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[Calverz]

Going from

To

Blew my mind as a kid. The amount of detail that jump was hit me harder than going from the SNES to the N64.

I remember this as well. I remember pausing mid fight and rotating the camera with c stick to look at all the effects and details.

 

[Knightime_X]

My very first experience was playing NES after playing Atari 2600.
It was really cool.
Going from NES to genesis \ snes in that order was also jaw dropping.
ofc playing ps1 was awesome sauce because mk3 felt seriously close to arcade perfect, and 3d at the time looked awesome.

 

[hemo memo]

First time? Can't remember. I remember seeing the PS2 at a relative's room and he put on a Muso game and I was thinking wow how futuristic.

 

[hinch7]

Mega Drive to PlayStation.

Insane jump to 3D games. Even 2D got a major uplift as did the fidelity in sounds from midi to PCM audio.

 

[PeteBull]

Cheap pirated NES knock off that every kid on the block had to actual og sega mega drive 16-bit goodness, just to buy it we had to go with my dad to big city since in my smalltown there were no proper legit current gen console stores back then.
Imediatelly i got super popular among my teenage pals, and i got invited to make "pillgramiges" with my console to their houses so we could play it together with bunch of other kids, it was glorious obviously =D
Games that all of us loved and were top hits among myself and buddies:

 

[Cakeboxer]

NES-->SNES with Super Mario World. It was great.

 

[Duchess]

PS3, and finally hooking it up to an HDTV.

Yeah, that was a night and day difference. I was playing Elder Scrolls IV at the time, and I literally just stared.

 

[scalman]

most visual upgrade was of course from ps1 to ps2 , just mind blowing change. nothing later did similar jump its just better resolution ,RT and sucxh, but go from ps1 game to ps2 game was like OMG

 

[plip.plop]

8 bit -

16 bit -

 

[plip.plop]

most visual upgrade was of course from ps1 to ps2 , just mind blowing change. nothing later did similar jump its just better resolution ,RT and sucxh, but go from ps1 game to ps2 game was like OMG

One of these images is in game.

 

[Esppiral]

Nothing can beat going from 2D to 3D youngers will never live that moment of awesomeness

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Upgrade from Atari Jaguar to Playstation was awesome. At the time I was absolutely gutted that my dad was selling the Jaguar since it was where I played some of my favourite games at the time (Iron Soldier, Aliens Vs Predator and Doom). When I saw Tekken running on PS1 though I was fucking floored.

 

[Trilobit]

Upgrading from SNES to N64 was something else for me

I did not understand how you'd play something like Mario 64. I thought it was some kind of interactive movie the first time I saw it.

I didn't really care for gaming as a kid but this changed when we got a N64.

I remember it very well

Your little mind must have been blown away once you got the Wing Cap.



I know I was absolutely amazed by it playing on my friend's N64.

 

[The_Observer]

PS2 to X360 was crazy. I have never felt that ever since then. PS4 did provide this feeling later (at launch I was kind of disappointed), not in the same capacity but still. But with PS5 I’m still waiting for that wow moment. There are a handful of games that feels sort of a leap but it still feels mostly as a PS4 Pro Pro.

 

[Lorianus]

Jumping from a PS1 to Dreamcast, Tekken 3 to Soulcalibur 1 felt unreal.

 

[chokotoureiki]

When I was a kid, I played fighters like Killer Instinct and Mortal Kombat heavily on my SNES before upgrading to the PS1. Back in the day, fighters on the 16 bit systems were inferior ports of the arcade versions, so to see something like Tekken 2 and 3 looking exactly like the arcade games was amazing. Like, I get to have the arcade in my home. How cool is that? And then the Dreamcast came that had Soul Calibur which looked even better than the arcade version and that completely blew my mind.

 

[Lokaum D+]

PS1 > PS2 was a mindblowing upgrade for me, going from FF7,8 and 9 to FFX was like a dream coming true.

 

[ShirAhava]

Genesis to PSX/SATURN (we had both) was wild it was like having an arcade room and high end computer hooked to my tv via RF lol...nothing will ever top that.

 

[fbnaulin]

SMS/NES to SNES. I was totally mesmerized by Super Mario World visuals.

 

[deriks]

Master System to Mega Drive

Sonic got so pretty

 

[RoboFu]

Going from Atari to a nes wasn't a big deal as gaming was just another toy and o was super young. But going from the nes to snes was mind blowing. In comparison going from a ps4 to ps5 would be like going a new to a nes 2 where you get 12 more sprites on screen.

 

[SHA]

The ps2, my friends were stuck with ps1 and the difference was huge to me, the games were bigger, look better, I got lost and it was one of the strongest drug effects I've ever had.

