Early 2000s kids of /vr/: did you grow up with any retro games,

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Born in 1993. I remember playing SNES and Sega Genesis when I really young. PS2 was the last game console I bought.

Hate me all you want, born in '99. First system was N64. Played loads of paper Mario. Probably spent most time in childhood on either GameCube games or Halo 3 by itself.

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>>3903021

>>3903021
You;re not an early 2000s kid

I'm born in 92.
Only had a Master System until 98, then I've got a ps1 and a Gameboy, later we've got a ps2 and GameCube.
I still bought the latest console (Wii, ps3, psp, ps4 and all Nintendo's handheld). I mostly play retro game on it anyway.

>>3902971
'93 here, i had a famiclone until 2006 when i got a GameCube then i sold it and brought a PlayStation2 around 2011, now days i just emulate everything prior the 2000.

'95. I grew up with the PS1 and to a lesser extent the Dreamcast. I played a ton of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Tekken, Vigilante 8, and a bunch of racing games.

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>>3902971
95 here

Grew up with the PSX, I wish I could go back

Born in '97. My family had an SNES and N64 but I would just watch others play SMW/SM64, DKC/DK64, Yoshi's Island, Kirby Superstar, and SMK/MK64. Around the mid-00's was when I started playing games myself, but the only games I played that gen were the occasional game of Melee, Battlefront, or an anime fighting game like Budokai or Clash of Ninja. I wanted to play the older games because you couldn't get them in stores. By that time the Wii was coming out, I heard about the Virtual Console feature and the rest was history.

I was a dumb kid and didn't know about emulators, which kind of defeats the initiative behind my interest. Retro games are what I play to this day so I guess it didn't matter.

>>3902971
'97, had a gbc and played some senso ports on gba and some old pc games

96, I remember playing old pc games before getting my ps1 in kindergarten

>>3902971
Born in 1997. I had an NES with a bunch of games, like Megaman 2, Blaster Master and The Battle of Olympus. The cartridge slot was in horrible shape, so I hated switching cartridges. I have an AV Famicom with an Everdrive now.

'87 here.

SNES and DOS games.

I still love point and click advanture games. Gabriel Knight was the shit.

>>3903409
I still have that NES by the way, along with two other units. They're all PAL though, which makes them pretty much useless since the Famicom doesn't have any good games that are PAL-only or better in PAL. Well, Battletoads, but it's not worth it just for that game.

>>3902971
1995 here, first consoles were the Genesis, a bootleg NES, and later on the PS1

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96

First systems were Dreamcast and N64. Focused mainly on retro games growing up

>>3902971
Born 1994, first gaming experience was my father's Powerbook G3 laptop, first console was a PS2 in 2001 but for the first few years I mostly played PS1 games on it since my local video store had lots of PS1 games to rent but very few PS2 games

I was born in 83 and didnt even have a videogame console until I was 5. Me and my sister got our NES in 88.

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If you weren't 32 by the time 1994 rolled around, I'm sorry but you're not a 90's kid.
Fucking millennials.

95. First game I really remember was probably Super Mario on the NES. That duck hunting game came with it, too. I spent most of the early years on Super Mario 64 and Spyro, but when I was 7 I started playing Final Fantasy and kinda delved into PS1 JRPGs before I got a PS2. Still played a lot of PS1 games up until them getting discontinued.

Born in 93, only had my mom's NES and Genesis to play. I eventually got a used N64, but that was when the Gamecube was already out and I was able to get one for cheap.

Born in '96. My first console was a used snes my parents bought me, but I basically grew with PlayStation.

>>3902971
>arbitrarily placed apostrophe

Nice to see that public education is still a joke.

That's now how apostrophes work, OP. The apostrophe comes before the numbers since you're omitting the 19.
>'80s
>'90s
>2000s

Nothing is being omitted from 2000, so no apostrophe.

'94, my dad bought a Genesis and Sega CD a bit after my older brother was born (so Holiday '92ish). We eventually picked up a 32X and PlayStation, and the first console I bought myself was a Game Boy Color. The PS1 was my go-to console until we got a PS2 in 2003 and a GameCube in 2004, but I spent more time playing handhelds (GBA/DS).

1990. first was nes snes gbp then n64 ps, gamecube and xbox made my ps2 gather dust then sold my my 360 at the end 2010 to fund a gtx 470 and never looked bk on consoles

>>3902971
>tfw '96
Had a Game Boy Advance because my parents didn't let me use game consoles on the TV, but I played the mario remakes on it. At some point, my parents ended up letting me play games on the TV and instead of buying a GameCube, I ended up buying an SNES and an N64 and getting hooked on /vr/ material thanks to these. Buying an NES a while after was also great. I remember crying because I thought my NES was broken since I didn't know that I had to push down on the cart, hah

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>>3902971
Why is there such an infatuation with kids who didn't even experience the 90s that they have to come up with a million reasons they can latch onto to claim they did? I don't remember anyone doing this with the 80s.

95' Had a SNES & PS1 later a GBC. They were traded in for newer consoles as I grew up. Most of my younger years are a blur, but I still remember some games. Spyro,Crash,CTR,Killer Instinct, X,X4,X5,MM8, Mario World,LttP, all of the gbc pokemon games.

My GBC was traded in so I could get a GBA, which I loved, partly why Battle Network is my favorite Mega Man series. I was handheld only up until wii and ps3. I like retro, but I don't have any of my old consoles or games anymore sadly. I am more of a modern fan overall, but still have a love for the ps1 and snes.

>>3902971
Its pretty safe to assume that who was born between 94 and 97 has knew the psx and n64 in their childhood

>>3903537
Nigga people are doing it right fucking now with the 80's, neo-80's shit is on fire

>>3903537

What is the entire subculture of vaporwave, chillwave, contemporary rock and electronic music in general?

>>3903021
Underage b8

>>3903537
Were you not alive 10 years ago? The 80s were looked back on the same way the 90s are now. Only difference is that "nerd" culture is more mainstream now.

