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What was your First Game Console?

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  • 28-07-2011 3:10am
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    JimiWonderDoor 92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭


    Do you still have it, or use any other really old one?

    The oldest thing I have is the First Gameboy and it still works. Played Donkey Kong the other day.

    Housemate looked at me as if I was mad. 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.

    What about you ? Got anything that, when you look at it, seems to enter you into a time warp?

    Still use anything the odd time to see if it works whether it be PSX, Gameboy, Sega MegaDrive, Atari Jaguar :D etc?

    Your First Console 198 votes

    Sega MegaDrive
    0%
    GameBoy
    26%
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    PSX/PS1
    5%
    Notorioushere.from.day.1Mr Freezeniallo27CaitlinnNTMKKeithM89_oldnewbee22JimiWonderDoor 92VenomousFish 10 votes
    Other
    11%
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    Atari Jaguar
    57%
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    Caco
    Registered Users Posts: 875 ✭✭✭Caco


    Atari Jaguar
    I had a Vectrex, I think it's still at home in the attic


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    Dan Chipowski
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,072 ✭✭✭Dan Chipowski


    Atari Jaguar
    Commodore 64.

    They don't make them like that anymore. Flimbo's Quest was a personal favourite. :)


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    Needler
    Closed Accounts Posts: 753 ✭✭✭Needler


    A heap of sh1t


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    ColeTrain
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,681 ✭✭✭ColeTrain


    Atari Jaguar
    Snes

    What a console it was too.


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    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    PSX/PS1
    Gameboy with Tetris.


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    Glico Man
    Registered Users Posts: 8,280 ✭✭✭Glico Man


    GameBoy
    Sega Megadrive was my first console, still works too.


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    rockmongrel
    Registered Users Posts: 644 ✭✭✭rockmongrel


    Atari Jaguar
    A SNES, still play it to this day. Super Mario World/Super Mario Bros 3 are timeless classics.


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    JimiWonderDoor 92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭JimiWonderDoor 92


    PSX/PS1
    Needler wrote: »
    A heap of sh1t


    At least it didnt give calouses:rolleyes:


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    Mars Bar
    Registered Users Posts: 31,826 ✭✭✭✭Mars Bar


    Atari Jaguar
    NES!

    Had Duck Hunt with the gun. Great craic! And some Karate game with two guys going back and forward on a white line on a blue screen...I still have the cartridges but the console broke about 3 weeks after I got it (it was second hand, think it got damaged on the plane home).

    Here's a pic for those of you who are too young to remember.

    http://cdn2.iofferphoto.com/img3/item/808/228/11/nes-games-a-z-for-the-playstation-2-c3e05.jpg

    EDIT: Also had the Sega Mega and far too many consoles after that...


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    wonderfulname
    Registered Users Posts: 3,943 ✭✭✭wonderfulname


    GameBoy
    The Megadrive, still have it, I had a serious Sonic addiction...

    That has to be the most confusing Atari Jaguar option, does it mean Atari Jaguar or Atari Jaguar?


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    Kersh
    Registered Users Posts: 2,891 ✭✭✭Kersh


    Atari Jaguar
    I clicked 'other'

    We got a CBS Colecovision way back in 1983, it came with Ladybug, Donkey kong, Cosmic avanger, Space panic, Venture, Looping and Smurf.

    Here it is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ColecoVision

    It was a pretty deadly console. Its in the attic, all working, controllers and all. :)

    That was followed up with a Megadrive, then Ps2 and Ps3.

    There was an Atari Lynx knockin around too.


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    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    Other
    A Playstation 1, aah memories. Now I buy buy old consoles and sell them online for exorbitant profits


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    JimiWonderDoor 92
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    PSX/PS1
    I'm gonna leave my masculinity up to be scrutinized by saying I really liked Kirby's Dreamland.

    A lotta sucking and blowing but it was unreal.
    Probably the only game I ever completed


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    JimiWonderDoor 92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 271 ✭✭JimiWonderDoor 92


    PSX/PS1
    wonderfulname wrote: »
    The Megadrive, still have it, I had a serious Sonic addiction...

    That has to be the most confusing Atari Jaguar option, does it mean Atari Jaguar or Atari Jaguar?

    Oh sorry, should clear that up for the integrity of the poll.

