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Discussion What was your childhood gaming generation?

What was your childhood gaming generation?

  • Donkey Kong! (Arcades / Atari 2600 / Odyssey)

    Votes: 4 5.3%

  • NES / SNES

    Votes: 30 40.0%

  • N64 / GameCube

    Votes: 38 50.7%

  • Wii

    Votes: 3 4.0%

  • Wii U or Switch

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Ultra Hand / Hanafuda (Anything before 1972)

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    75
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Reading some of the retrospective threads,
makes me feel like the "what`s up fellow kids" meme.

Curious as to the Famiboards user breakdown of what game generation everyone grew up playing in Elementary school.

If you only had a last gen system, even when a new system was out, never played the new system, feel free to pick whatever gen reminds you of your childhood
(Answers are hidden!)

Your Retro childhood memories of gaming are appreciated as comments.
 
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Elementary school? Mostly the N64. GameCube came out towards the tail end of my elementary school years but I generally associate it with middle school. I got an N64 around first grade, if I recall correctly, so that age range I definitely associate with the N64. My first console was a SNES a couple of years before, though, so my "childhood" was really pretty much an amalgamation of SNES/N64/GCN.

N64 is probably the strongest memory though because I started reading Nintendo Power during its generation (which also helped teach me how to read in general), so that was my first time really following hype cycles, reading reviews, understanding the game industry more, etc. I stopped reading Nintendo Power during the GameCube era, but I still have all my issues in storage, including basically every issue of the N64's lifespan. It was also the perfect console for my age demographic for sleepovers and such thanks to multiplayer.

Anyway, based on the poll, N64/GCN definitely fits the most. Wii came out when I was already in high school, and although there is some nostalgia there, it's a very different feeling from the N64/early years of GCN.

EDIT: Also, wrong forum I think.
 
I guess mostly Gamecube and Wii but I also played a lot of N64 as well since my brothers owned one.

My favourite memories are definitely playing a lot of Mario Party/Kart on the gamecube with brother and friends, also a lot of Phantasy Star Online episodes 1&2. And I guess not Nintendo related since I played it on PS2 but tons of good memories playing local multiplayer timesplitters and staying up too late.
 
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I most associate elementary school with the Gamecube even though it only came out when I was in 4th grade. Those years are filled with so many nights playing Melee, Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, and PSO (local, of course, because I wasn’t some kind of mutant with a broadband adapter).
 
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N64 gang rise up

Bonus points if you were like me and you went back to the N64 to finally finish Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask or whatever childhood game you left unfinished.

(I did that with both of the titles mentioned in the late 2000s)
 
PC, GBA, DS, WII, X360, PSP were the platforms I played before I was a teenager, the 3DS came out around my 13th birthday. So Wii going by the poll, first Wii vote lol. I most associate childhood gaming with the GBA though, Wii second.

First games were educational PC games for Maths, Geography, History, also had the first three Harry Potter games and I played minesweeper a lot.

First console was GBA with Pokémon Sapphire, it took me like a year to beat and find all the secrets like the Regis and Rayquaza, legit helped me learn to read better. Pokémon addiction carried on with Firered. None of my friends or classmates played at the time though, so I wasn't aware Leaf Green was the same game. That was disappointing. Also played a lot of licensed games on the GBA.

DS was a lot of fun especially as more of my classmates were playing playing Pokémon by then. Introduced to Mario though Mario Kart DS. Spent an a load of time in breaks playing it. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon literally made my cry. Bought a fully loaded R4 from a kid which made the DS easily my most played platform ever.

Wii was a mostly multiplayer console for me. Playing New Super Mario Bros. Wii co-op with my sister was some of the most fun I've had in gaming. Also played Wii Sports (Resort), Smash Bros. etc. Also played first indie game, Cave Story through WiiWare.
 
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N64/Gamecube. Mostly Gamecube though, I was admittedly tail end of N64, we had an NES and an SNES in the house as the only consoles until like 2000. I got into handhelds with the Pokemon explosion, and the N64 was mostly a Pokemon spin-off machine with me not playing a lot of the marquee titles until I was much older. Gamecube was where I discovered my love for gaming as a kid and followed the console from beginning to end.