'91 white dude. First system was n64 because my parents couldnt care less about vidya. Only time i got to play genesis or snes was at asian friends house. I was so secluded with no family or older brothers that played fames so i never knew what was popular. Meanwhile my asian friends are playing ff7 on the psx and i just had the n64

why is there so much debate as to what a proper 90s kid is, it's the most autistic thing ever

regardless of whatever the fuck I am, I went from SNES to PS1 to gamecube to PS2
my sister had an N64 and rarely let me play it

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Born in 1997.
I grew up on Tomb Raider, Crash 2, Incredible Crisis, and Spyro 3 because I played my cousins' PS1 so often.
Until 2006 when I got a PS2 the only machine I had at home that could play vidyas was a Windows 98 PC

>>3903561
a stupid /mu/ meme that's about 4-5 years past its prime but is now mainstream because of corporate plebbit

All these people born in the mid/late 90s are making me feel old

>>3902971
88. Commodore 16 and a Sinclair. I wanted a megadrive for my birthday when I was 6 but got a master system. Only had the inbuilt game for years lol. Poorfag basically. I now have ptsd from rewinding tapes.

Born in 92, remember playing Mario 3 when I was around 2 years old, but my mom made my half brother take it back to his dad's house because we all fought over it.

After that I had a genesis, most people in my poorfag area did until like 1999. Then I got an n64, GBC, and PS1 all in the same year (second hand)

>>3903703
Sounds like a sweet year

93
dendy mustard race

Born in 94. Sega Genesis with Sonic 2 pack-in was my first console.

>>3902971
'95. I had an NES, Genesis, and a GBA growing up.
The NES was my older brothers', my parents bought me a genesis when they were dirt cheap, and I got a GBA for pokemon.
I wanted a gamecube like my friends, but mom heard about violent games on the news and refused to buy me anything else.

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Born in '98
First consoles were the PS1 and N64.
My fondest memories were playing demo disks.

92

>Played SNES at friends house
mostly Super Marior
>Got PS1 as first console
mostly demo jam packs
>Played Dreamcast at babysitters house
mostly Contra and Spawn
>Parents divorced, dad got an N64
Banjo Kazooie
>Grow PS1 library
Final Fantasy for the most part
>N64 in and out of pawn
>Eventually mom gets me an N64 too
Super Smash, Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium
>Get GBC
>Pokemon Red
>Transfer pack for the 64 on Stadium
>PS2 comes out
>Get it late, with FFX and KH
>holy shit, epic
>really grow library for that console
>eventually discover PC gaming
>CS 1.6
>WoW
>modding communities

Now I mostly just play Dark Souls and Rainbow Six Siege, if it isn't retro.

'97 born
First console was a GBA, first home console was and Xbox360 before that I played dos games on my Dad's PC only

1990 here, master system -> mac shareware/demos -> the I finally got a ps1 when the ps2 came out.

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>>3902971

born in 91

I HAD A GOOD PC

I PLAYED THE SHIT OUTTA OF WOLFENSTEIN, COMMANDER KEEN AND QUAKE in 97

MET AND PLAYED STARCRAFT AND DIABLO in 1998, PLAYED THE SHIT OUTTA OF BATTLEZONE98 IN THE SAID YEAR, AND LATER QUAKE 3 DEMO AND FULL GAME

AND I HAD FRIENDS WITH SNES/PSX and WE PLAYED THE SHIT outta of TOP GEAR, MARIO WORLD, MKT AND RESIDENT EVIL, ALSO WARCRAFT 2 PSX and WARHAMMER SOTHR.

*dropsmic*

also i had WC3, MW2 and Prophecy thanks to a friend of my sister

dob: 03/16/81
1st console was a 2600 for short while then got a nes, then genesis and snes. never had a ps1, had a saturn (still have it) and got rid of my n64. i cant stand new games. only play retro now

I was born in 92, do I even count?

My first system was an NES, because my uncles who were close to my age (my mom was by far the oldest in her family) had just gotten a SNES, and pretty much anytime they got a new system, my grandmother would send me their previous one with all of the games, so then when they got a PS1 in 98ish, I got their SNES and all of their games and eventually got their PS1 as well. The PS2 was the first system I got on my own and I played the shit out of it, but to be honest, nothing really hit me like the NES/SNES did again. I still prefer those over everything else.

Born in 88. I was fortunate enough to inherit my uncle's nes games, plus got a few of the later gems of the system myself. I got a Genesis next, and then have been with PlayStation to this day. My favorite consoles are definitely nes and PS1, with snes following closely.

>>3904158

Is your sister hot?

>>3903561

None of them claim they were 80s kids though.

>>3902971
True 90s kids were born in 89 or before.

90sbabbies were born in the 90s, completely different breed.

Everyone born in 1990 or later is an absolute fucking faggot. If this applies to you you need to gtfo of vr right now u little cocksucker.

Born in 92, started playing games in 98/99. Don't remember exactly when. First handheld was the gameboy pocket, first console was the ps1.

>>3902971
1996 here, all I had was a GBC at 6, and a PS2 at 8 until I saved up for a 360 at age 12. I spent a lot of time playing N64/PS1 at friend's houses, I just never owned them and the GBC/PS2 were hand me downs anyway. Looking back on it I'm sort of surprised I didn't have any older consoles.

Kind of grew out of vidya so now I pretty much only play PS1/PS2 games, and I have a famicom with a flash cart.

I was born on 97, but since i live in the third world everything used to be delayed like 10y in terms of technology, first console was Genesis 3 in 2003, then i bought a ps2 in 2007 when ps3 didnt even exist here, people still sell ps2s and use crt monitors

>>3903565
>The 80s were looked back on the same way the 90s are now.
Lol no they weren't. I'm an 86fag and "us 90s kids" gave literally zero fucks about the 80s. We were too busy having too much fun to ever even think about them. We had our own identity and of course at that time we didn't even know what that was; we were simply living in the moment.

90skids think 90s were the best, not 80s and purely identify with the 90s. Meanwhile 00kids try their best to be 90skids because their decade sucked dicks and they know it. There's a reason 90skids is the meme that it is. No such meme exists for "80skids" and certainly not "00kids".

>>3902971
Born in 94. First console was an n64. Bought an SNES at a flea market in middle school. Got really into Dreamcast era fightan in high school.

>>3903601
N64 is the shit tho

>90's kids.
>Millenials.
>Generation X.

Should've stuck with the name that sounds like a super-hero team, imbeciles.

