For those who grew up in the 90s, which system did you own? I preferred the Super Nintendo, even though I actually didn't own either. My parents were the type of parents who bought me a PC when I asked for a Super Nintendo. I thought Sonic was pretty awesome, but that was the only game on the Genesis I had any interest in. What I really wanted, was Zelda and Mario.

I would highly recommend "Console Wars" by Blake Harris. Read it this summer and it's a great read. Great mix of nostalgia and insight into that era.

Jim01 said:

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I would highly recommend "Console Wars" by Blake Harris. Read it this summer and it's a great read. Great mix of nostalgia and insight into that era.

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Agreed. I read it a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I heard Seth Rogan is trying to turn it into a TV series. I don't know whatever happened with that.

Echo the Dolphin didn't do it for you?

Intellivision forever!!!

AustinAg2K said:

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Jim01 said:

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I would highly recommend "Console Wars" by Blake Harris. Read it this summer and it's a great read. Great mix of nostalgia and insight into that era.

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Agreed. I read it a few years ago and really enjoyed it. I heard Seth Rogan is trying to turn it into a TV series. I don't know whatever happened with that.

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The documentary is on Paramount+. Seth Rogan was one of the producers.

I had the NES, Sega Genesis, and N64.

Never had a SNES but played it at my uncle's house. (Mostly DKC.)

I had the NES and SNES. I played mostly duck hunt and Mario on the SNES. I liked Super Battleship and Jeopardy! on the SNES. I still remember that the answer for the Freedom Trail in Boston was misspelled as Freeedom Trail and you'd get it wrong if you actually entered the right answer.

I'll take my Atari 2600 any day of the week.
Buddy down the street had a Colecovision….that was high falutin'.

First console was actually the Sears Intelligames system, which was a Pong clone.

Had a ColecoVision (still do, actually), a Sega Genesis, and the N64. Also bought an Xbox after the Xbox360 came out and "jailbroke" it just for fun.

Grew up on the 2600, NES, GameBoy, Genesis, N64, XBox, GBA.

I loved my Sega. Sonic was the Japanese taking everything Elenor Roosevelt said about speed and putting it into video game form.

We had the NES and SNES growing up, but the most nostalgia I have is for the N64. Specifically Goldeneye with the kids that lived on our street growing up. Although one of them always tried to cheat and pick Oddjob (looking at you, Chipotlemonger).

Had both. Sega had Shinibi III, which is still badass. But NES and SNES were superior.

I progressed Sega Genesis -> N64 -> Xbox 360 (and have stayed in that ecosystem since then).

Sort of a weird evolution, but we weren't keeping up with each new system when we were kids.

My entire journey:

Sega Genesis, Gameboy, N64, Gameboy Color, Gamecube, PS2, Xbox, Xbox360, 3DS, PS4, Switch, PS5, XboxSeriesX

I don't remember why I wanted a Sega over the Nintendo. My dad's roommate at the time had an NES or SNES, can't remember. I must have seen a commercial for Sonic or something. To be honest, I didn't know enough back then to really compare the two. My first Zelda game was Ocarina of Time.

Console Wars is a great read.

Friend has an Intellivision so that was my first real home gaming experience.

Then I went NES -> TG16 (which I think turned me off to consoles for a long bit) -> PC gaming -> N64 -> PS.

NES - Too young to play (at least that's what my two older brothers told me)
Sega Genesis - Sonic 2, Sonic Pinball, NBA Jam, and X-Men
N64 - Technically my brothers, but I was able to play when he wasn't. Goldeneye and OoT
Gamecube - Star Wars games and MLB game
Sega Dreamcast - Some Taxi video game and a random one here or there. Worst of the bunch
XBox - Bunch of different ones although NCAA Baseball and FIFA Worldcup were the main games
XBox360 - Wasn't mine but college roommates had it and we played Halo 2 & 3 non-stop freshman year at A&M
PS3 - NCAA Football, COD and FIFA plus some games here and there
PS4 - All FIFA with some other random games. COD WW2 was a fun one for a while too

Stopped playing video games after kids and work picked up about 3 years ago. Just don't have time anymore. Am definitely going to get the Harry Potter game though as that looks right up my alley. Already warned the wife.

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We had the NES and SNES growing up, but the most nostalgia I have is for the N64. Specifically Goldeneye with the kids that lived on our street growing up. Although one of them always tried to cheat and pick Oddjob (looking at you, Chipotlemonger).

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My brother always picked Oddjob and destroyed me every time. Almost turned me off the game because it wasn't fun playing against him. Would just crouch the entire time and run around. Then would set up proximity mines at the spawn points.

I always had "cooler" friends that owned Sega Genesis or Playstation. I was all in on Nintendo until about highschool.

NES->SNES->N64(middle school)->PS2 (high school) ->XBOX360 (college)

I revisited PS1 games on my PS2.
Now I get to revisit Genesis games on my kids Nintendo Switch. After a big gap in video games for me while my kids were too young, I'm having so much fun playing the Switch with them. Such a home run system for Nintendo.

N64 might not have had the massive library of PS1, but I maintain it had the best library of top tier games of all time.

So many classics on that console.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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N64 might not have had the massive library of PS1, but I maintain it had the best library of top tier games of all time.

So many classics on that console.

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Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, & Ocarina of Time have to be top10 games of all time. And that doesn't mention Mario Kart 64 & Diddy Kong racing.

What a lineup

My first consoles were a Sega Genesis and a Game Boy. My uncle had an NES left at my grandma's house that I used to play, and I'd play SNES at friend's houses, but I never got deep into either. N64 paired with IGN becoming bigger was where I really started getting into gaming.

Since then, I've owned most of the consoles that have come out. I do PC as well now, but really didn't get into that until I started working in the industry.