    ...It means Atari Jaguar


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    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Atari Jaguar
    Crap poll op :pac:
    because are you only 19? :P
    wheres the NES? or C64? Sega Master System? Atari 2600?

    My earilest gaming memories are playing the c64/NES. So either one would be mine.


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    TestTransmission
    Registered Users Posts: 19,106 ✭✭✭✭TestTransmission


    Dan Chipowski wrote: »
    Commodore 64.

    They don't make them like that anymore. Flimbo's Quest was a personal favourite. :)

    Memories of waiting for the games to load and then failing,bloody tapes


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    Ruu_Old
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    Atari Jaguar
    Sega Master System II. Blocky control pad. :cool: Then Megadrive, still have it with 32x.


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    CallMeFlo
    Registered Users Posts: 111 ✭✭CallMeFlo


    Atari Jaguar
    Nintendo 64, still have it and all the games. Missing one wire though, seriously considering seeing if I can get one for it off eBay. Loved it :D


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    LighterGuy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,243 ✭✭✭LighterGuy


    Atari Jaguar
    Dan Chipowski wrote: »
    Commodore 64.

    They don't make them like that anymore. Flimbo's Quest was a personal favourite. :)


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



    watching it is kinda like stepping into a time machine to our child hoods.
    man ... i watched this about a month ago with my bro. freaked us out.

    want another trip?

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


    Used on so many C64 games.


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    we'llallhavetea_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,971 ✭✭✭we'llallhavetea_old


    GameBoy
    Megadrive. Mother gave it away. That is all.

    :mad:


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    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    GameBoy
    Megadrive aswell. It still works, I hook it up every so often for the nostalgia blast.


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    batistuta9
    Registered Users Posts: 8,113 ✭✭✭batistuta9


    GameBoy
    megadrive was mine too


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    ToniTuddle
    Registered Users Posts: 8,964 ✭✭✭ToniTuddle


    Atari Jaguar
    NES

    followed soon after by the Mega Drive. Found some old games for it in my brothers room. Currently in the process of planning to steal borrow them without him knowing.

    Then all I have to do is find someone with a MegaDrive and borrow it or somehow buy one. Then buy a TV for my room and keep the sound down low. With the door locked and he will never know!!! :D
    Plus he'll never get to tell me I can't play ever again!!! :p

    Extreme measures...but it would be worth it :pac:

    \o/


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    J. Marston
    Registered Users Posts: 23,126 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Atari Jaguar
    Sega Master System.

    http://www.awesomehq.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/segamastersystemii.jpg

    Spent hours playing this on it....

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


    Simpler times....


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    Reamer Fanny
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,828 ✭✭✭Reamer Fanny


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


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    Lanaier
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Lanaier


    Atari Jaguar
    Atari 2600

    These days I have about 900 Atari games on my Wii.


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    Lanaier
    Registered Users Posts: 604 ✭✭✭Lanaier


    Atari Jaguar
    justryan wrote: »
    Amstrad CPC games would come on cassette tapes and would take hours to load

    I remember waiting at a friends house for C64 tapes to load.... 45 mins and you have to start again if someone slams a door on the other side of the house.


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    RichieC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,333 ✭✭✭RichieC


    never had one.. C64 ( large gap) 486dx2


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    Duggy747
    Registered Users Posts: 13,295 ✭✭✭✭Duggy747


    Sega MegaDrive
    GameBoy
    PSX/PS1
    Other
    Atari Jaguar

    Shìte poll.

    First console we had was, techinically, a pong console from the 70's that still works (unlike a certain Xbox 360 that died within 6 months )

    After that was the Nes, I remember it being Xmas day and us plopping in the Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt cartridge and having great craìc with the zapper. I was always useless at the clay pigeon.

    After that the brother won an early Snes in a nationwide Nintendo competition. They sent us all of the 20 or so launch titles over a space of a year and a half. He went on to win all of the other Nintendo competitions for a few years, winning more Snes consoles and Gameboys. He gave it up eventually since the parents weren't so fond of video games........and I guess other things he indulged in like socialising with people :pac:

    Beating him in games made me feel like a God of underdogs :D


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    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    Atari Jaguar
    ZX81 Sinclair
    Sega MegaDrive
    GameBoy
    PSX/PS1

    The above were later and not the originals in regards to consoles that allowed multiple, programmed home gaming.


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