Originally Posted by qtwerp

I actually started on a PC. When I was finally able to afford a computer, the first games I played were Battleship and Win, Lose, or Draw, both for DOS. The actual machine had to insert the 5.25" DOS boot disk first, and then the game after that (old!). I moved on to an Apple II, where I played Sherwood Forest and some other games. Then back to DOS with a lot of really fun 2D action/adventure type games. I started with SMB/DuckHunt about here on the NES (first console), then on to SimTower/SimCopter on Windows, with quite a few other good games in-between.

The one thing I've picked up on is that the games felt different depending on the keyboard layout, the model of joystick, the model of mouse, and the sensitivity that was set. Also, the speed of the computer affected how a game felt too. Think of how different a FPS feels depending on the speed of a computer and the settings you use. If you've played one for any length of time, you'll know that there's a huge difference and that it takes time to reaccustom yourself when something changes.

Consoles just take out that uncertainty so the gameplay doesn't change if you change systems or controllers (they're all the same). The only discrepency I can think of was with the N64 and the expansion card that let you be able to run games like DK64. Still, I didn't notice a difference for the other N64 games I was playing at that time...