Gamers.

[Chippy_Tea]

I have owned many of the consoles in the video and think the one that wowed me the most back in the day was the Dreamcast as it allowed online gaming and internet access although it was very limited back then.




The video is a must see for all the oldies here - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wa...ith-a-classic-perfect-retro-gaming-collection

Meet the man with a classic perfect retro gaming collection

Do you know a C64 from a N64? Go all nostalgic when you play Sonic The Hedgehog or Super Mario?

Well, imagine being able to compare the quality of every gaming console ever released in the United Kingdom.

Now you can gaming fan Sam Anstee is putting on an exhibition at Pontypool museum in Torfaen.

Mr Anstee, who grew up playing on the Atari ST and Commodore 64, has amassed a collection of all computer gaming systems released since his childhood.

• 09 Sep 2018

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[Graz]

I had a Sega Dreamcast. Really was something special at the time just a shame it was the last one they ever made. Lots of quirky features like the visual memory cards that had their own screens and little controls on which you could play mini games to help your progress in the main game.

I've had a few video games over the years (& computers that I used more for playing games than anything else):

Atari 2600 (with the wooden front).
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k
Commodore 64
Commodore Amiga A500
Sega Game Gear
Sega Megadrive
Nintendo SNES
Sony PlayStation (1)
Sega Dreamcast
Sony PlayStation 2
Sony PlayStation 4

 

[Clint]

Chap works with me into gaming..got 300+ consoles and 1000's of games. Also got complete set of star wars figures (boxed,multiple) and vehicles...

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Atari 2600 (with the wooden front).

I spent a small fortune on the Defender machine in one local pub buying this console saved me a fortune.

 

[Gunge]

I'm still using my ancient Megadrive to play the Roadrash series!!

 

[BeerCat]

Still on xbox but i need new games. Speaking of gamers has anyone been following the Mundane Matt story?

 

[simon12]

I had a ZX Spectrum + 48K then Atari ST then PCs for gaming but never had a console.

 

[Covrich]

Ah the days of spectrum.. Damn game dind;t laod


Rewind tape. fiddle with volume on cassette player LOAD "" .. and try again

 

[LesTom]

Loved my Sega Megadrive back in the day and as Gunge has mentioned Road Rash, oh how I would love someone to do a re-master of it for the PS4 that I own these days.

 

[Norfolk79]

My history :-

Spectrum +3 (was the envy of my mates as it had a disk drive)
SNES
N64
PlayStation 1
Gamecube
Wii
Playstation 3
Playstation 4
Retro SNES Mini

And quite a few pc's over the years'
Don't have so much time for gaming now, with work, kids and brewing beer

 

[Chippy_Tea]

Ah the days of spectrum.. Damn game dind;t laod


Rewind tape. fiddle with volume on cassette player LOAD "" .. and try again

The good old days.

 

[AdeDunn]

Loved my Sega Megadrive back in the day and as Gunge has mentioned Road Rash, oh how I would love someone to do a re-master of it for the PS4 that I own these days.

There's a version on Steam for PC called Road Redemption, well pretty close to it anyway https://store.steampowered.com/app/300380/Road_Redemption/. I remember playing Road Rash on a friends Mega Drive when I was at high school (I only had a lowly Master System 2, and a Spectrum +2a back then. lol). Before that I had a 48k and a +. Eventually a Playstation, then a Dreamcast, then a PS2, PC, Xbox 360, Wii (garbage things they are too...), PS4 and the kids have an Xbox One. I mainly just game on PC though as like it or not it is the one system to rule them all.

You can get a Mega Drive collection on Steam (it's an emulator front end and a bunch of roms really) but Road Rash isn't in it I don't think, there are some Dream cast games in there too. I have the collection for Xbox 360 too but hardly ever played it (sums me up with consoles to be honest, since my days on my old Master System 2, Dreamcast and Playstation.). Some stand out moments were Ecco The Dolphin, Syndicate Wars and Sega Bass fishing using the Fission controller....

I nearly forgot, I owned a Sinclair QL once too. Now THAT was an obscure one. Had a built in microdrive....

