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What was your First Game Console?

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    #62
    FatherLen
    Registered Users Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    commodore amiga........


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    #63
    RasTa
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,116 ✭✭✭✭RasTa


    Atari Jaguar
    I had the C64 with that 7-1 game cartidge thing and this on tape. I loved that circus game but below was loaded for hours.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aV2F9lbl2Y


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    #64
    lastlaugh
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    I had an Oric 48k.

    Had a book of games, yes a book. You had a few pages of code to type in which you inevitabley had to correct before you could play a sh!te game.
    http://www.48katmos.freeuk.com/oric1.htm

    Then we had a Spectrum 48k, some spoilt cousins had a C64...


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    #65
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    Atari Jaguar
    Sega Master System with two of the Alex Kidd games and Wonderboy in Monster Land.

    Good times!

    First computer was the Amstrad CPC 6128 with Disk Drive. Still had to use the tape recorder but wasted many hours on Football Manager 2, Gunship, Barry McGuigan's Boxing, Barbarian and Barbarian 2........

    But my favourite game was Pirates!

    Thankfully to relive my youth I don't need to go out and buy a 6128 second hand (as mine has bitten the dust a long time ago) - just need to download an emulator and the games.


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    #66
    old_aussie
    Registered Users Posts: 3,410 ✭✭✭old_aussie


    ColecoVision 1983


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    #67
    Notch000
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    Duggy747 wrote: »
    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

    Was this the competition based on Mario 3 ??? I was in the final of this comp tooo, around 1990/91, we won a gameboy for the regional heat.
    Found it the other day, all yellowed up, screen missing & looking sorry for itself, used to love that GB,
    Tetris hand down the best game ever made....................

    ive had (&best games)
    NES (mario3)
    Gameboy (tetris)
    SNES (star Wing)
    PS1 (??)
    PS2 (Black)
    PSP (GTA)
    Xbox360 (Cod4/black ops)


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    #68
    Rabies
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    moved


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    #69
    Owen
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    Pong Console in my house too. 4 Games (Tennis, Basketball, Something, Something else) which all looked the same. Controllers were 2 paddle controllers. Turn the knob to the left, turn the knob right, scream with delight when your bat hit the ball.


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    #70
    petes
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    Atari Jaguar
    Atari 2600
    Amstrad 464+
    Snes
    N64
    NDS
    PC (in a few differnet shapes)
    Xbox
    Xbox 360
    Wii
    PS3

    All I have now is the PS3. The most hours on the above was definitely the SNES. Mario Kart, Mario World, Zelda, F-Zero all took chunks out of my teenage years!!


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    #71
    honru
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    SNES... I got it late in its cycle, in 1994 I think.


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    #72
    Kersh
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    Atari Jaguar
    old_aussie wrote: »
    ColecoVision 1983


    Sweet, thats 2 I know now. Other kids had Ataris, and I always used to give out about the Colecovision, cos I couldnt swap games with anyone :(

    Turns out it was a far superior machine than the Atari, but I didnt find that out til recently :pac:

    My Dad bought it in Musgraves in Ballymun when we lived in Poppintree. Thems were the days.


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    #73
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,978 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Commodore 64 for me.
    Caco wrote: »
    I had a Vectrex, I think it's still at home in the attic

    I'd buy it off you if you are selling it.
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    #74
    bladespin
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    GameBoy
    First console was the megadrive but started off with the C64 years before that :D


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    #75
    Mahatma coat
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    Atari Jaguar
    I had one of those 'Pong' machines that was made in the Seventies, then an Atari 2600 (it was under 50 Bucks:D:D:D) then a C64 which was just the Business Used to buy C64 Magazine for the free game tapes some of which were absolutley class first Strike and Fifth gear being ones that stood out, then a Megadrive, the on to the PS1 & PS2.

    thing is tho when we were Kids it was one camp or the other either Sega or Nintendo, this notion of having one ofeach console was unheard of, nowadays my little brother has a PS2 an Xbox and a Wii along with some ofthose handheld things I think they're a Ds and a PSP


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    #76
    pappyodaniel
    Registered Users Posts: 5,725 ✭✭✭pappyodaniel


    Atari Jaguar
    This ad shown in Ireland in the mid to late 80s made me hassle my mother for about a month until she finally agreed to get me this for Christmas. God I remember it so well, her putting down a deposit of £5 and then weekly installments until I got it on Christmas morning. Best Christmas day ever until I called around to my neighbours that afternoon to see what 'Santa' brought him, he got an Amstrad 464+ which played cartridges and tapes and came along with a colour monitor, :mad:.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=913xrM9FYpI


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    #77
    jaykhunter
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    Atari Jaguar
    My sister had some piece of sh*t PC, I can't remember the name of it but it had a B drive (massive floppy discs!)

    First one I played a lot was the Commodore C64. I remember always having like the caps lock or another key on by mistake so games wouldn't load until i rectified it...

    Never had a NES but my bro was lucky enough to win a SNES, Megadrive and Amiga CD32. That was awesome. Then he sold the latter off to get money and he bought formal shoes :P


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    #78
    ShadowHearth
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    NES. I newer even knew about gaming until I sow that at my new friends house when we moved in.

    Was awesome until sega mega drive came out.