>>3905349
>Millenials
>retards still can't spell their favorite buzzword correctly
Kek. Just kek.

Born in 97, first console was a pre-owned PS2 and Spider-Man and Turok: Evolution in 2007. (Had CoD for PC before but mainly played Space Pinball). Now I have a N64 and PSX cuz they were ridiculously cheap.
Steam account has lots of retro shooters though.

>>3902971
I'm always impressed by the 2000's kids being interested in retro consoles. I was born in 1984 and these systems were essentially it for me, there weren't any alternatives. But you guys? You had cellphones and the internet. I wonder if I'd have been as big a retro enthusiast if I'd had that kind of competition for my time and attention.

>>3902971
Born in '96
I grew up with a PS2, but that gave me access to ps1 games. I honestly didn't play many though. Except for Croc 1 and 2. I was obsessed with those as a kid.

>>3905384
How often do you play Atari 2600 or mechanical pinball games? There's your answer.

>>3904501
GTFO mike mattei

92. Never had consoles. Grew up on Age of Empires 1/2, Warcraft 2/3, Unreal Tournament, Populous etc - basically PC games from 1996-2002 roughly. Call it nostalgia goggles if you will but many will agree that late 90s/early 2000s PC games were glorious.

>>3902971
'98 here
What's up grandpas

>>3902971
born on '96, grew with famiclones, then emulated snes and n64 games, then ps2

>>3904501
pathetic gatekeeping.

>>3904501
>u

>>3905905

it isnt nostalgia

ts true

some shit happened in 2004 that everything went downhill

>>3906108
I'd say more around 2006-7. When everything was cursed by Gears of War and became greybrownbloom cover-based shootan with health regen.

>>3902971
'95. PCMR, grew up with Thief II and other titles around 2000-2001. Didn't get the ability to go forward for years, when I could I instead went back.

91. My older brother had an NES and SNES, and that's all I played during my childhood. He later also left me his computer so I just transitioned to PC gaming in my early teens

>>3902971
It was a gamecube that came with Zelda 1, 2, OoT, and Majoras Mask. So yeah. I grew up with retro games.

>>3905387
I play both fairly frequently. My parents were gamers too so we have two pinball machines and a 2600 + 7800. Honestly though, I tilt more often than not.

>>3902971
Born in 1995. My first consoles were a Game Boy Color and Nintendo 64. My first post-2000 console I got when I was 8 (2003), the GBA.

>>3904165
granddad??

>>3902971
If you weren't born in 1988, you're gonna miss out on the coolest shit

just in time for the golden age of arcades, but far enough along that you'll get to die in a VR bed

>>3906183
golden age of arcades was like late 70s/early 80s dude

Born in ''91

First system was my dad's NES second console was a tg-16 my uncle gave me.

Eventually got a gbc,PS1 and N64 when I really got into gaming but I have seriously fond memories of punch out and legendary axe from my childhood

>>3902971
You realize it hasn't been 18 years since 2000, right? Probably underageb& yourself.

>>3902971
'97, First system was a Game Boy Color. First console I got was a gamecube, and then a ps2 a couple years down the road.

Dad was a big nintendo fan and had an N64 he played all the time till he got bored on mario 64 and OoT (only 2 games he had) and sold it at a yard sale.

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>>3903021
>Halo 3

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'98 here. Started with a GBA, fell in love with the Super Mario Advance series. To this day, I retain the opinion that the SMW port has the best controls of any version - spinning with the shoulder buttons is way more natural than pressing a face button.

Fell in love with the PS1 through the PSP. To this day, the 5th generation of consoles is probably my favourite.

I pretty much exclusively game through emulation of games released before the turn of the millennium.

>>3902971
>1990 was 50 years ago

>>3906183

'88 representin'

>>3903021
66% chance of being underage

Can't take the chance mods

>>3906832
If you use the shoulder button to spinjump, how do you scroll the screen left and right on the GBA port?

>>3906856
You don't.

98 baby, grew up on a hand-me-down GBC and N64 from my older brother. We also had a Gamecube, that was about as advanced as my house got until I bought a PS3 in 2014.

Born in '96.

Grew up with a Super Nintendo and played most Genesis titles through Sega's PC versions, like Comix Zone.

Still have the exact N64 I grew up with, bought a Dreamcast.

'94, and yes, had a super nintendo, rented games for it until 2005, when I got a PS2.

Also had a PC at that time, which was kinda shit, so I mostly played dos games on it. Theme Hospital was the shit.

>>3902971
98, grew up with n64
Never got a GameCube, going straight from n64 to Wii was insane
Did have a gba and psp though

>>3906861
Bummer.

Born in 1987:
Got an NES for Christmas of 93
OG Gameboy for 1st Communion in 95
SNES w/ Super Gameboy for Christmas 95
Bought a PS1 in 1998 with saved allowance
Bought my friend's "broken" Dreamcast in mid 2001 (needed a lens cleaning)
Bought a PS2 in late 2001
Bought N64 & Gamecube in Summer 2005 to bring to campus for freshman year of college.

What is "dorm gaming" like nowadays? I made 1/2 of my college friends by being the guy who had Mario Kart & Guitar Hero (PS2) in his room after frat parties.

N64 was perfect because you had Smash Bros & Goldeneye for the dudebros while the girls would come over for Mario Kart. PS2 doubled as a DVD player.

Back then the only DVDs you needed were Anchorman, Old School, Garden State & Napoleon Dynamite...Insta-"I'm drunk and want to cuddle"-bait.

>>3903552
You didn't have people desperately trying to rationalize how they're an 80s kid despite being born in the mid 90s though.

95 reporting in. First console was an NES my dad had back when he was younger then when I was around 4 or so my grandparents bought us a N64 and the rest is history

>>3902971
'95 here

Grew up playing NES, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, DOS Games, & Win9x/XP games.

Didn't get a PS2 until after the PS3 came out. Got an Xbox hueg + a ton of games for $5 at a yard sale in 2010.

Never owned a 7th gen console, switched to PC.

How can 84-93 be "one generation"? I mean, I was born in 88 and my little brother in 92 and they are a complete different kind of people. I would draw the line at 1990. That was when the last big world change happened and something also happened to the kids after then.

