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[Hollywood]

I don't mean like an old NES or Game Boy or something you don't play. I got an NES, I rarely play. But I got a streak of like 10 months dating back to like last December without this generation of consoles .. or any other recent generation ... and nothing I played a lot besides the odd game of Tecmo Super Bowl once in a blue moon.

Well my streaks going to be fucking broke soon, I preordered a new PS2 just for GTA. Thank you Rockstar. Damnit.

 

[Dragona Akehi]

Weekend. I nearly died.

edit: To be fair, I didn't have any books either. It really really sucked.

 

[madara]

LOL!


Hmm does playing no console games at all count? Had eq addiction back in early days for over year.
But I came back to one heck of rpg streak, it was nice.

 

[Die Squirrel Die]

Couple of years after the end of the 16-bit generation (or the Megadrive at least). Didn't pick up the 32-bit gen until quite a ways into it. Did play on friend's PC and another friend's brothers PS occasionally but didn't actually own a system myself.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

Honestly before I got mk dec and now gta sa (and then hl2 and sd vs raw) i hadnt really played a game in 2 months.

gaming is just boring now.

 

[explodet]

I skipped the Playstation / N64 generation, but I did play a lot of PC games, if that counts.
The graphics were much easier on the eyes than the 3D graphics of the consoles at that time - at least to me.

 

[jiggle]

Completely lost interest in games after I finished Breath of Fire II.
Picked up WA and a PS1 a couple of months before FFVII came out. So, less than 2 years...

 

[AirBrian]

Skipped the entire SNES generation. Picked it back up with the N64.

 

[Tritroid]

Skipped the entire SNES generation. Picked it back up with the N64.

Oh my god, I pity you so damn much.

 

[Drexon]

About 2 weeks. I had just sold my old Xbox and PS2 to get new versions (first re-buy) 'cuz they were getting mighty old and the chips I had in them were outdated. Hehe, fooled some suckers back then. PS2 had a crummy Magic chip and Xbox had a no switch screw on chip. Got myself a new PS2 with a DMS3, a LE transparent green Xbox with an X-ecuter 2.something (switch, all I needed) and still got some money over.

Mostly watched anime and movies during those 2 weeks.

 

[Scalemail Ted]

skipped from like '94-'02

Stopped playing consoles with SNES picked back up later in this generation

 

[Ronin]

When my PS2 and GC got stolen 2 years ago. It was like 4 months before I picked up my next PS2 and around six before I got another GC. I didn't really feel like going back to my old consoles, because it pissed me off thinking about some dickhead with my PS2 and Cube.

 

[Howlin' Mad]

A couple of days at the most.... Handhelds were lifesavers on long trips.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

I was pretty much out of the system from 1995 until 1998. Stopped with the SNES, picked up a N64 in 1998. Got a Playstation later on down the road in 1998. I had sooooooooo many rpgs to catch up on. :lol

 

[djtiesto]

First year of college, my parents wouldn't let me take my PSX up to school cuz they were worried I'd spend all my time playing that... so what did I do? Blow all the money I got (for food and supplies, mind you) on a used PSX and a copy of FF8, starving for a few days till I got shipped more money

Oh yeah and I think a couple of times in elementary school I got grounded, 1 week without Nintendo... That sucked, too, since I think that was right after SMB3 came out

 

[Badabing]

I dont play consoles anymore, just the PC. Does that count?

 

[way more]

Since late-august.

I spend my free time drinking.

 

[AirBrian]

Oh my god, I pity you so damn much.

:lol It's fine now, all the great games are coming back for the GBA.

 

[El Papa]

I've had a GC since near launch, but I haven't played it for more than 2 weeks in the last 9 months because I don't haven't had a TV. That's going to change soon, hopefully.

 

[Dyne]

I didn't get a PS1 until 3 years ago.

 

[XS+]

'94-98. Skipped that whole generation of consoles until the near perfect port of X-Men vs Street Fighter pushed me into buying a Saturn. And then MAME came along.. now I don't play my Saturn much anymore.

 

[GDJustin]

I've never been without a system from the current generation...

 

[PG2G]

I've always had at least 2 current consoles, since the Genesis/SNES days.

 

[LakeEarth]

Heh... I went without an SNES for about a year. But I was young, I had to wait for everything.

 

[Renegade]

5+ years
Born early 1988, got my own Genesis Christmas '93.

I kinda played the NES and Master System before that, and the same christmas my bro got a SNES.

 

[cvxfreak]

3 weeks when I was in Europe.

 

[Jade Knight 08]

4 months.

Completed Super Mario Sunshine back in March.
Then I bought GBA classic "The Legend of Zelda" in June.

 

[Lyte Edge]

And then MAME came along.. now I don't play my Saturn much anymore.

Same here. I can't bring myself to get rid of my Saturn, but the majority of the titles I own for it are all games that were in the arcade and now are emulated better or have sequels on other platforms.

 

[neptunes]

4 years.

 

[Grimlock]

About 5 years.

From the time of my birth till my dad brought home a Sears Telearcade pong console. Haven't been game-less since.

 

[CrimsonSkies]

I didn't own a video game console from 1988 through 2000. I used my PC to game with in the 90's.

I owned just about every console prior to 1988 though.

 

[Warm Machine]

For about almost all of 1995 I survived almost on PC shareware alone. I did manage to rent a game here and there for the SNES. I didn't get a Saturn until late 1996.