I have been thinking a lot about brand loyalty, and how the systems we grew up with affect it.

I know that growing up with NES, I loved Nintendo as a kid, and still like their games now, and that definitely has an affect on my decisions now. I grew up w/ Nintendo games, like them, and continue to like them.

I wonder though, people that grew up in the N64 era missed out on Nintendo's golden age of console dominance. I would guess they don't have the same nostalgic feelings about nintendo that I do. Remembering when Nintendo was so big they had TV shows and movies about their characters, and instead of saying "lets go hang out and play video games", we'd say "lets go play some Nintendo"

How much do you think stuff like this affects people's view of Nintendo now? If I started playing video games when Playstation was dominating, I might not understand why some people like nintendo that much.

Thoughts?

I most definately grew up with my beloved NES. I got it for I think my 8th birthday and it came with 3 games (The Legend of Zelda, Dr. Mario and Astyanax) and an extra controller. For about the next year or so me and my best mate would play it at every opportunity we had. Good Times :)

I think having the NES so young definately has influenced my brand loyalty, as it was the reason our family got a N64 over a PSX (that and the fact we could play 4-player Mario Kart). I still am a Ninty fanboy at heart, but that doesn't mean I don't enjoy my other systems just as much, if not more.

For those who entered into gaming with a PSX or PS2, they may not understand the 'magic' people feel for Nintendo, and seem to instantly dismiss their products as those for a younger audience, which is a shame. I guess it just depends on what generation you grew up in and what marketing you have been subjected to.

I never had a NES, but I did spend a good amount of time with the SNES and that's what got me into Nintendo, I played a few NES games but yeah didn't 'grow up' with it.

I never had a NES, I grew up with an Atari 2600 :P

My dad bought a NES when I was around 5. Sure the SNES was out already, but my dad wasn't all too bright about gaming back then, so we got a cheap NES along with the essential Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt cartridge and Spy vs Spy. I loved 2P Spy with my lil brother, you set booby traps and watch as the second player walks right into them, LOL! The ending movie saw your spy run away with the loot in a plane. Funny stuff.

Then we got Bayou Billy and Snake Rattle n Roll. Two of my fave games on the NES. After that we bought those Maxi 15 in 1 carts. It had all the classics like Chiller, F15 City War and Death Race!! :D Awesome stuff.

I got into gaming when the my sister sent me a brochure for the N64. I asked my mom to get me one, she didn't know much gaming at the time (she still doesn't) and she bought me a PlayStation instead. :P I was like, wtf, this is so uncool, I wanted Pilot Wings 64 and Mario 64! :( Anyway, I plugged the PSX in and loaded Crash Bandicoot. I was hooked. Then we got Croc, Crash Bandicoot 2, all the platformers. I grew up, started buying gaming mags (Hyper and Aus Unofficial PS mag- Cam had a lame haircut back then! :P ), got into MGS, Syphon Filter, GT, Rollcage, Poypoy ;) and all those classics. I thank my mom, I'm a Sony fanboy.

I still respect Ninty. They have Mario. I'm considering a Revo too.

I grew up with the NES for a few years, but it was only a couple of years later before my brother and I bought the Sega Master System II console - for $300! Sounds like a bloody ripoff now doesn't it? And unforunately, it was the version that didn't come with Alex Kidd built in. However, we both loved and cherished both consoles.

Sorry, I'm slightly swaying away from the topic of Ninty. Anyway I'm pretty sure we bought the NES a couple of months after the release, we waited as it was 1989 (? came out in 88 didn't it?) and when $200 was considered to be an entire adult's wage for 1 week, plus I was only 7 years old anyway.

The games we got were Super Mario Bros & TMNT - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (without doubt, TMNT was one of the BEST games on the console, a great day for Konami staying true to the cartoon's style and plot). Those 2 games kept us entertained for a while, we borrowed the original Zelda from a friend down the road and there were plenty of rentals for $3, Bubble Bobble, Rainbow Island and AFL (a very crappy version of AFL) just to name a few. The best part was the price of games, only $29.95 for a new release?! Hot dog!

After we beat the crap out of the 2 games we owned, I bought Metal Gear, a challenging game, complete with the original annoying introduction to the codec, the (!) noise and maps, though this game was played from a top down perspective (think Zelda), this didn't mean there wasn't any suspense. There were wild dogs that used to track you down, jeeps to use as camoflage, annoying alarms and trying to find all the keys to free the prisoners. I was never very good at the game though so I let my older brother play it instead.