91.
Played a lot outside and on the PC, with QBasic and early 80's arcade games my Dad downloaded for the kids. Sister got us a Nintendo 64 in 2000 and neighbors got a PlayStation. We didn't get a new console until 2009 with the Wii. I went to my friends to see the other systems, even the retro ones.

1988

Started with DOS and NES.
I quickly mixed the two using Nesticle NES emulator under DOS using a SNES pad replica I got bundled with the DOS version of Street Racers.


Despite the name, I genuinely feel like people who didn't experience PC gaming in the 90's missed out on a lot. Just look at this thread, it's all consoles only, so is the entire "retro games" trend in the US.

>all these people born after 1990 replying
You aren't "early 00s kids".

>>3907650
>I genuinely feel like people who didn't experience PC gaming in the 90's missed out on a lot. Just look at this thread, it's all consoles only, so is the entire "retro games" trend in the US.
The thread has a lot of people saying they played PC, stuff like Age of Empire, Quake, Doom etc is very popular.

I had a PC and consoles back then, I simply played more on console because I preferred action games over simulation/point and clicks, but I still played my fair share of PC stuff, including many adventure and p&c games.
It mostly depends on what genres you prefer, rather than being a fanatic of any given platform.

94'
can kind of remember my brothers playing the megadrive, but it was definitely the PS1 for me

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>>3902971
1996. I grew up with my brothers' Mega Drive, Game Boy and PS1. Later on they got a PS2 and a Gamecube but I still usually played the Mega Drive and PS1 because we had more games for them.

The first console I personally owned was this famiclone.

>>3907650
86fag here. I feel u m8. Our generation isn't represented much in this toilet board either it seems. Just a bunch of memester hipster kiddies caught into the latest fad. Most of them appear to be posers Tbh.

Honestly believe that fags born between 85 and 89 had the greatest vidya experience by far. Older 70sfags' games weren't that great, and by the time the 90s rolled round they had lost the childlike wonder that makes video games extra great. We however grew up with nes, to snes/Genesis, to n64/psx, to PS2 etc. We saw the evolution of video games from 2d to 3d and were there every step of the way. We also experienced the objective golden years of 90s to early 00s pc gaming, and we did so during our childhood and adolescence. We simply were alive at the best possible time to be Alice for video games - when video games had true soul to them and were made BY gamers FOR gamers. Instead now video games are made by 100 man teams of overworked worker bees in little office cubicles 9 to 5, making a shitty soulless game laden with dlc and other horse shit to squeeze as much milk out of the average retarded consumer. But I digress.

Bottom line, we were fucking there m8. Kids these days just pretend to enjoy these things for hipster credit and clearly have no idea what they're talking about. They cant even play the damn games they pretend to like so much. Cancer. But at least they're trying I guess.

>>3902971
Born in 1992. My big bro got a Sega Master System and when I was 4 or 5, we played Alex Kidd, Shinobi, Mickey Mouse and Sonic. Then when I was at least 6, We got a PS1 and I played especially Spyro, Crash, Tomb Raider, Rayman and some more which I don't remember. Turned 10 and got a Game Boy Advance and played many Mario games, Pokemon, Wario and more. Turned 13 and got the Nintendo DS and played as usual some Mario games, Pokemon, Sonic and few more.Turned 15, got the Wii. Me and my family almost abused it with Wii Sports. Then, me and my little bro, played Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart, Pokemon, Mario Strikers, Punch-Out and some more. Man, time sure fly so fast.

>>3907717
*plus I was born into a house with an atari 2600. My first game ever was river raid. Goml.

>>3902971
Born in 94, grew up playing games in an arcade, pretty sure that the first video game I ever played was killer instinct but could have been some other arcade game, I dunno.
First console I ever owned was an n64 but before that I mostly played games on my parents win98.
Man I really miss playing games and shooting pool with my friends in the arcade, Nirvana blasting on the old jukebox while chowing down on candy, I used to get in so much trouble for stealing quarters from my parents.

>>3907717
The OP specifically asked for 2000s kids you faggot.

95' poor European guy, never had any console as a kid, only played need for speed porsche on parents PC and played on PS1 and PS2 with my rich friend.
When I got my first full time job I imported Saturn, DC and PS2 from Japan since it had more games plus arcade stuff and I was studying Japanese at the time.

Born in late 93, my first consoles were an NES and SNES. My family got its first PC in 1996, and I was playing games on it by the time I was 3. I didn't really get into console stuff until a bit later, and I remember getting an N64 in 2000ish. Didn't get a PS2 until 2004, but I already had a GameCube and Xbox by then. Funny thing is, my family wasn't rich by any means, but both of my parents loved gaming. I even remember them getting another PC in 1998ish and playing Diablo over direct serial.

95' English fella checking in.

My cousin had the NES and SNES. my big brother had the MegaDrive and the PS1 so I had the best of both worlds. I recall them lending VHS tapes and games to eachother. My cousin was so blown away by Sonic 3 it convinced him to get a MegaDrive.

First game I played I think was Golden Axe II, then I owned a GBC. First game I remember purchasing was Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, then Pokemon Silver.

The allure of gaming was really different back then compared to now.

>>3907738
86 was still in high school during the early 2000s.

Born in 1994. First console was a hand-me-down Genesis with Sonic games.

>>3907717
The last two lines really show how bitter you are

>>3907940
>takes meme banter this seriously
U sure you're not the bitter one m8?

>>3907942
As a matter of fact I'm a really bitter person, I also enjoy bitter food too.

>>3907717
Born in 81 and I disagree with you on just about every point.

>>3907717
kids these days
they don't know

Born in '99, glued to Windows 98 games and Namco plug in plays when I was really young. First console was a GameCube and a couple years later a Wii. I've always liked 80's and 90's games after all these years though, hence why I'm here.

>>3902971
Born in '97. First console was an imported famiclone with a chinese bootleg cart of some ninja turtles game. First real console was a ps1.

>>3903437
>83
Same here. Some of our friends had commodore 64s and Atari 2600's, but around 1988 and 1989 everyone just played NES. Early 90's was when my friends were picking up Genesis or SNES but I didn't pickup a SNES until late 1993 because NES games were so cheap.

>>3907956
That's because you're a faggot.

81fag here. Went from NES-->TG16-->Gameboy-->SNES-->DOS games-->PSX-->Windows games-->Dreamcast-->PS2-->all the modern shit.

