Patient Gamers

Personal Computer (80-90s)

Doom 2 - Spent my childhood on dial up playing other friends over the modem. Up all hours of the night using chainsaws and rockets. Late 90s when Duke Nukem came out, It was the first game I drove immediately to the store and purchased. Back in the day when you bought the box and had to take it home and install it. Thought it was leading edge and funny as hell. To be fair it was at the time. Today that information is tracked. I'd like to know how many thousands of hours I spent on this game. But it was hilarious and late fun filled nights.

Today I buy 2-3 games per decade. But still game for a majority of my entertainment. One of the benefits of being an old gamer is that if you build a new system today it can play everything from the 70s to 2023 at a minimal. Toss in Emulation for other consoles in there you really have a plethora of choices, 4 decades worth to be specific. All of which contain no tracking, no always online, no micro-transactions. As gaming was intended! Really hard to find something that checks those boxes, about 2-3 titles per decade worth purchasing.

PC was all I had. Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original, not 2 or 3D) were my go-to games for a long while.

Mine was the PS2. Ratchet and Clank, Ace Combat and Metal Gear Solid were my favorites

N64. Apart from the usual suspects (Mario 64, Wave Race, Pilot Wings, Golden Eye, Dark Project), Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon still feels like I fever dreamed that crazy ass game up. It also had the only wrestling game I ever liked, but forgot the name.

Master System because I'm special

Eaaaaasily the Dreamcast, even though I think I was the only person I knew that had one. I think I had:

• Shenmue
• Power Stone
• Soulcalibur
• Quake III Arena
• Skies of Arcadia
• Capcom vs SNK
• Timestalkers
• Sonic Adventure
• Phantasy Star Online

Stellar lineup. I also loved my PlayStation.

OG Xbox. Fuck playing Halo in Split screen was fun.

And of course PC. Settlers 3, Counter Strike 1.6. amazing games all around

My Pentium 120 MhZ playing Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo, Red Alert. All my friends had 133 MhZ so was the underdog at LAN meetups 🙂

PC. Still my favorite now.

Definitely Game Boy. Made the 16 hour car ride to my dad's house way better

SNES, then PS2. PS2 was really something else.

Commodore 64, as was style at the time. I have 4 different versions in my collection, and I still use them few times a week.

SNES followed by the PS2.

Probably NES. I had Atari, Sega Genesis, and PC, then later Sega Game Great, GB Advance, and XBox, but NES was the most fun imo. I mostly only played Street Fighter on Genesis.

For my kids, it'll probably be PC. They love Minecraft, and haven't played on our Switch a ton.

Nintendo DS, actually I think it still is, I was just playing Jump Ultimate Stars through Wiimmfi with a folk lol.

MSDOS

I went back and forth between my SNES and N64. SNES was better for RPGs and a lot of 2D action games, but the N64 was much better for multiplayer/party games. If I had to pick one, I'd probably go SNES, but it was close.

Had a lot of fun with our SNES but I rocked the heck out of the PlayStation.

I always was a PC gamer, but I loved the PSP, it was insane how good the PSP was back then. Now I have a Steam Deck and it's the best of both worlds, I would've loved having that kind of thing when I was a kid.

SNES when growing up. When it was released, it felt like having an arcade machine at home. The sound & 16-bit graphics with titles like TMNT Turtles in Time, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Final Fight, Super Double Dragon, and T2 The Arcade Game.

I was also a PC gamer but never looked at a PC as a gaming system/console. Played games like Sim City, Sim City 2000, Doom 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Wing Commander series, Warcraft, Starcraft, Command & Conquer series, and the list goes on.

PS2... even though, during its last days, I had to stack half a set of encyclopedias on top to get it to run a game 😭