Poll of the Day > Whose side were you on as a kid? (retro gaming)

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Late Gen Y is the one I could live with forever.
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Well I just realized my childhood is separated into three generations (four if you count the late Gen Y systems much later). I'm gonna go with core Gen Y because I owned three of the four systems in that category and the N64 is was a part of many of my best childhood memories.

Born in 85

Core Gen Y probably resonated with me the most
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Mead posted...

Born in 85

Core Gen Y probably resonated with me the most

But what about the Early Y systems that were around when you were 5-10?

Abacab333 posted...

Mead posted...

Born in 85

Core Gen Y probably resonated with me the most

But what about the Early Y systems that were around when you were 5-10?

I played them
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I was born mid/late 80's but got the NES when I was 3, so...

I am also confused as to why the Game Boy is not lumped in with the NES era.

This sectioned off listing is really particular.
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LOLIAmAnAlt posted...

I was born mid/late 80's but got the NES when I was 3, so...

I am also confused as to why the Game Boy is not lumped in with the NES era.

This sectioned off listing is really particular.

Game Boy may've started in the NES era, but its popularity peaked moreso during the SNES era.

Early to core y.
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Late Gen Y has the most games I still care about today, so that.
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Late X/Early Y

NES, Game Boy, SNES, then I got into computer gaming, then a little N64, then computer gaming again, then PS2 and on.
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Late Gen Y is the gen I started with, but Early Gen Z was the one that pushed me into hardcore gaming.
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The premise of that list is kind of shit.

But my "childhood" in gaming was second gen (ColecoVision and Atari 2600) and third gen (NES). More specifically, I'd say I spent from around age 6 to age 12 with my Coleco/Atari, and 12-16 with the NES.

Fourth gen into fifth gen (PS1) was high school and college for me, with sixth gen (PS2/Xbox) starting just post-college.

Seventh gen (360) didn't really officially start for me until I was in my mid-30s. By eighth gen (PS4) I was almost 40.


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Huh?

I was born in the late 70's, I've played every generation starting at core gen x.

I didn't pick a side. This is dumb.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Huh?

I was born in the late 70's, I've played every generation starting at core gen x.

I didn't pick a side. This is dumb.

I mean the one that was most part of your childhood.

Abacab333 posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

Huh?

I was born in the late 70's, I've played every generation starting at core gen x.

I didn't pick a side. This is dumb.

I mean the one that was most part of your childhood.

Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Sony, PC gaming.
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Late Gen Y for sure, as my first and only console as a child was a PS2. I played games on PC though in addition to PS2. Only other consoles I have ever owned have been Xbox 360 and Wii.
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What is this Pokemon?
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Lokarin posted...

What is this Pokemon?

It's sociology. These terms were popularized in the early 90s, way before Pokemon, heh.

Core Gen Y. We had an SNES but i never cared for it much.
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Lokarin posted...

What is this Pokemon?

Yep, its pokemon
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Gen Y is 1981 ~ 1996, so I'm told.

Since I was born in '92, I guess that means I'm Late Gen Y.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...

The premise of that list is kind of shit.

But my "childhood" in gaming was second gen (ColecoVision and Atari 2600) and third gen (NES). More specifically, I'd say I spent from around age 6 to age 12 with my Coleco/Atari, and 12-16 with the NES.

Fourth gen into fifth gen (PS1) was high school and college for me, with sixth gen (PS2/Xbox) starting just post-college.

Seventh gen (360) didn't really officially start for me until I was in my mid-30s. By eighth gen (PS4) I was almost 40.

My cousins had Atari, we had the Oddysey 2 so I played that most as a kid. I much preferred the arcades though because those games seemed more intuitvie than the Oddysey or Atari games.
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Early Gen Y according to this image despite my first console actually being the commodore 64 and after that I got a NES and then Master system so that falls into the late gen X category. Although granted I didn't buy the NES and Master System on day one of course. It was around 1990 I started playing video games and I was 4 at the time.
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Early Gen Y.
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Y as a whole.
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Late Generation Y. I spent most of my childhood with my Sega Genesis and NES.
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What is this X,Y,Z bullshit. Literally nobody defines them this way.

https://www.quora.com/How-are-video-game-console-generations-defined-Who-defines-them
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I should technically be an early Gen Y, but I owned more late Gen X games (probably because I was poor and they were cheap). Makes sense since that appears to be the overlap for kids born in the early 80's (I was born in 83). By the time core Gen Y games were around, I was pretty much completely into PC gaming.
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Late Y, I guess. Early childhood was Core Y, but late was when I played what I wanted to instead of playing what my brother had.
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Late Gen X

Played a few of the older systems but the NES was what really started my lifelong gaming hobby
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Core Y. It was only in late 2008 that I moved to the next gen. Always got consoles in their late years until I got a job and started buying them myself.

We had a Pong system when I was very young, but the system I remember most was the Atari 800 I got when I was about 12. It beat the absolute crap out of the 2600. Screw the Atari Flashback, I want an 800 Flashback.

Mmmmmm... Star Raiders...

I have vivid memories of resetting the score on centipede on Atari very early in life.
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Grew up playing my SNES and Genesis. Favorite was Donkey Kong Country 2
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The entirety of Gen Y. SNES was the first system I owned, and the PS2/Gamecube era was the last console generation that I actually care about.
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Late Gen X with a sprinkle of Core Gen X
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