Video game consoles you own (and possibly collect games for)

[chrd]

Personally:

Atari 2600
Sega Master System
Sega Megadrive (Genesis)
NES
SNES
Gamecube
Playstation
Playstation 2

About 250 games in total (I value quality over quantity so sell or trade games I don't like). I collect games primarily to play them ; not just for the pleasure of collecting although I can certainly understand pure 'collectors'.

[norecess]

Good idea!


My list:


Game gear (with MasterSystem adapter)
Sega Nomad
Sega Genesis + 32X + Sega CD
Sega Saturn
Sega Dreamcast
SNES
Amiga CD 32
NeoGeo CD
XBOX 1 (I only use it for XBMC those days..)
GBA
MicroGBA
PSP
iPod

C64 (+Chameleon 64)
CPC 6128 (HxC)
CPC 6128 Plus (Ramcard, HxC)
Amiga 600 (4Gb FlashCard HDD, 2Mb Fast/Chip RAM, registered WhdLoad)


How many games ? Hmm... tons.

[MacDeath]

Well, I must have an old NES my brother forgot at my home.
But I never really used it, I should, I bought games for it recently (Marios, Kirby, and so on)

A MegaDrive too (this one is mine).

my Amstrads PLUS may count as a GX4000 (which is more like a keyboardless/tapeless/extensionsless 464 PLUS....)



My brother does have the Sega Saturn and the Dreamcast, also Xboxes and various modern consoles...(Nintendo DS and so on)


Non consoles ?
Speccy+2 (ouch)
Atari STE 1040 and 520...
Amiga 500.

Amstrads of course (CPC and PLUS)

a few portable old PCs (486 and penthium) to get better than dosbox.

[robcfg]

This is going to take long...


NES
Famicom Disk System
SNES
GB
GBA
GC
WII
Master System II
Megadrive
Nomad
Saturn
Dreamcast
PS1
PS2
XBOX
XBOX360
WonderSwan
GP32
GP2X
GX4000 


Add to that a lot of computers, CPC's of course, Ataris, Spectrums, Commodores, Acorns, Luxor, DEC, Apple... Hey, I even have two Sun Fire V480 servers! 

[McKlain]

Interesting topic 

I never were into videogame consoles as a kid, they weren't popular here in spain during my childhood and 8 bit computers were the kings of videogame playing here. But time passed, and I started to earn money of my own...

My first console was a Playstation (wich still works). I bought a few extra things for it (second controller, a memory card...) and just a few games. Then came the Dreamcast, a little machine that gave me an insane amount of hours of fun, with games and emulators of all kind. I also bought a lot of hardware for the little white box (gamepads, adapters, a lightgun, memory cards...) and a decent amount of games. After that came the XBOX, the black beast that got unleashed when I installed a modchip on it. I still use it with XBMC to watch all of the movies and tv series that I follow (well, it's another xbox, the first one passed away ). I also bought a few things for it: extra controllers, the dvd kit (very useful for xbmc), a lightgun, a dance mat, the xenium modchip, a new hard drive... 

As a curiosity, I took part in the beta testing of xbox live a few months before the service started to work. Microsoft sent all of the betatesters a dev kit (the ones with the green translucent shell and black logo). The machine was allowed to connect to the beta network to test the beta of a really crappy game in wich you played with R/C toy cars. I still have the game disc somewhere, the funny thing is that it only worked on the dev kit, my modchipped xbox can't read it, it says that it's a dvd-video disc. After the beta they sent us as a gift an xbox live kit (1 year of free service, a memory card and a communicator). The dev kit came with cables, a communicator and a controller S (the new model) and after the beta we only have to send back the dev kit and we could keep the rest 

And finally the XBOX 360, the 60GB model with a jasper motherboard (2009). I'm really happy with it, I've also bought a load of games (more than 100) and hardware for it (online shopping in the UK, with those low prices, is really dangerous for my wallet). Also I took part in the Kinect beta test last year and got a free kinect after the beta 

Last Christmas I got an Xbox 360 slim to be the companion of the kinect sensor, they live happily in the living room and can be used by all the family. The white one is only mine 

I also have a Neo Geo Pocket Color, I saw it super-cheap on play-asia once and bought it in a pack with 6 games. Nice little machine, it just needed to have backlight on the screen.


