Game era (games and consoles) you grew up with

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By "grew up" I'm mostly referring to early childhood, old enough to play and understand a game but before teenage years.

I technically grew up in the 8th console generation but my earliest game exposure was pretty much just the Wii. 3DS came next.
As for games, I'd say: Wii Fit, Super Paper Mario, Pokemon Black 2/White 2, NSMBW, and M+L: Bowser's Inside Story.

By the time the Switch came out and I was allowed to regularly use it I was nearly in middle school.
 
pc and some mobile games my first actual console was the switch in 2018 👁 __ 👁
since this is SUPER vague. the pc games i grew up mostly were in the 2000s but theres a bit of overlap with 90s and 2010s too
stuff like these two pc games none of you are likely to ever have heard about besides me bringing them up occacionally also theyre both from 2008, worms armageddon and some other worms games like 3d and worms forts and worms 4 mayhem,, minecraft probably, mysims, transformice, a bunch of h*rry p*tter games, some sims 2 and 3 mostly and of COURSE spore
i think i can also count angry birds space and bad piggies
 
I first started playing with old PC games from the late 90's and early 2000's like Insaniquarium, LEGO chess, Stronghold 2, Jurassic Park III: Dino Defender, Age of Empires II and III (especially II), and some brain train games. I was like 5 or 6. I revisited some of these this year which has been pretty fun and heartwarming, some of them are genuinely still good to this day like Stronghold 2, others not so much but still incredibly nostalgic like JP3.

Then a Wii/DS with games like Bowser's Inside Story, the first two NSMBs, Galaxy 1 and 2, Super Paper Mario, Wii Sports, Wii Sports Resort, Wii Play, Wii Party, Mario Party 9, LEGO Batman 1, LEGO Indiana Jones 1 and 2, and DKCR. I got those when I was something like 6, 7, or 8 and kept playing them for years and to this day many are my all time favourites like SPM and BIS. Though these days to play Wii and DS games I mostly use Dolphin and my 3DS respectively.

I also started playing some mobile games on an iPad that was like shared by my family when I was like 10 and kept doing with various ones over the years (notable ones include the angry birds series, clash of clans (and some similar games like battle beach), jetpack joyride, and the bloons tower defence series) till I got my 3DS though it got a lot less frequent when I was like 13. I revisited a few this year and the later parts of last year via the BlueStacks emulator and my new iPhone 12 but I didn't get back into them much, and I have barely played mobile games in the last month even though my iPhone is one of the things I do have at university.

My brother also got an Xbox 360 when I was about 12 which I played Minecraft on (the x360 version of that game was much if not most of my gaming life age 12 to 15, I got Java Edition when I was 15) and a few LEGO games (lego marvel super heroes and lego indiana jones 2 mainly, later on lego batman 3 and lego dimensions)

It wasn't until later that I got the GameCube (age 15), Wii U and 3DS (age 16), and Switch (age 18) so I won't list those games, though more info here.
 
Well I got an N64 when I was four years old, although I don't remember if I got it for my fourth birthday in 2000 or for Christmas that year. Considering how late I got it, I only ever had a few games. I remember having Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, and I'm pretty sure I had Kirby 64 too.

Then I got a PC in early 2002, during kindergarten, mostly played edutainment games on that like the JumpStart games, Flash games online (the Thing Thing series, who remembers that? Smash that MF like button if you do), and (later on, when I was in 4th grade) RuneScape. The PC wasn't a gaming PC, so it didn't have a dedicated GPU or anything like that, so y'all can see why I didn't play graphically demanding games on it.

In 2006 (age 10), I got a PS2 for Christmas and I got SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab and Thrillville with it. Later got other games like Lego Star Wars (pretty sure I got the second one first because I remember freaking out when I found the first one for sale at GameStop a while later), Sonic Mega Collection Plus, The Sims 2 (yes my introduction to The Sims was via the goddamn console version).

Also got a Nintendo DS Lite at some point, think maybe Christmas 2007 when I was 11? Don't remember 100% but I do remember having it during middle school and I remember getting Super Mario 64 DS and Drawn to Life when I got it, and drawn to life came out in September 2007. That thing got stolen alongside my copies of Kirby Super Star Ultra and Pokémon Diamond in gym class when I was 13 btw.

