to play music without crippling the drive did cause a few slight problems.
The Dreamcast was the first one to really push online play, though back when 56K was more common (I hated that), it was a bit problematic (especially the chat system on their DC site which refreshed every minute or so, nuking whatever you were typing).
There was a broadband modem, but that thing is like platinum plated gold dust (in other words, there were about 2 on ebay for some high prices).
The Dremcast was, at the time, very powerful and it was actually the first 128bit console (predating the PS2, though bit rates are no longer used in advertising since it's much more impressive to say "Three 3.2Ghz cores in the CPU... That's 9.6Ghz in all!!!1").
No other company had a system like the VMU, though Sony did copy it with their Pocketstation memory card (compatible with release versions of Final Fantasy 8 here, though the card never got here and wasn't a success) and although Sony touts the EyeToy as their revolution in gaming, which microsoft has copies, Sega actually did start the ball rolling by developing a Dreamcast camera, which never got released as Sega pulled out of the console world due to losses made after the Playstation came out (the Saturn lost to the Playstation and the Dreamcast to the PS2).
Still rated rather highly and since released on the Xbox and Gamecube, Phantasy Star Online was one of the biggest games out on the DC, though the follow-up's such as PSO3 and Phantasy Star Universe haven't evolved enough to merit such a success (PSO3 used the slightly updated engine from PSO Episode 2, which was bundled with PSO on the Xbox and Gamecube and PSU is rated as looking like a PS2 game and as not playing any better than PSO) and Sega's introduction of a monthly fee of $9.99 for a game that isn't an MMORPG hasn't pleased people (especially when you're also paying for Xbox LIVE Gold, which allows you to play most other online 360 games without paying anything other than the LIVE fee).
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I too agree that the DC was really underrated, most of the nowaday kids say: "what? you own a Dreamcast? Such Crap?"... funny... they don't have a clue what they're talking about...
As I already mentioned, my favorite game is a Dreamcast game, however it got re-released at the X-Box, they bought the rights of part 3 as well (damn you =P)...
There are rumors, or there were, that Sega is building a new and improved version of the Dreamcast. There was a rumor about re-releasing the Dreamcast, but it never actually happened. About the first rumor: I truly hope so
1 little fact: The Sega Marketing Advisor, who was partly responsible for the downfall of the Dreamcast, works for Microsoft now, and guess what: he even got his marketing job, for the X-Box =P
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lurk, that Ajax does sound VERY old school. I forgot that I owned a Coleco, anyone had one?
Does anyone know if Pong is the oldest console? If not, what is?
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Firefox 2 really helps when I'm typing quickly though since it has spell checking (many of the mistakes are down to whacking the wrong keys at speed :[).
I know a fair bit about the Dreamcast due to it being one of the disc based consoles I actually wanted to buy (I had very little interest in the Playstation because 80% of it's games were clones of each other, or games on older consoles).
My deformed hands actually suited the DC controller as they're about 7" from the base of my palm to the tip of my middle finger and one of my thumbs is shorter and wider (gaming has made me a monster >:0), but apparently, giant angular controllers with cords coming out of the bottom don't sell well in Asia (small people = tiny hands), which was also the problem with the Xbox controller, causing the creation of the S model, which was the base for the incredibly nice 360 controller.
The DC used special discs while everyone else was using standard CD's.
The DC used GD-ROM discs, which were like CD's, but they had a higher capacity due to how they were produced (a track for CD players, a track for PC's, an empty track and then a high density track, knocking the disc up to just over 1Gb capacity), but it is somewhat possible to make a normal CD reader read GD-ROM data by spoofing the reader using disc swapping, and the Dreamcast can play CD-ROM disc data (because the GD-ROM actually uses the same technology to some degree... This is how it got hacked, though Sega wasn't too bothered by people developing homebrew for it as long as it didn't cost them money, but I wouldn't know as I never got hold of anything like that... :]).
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Holy cow, people could actually create their own games create and possibly sell them for the Dreamcast? Too bad the Dreamcast didn't get more popular then. They could have had a cottage industry of small time game developers creating Dreamcast games
I think one of the next generation game console makers should take that risk and make it possible for people to create their own games. I think this would make that console popular enough that console sales would offset the loss due to pirated software.
Do you think that could work?
After that it was easy to add hacks and stuff so you could change practically everything in the game. Not to mention that they left the developer hacks in as well which let you do practically anything as well!
I think it would work, I'd love the chance to make my own little games for the consoles I have
I know for a fact that it's possible to run homebrew on a Dreamcast without modding it in any way as... er... I've seen it done and it means that you can run emulators for consoles such as the SNES on it.
In fact, there was a boot disc for the Dreamcast, so copied games would play from CD's without any hardware changes.
The use of a proprietary disc format was the only real form of piracy prevention, but since it could run CD's, this was easily broken, though some games either required modification to play, or simply never would if copied.
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We still have an Atari 2600 woody floating round the gaff...now what else...
Downstairs at the min and hooked up to the tv:
PS2
Xbox
Gamecube (with GB player)
Sega Saturn
Under the stairs or maybe the loft lol
Dreamcast
N64
Snes
Nes
Mega Drive II
Master Sytem
Jaguar
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
Gameboy Advance SP
Did have 2 DS's but we sold them, DS got a DS lite (off his father) for his birthday but sold it unopened when he got a PSP off me and hubby
Upstairs on the bedroom tv
PS1
In the bathroom (DON'T ASK!!)
Sega Gamegear with TV adaptor
And then floating around somewhere in this **** hole we have 2 PSP's.
My fav game (at the minute) is GTA:Vice City in the PS2. I don't like the xbox controls. We have vice city on both ps2 and xbox. We also have GTA:III, San Andreas (ps2 and xbox) Liberty CIty Stories (PSP and PS2)
I've bought Dave a Wii for xmas, we will probably get the 360 next yr when it's a bit cheaper and the PS3 gonna have to wait for that to drop severly in price or mortgage the house to pay for it lol
I think we may have more console's not sure anymore
Keep badgering hubby to sell them but nope...unless I sell my pigs which will never happen lol
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