What was your First Game Console?

mackg · 28-07-2011 8:09am

Atari 2600, Ikari warriors and Asteroids. Good times.

newbee22 · 28-07-2011 8:24am

PSX/PS1

A Gameboy! I loved it!

Logical Fallacy · 28-07-2011 8:59am

Atari Jaguar

Biggins wrote: »

ZX81 Sinclair

Same here.

I find the idea that an N 64 was someone's first game system to be, i don't know why, but funny. It's like someones first lay being Monica Belluci after starting out with a Sinclair.

Bobeagleburger · 28-07-2011 9:03am

Worst poll ever. There were consoles before you were born OP

Princess Peach · 28-07-2011 9:04am

Atari Jaguar

Whoever made this poll is a lot younger than I am!

It was a Comodore 64. Top of the range! Game cartridges were tape cassettes!

Fratton Fred · 28-07-2011 9:07am

Wot no Binatone.

You had to have played tennis, football and shooting on a binatone to appreciate just how brilliant the N64 was.

Princess Peach · 28-07-2011 9:08am

Atari Jaguar

JimiWonderDoor 92 wrote: »

Still have a phone that's got Snake too

Was actually offered an Xbox on the cheap from a guy leaving here when I moved in, but wasnt bothered. Its probably just Nostalgia for me.

Sorry now! A phone that has snake, I got one of those when I was about 16!

And an Xbox is classic nostalgia?

Get out of bed, you'll be late for daycare.

Skatedude · 28-07-2011 9:08am

Atari Jaguar

why only the newer consoles?
think my first one was the pong console from 1975 but it was teh speccy zx48 that was the real first one as the pong console only played pong

Guill · 28-07-2011 9:08am

Atari Jaguar

The twenty six hundred from At-ar-i.

(I even remeber the advertising jingle!)

katharinewheel · 28-07-2011 9:10am

Atari Jaguar

A NES, with Isolated Warrior and Super Mario 2.

My dad got it for me at Christmas when it was right at the end of its run and point blank refused to buy me more games for it as they were, quote "too expensive". One day, around 2 or 3 years, later we stumbled upon a heap of NES games reduced to £1 or less in Comet. After literally begging for hours, he agreed to buy me two games, and he chose them, (the two cheapest at 35p each). I never even got to chose even one game for the goddam thing and my parents would always give out to me for never using it. (I had finished the 4 games he got me numerous times, and all the friends that had a NES and long since upgraded to SNES's or Megadrives, my borrowing options were severely limited.) I packed it up, in the original package (games in original boxes and all) and stuffed it in back of my wardrobe.

When we were moving to Ireland from London, my parents told us we were only allowed to bring one toy each. I picked a bunch a teddies I'd had since I was a baby so the NES was left behind. It absolutely killed me to watch my parents give my mint in the box NES away to their terror of a Godson who instantly opened it up, jumped on the box and smashed it.

I still can't/won't forgive them for that.

Noopti · 28-07-2011 9:10am

Atari Jaguar

Wow, the options available in this poll make me feel old!

Mine was an Atari 7800. Multiplayer asteroids was awesome....

Mr Freeze · 28-07-2011 9:11am

PSX/PS1

A Gameboy.
Next, the 360. I missed out on a few decades of console gaming.

yupyup7up · 28-07-2011 9:13am

Atari 2600

centipede FTW! http://www.2600online.com/Images/history/Atari2600jr.jpg

Dravokivich · 28-07-2011 9:13am

Atari Jaguar

LighterGuy wrote: »

want another trip?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQYZ-YA9o2g

Used on so many C64 games.

heh, I've actually got that on Video. Watched it last back in May.

I miss the ole C64.

It was great the way you could copy games if you had a twin cassette player.

screw P2P man!

GavRedKing · 28-07-2011 9:17am

Atari Jaguar

NES in about 1990/1991 then got a MegaDrive II then got a PS1, PS2, PS3.

