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Blyss:
You know, it's funny.

My son asked me yesterday what games I played as a kid.

I told him that he'd never heard of the system I played on.  It was an Intellivision.

What with its state of the art graphics, and cutting edge controller all designed to beat the Atari 2600, the Intellivision was the system to beat when I was a kid.  I did really like the games though, to be honest.  Space Armada, Star Control, Boxing, Golf, Dungeons & Dragons - these were the games that devoured my time as a child.  Hours and hours spent defeating the aliens, or whatever.  My parents were so upset over it, that when I'd moved out of the house, and my sisters were old enough for a system (would have been a PS1) my parents emphatically refused.  The reason was that I'd done nothing but play games after they bought me a system.

 :lol:

MattBurns:
This may take some time. My first game system was a Pong game. it had Tennis, raquet ball, Jai Alai (I remember wondering what the heck was Jai Alai)

Later, when I was 12, my mother, my sister and I all chipped in 40 bucks and we bought an Atari. a year later the price dropped to $40 bucks and I was pissed. but anyway. I have fond memories of Demon Attack and Pit fall. I played the horrendous ET and I liked it. every time my tv turns on I'm reminded of the opening to Atari Pac-man, which remarkably had very little in common with Pac-Man. I recall asteroids and space invaders and missile command. My sister loved Enduro and I was really good at Video Pinball.

I actually laughed at my Dad who bought an Intellivision. I hated the controller for that system.

Time moved on I went down the computer path with the vic-20 and the commodore 64. around this time some of my friends started getting the NES system. For some reason back then I hated Nintendo. probably because I thought my Commodore was just as good, and I had about 500 disks of pirated games to keep me busy. Plus I discovered one of the best genre's of all time, The text adventure, and you just couldn't play that on the nes.

when the war between the Genesis and the SNES started, my hatred for Nintendo continued and I went with the Genesis.  I liked Sonic, and I'm sure I bought other games, but I can't remember them. that all changed when I went to college. My friend had a SNES. Super Contra was amazing. I remember playing that co-op for hours. we got pretty good at the whole thing, watching us play was hilarious. and then there was final fantasy II. I played that game for 19 hours straight it was amazing. But it wasn't until Metroid that I totally jumped. I worked part time for Radio Shack back then, and I would spend my off  hours at Service Merchandise playing Super Metroid. I almost beat the game there till I heard one of the stock boys bitching about how I was always there.

of course it helped that I had to pawn my Genesis for Macaroni money, Times were hard back then. When I finally had enough money, I bought one. I got in a lot of trouble for it from the new wife as well, but it was worth it.

I was one of those who bought the 64 at launch. I also have the gold pre order of both Zeldas. After playing Mario, twice, I played Blast Corp, one of Rare's first unbeatable games.

somewhere I picked up a play station, I'm sure for ff VII the only other game I remember really liking on the PS other than the FF titles were the Spyro titles.

We got a PS2 pretty late. I tried to play FFX, but I just couldn't get into it. I can't really think of anything for the PS2 that I really really liked. I'm sure there were some, but none come to mind at the moment.

I picked up the Game Cube for Zelda, even though it didn't come out till like a year later. and I bought a Wii for pretty much for my son.

I'm sure it's because I'm older now, and my priorities are different, but games these days just don't have the allure that they did back in the days of the 64 and the psx. and even before that the days of my Commodore.   

I have yet to find a game for the Wii that really grabs me. (I played zelda on he game cube) which seems strange with everyone raving about it.
Maybe paper mario will be good. I guess we'll see.

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