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[EdLuva]

Actually, I take it back. I forgot that I used to have the MB Microvision. A handheld! Wish I still had it, but it got left in the back window of my parents car on a family vacation and melted. I had Block Buster, Star Trek Phaser Strike, Cosmic Hunter, and a few more games that I can't remember for it.

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHA!! I had one of these. Man, I forgot. haha. I remember to change games you push in the sides and remove the the whole cover that had the 'chip' at the end. Good times.

 

[signet]

Atari 2600 then the Sega Master System with lighgun and 3d goggles (yeah I was that cool).

 

[Kuramu]

Atari 2600 for christmas around '81-'82, with Frogger, Submarine Commander, Target Fun, and something not worth remembering i guess. My roommate and i were playing Target Fun just 2 days ago. good 2 player game.

 

[GigaDrive]

oh yeah! Signet, that Master System package was my 2nd videogame system, circa 1989.

 

[Suerte]

Portable: Original Game Boy (still lying around here somewhere!)

Console: Mega Drive (version 2)

 

[Lathentar]

The God of Gaming:

 

[Ninja Scooter]

the Master System.

 

[Alcibiades]

Atari, but I also used the Commodore 64 early in life...

 

[Baron Aloha]

Coleco Vision

 

[Seth C]

Atari VCS/2600. Belonged to my dad before I was born. He gave it to me when I was around 3. The first system purchased directly for me was the NES. Second was the Master System. The first I purchased with my own money was the Genesis.

 

[dark10x]

First system I owned - Atari 2600

First system I purchased with own money - Nintendo Gameboy

 

[MmmBeef]

Atari 2600. Well, the Sears branded one anyway. Damn, I'm really starting to feel my age. Remember George Plimpton's Intellivision ads pimping their sports titles vs Atari's stunningly bad ones? Electric football looked and played better than Atari's pre-RealSports titles.

 

[User 406]

My first console was the Intellivision. Ah, Astrosmash, Sea Battle, Night Stalker, Treasure of Tarmin, Tron Deadly Discs, B-17 Bomber, Bump N' Jump, Baseball, Football, Auto Racing, Dreadnaught Factor, Beamrider, Atlantis, Ladybug, Tennis, Space Spartans, that console was the shit.

Later we got an Apple II+. I can't believe someone else here remembers Conan! Man, I wrote soooooo many games for that thing in basic and assembler, it was crazy. Those were the days.

 

[IgeL]

C64, then about a decade of PC gaming.

Xbox as the first game console.

 

[swoon]

nes then for a brief period apple II gs, then a genesis.

i still think winter games is best on the apple II gs

 

[bobbyconover]

2600, though I really got into arcade games first and foremost.

 

[Mr_Furious]

 

[Ryu]

The ColecoVision. I wish I still had it.

 

[ruffles]

NES

 

[={<SMOKE>}=]

our family had a 2600 before i was born and i played that all the time. MY first system was the nes.

 

[evil ways]

Atari 2600 and a Game & Watch that came in a plastic wallet thingy(if you can count that).

 

[ourumov]

Game Boy...But I played and replayed for hours the old Game & Watchs...
I totally skipped the NES and jumped to the SNES. Never liked how the NES games looked.

 

[lochnesssnowman]

I had an Atari 2600 and Spectrum. I'm not sure which I got first. I broke the Atari by trying to force a Frogger cartridge from some unknown system into the slot though - I loved the speccy. Soccer Boss, Ninja Rabbits, Chuckie Egg, Jet Set Willy, Finders Keepers, Dizzy, Skool Daze, Mikie. Good times. Had a C64 as well.

 

[heavy liquid]

Not a system, but I used to have the Scramble videogame by Tomy. That thing rocked.

I had an Apple II.. but not sure what "model". Mine had the awesome green and black graphical display! Had some great games like Conan, Lady Tut, and Load Runner.

Ha, I remember those games. Lode Runner is great. One of my friends had and Apple, and I'd go over to his house and play tons of Zork and Miner 49er.

 

[jenov4]

Tabletop Pac man baby! I hooked this badboy up the other day and was underwhelmed.