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    #79
    celticbest
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    Atari Jaguar
    Atari 5200..........


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    #80
    F1ngers
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 10,291 Mod ✭✭✭✭F1ngers


    LighterGuy wrote: »
    Crap poll op :pac:

    +1.

    You could have put in up to 25 choices.
    Piss poor effort in all fairness.
    Duggy747 wrote: »
    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
    Owen wrote: »
    Pong Console in my house too. 4 Games (Tennis, Basketball, Something, Something else) which all looked the same. Controllers were 2 paddle controllers. Turn the knob to the left, turn the knob right, scream with delight when your bat hit the ball.

    Any chance one of you could post a pic., sounds like my first one too.


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    #81
    Temptamperu
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    Other
    My brother had a C64 but he never let me play :mad: then a very large gap and then i got a PS2 for GTA.


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    #82
    SouthTippBass
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    Atari Jaguar
    Atari 2600 with Centipead and River Raid, then...
    C64,
    Megadrive,
    Playstation,
    Game boy,
    N64,
    Playstation2,
    Dreamcast,
    Gamecube,
    Wii,
    DSi,
    3DS.

    Still have the Megadrive, Micro Machines 96 in 4 player is still the best multiplayer ever!
    Still have the Dreamcast, and the Commodore console and tape deck, but not any of the cables or games!


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    #83
    SouthTippBass
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭SouthTippBass


    Atari Jaguar
    Atari 2600 with Centipead and River Raid, then...
    C64,
    Megadrive,
    Playstation,
    Game boy,
    N64,
    Playstation2,
    Dreamcast,
    Gamecube,
    Wii,
    DSi,
    3DS.

    Still have the Megadrive, Micro Machines 96 in 4 player is still the best multiplayer ever!
    Still have the Dreamcast, and the Commodore console and tape deck, but not any of the cables or games!


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    #84
    CramCycle
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    Atari Jaguar
    Amiga 500 I think


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    #85
    Helix
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    Atari Jaguar
    c64 if we're just talking games system, since technically it wasnt really a console

    master system if we're being pedantic and sticking ot actual consoles


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    #86
    CramCycle
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    Atari Jaguar
    Helix wrote: »
    master system if we're being pedantic and sticking ot actual consoles

    SNES if we are going down the pedantic route.


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    #87
    RichT
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    Atari Jaguar
    This....

    2006AY3629_jpg_ds.jpg

    It was made from teak and powered by gas.


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    #88
    jackoire
    Registered Users Posts: 284 ✭✭jackoire


    Atari Jaguar
    Not sure which we had first in out house as kids.
    I donno if it was an Atari (google'd it and couldnt find the one) or a Amstrad CPC 464.

    I remember the joysticks on the atari were like the arcade sticks with 2 red buttons on the side. Found them a few yrs back rusted, i guess it broke and we binned it. I remember playing "chicken run" u had to run back and forward across a road and avoid the cars :P .

    The Armstrad cpc 464
    amstrad_shuffle.jpg

    It used to take forever to load the games of the tapes, and when loading it would make that classic noise when loading. When loading it would load the game line by line, must of wated hours watching lines load. :D

    Some games i used to love was "Oh mummy", "Wizball" and "Rollin on the Ropes!" . Im sure there was more games but i cant remember them.

    Some videos to bring back some memories.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxhP6vD3unY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZc34ykbbY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YnuZEcj8LM

    Hipnotic music and sounds :pac:


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    #89
    Fnz
    Registered Users Posts: 2,848 ✭✭✭Fnz


    Atari Jaguar
    Prior to owning a console I could, technically, call my own we had the ever-popular CGL M5.

    sordm5.jpg

    It's also 'known' as the Sord M5. Ours had a different controller to the one pictured above - vertically laid-out with two buttons above a thumbstick.

    Tank Battalion and Moon Patrol are the two games we had for it.

    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.

    Wow, 'past you' has my sympathy... sounds very frustrating. :eek:


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    #90
    Reamer Fanny
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    Atari Jaguar
    jackoire wrote: »
    Not sure which we had first in out house as kids.
    I donno if it was an Atari (google'd it and couldnt find the one) or a Amstrad CPC 464.

    I remember the joysticks on the atari were like the arcade sticks with 2 red buttons on the side. Found them a few yrs back rusted, i guess it broke and we binned it. I remember playing "chicken run" u had to run back and forward across a road and avoid the cars :P .

    The Armstrad cpc 464
    amstrad_shuffle.jpg

    It used to take forever to load the games of the tapes, and when loading it would make that classic noise when loading. When loading it would load the game line by line, must of wated hours watching lines load. :D

    Some games i used to love was "Oh mummy", "Wizball" and "Rollin on the Ropes!" . Im sure there was more games but i cant remember them.

    Some videos to bring back some memories.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxhP6vD3unY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBZc34ykbbY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YnuZEcj8LM

    Hipnotic music and sounds :pac:

    I had a box full of games for this, altered beast, meteoroid, paperboy, discworld etc...


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    #91
    richymcdermott
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    GameBoy
    Sega mega drive was my first and favourite game console , remember coming home from school everyday playing sonic 2 with my dad and streets of rage , my best childhood memories il always charish


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