What was your first system?

[MrMatthews]

I did a quick search to see if this thread already exists somewhere else, but apologize if I missed it.

So, you read the title, and you know what to do. :)

My first system was an Atari 2600 that I inherited from my dad.

The first system I bought for myself was the NES (saved up for about sixty years to buy that thing, it felt like - in reality it was probably only a few months).

[Karakasa-Obake]

My first system? NES. I quickly traded that in back in '89 for a Genesis. Hehe....good times.

[InternalPrimate]

Genesis/SNES (product of a divorced family), bought in the same year. We never had an NES, which was unfortunate. I'd always play it at cousins or friends houses, and it killed me that I couldn't own Super Mario Bros.

[16-bit]

My first system was the brick gameboy, I had many frustrations trying to figure out how the hell you play tetris, and then trying to beat Super Mario Land.

My first home console though was the SNES, I remember wanting an N64 so badly for christmas, but when I woke up and found a SNES with a four games, I was ecstatic.

The games I got were:
Mario Paint
Super Mario World
StarFox
StuntRace FX
Later on in the same year I got Super Mario RPG and a HongKong Pirate of DKC3 from my aunt.

[KnightWarrior]

My first I own was a NES..But it was the VCS with my brother

[Kollision]

an Atari 2600 clone!

[nathanallan]

My first was the Atari 2600, loved that thing. Close after was a C64 computer, but that's another thread.

[Mr. Ksoft]

I suppose my Macintosh Performa 600 could count. Played edutainment stuff on it from about age 3 onwards.

But my first real gaming system? A sleek red Game Boy Pocket, age 5. With Super Mario Land, and Tetris Plus not long after that.
I spent a hell of a lot of time on just those two games. And my life was forever changed.

I still have the Pocket, and you can tell it was used a lot. The battery cover is broken, the labels on the back are peeling, there are scratches everywhere, and part of the rubber on the start button is missing. But it still works and I even play it from time to time.

[sketch]

That depends; the first system we had as a kid was an Atari 2600. It was out of date when we bought it, and I didn't play it much. I had already played a friend's to death years earlier.

The first system I ever bought with my own money was an Atari Lynx. I still own it, and it's the only system that I've never sold (well, except for the Genesis 3 that I bought at TRU which got me into Genesis games, but I sadly sold most of the games, only to re-collect them later:().

[Devil N]

My first gaming system (actually my first computer overall) was an early compact Macintosh that we got in the late 80's. Probably a Macintosh ED, if my sources are correct. After that, a couple of Macintosh Plus'es came along, before our first PC (a 486) was bought in '93. It wasn't until '95 that I got my first games console, which not coincidentally was a Megadrive.

[The Coop]

The first system my family owned was the Atari 2600. My father picked it up at a garage sale while I was at school one day, and when I came home, I saw everyone else playing it on our black and white TV. Good times were had between myself and my father with Combat.

However, the first system that was specifically for me, was the Atari XEGS. I still have it, and it works fine to this day. I also still have every game I ever bought for it. I've had many years of enjoyment on that odd little half console, half computer.

[Nunzio]

My brother had NES and SNES. I wanted a Genesis from the time I was born until 1997. The first console I got was a silver Gameboy Pocket. The first home console I owned was my brother's NES which he finally gave to me after years of neglect.

[ooXxXoo]

My very own first game system, was the Sega Master System Power Base with Hang-On/Safari Hunt Built-in the memory...Got it for Chritsmas of 1988....I actually had a choice to pick between the NES or SMS then...And that's one of the very few personal things that I don't regret of the past... Getting the SMS over the NES, totally Priceless!....
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[Baloo]

I've had a Genesis and my first NES since before I was born, and then I either bought the rest of my systems (Saturn, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Playstation X, Genesis Model II, second NES) or got them as gifts or for free (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advanced, Saturn, PSone, Nomad). The first NES broke.

[kool kitty89]

an Atari 2600 clone!

http://image.mycolours.com.au/medium/112376.jpg

Go Gemini! ;)

First we had (hooked up) was an NES my parents got around the time I was born. (the Power Set)

Other than that I had a PC, starting with a B/W monitor and only educational games, it got upgraded to color when I got "Dino 3D" which required color for the (red/cyan) 3D to work. X-Wing was the first "real" game I remember having. (1994 CD-ROM release, I can't remember playing it on DOS though, I think we had Win95 by the time we got that game)

We did have an Atari packed away ("light sixer") that my mom had piced up at a garage sale years earlier. That didn't end up getting set up until ~2000)

[QuickSciFi]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...