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BowSowy said:

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We had the NES and SNES growing up, but the most nostalgia I have is for the N64. Specifically Goldeneye with the kids that lived on our street growing up. Although one of them always tried to cheat and pick Oddjob (looking at you, Chipotlemonger).

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My brother always picked Oddjob and destroyed me every time. Almost turned me off the game because it wasn't fun playing against him. Would just crouch the entire time and run around. Then would set up proximity mines at the spawn points.

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Geez man, y'all needed some house rules. No Oddjob was at the top of our list.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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N64 might not have had the massive library of PS1, but I maintain it had the best library of top tier games of all time.

So many classics on that console.

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It may have been my age and obvious nostalgia, but this was the most magical era of gaming, for me. I was 9 when it came out, but I don't think we got one until I was around 10-11, because we bought a used one from Gamestop.

Playing the incredible lineup on the N64 at home, and playing Pokemon Red on my Gameboy color are some of my best memories of playing video games from my life.

The only other gaming experience I can say that blew me away as much as that era was the first time I fired up Morrowind on my Xbox.

The thing about the Sega Genesis through the N64 era, was that the internet was so new, so most of what you heard about games were from friends at school who had either played them or had subscriptions to magazines like Nintendo Power. Because we were young and just loved games, we would have my dad take us to Blockbuster on some Fridays and just pick out random games to rent, based on what the cover looked like. We would generally always enjoy them for the entire weekend.

I mean... there was a time I would wake up on a Saturday morning and have to decide which game I would play between: Goldeneye, Ocarina, Majora's Mask, Mario64, StarFox64, Super Smash Bros, Perfect Dark, or Conker's Bad Fur Day (those last two were more around 9th grade). I couldn't name that many games I love on any other console, other than the PC.

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Sega Dreamcast - Some Taxi video game

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Crazy taxi? Man, I loved that game.

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BowSowy said:

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We had the NES and SNES growing up, but the most nostalgia I have is for the N64. Specifically Goldeneye with the kids that lived on our street growing up. Although one of them always tried to cheat and pick Oddjob (looking at you, Chipotlemonger).

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My brother always picked Oddjob and destroyed me every time. Almost turned me off the game because it wasn't fun playing against him. Would just crouch the entire time and run around. Then would set up proximity mines at the spawn points.

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Proximity mines was the funniest crap you could use in multi-player Goldeneye. People would get so pissed when you would hide that **** under items, or around corners, on the ceiling in low spots. LOL.

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BowSowy said:

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We had the NES and SNES growing up, but the most nostalgia I have is for the N64. Specifically Goldeneye with the kids that lived on our street growing up. Although one of them always tried to cheat and pick Oddjob (looking at you, Chipotlemonger).

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My brother always picked Oddjob and destroyed me every time. Almost turned me off the game because it wasn't fun playing against him. Would just crouch the entire time and run around. Then would set up proximity mines at the spawn points.

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Proximity mines was the funniest crap you could use in multi-player Goldeneye. People would get so pissed when you would hide that **** under items, or around corners, on the ceiling in low spots. LOL.

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So true. Proximity mines and rocket launchers in multi-player were a complete crapshoot of hilarity.

Goldeneye was great and revolutionary for its time, but Perfect Dark just improved on everything Goldeneye did. I used to love playing Co-op with my brothers through the campaign, as well as against AI bots in multiplayer.

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Goldeneye was great and revolutionary for its time, but Perfect Dark just improved on everything Goldeneye did. I used to love playing Co-op with my brothers through the campaign, as well as against AI bots in multiplayer.

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Perfect dark was a great game. My only complaint with it was that gun that shoots through walls. It's cool in campaign, but it was stupid in multi-player. Whoever grabbed that gun first pretty much always won.

NES - First system that I got in third grade (1987-88). I didn't have many games, mainly the Mario games and a few sports games. IMO, Super Mario 3 is the greatest Mario game of all time.

SNES - I got this in 6th grade and is the video game system of my childhood. I probably had around 30 games. Donkey Kong Country and Street Fighter 2 are the my most nostalgic games ever.

N64 - I stopped playing video games by the time this came out but did get it in college a couple years after it was released. I didn't have much, like 6 games.

Playstation 2 - I didn't get this until maybe 2003 and the first non Nintendo system I ever owned. I didn't play much, really just NCAA football and GTA.

X-Box 360 - This was the system that got be back into video games in my late 20s / early 30s. IMO, it's the best system I've ever owned. Bioshock is my favorite video game of all time.

Switch - I really got this for my kids, but I still play it. I love Mario Kart 8 and play all the retro games that have been re-released.

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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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N64 might not have had the massive library of PS1, but I maintain it had the best library of top tier games of all time.

So many classics on that console.

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Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, & Ocarina of Time have to be top10 games of all time. And that doesn't mention Mario Kart 64 & Diddy Kong racing.

What a lineup

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Which is ironically what toppled Nintendo from being the top video game company in the world.

Control. Control. Control.

First party (Mario, Ocarina) and second party (Goldeneye, Diddy) had access to devkits and platforms that third party publishers did not. Add in ridiculous licensing fees and cartridge production costs and Nintendo very quickly managed to go from #1 in the business to #3.

I have the Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball SNES emulator on my fire tablet that I play pretty much every day.

Only thing we owned growing up was NES. I asked for a couple of years and mom wouldn't buy me a Sega Genesis. I guess b/c we fought over the NES too much. I bought an Xbox in college. Piece of crap died after just a few years.

In that generation I had the Genesis with the Sega CD. I still have both along with a 32X, Super NES, and TurboGrafx-16. As a retro gamer I have a bunch of systems. No TurboGrafx-CD or TurboDuo though.

I went Atari -> NES -> Sega Genesis -> Playstation