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LeStryfe79

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1984 Vic-20
1987 NES (with ROB)
1989 Commodore 128
1989 Gameboy
1991 SNES
1993 Compaq Pressario
1996 Packard Bell
1996 N64
1998 PS1
2001 Gameboy Advance
2001 PS2
2002 Dell piece of shit 1
2003 Gamecube
2005 XBox 360
2007 Dell piece of shit 2
2011 Dell piece of shit 3
2016 Samsung Galaxy 7X Active
 
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1995 - Famiclone with built-in cartridge
1997 - Italian IBM-compatible Olivetti 386SX 8MB Ram
1998 - PC Pentium 200 MMX 32 MB RAM (upgraded once, in 1999 by buying Voodoo 2)
2006 - Celeron 400 64 MB RAM, Voodoo 3
2008 - 1,7 GHz 2 Ghz RAM Laptop, Core2Duo 3Ghz RAM, GeForce 9500 GT - haven't upgraded since
2013 - 2 original Xboxes, modded and non-modded
2016 - Modded PS3
 

Melcar

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Merida, again
Fuck if I remember the years, but it was:

- Gameboy (the original brick, so I guess late 80s)
- SNES
- N64
- Dreamcast
- PC (Dell Pentium II 333MHz, 64MB RAM, 4GB HDD, 4MB IGP, 15" CRT 800x600 75Hz, Windows 95)
- GameCube
- Custom PC

My custom PC history is a bit long and complicated, since I never had a "single machine" and would instead upgrade individual parts constantly.
 

Baron Dupek

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1995 - Atari 2600
1997 - Amiga CD32
1999 - GameBoy Color, 2 of them plus Camera+Printer
2000 - PC (Celeron 366MHz, 128 MB RAM, 30GB and VooDoo2 without drivers)
2001 - same PC but with Riva TNT2 and drivers
2004 - Duron 850MHz, 256MB RAM, GeForce 2 MX 440 (and drivers)
2005 - PSP
2006 - Xbox360
had to sell both PSP and X360 when financial crisis in 2007 hit
up today - PC only
2008 - Athlon x4 2.3 GHz, 3GB RAM, Radeon 9600
2011 - same PC but with Radeon 6570
2014 - same PC with Radeon 4970
2017 - Intel i7, 12GB RAM, 1 TB, GeForce 650 GTX Ti BOOSt

I have all dates mixed up, up to ~2years difference
Never had good GPU in my life since Riva TNT2 (real 3D accelerator! now 3D games were playable!), always some cheap, power saving garbage inside, always busy playing old games (still to this day) that I couldn't play before. Tastes changes too.
 
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Mustawd

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Atari
Tiger Handhelds
NES
Gameboy
Sega Genesis
PS1
PS2
ipad2
PS3 (only played like 3 games though)
Nintendo 2DSXL

PC years were late 90s to early 2000s. Then again since 2013 to today.
 

TheImplodingVoice

Dumbfuck!
Dumbfuck
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PC 1992 - 2018

From 1990 - 2018
- NES
- SNES
- Megadrive
- Saturn
- PS1
- N64
- Dreamcast
- PS2
- Xbox 360
- PS3
- Wii U
- PS4
- Switch (But since all the soy fags have one. I don't use it anymore)

But I game mostly on PC. Still have all my consoles and they are all still in working condition.
 

Kitchen Utensil

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C64
Amiga 500
Sega Mega Drive, Mega-CD, 32X
Gameboy
Game Gear
SNES
N64
Sega Saturn
PS1
Gamecube
Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox
NintendoDS
Xbox360
XboxOne

and several PCs, it's been 4 or 5 I think, starting 1996 or so.
 

Viata

Arcane
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Water Play Catarinense
Apple 2
MS DOS
PC
NES
Master System
SNES
Mega Drive
Sega Saturn
3DO(fucking useless video game)
N64
PS1
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Dreamcast
PS2
Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo DS
PS3
Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo 3DS
And now I have almost all of them on a single PC.
I don't remember the years, though.
 
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Top of my memory:

- Dad's Computer 1: Played Doom on it when I was very young. This must have been like, 96 or 97. I think it was some ancient system.

- Super Nintendo: Given to me by godmother's daughter, who is like a sister to me. Much fun was had, this baby worked until the early 2000s. Good times.

- Dad's Computer 2: I think his computer broke or something. I used to play so many old games in this one, I remember. Late 90s.

- My first computer: This is the first computer I really owned. It was my brother's old Pentium 100, I still remember it. Slow as molasses but decent anyway. Later, my dad upgraded it to a Pentium 166. Played fuckloads of old games on it. Good times. Stopped for an year when the monitor died. This was in... I think 2000 or 2001, not long before my brother left Belém.

- My Pentium 2. I don't remember if it was an upgrade of the old one or a new computer. But it was great. I think this one was in 2002 or so.

- My cousin's old AMD K6 500 MHZ. She gave me it after she took one of the old LAN House's newer computers (after it failed) for herself. This was a nice little baby, runnign Windows 98SE. This was... 2003-2004 I think?

- My first brand-new computer, brought to me by my brother. This was in 2004 or early 2005, probably '04. Sadly, it was saddled with XP and it only had 128 mbRAM. SLOOOOW. Father upgraded it later.

- A 3.0 GHZ Pentium 4. Kickass. Gamed a lot with it until it broke.

- HP Laptop. My mother's. Kickass, but the video-card died.

- Atom laptop, also my mother's.