[Iron Lizard]

The Nes was my first. I found it hidden behind a bunch of Atari controllers after a day or two after Christmas 1988. When I went to pay for it the girl at the register freaked out. She was shocked that I had found one since they were all sold out. It was not unlike finding a WII hidden away when everyone was obsessed with them. It was the control deck set with SMB as a pack in something I believe was a special at the time.

[Phantar]

Mattel Intellivision

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Intellivision_-_gi_1326971.jpg

My parents already got one when I was born, so it sort of always had been around in our household as far as I can recall. S oit was sort of natural that this one was the first I got in touch with.

After that came a C64 and A500, courtesy of my older sister and her then-boyfriend.

[SodeePawp17]

0.0 Your so old =P My first system was a N64 ^.^

[Mamba Tabac]

Commodore VIC 20.

My first proper system was the good old Mega Drive - I wasn't that interested in the NES or MS at the time because the arcades were just so much better

[Phantar]

0.0 Your so old =P My first system was a N64 ^.^

Yeah, you could argue that gaming itself and myself have something in common: We were both little toddlers trying to take their first steps at roughly about the same time! :p

[Jesse813]

My First System was a NES that my neighbor gave me when I was 9 sinve they had just gotten a SNES, so for a while i Enjoyed: Castlevania, Mario, Duckhunt, Contra, Kirby, and Zelda

[TheEdge]

NES.

The little gray box that started it all.

[MrMatthews]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...


Model 2? How old were you?

[TheEdge]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...

I can't believe you got rid of Eternal Champions. :(

[Baloo]

I can't believe you got rid of Eternal Champions. :(

Yeah, I was a little disappointed to hear that as well, It's one of my favorite fighting games. I have the Sega CD one too and have played it once, but my Sega CD hasn't come in yet so the jury's still out on which one I like better.

[GameUser-16-32-128]

My first system was the Colecovision (my parents bought it for $14 at KB Toys)! I had great memories with that system and the awkward paddles!

[tomaitheous]

We had a CoCo2 in '82/83 but the first real game console was an NES. My brother got his NES in fall of '86 and I bought mine in summer of '87.

[Jared]

The first console I ever owned was the NES. First console I bought with my own money was the model 1 Genesis with Sonic 1 pack-in.

[zetastrike]

My first console was a SNES. My big brother got it for christmas when I was a year old. I grew up with the thing.

[QuickSciFi]

I can't believe you got rid of Eternal Champions. :(


Yeah, I was a little disappointed to hear that as well, It's one of my favorite fighting games. I have the Sega CD one too and have played it once, but my Sega CD hasn't come in yet so the jury's still out on which one I like better.

I know. It was then, though, when I first started gaming, altogether. I was more interested in solo games: platformers and the like. Sonic Spinball was good, also. Obviously time has passed on and my appreciation for the gem that was (is) Eternal Champions has widely increased. For one, I loved the graphics, even then. I am actually in the process of reaquiring it (after more than 15 years).

P.S.> It wasn't that I disliked the game altogether. It was a fighting game and I didn't have many friends/family members to play with at the time (just remember what I said, the only other two games I had beside it were Sonic 2 and MK2, one fighting game was enough for me). The controls being different was just another excuse, although true. Also, can't argue Sonic Spinball was a better solo game.


Model 2? How old were you?

To answer your question, just check out my profile page. I believe my mini biography will tell you the answer.

[j_factor]

The first system that was in our home was a Master System, but it belonged to my dad. The first system that was actually mine was either a Lynx or a Turbografx-16 (I got both around the same time). The first system that I went out and bought was a Game Gear, which I bought with trade-in credit from my Lynx; the first non-portable that I went out and bought was a Saturn that I bought with various trade-ins. The Saturn was also the first system that I got less than a year after its debut. The first system that I bought without trading anything in was my Nomad, which I bought off a friend of mine in 2000. The first such purchase from a store was an SNES in 2001, and the first that was of a system I hadn't owned previously was a Dreamcast (also 2001). The first system that I bought new rather than used was an Xbox in 2002 (with JSRF and Sega GT). The first and only system that I waited in line to buy on launch day was the Wii.

[acdc]

mastersystem 2 with alex the kidd built in

[David J.]

Model 1 Sega Genesis... Christmas of '93. Streets of Rage 2 Fighting System Bundle.

GOOD times. :D

[Black_Tiger]

Intellivision!

[sasuke]

My first console was the SNES with Mario World.

[Chris]

Vectrex in '84

[Rusty Venture]

My first system was an NES in 1990, but prior to that point I had played some games on my brother's 2600 and logged quite a few hours on our Apple //c.

