Old School or New School?

[Nomi]

Hell, I never noticed SXA was as young as me. Didn't know of any other posters under 16. o.O

[Tragic]

I started my gaming on a SMS but I was only around 5 years old at the time. By the time I had owned it for about a year I had beat Alex Kid in Miracle World though...

[Johnny]

I'm 20, so my first memories are those of both the 2600 and NES. It doesn't matter when you started gaming, as long as you're having fun. I have a friend who got into gaming with the PS2 and she's more enthusiastic than friends' who've been playing for years. That's what really matters.

[OmegaFlareX]

Old school. My first was an Atari 7800. Man, what a piece of shit.

[sggg]

I started my gaming on a SMS but I was only around 5 years old at the time. By the time I had owned it for about a year I had beat Alex Kid in Miracle World though...

That's pretty impressive for a 5-6 year old. I was 11-12 and I'd always die when I got to the castle.

[jiji]

The first games I played were on the PC jr. Ghostbusters, King's Quest, Touchdown Football. I was introduced to the NES at friends' houses, but I was never allowed to have one. One of the games I was dying to have was Karnov, and so when my family bought a better computer they gave me the PC version of the game. When the Game Boy came out, I knew I had to have one and I saved up my wages from a vaccuuming job to buy one. It was to me what the NES was to most other people. Later on I got a Lynx for Christmas, and the next big thing after that was a Genesis II with Sonic 2.

[frostwolf ex]

oldskool, beserk(2600) for life, i remember when the system wars were when the colecovision kids argued with the more ghetto 2600 kids(including me), but we won..because we got smurfs..eventually. if you dont know why smurfs was a victory, you might be new school. And i still remember freaking out when q-bert hit 2500. but back then i should really say arcades were my first system, back in the 80 they had arcades everywhere, pizza places, grocery stores, laundromats. plus there were tons of games, so you could go to a far away mall,and find arcade games you never even heard of, unlike now, where the few remaining arcades are either clones of each other, or in such disrepair that the tekken 2 machine and golden tee machine arent even working.

[NeoZeedeater]

I feel that anything after the Colecovision is New School. Videogames are around 33 years old now and if anything, the NES is like going back and listening to Guns and Roses. Old yes, but hardly old school.

I agree with this.

The other week I heard a radio in the background saying "It's time for old school super Sunday!". And then they played MC Hammer. Definitions of old school must vary a hell of a lot because that garbage came out yesterday.

[JMET]

What no Rakeem, KRS-One or Scott Larock?