- A pretty cool i5. HD died, and later I had to sell the parts in 2016.

- My father's 3.0 GHZ Pentium PC, a nice stop-gag until it broke.

- My current i3 laptop, which is pretty nifty but when I get me some spare cash, I plan on putting in at least 8 extra gigs of RAM because fuck using Visual Studio + a Browser with it. I just took a look and that's like 400 reais (over a hundred dollars), fucksakes.
 

Nano

Arcane
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Grab the Codex by the pussy Strap Yourselves In
Hardware: x86-based PCs since I was born.

Software:
1999: Windows 98
2005: Windows XP
2007: Windows Vista
2010: Windows 7
2017: Windows 10

Wasn't around for that time, so I can only imagine how disappointed the people who bet on Amiga were.
 

Siveon

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Shadorwun: Hong Kong
2001: Home Gateway Computer. Windows 98.
2002-2005: Gameboy Advance
2006-2009: "Borrowed" Windows XP School Laptop.
2010-2018: Built Windows 7 computer. Died recently, RIP
2018: Fancy Windows 10 Computer.

I've had other consoles and such but they weren't my main thing.
 

soulburner

Cipher
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~1993 - Atari 2600
~1994 - Famicom clone
~1995 - Commodore 64
1997 - PC (Pentium 133 overclocked to 166 MHz, 32 MB RAM, S3 Trio with 1 MB VRAM, some Sound Blaster clone, Windows 95 OSR2)

It was PC only further on, upgrades include AMD K6/2 350 processor, Duron 850, Athlon XP 2000+, Pentium Dual Core E2180, Core 2 Quad Q9550, i5 2500K. GPUs used: Riva 128, Riva Vanta 32, GeForce 2MX, Radeon 9000, Radeon 4850, GeForce GTX580, Radeon R9 290. Currently spending 99% of my computing time on a Thinkpad X230 (i5 3320m, 8 GB RAM). Will build a completely new PC gaming desktop probably around AMDs Zen 4 ;)
 

Dux

Arcane
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???
The dark ages of Man - ColecoVision
The not so dark ages of Man - Amiga
1994-199? - Nintendo and Super Nintendo
1997-2002 - personal computers with thick monitors
2000-2002 - Playstation 2
200x-2007 - personal computers with thin monitors
20xx-20xx - personal computers with thin monitors that are slightly curved
 

Epsilon

Cipher
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1985 C64
1987 Nintendo Entertainment System
1988 Amiga 500
1992 Amiga 1200
1996 PC, 100 Mhz 32mb ram PC Windows 95.
???? PC with Voodoo graphics
???? PC with Geforce 256
2004 Linux
2018 Linux / Windows 10 KVM.
 

J_C

One Bit Studio
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Developer
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Project: Eternity Wasteland 2 Shadorwun: Hong Kong Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag. Pathfinder: Wrath
1993 - 1998 - chinese knock offs of Atari and NES consoles.
1999 - PC with S3 Virge (2D (3D?) Graphics card)
2001 - PC with Voodoo 2
??? - PC with Ati Radeon something
??? - PC with Ati Radeon 6870
2018 - PC with used GTX560Ti (becaues the 6870 fried)
 
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Unkillable Cat

LEST WE FORGET
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Codex 2014 Make the Codex Great Again! Grab the Codex by the pussy
I used an Amstrad CPC from 1986 to 1992-93 (still have it).
I've been using various PCs since late 1987, from an Amstrad PC 1512 up to the lil' desktop monster I'm using to make this post on.

In mid-1992 I came to truly understand the concept of the computer/console 'platform war' and how damaging it was to computing... not to mention a kid's social life if you happen to 'choose poorly' (read: get stuck with a lame system). Seeing the raw power that a PC possessed and how I could do school work, homework, real work and play games on it... it led to me saving up as much money as I could, bought my own PC for Christmas that year (the PCs I had used before that were hand-me-downs) and placed my bet on the hope that this system would somehow last longer than the ones that came before it. Then the internet came, I saw what platform people were primarily using to access it, and smiled. In 1997 I saw the first emulator in action on a PC and got my moment of vindication; a system that could play ALL the games was the system to own.

I've never owned or relied upon another platform since.
 

wyes gull

Savant
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80s- 128k Speccy, 16Mhz 286
90s- Mega Drive, 200Mhz Pentium, Saturn
00s- 750Mhz Duron, PS2, AMD XP3000, T-series laptop
10s- frankenstein AMD, Ryzen 5

Really? I remember that when I had it, every 3D game only ran in software mode, not hardware 3D mode. Although I was totally clueless about computers, so maybe I messed up something.
It's a bit of a mess. The S3 Virge was a sort of 3D card with very little in the way of performance. My memory isn't reliable but I don't remember it being capable of using OpenGL or Glide as proper 3D cards would. In practical terms, the term "3D accelerator" really only took off when the Diamond PowerVR, Matrox and Voodoo series of secondary cards (as in only for 3D acceleration, meaning you still needed a 2D specific card such as the virge to output video) came out. You'd later get 2D/3D capable cards with actual 3D performance, such as the Voodoo Banshee I replaced my Virge with, much the same way gfx cards are built today.
 

soulburner

Cipher
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The S3 ViRGE cards were at one time called "decelerators", because outside of its proprietary API it was barely faster (often slower) than software rendering. It wasn't long before Voodoo showed up and Virge was quickly forgotten. It was pretty great as a 2D chip, though. However, I remember there were issues if you wanted to mix Virge and Voodoo.

 
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