What Systems Did You Own? Most Played Games?

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I've had an NES for most of my life, then got a GBA probably about a few months after it came out, and eventually a Nintendo DS. Other than that I've played some games on PC. The NES was a weird era because I had like 5 games or something so I just ended up playing those a lot, it was basically Bionic Commando, Mike Tyson's Punch Out and Megaman 2/3.

I got a lot more games on GBA; mostly I remember getting it for Megaman Battle Network (I had the first and the third), but I also got Megaman Zero and Advance Wars 2 on it. There were also some misc games like one of the Yu-Gi-Oh games, Wario Ware Twisted and Street Fighter Alpha 3. MMBN3 and AW2 were the most played games because of their replayability; MMBN3 for experimenting with different folder setups and AW2's design map feature. AW2 was so good it was the reason I got the Nintendo DS, actually! (It was for Advance Wars: Dual Strike.) I ended up getting a few more games like Mario Kart DS and Advance Wars Days of Ruin.

Other than the NES I pretty much never got consoles because my university years involved me traveling a lot and my laptop was good enough for emulation :v and nowadays I don't really have time for console games, I end up playing games with shorter cycles more (mostly roguelikes and games with procedural generation.)

[miyabi95_]

I've had an NES for most of my life, then got a GBA probably about a few months after it came out, and eventually a Nintendo DS. Other than that I've played some games on PC. The NES was a weird era because I had like 5 games or something so I just ended up playing those a lot, it was basically Bionic Commando, Mike Tyson's Punch Out and Megaman 2/3.

I got a lot more games on GBA; mostly I remember getting it for Megaman Battle Network (I had the first and the third), but I also got Megaman Zero and Advance Wars 2 on it. There were also some misc games like one of the Yu-Gi-Oh games, Wario Ware Twisted and Street Fighter Alpha 3. MMBN3 and AW2 were the most played games because of their replayability; MMBN3 for experimenting with different folder setups and AW2's design map feature. AW2 was so good it was the reason I got the Nintendo DS, actually! (It was for Advance Wars: Dual Strike.) I ended up getting a few more games like Mario Kart DS and Advance Wars Days of Ruin.

Other than the NES I pretty much never got consoles because my university years involved me traveling a lot and my laptop was good enough for emulation :v and nowadays I don't really have time for console games, I end up playing games with shorter cycles more (mostly roguelikes and games with procedural generation.)

that's very similar to my early gaming story lol. in the early-2000s I was playing an NES and Game Boy (original, color, and advance) the most aside from playing Melee on occasion. I played a few Battle Networks and Zeros but never finished them thanks to frustration.

[Chadook]

I owned a NES console before, but i'm currently playing PC games the most.

[TykeMan128]

When I was a wee lad I played games on my PC developed by PopCap (e.g. Chuzzle, AstroPop, Peggle, etc.) Then when I was 6 I got a Wii for Christmas with Wii Sports (obviously), Wii Play, and some other games. Then for my 7th birthday I got a DS with Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (which I didn't play very much). Some time after that I got a GBA at my local GameStop (it was the last one they would probably ever have) and some games (Kirby Nightmare in Dream Land, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, etc.). Then I got a 3DS XL in 2012 and a Wii U in Christmas of the same year. About a year later I got a GameCube with Spongebob: Battle for Bikini Bottom (great game, by the way), which gave me the urge to get more retro consoles. I got a PS2 for my birthday with PaRappa 2 and for Christmas (I get a lot of consoles on Christmas lol) I got a Dreamcast with ChuChu Rocket and an N64 with Pokemon Snap. Then I got Rhythm Heaven on the DS, which started my love for the franchise, and then I got Rhythm Heaven Fever on the Wii. When I saw the first announcement for Rhythm Heaven Megamix (or リズム天国 ザ・ベスト+ as it was called at the time), I was stoked. But then, several months passed and I gradually lost hope of it ever coming to the States. When I was watching the March 3rd Nintendo Direct, I had almost completely forgotten about Rhythm Heaven. But the second my boi Bill said the words "Rhythm Heaven" I nearly fell out of my chair with excitement and joy. Because I was so hyped for Megamix, I imported the Japan-only Rhythm Tengoku for the GBA. About a month later, everyone's at E3 riding the Breath of the Wild hype train. One of the games Nintendo showed was, surprise surprise, Rhythm Heaven Megamix. And in the middle of the showcase, it was announced that it was ALREADY OUT ON THE ESHOP. When I heard this, I got it almost immediately (and I loved it).

