I live in the comfort of being born in 1989 on the wrong side of the iron curtain, so I was 10 years behind the rest of you guys as far as gaming was concerned. I grew up playing NES games of a Famiclone, the more wealthy neighbours had a Mega Drive imported from the west and I got to play on that a little as well, Amiga's and Commodore 64's were everywhere (my uncle had the latter)... good stuff, good stuff. I got to experience all of this goodness despite being raised in an age of their obsoleteness. I think we "caught up" around the time when the Game Boy Color, the PlayStation and the N64 were released, that's when gaming systems from big name brands started being distributed in stores.I've still got 2 launch day 360s that work fine...well, the ethernet port on one of them died off, but other than that they're great, no RROD here ;O;
That said, I'm tempted to say most Tempers who voted for the original XBOX/360 either weren't even born for most of these consoles or were too young to appreciate them, hence why the 360 and the original XBOX has any votes at all. Granted, I am one of them (I was born in 94), my father and my older brother were avid gamers back in the day so as I grew up I was able to experience the CD-i and the 3DO and such...and they were both pretty poop lol.
Pretty much. PlayStation exists solely out of spite, backing out of a deal like that was almost considered "dishonourable" in a Japanese setting. If that deal didn't fall through, we'd probably all be playing on Nintendo PlayStations and Nintendo PocketStations, that'd probably be the best things in the known universe, but oh well.The only reason the CD-i exists is because Nintendo screwed over Sony which is also the only reason why Playstation exist now.