Which system did you grow up on?

[Sir_Lucas]

First C64 and later on Amiga 500.

 

[sir_beaker]

i find it odd no-one voted the bbc.

Yeah, I assume the Elk is included in the BBC option. I loved the games on it with the likes of Repton and the arcade ports and used to take my Acorn Electron with my to my grandparents when we went for Christmas but after a few years it was looking dated compared to the C64/Amstrad CPC and games were hard to get hold of. Also the CPC came with its own monitor so I didn't have to wait until the family TV was free

 

[jack-3d]

Come on! Amiga 1200 of course!

 

[SaviorX]

if all systems were included the list would be ridiculously long

all kinds that were available here in North America were also omitted...

Atari 400/800, CoCo 1/2/3, TRS-80, TI99/4, Apple II, ADAM, TimexSinclair 1000 (our version of the ZX81), VIC20, PET, Commodore 16, Plus/4, IBM PC, IBM PC/Jr, Aquarius

and thats just the 'early gen' (roughly 77-84)

 

[roy_bates]

i was around c64's, bbc's, spectrums ,cpc's,even an apple II at one point later it was amigas and atari st's

and whole ton of consoles...

but,there is no way they would fit in this poll...from what i can see its for 8 bit machines.(computers)

 

[cugar124]

Zx spectrum would be mine although i had the Zx81 and the electron and the c64 lol

 

[cugar124]

Lol roy nothings changed then

 

[Retro-Protect]

i find it odd no-one voted the bbc.

Not many could afford one. Great machine though! Had them at school

 

[Ed.D]

When I was learning to be a sparky my boss had a BBC micro for his kids but I don't think it was used very much other than for games.

 

[baz67]

Yeah, c'mon, guys...
Just having this category 'other' is a great disservice to ZX81, Oric, Tandy, Ti99, Atom, Sharp MZ, MSX guys et al...
How can you properly measure the popularity of these super micros by batching them altogether?!

10 PRINT "RE-RUN/RECOUNT I say"
20 GOTO 10

BAZ67

 

[DojoDan]

Little bit before my time those. We had a 500+ and a Megadrive. One friend had a C64, two with a MD, one with a MS, one with a SNES, one with a 500 like us, another with a speccy/A600 (god how we played Gauntlet). I can *never* remember dates!

 

[ShambleS1980]

i had an acorn electron c64 sinclair 128k atari 2600 nes snes.. x86 dos/windows pc my fave was probably the acorn, followed by the c64 but i did love the st. snes was my fave cosole. and x86 pc is my fave platform ever.

 

[CaptPete]

My first computer was a C64, but most of my friends had Ataris, so I sold it and got an Atari 800. From there I had an Atari 1040 ST, then sold that and bought an Amiga 500. ��. That lasted until my parents bought a 40MHz 386 and I moved over to mainly using PCs.

My favorite is still has got to be the old Amiga though! The first time I dragged down a high res
interlaced screen over a low res screen (and both were running different programs) it was really amazing.

 

[Vyothric]

PC mostly. Bit of Electron. Then N64.

A more detailed version -> http://diffusedion.co.uk/GamingHistory.html

 

[edd_jedi]

Yeah BBCs and Archimedes/Acorns were at school when I was a kid but we only got to use them a couple of times a year so couldn't say I grew up on them. I don't think many people had either as a home computer.

 

[commodorejohn]

68k Mac, actually.

 

[owen2471]

First computer was a 1k zx81. Then a 48k spectrum. But my first love was a Commodore 64, still have my original one.

 

[sneeker]

I had a beeb 64k B+, tape drive for a few months then a floppy, still as good at chuckie egg now as I was back then. Many hours spent on that, revs and repton 2.

 

[kenshigros]

ZAP
EXPLODE
BEEP

....Oric Atmos was my first computer.
Anyone ends the Zorgon's Revenge without lose a single life is my master!
@&@&@€&€

 

[theantmeister]

The venerable IBM PC XT. Complete with monochrome graphics adaptor and massive 10MB hard drive. All clone hardware of course.

The C64 was also a massive part of my childhood, but we never owned one. The XT played more stuff (I was still using it into the 90s), but it looked and sounded way worse than a C64!

[edit]

From there on it went:

386DX 40 (eventually upgraded with an SB16 and single speed CD-ROM)
486SX 33 (really missed the FPU...)
Pentium 166MMX (first PC I built from scratch)
Powerbook 1400cs (my first Mac)
iMac DV (in lime green, yum)
Powerbook G3 "Pismo" (a pattern is forming...)
PowerMac G4 "Quicksilver" (good grief, that thing was loud :wooha
Powerbook G4 12"
Powerbook G4 15"
Macbook Pro
Core i5 2500K