Your personal videogame history from the very first machine you owned to whatever sits under your telly today!

Here' s mine (doesn' t include handhelds or systems bought retrospectively):

Christmas 1982 - ZX Spectrum 48K, The first game I owned for the ' Speccy' was Jetpac by Ultimate Play the Game. Highlights that spring to mind are Manic Miner and Way of the Exploding Fist. Not sure what ever became of that system - probably lent it to someone and never got it back.

1986/7 - Not sure exactly what year it was but my next system was a SMS - C&VG got me excited about this system - amazing graphics compared to the old Speccy! Games like Outrun, Thunderblade, Afterburner, Shinobi and Wonderboy 2 were awsome at the time. Seem to remember spending hours on the utter cack that was Rocky. In the end I put it up for sale in the old C&VG classifieds for £35 (I must try to pick up a copy off eBay). It never sold but I did get one prank call!

Late 80' s / early nineties - Bought an Amiga 512 with the money an Aunt left me - wasn' t much of a games machine but it did get me into drawing with computers (which is what I should be doing now instead of writing this).

Had a brief fling with an imported PC Engine in the late 80' s. The machine was immensley powerful for its time (similar to when the Dreamcast was first released) but the PAL converters supplied by UK importers gave such a poor picture that I ended up taking it back to the shop.

Next up was the Sega Megadrive (Genesis). I bought this on the day of release along with Altered Beast and (I think) Revenge of Shinobi. I remember being devestated at the ugly PAL borders and 50Hz display. Sold after about 6 months and resolved never to buy a UK machine again.

A JAP imported Super Famicom was next. Paid £259 for the priviledge of playing Super Mario World and F-Zero months before the system was released in the UK. Of course it was worth it! Street Fighter II - Gaming heaven! Still have this in my loft somewhere.

Getting closer to the present day I picked up a Sony Playstation in 1996 which I traded in for an N64 in 1997. 1999 was the year of the Dreamcast (the best of the lot) and in 2002 I imported a GameCube from the States.

21 years and still going strong!

Here' s my list in order of purchase:

NES
Megadrive
SNES
GameBoy
Saturn
PlayStation
GameBoy Pocket
Nintendo 64
Dreamcast
PlayStation 2
Xbox
GameCube
GameBoy Advance SP
Neo Geo AES (home cart)

I think that' s all.

Oh, by the way I' ve gone through two Megadrive' s and SNES' s due to me selling one to buy a new console and buying them back once I had enough money.

More details to come

the ones me and my slightly older bro had were coleco vision the atari 2600 i think it was called nes genisis sega cd tg16 snes game gear n64 dreamcast playstation gamecube playstation 2 next to be xbox unless of course caustiks emu works by november :) www.caustik.com/cxbx/ from n64 on i believe was chronological. and by the way chrono cross is just crazy 11 damn endings. i didnt have mega drive havent bought imported systems cant read japanese and no mod chip for genisis. i also have had a gameboy and gameboy advance which i forgot never had the saturn disappeared to fast. ill probably get ngage and psp

Okay...

Atari 2600 (brothers)
Nintendo (one for each brother made 3 in the house)
Genesis
Super Nintendo (brother)
Gameboy
Game Gear
Sega Master System (given to me by cousin)
Turbo Grafix 16 (given to me by cousin)
Sega CD
Playstation (brother)
3DO
Nintendo 64 (brother)
Sega Saturn
Dreamcast
Playstation 2 (brother)
X-Box
Gamecube (brother)

The exact order of some of those may be slightly off though. Mostly around the Master System and TG16 era.