My first retro experience was discovering an Atari 2600 at my grandmother's house in the mid-80s. The retro bug bit me hard, because right after that I went out and bought my own Atari 2600. Found a copy of Breakout with the paddle controllers at a thrift shop. Good times.

So I guess I've been retrogaming for longer than some people on this board have been alive. Jesus Christ.

I'm glad I was born when I did. I basically got to experience all the computers and consoles in order. Consoles I never owned, like the Genesis and N64, I played over at friends' houses. Got to check out Apple II and Macintosh Classic games at the school computer room.

Only regret is that I didn't get a chance to spend more time at the arcades. When I was a little kid, I played a few things like Qix, Pac-Man, and Defender, but by the time I was a teenager with enough freedom and pocket money to enjoy it, the arcades were already obviously dying. Still, I played the shit out of NBA Jam, TMNT, X-Men, Virtua Fighter, and Soulcalibur in the 90s.

'98, first console was PS1, then PC for RuneScape and borrowed/copied games from friends.

>>3902971
Born 94'. My first console was a NES, followed shortly after by a Genesis. Later I got a PS1 and later still a PS2. Those were the consoles I grew up with.

'92 baby here. First played MS-DOS games as young as 3-4, first console was an SNES in '98. Became a Sony gamer after that, with the Game Boy Advance being the lone exception.

>>3903869
>>3903021
>>3906018
>>3906832
>>3906878
>>3906934
>>3907963
>>3908698
You're not early 2000s kids, you're mid-to-late 2000s kids.

6 is the pivotal year of your childhood and determines what time period you're a "kid" of. 6-10 are basically the peak of your childhood; 4-5 is still a bit blurry and 11-12 is when you start outgrowing "childish" things somewhat and transition into your edgy teen years (like all of my friends who started saying Pokemon was "for babies" after the second gen came out. Not coincidentally we were turning 11-12 at the time)

If you turned 6 in the 90s. You're a le 90s kid

If you turned 6 between 2000-2003. You're an early 2000s kid.

If you turned 6 between 2004-2006. You're a mid 2000s kid

If you turned 6 between 2007-2009. You're a late 2000s kid.

'97 here, same as this >>3903421

>so many born 1990 and after
There should be a way to autoban you all.

You`re a disgrace to humanity and will be its doom.

'86 here.

First console: nes with smb/duck hunt, followed by a mega drive then an amiga. Shit was cash. Had about 19 NES games by the time the console died. I felt like a king with that many games even if a bunch were shitty.

>mfw parents refused to buy me any games for holidays until I completed the ones I had
>two of them were pretty much impossible as puzzle/open world
>like a dipshit I told my parents they weren't possible to complete instead of saying I had.

I was a fucking idiot.

>>3902971
I feel like 95 should be the start of early 2000's kids

>>3909512
I was born in 94 and I'm an early 2000s kid for sure, my first memories start around 2000. Don't remember shit from the 90s.

>>3908776
This would technically qualify me as a 90s kid, since I turned 6 in late 1999, but I really consider myself an early 2000s kid. My memories of the 90s are vague and mainly involve watching my parents play SNES and PC games.

>>3902971
Born in 1994. I remember playing mostly shareware versions of PC games from demo disks and some full versions of retro PC games when I was younger. Some games I remember the names of and I own the PlayStation versions of them now like Rayman, Frogger, or Road Rash. There were some games I couldn't remember the names and only had vague memories of until I started going to /vr/. Games like Vinyl Goddess From Mars.

I remember playing retro PC games like:
Return Fire (shareware)
Shock-Wave Assault (shareware)
Dr. Riptide (shareware)
The Even More Incredible Machine
Doom (shareware)
Wolfenstein 3D (shareware)
Heretic (shareware)
Hexen
Quake
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Highway Hunters (shareware)
Jetpack
Command and Conquer (shareware)
Starcraft
NFS 3 and NFS 4
Tempest 2000
Cannon Fodder
Megarace
And a bunch of other games that I don't remember the names or can't name right off of the top of my head at this moment. And not every PC game I played then is something that would be considered retro on this board but quite a few of them were.

And when my old shitbox PC eventually crapped out on me my dad got me a PS3 and a copy of Call Of Duty 4 around the time I finished middle school which was probably about 9 years ago.

Sometime I during my teen years I acquired a copy of Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection from a Best Buy when I went shopping for games.

I currently own my trusty old fat PS3 and a slim PS2 and a meager library of 6 games that my older gave to me when he no longer wanted it anymore. (he mostly just used it as a DVD player)

I currently play PlayStation (PS1 or PSX) games on my PS3. I am playing games like Crash Bandicoot 3, Black Dawn, Duke Nukem: Total Meltdown, and Wipeout.

>>3909248
This.

I think they know it too.

90sbabbies have an innate understanding to the core of their bones that they're gigantic fucking faggots. Don't even try to deny this kids.

Also the later they get the worse they get.

>tfw born in '91, but remember so little of the 90s that you're not really a "90s kid"

It feels like my life only started on 9/11.

Born in '94

First game experiences I remember are GBC, SNES and Genesis in '99. In '06 my cousin mailed me her old N64 and Gamecube with some games. First up-to-date console I got was an Xbox 360 in early 2007 followed by a Wii in 2008. Even then, thanks to the LIVE arcade and Virtual Console, I was also exposed to more 80's-early 90's games, and now I'm an emulator-using babby I also had a plug n' play Pac Man system, don't quite remember when I got that, but that was loads of fun.

>>3902971
>early 1997
>tfw it's true

My first consoles were hand-me-downs, specifically a PlayStation, a Dreamcast, and a Gameboy Color when I was 5.

>>3905349
The Millennials actual name is Generation Y. X is between their late 30s to early 50s.

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>>3910747
Yeah, I'm 36 and when I was growing up, everyone 10 years older than me was "Gen X", and now everyone 10 years younger than me is "Millennial". For a little while in the 90s they called us slackers, but I guess we were so successful at being slackers that we don't even get counted in the generational progression anymore.

>>3903021
Does this guy qualify as retro /vr/? He's from before the cutoff but halo 3

>>3910775
If you are under 40 you are not retro.