GREEN & BLACK SCREEN!!

[Speedle]

i started with a spectrum 48k! good times! :D but my first game system i think was Master System 2! still got it boxed as new! god i love that so much!

[FoxHound]

NES was mine for a long time since its release until 91 when I got my Genesis. About 5 years of just NES.

[NeoVamp]

Commodore 64 with a tape drive, i was too young/poor for a disk drive.

after that my dad got an Atari ST 1024 with color monitor,

and after that i bought my Sega Megadrive in 1991.

Those were good times, sure i had to wait an hour before the game was found and loaded from those tapes,
but hey at least then i could play Ghostbusters or the Ninja Turtles game. :D

[Gentlegamer]

My first system was the Atari Video Computer System, the "heavy sixer" with wood-grain finish. It was my dad's, and we played a lot of Combat against each other on it. We loved the tank variations with bouncing shells, invisible tanks, etc.

My second system was the Nintendo Entertainment System, which I received for Christmas in 1988. I still have this console, though it needs some work to repair some chronic "blinkies."

My third system was the Super NES, purchased on launch day in 1991. My third system was almost Sega Genesis. Maybe I should submit a Story from the Book of Genesis explaining why it wasn't. I still own this SNES (un-yellowed).

My fourth system was Nintendo 64, bought summer 1997. After about three weeks, I returned it to the store and exchanged it for the Sony PlayStation (fifth system).

That was my last "current gen" system I bought (it was stolen some time in 1998) until PS2 slim (2006) or Xbox 360 Elite (2009) depending on how you define the video game generations.

Of course, I presently own several other systems (including Genny, natch), but those above are the consoles I bought/owned during their own generation.

[TheEdge]

What was better colecovision or intellivision?

I always wanted one of them but I could never choose which one I would like to buy.

[JFLY]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e5/Vpinball.jpg
Atari Video Pinball was my first video game system bought by my father back in the late 70s. The thing ran on batteries (four or six C cell batteries, I think), and the sounds used in each game came from a speaker on the system. I still have the thing (still in great shape too!) but its packed away in storage. Man, my friends and I would spend hours playing those seven games...

[SodeePawp17]

The part that goes around it looks like plastic is it?

[jerry coeurl]

First system we got was a Genesis. That was probably the greatest Christmas morning of my career. It turned out that we actually had a Colecovision +/- 60 Atari and Coleco games in storage up in the attic, but my brothers and I weren't made aware of its' existence until after we had received the Genesis. So I count that as number one.

[xXxTWO FACExXx]

Sega Genesis of course.
http://www.sega-16.com/feature_page.php?id=393&title=Stories%20from%20the%20Book%20of%20Genesis%2 0Vol.%2027

[gamevet]

The first console my family had was pong game that required batteries to play; Why would anyone make a console that required batteries?

The first real console we had was the Atari VCS, heavy 6 system.

The fist console I'd bought myself (not really a console, but it might as well be) was a C-64.

[JFLY]

The part that goes around it looks like plastic is it?
That's the paddle control for the two Breakout games.

[WarmSignal]

SNES / Genesis

Although technically my PSX was the first console that was all mine, rather than a shared console.

[Flygon]

My first actual owned console was my Game Boy Color, but my first family owned console that I played?

The trusty Mega Drive II.

Though my family had a Master System II for the first two years of my life until they got the Mega Drive II.

[Man-Fish]

My first was a Model 2 Megadrive, Christmas 1998.

My dad bought it from a co-worker, his son was bored with it or something (blasphemy! :o). He sold it with the 32X, Mega-CD, all that stuff. Probably 30 or 40+ games, including a few Sonics, Earthworm Jim, Probotector and Snatcher.


I've still got it all and it all works. :) Needless to say, I have been fairly obsessed with gaming since.

[TheEdge]

My first was a Model 2 Megadrive, Christmas 1998.

My dad bought it from a co-worker, his son was bored with it or something (blasphemy! :o). He sold it with the 32X, Mega-CD, all that stuff. Probably 30 or 40+ games, including a few Sonics, Earthworm Jim, Probotector and Snatcher.


I've still got it all and it all works. :) Needless to say, I have been fairly obsessed with gaming since.

Lucky bastard!!!!

[Zz Badnusty]

First system the family had when I was a wee lad was some generic all-in-one paddle/squash dealio. I remember my brother being all mad because it didn't have interchangeable game cassettes.

First real system we had was the Atari 5200 which my brother purchased at release from Sears in the Winter of 1982(?). Oh how I loved Breakout! Truly a "Super System".

