I keep forgetting there were two generations before me

[Pike]

Despite being born in '83, our family never actually owned an NES, so the bulk of my early gaming years were on that Commodore 64 that I mentioned earlier. However, we did rent NES systems frequently (back then you could just go to the video rental store and rent whole systems, as well as VCRs and stuff) and I played the HECK out of Duck Hunt.

Also, my cousins had an NES, and GOOD FREAKING LUCK tearing me away from Mario 3 and the original Zelda whenever we went to visit. (I hadn't the faintest idea how to play Zelda, because I was far too young for it, but I played it anyway.)

I didn't really start console gaming until the SNES/Genesis era, though.

[Araciel]

Nahhh NES was the Genesis of gaming.. heh...

For me and most other people, I think it seems more subjective anyway...the first generation was whenever we picked up a controller or mouse and started getting a cavetan.. Sure those old machines blasting out Pong or Asteroids paved the way, and without them we wouldn't be on this site to begin with, but they aren't fun or engaging enough to me... If I'd rather go outside and play than play a video game...it loses.

[Pike]

I do agree that stuff like Pong and such was rather primitive. And games like Pac-Man and Dig-Dug-- while I agree that they are classics and were good for their time-- can really only entertain me for ten minutes tops these days. Things don't really start getting good until the late 80s.

(Though to be fair, World's Biggest Pacman, anyone? This site keeps me entertained for hours.)

[DK]

Dizzy > you

[Madame Adequate]

Dizzy was so shiet it actually made me stupid. I'd have cured cancer if I hadn't played it.

[DK]

He was an egg that sat in a barrel going down a river shooting birds for no apparant reason, he was clearly a hero and I would expect no less poor taste from a man who actually likes sitting and listening to Baird. :breine:

[Madame Adequate]

Actually I just dislike Dizzy because they're the only games to ever give me headaches and shiet

[Pike]

I dunno man, those dinosaurs in the Dizzy screenshot look pretty boss

[Loony BoB]

Our first gaming system was a PC - a 186 with Pacman, Space Invaders and DigDug. And Pong, of course. I also had little handheld games that were not multi-game, if you get what I mean. They had fixed colour "backgrounds" that were sort of permanent, in that even when the game was off, they were displayed. I forget the name. Game and Watch! That's it. I had a Donkey Kong kind of game where you had to jump over barrels and free some chick from a prison. And... something else. I forget. Oh man, this is going to bug me until I find out what it was. I know one was a racing game... a football one too, I think? And the other, I forget. I think it had something to do with bubbles. I could be wrong. xD