>>3907650
I was born in '86 and it wasn't until '98 or '99 that a PC was in my household. Besides playing flight simulators at my friends house, Heavy Gear and Warcraft were my first PC games. The only other games I played were those Galaxy of Games that had a bunch of free/shareware games on it. Thanks to that, I discovered the Exile series. First foray into CRPGs.

And that was pretty much my PC gaming experience growing up because I soon discovered emulators so it was back to "console" games.

>>3907650
>I genuinely feel like people who didn't experience PC gaming in the 90's missed out on a lot.
I know what you mean, I'm this guy >>3908574
, and I alernated pretty evenly between computers and consoles in the 90s. SNES were cool at first, but they seemed like a joke once I got a taste of Ultima Underworld and System Shock. Not to mention all the classic DOS games. Then came the N64 and the Playstation, but those were upstaged by the first wave of 3D video cards and DirectX on the PC. Games like Quake, Thief, Half-Life, Unreal, System Shock 2, Homeworld, Deus Ex, Outcast...

Zelda's great don't get me wrong, but Ocarina of Time didn't seem nearly as mindblowing if you were already into PC games in 1998. Many people on this board talk about OoT like it was Jesus' second coming, but it was only one point in a constellation of games that defined the 2D->3D transition.

It also didn't help that many of those late 90s PC games were a pain in the shitter to get running on post-WinXP machines, so they were more easily forgotten. In the early 2000s I could already emulate OoT on my PC, but I couldn't get Thief to work anymore. GOG has made things a lot easier now, but for awhile it was very difficult to revisit those early 3D PC games.

How the hell could all of these people born in the mid to late 90s have 'grown up' with snes's and shit, I was born in 89 and just, just had that gen in my life, I'd consider PS2/GC/Xbox era what I really consider to have experienced most.

>>3910795
If you are still alive you are not retro.

>>3910824
>Ocarina of Time didn't seem nearly as mindblowing if you were already into PC games in 1998
Name one (1) game that was like OoT on PC at the time.

Just one.

>Many people on this board talk about OoT like it was Jesus' second coming
>>3910867
see, this is what i was talking about. Even if you say OoT is great, they won't be satisfied unless you proclaim that OoT made you jizz harder than a choir boy on prom night.

Ain't gonna do it, bro. Ain't gonna do it.

1985. First computer was an Apple 2e, console was the revised Atari 2600 with four face switches

>>3910894
>couldn't name one (1)

Spent most my time playing FFT on PS1. Made my entire party mimes. Will never make that mistake again.

>>3910867
better graphics --> Unreal
better cinematography --> Half-Life
better stealth --> Thief
better swordfighting --> Jedi Knight
better dungeons with puzzles and traps --> Tomb Raider
better atmosphere & villain --> System Shock
better open-ended world with subquests and things to do --> Ultima VII, Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1-2

Born in 96. Grew up with the Playstation and N64. Got to grow up with
>Banjo
>Mario 64
>Spyro trilogy
>Resident evil 3 thanks to my dad which scarred me at a young age
>Twisted Metal
>Playstation Underground which intorduced me to demos of Tomba, Tomb Raider 2, Soul Reaver, Tail Concerto
>Army Men Series
>Glover
>Bio Freaks
>Goldeneye

Plenty more, mostly just shovelware games for the PS. I'm glad my dad was into gaming otherwise I wouldn't have had any of it.

>>3911091
How did you "grow up with" games that came out when you were in diapers

>>3911114
Probably because they stuck around while he grew up?

>>3911080
how can a game with no cutscenes have better cinematography

>>3911125
He was still playing Glover in the mid-late 2000s?

>>3911131
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren't Real?

>>3911131
user control>>>ninty lakitu cam

>>3911132
>>3911125
>>3911114
Yeah my dad had the games at first, I played them afterward. That and a good chunk were just bought later on from family friends and shit. Re3 I remember he got when I was 4.

86 here. Was competent enough as a little kid to beat a lot of prominent NES games. But all these people saying they "grew up with" games that came out the year they were born are ridiculous.

I'd say the games that most impacted my youth were from the SNES-N64 era. SMW, early Sonic, DKC, FF 7 & 8, Mario 64, OoT, Pokemon, Smash Bros, etc. Yes I played and beat mid-late 80s games, but you don't even fucking know what's happening in life that early on. It's like saying you "grew up with" preschool and onesies.

Worst offenders of this are when people talk about playing RPGs like Pokemon before they could even read. If you were so young that you had no idea what was going on, that wasn't a game you grew up with. It was a toy you were out in front of as a toddler.

>>3911131
cinematography isnt the right word, but half-life had all those scripted sequences which were very cinematic. it pretty much started that whole trend in the fps genre.

>>3911170
>But all these people saying they "grew up with" games that came out the year they were born are ridiculous

If you played it while you were a kid it doesn't matter if it wasreleased the year you were born or 10 years before. If you owned it and you played it as a child you grew up with it. Why does it only count if it wasn't released until you were at least 5 or some shit?

>>3911187
Let me clarify what I meant.

If you had games that you kept playing throughout your childhood, sure, you grew up with them.

But a lot of the younger crowd seem to want so badly to be a part of a certain era, they claim games they only played when they were 3 years old are games they "grew up with". See my Pokemon example, for instance.

>>3911170
You know you can replay a game past your preschool years, right? I had the same experience you're saying with Spyro initially but I played it over and over throughout the years. Just because I was too young during my initial encounter with it doesn't mean I didn't still grow up playing it again as time when on.

i grew up with Treasure Island and H. Rider Haggard novels. Does that make me an 1890s kid, perchance?

>>3911201
>>3911195
I guess we're on the same page then. My bad. And yeah, it'slike what this whole thread is, I know a lot of late 90s babies who say they grew up in the 90s and it's annoying. They try desperately to not be millenials but they are.

>>3911201
Please see >>3911195

Obviously if you played a game throughout your youth it is one you grew up with.

I was moreso referring to the "I remember playing Super Mario 64 in preschool with my cousin and we couldn't get past the first world" crowd. The people who obviously "grew up with" the Gamecube/PS2 or even PS3/360 eras.

>>3911206
Yep, exactly that.