 

[Nicks90]

Had an amstrad back in the day and a playstation 1 - but since the it's been pc gaming all the way.

Currently addicted to Verdun and the latest call of duty..
Much to swmbo's annoyance.

 

[Harbey]

I too started with a wooden Atari. Well, I actually started with one of those pong type things if that counts. I've fallen in and out of love with video games ever since depending on what real life threw up (girls, drink, families and work can get in the way as you move through life). I now have a PS4 which I dip into here and there. By far my fave though, and still plugged into the TV though not quite retro, is the Xbox 360. From the AAA titles through to the 49p (or whatever they were) indie games made by geeks in their bedrooms, it just had everything. Such a shame they didn't get it quite right with the Xbone.

 

[AdeDunn]

The Xbone is just a cut down PC, with the best parts of the PC removed. The PS4 is nearly the same thing , but luckily Sony know how to do this right somehow, Microsoft don't (big mistake, making games playable on both Xbone and Windows 10 for example when you buy them in the digital store). The biggest problem with consoles in our house though is that they attach to the TV, and I always feel awkward using the TV to game on, especially with my wife pulling her face if I play something like a driving game or something... lol Folks quickly twigged though that you could actually build a PC with pretty similar specs for only slightly more, but with the bonus of been able to actually upgrade it when you could afford to (The old AMD A10 APUs for one thing were pretty much identical hardware).... Sony and MS shot themselves in the foot in my opinion though with the mid-cycle release of the Pro and the One X, what were they thinking? They must think they're Apple or something.... lol

I'm pretty addicted to No Man's Sky at the moment to be honest. Lots of things wrong with it, but just love playing it.

As to games not loading on the Speccy.... I once spent hours and hours typing in a program out of a magazine. Got to the end, thing didn't actually do anything. Checked the code, not a single error, it just literally didn't do anything, at all. The magazine staff must have laughed so hard every month as they printed it over and over and over, knowing that nerds like me would sit and spend hours typing it in.....

 

[Chippy_Tea]

I used to be a chase your tail gaming rig builder, I remember travelling to our nearest PC world to pay £200+ for a Geforce2 the cost of constantly updating took its toll and I reluctantly moved to PS3, I still miss the keyboard and mouse combo for shooters.

 

[AdeDunn]

My first ever PC came with a GeForce 2 MX in it. Ahhh, the days when top end graphics cards cost about £300... These days, that gets you a just under mid range one... lol

To be honest, I spent slightly more building my currently PC. It's nowhere near the latest (Devils Canyon i5 rather than Coffee Lake, Geforce 970 GTX rather than a 1070 or 2070 etc), but it's been keeping me going for a while now, and STILL beats the pants of the likes of the PS4 Pro and Xbone X. The chasing the tail thing by the way was what I meant about the mid cycle release with the Pro and X, consoles used to be able to boast that once you bought one it was IT for quite a while before something better came out, now you buy one and 18 months later the same company releases a slightly better one.... You can't even just open up your old one and put the new bits in it, oh no, it's an entire new console... lol

Oh, and my current PC I went a bit crazy with...



I added 2 more SSDs since taking that photo...lol Oh and the M2 drive didn't last 5 seconds (part of the reason I added more SSDs...). Oh and no, I don't tend to use it with that lighting turned on, I'm too old for that kind of nonsense..... I would have been quite happy if that particular case had come WITHOUT a window to be honest.....

I told you I was a geek..... :hat:

 

[Covrich]

Yeah you don't need to chase it and upgrade every year.. some do I upgrade every 4 years or so and its fine

I got i5 6600k and 1060 Overclocked edition a few years ago and it will be fine for many years to come.

@AdeDunn you'res looks similar to mine, in that you appear to have a watercooled bloc and exhaust fan?

 

[Covrich]

I used to be a chase your tail gaming rig builder, I remember travelling to our nearest PC world to pay £200+ for a Geforce2 the cost of constantly updating took its toll and I reluctantly moved to PS3, I still miss the keyboard and mouse combo for shooters.

I remember back in 1997 when I saved up and bought the Diamond MOnster 3dfx card.. the hardware graphical generation was born it was the game changer.. playing tomb raider 2 was so much better