What was your First Game Console?

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 28-07-2011 2:10am #1

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

etc?

Caco · 28-07-2011 2:14am

Atari Jaguar

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

Dan Chipowski · 28-07-2011 2:16am

Atari Jaguar

Commodore 64.

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

Needler · 28-07-2011 2:16am

A heap of sh1t

ColeTrain · 28-07-2011 2:16am

Atari Jaguar

Snes

What a console it was too.

KeithM89_old · 28-07-2011 2:16am

PSX/PS1

Gameboy with Tetris.

Glico Man · 28-07-2011 2:17am

GameBoy

Sega Megadrive was my first console, still works too.

rockmongrel · 28-07-2011 2:18am

Atari Jaguar

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

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 28-07-2011 2:18am

PSX/PS1

Needler wrote: »

A heap of sh1t

At least it didnt give calouses:rolleyes:

Mars Bar · 28-07-2011 2:19am

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...

wonderfulname · 28-07-2011 2:20am

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?

Kersh · 28-07-2011 2:20am

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.

smk89 · 28-07-2011 2:20am

Other

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

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 28-07-2011 2:21am

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

JimiWonderDoor 92 · 28-07-2011 2:25am

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

LighterGuy · 28-07-2011 2:27am

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.

TestTransmission · 28-07-2011 2:27am

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

Ruu_Old · 28-07-2011 2:30am

Atari Jaguar

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

CallMeFlo · 28-07-2011 2:33am

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

LighterGuy · 28-07-2011 2:35am

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.

we'llallhavetea_old · 28-07-2011 2:45am

GameBoy

Megadrive. Mother gave it away. That is all.

:mad:

DEFTLEFTHAND · 28-07-2011 2:49am

GameBoy

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

batistuta9 · 28-07-2011 2:52am

GameBoy

megadrive was mine too

ToniTuddle · 28-07-2011 2:56am

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!!!

Plus he'll never get to tell me I can't play ever again!!!

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

\o/

J. Marston · 28-07-2011 3:02am

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....

Reamer Fanny · 28-07-2011 3:49am

Atari Jaguar

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

Lanaier · 28-07-2011 3:54am

Atari Jaguar

Atari 2600

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

Lanaier · 28-07-2011 4:06am

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.

RichieC · 28-07-2011 4:08am

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

Duggy747 · 28-07-2011 4:10am

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

Biggins · 28-07-2011 6:13am

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.

mackg · 28-07-2011 7:09am

Atari 2600, Ikari warriors and Asteroids. Good times.

newbee22 · 28-07-2011 7:24am

PSX/PS1

A Gameboy! I loved it!

Logical Fallacy · 28-07-2011 7:59am

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.

28-07-2011 8:03am

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

Princess Peach · 28-07-2011 8:04am

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 8:07am

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 8:08am

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 8:08am

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 8:08am

Atari Jaguar

The twenty six hundred from At-ar-i.

(I even remeber the advertising jingle!)

katharinewheel · 28-07-2011 8:10am

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 8:10am

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 8:11am

PSX/PS1

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

yupyup7up · 28-07-2011 8:13am

Atari 2600

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

Dravokivich · 28-07-2011 8:13am

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 8:17am

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 8:18am

yupyup7up wrote: »

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

+1

TPD · 28-07-2011 8:19am

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 8:19am

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 8:20am

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 8:22am

Atari Jaguar

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

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