On xmas day later that year (or was it the year after?), nanna surprised us with a copy of Super Mario Brothers 3, a most memorable day indeed. Then I proceeded to watch 'The Wizard' movie that came out shortly after which I thought too was awesome (hey, I was only a kid)

I have alot of fond memories of Nintendo and I feel as though without them there wouldn't be a gaming industry worth playing today. Take Sony and Microsoft for example, they were only incorporated into the gaming industry because Nintendo was there out on top of the world with a nearby faint Sega.

And if that didn't happen, there would only be one console left (Ninty) with all the combined developers in the world working together, making the games that will now cease to exist..

I liked to watch Captain Nintendo's adventures on TV. There was all the Nintendo icons in there! Kid Icarus rawks!

Slashy- I have the Master System II with Alex Kidd in Miracle World Built in. I have Sonic 2 and Outrun with it. $20 in 1996. :P

Whoops, sorry Eyce, it's the first Master System we had, the long wide red & black one. We had a light gun for it too with a built in game as well as a standalone (bundle pack), something involving shooting wild bats in the forest (think of it as a really crappy Time Crisis). The standalone one was a construction worker on one of those manual trains and you had to shoot surrounding beasts (presented in a Bomberman layout). At least that's what my memory's telling me..

I always had Sega as a kid and really really disliked Nintendo and hated the kids that owned it.
Now that I have a NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, GBC, GBA, & DS - I HATE MYSELF. :lol:

Hey its Chilli! You should get cranky to post here too :)

Hahahaha same, we used to have massive arguements in primary school about Mario and Sonic, Sega and Nintendo. Which was better was such a solid topic for an intense arguement... for me it just seemed to die of when Sony hit the scene... I mean will still had our tiffs but it just wasn't the same.

my mum got us a NES when I was like 3 or something... Maybe I was 5, I don't remember. Anyways seeing as I was born in 1990, it was obviously a few years after it's release... We never really got any of the famous/rare NES games like Zelda or any such, except we did get Excitebike. I remember playing The Jetsons (and not being able to get past the first couple of levels :P), Puzznic (what a great puzzle game...) and we had this tennis game as well which wasn't too bad.

Then we got a SNES. Unfortunately, we only ever had two games for SNES, on the up side, though, they were two of the best - Donkey Kong Country 1 and 3. Too bad we never had any of the other classics though, like Super Mario World, Super Metroid, Super Mario Kart or any other of the plethora of awesome SNES games... Oh well, DKC is still awesome, I guess I'll just have to wait for the Revolution to get all those other w00tageful SNES games.

We eventually got a N64, too. We had some of the better games on the system, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Mario Tennis, Donkey Kong 64, 1080 Snowboarding (I remember perfecting my 1080ing ski11z on a day off school once :P) and I think we had a few others, too. My brother had to go and sell Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, though, to buy a remote controlled car or something o.O anyways that was years ago.

At one point, we also had a PSX and a PS2 for a while. I remember getting hooked on Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. My bro used to play Gran Turismo as well but I never used to know how to play it (I didn't know anything about cars, racing lines, etc. when I was a kid) so unfortunately I sort of missed out on that one a little bit (still gave it a go, though)... I remember playing the demos on the demo discs we used to sometimes get, that was always a fun novelty. I liked a demo of Bust-a-Groove I played (the dancing game) and I actually got a chance to play the full game something like a year or two ago and beat it in an hour or two.

A few years ago my bro sold his PS2, though, and he'd sold his PSX before that. A bit unfortunate that, but oh well. Anyways now we have an XBox and Gamecube, and amazingly, I still have my NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, GBA SP and DS around somewhere.

Anyways I'll stop now - congratulations if you read all this :P

Which is ironic as the little kids won't play it. "Aw, Nintendo is for babies!"

I guess I'm a baby then..

Whenever some kid says that I feel like reminding them that their beloved miss Dark and Rare were on Nintendo before the XBox, thats not kiddie. And most Nintendo games a hard, did you know that SMB2 in Japan was much harder than our version? The west sucks, they want easy and short games, so Ninty simply took a game called Doki Doki Panic and built SMB2 for the west off of that.

Kids these days look at Ninty's bold colors and graphics, quirky sounds and mostly "chibi" characters and dismiss it as kiddie. And they've never even tried it.

The only Ninty product I think is gay and very annoying is Pokemon.

Oh I so agree, I cannot stand pokemon. How on earth did a movie get released, how on earth can anyone stand it in any medium. It pains me just thinking about it. :P

Piiikachu?