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Nintendo era
Grandma had the first NES at her house with all the good stuff like Mario Brothers 2 & 3, duck hunt with the TV gun remote controller and my personal favorite was the original legend of Zelda and the sequel because they both were shiny golden plastic cartridges. My friends and family usually had the latest Nintendo products before me and they had the better games too. My family got a super Nintendo at the turn of the century. Nintendo Gameboys started and popularized Pokemon. My first was silver -
Dreamcast era.
We were given a sega Dreamcast at the turn of the century from my uncle. I remember we had baseball 2k1 and the first tomb raider but I played Tony Hawks pro skater 2 and the first rainbow six oh and can't forget crazy taxi 2. These three games would shape the the genres and favorite titles years to come and still today. My cousin's had the first PlayStation and my other cousins had the Nintendo 64. All three of these consoles were state of the art game changers in graphics at the time. -
PlayStation2 vs Xbox
Halo LAN parties were huge back then, and I remember the day Xbox live went live for halo 2. PlayStation2 was supposed to be a better machine technically and it was amazing to see another generation of graphics, meanwhile I finally got my hands on a Nintendo 64. -
Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3
Yet another next generation of technology and graphics! Xbox had incredible exclusives, halo 3, gears of war. PlayStation 3 has classics that are still popular today on the PlayStation network. The original call of duty modern warfare and MW2 came out, graphics and gameplay were stunning and cutting edge once again. Online multiplayer play was standard and the main attraction of a lot of games. Nerds had world of Warcraft on PC, I had gotten my hands on a GameCube.