What was your First Game Console?

seanob43

Must have been a PS1, been a Sony fanboy ever since!

Potential-Monke

Atari Jaguar

This was my first console. If you could call it that. My first "proper" console would have been an Atari 2600.

katharinewheel

Atari Jaguar

Fnz wrote: »

Wow, 'past you' has my sympathy

I'm not too bitter about not getting too many games tbh. I had very ace gaming friends who were all too happy to lend me their games.

Incidentally one of the cheapo games that my dad bought has ended up being, without a doubt, one of my most favourite games ever, Parodius Da!

Fnz wrote: »

... sounds very frustrating. :eek:

Indeedy. The ongoing frustration is that I just can't seem to get my hands on a NES at all. I've been looking for one for the the last two years but never seem to be able to find one in my price range, and then when i do find one someone else, has invariable, always gotten there first.

Kersh

Atari Jaguar

RichT wrote: »

This....



It was made from teak and powered by gas.

God, we have 1 of them in the attic. Does that predate my 83 Colecovision?

I remembered the orange sliders, but couldnt figure what it was!

ShaneU

Atari Jaguar

Original Nintendo, fact it isn't even included in the poll makes me feel old.

CramCycle

Atari Jaguar

ShaneU wrote: »

Original Nintendo, fact it isn't even included in the poll makes me feel old.

Judging by the average post, the poll is inadequate for the alot of us age wise.

F1ngers

seanob43 wrote: »

Must have been a PS1, been a Sony fanboy ever since!

That's pretty sad.
Lots of great non sony consoles out there...why limit yourself???

CramCycle wrote: »

Judging by the average post, the poll is inadequate for the alot of us age wise.

Age has nothing to do with it.
No thought went into OP.

Pity, could have been a pretty decent thread in the right hands.

CramCycle

Atari Jaguar

F1ngers wrote: »

Age has nothing to do with it.
No thought went into OP.

Pity, could have been a pretty decent thread in the right hands.

I didn't mean it in an offensive way, if the PS1 was his first console, it is always possible that the earliest decent console easily available was the SNES (which IMO was so much better but that is a different thread).

Dead right on the decent thread in the right hands, the list at the top is pretty woeful for a first console thread, haven't looked at the results but I'm sure other is ploughing away in front.

RichT

Atari Jaguar

Re Binatone TV Master Mk 6

Kersh wrote: »

God, we have 1 of them in the attic. Does that predate my 83 Colecovision?

According to Old-Computers.com it says ?1977. I woulda thought it was a couple of years before that.

Damien360

Atari Jaguar

Where is the commodore 64 in that poll. Or it's big brother the Amiga.

I tried getting it working about 2 years ago but although it booted to the main blue screen it failed to load correctly.

Zero-Cool

Atari Jaguar

Ahhhhhhhhh C64 memories of staring at this screen for 30 minutes listening to music that was worse than the 56k modem tune!



But then all was forgiven when we were rewarded with this screen

Lumbo

justryan wrote: »

Amstrad CPC games would come on cassette tapes and would take hours to load

I'd one of these. 64 shades of green

Professey Chin

sheehy83 wrote: »

FCUK YOU DIZZY!!!!!!!!!!!!!:mad::mad::mad:

Atari ST for me and got Treasure Island Dizzy with it. Fcuking game :mad:

Ridley

Atari Jaguar

I think the NES was in the house before the Commodore 64. Plus a pseudo-Pong machine was already there when I arrived.

astonaidan

Sega Master System, Thought Alex The Kid was the best thing ever, Till I played it as a rom on the pc the last day had me tearing my hair out in frustration

djkeogh

Looks like a thread started by a younger gamer given the restricted and newer console options. Brother had the ZX Spectrum in the hose which was replaced by my first console the NES.

dastardly00

Atari Jaguar

My dad got us a Commodore Amiga (not sure what model exactly) when I was about 7 or 8.
We got 2 games with it, The Duel: Test Drive II and Street Fighter II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw_dUoakQmY

^^^^^
Oh how I loved that dodgy intro music and driving that Ferrari!!

Jericho.

Atari Jaguar

Atari 2600 was mine (always thought it was called 2652 for some reason?)

Zero-Cool

Atari Jaguar

I loved Test Drive on the C64!! That loop the loop stunt course was a b*stard!!

pablomakaveli

Atari Jaguar

First console i got was a NES when i was around 4 so my love of games started at a young age. My first game was Super Mario Bros. 3. What a great introduction to gaming that was.:D

I remember when you had to blow on the cartridges before putting them in to get them to work.

wonderfulname

GameBoy

Is anybody else surprised at how well the Megadrive is doing in the poll?

kierancos

GameBoy

Sega Megadrive- What a console

Sonic the Hedgeheog... Some game

Jericho.

Atari Jaguar

Agreed. The mega drive was a fantastic console.

The sonic games, gunstar heroes, golden axe, streets of rage, echo the dolphin and many others. What a machine.

penev10

Atari Jaguar

Atari 2600 followed by a Master System.

Vicxas

Atari Jaguar

Commadore 64, everything else works on it apart from the tape deck

Auvers

Atari Jaguar

I remember playing match day with my brother sharing one half of the keyboard each

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It2PGpFppN8

also getting a speccy magazine and spending two hours typing in game code supplied by the mag to play some sh1tty version of pong or space invaders

Grumpypants

Had that ZX Spectrum as well, Match day 2 was great. Half a keyboard each too

Have a 1977 wooden Atari 2600 still here.

Glico Man

GameBoy

kierancos wrote: »

Sega Megadrive- What a console

Sonic the Hedgeheog... Some game

Great game, but how's about some 8 player on Micro Machines 2 Turbo Tournament? That was fcuking epic!

Reamer Fanny

Atari Jaguar

sheehy83 wrote: »

Ahhhhhhhhh C64 memories of staring at this screen for 30 minutes listening to music that was worse than the 56k modem tune!



But then all was forgiven when we were rewarded with this screen

This was how the Amstrad CPC games would load, line-by-line along with a horrible buzzing noise, those were the days!

CramCycle

Atari Jaguar

RopeDrink wrote: »

First gaming 'CONSOLE' would have been the NES. If we're talking first 'gaming capable machine of any type' then it was the C64 shortly followed by a ZX Spectrum 128k.

Both in my attic.

Then the NES (In my wardrobe) later followed by an Amiga 500 (Attic). PSX (Stolen) then PC and haven't looked back.

I still upload classic games I've played as a child (Now relived through emulators as I haven't the heart to rig up the old machines) to my YouTube channel. It's kinda weird when you're a SF4 / SSF4 AE player and just punched people to bits in glowing 3D and decent graphics, then suddenly get a random urge to play IK+ on the C64...

Do you remember SF1 on the Amiga 500, beat up your friend (you were either Ryu or Ken) and then continue on your own, the way multiplayer should be.

(my memory is shoddy so if I'm wrong, apologies, but it is how I remember it).