>>3910848
Hand me downs and/or being poor helps. U was mostly an "educational games and the occasional PC port" and plug n play kid myself, but I heard kids who had all sorts of consoles growing up.

>>3910867

>Name one (1) game that was like OoT on PC at the time.
>Just one.
Alttp on ZSNES

>>3910867
>Name one (1) game that was like OoT on PC at the time.
>Just one.
Dink Smallwood

>>3902971
'94 here.
first videogames I had were a Game Boy Color and a bootleg NES

Born in 1990
Got a used Sega Genesis with some random games when I was 5ish, then got an N64 in 1999. Wanted a Saturn but they were too expensive when they came out in the US and pretty much dead by the time I could choose a 5th gen console so I chose Nintendo since my neighbor had a PS. Got a Gamecube after that then an Xbox later on. For PC I played a lot of Windows 95 games, mostly Maxis games and point and click. Now I mostly play on PC and play shit I missed out on in DOSBox. Not really retro but mostly play janky Eastern European and Russian PC games from the 2000s as well.

>>3903171
92 here bro, All I had as a very young child was a NES with mario/duck hunt and home alone lost in new york. Loved the former hated the latter.

If memory serves right I got the N64 a year or so after it came out. A year or so after that I got the ps1.

In order and games most played:

>NES (Mario)
>N64 (goldeneye MP, smash bros)
>PS1(crash warped, MGS1)
>PS2(GT3, GTA's, shit ton of other games)
>Gamecube(Melee, luigi mansion,sunshine, RE4)
>Xbox(halo, halo 2, this is when I stopped playing video games and started playing halo 2 only)
>Xbox(halo 2)
>Xbox(halo 2)
>Xbox 360(some random games, halo 2, halo 3 when 2's servers shut down)
>Wii(wii sports, animal crossing, currently being used for melee)
>PS3(bought for MGS4, really that's all I can think of playing on it)
>PS4(wolfenstein, MGSV, Overwatch)
thats all.

>>3902971
1997 here, I grew up with a good amount of retro games and systems, almost half as much as I grew up on modern games for the time.
First was PS1, then SNES(I didn't own), PS2, GBA, GCN, DS, PSP, SNES(I owned), N64, Wii, NES in that order.

progression

>born in '88
>DOS
>ME
>XP
>7
>back to XP for maximum comfy

>NES
>GB
>PSX
>emu

To me ps2 still feels like nu-cancer desu but I dropped consoles pretty soon

I feel the same way about hl2 then I realize how fucking old it is and how I'm living in my own world.

Im fine with it.

>>3912972
I had no SNES because SNES was the console for kids with well adjusted families and my parents fought a lot so I didnt get one but its ok

Started with PS1 and GBA

>>3912978
this hits hard because I was a well-adjusted SNES kid but my friend with the fucked up home life had a Genesis. Why does Sega ruin everything?

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>>3911181
>half-life had all those scripted sequences which were very cinematic. it pretty much started that whole trend in the fps genre.

>>3902971
I was born in 1996, my first video game was Pokemon Yellow on GBC in 1999. I didn't get a proper console until the GameCube came with Super Mario Sunshine, although my older cousin had an N64 on which we'd play Mario Kart together.

>>3902971
i'm le 80's . First console was a famicom clone handmedown from a hongkie frendo. How /new/ are you?

86 master race.

Muh vidya path:
Atari 2600 (was born into a household that owned one. C64 was there too actually but had no working games for it)
Cheap famicom clone with loads of in-built games, broke fast
NES
SNES
Gameboy OG
Genesis (only gen I bought two consoles from the same gen. Only got this because of the mk2 hype at the time which was blistering. Thought the mk2 version of snes and so didn't want it. Lo and behold mk2 snes version wasnt censored and was even better than the Genesis version. Oh well)
N64
PS2
PS3
PS4

Had a pc capable of running games from around 96 onwards.

SMW is my defining early childhood game, still love it to bits. Have a lot of love for old dos fps's too (doom, blood, Duke, sw, quake, quake 2, grew up on all of them). 12 onwards was loads of n64, local 4 player mp was ecstatic, and of course shut like Mario 64, oot, etc. Adolescence defining game was cs1.6.

>>3915235
*version of snes would be censored

Born in 1988
Half ass time line
Game Boy, played a lot of Legend of Zelda Links Awakening
Sega Genesis, Motherfuckin Battletoads and Streets of Rage 2
Super Nintendo, time wasted on Super Mario World
----Pokemon Red
Game Boy Color
Nintendo 64, All dat Zelda
PlayStation, meh about it
Game Boy Advance
PlayStation 2 and GameCube
Wii
Time goes by, sell most of my shit off, too busy with PC Games
PlayStation 3
Wii U

>>3915520
Forgot to add, had the Fat PS3 but old fatass roommate killed it because she likes to leave shit turned on 24/7 and then didnt tell me till I found out on my own that it was dead 2 days ago, this was back in 2012. Then some months later I bought a PS3 Super Slim.

born in 92

remember SNES and Genesis a lot.
Then Game Boy was the big hype
N64 seemed pretty cool but I bought the SNES from TOYSRUS instead.

Got a PS1 for christmas but didn't enjoy it as much as the SNES.

turns 20 years old and digs up the PS1 and starts collecting like crazy.

Currently love the PS1.

>>3903202
hello me.

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Born in '95.

My first console was a hand-me-down model 2 Genesis with the SEGA CD attachment, 56 carts, and 6 CD games. But I mostly played Windows 95/98 and pirated MSDos games thanks to my dad being a very frugal person.

It was weird being left out of the conversations kids had about PS2 / Gamecube titles, but I think it helped a lot when I developed the mindset that any game can be good, no matter what gen it was released in.

>>3908092
>>3903437
Also 83. Do remember that we had an Atari 2600 but I wasn't a big fan, mostly due to the shitty game collection we got dirt cheap from some second-hand shop we had some connections with. Vastly preferred to play outside. That changed in the late 80s when we got an NES and SMS.

>>3902971
PS1 and SNES, tried a Dreamcast at some gallery but only for 3 minutes because I had to leave and go home, since then I wanted a Dreamcast so bad but it's hard to get one here without importing it.

I played PS1 so much that when my family bought a PS2, I never touched it and kept playing Castlevania until they gave it away to a cousin who later broke it. Sad times.

