The System/Computer you owned for the least time?

[woody.cool]

There's another one I forgot about:

Neo-Geo Pocket Colour
Unfortunately, mine got nicked after owning it for only a week .... but thanks to boyo's recent sale, I've got another one now

[Timothy Lumsden]

Neo Geo Pick-Pockets again huh???

[woody.cool]

Neo Geo Pick-Pockets again huh???

Yep, that's the one

[EnglishRob]

Erm... for me it would be the ZX Spectrum +3. Had it a week as a replacement for a second duff Atari 65XE and my dad thought it was crap and took it back and swapped it for a CPC464. I was a bit gutted because I was loosing out on a disk drive and my best friend had a Speccy too, but on the other hand I had another friend who had a CPC6128 so we swapped a couple of games.

My other system which I didn't have long was an Amiga 1200. I had a PC and was working at a computer place. They had an A1200 which was specially ordered for a customer and I was going to buy it for something like £100 (this was back in 1996). In the end I didn't use it much, took it back before I'd paid for it and bought a PC upgrade instead.

Rob

[killermike]

For me it was the Saturn. I owned it for a couple of months, back in about 2002ish. I've always been more of a computer-head than a console-boy, but I thought I'd try it out. What I discovered is that the games were fairly rare and expensive and all that I could find (locally) were sports games, which I'm not a fan of. I was also a bit disappointed with the games that came with it. It came with a multipack that included Outrun, one of my coin-op faves, but graphically it didn't seem to be arcade perfect. Bear in mind that PCs were getting to the stage where they could just about run the original ROM via MAME. In addition, I didn't think that Nights... was as amazing as it was cracked up to be.

Overall, my take on the machine was that Sega had made the mistake of pushing it as a 3D machine, in direct competition with the Playstation and N64. They would have been better off making it the ultimate and final 2D orientated console, IMO. Not to worry, I had an online friend who took it off my hands and I only made a small loss on it.

[The Hardest of All Freds]

DS Lite for about 2 weeks. Sold it on as there wasn't a single game I wanted to play on it. Then I find out about R4 cards....
Wii about 3 months.
Most retro consoles, a few hours. Buy n sell, my friends!

[Shinobi]

N64 only game I ever liked on it was Perfect Dark and it gave me a headache..

Or the PS3 as I never owned one if that counts

[Geese]

The Atari Jaguar,brought it home took one look at the speed on Aliens vs Predator(the only other reason to own one is tempest)and went straight back to the shop to my money! I ended up buying Secret of Mana,Shadowrun,Cybernator and R-type3 for the almost the same price.

[SpiffierRabbit]

Sega Saturn (jap), got it for the shmups, or should I say the over-hyped shmups, had it for about 3 months.

[Gordon Bennett]

The SNES. I had it for about six months. The only game that I ever truly enjoyed on it was Wing Commander.

So I traded it in somewhere with four games for a Megadrive, a Mega CD, Sonic 1, and eight games on CD. Which made me quite happy. Even happier than the time I found a dirt cheap 32x to add on to the pile.

[IronMaidenRule]

I had a GBA for about a year, got really annoying not be able to see the screen properly. Traded it for a MegaDrive in the end, result!

[JazzFunk]

NES. Got one in '93, a market trader who had a video games stall that I used to visit regularly had a complete, boxed PAL NES system (complete with SMB3) and I had Ecco The Dolphin and Two Crude Dudes on PAL Megadrive, and basically in trade-in value I got a straight swap, with £2 extra on my behalf, so got a battered, boxless Excitebike cart along for the ride.

I remember buiding up quite a hefty collection of 40+NES games, most of the Megamans, Mission: Impossible, Gradius, Trojan, Snake, Rattle And Roll and Solstice, Maniac Mansion, even the Action 52 cartridge, loads.

I just had this system that had games that looked like slightly more defined C64 games, but had worse scrolling and sound (music, especially). The only game I truly liked was Maniac Mansion. I *hated* the NES, and still can't gel with it.

I offloaded my NES with about 35 (mainly boxed) games for £70 in mid-1994, eight months later, and spent the cash I got on rap CDs I can now easily download for free!

[Lentini2001]

Probably the Game Gear - sent it back to the Freemans catalogue after 2 days I think.

[markopoloman]

Got a SMS at one of the big 80's London computer games shows - whatever the closest one was to the launch of the console.

In comparison to what I was playing on my C64, the SMS was utter pap. Sold it after about 6 months and got a NES.

The NES was even worse pap and got rid of that after about 6 months.


Stuck with the C64 and Amiga after that - skipped all the crappy consoles.

[Sepp Salerno]

I know it give it a bit of a kicking pretty much any chance I get, but I was a total Nintendo boy growing up (even though I had a Mega drive as well as a SNES, and proffered it, it’s just the original NES gave me so many happy hours I always used to side with the moustached Plummer) so when I finally got a N64 I was really, really disappointed. Once I had squeezed every last ounce of fun out of Golden eye (which is hard, as it is an AWESOME title) I just found the lack or titles, combined with the ugliness of the console, and the bum about face design of the controller a real stomach turner – I got rid of it very, very quickly. Also, once I saw Resident Evil 2 for the first time around an ex girlfriends on the Psone, I was sold, and turned to the then ‘darkside’ that was Sony.

I have a distaste for the N64, it could have got things so right, but it didn’t. Also, it looks so cheap and light weight plasticy it almost looks like a faked machine by someone else.

The master system didn’t last long with me either, but in time I have found that there were some real great games hiding for the machine, and at the time, I just sort of seemed to have the sh*t judgment when spending my money on games for it – so that one was my fault, but the N64, even if you did manage to find a worth while title, once you’d spent the money (which was always more that you would on a Psone game) you’d have to play it with that hideous N64 controller.

If you were left handed, I guess the N64 controller had it’s merits, as it was very ambidextrous in design, but for me, it stank.