DCEmu Asks - What Inspired You to Buy the Consoles You Own?

[ab88]

PSP:

i ONLY bought a psp for homebrew haha.. saw SNES emulator and was obsessed!!!

Edited to show why I bought mine.

I first found out by this article on a magazine

SNES: Mario, DKC and KI.

PS2: GT4 and FF, great third party support comes in nicely

DS: Not really sure why, but right now is my favorite one.

Future: Wii, just for the fun of it. Maybe a PS3 when they are within a college student's budget :P

[jamotto]

NES: Wide selection of games.

PC: Could do programming. Great games coming out all the time. The games tended to cost less. Most of the time cheaper to upgrade PC compared with buying new console.

PSP: Needed an MP3 player. Ablility to play videos and very good selection of games was also nice. Homebrew and the chance to do some programming was icing on the cake.

[Mr_Biggs]

SNES:My parents werent big on games in 2005, because my oldest brother choked my older brother in the 80's over NES games. so when i found out i could make a SNES(my first played console) into a portable unit, i bought one and told my mom it was for my academic future. : The SNES was groundbreaking, it was the first console i played at neighbors' houses, Super Mario World was and still is the bomb. I have emulators for iton every piece of hardware in my house that supports them.

N64: Another console bought because it could be made portable, which was good in mommy's eyes. I bought the 64 because i saw it in EB Games for 18 bucks, with a copy of SM64 was right next to it for free when i bought the 64. it was in my house for 2 days before my mom went on a ranting fit and chopped up the AV and power cables. (good thing i have mad soldering skills and a neighbor who can hold my stuff for a while) We weren't spending enough with our parents, she said. : I liked the console because the controller was great for FPSes like Perfect Dark, a game which is best played on it's original console.

Playstation:By this point in time, i was wary of my parents and consoles. So, i had ben playing playstation games on my pc for the last half year of 2005, but the lousy gamepads and glitches in ePSXe really bugged me. so i talked to my neighbor, who owned 3 original ps1 consoles, and he sold me one with a controller, power cable and memcard. since i didnt get an AV cable, i got online, printed out a pinout, and hardwired a video and audio cable in(did mono, cause my stereo was in dire need of repairs at the time, so all i had for sound was the TV speaker). within 30 minutes, i was playing GTA 2. When christmas rolled around, i got a 30 dollar Visa gift card. blew it all on ps1 games an a memory card online at eb games.(by this time, i dug up an AV cable)

Side note:Remember the parents and hostility towards games? on christmas day, my mom lost some scrapbooking supplies, and accused my of taking them in retailiation of a previous game bashing(she purged a 12 GB hard drive i had that was full of ISOs, roms and such. big hurt on a dialup user). so she went all day screaming at me, trying to get me to tell her where it was. ive never seen the items in question, so all i can do is insist im innocent and she's loony. in the end of the day, she told me she doesnt want games in her house anymore. so i took my TV, Stereo, and consoles, and moved them into the garage. Fighting sniper wolf the last time in MGS felt authentic, since it below 30 in my garage. :

Sega Dreamcast:I barely remember the dreamcast from it's heyday, except for a VMU commercial. I decided to buy one when i saw an episode of "Icons" on G4 detailing it's history and sad demise. i becamed determined to find one and buy it when i found dcemu.co.uk(which was the dreamcast page in april 2006). when i learned i could run emulators, homebrew games, and backups without modification, i just had to get one. so i picked up the DC and accessories from a used book/movie/game store, for 25 dollars. they sold me a crappy memcard for 5. The first thing i played on it was HexQuake. mmm. I didnt own a commercial game until that summer, when i bought resident evil 3 and resident evil: code: veronica. the graphics of RE:CV blew me away. unfortunately, the memcard i owned was too compatible with RE:CV. so never got past disk one. but i quit caring in june, when i bought a....

Nintendo DS phat: My first and only real handheld. I became interested in it because of super mario 64, which promised Nintendo 64 style graphics. ok, so theyre on par with PS1, but still, the touch screen and microphone give new meaning to play, the innovative "non-games" such as Brain Training get your parents more interested in the whole "video machines" world, and games like Hotel Dusk keep you entertained and intrigued for quite some time.
But who cares about commercial games? I really wanted a DS because it had the same controls as a SNES, and, egad, a SNES emulator too? i gotz to have it! a month after i bought my nintendo ds, i bought a M3 SD perfect/Passkey 2 combo from divineo. to top it off, i bought a 512 MB SD card. I play a lot of backups on my DS phat, a lot of homebrew games such as quake and AmplituDS (v3 w00T!). but i love the DS because of it's media capabilities. WTF am i talking about, you say? what media capabilites, you say? that's the kicker. it has none without a flashcart. But when people see me, either holding my closed ds with headphones on, or staring at the top screen while the unit sits laptop style on a table, they get confused. but when they find that im listening to music or watching a DPG movie, they flip their lids, assuming they know about DSes beforehand. sometimes it can be fun to tell people about what you can do with a ds and FC, but it gets to be a pain in the ass when 10 seperate people ask you about it in a single day. thank god for pockets to cram the DS in so no one sees it. ;D for months this was the main attraction, until august 2006, when i bought a....

