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I was raised with Nintendo so you can guess what i liked and everything else sucked. Even though I knew Sega was the enemy I still loved Sonic and loved to play it whenever I got a chance and while it "sucked" I secretly wanted one even if it was inferior to my SNES. Similar feelings when I saw the Saturn and I wanted Sonic R so badly but no way that's Sega. I remember playing for hours at EB Games/Babbages the Dreamcast Demo unit, the guys probably hated me for it and thought the graphics were amazing and what was the first thing I said when my friend told me he bought a Dreamcast? "It sucks!" and he responded "No, it doesn't". I almost bought a Dreamcast when it was $100 with Sonic Adventure 2 included I think but I didn't since by that point Sega had already confirmed it was leaving the console business and I already owned a Gamecube/PS2.
For Playstation I felt similarly, I found games like Tomb Raider and Final Fantasy incredibly appealing. I remember playing for hours that "crappy game" Parappa the Rapper but loved playing the demo disc at the stores. I was so mad that these inferior games like Crash and Medievil were getting attention if Nintendo 64 was out there but that didn't stop me from playing them at every store. What I was most jealous of was all the anime RPGs since I loved RPGs and anime as a kid and hated how the Playstation had FMV which automatically made the games so much cooler.
By the time the "128 bit console" for lack of a better term came out I was 14 or so and worked at my Aunts hotels o I had disposable income and I decided I was a "hardcore gamer" and loved games not only one company so I almost bought a PS2 for Christmas at launch but the fact that you couldn't find it and that my inner fanboy didn't let me. I remember being so disappointed that the Gamecube wouldn't play DVDs, I remember emailing Nintendo on their official website and got a response and being excited that they replied but also angry that it didn't. Anywho when Twisted Metal came out I caved and bought a PS2 and a Gamecube when it came out months later. I loved both consoles but especially loved the Gamecube. By this point though I was quickly losing my gamer self and a year later I barely ever played any videogames. But before that I remember always defending Nintendo in message boards.
I fell off of gaming and only got back thanks to the Wii, I went full on Nintendo fanboy mode again though later I was more open and started to collect consoles from any company as I worked on a retro gaming collection. I almost got a PS3 on a few occasions aswell but never did because really I'm not a huge gamer and even a Nintendo machine with barely any games is still more than I can play. PC gaming was something I did as early as the NES days on and off but I was never that into it and they didn't feel much like "games", I also played a few more in the N64 era mostly RTS games and some third party games that weren't on N64 like Tomb Raider. I re-discovered PC gaming around the PS4 era so I had no need for any newer consoles besides Nintendo ones anymore, that's a lot easier for me now to keep games without worrying if I play them 4 years later, it's all the same machine.
My console war life, it's funny how passionate we get over consoles like sports teams and we want "our team" to do well ignoring logic. I try to be unbiased for the most part but don't understand how grown ass adults can be so childish about it> I understand fighting about consoles with my friends/forums when I was a kid and early/mid teens but it's ridiculous. I know I have a bias on Nintendo stuff but I don't go around saying everything else sucks, I just say that "----" game doesn't appeal to me and Animal Crossing does.
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