So:

   
• Playstation (first model)
• Dreamcast
• XBOX (2)
• XBOX 360 (2, fat and slim version)
• Neo Geo Pocket Color

And my old 464.

[chrd]

NeoGeo CD

Interesting, from the game list this looks just like a "regular" Neo Geo AES except for the different media. I've always wanted a Neo Geo console in mint condition but prices are still way up there mostly (the same for the cartridges themselves).

The ultimate for me would be owning one of these (Super Neo Geo 29 Candy cabinet):



Shipping from Japan probably doubles the price...

[chrd]

NES
Famicom Disk System
SNES
GB
GBA
GC
WII
Master System II
Megadrive
Nomad
Saturn
Dreamcast
PS1
PS2
XBOX
XBOX360
WonderSwan
GP32
GP2X
GX4000 


Add to that a lot of computers, CPC's of course, Ataris, Spectrums, Commodores, Acorns, Luxor, DEC, Apple... Hey, I even have two Sun Fire V480 servers! 

Very nice list! How is the Wonderswan?


There's a nice Acorn on Ebay at the moment (http://cgi.benl.ebay.be/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270759251874&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_946wt_1141). I've been tempted but fear that prices may still go way up...

[chrd]

I never were into videogame consoles as a kid, they weren't popular here in spain during my childhood and 8 bit computers were the kings of videogame playing here.

Funny how these markets can differ. The NES for example was extremely popular here in Belgium. From my youth I can only recall the C64 & Amiga series from 8-bit computing (non IBM compatibles) although some people (who are a couple of years older) fondly remember the ZX Spectrum. Can't really remember the CPC being around here when I was a kid...

[MacDeath]

you got to remember that as a child, you can't really go where you want nor meet whoever you like...

You are limited socially to friends at school, family relatives or perhaps a few extras Parent's friends children, perhaps if you do sport or extra scholar activities...

considering the computers were'nt as popular as now... actually rare to begin with...

the hasard can get you having only a few kind of computers available in your environment.

I for instance only saw the Atari 8 bit in magazines...
C64 wasn't that common at all in my circle.



But also you simply couldn't visit anyone at will at the time.
So perhaps one guy in the other classroom had this sweet Amstrazd CPC yet you wouldn't know it because he was of a different age from you, different class, and you weren't friends actually.

[arnoldemu]

Keeping it real:

GX4000 only

Computers:

KC Compact
Spectrum+3
PCW8256
CPC6128
CPC464
464Plus
6128Plus

[AMSDOS]

Atari 2600 - the revised slimline version in plastic box! 
Atari 7800 - PAL Model B.

A couple of years ago I was trying to collect games for my 7800 which is rather tricky cause my 7800 relates to the region (Australia). Unsure if there's a PAL Model A, if those games from that region only work for that Model assuming it exists cause the 7800 came with a complicated encryption which died when Atari were taken over my Inforgrames and to my knowledge has prevented any software to be written for the 7800. People have instead being writing stuff for the Atari 5200 instead which is a rare console mainly due to the fact it couldn't run 2600 software, though didn't have any complicated encryption for people to worry about.

[norecess]

Keeping it real:

GX4000 only

Purist ! 


On my side I tend to buy (collect..) stuff related to my childhood. You know, as a child, I was not able to buy those stuff and kept dreaming on them.. so today it's kind of revenge to that period. Yepee!

[chrd]

the hasard can get you having only a few kind of computers available in your environment.

Very true observation. I can still recall every single person who had a computer or console until I was 14 or so, so that view is bound to be fragmented...