The 5200 was handed-off to me around the time the NES came out.
Though we never owned an NES, SMS, or TG16, I often had opportunities to play them at friends' and neighbors' houses.

First system I purchased was the Genesis, on February 2, 1990. $201.39 with tax.


edit: reading Gamevet's post reminds me: between the 5200 and NES era, I played games on Apple IIe. Like Karateka, and Summer Games.

[bcfczulu]

lol, mine was a commodor 64 you had to wait about an hour for it to load and youd have an epeleptic fit watching the flashing colours whilst it loaded!

if you where lucky youd get a picture while it loaded.

my first proper console was a megadrive:D for christmass 92 when i started secondary school.

the games i got where-

the terminator
lotus turbo challenge
sonic
splatter house 2
streets of rage.

[gamevet]

First real system we had was the Atari 5200 which my brother purchased at release from Sears in the Winter of 1982(?). Oh how I loved Breakout! Truly a "Super System".

The 5200 was handed-off to me around the time the NES came out.
Though we never owned an NES, SMS, or TG16, I often had opportunities to play them at friends' and neighbors' houses.

edit: reading Gamevet's post reminds me: between the 5200 and NES era, I played games on Apple IIe. Like Karateka, and Summer Games.

I would have loved to own a 5200 back then. It's the one system I'd love to add to my collection, but with so many of the titles ported to the 8-bit computers by Atarisoft, it's hard to justify the purchase. It would be cool if there were more exclusives for the system.

[mick_aka]

First console:

http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh68/mick_aka/2600phwoar.jpg

My Atari 2600VCS, that ^^^ is my original console I still have although it needs a little work now.

First home computer:

http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb87/segasaturnuk/random/leccy.jpg

My Acorn Electron, in the middle of the shot there, again that's my original one, pictured in it's current home in my attic with other random bits and bobs.

[Man-Fish]

I think we had a C64 for a little while, actually. :o I was about four or five when we got it. We had some weird game with music that scared the hell out of me (I can still remember it now).


Also, I remember my dad saying that he had a Master System for a while. He probably got it before I was born and got rid of it when we moved to Scottishland. :(

[Zz Badnusty]

I would have loved to own a 5200 back then. It's the one system I'd love to add to my collection, but with so many of the titles ported to the 8-bit computers by Atarisoft, it's hard to justify the purchase. It would be cool if there were more exclusives for the system.
I suppose it’s a moot point if you own an Atari computer, but the 5200 is the Personal Arcade Machine (PAM).

Now the funny thing is, some of the best 8-bit Atari computer exclusives have been translated to 5200 by homebrewers.
The latest versions of the multicarts have a handful of computer games that were never released on 5200.
Unfortunately I have two (screen menu, and dip switch versions) of the old Sean Kelly multicarts - which now are worth half their previous value. :(

[Deo]

My first system was my beautiful Sega Pico. I remember little me sitting over it and playing Ecco Jr. and Peppy's Puzzles (oh how the losing penguin screen used to scare me) for hours and hours.

[gamevet]

I suppose it’s a moot point if you own an Atari computer, but the 5200 is the Personal Arcade Machine (PAM).



You don't even need an Atari computer. Atarisoft published software on the C-64 with titles like Pac-Man, Pole Position, Donkey Kong, Dig-Dug and Kangaroo. It was like they were trying to put their own hardware out of business.

[JoeMusashi]

My first system was a NES, but the first one that I owned by myself was a Sega Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog.

[Ecco]

My folks bought an NES when I must have been in 1st or 2nd grade. The NES was the first system I ever saw, at a friend's house. I couldn't believe that we could play games on a TV!!! Lol

I saved up a long time and bought myself a Genesis when I was in 5th grade. I got a VA-7 with Sonic 1 included, plus Sonic 2 in the mail!

The dates of purchase appear close to each other as I write this, but for me, they were completely different eras!

[xXxTWO FACExXx]

The Genesis of course we had an NES too but I never played it.

[green.eyes]

My first was the Multimega but before that I played on my brother's Amiga 500 and snes

[MitsuruX]

My First System was the TI99/4a (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4a)
Played the heck out of that thing wore out a few of the joys sticks not from abuse but from regular everyday use.. First games i had for it were Donkey Kong, Defender and Amazeing... not to mention all of the great Tape games.. good times indeed...

[MIZPHIT]

Xmas 1987....

my parents pissed me off by getting me an Atari XE Game System instead of an NES. :(

i was extremely mad that day.

lol

[nomad83]

the first system i got was the playstation 1