Gaming platform chronology

I have a photo of my brother and me playing Pong, too, but except for being too lazy to scan and post it, I'd rather keep it private out of respect for my bro who looks like he's gonna RAGEQUIT any moment . And I mean really R-A-G-E-Q-U-I-T a.k.a being on the very verge of throwing the wired remote right into the TV.
That's always been my bro's issue with games. Poor self control. He probably wasn't less skilled per se but he was always at a psychological disadvantage because he was either too mad to properly concentrate on playing when things were not going his way or if things were going his way he became too self-confident for his own good and then started to make mistakes which resulted in being angry and… yeah, you got it.

Haha, I have a couple of friends who're brothers - and they actually shared that issue among them. Still do, to a smaller extent.

Talk about emotional investment

Originally Posted by DArtagnan
I do vaguely remember playing something like Pong and that little tank game where you tried to hit each other with a few obstacles on the map. Not sure what kind of system it was. I think I remember Atari in relation to it, but I must have been like 4 years old or so.

That was probably "Combat" for the Atari 2600

1973-75 Honeywell Timesharing Service => 1976-1981 PDP-11 (various models) => Apple II+, ZX81 (in parallel with PDP-11) => 1981-1984 ICL 2900 series => long gap => 1991-97 IBM PC (OS/2 I was a beta tester for original galactic civilization in early 1990s) => 1997-2008 Palm Pilot => 2001- now windows PC => 2008 - now IOs games + windows PC (main platform)

Originally Posted by Nukester
That was probably "Combat" for the Atari 2600

I think that's it, yeah!

Fun thread idea!

At home:
Glorytoneda Pong Machine (1984 - nice to read stories about these!)
- C64 (1987)
Tandy 1000 (It was a very short period after a mate spilt milo on my first C64!)
- C64C (1991) and another of my own in 1994. - First PC wasn't until 1996. (Dx2-66) - Duron (2001) - Celeron (2002-2006) - AMD6000. (2007-?)

I've never really had a top of the line PC to date…still have my C64s!

Consoles:
Megadrive - SNES - PSone (All around 2000) - PS2 - PS3.

At School:
Vic 20 - C64 - Generic IBM - 286 - Pentiums

c64 -> c128 -> 8086 -> 286 16mhz -> 486 dx2-66 -> P-75 -> P2-300 -> AMD XP Athlon 1800 -> AMD X2-3000 black edition -> i5-4670.

Sadly didn't really keep any of the older ones, I used them till they wore out and sold the parts.

Dreamcast & Wii. Both still operational.

1970 - 1972 -> Pinball machines
1972 - 1973 -> Pong and variants
1974 - 1976 -> back to pinball
1977 - 1978 -> HP2000 (Star Trek, Adventure)
1979 - 1981 -> arcade asteroids, pacman, digdug, +others….
1982 - 1984 -> VAX 750, and arcades (+dig dug, pengo, robotron)
1985 - 1988 -> arcades only (slowly diminishing to nothing)
1989 - 2002 -> computer gaming interregnum
2003 -> PC Gaming, starting with online backgammon, turning to shooters, then RPGs. PC desktop, laptops with an update every 3 years since (sprinkled with the occasional phone gaming on samsung fliptop, and iPhone)

Mine is relatively simple:

Consoles:
Atari 2600 -> GameBoy

Desktops:
Amiga 500 -> PC (Pentium 90 -> Athlon 500 -> Dual Core -> next will be Quad Core)

ZX81 – ZX Spectrum – Amiga 1200 – then PCs from the mid 90’s

Consoles: Sega Master System – Sony Playstation 1

1982 ZX81
1983 48K Spectrum
1987 128K Spectrun
1989 286 Laptop
1996 486 Desktop -> various PC's and laptops
2009 PSP
2010 PS3
2013 Vita

Intellivision - C64 - NES - DOS/Genesis (roughly the same time, we stuck with C64 until then) - Win95 - Win98/PS1 - PS2 - WinXP - Gamecube - PS3 (briefly)/Win7 - Wii - Linux Mint.

I currently have, using devices suchas the Retrode and Infinite NES Lives, dumped my old console collection to my HDD, so I just play them viaemulators now. I'm overdue building anew computer, but i'm lazy and haven't bothered doing the research into parts yet, muchless getting around to ordering the stuff. Also because my backlog is large enough that I can probably make it a year or two easily without needing another rig. Longer if I start buying old console games and dumping them.

Anyone ever played on an Adventure Vision Console?
Well not me…was born in the year it was released.

But the mechanics behind it are interesting and the video presentation is one of my favorite youtube videos.

Pong -> Odyssey2 -> 286 -> 486 -> SNES -> Pentium -> WII -> current laptop

Think that's right…

Atari - C64 (remember Archon, that game was awesome) - Nintendo - Nintendo 64 - Sega Genesis - 386 - joined army, lived in woods like a monkey for more than half a decade, Al Gore invents internet, graphics cards are invented, other stuff as well - PC

I've said it before, Mac's are the high-heels of the computer world.

For my wife and kids it goes GameCube - Wii - Wii U. My kids also have some other shit like handheld shit and some sort of tablets. But, there is hope because my oldest daughter is showing some good taste. We played DOS together and some F2P MMOs.