My Pentium 120 MhZ playing Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo, Red Alert. All my friends had 133 MhZ so was the underdog at LAN meetups 🙂
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
PC. Still my favorite now.
Master System because I’m special
MSDOS
I remember being like 5 years old and my grandfather (who built the PC for us and would later take me to computer shows) made a “cheat sheet” for me telling me how to “cd” etc in order to find and run my games
I had a copy of DOS for Dummies. super helpful, the official manual for MSDOS 5.0 was really dry/uninteresting
PC was all I had. Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original, not 2 or 3D) were my go-to games for a long while.
OG Xbox. Fuck playing Halo in Split screen was fun.
And of course PC. Settlers 3, Counter Strike 1.6. amazing games all around
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 😭