 

[sigmaZ]

Magnavox odyssey 1, to the odyssey 2,was absolutely massive. If you know, you know.

Heck yeah. Got those voice upgrades in that PacMan rip off game... I'll never forget that "Uh, oh no..."

 

[GermanZepp]

From NES to genesis, pure happines. That was in a time when all the catalog was a secret to me. You find out about games in your friends house or if some store got a set up running.

Later appeared tv shows with Plastation and very few friends had that machine i was in awe, absolutely flabbergasted when play it in a buddy's place from school.

I went NES -GENESIS - game gear- DREAMCAST - Psone - Ps2 - 360 -ps3 - ps4 - ps4pro - switch - ps5

 

[Tajaz2426]

Less money in my bank account.

 

[NeonDelta]

Mega drive to PS1 so pretty amazing

 

[cireza]

Moved from the NES to the Master System and it was incredible. Playing Sonic was a huge jump from any NES game. The speed, smoothness, impeccable visuals and wide variety of slopes/heights were things I had never seen on NES.

 

[angelgs90]

PS1 to Gamecube.

 

[killatopak]

I was not e

 

[KINGMOKU]

Heck yeah. Got those voice upgrades in that PacMan rip off game... I'll never forget that "Uh, oh no..."

K.C. Munchkin. I was a master at that sucker. So many good OD2 games. I mean, I still got it.

 

[intheinbetween]

ZX Spectrum 128k to NES
NES to SNES

 

[El Muerto]

I remember going from a NES to SNES when i was a kid. Me and my brothers were pretty ecstatic. Our mom got us Super Mario World, Mystic Quest, and Link to the Past. We played a lot of mario, zelda, and FF on the NES. Seeing the 16bit versions was insane at the time. Then it was SNES to PS1, then PS1 to N64, then N64 to DC was incredible. Going from PS2 to Xbox was amazing at the time too. Magic seemed to died when going from ps4 to ps5/xbone to series.

 

[Keylime]

Atari > NES: "Damn this light gun is amazing, I can't believe I'm shooting at my TV screen. Back to the Future is real!"
NES > SNES: "Fuck these games are insanely good compared to the NES. This is peak gaming."
SNES > Genesis: "This is like the edgelords SNES. All these games are weird."
Genesis > Sega CD: "Sewer Shark is the best video game ever created and will never be topped"
Sega CD > Playstation: "HAVE YOU SEEN THE CUTSCENES IN FF7?! LITERAL REAL LIFE GRAPHICS"
SNES > N64: "I can't play games with my sister anymore because the controls are way beyond what she's capable of"
N64 > Dreamcast: "Powerstone is the literal best party game ever made, and now my friend is weirdly into burning pirated games and showing them to me...and we're looking at porn images on a TV through the internet...the future is now"
Dreamcast > Playstation 2: "This will define me as a gamer for the rest of my life"
Playstation 2 > Gamecube: "Well....Smash Brothers and Metroid Prime are insane.... WarioWare is also sick I guess...what is this thing?"
Gamecube > Xbox: "I can't stand how I'm suddenly shit at Halo despite having played Counter-Strike competitively for years"
...

That's probably enough of a summary of historical game console things.

The biggest "oh shit" moment from a console upgrade was probably when the original Playstation came out. Games felt so much bigger and mature out of nowhere, and the graphics felt like they took this massive leap forward.

 

[ResilientBanana]

Upgrading from SNES to N64 was something else for me

I did not understand how you'd play something like Mario 64. I thought it was some kind of interactive movie the first time I saw it.

I didn't really care for gaming as a kid but this changed when we got a N64.

I remember it very well

This. There was a feeling you couldn’t describe when seeing Mario 64 for the first time. It was amazing.

 

[MrJangles]

Most notably I went from atari 2600 > nes > megadrive in the space of just over 12 months. I thought the nes was a massive leap forward but when I saw Sonic 1 on my TV I was gobsmacked. The closest since was probably when I first played Mario 64 but I'd already had some pretty decent stuff on my Saturn and PS that wasn't such a monumental drop in graphical quality behind the fat plumber.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

- Console wise -

• Atari to NES.
• SNES to N64.
• PS1 to XBox. Yeah I said it.

- PC wise -

• Monochrome to MDA/EGA/VGA.
• 3DFX/VooDoo

 

[Wolves hunt in packs]

Who can remember? I'm pretty sure i had an Atari console and later on it was either Megason or Megadrive, was too long ago to remember.
The biggest upgrade? No doubt going from PS2 to PS3/Xbox 360, that included moving from 21 inch CRT TV to 32 inch HD Ready LCD which was WOW, first game was either RE5 or Dead Space and was jaw dropping, also first time using a wireless controller, and having an HDD etc, a feeling i can't see ever matched.