So that is my story friends, Sorry if I wasted a good chunk of your time with this massive post lol.

[DioShiba]

In no specific order

NES (Sold), SNES, N64 (sold), Gamecube (Sold, but still have games), Wii, Wii U, Playstation, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, Playstation 4, Xbox 360 (Sold), Gameboy (went missing long time ago), Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance (likely sold), DS (broke), DS lite (sold), 3DS, and Playstation Portable (Broke)

I could go on about most played games but I think that Super Mario World tops the list on this one. A second would probably be a tie between Crash Team Racing and Super Smash Bros Melee.

[Kosheh]

fuck. redblueyellow posted and now my post doesn't seem as great =(

Also I'll mention I had an Atari 2600 as a kid which actually belonged to my cousins. We...had one. For some reason? It's kinda funny as this was the first console I ever played and I'd just play Frogger - we also had Mario Bros which I played a total of once, and that's when I had a friend over who didn't want to just play Frogger over and over. Eventually my cousins asked for this console back when they were in college, but I was completely OK with that at that point. Since then I installed a 2600 emulator on my softmodded Wii and enjoy all 12 megabytes of its library.

So my first console was a Super NES and I played the hell out of Super Mario World. I always came back to SMW - and the game never really got hard. Then I'd play just about every other SNES platformer to full completion. Because back then I was a kid all about actually completing games.
Not too long after for some reason, I asked for a Game Boy (the brick) and my dad brought me home one the next day which is...when I look back, still kinda bizarre. I never really was a bratty kid and I didn't make a big deal out of it but I got that console like instantly. Probably the most played game on that was probably Pokemon? But over time I'd keep going back to play the GB Tetris Attack.

I also got a Genesis when I was younger and played the heck out of Sonic 2 and 3 (& Knuckles. of course) and somehow never managed to get Sonic 1 until I was well through college. For what it's worth, I also picked up a complete copy of Rocket Knight Adventures for $1 at a garage sale. :0)

Over time I'd get more Nintendo consoles - I'd get the GBC and GBA, and an N64 - but at that point my parents felt like they were spending too much on consoles and games and from then on, I'd have to buy the consoles and games myself. Which was fine. If I ever had any money.
I completely skipped the Gamecube generation and from then on, I'd buy my own consoles. The rest is pretty much history. I'll try to post what I owned chronologically, starting with what I've already listed:

- Super NES
- Gameboy
- Genesis
- Gameboy Color (I now own 4 - one is broken) (Also, I replaced my old purple shell with an atomic purple one down the line and i'm so glad i did)
- N64
- Game Boy Advance (I now own 2)
- Game Boy Advance SP (I broke my original one trying to swap its casing 15 years later...then dropped the onyx AGS001 replacement of that one. I splurged and bought an AGS101)
- Nintendo DS

(at this point, I got a job and went bonkers)
- Wii
- DS Lite (fun fact - I've had the shell swapped twice on it. First was...black? Then a red iQue dragon design, and it's currently now got a clear shell)
- Dreamcast
- PS2
- HP laptop with AMD Radeon GPU (I still own it)
- PSP 2000
- Game Boy Micro
- 3DS
- GP2X Wiz (this thing still gets love today)
- PS3
- Lenovo Y500 laptop with dual GT 750M cards (posting from this now)
- Game Boy Pocket (I bought one from a yard sale which served me well, until I bought a cheap Chinese shell for it. I was so unhappy with it I sold it and used the money I bought it with to buy a Japanese atomic purple one)
- Ouya (why did I do this to myself)
- PSP Go
- Wii U
- PS Vita
- PS4
- custom built gaming PC with GTX 1080 installed
- New 3DS (standard size, with the faceplates)

