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Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger?

Stuff that, back when you were in the economic clutches of your parents, you could but dream of having.

For me, there were several. The Dreamcast was the first, then the PS2, back in the early 2000s

More recently, I’ve been completely enthralled by the Amiga and what it offered back in the late 80s. That’s a system that was never available around my parts (Brazil), even as a clone product or contraband

jecxjo ,
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I was a Nintendo kid but had a neighbor who was only up in the summer and they had an Atari so my game fix for consoles was pretty good. Was on BBS downloading games via dialup for my PC (back in the 386 days).

Think it was around 5th grade when this new kid moved to town from Califorina. He was a Sega and Neo Geo kid. So of course I fawned over his system as he was the one that diferent from all the rest of us.

stardustsystem ,
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We were pretty poor growing up, so whatever systems I had needed to also have bargain bin games or I wouldn’t be able to get them. I had a small allowance so a 10 or 20 dollar game was attainable with a little planning.

As a kid, I only had a Sega Genesis and Game Boy Color until I was a teenager. Skipped the 5th generation entirely, but I’d play friends and family’s Playstations and N64s any chance I could.

Years later I got a PS2 for Christmas, and some of the first games I got were bargain bin PS1 games. By that time, 20 bucks could get me Spyro the Dragon, Syphon Filter, FF7, Medievil, or whatever weird unknown quantity had the right price tag on it. Some of them were even great games I still have (S/O to Nuclear Strike and The Phantom Menace)

OutrageousUmpire ,

I always wanted Kid Pix. We played with it on Macs in the computer lab when I was a kid. But our family could not afford the program or the computer.

One_Dollar_Payout ,

PSP. I remember seeing, playing and enjoying games (particularly LittleBigPlanet and Burnout Dominator) on my then-friends’ consoles multiple times in a few years, before finally getting my own in 2015.

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

I consider myself lucky. Sometime after I got a paid internship, I saved enough money to buy a PSP, sometime in 2012. The good boy is still alive and kicking, though hardly getting any attention from me.

GRENADE_MAGNET ,

Only rich kids had a Neo Geo or Turbo Grfx-16.

We were far from rich.

unguided_rehire ,

We occasionally rented a Neo-Geo and those times felt like I was actual royalty.

Zarxrax ,

That’s odd, I thought the TurboGrafx was cheaper than the snes and Genesis.

GRENADE_MAGNET ,

I guess it was around the same price although it released in a different year. I guess I equated rarity to price. I think they were late to the game and had a small game catalog.

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Ace_Addams ,
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We asked for a SNES and our parents got us a turbo Grfx-16 because it was cheaper. After we went to a game swapper shop and they had a bunch of the games for like 2 or 3 bucks a piece. Still to this day it’s one of my favorite systems and it was dirt cheap.

AzPsycho ,

A friend of mine had the Turbo Grfx-16 and I was extremely envious. At the time it was probably the only one in our tiny town and I would go over to his house and play it. Years later he was extremely jealous when I snatched up a Neo Geo Pocket. Everyone was playing Gameboy but Neo Geo Pocket had some amazing games but no marketing. Luckily I managed to snag a bunch of game sfor cheap at a used game store so I ended up playing it well into 2010 when it was finally destroyed by accident.

rarkgrames ,
@rarkgrames@lemmy.world avatar

Ah I coveted the Neo Geo. I would gaze longingly at screenshots in CVG magazine and dream of having one.

Now I have a multicart for my Jamma cab and I can play pretty much any Neo Geo game I want. Turns out, apart from Viewpoint, metal slug and a few others I tend to prefer other systems.

davetansley ,
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I remember seeing Stunt Car Racer and Shadow of the Beast running on an Amiga for the first time, and being absolutely blown away. They were so far above anything my trusty Speccy could do, it was almost funny.

Of course, both these games would eventually come to the Spectrum (with varying degrees of success) but to say that it wasn’t really the same would be a grotesque understatement.

floppy ,
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The SAM Coupé. I'm not entirely sure why, I think the SAM demo drew me in.

ICastFist OP ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Which demo? I’ve found a couple of different ones on YT, like this one - inv.tux.pizza/watch?v=muAk3uakm00

floppy ,
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I think it was the SAM juggler one, but time may have rewritten my brain.

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