 

[AmuroChan]

My first upgrade was NES to SNES, but I don't remember too much about that experience. The most memorable upgrade for me was going from PS2 to XBox 360. I bought my first 720p HDTV along with the 360 and the experience of seeing a HD game for the first time was just mind blowing.

 

[asdasdasdbb]

The one thing to keep in mind that in the early times... Arcades were so far ahead in technology that new generation console visuals would not have been as amazing as you would think if you had gone to an Arcade every so often.

I think the Genesis was a cost reduced arcade board from like 3 years earlier.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Genesis was outstanding but N64 squashed it.
This

To that:

 

[Euler007]

Going from messing around with cassettes on the Vic-20 to just putting a cartridge in my NES and the quality of the games was a big jump.

 

[TintoConCasera]

SNES to N64 with Mario Kart 64.

I remember being very happy about it.

 

[Pegasus Actual]

NES from Atari 7800 didn't hit that hard just because friends had NES already... so I kind of already knew NES was the shit. Plus I had like TMNT1 whereas friend had Punch-Out, so that was an L.

Sega Genesis was pretty big WELCOME TO YOUR DOOM

SNES was beyond epic. Super Mario World and Contra III that Christmas? Fugheddaboutit

486 PC was big. Next was Pentium II for me, couldn't believe how good NESticle ran, lol.

I'll stop rambling, top console upgrades in order of more to less epic probably:
SNES
PS2
PS1
Xbox 360

 

[Pimpbaa]

After my first console (Colecovision), the console market crashed. I was gaming on the c64 after that and than the NES. I mean the NES was better than the Colecovision and C64 graphically. But it wasn’t anywhere near going from NES to Genesis in 89 for me.

 

[Loomy]

Went from a bootleg cartridge console to a PS1 lol.

 

[wizaga]

My first upgrade experience was NES to PS1 and it was incredible.

Same here, first time seeing the ps1 ever was at my cousins house, Tekken 2 was the first game i ever saw/played on the ps1. Man it was unreal at the time, never seen anything like that ever before on home consoles. I miss those times....

 

[Drell]

Not really an upgrade but I remember, I was 7 or 8 years old minimum seeing kids in stores around the N64 playing Mario. It looked cool because you could fly and do a lot of stuff but I couldn't understand why they weren't using all these stars they had in the HUD to be invincible just like in every other mario games. Also, the few times one of these exposition models N64 was free for me to play, I couldn't move Mario because the D-Pad wouldn't do anything and that analog stick didn't look at all like something you could interract with to me. I also remember that when I finally understood what it was, I was handling it like arcade stick, with all the fingers of my left hand clawing on that tiny analog stick.

All of this to say that while an analog stick is a completely natural concept for any gamer now, it wasn't something automatic back then, especially for a kid with a Super Nintendo in 1997. The analog stick of the N64 was a big leap actually.

 

[Shadowstar39]

Intelivision/atari2600 to NES was amazing. No more single rooms, you could go down pipes and open doors. It was like every game was pitfall x100 (atari's one scrolling adventure game). More colors better graphics was great and then Zelda... Final fantasy, wizards and warriors, castlevania, dragon warrior, smb. Duck hunt, zapper, etc.. Nothing like it. The fact that $99 got you the console two controllers, a zapper and both smb1 and duck hunt. You don't get value like that now.

Next was going from nes to Tg16, was amazing. The extra colors the larger sprites, no flickering. Alien and Devils crush along with blazing lasers are amazing to this day. Bonks adventure was Mario on crack. Dude got as large as the screen on the 2nd game after eating a power up.

Then came sega genesis. It was more of the same graphically but there was different games like sonic and road rash. Larger than life sprites. Golden axe and coop. Snes gave smw, Zelda lttp, ff2(iv), and a few other great rpgs.

The ps1 was the big shocker. Going from 16bit to that, especially when I didn't game at all in high school (I got ps1 after graduating.) it was like gaming was growing up with me. Genesis had games aimed at teens, Nintendo kids and ps1 was for adults. Tekken, ff7, raid rash 3d, tomb raider, resident evil, dual shock, Suikoden, parasite eve, mega man legends, bushido blade, grandia, legend of legia, legend of dragoon, vagrant story, vandel hearts. Diablo, civ, and other pc games on it too. Was the best wow factor.

 

[dcx4610]

Going from NES to Sega Genesis stood out. I got the Genesis a couple of years late at Christmas and got Golden Axe 2, Streets of Rage 2 and Sonic 2. I remember being blown away by the graphical leap. Even my Uncle who was over that didn't care about video games saw it and commented how much better it looked and sounded than the Nintendo. Yes....yes it did.

 

[daninthemix]

It was like a short-sighted person putting on glasses for the first time.

Also that better console was called PC.