Microsoft Xbox: Thank God! yeah, i was 5 years behind, but better now than never, eh? I wanted this console because it had all my favorite FPSes that my pc couldnt run, such as DOOM 3 and Half-Life 2. the graphics and gameplay quality was amazing for a guy who was stuck with outdated game consoles and a pc that ran doom 3 at 15 frames a second. Within a few months, i owned 10 games. Things really picked up in november, when i bought a 1000 watt, 5.1 dolby digital surround sound system. after installing a coaxial digital out jack in my box, i was on a roll. the game that best shows the theater system's capabilities is Splinter Cell:Chaos Theory. voices are as loud as voices, ambient noise can be as quiet as crickets, or as loud as engine turbines. gunshots and explosions are delivered in the most base-pumping, cup your ears, true-to-life way. unfortunately, my parents could care less about anything over 100 watts. so when theyre home, i may as well give up playing if i need an action fix. but when they ain't, hoo boy.

Once i softmodded my xbox, i fell in love again with the system. NES,SNES,N64,GBA,PS1,Arcade... Quake, Doom, Duke... all in my room on my tv. i was as happy as a tornado in a trailer park. I later added a 120 GB harddisk from a dead pc, and loaded all my xbox games onto it so i wouldnt have to get off my ass to swap games out. In my opinion, a modded xbox is worth more than the 360 in it's current state.

So that's the skinny on what i own, and why. but, here's a look to the future:

Microsoft Xbox 360: Mmmm... all the goodness of the original xbox, in high def and more advanced graphics.

Quake 4, Gears of War, so many to name.
I guess am a $#@!, when it comes to the xbox name.

I will be working for my dad's construction company this summer, and I plan on buying an xbox 360 premium bundle, along with a 27 inch 720p set sometime later. This console had me as a solid fan since launch, when i first saw king kong runing on a demo unit. Amazing graphics, exellent choice of games, and a price that cant be beat. The PS3 is a joke in my opinion, with it's 600 dollar price tag, with the blue ray drive making up for the majority of that price. sony seems to be losing their grip in the market(well, the ps2 was crap IMO), and this may be their last console if they dont do something about this horrible price for a console with horrible games. but back to the 360. the failure rate does bother me, but i plan to test the console at the store i purchase it from. Homebrew possiblilties excite me as well, but in the meantime, i'll be using my xbox1 and the pc.


EDIT: 250th post! im a Regular!

[NoQuarter]

atari 2600: for only a $100 bucks you can play crappy ports of pacman,jk, in the eighties I just had to have one so my grandfather bought it for me for christmas.

NES: after playing SMB over my friends house I probably was a real pain for my parents for a good 6 months.That year I got a NES along with legend of zelda.

SNES: I had been renting this on weekends for a while when, I showed my dad pilotwings he went out and bought the system for me.Along with zelda :P

N64: Mario blew my mind when I saw it,first console I actually worked and spent my own money on.When Oot came out I was in heaven

Gameboy advance:Great system!! first handheld I ever had,I was addicted after that.I was leaving New Mexico to go to Virginia and needed something to do on the bus,so I picked one up and a copy of super mario advance.I've had 4 of these.

PS2: Tekken was enough reason to buy this system,Great library of games.

Gamecube:I've had 2 or three of these,Metroid was the reason I bought this system.I'm still pissed at nintendo over super mario sunshine,that game was gay.

Ds Phat:Purchased for the touchscreen and wifi I was a little dissapointed with the library for it ( that's funny now it has one of the best)

PSP:Ahh, handheld gold.Originally bought for the beautifull screen and graphics.First saw hombrew via kxploit and have been hooked,I've had about 10 of these things and currently have three of them.simply the best video game system ever( with homebrew of course) official games tend to be a little weak though,except tekken.

DS lite: eh,I like the black one

Xbox:Just didn't care about it 'till I found out you could put linux on it,we have about three of those so far...

PS3:tekken,linux,MGS4,tekken,psp connectivity,tekken,free online play,tekken,media center capabilities,tekken.

[Triv1um]

ive had too many consoles so im not going to list them all.

PS1

I was young when this was released, i wasnt really a huge Nintendo fan, so the PS1 was my choice. I had alot of good times on that baby.

Xbox

I didnt really have any reason to get this, i hated them. A few of my mates had one, so i played them in Live. Didn't like it never will.

PS2

I loved the PS1 so i nagged and nagged my mom to get me one of these babys, the first game i had for it was SSX. I still say this was one of the best consoles ive had.

PSP

At this moment my PS2 was the god of everything, a playstation portable just made me so excited, i had to get one at the release.

Xbox 360

The same as the XBOX-1st gen I didnt really want one, i dont like them, i never will. And also the same, alot of my mates had one, i played them online in some games.