 

[Neutron Night]

Atari 5200.

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Fairchild Channel F II ('77), then a VCS (2600) a couple years later.

 

[The Shadow]

A Pong console.

Actually, I take it back. I forgot that I used to have the MB Microvision. A handheld! Wish I still had it, but it got left in the back window of my parents car on a family vacation and melted. I had Block Buster, Star Trek Phaser Strike, Cosmic Hunter, and a few more games that I can't remember for it.

Heh. I had one of those too. I remember in some thread that someone claimed that the Gameboy was the first portable with interchangeable cartridges. I wanted to reply that they were full of shit, and that Milton Bradly had beat them out but I couldn't remember the damn name of the stupid thing and the MB website doesn't mention it at all.

 

[Deku Tree]

Atari 2600 (I think that's the right #) with asteroids > launch NES > Sega Master System

All are no longer owned by me unfortunately.

 

[heavy liquid]

Heh. I had one of those too. I remember in some thread that someone claimed that the Gameboy was the first portable with interchangeable cartridges. I wanted to reply that they were full of shit, and that Milton Bradly had beat them out but I couldn't remember the damn name of the stupid thing and the MB website doesn't mention it at all.

Yeah, I used to love that thing. Took me a while to figure out what it was called. I could only remember what it looked like, too. The games were the whole front of the system including the keypad, and would snap on and off to exchange games. I think there may have been some other portables around that time, but I'm not sure. Definitely before Nintendo.

 

[User 406]

Not a system, but I used to have the Scramble videogame by Tomy. That thing rocked.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I HAD ONE OF THOSE! I played it for countless hours. Thank you so much for the pic. ;;;___;;;

 

[SpoonyBard]

The funny part is that I only realize this was a "Nintendo" console many many years later.

I also had that game before I had any "real" system. I had forgotten what kind of game it was, but now it all came back to me

 

[callous]

ZX Spectrum. I had loads of one-game handhelds before that, though.

 

[heavy liquid]

HOLY FUCKING SHIT I HAD ONE OF THOSE! I played it for countless hours. Thank you so much for the pic. ;;;___;;;

Hey, no problem.

I wish I still had mine. I must have begged my parents for a month before I finally got it for Christmas...

 

[LakeEarth]

Bought before I was even born.

and this happy little fella...

 

[robot]

+

Why Athena was the first game I bought, I'll never know. I do remember wanting it really bad tho. Luckily my next game was Break-thru, which kicked all kinds of crazy armored tank-car ass.

 

[CoryCubed]

Sega Genesis with Sonic 2. Sonic 2 special stage was my first actual game I ever touched. and I got my nes shortly after

 

[CygnusXI]

Mine?

Pong.
Then...
Odyssey 2 (Atari 2600's failed rival) lol

 

[AniHawk]

Atari 7800 (1989)

 

[DopeyFish]

Coleco Vision

 

[SA-X]

NES. Mario Bros. 1 was the first game I ever played I think.

 

[Grizzlyjin]

SNES, got it the same year Super Mario World came out.

 

[Mason]

The Atari 2600 was the first console my family had. We also had a HUGE box of games for it; I wish we hadn't given it to my aunt who pawned it all the next day for $5.

The first console I bought was the SNES. I had saved up all summer for a Genesis but when I got to the store, the guy working there convinced me to buy a SNES since it was $10 cheaper, had a game with it, and Nintendo games "weren't as buggy" as Sega games.

 

[TekunoRobby]

Atari 2600 + Personal Computer

REPRESENT

 

[GigaDrive]

Atari 7800 (1989)

AniHawk, well our gaming beginnings were similar then, since mine was Atari 7800 in 1988.

 

[jiggle]

 

[Late Stage Marxist]

Odyssey 2

 

[TekunoRobby]

I also played a shit load of my half-brother's pong system when I was a baby. WOOO

 

[Sledn]

Some weird Pong machine when I was like 5. You could switch between like 4 different modes and whatnot. Don't remember too much because it was so long ago.

The first system that I really got into though was the NES.

Good system, I still have it hooked up even

 

[Dead]

none of that ugly american snes for me