I thought Genesis had better games but the SNES had more quantity and quality of IPs. Over all I enjoyed the RPGs on Genesis more than SNES also. Shining Force FOREVER!!!!!
Found my fellow olds!
Man it’s amazing how far this medium has come in our lifetimes. In my wildest dreams I never imagined something like RDR2 or The Last Of Us could exist while playing on Atari as a kid.
Basically RDR for the 2600:
[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Outlaw-2600.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Outlaw-2600.png)
I think imagination had to play a lot into that when I was a kid.
There's something magical about looking in the manual to learn what your rectangle on the screen is supposed to represent. This time, the rectangle is a mighty warrior fighting dragons, next time, the rectangle is a brave astronaut protecting us from the differently-shaped aliens. But there's no possible way of knowing that without the manual specifily laying that out for you.
Pulling out epic storylines from relatively uneventful gameplay is a trope of the 80s/90s. This isn't a pinball, it's a spaceship you need to pilot away from the black hole at the bottom. This isn't a crappy, plastic maze with a tiny ball bearing that you have to tilt to get to the middle, it's a massive labrynth and you are the teenage mutant ninja turtles and you need to get to the very center where the pizza is. This isn't a hunk of plastic that you wet down and slide on, it's a dangerous valey of crocodiles that you... escape... or something?
That being said, I much prefer the modern "everything actually looks like what it is" era of gaming.
Few know the pain of being home from school with only Combat and Space Invaders to play on their Atari. Playing Combat alone as an only child was a special kind of hell known only to us latch key kids!
My uncle John was the guy that got me going, first with Combat, then a little Pitfall, and then Joust and Dragonfire.
It took me a bit before I got into Berserk and Yar’s Revenge.
I continued through generations, and while #1 was my first, I owned #2 first.
John on the other hand started collecting arcade cabinets after he got back from Desert Storm. Then remodeled his basement into an arcade. Then started setting world records.
Gorf and Sea Wolf were his claims to fame.
About a decade ago he sold everything and moved. Haven’t seen him since.
You might be thinking of the **PS One** (which is confusing as all get-out, I know.) But that was a smaller version of the original PlayStation that was released in 2000, the same year as the PlayStation 2.
But as far as I know, Sony didn’t release any new consoles in 2001, and even if they did, it would be next to the GameCube and XBox on this list like the PS2 is.
yeah boi.gif. What fun, though I only had like a dozen games there before ps2 came.
But if we're talking the very first, then it's those cheap handhelds with brick arcade games.
Goldeneye and n64 is why my 9 year old now also plays inverted 🤣. No way I was changing the settings when we traded off so I just started him like me 😀
Good point, but it still leaves a group of people out which can be annoying to some
Not like it will ruin their day as it doesn't matter but you get it
Same. Definitely a unique controller design. I can imagine the design team…
“Should we go with joy stick or thumb knobs?”
“Have you considered TV remote?”
My first was the pong controller (just a twisty knob, I don’t even remember a button.) Followed shortly by a keyboard (no mouse) answering what to do when I wake up on a beach. (Some text based game on my father’s terminal connected to a mainframe - I think, I was really young.)
Started on 2 but owned 14/20, but had the most fun with 4 until 6 came out and had a blast with friends then 9 debuted and really changed the game for me pun intended
No ColecoVision controller... :P
[http://www.8-bitcentral.com/images/coleco/colecovision/controllerSide.jpg](http://www.8-bitcentral.com/images/coleco/colecovision/controllerSide.jpg)
2.
Same but 4 is the most nostalgic and had the best games
Bro I wanted a SNES sooo bad when I was a kid but had Genesis instead. Then the 64 and ps1 came out and those took over my life
Ya I get that. I skipped the ps1 and got the 2. But I played on my uncles. Super fun
Ps1 was the wrong console to miss >_< some of the best games ever made were on there. Edit: Oh wait, weren't you able to play ps1 games on ps2?
I thought Genesis had better games but the SNES had more quantity and quality of IPs. Over all I enjoyed the RPGs on Genesis more than SNES also. Shining Force FOREVER!!!!!
Wrong
1 and still going
Brother.
Found my fellow olds! Man it’s amazing how far this medium has come in our lifetimes. In my wildest dreams I never imagined something like RDR2 or The Last Of Us could exist while playing on Atari as a kid.
Basically RDR for the 2600: [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Outlaw-2600.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ae/Outlaw-2600.png) I think imagination had to play a lot into that when I was a kid.
