I was born in 84, so here goes the runthrough of my gaming life.
Some of my fondest childhood memories where spending quality time with my 2600 and the spiderman game. The game consisted of you controlling spiderman and climbing to the top of a skyscraper, the catch was the green goblin would wait for you halfway up, gliding from left to right trying to knock you down.
I graduated to the nes, it doesn't matter how many great games I owned, most of my time consisted in trying to beat mike tyson aka Mr Dream, *still no clue why tyson was removed, or when he was added on* owned all 3 castlevanias, and the marios, *still prefer Doki Doki Mario, no idea why* my older brother introduced me to strange new games such as, Kid Nikki, *still remember freaking out when I noticed the cartridge was pink* Kid Icarus, Strider, Bionic Commando, Ninja Gaiden, Paper Boy and of course Metal Gear. I introduced him to a game that would become on of his favorites, The Wrath of the Black Manta.
I picked up a snes during the Street Fighter craze, which by the way wasn't the reason I went to arcades, the reason "Captain America and the Avengers". I loved the platformers, marios, Sparkster, Bugs Bunny Rabbit Rampage. The action games, Final Fight, Battletoads, Super Contra and the snes crown jewel, Super Metroid. Then a friend of mine introduced me to the game that would change me, Chrono Trigger. I was introduced to a genre that rocked my world, I immediately went back and picked up Final Fantasy 2 and 3, any rpg I could get my hands on, *which until the psx came out the snes was the place to be* Tecmo Secret of the Stars, 7th Saga, Actraiser, A Link to the Past, and one of my guilty pleasures, the Breath of Fire series.
Something bad happened during that time, my brother outgrew video games, the shining light from that, he gave me his Genesis with, Out of this World, Vectorman, Sonic, Phantasy Star 2, Shining Force, and Comix Zone. Along with that, a TurboGrafx 16 with Bonks Adventure, damn I miss Bonk.
I chose the psx over the 64 when I found out FF7 was headed there. Of course the games I played were, FF7,8,9, Breath of Fire,3,4 Thousand Arms, Wild Arms, Suikoden, the underrated Vagrant Story, Hoshigami Ruining Blue Earth, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tomba, Tomb Raider, Metal Gear Solid, and so on.
My current gen story isn't as great, I grew up and started working, the problem, I buy anything I want but don't have the time to play it. So owning the big 3 can be like a double edged sword. hell I bought Dragon Quest the day it dropped, and I just got to Trodain castle after finding the ship. If anyone cares by the way, my favorite current gen game is WInd Waker, don't know why, with RE4 being a close second.
A sad story though is I don't like to get rid of my stuff, I owned most of that stuff until I moved to Phoenix about 5 years ago, I went out of town for the weekend, my house was broken into and most of my old stuff was gone, stolen, I took my ps2 with me, so that's all I had. I tried to rebuy all my old games, but the prices had skyrocketed, sigh.
That's just a tad bit of my gaming memories, now that my friend is Hardcore.