The Energon Pub

Basically you vote for the Generation of Video Game players that your a part of. Remember, in order to have a good... vote for the generation with consoles that were around when you first started playing. Not what your playing now.


First Generation: Magnavox Odyssey, Pong, Coleco Telstar, APF TV Fun (1974-1976)

Second Generation: Fairchild Channel F, RCA Studio 2, 1292 Advanced Programmable Video System, Atari 2600, Bally Astrocade, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Mattel Intellivision, Epoch Cassette Vision, Atari 5200, Milton Bradley Vectrex, Emerson Arcadia 2001, ColecoVision, Sega SG-1000, Color TV Game.Handheld Consoles~Milton Bradley Microvision Entex Adventure Vision, Nintendo Game & Watch (1976-Roughly mid 1980`s depending on which console you had)

Third Generation: Nintendo Entertainment System/Famicom, Sega Master System, Atari 7800.Handheld Systems~Nintendo Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Sega Game Gear (1983-Roughly 1989)

Fourth Generation: TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom, Commodore Amiga CDTV(USA only), Sega CD,Sega 32X.Handheld Systems~Game Boy Pocket, Sega Nomad,Turbo Express (Roughly late 1980`s to early 1990`s)

Fifth Generation: 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Amiga CD-32, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Nintendo 64.Handheld Systems~Virtual Boy, Neo Geo Pocket, Gameboy Light and Color. (Early to mid 1990`s)

Sixth Generation: Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, X-Box.Handheld Systems~Neo Geo Pocket Color, Game Boy Advance, Nokia N-Gage, Game Boy Advance SP, Game Boy Micro. (Late 1990`s to roughly 2005)

Seventh Generation: X-Box 360, PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii.Handheld Systems~Nintendo DS, PlayStation Portable. (2005-Current)

My first system was an NES so that would easily make me a 3rd generation.

Is it me, or are the Commodore64 and Spectrum48k missing off this list?

I would be second generation

I was born in the Third Generation category(1985), and played the NES and Atari 2600 until I got the first system that was really mine came in Christmas '92, the Super Nes, so I'm kind of a Fourth Generation gamer.

Even so, I didn't REALLY get big into gaming until the Fifth Generation with the PS1.

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Duke of Luns wrote:I was born in the Third Generation category(1985), and played the NES and Atari 2600 until I got the first system that was really mine came in Christmas '92, the Super Nes, so I'm kind of a Fourth Generation gamer.

Even so, I didn't REALLY get big into gaming until the Fifth Generation with the PS1.

I'm the same as you, 'cept one Generation up.

I was big with the SNES, but me and my sister always fought over it, so we never really got any games. (As such, I'm quite skilled at Super Mario World)

At the Fifth Generation, I got an N64, which I got tons of games for, usually at Christmas or my birthday. Back then, I never got the "I need a game" anxiety I have now.

And here I am right now, in the Sixth Generation. My PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube keep me company with whatever games I can find. (Luckily, there's a Gamestop very close to me)

But I'm just barely scratching the surface of the Seventh Generation, with my PSP, currently my pride and joy. I still need to get a Wii, 360, a PS3, and a DS (I like to cover as much ground as I can) but when I do...*Shakes fist.*

Third Generation also. Had a NES and only an NES up until the 64 came out, then upgraded to SNES, then to N64.

After that, I was hooked on video game crack. Blasted through the playstation with Dragonball Z Legends, Monster Rancher, Final Fantasy 9(first FF game I played, which explains why I hate the series)

Then went to Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Gamecube, X-box, and now the 360

I miss my Dreamcast

Fifth generation for me. I think I may have been really young when the fourth generation was around, but I'm not sure so I'm going with the fifth.

The Playstation was my first ever game console. 83

I still have those old Spyro the Dragon games, the first game series I really got into.

Second Gen. My first console was an Atari 2600.

Very ass end of the third, maybe beginning of the fourth. I still remember playing the NES and original Game Boy with my cousins all the time sometime before I was four, and SEGA Gen and SNES a bit after. Gameboy pocket was my explosion into addictive videogaming, however. Pokemon.

slycherrychunks wrote:Is it me, or are the Commodore64 and Spectrum48k missing off this list?

Yes they are. I started off with a C64(which I have over 50 tapes and is still in working order :grin: ) myself. IIRC both of them are either late 2nd gen or early 3rd(which is probably correct as the c64 had comparable gfx to the nes, but upto an hour to load games, and young people whinge at a paltry 30 secs ;;) ).

The Atari ST and the normal Amiga are also missing from the list in the 4th gen and the Bandai Wonderswan is missing from 6th gen. And whats with the lack of love for the Neo Geo and Neo Geo Cd, sure the games were $200 each but all of the games were basically the arcade board complete with their own ROM(the reason they were so expensive).

My timeline wrote:
C64 -> Megadrive -> 32x -> everything since except the Jag, 3D0, CD-i, Virtual Boy, all SNK consoles, the wonderswan and the Gizmondo (yes I even have an Ngage, got it for €80 on upgrade with FIFA and €100 call credit).

sniper_samurai wrote:

slycherrychunks wrote:Is it me, or are the Commodore64 and Spectrum48k missing off this list?

Yes they are. I started off with a C64(which I have over 50 tapes and is still in working order :grin: ) myself. IIRC both of them are either late 2nd gen or early 3rd(which is probably correct as the c64 had comparable gfx to the nes, but upto an hour to load games, and young people whinge at a paltry 30 secs ;;) ).

The Atari ST and the normal Amiga are also missing from the list in the 4th gen and the Bandai Wonderswan is missing from 6th gen. And whats with the lack of love for the Neo Geo and Neo Geo Cd, sure the games were $200 each but all of the games were basically the arcade board complete with their own ROM(the reason they were so expensive).

My timeline wrote:
C64 -> Megadrive -> 32x -> everything since except the Jag, 3D0, CD-i, Virtual Boy, all SNK consoles, the wonderswan and the Gizmondo (yes I even have an Ngage, got it for €80 on upgrade with FIFA and €100 call credit).

first video games i ever played were on Spectrum 48k and Commodore 64 (those cassette games that loaded 1/10 attempts) but first console was Master System then Nintendo 64 and Gameboy - sweet innocent memories

I started with the good ol' Atari 2600, then the NES shortly thereafter.

2nd gen. Atari 2600 was my first console.

Okay so my dad played the Atari 2600, and so did my Mom's brothers, so that makes them Second Generation. And then my mom gave birth to me and my first console was a NES which my dad raised me on Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt when I was 1, so I was born into the Third generation but raised in the second, then when I was 3 I began playing the Genesis, got a PS1 in 1997, PS2 April '00, Gamecube sometime in '03, 360 December 17 '06, PS3 on December 21 '06. And for Handhelds I got Gameboy Pocket sometime before 1st grade, then Gameboy Color a few weeks after it came out. GBA sometime in June '01, PSP I got at launch in March '05. So I was Born and Raised third generation and Ive been gaming ever since.

Also the 8th generation consoles are projected to hit stores after 2014, which would make the 7th one of the longest console generations.