Then the Wii came out as I was going into teenage years and was something where I was involved in the online hype cycles and discourse, so I don't really consider that generation a childhood console at all despite still being fairly young relative to adulthood.
 
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merp said:
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N64 gang rise up

Bonus points if you were like me and you went back to the N64 to finally finish Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask or whatever childhood game you left unfinished.

(I did that with both of the titles mentioned in the late 2000s)
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Definitely did that with Majora's Mask in the late 2000s, as a kid I never got past Stone Tower Temple and somehow lost my copy and got a new one. For OOT, I mostly watched my older brother play it as a kid, and had several unfinished solo playthroughs, but it was also late 2000s where I finished my "own" playthrough.
 
I consider myself "NES", even though my very first console was a 2600. Being born in '83, I got to experience both the best of what Nintendo had to offer, as well as some of the goodies that were still around after the Crash.
 
I got a nes when I was 10 I think... Before that I was playing on amstrad cpc 6128. My friend had a cpc 464 with games on tape (like an audio cassette 📼).
The load times were out of this world lol
 
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Gamecube technically going by the poll, but I was way more into the GBA during that time.

(Mostly because our Gamecube broke like halfway through elementary school and we never got another one, but still.)
 
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I played the Nes on the 90s then snes also on the 90s, but my god the N64 was something to behold and the Dreamcast was just as amazing. The arcade experience at home with online services.
 
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I started with SNES, but I never remember asking for it or wanting it alongside with the OG GameBoy, they were just there in my life since I can remember. It wasn’t until the N64 with the release of Banjo Kazooie of all games that I can remember asking for a Nintendo console. I was asked if I wanted a PlayStation or the N64 for my birthday and I knew Banjo was only on the N64 so my choice was made.
 
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For me, elementary school was dominated by SNES, Game Boy Color, and N64.

I'm talkin' 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade from 1998 - 2000. Pokemon ruled everything. I played tons of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Super Smash Bros, and Destruction Derby 64 with my friends.
We would sit on our sidewalks and connect our link cables to trade and battle Pokemon.
My family's home console was a Super Nintendo where my brother and I would play an absolute shitton of Donkey Kong Country 2, 3, and Super Mario World.
I consumed Pokemon cards and Pokemon Blue and Silver on my Game Boy Color like food (I particularly remember being obsessed with the oncoming promotional wave of a "new generation" of Pokemon alongside the first Pokemon movie. I remember doing searches on eBay with a friend so we could catch a glimpse of new Pokemon on Pokemon cards we didn't have access to.)

This was where I started enjoying video games. A means of escaping to vast, adventure-filled worlds with friends that our parents had no idea existed.

Surfing past the Whirl Islands, Trick Attack at the School,
 
SNES/N64.

Never owned a NES or Gamecube so couldn't vote one way or the other based on those choices...
 
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My oldest gaming memories are associated with the Casio handheld games like Submarine, Western Bar, Kung Fu, SL Bankman. My parents then go us an Atari 2600 , had a dozen games or so for that device. But I wasn’t really into it that much, I only really developed a passion for video games when we got a PC in the early 90´s. My firtst « oh shit this is crazy » experience was the first A-Train, followed by Wolfenstein 3D , Doom, Civilization, X-Com.. wonderful memories all.

At that time, my only contact with Nintendo were the occasional NES sessions when hanging out at my friends’ homes, until we got a Gameboy. Only really played Tetris on it.
Then in 1997/98, when I was mostly still into PC but also spent a lot of time playing with my friends on Playstation, one of them purchased an N64. I specifically remember saying something like « dude you already have a Playstation, you don’t need that ». Of course, playing Mario 64, Goldeneye and Zelda OoT radically changed my opinion. A couple years later, when the new gen had started and the PS2 was king, I bought a Gamecube, with what was one of my first pays.
 
