Anyone here never own an NES or Playstation 2?

[VanillaGorilla]

I was just thinking, has anyone here NEVER owned either of the (arguably) 2 best consoles of all time?

[postaboy]

I was just thinking, has anyone here NEVER owned either of the (arguably) 2 best consoles of all time?

My family was poor back then so I never got a NES/N64. My first system was a SNES w/ Super Street Fighter II and NBA JAM. I bought it from a yardsale for like $30 something.

[DiscoDuck8k]

I never owned a Nintendo console until the 64.. all I had way back then was the Genesis.

[A Happy Panda]

Never had a Genesis, N64 or a Dreamcast. That's it. Including portables...

[Puffa469]

I was just thinking, has anyone here NEVER owned either of the (arguably) 2 best consoles of all time?

probably alot of the younglings on here never had a nes.

[CocheseUGA]

I didn't have a NES because my parents thought it would influence my grades. We didn't get a system until Saturn.


And they were right, BTW.

[botticus]

Never had a PS2. Waiting for the $100-with-a-good-game bundle at this point, since I'd probably just pick it up to play a select few games.

I was really confused when I read the title, I swore it was asking if anyone here ever owned an NES or PS2.

[javeryh]

Nope. I bought an NES in August of 1986 and a PS2 in June of 2002.

[seanr1221]

I've had my NES since I was 2, but I still don't own a PS2 'till this day. My brother had bought one on launch, but a couple years later moved out. By that point I had a xbox and a gamecube, and couldn't afford a third system.

Now I'm at the point I think I'll just wait and buy a PS3 instead of investing in a slim PS2.

[daminion]

Never had either of those systems.

My parents got an Atari when I was a kid. Played that thing to death. Then I got an Apple IIc and lost interest in consoles. In college I got a Sega Genesis (with the CD) and had fun with that for a while before I traded it in.

I didn't have another console until I bought a GC last May to play with my son.

I've been a computer gamer for years though.

[MidnightRain]

I got a NES at the age of 6, but didn't have a PS2 until this past October. Better late than never.

[PenguinMaster]

I've never had a NES. The first system I bought was an SNES and it came with Super Mario All-Stars, so I saw no need to ever get a NES.

[daroga]

I had an NES for a long while, traded it in for Genesis games, then in College rebought one.

I owned a PS2 for about 3 months this summer/fall, played the exclusives I wanted to, and sold it.

[Mr. Anderson]

Wasn't old enough to own an NES, but I got a PS2 in the summer of '02.

[Genocidal]

Never owned a PS2. The biggest genre of games to get it for arguably, the JRPG, is something that I just can't commit the time to in a game anymore. Any of the multi-console games I'd rather play on my XBox due to the better graphics and (IMO) better placement of the left analog. I can see myself picking one up if I get a good deal on it, but there's nothing screaming out 'must have' for me.

[Krymner]

I still don't own a PS2. I'm still waiting on that deal botticus talked about.

[magiic]

NES came out many years before I was born. And I just never bought a ps2. I have GCN and xbox though. I have been considering getting a ps2 at some point in the future.

[ITDEFX]

Never owned a NES, Super Nes, GB, GBA. Had the SMS though :) from my brother

My very first owned system that I bought was the dreamcast, then the Cube, PS2, DS Fat, and Xbox 1.

[The Crotch]

I believe my brothers picked up an NES before I was born. We sold it and picked up a Genesis when I was 4, as I recall. I was very upset that I would never be able to play Mario 3 again, but Ecco the Dolphin more than made me forget about that.

I figure I'll wait for the PS2's price to drop significantly before I go back and pick one up to play all of the RPGs I missed last generation. The urge to hop into the cockpit of a shiny new Wanderung Panzer is getting pretty hard to resist, but I'm trying to stay focused on the Wii for now.

[Lonestar9]

Never have owned any sony game system, no ps1(I went with dreamcast..doh!)...nor a ps/2(I got an xbox).
No NES or SNES either...skipped those years...but I did get a N64, that one was a lot of fun despite using cartridges.

[Kaijufan]

I never owned a NES (my first console was a SNES because my parents were resisting buying us a console until my brother and I broke their spirits and they got us one for Christmas) but I bought a PS2 in July of 01.

[wubb]

probably alot of the younglings on here never had a nes.

I was thinking the same thing.

[Xevious]

I have never owned an NES or PS2. For the longest time, I didn't play video games since the Atari 2600. After that, it was the Gameboy, GBA....then the Xbox.

[drfunk85]

I never owned a PS2. My older brother did, but I can count the number of times that I have played his system on one hand. He got it and then went away to school, and I went away to school when he moved back home.

[epobirs]

I never bothered with the NES. It was primitive junk when it finally appeared in the US. I was an Atari 800 computer owner since 1980, so an 8-bit system in 1985 seemed like a major step backwards. Also, since computers were much less varied then, they were much more console-like in the ease of just sticking in a game and expecting it to simply work.

