What was your first gaming console?

[Wolf Kanno]

So which gaming console did you first get when you were younger and played on all the time when you should have been doing homework or learning to play an instrument? ;)

[Shorty]

(I'm guessing computers don't count) We got a Super Nintendo when I was super young, I don't remember when. That's the first I remember - possibly around age six. I played The Addams Family, Kirby, and The Simpsons to my heart's delight before it stopped working. :(

[Sephex]

Although I played some very early PC games before I got a NES, Nintendo's first was my first.

[Miss Mae]

The first games I remember playing were on PC and on my parents' super old GameBoy.

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My first console if we aren't counting PC or handheld was a PS2 that dad bought for cheaps from someone he worked with. I got it well and truly after it was released and I remember it felt like Christmas.

[Pike]

Yeah add me to the "my first console was a computer" list. I wasn't console gaming until I had already been PC gaming for ten years.

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[Shauna]

Aye, PC gaming was my first foray into games. Then it was a PS1 if we need to specify a console.

[Mirage]

In 1992, A texas instruments 386 SX IBM compatible computer. It was running at 20 MHz, had 4 MB of RAM and 200 MB of hard disk space. Lotus turbo challenge, f15 strike eagle, that's my early youth.

I didn't actually have a game console until 2001, which was a PS2. In 1999 we did get a much faster PC though, one with 300 MHz and a 32MB Riva TNT2 graphics card (an upgrade a few years after buying the PC actually). With my newfound processing power, I discovered SNES emulation, and i could also run more recent games such as Need for Speed 2/3 and Battlezone. My first computer was too weak to run Sim City 2k, but this new beast had no issues with it.

[Depression Moon]

The NES for me. Fond memories of Duck Hunt, Paperboy, Super Mario Bros 3, and a Teenage Mutant Turtles Game.

[escobert]

My first console was a PS1. My dad had a NES and SNES but the PS1 was the first to be mine. But I was already a PC gamer by that point :p

[Psychotic]

First gaming machine was an Amiga 1200 - stuff of champions - and my first proper console was the PS1.

[Jessica]

My brothers had a nintendo 64 but i never played it. they also bought a PS1 and that was the first thing i played... I still remember my first game was Nicktoons Racing lol

[metagloria]

NES, shortly followed by Sega Genesis and Game Boy.

[Pike]

So neat to see how many of us had computers first! We had an excellent upbringing, my friends! :cheers:

[Bolivar]

The first console I asked for and got for myself was the Sega Genesis. My grandparents also got one for us at their place for some mysterious yet equally awesome reason. I actually couldn't play it as much as I wanted except for sick days and weekends and such. Which probably explains why I binge so much on gaming now...

[blackmage_nuke]

Our cousins had a SNES and we were at their house a lot
I cant remember if the first one we had was a PS1 or a GameBoy.

[black orb]

>>> Atari..:luca:

[Scotty_ffgamer]

When I first played games, my family already had: Atari 7800, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16/Turbo Express, and Sega Game gear. I played all of those and can't remember which would have been my actual first one.

I think the first system bought after I started playing stuff was the PS1. First system I bought with my own money was a Gamecube.

[Ayen]

First system I played on was my brother's NES. First system I owned was the Nintendo 64.

[Pumpkin]

PlayStation followed very closely by a N64

[Ayen]

PlayStation followed very closely by a N64

*le gasp* PlayStation closely followed my Nintendo 64.

You are opposite Tori!

[AssassinDX]

The SNES, my parents bought me a second hand console for my 10th birthday in 1994, and that bad boy is still going strong and sat next to me as I type this.

[Jiro]

One of the Segas. I dunno. Alex Kidd was built in.

[Raistlin]

I played PC games first, like Oregon Trail, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?, and Number Munchers.

When I was about 5, my parents bought me an SNES (which had only recently come out, I believe), and that was my first regular console. It was a few years after that when I actually got an NES.

[Aulayna]

My first "console" was an Amstrad 6128plus - which was really a primitive PC.

My first consoles in the most traditional sense were the SEGA Master System followed by the Nintendo GameBoy.

So,

Amstrad > Master System > Game Boy > Mega Drive (Genesis to you USians) > SNES > PC > PlayStation > Game Boy Color > N64 > PlayStation 2 > GameCube > Game Boy Advance > DS > PSP > XBOX 360 > 3DS > Wii > PlayStation 3

[Jinx]

Gameboy! I loved that big ol' grey brick! :D

[fat_moogle]

Sega Megadrive.

Sonic, Streets of Rage, Toejam and Earl, Bubsy, Golden Axe, Shinobi...those were the days!

[Del Murder]

NES, though I also had an Atari at some point. That NES changes my life forever.

[Colonel Angus]

God, all you guys make me feel old.:(

My first system was an Atari 5200 my dad bought that I unfortunately no longer have.:cry:

My first "own" system was an NES.

[Colonel Angus]

One of the Segas. I dunno. Alex Kidd was built in.
I believe that was the Master System aka Black Nintendo.

[Wolf Kanno]

Played on my Dad's old computer which I can't remember what it was and my uncle's Atari 2600. The first system I had for myself was a Nintendo Entertainment System.

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[Perducci]

First console I remember playing is a NES, first one I remember being 'mine' was a Sega Megadrive. Eventually switched over to SNES and we had an Amiga with a whole bunch of games, too.

[BlueD]

Nintendo duck hunt was so amazing!! Then a Sega genesis followed by a Sega Saturn ps1 gameboy n64 Xbox ps2 ps3 360 ps4. Ps1 will always be my favorite