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For me is more portables than home consoles because I didn’t really get into home consoles at least until they were CG during the Wii era, for me most of my childhood was with the GBA and PC.
 
n64 and gamecube is a long period, no?

anyway, I'm definitely a wii kid. I was in elementary school from 2005 to 2011
 
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My first consoles were SNES/Gameboy combo as gifts on Christmas 1992. Next Christmas we got Mega Drive too, due to endless fights between me and my brother for SNES. Actively played both until 1999 - 2000.
 
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Very few votes so far, under 30 votes, but feels weird to be in the minority as a NES/SNES kid. Actually i'd lean more towards NES if we break that vote down too. I feel oldish.
 
Mekanos said:
Elementary school? Mostly the N64. GameCube came out towards the tail end of my elementary school years but I generally associate it with middle school. I got an N64 around first grade, if I recall correctly, so that age range I definitely associate with the N64. My first console was a SNES a couple of years before, though, so my "childhood" was really pretty much an amalgamation of SNES/N64/GCN.

N64 is probably the strongest memory though because I started reading Nintendo Power during its generation (which also helped teach me how to read in general), so that was my first time really following hype cycles, reading reviews, understanding the game industry more, etc. I stopped reading Nintendo Power during the GameCube era, but I still have all my issues in storage, including basically every issue of the N64's lifespan. It was also the perfect console for my age demographic for sleepovers and such thanks to multiplayer.

Anyway, based on the poll, N64/GCN definitely fits the most. Wii came out when I was already in high school, and although there is some nostalgia there, it's a very different feeling from the N64/early years of GCN.

EDIT: Also, wrong forum I think.
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You and I might be exactly the same age, or at least pretty darn close. Cause this post is my answer to the letter.
 
N64/GC. Mans would have sleep overs with a bunch of friends and played Melee till 5 am in the morning during the summer break in elementary school. Good times
 
Huh, NES/SNES does conveniently slot into the elementary school period of my life. The SNES would take up the majority of that, but the NES is still something special to me for the memories with my mom as well as being one of the first tools for me to learn English with.
 
Elementary school was Gamecube/GBA and then the DS released at the end of Elementary school.

Basically, got a GBA in 2001 for my birthday, I was 6. Got a Gamecube at Christmas 2002, when I was 7. And the DS for my birthday in 2005, 10 years old.
Also, at that same birthday, my older cousin who was a huuuuuge Nintendo nerd (only french people I know who had a Virtual Boy since US release lmao, it never released in Europe) gifted me a N64. So I played that a lot too even if it wasn't the contemporary gen.

Fantastic memories. Going to early/mid 2000 malls, video game stores being full of games, not just the big ones, because where else could you buy them since internet shopping is not that big yet... Still seeing some NES and SNES games sold at some places because it wasn't that long ago lol... Such a different era.

Then in middle school I got a Wii when it released and it was great too. 2006 was very early in my middle school years (in Christmas 2006, I had been in middle school for only 3 months !) so I kinda associate it as a childhood console too, even if most of the Wii years were teenage years for me. But when I got it, I still wasn't there quite yet. Started to feel like a teenager around mid to late 2008, and I got an Xbox 360 so that I wouldn't have to only play "baby Nintendo games" lol (I still loved Nintendo and the Wii despite my desire to play dumb edgy games on Xbox)

So yeah, GBA/Gamecube/DS, and early Wii years. Basically all first party games from Wii Sports until Animal Crossing City Folks I would consider childhood games.
 
one weird thing I remember from my childhood: playing super Mario bros 3 in 1991 on my NES late at night while my father was watching the Japanese Formula One Grand Prix (to see Ayrton Senna win his 3rd title).

I was 5.
 
My first console was a PlayStation (sorry Fami), but I got a GameCube when I was 8. I also had a GBC when I was 5 and got a GBA when I was 7.
 
Mekanos said:
Elementary school? Mostly the N64. GameCube came out towards the tail end of my elementary school years but I generally associate it with middle school. I got an N64 around first grade, if I recall correctly, so that age range I definitely associate with the N64. My first console was a SNES a couple of years before, though, so my "childhood" was really pretty much an amalgamation of SNES/N64/GCN.

