What video game consoles/computer games etc did you have as a kid.

[firepokemon]

LOL just at a chat now and they were talking about old computers which lead me to talk about how I had an Atari Computer. But it was more like a video game system that was well majorly weird. But it made me think. And since many of us are super old, we've probably had our share of really weird systems. For some of you, old may just mean a Nintendo Nes or a Sega Master System for others it may include some Atari stuff or hell an Amiga or a Commodore or one those strange 64 games in all systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Xegs.jpg

And that console also came with this gun thing and the game Bug Hunt which was ugly as it was in green and black and had the unfortunate Spiders which use to scare the shit out of me. And you plugged it into your computer and it came with a word processor. And it also came with a book where if you typed whatever it said in the book, it would show a display of colours and stuff. It well strange and I guess it was some type of small coding system, but as I said it was strange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XG-1

Also my parents thought it would be cool if we had one of these:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Atari2600a.JPG

Lets just say the games were terrible and my parents were too cheap to buy us decent consoles. Thus its perfectly understandable to realise why I never became into video games. It was ok though. And you had stuff like tennis in blue and white colours only. Oh kids today live in a far different world. But you know there was something grand about these games. They were simplistic and yet they had something memorable about them whereas many games today while graphically great, gameplaying great are just well pathetic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_7800

I also had something similar to that it was also strange.

Sega was in huge in New Zealand I vaguely remember playing on friends's master systems and master systems 2. And of course then their was the mega drive. A weird system but like I said Sega was way bigger than Nintendo here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Mega_Drive

And I'm guessing many people here had a Snes? Yeah we had one at one stage as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snes

We had like two games Super Mario Brothers and some Wizardry/vikings type game. Nevertheless, that game was strange and difficult. And we ultimately found a second console that my sister found but my brother fought over it and well we broke the only hand controller that we had and well this was before the internet and sites like trademe (trademe is New Zealand's own EBAY)

I just realised I never talked about computers. Well there were the amiga commodores and grand games like Super Frog the equivalent to a Sonic or Mario but for the amiga system. And then there were the IBM based computers and well that had Cosmo and Hocus Pocus, the mario and sonics of that world. Oh and crap like Shooting Gallery. I swear we never had very good games with anything. Although Wolfenstein was great. 286 and 386 were average but the 486 system was rather good and fortunately our one got stolen in 1999 so we got a Penitum something computer from Hewlett Packard, that survived our house burning down and the cd drive was a m drive that was wierd. But its at my mums and we kept having to restart the same thing (I mean install everything again and we didn't do backups) And I couldn't find much of interest. But I'm gonna see if I can bring it up here next time I go down, which will be at Christmas. But I'm diverging.Don't talk about your computers eally but if you want you can.

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Bah so show us what you had. And if you're trying to find your early early systems.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History..._generation%29

That might help. Although I still couldn't find a few game systems we had. But my parents were strange and went to cheapo shops.

Oh and no showing us you're Game Boy Colour system from 2000 or anything. Lets keep them as high as say SNES and Sega's Mega Drive/Genisis.