Your first video game console

[LeotheLateBloomer]

What was your first ever video game console? Have you had any prior experience in gaming before your first console?

[DarkFell]

A Sega Genesis was my first console that I received on Christmas of '93. Before then I've played on a NES console, along with an Atari 2600.

[Slade]

First one I owned was a SNES. Played one before I owned one.

[CyberCubed]

The NES of course. All of us 80's kids had one. I got the NES with the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt and Zapper combo set.

I got Mario and TMNT for NES and I was trying to beat both incredibly hard games as a 5 year old. Man, NES games were hard enough for adults, but imagine when we were kids? I don't know how any of us managed back then.

[Cure]

The NES. I still have awful memories of that thing. I really dislike it.

[Powder]

SNES. My mom got one for her birthday, I was 3 or 4 at the time so naturally I got to play/own games too.

[Prowler]

The NES. My first game on it definitely being one of these 3:

SMB
Tetris
TMNT

[joefsas]

The first video game I ever played was pong. I remember my dad setting it up when I was a kid. No idea what happened to it
My first console was the original Playstation I got for Christmas. God I loved that thing!

[DarkFell]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The NES of course. All of us 80's kids had one..

I never owned an NES but I knew other kids that owned the console, and I would play with them. Though if I was given the choice between choosing between the NES and SNES at this very moment, I would definitely pick the SNES.

The only Nintendo systems I've ever owned were a Gameboy Color and two N64 systems. One of the N64 consoles I got for free, the second one I had to buy because the first console died out on me.

[Leo656]

My parents had one of those Pong machines you plugged into the TV, but I barely messed with that. The first thing I played consistently was the Coleco-Vision/Atari 2600 console. Frogger, Donkey Kong, Superman and Ghostbusters, mostly.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The NES of course. All of us 80's kids had one. I got the NES with the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt and Zapper combo set.

I got Mario and TMNT for NES and I was trying to beat both incredibly hard games as a 5 year old. Man, NES games were hard enough for adults, but imagine when we were kids? I don't know how any of us managed back then.

There are several NES games I'm still not able to beat as an adult.

I thought I was a terrible player, but turns out some of those NES games I had as kid(Top Gun II, TMNT) were just not so good and quite unfair.

[Zak The Neutrino]

When I was really young and started to know what video games were my family had a Coleco Vision. So that was my first exposure to them. My older brother also got an NES when they came out. I did have some games for the NES but it was his and he would remind me all the time.

Technically my first system was Sega Genesis. I got it for Christmas right around the time Sonic 2 came out.

[Mayhem]

Atari 2600 in 1980. Prior to that we'd had a Binatone Pong clone console, but the batteries leaked and ruined it. But the Atari was the first proper change game console.

[Jester]

My parents had an Atari 7800 when I was a kid. They had a lot of games that were theirs but there were quite a few they were for me and my sister as well including a couple of Sesame Street ones. I never had an NES but my parents did get me a Super Nintendo for Christmas one year, still have the silly thing. Since my parents owned the 7800 they were always big on backwards compatibility (I think they'd look for old Atari 2600 games at flea markets) so the Super Nintendo was the last console I ever really owned. I did inherit my dad's old ps1 (which she got for free off of a guy at work) when he upgraded to a ps2 though.

[Bry]

My folks had a Commodore VIC-20 when I was very young, and likely had it several years before I was born, that I remember playing around with when I was a kid. I think they had Galaxia and Pac-Man (or possibly the HAL Laboratory knockoff Jelly Monsters?) and that's about it.

The first console that was actually "mine" was the NES. Which I still have, and still works:



Posed with the TMNT games for obvious reasons.

[snake]

Spoiler:

The xbox 360. Sold it for a wii and it was full nintendo from there.

[Mew]

Sad, isn't it.

[*NormalGamer*]

The NES easily. I won't forget my childhood memories playing this console; especially playing SMB 3 for the first time. ^_^

[MikeandRaph87]

NES in December 1993. I played quite a few Arcade games and different friends NES and SNES. Edit: While different systems it appears we got our first game console on the very same day,DarkFell.

[Wesley]

The Genesis/Mega Drive. I received one in 1996. It came bundled with Sonic 2 and Mega Games 1. I got an old Commodore 64 as a hand-me-down sometime before that, but it didn't work for some reason. I also played a few Tiger handheld LCD games like Sonic Spinball and Aladdin in 1995.