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Spectacle

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1986-1989 Atari 2600
1988++ PC
2017++ PS4
 

toro

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1990 - C64
1991 - XT, 286, 386, 486, Cyrix, AMD, i2, i5, i7 (from 2015)

never owned a console.
owned a laptop for like 2 months.
 

Gregz

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1982 ColecoVision (friend's), Arcade Games
1983 Atari (friend's)
1985 IBM XT
1986 Apple IIgs (friend's)
1987 NES
1992 Intel 486
1999 ? PC
1999 PlayStation
2004 - Present (Many PCs, every gaming platform emulated including Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIgs, DOS, MAME, and all consoles)
 

Fowyr

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It's 3D card, propably best thing before 3DFX era (had it for my Pentium 200 machine).
Yea, 4 Mb S3 Virge 3D was a beast. There was a 2 Mb variant too, usually with SOJ sockets to add missing memory. It was one of the best PCI cards that I had (sans Voodoo2, but it worked parallel to my S3 Virge).

Worst Game Graphics Cards - S3 ViRGE
For fuck's sake, he compares PCI and AGP card. :rage: Why don't add 512 Kb ISA Trident to the mix, eh?

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I bought and repaired NES, then got hand-me-down NES
286 12 Mhz, 1Mb RAM, 20 Mb HDD
Then it was upgraded to 386 DX40 with 4 Mb RAM
Then I had P166MMX, then I started repairing and collecting computers, so I got a lot of nifty Socket 7 CPUs and mobos, then finally I started using Socket 370 Celeron 366, then upgraded to Pentium III 800 (constantly used it just a year ago). The rest is a history. :M
 
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DemonKing

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Late 70s/early 80s: Some cartridge based system which sucked even back then (Pong + some submarine crap)
mid 80s: Hanging out with people I didn't like just because they had an Apple II and I could go to their place and play Wizardry
late 80s: C64 (with optional disk drive!)
1992: 286 12hz with a 40 MB Hard Drive ("You'll never fill that!" according to my roomie at the time)
1994: 386 DX33
1997: First real job - Pentium 200MMX, Monster 3D card, jaw dropped.
1999-2001: Regular CPU/Graphics card upgrades
2003: Moved to Germany and bought myself an Alienware Rig. Damn thing broke down so many times but nice when it worked.
2005-12: Returned to Australia. Various PC and Graphics Card upgrades.
2012 - Now: I7 2700K - upgraded the graphics to GeForce GTX1060 a couple of year back. Still going strong.
2017- Now: PS4 Pro (Said it was for the kids but really for me to play those sweet PS exclusives)
2018 - Now: Switch (Really for the kids)

Not including various LCD handheld devices from the 80s that only let you play a single game, Ipads/Iphones.
 

Beastro

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Ahhh let's see.

- Atarai 2600 from my bro.
- NES around '88 or '89
- Genesis '91
- SNES around '92 or '93
- PSX '97
- N64 '98
- Crappy comp from my neighbor for free with Incredible Machine and a few other games '98
- Decent PC from when my bro moved back home in '99
- My own decent one in '03
- Custom built one in '08
- First laptop in '15
- laptop died, got a new one in '17.
 
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Codex Year of the Donut
GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
 

Tweed

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harsh circumstances
Pathfinder: Wrath
Early 80s: Atari 2600, Atari 800XL, Commodore 64.
Mid 80s: NES, Amiga 500.
Late 80s: Turbographix-16, Genesis, PC 486dx280
Early/mid 90s: SNES. A PC with a fucking Cyrix 6x86
late 90s: Dreamcast. Some crappy Intel PC
Early 2000s: Xbox, A modified PSX from a guy I knew who worked at Software Etc. Same crappy Intel PC
Mid 2000s: Played with nearly every retro system out there since my dad was a reseller during this time, also built a brand new PC so I could play Doom 3. Wii.
Late 2000s onward: a PC I built about 10 years ago running an ancient Intel Corei7 950 and a Geforce 780 Ti. A DS and N3DS. At some point I picked up a PS3 fatty too, seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
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Divinity: Original Sin 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Atari 800 XE
Commodore 64
First PC - 486 DX 40 with a Trident VGA and Sound Blaster plus some old Samsung monitor. That rig was upgraded through years to P200 MMX with Riva 128 and was used for a longer time since there was no more room for improvement. Later on Duron 750 with Geforce 2MX and now Athlon 64 X2 3 Ghz with Geforce GTS 450. I'm awaiting for the time, when the GPU will finally die, and after that invest in a new computer but until then I have more than enough games to keep me occupied.
 

