First System - The Bear and Badger

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What was your first home system (computer/console)?

How do you look back on it? Did you have many games? Which did you play most? Did you make any stupid purchases? And do you still own it?

Jacuzzi_Jackson

Whats with all the questions?

hunk

Snes
Fondly
Yes
SSF2
No
Yes

Rev

Spectrum 48k. I loved it at the time. Played Horace goes skiing and flight simulator. Loved playing chuckie egg as well for hours at a time.
Unfortunately it died.

Jacuzzi_Jackson

Chuckie Egg is a bad ass egg.

Brooks

Beeb Micro, or something. It had Q*Bert and something else, I forget.

afgavinstan

Commodore 64. The TMNT game was my fave. I don't really remember it that fondly, as I'm not really busting a gut to get a new one. Um...

Brooks

Ahh fuck it wasn't even Q*Bert proper, it was Acornsoft's cheeky rip. And the monitor was CGA only.

I_R

Spectrum. Fondly, but realistically. Everyone had all the games. It's long gone, sold it for a tenner to some nerds that were using them for a college project.

[Deleted User]

Toshiba HX10 MSX. MSX was a precursor to Windows.
My dad bought it for me for Christmas because he had a Toshiba radio and it "lasted years." What kind of stupid reason is that to buy a computer?
I wanted a C64 because graphex and I could go to Boots to buy a game, so I was mildly disappointed.
I had to buy my games which came in the form of fairly expensive Konami carts for Â£40 by mail order from a shop called Tavistock Hi-Fi in England. I got one for my birthday and one for Christmas and was fairly resentful of my C64 owning school friends who could just stroll to Boots and pick up games for Â£10.
Now I'm actually glad I got the MSX. The best game was Penguin Adventre. As it happens, it was Kojima's first game and from where the penguin references originate in other Konami games like Parodius.

Brooks

All pink and cyan and black and white.

fullspectrum

PC Engine.

Not really, it was the spectrum.

[Deleted User]

I had an Amiga 500.
It came with a bundle of kid's games.
Deluxe Paint
Captain Planet
Bart vs the Space Mutants
Batman
some other shit I don't remember.

I bought loads of games that were rubbish but was given loads that played awesome (some pirated some not).
Most played games were Batman, Robocod, Lotus Turbo 2, Jaguar XJ220 and Big Nose the Caveman.

I still have it and probably about 200 demo discs somewhere at my parent's place.

I played the hell out of it at the time but for some reason always wanted a Mega Drive instead.

metagonzo

BBC B

Repton. Still great, even today. (Although I don't have the Beeb anymore)

Olimite

None of this 2600 malarkey.

Brooks

Wait! Fuck! No! It was this version called J-Bird:

In which case I can't remember what the fuck the machine was. Whatever throwntogether PC the guy down the road in Southern Africa had managed to get his hands on. So the first game I owned, rather than fiddled with down the arcade, was pirated.

ChattinWithChet

Whatever throwntogether PC the guy down the road in Southern Africa had managed to get his hands on.

Your past is a terrifying mystery.

Moto70

Binatone TV Master Mk 6 and then the classic Atari 2600 VCS...

With fondness.

Yes.

Vanguard.

No, I was a child I didn't purchase anything.

No.

JonB

metagonzo wrote:

BBC B Repton. Still great, even today. (Although I don't have the Beeb anymore)

Yes, one of them. Repton was a good one. And Stryker's Run, Elite, some Ultimate stuff like Sabre Wulf and Jet-Pac and Atic Atac and Knightlore. Plus lots more I can't remember. I think we wanted a Spectrum though, but my Dad decided this would be more educational or some shit. Only used it for games of course, and there were never as many available as on the speccy.

Tempy

Grandad has a BBC micro with Chucky Egg which was the first thing I ever played.

Dad had Amiga with R-Type.

I had a Megadrive 2 with Sonic.

Jacuzzi_Jackson wrote:

Whats with all the questions?

No one expects the Maria inquisition!

[Deleted User]

I had a demo of this on the Amiga, it came on it's own on a green semi-transparent floppy disk. I thought it was absolutely amazing, I played it so much it was ridiculous. Never attempted to buy it for some reason.

metagonzo

JonB wrote:

metagonzo wrote:

BBC B Repton. Still great, even today. (Although I don't have the Beeb anymore)

Yes, one of them. Repton was a good one. And Stryker's Run, Elite, some Ultimate stuff like Sabre Wulf and Jet-Pac and Atic Atac and Knightlore. Plus lots more I can't remember. I think we wanted a Spectrum though, but my Dad decided this would be more educational or some shit. Only used it for games of course, and there were never as many available as on the speccy.

Yep; similar reasoning behind my folks choice. We eventually had an Archemidies for fuck sake!

Mod74

Moto70

Fucking hell, what year was that I'm sure I had one as the rifle looks familiar?

[Deleted User]

My first system was an Amiga 500 with Spitting Image and Winter Games.

Mod74

About 80-82, something like that.

The rifle was actually a pistol. You converted it to a rifle by screwing in a longer barrel and shoulder stock, Day of the Jackal style.

Perfectly acceptable toy for a 6/8 year old.

LtPidgeon

My first love was my Spectrum 48K with Atic Atac and Oracle's Cave. I remember spending ages trying to get the LOAD command to work to get the games installing. My friend had got The Hobbit too, and I still remember watching those loading screens coming down line by line.

Moto70

Mod74 wrote:

About 80-82, something like that. The rifle was actually a pistol. You converted it to a rifle by screwing in a longer barrel and shoulder stock, Day of the Jackal style. Perfectly acceptable toy for a 6/8 year old.

I'm sure I had one, I remember the Binatone as it was bright orange and I played the game where you jumped buses on a bike non-stop. My Dad must have spent a small fortune on me back in the day...

Skondo

Atari 2600. Similar to the image posted by Oli, but it had the independent difficulty switches. I have very fond memeories of the machine, but really wouldn't want to go back and play anything now. Never had that many games for it, but my most played was probably Kaboom!, Combat or Skiing. I remember playing River Raid, Frogger, Adventure, Empire Strikes Back, Pole Position and Pac Man, but many of these games were borrowed. I thought Pac Man was great at the time.

I eventually sold it and put the money towards a Spectrum Plus. My first game for this was Knight Lore.

hylian_elf

hunk wrote:

Snes Fondly Yes SSF2 No Yes

This. Almost exactly the same. (SF2 Turbo for me.)

pabloamigo

BBC Micro with an Acorn Electron at my grandparents. Played lots of Repton Returns and summat with a dood on a motorbike jumping over stuff as you scrolled left to right (Micro) and a dodgy port of Ghouls & Ghosts (Electron).

Both gone to the silicon factory in the sky.

Amiga 500 with the Screen Gems pack was where the magic happened though.

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