I got Commodore C128 as my first computer when rest of the world was solidly running Pentiums. That had to be around 1997 or something. That might explain my "acquired" taste in games.
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the first time i ever played video games was on a ps1... in 2009. we didn't have a lot of money back then and all we had was my dad's old playstation. he mostly played resident evil and similar games before he had kids; you can't give preschoolers resident evil unless you want to traumatize them, so i spent hours playing gran turismo and a handful of arcade games on that thing until we got a wii in 2011. this began a trend of our family waiting until the end of a console's life cycle to purchase it until i got old enough to buy my own consoles. now my parents wonder why i spend my money on old games instead of buying new ones...
My favorite part of the PSP/PS3 era was that they made so many direct ports of PS1 games on the digital store. So I got to experience a lot of old games I wouldn't have been able to otherwise for dirt cheap.
Plus I could take them on the go and swap my save files easily with my PSP.
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MOO2 from my dad and original Xcom games
Not being in the average isn't necessarily bad, just a bit different. And intolerant jerks will find you being different no matter how much the same you are compared to them.