Anyway, based on the poll, N64/GCN definitely fits the most. Wii came out when I was already in high school, and although there is some nostalgia there, it's a very different feeling from the N64/early years of GCN.

EDIT: Also, wrong forum I think.
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Yep, same here. I got a SNES handed down to me, but the N64 was already out by then. The N64 was my first own console in the late 90s. I got a PS1 as well from a friend of my father, though I didn't play much on it since I didn't have many games. I got a Gamecube in 2003, and I was born in 92.
 
NES though I did play some atari at friends houses but really I was very young.
Elementary school was NES until 5th grade when my grandma got me a Super Nintendo. (We were always a few years late we got an NES in 88-89 and my SNES was in 1994-95) I bought a PS1 in Jr. high (1997… specifically for FFVII) and played N64 (Goldeneye Ocarina and MK64) at my friends house all the freakin time. Also Gameboy through all of that …8th grade GBC for pokemon.
High School PS2 came out and I got one of those march 2001.

Guys
Wii came out after I was Married.
lol

Bought a DS lite and pokemon pearl when I had my first KID.
 
NES - Primary school
SNES - Primary school/early High School
N64 - High School/early College
Gamecube - College/early University
Wii - University/Work
Wii U - Work / Living with partner
Switch - Work / bought house / kids

What a journey.

Edit - The N64 holds a huge place in my heart because I was 12 when it came out and was 17 by the time the GameCube came out here in the UK. Me and my school friends would play so many 4 player games together - Goldeneye, Mario Kart, ISS64, Perfect Dark, Smash Bros and of course - Wrestlemania 2000 / No Mercy. We basically had our own federation of CAW characters. I also was at the perfect age to be blown away and play games like Mario 64 and Ocarina of Time.
 
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Feeling pretty old now, as I started with the 2600 at home. Asteroids, Combat, Pitfall, and a crummy port of Pac-Man are what stick out the most to me now. We didn't have an arcade anywhere near where we lived but the bars all had at least one machine hiding in the corner, so I got hooked on stuff like Donkey Kong Jr., Zaxxon, Ms. Pac-Man, and the original Mario Bros.

I got my hands on a NES when I was probably 11 years old (what a Christmas morning that was!) and that really ignited my passion for gaming. Haven't missed a generation since, although I did go through a heavy MMO phase during the Wii era that caused me to miss a few classics. Wouldn't change a thing though.
 
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bellydrum said:
For me, elementary school was dominated by SNES, Game Boy Color, and N64.

I'm talkin' 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade from 1998 - 2000. Pokemon ruled everything. I played tons of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Super Smash Bros, and Destruction Derby 64 with my friends.
We would sit on our sidewalks and connect our link cables to trade and battle Pokemon.
My family's home console was a Super Nintendo where my brother and I would play an absolute shitton of Donkey Kong Country 2, 3, and Super Mario World.
I consumed Pokemon cards and Pokemon Blue and Silver on my Game Boy Color like food (I particularly remember being obsessed with the oncoming promotional wave of a "new generation" of Pokemon alongside the first Pokemon movie. I remember doing searches on eBay with a friend so we could catch a glimpse of new Pokemon on Pokemon cards we didn't have access to.)

This was where I started enjoying video games. A means of escaping to vast, adventure-filled worlds with friends that our parents had no idea existed.

Surfing past the Whirl Islands, Trick Attack at the School,
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Pokemon Silver was definitely the most hyped I've ever been for a game. EGM had this massive preview that I read over and over again prior to the release. And of course the game lived up to the hype.
 
bixente said:
Pokemon Silver was definitely the most hyped I've ever been for a game. EGM had this massive preview that I read over and over again prior to the release. And of course the game lived up to the hype.
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Was it this issue? I read that too! I remember memorizing a bunch of the pre-localized names, like Kireihana and Rediba / Redian.
 
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