At the time the NES was starting to become popular in the West, I was working in development of games for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. With a few exceptions, every major NES title had a version on those machines or an improved clone. For instance, Konami licensed a bunch of their titles to a British publisher (Ocean?) which included a Castlevania for the Amiga.

There were a very few things given up by not having an NES but it was a pretty short list. I started getting into consoles when the PC took over computer gaming and the focus shifted away from easy use of the genres I preferred.

[ViolentLee]

I never bothered with the NES. It was primitive junk when it finally appeared in the US. I was an Atari 800 computer owner since 1980, so an 8-bit system in 1985 seemed like a major step backwards. Also, since computers were much less varied then, they were much more console-like in the ease of just sticking in a game and expecting it to simply work.

At the time the NES was starting to become popular in the West, I was working in development of games for the Atari ST and Commodore Amiga. With a few exceptions, every major NES title had a version on those machines or an improved clone. For instance, Konami licensed a bunch of their titles to a British publisher (Ocean?) which included a Castlevania for the Amiga.

There were a very few things given up by not having an NES but it was a pretty short list. I started getting into consoles when the PC took over computer gaming and the focus shifted away from easy use of the genres I preferred.

I'm very surprised to see you answer "affirmative" to the OP's question, epobirs. Though your reasoning (and age at the time) makes sene, it's still kind of like Matt Pinfield not owning Metallica's "And Justice For All" or something. ;)

[epobirs]

I'm very surprised to see you answer "affirmative" to the OP's question, epobirs. Though your reasoning (and age at the time) makes sene, it's still kind of like Matt Pinfield not owning Metallica's "And Justice For All" or something. ;)

You have to keep in mind, just about everyone in game development in the West had given up consoles for dead. Nintendo was a maker of arcade machines that hadn't had anything new for a good while and all of their old hits were readily available under license from Atarisoft on all the computers worth mentioning. Attempts to revive the console format had largely been disastrous, with most never reaching retail.

For game publishers accustommed to the floppy disk, the prospect of going back to cartridges with a cost per kilobyte of storage over 10x higher was just insane. You'd have to sell a unheard of number of unit for a game to turn a profit. This was when 50K unit sales was regarded as a real success.

We all noticed when Super Mario Bros. hit the arcades but there wasn't anything there that couldn't be easily done on the existing machines like the C64, as demonstrated by the clone title Great Giana Sisters. This arcade hit didn't give cause to think the newly launched NES would become a major platform. What was missing from how these opinions were formed was an understanding of Nintendo's business model for third party publishing on consoles. That business model was like one of those conceptual advances in Burke's 'The Day The Universe Changed.' It made the console into an entirely new business.

Not everyone took to it immediately. The idea of paying a fee to release a game on a platform was wildly offensive to companies like EA, and they spent years circumventing Nintendo and Sega's security systems. There was a lot of litigation but ultimately it was a growing appreciation for the business model's stability that brought them into compliance.

On a personal level, I have to say what may be regarded as blasphemy: For a system launched in 1985, the NES sucked like a hull breach on a space station. Trying to sell the NES to me in that era would be on par with trying to sell me a PS1 after GameCube and Xbox launched. Sure, there would be some good games but the stuff was just too ugly in general to be acceptable. Porting it to other venues like a handheld changes the criteria somewhat. SNES ports to the GBA are reasonable but the NES Classics line was largely a waste of shelf space at the store. I'd always pick a Metroid Zero Mission over the recreated NES original. I don't want to wallow in the limitations of the old hardware just to appreciate what was good in the games of the era.

[Snoozer]

Had a PS1, Never had a PS2, Have a PS3.

[ViolentLee]

You have to keep in mind, just about everyone in game development in the West had given up consoles for dead. Nintendo was a maker of arcade machines that hadn't had anything new for a good while and all of their old hits were readily available under license from Atarisoft on all the computers worth mentioning. Attempts to revive the console format had largely been disastrous, with most never reaching retail.

For game publishers accustommed to the floppy disk, the prospect of going back to cartridges with a cost per kilobyte of storage over 10x higher was just insane. You'd have to sell a unheard of number of unit for a game to turn a profit. This was when 50K unit sales was regarded as a real success.

We all noticed when Super Mario Bros. hit the arcades but there wasn't anything there that couldn't be easily done on the existing machines like the C64, as demonstrated by the clone title Great Giana Sisters. This arcade hit didn't give cause to think the newly launched NES would become a major platform. What was missing from how these opinions were formed was an understanding of Nintendo's business model for third party publishing on consoles. That business model was like one of those conceptual advances in Burke's 'The Day The Universe Changed.' It made the console into an entirely new business.

Not everyone took to it immediately. The idea of paying a fee to release a game on a platform was wildly offensive to companies like EA, and they spent years circumventing Nintendo and Sega's security systems. There was a lot of litigation but ultimately it was a growing appreciation for the business model's stability that brought them into compliance.