I've also owned a PS1 and Game Gear - however, the PS1 ($7 at a flea market) was sold quickly after realizing that softmodding was not an option and that I had functioning PSPs. And all 12 of the Game Gears' capacitors busted so it was literally unusable. I didn't own any games either, and I really didn't have the experience, tools, or help to fix it up, so I ended up just chucked the thing. Admittedly I regret it, but really I didn't care - I paid $10 for it.

And for what it's worth - over time I got really paranoid over carrying my Micro in public, especially now that the price for them shot up - so I bought myself a K101 Revo. imagine a GBMicro but as long as a cell phone, has an actual LCD screen and can emulate NES and GG games PLUS has a TV out connector. I'm happy with all of this.

My wish list is literally just an NES - when I move out of this apartment and have somewhere where I can set up an actual "gaming room" I'm buying a fricken NES. Meanwhile I'm stockpiling store credit at the local hobby shop by flipping duplicate games and consoles I fix up from garage sales and sell back to them in order to buy that NES.

[Fawfulthegreat64]

Owned every Nintendo system except the NES (though I have a contraption that plays NES games so still have some NES games) and the Virtual Boy. Also own a PS1 with no games (but I am interested in one, just need to find it)

Most played games are mostly Mario games, it would be hell to make a list so I'll just say all the Mario RPGs and Super Mario (main) games. Also Mario Kart, except Super Circuit and SMK.

[Gors]

I owned a Famicom (the japanese NES)

then I got a gameboy from my ex-girlfriend not too long ago

that's about it

[Goemar]

Wait did I just read that someone is reselling games in order to buy a NES? What? Go to a car boot sale or something. I got my first NES years ago for like £10 and my second for £15. What the hell are they charging for a NES over there?

[Kosheh]

Wait did I just read that someone is reselling games in order to buy a NES? What? Go to a car boot sale or something. I got my first NES years ago for like £10 and my second for £15. What the hell are they charging for a NES over there?

Since we've got a boner for anything retro in the States (and also since Gamestop, a corporation, doesn't sell them this dictating the market) small, independent, mom & pop hobby shops will fix up ones they find in yard sales and sell them from anywhere between $70~$100. The toploader model is harder to find, and so most places sell it for $120~$150.

Also no thanks to shows like Storage Wars who've convinced hoarders that their beat up, old junk is worth just as much, listings on auction/classified ad sites like eBay or Craigslist are unfortunately not much better.

Most "good" sellers here are on local Facebook groups, but good luck if you're not contending with some guy trying to flip them for a profit as well :/

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if you're referring to me though, I sell duplicate games I own or systems that I mess up on repairs to a local shop, since they actually pay decent trade-in store credit prices. So like I'm not that mad.

What I AM mad about is that there's a GOOD and a BAD local hobby shop.
The GOOD hobby shop offers decent trade-in credit, gets in great items, and my friends work there. It's the one I mentioned before. I'm actually considering working there in the fall as a console repair technician.
The BAD local hobby shop is run by the delusional crustpunk son from a really nice family. His mother drives him all over the place and he picks literally everything good from all the local yard sales and flea markets. :/ I can't stand the guy and it's like you can physically see himself letting go of his life.
The good (bad?) news is that they barely sell any product in their shop due to the progressively bad service and high prices, so hopefully they close up soon and let me buy an NES from a yard sale again.

[Said crustpunk guy started out as a good kid when his dad set up the store 4 years ago, and ran a real tight ship. Over time, since the store is named after the SON, he [the son] felt necessary to start telling the family what to do. Over time he actually FIRED HIS FAMILY, and his idea of customer service is inviting a friend into the shop and playing Smash until you have a question, which he looks slightly annoyed over because he desperately wants to get back to beating his friend in Smash]