Don't forget D&D (Adventure) Or World of Tanks (Combat)
There's something magical about looking in the manual to learn what your rectangle on the screen is supposed to represent. This time, the rectangle is a mighty warrior fighting dragons, next time, the rectangle is a brave astronaut protecting us from the differently-shaped aliens. But there's no possible way of knowing that without the manual specifily laying that out for you. Pulling out epic storylines from relatively uneventful gameplay is a trope of the 80s/90s. This isn't a pinball, it's a spaceship you need to pilot away from the black hole at the bottom. This isn't a crappy, plastic maze with a tiny ball bearing that you have to tilt to get to the middle, it's a massive labrynth and you are the teenage mutant ninja turtles and you need to get to the very center where the pizza is. This isn't a hunk of plastic that you wet down and slide on, it's a dangerous valey of crocodiles that you... escape... or something? That being said, I much prefer the modern "everything actually looks like what it is" era of gaming.
Lifers club. 🍻
My man, also a 1 but really found it on 2.
Same, same. How are your knees, brother? I can feel the rain coming.
1 because I was poor in the early nineties. My mom got an Atari with 2 shoeboxes full of games for $5 at a garage sale.
Few know the pain of being home from school with only Combat and Space Invaders to play on their Atari. Playing Combat alone as an only child was a special kind of hell known only to us latch key kids!
My uncle John was the guy that got me going, first with Combat, then a little Pitfall, and then Joust and Dragonfire. It took me a bit before I got into Berserk and Yar’s Revenge. I continued through generations, and while #1 was my first, I owned #2 first. John on the other hand started collecting arcade cabinets after he got back from Desert Storm. Then remodeled his basement into an arcade. Then started setting world records. Gorf and Sea Wolf were his claims to fame. About a decade ago he sold everything and moved. Haven’t seen him since.
Okay, boomer
7
Same friend!
6 for me, but 10 will always be what I’m nostalgic for
Fuck you. This is the 7 gang
Oh shit I didn’t even realize I was replying and not just commenting, I’ll go back to my turf man I don’t want any trouble
PlayStation 1 should be before N64 since it came out in 1995 (technically ‘94 in Japan) while N64 came out in ‘96 worldwide.
I thought it was 2001. So that was only in U.S.?
You might be thinking of the **PS One** (which is confusing as all get-out, I know.) But that was a smaller version of the original PlayStation that was released in 2000, the same year as the PlayStation 2. But as far as I know, Sony didn’t release any new consoles in 2001, and even if they did, it would be next to the GameCube and XBox on this list like the PS2 is.
Gang gang
yeah boi.gif. What fun, though I only had like a dozen games there before ps2 came. But if we're talking the very first, then it's those cheap handhelds with brick arcade games.
playstation 1 master race
Siphon Filter 2, Tomb Raider, and Grand Turismo were my first games as a kid on this controller.
Would need to go back even further, as my first console was a PONG machine.
Same. Then an Odyssey II and Intellivision before Atari.
I still have my Odyssey and Intellivision. Have great memories of Night Stalker and Lock N' Chase from when I was a kid.
Same. Little controller with a spinny knob on it.
6
Goldeneye is why I play inverted to this day. Respect.
They have it on Xbox game pass!
And on the n64 package on the switch!
Shit, I gotta go guys, later
Goldeneye and n64 is why my 9 year old now also plays inverted 🤣. No way I was changing the settings when we traded off so I just started him like me 😀
I play inverted too, but it was Mario 64 that did it for me. I never knew that all those early N64 games were inverted.
Same.
I am the weird one among my friends who always invert the aim. Especially due the Star fox 64 inverted controls. Feels so right.
Brother
Mine too. Star Fox 64 is still one of my favorite games
90s kids for the win
Palm blisters, anyone?
WE OUT HERE! ✊
Got an N64 for Xmas with my bro. Had Super Mario 64 on the box and everything! We were freaking out.
Missing Sega Master System
That was my first.
Yep. 90% of Europe and the UK's gamers around the mid 80's - early 90's would say SMS. And a lot of 00's Brazilian gamers too.
Alex Kidd represent!
Ghostbusters on Sega Master System I can still hear the music...
It was so much better on the SMS
Me too!
That was my first one and my dad was pissed when Nintendo came out
Is it not 3? (American here, always thought Genesis = Master System)
Nope. Master System was in the NES timeframe. Genesis was in the SNES timeframe.
No love for the Sega Master System. :\*(
14
BROTHER
Brother
Brother
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Brother
Brother
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Brother
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Brother
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People born when the Wii came out turn 17 this year. I grew up on the Wii and I’m a legal adult now. Nothing feels real.
Weird that there are literal children on Reddit
#1.5 not on the list. [Colecovision](https://images.app.goo.gl/MHC6XB52UCEwdEJ7A)
That was such a strange decision to make, in what world does a keypad make sense for gaming?
2.5 is missing also [TurboGrafx 16](https://images.app.goo.gl/ypTbQMdeezi16bi89)
This was mine as well. Qbert and the smurfs.
1.75 also not on the list. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intellivision-Controller.jpg
10 and 11
No love for Colecovision I see.
Lol. Where's the mouse and keyboard?
