Video Games/Series/Consoles You Got Into Late

[Shredder]

I don't think this has been discussed recently. What games, series, or consoles do you like now but for whatever reason, weren't into when they were first popular? Here's a few of mine to start things off:

-Sonic (sort of)- The first Sonic game I owned was Sonic and Knuckles, which I got when it first came out on the Genesis. I worked backwards from there to catch up on 1-3. Still one of my favorite series on any system.
-God of War- I think I picked up the first game as a Greatest Hits release
-Phoenix Wright- One of my favorite series now, but the first game had been out for a good year or so before I picked it up. I still got into it before the second one came out, though.
-SNES- We had the Genesis growing up and I didn't end up owning one until later.
-Frogger/Pac-Man/Rally-X- Some of my favorite games from the early 80's that I didn't play until much later. I was too young to play video game when these were in arcades.

[Powder]

I didnt hop on the wii bandwagon until 2009, gotta say I love it. As far as old school games go, I suppose the entire roster of sega systems would be a start. I always had SNES, gameboy, never anything other then nintendo until PSX came out. Last year I got into emulators, so I got all that seemed good from multiple sega drives.. pretty sick. (Though I still say nintendo is my favorite.)

[Ninjinister]

Growing up, most of my consoles were a generation behind, because my family simply couldn't afford the newest ones. I got an Atari 2600 when the NES was still flying off of shelves, the NES when Genesis and SNES reigned supreme, Genesis right before the Playstation and Saturn debuted, and a Playstation when the PS2 was still new. Thankfully, my mum and dad finally got me a PS2 about halfway through its pre-PS3/360/Wii lifespan, so I was no longer behind.

But it keeps going. I didn't get a SNES until about 5 years ago. I got an N64 soon after that. I bought the original Xbox the literal day before Microsoft announced that software support was coming to an end. I only just now got an Xbox 360, DS (Lite), and PSP (3000) within the last few months. And the coffins on the Wonderswan and Neo Geo Pocket were full of cobwebs by the time the systems arrived in my possession.

[ThirdMarioBro]

Everything PlayStation. Never owned a PS1, but played a ton of games on emulators (I bought most of them) via disc. Started catching up on all my missed PS2 games when I bought a PS3.

To this day, I've never played Metal Gear Solid. I hate myself.

[Peanut]

Metal Gear was definitely one I came to late. I mean, I played MGS for about 10 minutes at a friends, and didn't dig it much. I also played MGS2 when it came out, but I was completely bewildered and not at all into the story, due to not having played the first, which continued with 3.

Prior to 4, everyone knows I got that MGS collection and busted through 1/2/3 in about a week and a half or so. I really missed the boat on Metal Gear the first time around. Lucky I caught it before 4.

[Roland]

Prior to 4, everyone knows I got that MGS collection and busted through 1/2/3 in about a week and a half or so.

What?! Dude that is legend! Well my friend finished MGS 13 times but i think he took a month to finish the first time.

The Halo series i should of got in sooner. I got halo 3 for xbox 360 and loved it.

[Deathknight]

Well, I started playing Metroid around 2002. Though the only Metroid games I liked were Metroid (NES), Metroid Zero Mission, and Metroid Prime (I haven't played fusion or Prime 2 or 3 yet.) I also got into Castlevania recently and have been playing the NES ones a lot.

[XERO]

Everything PlayStation. Never owned a PS1, but played a ton of games on emulators (I bought most of them) via disc. Started catching up on all my missed PS2 games when I bought a PS3.

Ditto for me up until the PS3 part. I was a 'Nintendo Only' guy back then, but ever since then I've been more adapt to playing whatever I felt like playing. I didn't get a PlayStation 2 until 2006, actually.

What really stops me from getting into systems or games now is all in the 'Can I afford to buy it?' category. Otherwise, I'd have ALL systems and be playing with you guys right now.

[Ecto Jedi]

Come to think of it, there's a lot of stuff I haven't gotten into yet...Never played God of War, Halo, or an X-Box for that matter.

What pains me most is that I missed the boat on the SNES back in my formative days. We went from owning an NES to a Nintendo 64 and totally skipped the 16-bit generation because we were dirt poor. I could play it at a friend's house, though. So there.

[XERO]

I vote you get into the God of War series ASAP.

[Ecto Jedi]

Is the one for PSP any good? That'd probably be the one I'd get.

[Barkworm]

It's good but the PS2 games are in a completely different league.