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[MobileMania]

hi What is your favorite gaming console..? Xbox or PS or anyother? Well i love PS and would never buy Xbox instead of Xbox... What bout you guys? Let us share the gaming passion Thankyou

[Jkc73]

Interesting Topic

At 1st Nintendo owned me with their 64 console, the games where very good for 2 or more players.(very competitive type games)
I don't wish to go back any earlier in time as Atari just sounds foreign these days, kind of like admitting you actually had an Apple IIe.
For the benefit of some that weren't around, and to the fading memories of others that actually played games on one of these wonders. oooooh 51/4 floppies, that was the day


As for the Playstation experience, It was expensive to start out, though it got real competitive real quick. The games got better and better, the PS2 came(I still have) it was even better.
The games are all so vast in there pursuit to attract and satisfy the demand of many different customers.
The X-box still needs something, IMHO...They still meet the gaming standard, though.....The PS3 is the current benchmark in my book.

Edited by Jkc73, 18 November 2010 - 11:04 PM.

[MobileMania]

hey it was good to know your gaming history

[Doug]

I want to know how jkc73 got that picture of my computer!!!

[MobileMania]

I want to know how jkc73 got that picture of my computer!!!

Oh really i have no Idea

[chrissy72]

lol@Doug. That was also the exact computer we had for our whole highschool to share. I think by the time I left in 1987 we had actually upgraded to a computer room with 3 of them which was mega exciting. Hard to believe now! I think my first "game console" was the pong system back in the 70's with the 2 sticks and the "ball" lol and I think it also had a shooting game on it? Never owned an atari, but I saved up my first few pay cheques as a 14yo to buy my commodore 64. The nintendo 64 is still my favourite console of all time, although finding controllers still in usable condition these days is a rarity. So back to the original question, PS or Xbox?? I would have to give my thumbs up to the Playstation all the way

[Doug]

@Chrissy I used that Apple IIe with same dual 5 1/4" floppy drive (which was a huge expansion over the single floppy) to manage my office for about 10 years. In its time it was a great machine for me. It could probably still do most of what I need to accomplish including Reports, correspondence, and accounting. I was a very satisfied user, and only shifted to an IBM 286 box reluctantly and with a lot of kicking and screaming.

[Astabi]

I have to chime in here!

On topic - I'm an XBOX fan all the way.

Off Topic - I've played so many games on the C128, it was the best! I bought Dungeons and Dragons - Pool of Radiance for $85 and it took us well over a year to finish it, no auto mapping back then baby... it was all hard core pencil and graph paper! We'd get together every weekend on Saturday from sun up to sun down, meals would be brought up to us at the computer

Thanks, hope you don't mind me sharing!
Astabi

[Lost Dose]

That computer certainly takes me back lol though I have to say I remember my first ever console when I was just a toddler used actual cassette tapes to load the game. Used to take about an hour for each game to load, and yes I did used to sit staring at the screen waiting for it to load lol. As for Xbox Vs Playstation; I have owned both of the latest consoles, PS3 and Xbox 360 and both are fantastic pieces of kit. However, my Playstation literally got used as a very very expensive paperweight in the end! Playstation seems to just peek ahead on the quality for the graphics in games, but Xbox is a far more user friendly system, has far superior online community, and always seems to be taking the lead when it comes to real innovation. I'm not talking about little gimics here, I am talking about the really good ideas. A few examples are Xbox 360's party chat system, 8 of you can all sit in a chat togehter at once, but you don't have to be playing the same games, some can be listening to music, others watching DVD's, maybe one of you on an arcade game, a few playing different full games. It really is a great feature, as far as I remember from PS3, if you wanted to chat to anyone outside of ingame chat, you had to go back to the dashboard. Kinect for 360 is stunning, it has full facial and voice recognition and full body tracking of multiple players. It allows you to play games, navigate all your standard Xbox functions without using a controller. Just give it the appropriate visual or oral command and it will carry out your will. The Kinect is still in it's infancy, with the actual sensor about half a year old, so the games up to date have been relatively basic, but still great fun, but some of the up and coming titles look sensational.... Star wars for example, come on we have all pretended to be wielding our own light-saber at times, now you literally do, the sensor will fully track you and transfer your motions into the game! Playstation unfortunately seems to copy Xbox a lot of the time too, trying to create superior versions of their innovations but often falling short. As a final note, me and my partner of 2 years actually met playing on Xbox live, we now live together, so it will always be important to me

[Stargon]

Wow, I really miss the old Apple computer; even though now they've upgraded to an Imac. The first gaming console I've used was the old NES. I still play the old games, even today I play them. Because I fell in love with Mario and LOZ; especially Zelda. Then when the SNES came out, I started getting into the Tecmo Super Bowl and Star Wars; then that's where Sim City came in. My favorite gaming consoles are the DS, XBOX and XBOX 360 and my favorite games off of them are Final Fantasy (Final Fantasy VII is my favorite), SW: Knights of the Old Republic (I have 1 and 2), and SW: The Force Unleashed ( I have 1 and 2 for both the 360 and for the DS)

[101010]

Man, cant say what the computer it was, but the first game I remember playing was Oregon Trail, off of one of those 5 1/4" floppy's.

Hunting mini-game rocked:


As for the Xbox vs PS debate, it all comes down to one thing, the controllers. Cant stand the PS controller, with its little stubby handles. The Xbox controller is far more comfortable to hold (for me at least).