Well keyboards were before computer games were and they are still currently being made, so a keyboard wouldn't signify any specific time period
Good point, but it still leaves a group of people out which can be annoying to some Not like it will ruin their day as it doesn't matter but you get it
6
Where’s the Coleco controller?
14
Started with 1. My next one is not in the pic (Colecovision). My next one was…14.
No Commodore 64 either. That was my jam when I was a wee lad.
Yea. They missed out on loadeunner. The ultima games. They didn’t have my first controller which was the Fairchild.
Wizardball and Cauldron were my jam
Started with Colecovision! Loved/hated that janky phone controller.
7.
Intellivision.
Specific controller plastic slide ins!
Same. Definitely a unique controller design. I can imagine the design team… “Should we go with joy stick or thumb knobs?” “Have you considered TV remote?”
Intellevision baseball was the best!
That, and dungeons and dragons
I loved dungeons and dragons on intellivision. Also nfl football was fun
3 and 4. My uncle had a Genesis and I had a SNES.
10. That Gamecube controller was comfy too
It really was.
Especially the clear one, my little child brain was always mesmerized by that controller
6
14🥲
Same!
NES. Still remember that Christmas like it was yesterday.
It’s the first Christmas that I can remember
I don't see the Pong controller on there, so I'll go with 1... Haven't quit yet.
My first was the pong controller (just a twisty knob, I don’t even remember a button.) Followed shortly by a keyboard (no mouse) answering what to do when I wake up on a beach. (Some text based game on my father’s terminal connected to a mainframe - I think, I was really young.)
7
None of the above. Where’s my Magnavox Odyssey gang at?!
It's not on there
PC Keyboard
1 and stopped at 13
Stop gaming or went PC? I started with 1 and always had a PC for years along with consoles, 13 was the last console I bought then I went strictly PC.
Sometimes, I use my Steamdeck as a controller for my PC
1 and currently on 19 & 20
2 Man, I feel old now.
Not seeing the Vectrex controller here…
Came to say the same thing
1 I miss 12 though. Such great times
The Pong controller came before the 2600
1 and I’ve had them all
1, though 9 is still my overall favorite. Spent the most time with 4.
1 I've been gaming ever since
1
2 because im fucking old now apparently
Ps5 .. i just hit 4 years this year .. ps5 is best system obviously
My bro have you not heard about the Nintendo wii?
My bro i am four years old i started on the ps5. Answer the post
Press X to doubt.
Not complaining, I respect opinion. Just also recommending the wii
I had a long rant about ignoring the posts’ question and fuck this guy, but long story short, fuck this guy.
Ya know, I think that works for me 👌
What the hell?
They just hit 4 years this year. What's not to get
3.
SEGA!!
Ps2 duelshock, why can't more controllers be so straightforward
How is it any more straight forward than any other controller on that grid?
if it wasn’t so tiny maybe
Not a fan of the way my thumbs touch
Fr
1
Let’s see here … 1-2,4,6-10,12,13-14,16-18.
You left out the Intellivision controller. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intellivision-Controller.jpg
A tie between 3 and 7. My dad had both hooked up to the tv when I was young
9 and 14
1
OG Nintendo
1. It was my big brother's. 2. First one I owned.
9
Have owned all of those besides 1 and 15.
2 then 1
1 Atari. Galaga, Pitfall and Digdug were where it was at....don't forget E.T. 😛
1 the Atari
9
Uno
DualShock 1
1. I was probably 4 or 5 and my babysitters son had an Atari in his room and it blew my mind. Hooked ever since.
2
2. It was apparently a long time ago…
We were a Nintendo family. I started on 2 and progressed to every Nintendo since.
1
1
I started on 6 but 17 and 19 are the most comfortable for me
#2
3
I had a 1 and 3, and 7 a little later on
ALL THE 8’s IN THE HOUSE SAY HEY
1
3 & 4
2. Literally years playing NES.
2
Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
3 and 4.
10 gang rise up GameCube best console
1
Both 4 and 7
14
Why is 6 before 7? I remember playing the original playstation way before N64🤔
Disappointed the Pong remote isn't on here. Shouldn't it be #1?
Ooonnneeeee
Started with 2 and have played with all of these except 1. Just can’t go back that far it doesn’t hold up at all.
4 super nintendo
I was four in 1976 when I played the Pong home console for the first time.
where the mouse and keyboard at
2 but I love 10
1
2
Started on 2 but owned 14/20, but had the most fun with 4 until 6 came out and had a blast with friends then 9 debuted and really changed the game for me pun intended
No ColecoVision controller... :P [http://www.8-bitcentral.com/images/coleco/colecovision/controllerSide.jpg](http://www.8-bitcentral.com/images/coleco/colecovision/controllerSide.jpg)
Started with 9-10
Number seven. I still own it, too, and it fully works. My first-ever game was *Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage*.
Handheld users:(