After the DS, I didn't get any more consoles (outside of a used replacement DS Lite some months after my old one was stolen, thank you guy at the flea market selling it for like $40 with the box) until I got a Nintendo 3DS (2011, age 15), a Wii U (2012, age 16), a New Nintendo 3DS XL (2015, age 18), and my current gaming laptop (2020, age 24).

I'm not counting the other couple of laptops I've had because they all had integrated graphics and weren't meant as gaming devices, I did game on them, but that wasn't what they were designed for.
 
Although my family owned a PS2 before we got our Wii, I will not be listing any games for it here because I only remember watching my siblings play it. I never played on it before it went into my oldest sister's possesion.

The first games I played were on PC (Age 6-8). Most of these were Jumpstart titles or licensed games based on TV shows, movies, books, and toy-lines (I had 2 Dora games, a few Disney games, and 2 My Little Pony games.)

I got my Wii when I was 7 years old. The games I remember having are some Gamecube titles (Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Coliseum, XD, and Channel, Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour), several Mario (Galaxy, MP8, Smash Bros. Brawl, Mario and Sonic at the Winter Olympic games) and Pokemon wii games (Pokepark 1 and 2, PBR), Animal Crossing City Folk, several licensed games (Most of these weren't very good and were sold off, the only one I remember fondly was Littlest Pet Shop.), and a few RPG titles.

My 3DS I got for Easter in 2014 (Age 11). Most of my titles for it were not licensed games and I had some DS titles too since the 3DS had backwards compatibility with them. I had lots of Mario (All 4 party games, Yoshi's New Island and Woolly World, Mario 3D Land and 64 DS), Pokemon (Pearl, HeartGold, Black 2, Y, Moon) and Kirby (Triple Deluxe, Extra Epic Yarn, Planet Robobot) games, The Legendary Starfy, Digimon World DS, Yo-Kai Watch, and Smash Bros. 3DS.

My Wii U was received for Christmas 2015 (Age 12). It came with Smash Bros and Splatoon pre-installed. I did not own a lot of games for this, and all of them were sold off last year.

Since I got my Switch in 2018 (Age 15), I will not be counting it as a console I grew up with.
 
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Oh yeah I forgot I also had a plug and play Intellivision when I was a kid but IDK if that counts considering it was just pre-loaded with old Intellivision games from the 1980s and I couldn't exactly go out to the store and buy more games.

It was still fun as hell though, so I'm going to count it but with a big asterisk because it was a plug and play system but it was at least playing games that had been actual vintage games and not just 'here is a basic platform game with SpongeBob in it we threw together because your mom paid $20 for a plug and play system that looks like SpongeBob's face'
 
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and 2 My Little Pony games.)
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oh my gosh i completely forgor i also played my little pony the runaway rainbow as a younmg kid........... like, it might have been one of the first games i ever beat and i did so multiple times, and i also distinctly remember the translation was really poor lmao

i like how everyone has cool childhood games and hten heres me with like. uhhhh pony world (one of the 2008 games i mentioned last post its a polish game kinda like hte sims its really boring but i like it). uh frickin transformice,
 
I had a SNES when I way quite young, but I'd say the Gamecube was the very first console of my childhood. I grew up with games such as Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Party 4-7, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Mario Power Tennis, and most importantly Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, which I consider as my favorite Mario game. I am very fond of the Nintendo's Gamecube era, and I felt like there's so many games I have missed or overlooked.

Then, came the Gameboy Advance, the DS, the Wii, the 3DS, the Wii U... But... I never felt the same magic that I had with Nintendo and the Gamecube or SNES when I was younger.

Now, I have a Switch (two actually 🤪) , and even if I still dare to say that the Gamecube is still my favorite Nintendo console, I have admit that the Switch might truly be my favorite Nintendo console. I really rediscovered that magic I felt when I was younger playing Gamecube games, and I found myself loving plenty of games on the Switch. with Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Breath of the Wild, Skyward Sword HD, Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles 1 + 2, Splatoon 2, Astral Chain, and Metroid Dread to name a few.

Despite all that, I am still very fond of my Gamecube.