Thats my console history.

macman2010 · 28-07-2011 9:18am

yupyup7up wrote: »

Atari 2600 centipede FTW! http://www.2600online.com/Images/history/Atari2600jr.jpg

+1

TPD · 28-07-2011 9:19am

Sega master system here. I'm 21 so was a bit late to the party when I got that, but it was good fun. Alex the kid, some memories.

After that, gameboy, n64, ps2, gamecube, Xbox, Wii, 360. And I'd consider myself a pc gamer

Wompa1 · 28-07-2011 9:19am

Atari Jaguar

Had an Atari and a Commadore...my dad used the Commadore 64 for Word Processing and my cousin gave us his Atari when he went to college

Guill · 28-07-2011 9:20am

Atari Jaguar

katharinewheel wrote: »

A NES, with Isolated Warrior and Super Mario 2.

My dad got it for me at Christmas when it was right at the end of its run and point blank refused to buy me more games for it as they were, quote "too expensive". One day, around 2 or 3 years, later we stumbled upon a heap of NES games reduced to £1 or less in Comet. After literally begging for hours, he agreed to buy me two games, and he chose them, (the two cheapest at 35p each). I never even got to chose even one game for the goddam thing and my parents would always give out to me for never using it. (I had finished the 4 games he got me numerous times, and all the friends that had a NES and long since upgraded to SNES's or Megadrives, my borrowing options were severely limited.) I packed it up, in the original package (games in original boxes and all) and stuffed it in back of my wardrobe.

When we were moving to Ireland from London, my parents told us we were only allowed to bring one toy each. I picked a bunch a teddies I'd had since I was a baby so the NES was left behind. It absolutely killed me to watch my parents give my mint in the box NES away to their terror of a Godson who instantly opened it up, jumped on the box and smashed it.

I still can't/won't forgive them for that.

You dad sound like a........nice man.....

Guill · 28-07-2011 9:22am

Atari Jaguar

I'm wondering if the guy that selected Atari Jaguar actually had one?

Yellowledbetter · 28-07-2011 9:29am

NES with the Mario/Duck Hunt combi cartridge and the good aul zapper(which to be fair was pretty ahead of it's time). I think Santa also brought a Metal Gear type game that year too,possibly called Metal Gear actually.
Then I had a couple of SNES's and Gameboys,Amstrad 464+,Gamecube,N64 before switching to Sony with the launch of the PS1,PS2and PS3.
Funnily enough,one of my all time favourite games is RC ProAm either on the NES or SNES,can't remember!!!

jester77 · 28-07-2011 9:29am

Atari Jaguar

Atari 2600

Hours playing Real Soccer, these modern soccer games don't hold a patch on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y2tC8-7aw4

foxyboxer · 28-07-2011 9:29am

Amstrad 6128+ bought for £300 in 1990. :eek:

Burnin' Rubber!

KungPao · 28-07-2011 10:00am

foxyboxer wrote: »

Amstrad 6128+ bought for £300 in 1990. :eek:

Burnin' Rubber!

The game that never ends...

My first console/computer was the Amstrad too, which still powers up but hasn't worked properly since I connected it to our phone line - thinking I could get the World Wide Web going on it.

Next up was the great Sega Mega Drive, then Playstation 1, then 2, then Xbox 360.

BBDBB · 28-07-2011 10:03am

GameBoy

Sega Megadrive:cool:

used to play a game called Megalomania for hours

Logical Fallacy · 28-07-2011 1:09pm

Atari Jaguar

BBDBB wrote: »

used to play a game called Megalomania for hours

It's ergonomically teriffic!

RasTa · 28-07-2011 1:14pm

Atari Jaguar

Worst poll choices ever.

Logical Fallacy · 28-07-2011 1:15pm

Atari Jaguar

RasTa wrote: »

Worst poll choices ever.

That's what happens when 90's kids start a poll.

stovelid · 28-07-2011 1:17pm

Atari Jaguar

Firs thing I ever played games on was Atari 800 XL with the attached tape player...

First console was the SNES.

Worztron · 28-07-2011 1:19pm

Atari Jaguar

I selected 'Other'. My first video game console was the NES. :pac:

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