On a personal level, I have to say what may be regarded as blasphemy: For a system launched in 1985, the NES sucked like a hull breach on a space station. Trying to sell the NES to me in that era would be on par with trying to sell me a PS1 after GameCube and Xbox launched. Sure, there would be some good games but the stuff was just too ugly in general to be acceptable. Porting it to other venues like a handheld changes the criteria somewhat. SNES ports to the GBA are reasonable but the NES Classics line was largely a waste of shelf space at the store. I'd always pick a Metroid Zero Mission over the recreated NES original. I don't want to wallow in the limitations of the old hardware just to appreciate what was good in the games of the era.

More interesting insight -- and a little bit into how Nintendo and NES changed the video game world. I'm with you in regards to the NES Classics, by the way. It's more insulting to me about the price, however, rather than the misuse of a system's power.

I remember EA being late to the NES party, though I don't remember what their official first NES title was. Immortal, perhaps? I do remember the company being an early adopter on Genesis -- with titles like Populous, Zany Golf, Budokan, and their trademark odd cartridge shape. Any idea why they went with that shape instead of the rest of the flock?

[Graystone]

I owned both. I got a NES for Christmas when I was about 4 or 5. I got a PS2 for Xmas when it dropped to $130. I also got a copy of Tomb Raider.

[io]

Never had either of those systems.

My parents got an Atari when I was a kid. Played that thing to death. Then I got an Apple IIc and lost interest in consoles. In college I got a Sega Genesis (with the CD) and had fun with that for a while before I traded it in.

I didn't have another console until I bought a GC last May to play with my son.

I've been a computer gamer for years though.

Wow, you must be my evil twin ;). I had an Atari and Colecovision, then lost interest in games with high school (when the NES came out I think - didn't even know about it at the time). I had a knee operation in college (1989) and was laid up on the couch. My girlfriend bought me an NES to keep me occupied and I got about 4 games for it, played it for about 2 months total, then never touched it again. I still have it in the original box and everything (stuffed in a closet). I just thought the games were way too shallow compared to computer games (I had one of the original Macs) that were just starting to take off then. I liked the idea of being able to SAVE games and continue them later - thus I thought console gaming was not for me (though I did have Zelda II and that had a save feature of course).

I paid absolutely no attention to the Genesis/SNES/N64/Playstation eras. I finally got a GC in 2003 for the kids for Christmas after playing some of the N64 games in emulation on my PC (and seeing how much the kids liked Mario 64, Mario Kart, etc - yeah for illegal romz emulation - it resulted in a sale for Nintendo and subsequent purchase of nearly 1/4 of the GC software library!). I bought the Zelda bundle GC and Mario Kart DD which was new at the time. I wasn't quite the CAG then - I thought the $40 deal for MK at Best Buy when you buy a GC was an awesome deal :lol:. Though, really, since that game has never been clearanced or anything, it wasn't a bad purchase.

I did finally pick up a PS2 in Jan of 2005 to play things like Katamari and JRPGs.

I've never owned an Xbox product, does that count? :rofl:.
Though I own an NES I often forget that I had it (and still do) as I barely played it. Of course, never had an SNES, Genesis, Saturn, PS1, Dreamcast, N64, or any Gameboys before the Advance SP. I think I played a Genesis one or two nights - someone I visited in college had Sonic when it was all new and I remember playing it late into the night. That must have been a Genesis. I've never even touched a real SNES or N64 though. It's funny though, because though I thought Sonic was pretty damn fun, I never had the desire to go pick up a system for myself afterwards. Didn't even consider it.

Edit:
epobirs - I hadn't read your posts yet. You articulated some of what I was trying to say as well with regards to the console vs computer gaming at the time. I wasn't aware on a techinical level how bad the NES was, but I saw it with my own eyes ;). I wasn't in the industry at the time, of course, but I was going to school for Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The big thing there in the late 80's was those fancy SUN workstations with their amazing vector graphics-like displays (I forget exactly what they were but I remember being blown away by games like XTrek and XConq - both multiplayer online games by the way). That made NES stuff seem like junk too.

[KingDox]

I never owned a PS2 or PSX


I had an NES when I was a kid, but thanks to my Parents and PCs I skipped the SNES, Genesis, Saturn & PSX. Then I got a N64 for Golden Eye and after that a Dreamcast. I got the DC with money from my first job out of HS and really thought the system would make it. The PS2 didn't impress me and I don't like RPG games.

But the xbox had some cool Sega games on it so I got one of those and then a 360 after I got used to the live interface.

I got a GCN thanks to the MK bundle at Bestbuy that had 2 controllers and Mario Kart. It was too good a deal to pass up. And then Of course I got a Wii after playing with it at E3.

The xbox and DC kept me too busy to get a PS2. I thought I would let the PS2 die off then I would get a PS3 to play all the PSX and PS2 games I missed. But 600 bucks later it doesn't look like that's going to be the case. Maybe I'll get a PS4 and eventually own a Sony console.