Wii

Too be honest i got the Wii as a thing to tide me over for the release of the PS3. It was to fill a gap, but its a fun console to play with alot of people. Crap to play on your own. So yeah, this was a time filler

PS3

Now this is the big daddy, ive been waiting for this mofo for ages, i wouldnt call myself a fanboy but the first 2 playstations were awesome, i knew this wouldnt let me down. It didnt.

The thought of having a music/video player aswell as a obsolete console just made me laugh.

Yeah ive had many many many more than that, but thats all thats worth listing i guess.

[NeoTechni]

PSP

Advanced processing power + 1.8 gigabytes of storage meant portable games that weren't possible before. And I'm a programmer, so that kinda stuff impresses me. That's my definition of innovation
Online multiplayer day 1
First system to have wifi (it was announced to have it 6 months before the DS was announced)
Multimedia capabilities + largest screen of any portable
Announced games list had a large amount that I wanted
Huge leap over the GBA
I felt it'd be the closest to HDTV gaming I'd be able to afford for a long time.
Homebrew didn't exist when I got it (day 1) but I'd have gotten one for that as I love being able to make games for it. It's even easier than developing for GBA

PS3
I loved the way PSP turned out, especially in comparison to how poorly DS turned out. I feel PS3 will do the same. (Also a main reason I'm not getting a Wii)
Advanced processing power + 50 gigabytes of storage meant games that weren't possible before, or on 360, especially with the standard harddrive
Multimedia capabilities + HDTV support + Surround sound support
Free online multiplayer
Linux/homebrew enabled out of the box
MGS4 + FF13
Backwards compatability
A large list of announced games that I want
DVD looks like crap, wanted bluray
No territorial lockout!!!

360
I didn't want to wait for PS3 to use my new HDTV
Halo 3 + Fable 2 + Perfect Dark Zero

DS
Pokemon Diamond/Pearl + Zelda Phantom Hourglass
DS lite is cute
Flash carts were readily available, and that's the biggest reason I felt a DS was worth getting as most of it's games I wouldn't be willing to pay for

XBOX
Halo
Built in harddrive
Best versions of multiplatform games
Just got a new job and large first paycheck
Needed a DVD player for the Family Guy boxed sets
Perfect Dark Zero was now supposed to be on it

Gamecube
Wind Waker
Perfect Dark Zero was supposed to be on it

GBA NES SP
Damned cute
The just announced DS had no link cable port, thus making it a lot less usefull since at the time I was obsessed with Four Swords for Cube

GBA
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire + Zelda LttP remake

Dreamcast
Read an article about how you could help people in PSO, and I love to help people. I rushed out to the store to get one the next day

N64
Played Goldeneye at a friends place, and wanted it and OOT

GBC
Heard about Pokemon, and also wanted Link to the Past DX

PS2
I was waiting for a slim PS2, and it finally came out
Huge list of games I wanted

PS1
Just wanted a game system

Gamegear
I'm a collector now

Tapwave Zodiac
They are rare, and I collect rare videogame stuff
Wanted the system Nintendo copied to get the DS

[robman84]

Gameboy: Tetris and Mario. My 1991 Summer holiday was great!

Commodore CD32: I was an Amiga nut, and wanted something with a CD player. Mothballed within a few months after I bought my first PC.

Playstation: Had been a gamer for about 18 years when this came out. I waited for launch day with anticipation of arcade quality 3d in my home. Was there on launch day and took Ridge Racer home with me. I wasn't disappointed!

N64: Wanted Zelda OOT, Goldeneye and Mario 64. Fabulous games.

PSOne: Needed a power supply for a PSOne LCD screen for a PC modding project. It was cheaper to buy a second hand PSOne than to buy just the power supply!

Dreamcast: Arcade quality ports. Soooo much better than my PS at the time. Samba di Amigo still warms my heart.

2nd Dreamcast: I love it so much I wanted one upstairs too for those times when I couldn't get access to the telly!

PS2: Gran Turismo 3 (I've still only got about 8 games for it after all those years)

GBA SP: Was just about to buy a GBA with a backlight mod when the SP came out. Great move! I *needed* to have Advance Wars in my pocket for an upcoming holiday!!

Xbox: Awesome games - reminded my of the Dreamcast I suppose. Availability of great cheap games now (e.g. 4 top-rated games for 20 quid) means I have something like 30+ games for this.

NDS: Tried the DS and the PSP when they were launched. Liked the DS games better, it was cheaper, and it would run my GBA carts too (Zelda, SMW, Advance Wars)

NDS Lite: So sexy. Mario Kart had just come out and I really wanted to play two player games with my son.

GC: Bought last week. I didn't have one, and had sold my N64 to finance a DS Lite. Fancied getting Rogue Squadron 2 and Zelda WW on the cheap. Got the GC and 3 top-rated games from a games shop for 35 quid.

I am yet to make the jump to "next-gen". A lack of time to play means I still have about 6/7 Xbox games I haven't even opened yet. Also undecided about which one I will get first, as nothing I have seen has screamed "You must get this" to me.

Next purchase will be big LCD telly, so no doubt the next-gen consoles will follow soon after.