Humanophage

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1993-1996: NES
1995-1998: PC 1 (486)
1999-2006: PC 2 (some Celeron)
2006-2009: PC 3 (some Pentium 4)
2009-2011: Laptop 1
2011-2018: Laptop 2 (i5-2430M, 6 GB, GeForce GT 540M)
2018-: just bought a new laptop last week (i5-8300H, 8 GB, GeForce GTX 1060 3GB GDDR5)

Laptop 2 is still quite functional even after these 7 years and a fair amount of transportation, but is beginning to grow a little slow for regular office tasks, even though it faithfully protects me from potentially addictive and primitive modern games. And it was only $400 in the first place.

I maintain that NES is not sinful because it never tried encroaching on PC territory, and I have kept myself pure of modern console taint.

P.S. The laptop arrived 30 minutes after I posted this. I am finally going to try AoD.
 
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Nano

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Grab the Codex by the pussy Strap Yourselves In
I maintain that NES is not sinful because it never tried encroaching on PC territory, and I have kept myself pure of modern console taint.
Is that really true when there's a chance that consoles wouldn't still exist today if it wasn't for the NES's success?
 

Filthy Sauce

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My list is terrible. All dates are estimates.

Early 90s- NES
Mid 90s- Macintosh (shareware RPGs)
& Sega Genesis
Late 90s- PC & N64
2000- PS2
2008- PS3
2016- PS4
 

octavius

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Bjørgvin
Ca 1980-81: Phillips console.
1982-1988: ZX Spectrum
1988-1996: Commodore Amiga
1996-2018: PC
 
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Bumvelcrow

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Codex 2013 Codex 2014 Make the Codex Great Again! Strap Yourselves In
1982: Spectrum 16K :( (couldn't even play proper games on it)
1983: BBC
1985: Commodore 128
1986: Amiga (the best machine ever made)
1989: Acorn Archimedes of some kind (for schoolwork :( )
1991: DOS PC
1994: OS/2 Warp PC :obviously:
1995 - 2014: Various Windowses, last one being Win7
1997 - present: Various Linuxes (currently Arch master race) :obviously:

Never owned a console. :obviously:
 
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aweigh

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i was console only from birth to teen years, then console + PC hybrid from late-teen years up until early 20s. Have been PC only for the last 10+ years and doesn't look like it's gonna change any time soon, so I guess the PS3 was the last console I will have ever bought!
 

Outlander

Custom Tags Are For Fags.
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Divinity: Original Sin Wasteland 2 Steve gets a Kidney but I don't even get a tag.
Fuck if I remember the years:

- a bunch of those handheld monochromatic multi-screen portable consoles
- NES (chinese knock-off) & 286 PC
- SNES, Game Boy, GameGear, 386 PC
- 586 AMD PC
- since then a bunch of different PC configurations over the years
- i7 + GT 540M laptop
- i5 + GTX 670 PC
 
Unwanted

Micormic

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Born in 1988.

Had a Commodore 64 but it died before I really played it. Only remember playing some really shitty mario port on it.
Had some type of DOS computer in the early 90's when I was a kid.
Got a proper windows 95 PC in like 96 or 97 prolly, dad upgraded it whenever a new version came out.

Consoles I bought/my family new
NES- Didn't have many games for it though.
SNES- prolly the console I played the most. By the time I was 4-5 and I started playing games we already had this one.
PS1- Wasn't really a fan of this one honestly, better then the N64 but only a handful of games I liked.
N64- Prolly my most hated console, hated the controller and the games I remember really hating all the 3D shit
PS2- Mostly used as a DVD player

Consoles I bought later on
Mega Drive- Only had a few games for it, got it for 3 Euro's in the late 90's along with 2 controllers.
Dreamcast- This one did really bad in Europe so it was super hard to find games for, prolly got it like 2 or 3 years after it came out.
Gamecube- Eh, only bought it for Metroid prime games(loved super metroid). Not much else interested me on it. Wasn't a big fan of the Prime games either tbh, lol.
Original xbox- Got it super cheap. Didn't use it much tbh.
Xbox 360- Got it for free red ringed from a roomate, tricked microshit into sending me a free replacement. Hardly played it and it red ringed again anyways like a year later.


Also had a few of the portables, Gameboy, Gameboy SP, original PSP. Never used them much except on car/train/plane rides though.



Thanks to Fallout 1 and RTS games I became more and more into PC games starting the late 90's. Consoles were king for racing games for me though :)
 

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