[arnoldemu]

cause the 7800 came with a complicated encryption which died when Atari were taken over my Inforgrames and to my knowledge has prevented any software to be written for the 7800.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/forum/4-atari-7800/

they have a programming forum here... so it looks like that didn't stop them

[MaV]

I haven't bothered with consoles until I bought a GBA SP six or seven years ago. Some type of games typically ascribed to consoles I still don't play and can't get accustomed to (for example the fighting games à la Street Fighter). I was a PC games player for most of my life. Nowadays I don't play PC games at all - except the occasional nostalgia trip via DosBox.

my consoles:
GB
GBC
GBA
Nintendo DS(i)
PSP

NES
PS2
Wii
XBOX360
PS3

I intend to acquire an SNES and N64 sometime in the future.

Any new generation of consoles beyond 360 and PS3 will be under very close scrutiny before I'll buy one. I'm not too fond of the trend to online shops. I prefer the physical media, cartridges are even better.
And I'm really starting to hate these Add-Ons, especially since some are released the same day the game is sold in stores. These should have been in the game for what it's worth.
(Some of those Arcade or PSN games are really fantastic however. Shadow Complex and Trials HD comes to mind.)

[norecess]

I intend to acquire an SNES

Totally worth it. I acquired one 2 months ago ; and being a Sega fan I have been quite impressed with the quality of some games. Of course we know how great Street Fighter 2s are, but it's still get really fun and exciting after all those years. The console has also many treasures you can't find anywhere else.

SNES :
- excellent sound
- awesome controllers
- unique licenses

GENESIS :
- SegaCD, 32X!
- games tends to have more layered background plans than SNES allows
- unique licenses too

[redbox]

Keeping it real:
GX4000 only

Reeeeeeeeeeespect 

Me too[nb]Does having a PS3 and Wii count? We are talking retro consoles right?[/nb].

[McKlain]

Me too[nb]Does having a PS3 and Wii count? We are talking retro consoles right?[/nb].

I guess it does, the topic starter didn't say anything about retro.

[arnoldemu]

Reeeeeeeeeeespect 

Me too[nb]Does having a PS3 and Wii count? We are talking retro consoles right?[/nb].

Aghh.. I also have a Wii.
I thought it was about retro.

[chrd]

The topic was posted in "Other retro" - "Not CPC-specific, but still retro related" 

But then we'd need to define "retro".... In my opinion, that would include everything that's older then a decade ;-) Opinions may vary...

[McKlain]

Anything that is not being commercialized anymore is retro for me 

[Amstari]

Retro:
Atari 2600 Jr (PAL)
Atari 2600 Jr (NTSC - AV Mod)
Atari 2600 Light Sixer (NTSC)
SpectraVideo CompuMate
Sega Dreamcast
Sega Master System II
Sony Playstation

Not retro yet:
Sony Playstation 2
Nintento Wii

The Dreamcast is getting a lot of use recently because I just got a SD Adaptor for it to load homebrew and some games from a SD card.

Also I have a Harmony Cart for the Atari 2600 to play games from the SD card but I'm still going to collect carts too. I don't have anything rare yet so not worth mentioning games.

The consoles have been taking up more time than the CPC lately but I see there is a lot happening with the CPC recently and I might be able to go online with the CPC! So I will have to get back to using the CPC more.

[norecess]

My ultimate definition of "retro" : Michael Jackson's career versus popularity. No joke. 1988-1993 was best for him, as it was for videogames


Still about MJ, did you know he was a complete fan of videogames ? just look at his game room : http://www.pinsane2.com/pinorama/events/MJ_09/kr/michael_jackson_arcade_entry.html

[norecess]

Rah, please put me out of eBay..

I just spent 50$ on some other fighting games for the SNES ... I had all the Street Fighter 2 (in order of appearance : the classic one (92), Turbo (93), Super Street Fighter 2 (94), and Alpha 2 (96!)), and now I ordered other ports (Art Of Fighting, Fatal Fury, Samurai Shodown, World Heroes..). The reason that push me : I already own other great versions (I have a NeoGeo CD after all which contains the originals!) it's just a matter of comparison between machines..


Is there a special definition for my attitude?

[norecess]

To conclude my monologue (it's Friday after all), don't miss the NeoGeo video clip : http://www.sasfepu.tv/video/395/NEO-GEO-Music-Video-Clip