93, i played quake 1/2, half life, red faction, aoe 1/2, sims on pc and a bunch of snes games

>>3911221
I personally feel as though unless everyone you were friends with was playing the same gen of consoles as you you can't have really grown up with it, or at least not got the full experience. It's like if your household only read 19th century literature or something; it's all you experienced, but it doesn't mean you grew up in the 19th century. I'm tired so that might be a retarded point, I'm not sure.

First system was 64
First game played was Mario 3 (All Star remake)
First game was Mario 64

>>3916098
*first game owned was Mario 64

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Born in 1996, was from a Sega family and had two brothers, so I played a lot of Mega Drive and Dreamcast games. Apparently my first game was Lion King for the MD, although I don't remember. I remember playing a lot of Dreamcast games, and it's honestly my favourite console and Skies of Arcadia is my favourite game from it.

I have fond memories of playing gameboy games like Pokemon, Mario, Small Solider's, Blade, Godzilla and Micromachines. I eventually got a PS1 in like 2002 from a car boot sale and played games like Harry Potter and demo discs a lot.

Around 2004 or so for my birthday I was given a lot of those GBA NES classics and played tons of Zelda, Zelda 2, Metroid and Xevious. Never finished any of them though.

I'm more into retro games now because I feel like I need to play some classics. recently finished For the Frog the bell tolls and Snatcher, currently going through Grandia and Final Fantasy 1 and probably going to play Phantasy Star 1 soon.

>>3902971

'98 here, been playing gba and ds, then (early 2008-9) got a psp
Never stayed over at friends', never played an actual home console untill 2011
so, technically, my first home console was the ps3

Born in 1997, my brothers had an N64 and a Dreamcast, I got a PSOne when I was 5. A PS2 when I was 6 or 7. Was into retro pretty early. Owned a SNES and NES by grade 3, got into emulation by grade 4. Bought a Sega Genesis in grade 6. I also owned a Gamecube growing up, got into PC gaming at 9 or so, mainly Counterstrike and EA Sports shit. Honestly there's not very many people my age into retro in my town. People I know give me weird ass looks when they see me posted up at the corner of the local mall with WWF WrestleFest and NBA Jam and MK II and shit. They're like, "Anon, the fuck you doing?" I'm like, "Playing some Virtua Racer, punk." Last Saturday I was at a party and someone had an NES Classic Edition and I was just kinda hanging out playing Tecmo Bowl and Super Mario Bros. 3. Fuck people.

'93
Famicom (clones) were the only consoles aviable here, grew up on those.

early 95 here

First machine I ever got was a GBC with Pokemon Yellow

Kept me busy until Christmas 2002 where I got my first PS1

Even to this day I still play PS1 games reguarly
PS2 is good and all but PS1 will always be number 1 for me

>>3916981
Shit, I noticed how other people structured their posts.

Favourite vidya by platform (arranged chronologically from system acquired.)

N64
Super Mario 64
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Super Smash Bros.
NFL Blitz
WWF No Mercy
Mario Party

Sega Dreamcast
Sonic Adventure
NFL 2K
NBA 2K
Sonic Adventure 2
Crazy Taxi

SNES
NHL 94
Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World
F-Zero
Street Fighter II: Turbo
Super Mario Kart

PS2
SmackDown!:Here Comes The Pain
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas
The Simpsons: Hit & Run
Madden NFL 2005

NES
River City Ransom
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Double Dragon
The Legend of Zelda
Blades of Steel

Nintendo GameCube
Super Smash Bros.: Melee
Super Mario Sunshine
Legend of Zelda: Collectors Edition
Super Mario Strikers
Mario Kart: Double Dash!

Sega Genesis
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Mortal Kombat
Road Rash
Battletoads
Street Fighter II: Championship Edition (Dat 6 Button Pad)

Only handheld I really used was the NDS Lite, mainly for Mario 64 DS.

>>3902971
98 Kid i grew up mostly on N64 and PS2 but i got an NES around 9 because games were still cheap and i wanted to play the original mario games.

>all this exception making
pre 1990 or fuck off

>>3902971
Born 93, my first and only console was a famiclone.
I still have a box of carts, but I have to fix my pads before I can play on it again.

95 here. Had a PS and a GBC before the PS2 and GBA came out when I was about 5 or 6. Played them a lot. Also had a Mega Drive and Mega CD my mum got from someone from work but rarely played it.
I find it weird when people who are my age had A PS2 first. I have so much more nostalgia for PS1.

Born in the year Nineteen hundred and ninety three the year of our lord; grew up with a genesis and a Saturn that I still have to this day, now I fall victim to the collecting meme. got everything post /vr/ and most things past gen 3. its amazing the amount of intelli and atari games ive gotten without owning the console. they go for nothing literally sometimes.

>>3902971
I was born in 1998, My dad gave me his old gaming win 98 PC and I played Thief 1 & 2, Deus ex, half life and expansions and system shock 2 alone in my room and had no friends or internet.

I fucking loved it.

>>3902971
I remember having a Nintendo 64 and playing the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time and Super Mario 64 on it. I also remember playing Pokemon Crystal on my GBA and Pokemon Ruby and wondering why I couldn't transfer Pokemon from Crystal to Ruby.

>>3923151
I forgot to add that I was '96. I also had Doom, Hocus Pocus and Azareal's Tear for PC, but I didn't play that all that much.

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>>3905303
Not him, but yeah, 80's were looked back on the same way the 90's currently are. More for the music and movie scene, but it was still definitely looked at positively while I was growing up.
I was born in '82 and can say that with confidence, seeing as that's what I grew up with. Maybe it was different where you were at, though. North Carolina here.

Pic related, I liked the 90's because of my Gundam stuffs.

Born in 95, had a SNES and N64 growing up. Played a lot of Mario All Stars and Goldeneye

My brother was five years older than me. He had just about every great PC game from the mid 90s onward.

>Starcraft
>Deus Ex
>System Shock 2
>Diablo 2
>Myst
>Anachronox
>Fallout
>Alpha Centauri
>All the LucasArts adventure games
etc

'91.
Had a hand-me-down SNES that I sold later.
Got a Gameboy Color when I was 10 but lost it somewhere down the line. The oldest thing I own is my childhood N64 which still works.