Console Owned

Kintarō Hattori

Atari Jaguar

Original XBox being used as a media centre, the best €50 I ever spent. A PSP which is great when on holidays or travelling. The Wii which is only used with the missus for bowling and a PS3 which gets played all the time.

mcgovern

Wii

A DS which is played rarely, and a 360 that gets used all the time.
In my parents house a PS1, PS2, Xbox, 2 original gameboys, a GBC, Ngage and a megadrive.

Kinetic^

Wii

Xbox 360 * 2, PS3, Nintendo DS..... in order of what gets played most.

Rev Hellfire

Atari Jaguar

PS3, Wii, 3 DS's

The Wii is the main games machine, though the PS3 is in constant use thanks to its role as a media centre and for a some of the more shiny games aka mgs4 etc.

TinCool

PS3 under the TV and a PC (Q6600 with 4850 g/card) used for gaming. Modded PS2 under my bed gathering dust.

In the attic of my parents house I have in no particular order.

Atari ST
Gamecube
Original XBox
Dreamcast
Atari 2600
Couple of old PC's up there too.

Previously owned stuff since sold, traded in or upgraded

Gamegear
SNES
Commodore64
Commodore128
Vic20
PSP
XBox360
3DO
PS1
Several PC's (386sx, 486DX4-100, Celerons x 2, Athlons x 2 (can't remember what they were), Core2Duo (unfortunately died due to PSU fault).

CiDeRmAn

Atari Jaguar

Hey, forgot to include my Ngage, easy to forget that really!
Left out the 3DO too!

As for peripherals I have a couple of beauties, the prime one being the Steel Batallion controller, awesome stuff!
And my favourite of all is my neGcon, the best racing controller I have ever used, odd then that it's sucessor, the joGcon should suck so, ah well...

Bolgey

i dont have any of the listed systems, but i do have a ds, ps2, pc, sega megadrive, n64, gameboy advance, gameboy colour and 2 gamecubes

alie

Atari Jaguar

I have wii, ds lite (black and pink) and ps 2.

PogMoThoin

Have pc and 2 media centre modded xboxes. Kids have a wii and PS2. As a pc gamer I built my 9 year old son a gaming pc (capable of playin Crysis mind you) and refuse to allow a modern console in the house (360 or ps3). Consoles are just lazy gaming IMO, any gobshíte can game on them and You don't learn from it. Pc gaming will teach You something. Young fella is now flying on a pc, maintains it fully himself, installs his own games, even virtually mounts the pirated copies i dl for him, great education.

Varkov

Wii

PogMoThoin wrote: »

As a pc gamer I built my 9 year old son a gaming pc (capable of playin Crysis mind you) and refuse to allow a modern console in the house (360 or ps3).

That is actually quite a horrible thing to do
Is this the whole thing about parents trying to live their lives through their kids?

PogMoThoin

Varkov wrote: »

That is actually quite a horrible thing to do

He's actually never asked for a console or even mentioned one TBH. He's no interest in consoles now he sees how much more pc's can offer, not just in gaming. Far easier to game with keyboard and mouse compared to a controller also (well except in car sims which the opposite is true)

He also owns a PSP, forgot that

Kinetic^

Wii

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Young fella is now flying on a pc, maintains it fully himself, installs his own games, even virtually mounts the pirated copies i dl for him, great education.

Great education there, teaching him how to pirate games! Father of the year!! :rolleyes:

PogMoThoin

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Great education there, teaching him how to pirate games! Father of the year!! :rolleyes:

Ya, somethin everyone needs to kno Do you actually still pay for all your games?
/dodges for cover

Thats not all he's learning, he's learnin how to maintain a pc, set his own wallpapers and themes, de-crapify every so often, scan for viruses every few days, add files & folders to his documents, browse the internet, add music to his library, put music and pictures on his PSP, search for & build Lego Mindstorms projects, the list goes on ......things a console can't teach him.

o1s1n

Atari Jaguar

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Thats not all he's learning, he's learnin how to maintain a pc, set his own wallpapers and themes, de-crapify every so often, scan for viruses every few days, add files & folders to his documents, browse the internet, add music to his library, put music and pictures on his PSP, search for & build Lego Mindstorms projects, the list goes on ......things a console can't teach him.

That's fairly cool. Fair play to you for getting him using a pc at a young age. Plenty of skills to learn.

However, instilling an anti console snobbery is a bit much to be honest. You can have plenty of fun gaming on a console while still using a PC on a regular basis. I've been doing it as long as I remember.

PogMoThoin

Don't get me wrong, I don't instill an anti-console snobbery, I don't abolish consoles from the house, we've still got a PSP, a DS, a PS2 and 2 modded Xboxes that are all played quite regularly. He does play consoles at my friends and his own friends houses. I built him a pc as a step up from consoles to try to teach him something as he's been playing on my pc since he was 5-6. If I bought him a PS3 instead of building him a pc he'd have learned nothing as he's not really allowed mess with my pc. He himself has seen that a pc can offer much more by learning all the above.

Kinetic^

Wii

.....soon the the cirle will complete and the apprentice will become the master! :pac:

Fair play tbh, just stop showing him how to pirate games!!

PogMoThoin

Kinetic^ wrote: »

Fair play tbh, just stop showing him how to pirate games!!

:rolleyes: Let them produce proper online games that need a proper serial and I'll stop. COD4 is the last game i bought and only cos I wanted my own serial for online play, I'll be buying Battlefield 3 for the same reason.

I've given him my Steam account so he will be legally downloading some also.

thelordofcheese

Atari Jaguar

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Have pc and 2 media centre modded xboxes. Kids have a wii and PS2. As a pc gamer I built my 9 year old son a gaming pc (capable of playin Crysis mind you) and refuse to allow a modern console in the house (360 or ps3). Consoles are just lazy gaming IMO, any gobshíte can game on them and You don't learn from it. Pc gaming will teach You something. Young fella is now flying on a pc, maintains it fully himself, installs his own games, even virtually mounts the pirated copies i dl for him, great education.

I can't wait until your son become a teenager and converts to console only gaming, just to rebel against you.

witnessmenow

Atari Jaguar

Do you really learn all that much from building pcs or whatever? I build my pcs and am very familar with all what you've mentioned, but i would say it makes me any more employable or anything!


CV:
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Can mount pirated Isos with daemon Tools


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Although i dont think there is any harm what so ever nurturing a interest in computers from an early age, I wish somebody had done it for me!

PogMoThoin

witnessmenow wrote: »

Although i dont think there is any harm what so ever nurturing a interest in computers from an early age, I wish somebody had done it for me!

Being let rip on your own pc without anyone interfering or watching over your shoulder is the best education you could ever get. My Mam bought me a pc when I was 13-14 and it has always stood to me, thats nearly 20 years ago, its part of the reason why I did electronic engineering when I left school.

encryptix

Wii

Have a 360 and then a pc. I prefer the pc

MooseJam

Atari Jaguar

have a psp but I just watch TV on it, have a killer PC for gaming woot

nealmac

360

PS3