What was the 1st video game system you had?
When I was in high school, Dad brought home a brand new Pong system. (I know. I just dated myself)
Mine was a NES when I was ~2.5. I played the hell out of Megaman 2, mariobros/duckhunt, and Mario Brothers 3. Those were my favorites growing up. I still have the same NES and play those games all the time :3
Pong! Yeehaw!
The first one I had was a Coleco Telstar, followed shortly thereafter by a Commodore 64.
First thing I used for games? IBM PC Jr. Played NESes owned by other people...first one that I actually owned was an SNES, when I was about 9 years old. That stayed with my parents though. I ended up buying a bunch of the old video games for myself a couple years ago.
NES and the first game with Gyromite with Robbie the Robot.
Atari 2600... still have it!
A little trivia - "The Atari 2600 was inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong in Rochester, New York in 2007."
My first console was the NES when I was about 7 or 8 and the games I had where Mario bros,duck-hunt with the gun, and Mario Brothers 3, then came the genesis, and then the playstation.
Atari 800. It was 1980 (or maybe 1981).
We kept an old Pong system hooked up, but I would consider the Sega Master System my first one.
Oh wait. Commodore.
My dad bought a tabletop PONG for his bar. he was a pinball man so this was a novelty. Wish I still had it.
Here's the same question from a month ago too:
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The first system we actually owned was an NES.. which is probably one of the reasons I still play new Nintendo games lol (Spent like 70 hours on the new Zelda)
NES all the way baby!
@drchops: I was almost in your shoes. I am unbelievably patient with games no matter how badly I want to play them. I waited 2 months to play Bioshock 2 and Bioshock 1 was my favorite game ever the year it came out.
I love zelda and have had Skyward sword since 2 days after it came out. I told myself I have to earn it though. Play every zelda game in chronological order, Even the two I never played. NES and Phantom Hourglass. So far I Ragequit on NES after playing it for 20 minutes and dying ~10 times trying find out where the hell the first dungeon was with the terrible hints they don't give you. :|
Anyways I don't want to hijack your thread and turn it into a zelda thread so I'll leave it at that. sorry.
my family had a colecovision when i was born, bought a nes shortly after i was born.
i still pull it out every now and then, fun stuff
Intellivision. Remotes with crappy wired connections that you slid game cards into for each different game. I've been gaming ever since. :)
The good 'ol Commodore 64. Never heard of it? You're probably younger than 40 then, lol!
My family's first system was a 4-games-in-1 game system. It played Tennis, raquetball, hockey, and practice. Basically they were just 4 varieties of pong with practice being single player.
I have no idea what possesed my Dad to buy it, but I'm glad he did. It started me on a long road of gaming.
My first was an NES as well. I got it from my absent Dad it was the only gift I ever remember getting from him.
@cowboydann: Dude.. don't subject yourself to the NES versions heh.. Seriously, the only value they have at this point is nostalgia.. videogames are supposed to be fun (a fact that I overlook sometimes).
Start with the SNES version Zelda [A Link to The Past] :D
Are you gonna play all of the obscure iterations too? Japanese and all?
[brb] HA! I was right, Wikipedia had a chrono list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda
I had the original Atari 2600 with the six switches on the front, none on the back. Genuine plasti-wood trim and the worst, most callous-inducing joysticks known to man.
http://psp-download-center.com/software.php?catid=111&subcat=118&p=3
I still have it.
I'm sure I'm dating myself, but PONG was the first we had. And we played it!
Did anyone else have the handheld football game from the mid-to-late-seventies? The hot mod was disconnecting the wafer speaker so you could play in the back of the classroom without getting caught (as often...)
Good times!
Atari 400 here...probably still have it boxed up somewhere.
atari 2600 I loved pitfall
Atari 2600 was my first. I remember being frustrated as hell with the game ET, wondering what I was doing wrong that caused me to keep falling into pits that I had to fly out of by extending my neck.
I realized several years later that nobody else liked the game, either.
Atari w/ Chopper Commander
I had a Coleco Telstar Arcade - a triangular console with a steering wheel on one side, a gun on another, and pong dials on the third. After that, I got an Atari 2600. I think I still have the Atari in storage somewhere.
Atari 2600- Combat rocked (unless you were stuck with the big plane that only shot one bullet)!
@lparsons42: That ET game was my first official case of game rage. I think I may have busted my Atari joystick on that one.
The Atari 2600. Both my husband and I have our consoles and the games still work. I remember coming home from school one day to find my mom playing Space Invaders.
NES unless you count the old TI 99-4A we had as our first computer which was more of a gaming system in my eyes than a computer
NES, NES
Sadly NO power glove....That's the day Santa died.... :(
My older brother and other family members had some before me, but my first very own system was the Atari Lynx. It was ahead of it's time and also failed to produce very many games. Sadly, I didn't learn my lesson from it because I got an Atari Jaguar a little later.
The original Game Boy (the grey one):
My first non-handheld was a Sega Genesis, and then a SNES.
@ajmartinez51: Same here! I played the CRAP out of Burgertime and Backgammon. Ah memories...
NES when I was about 4 years old or so, Game Boy when I was five. Though my Dad tended to play my NES more than I did for a while.
I had a sega genesis. Really makes me appreciates that we can now save gave data haha
Sega Genesis, played on friends S/NESs before that.
@baqui63: I had never heard of the 800 ... I was way behind the times when I got my 2600 with the two joysticks and the paddles. Go River Raid!
Commodore 64 was there while we were growing up. First new system? SNES.
My first console, which was shared with my brother, was a Sega Genesis. I loved that console until I replaced it with something newer (Nintendo 64).
The first system my household had was an NES. Before that, I used to play Atari all the time at my Godmother's home.
We had pong in the house (belonged to my teenage uncle), but the first system I owned was the Atari 2600. First kid in school with one. I fondly remember flipping the score on Defender, and for some reason I can never forget the title Yars Revenge even though I can't remember the gameplay at all, lol.
Oh, and who could forget that game with the dragon and the key. Dungeon, I think it was.
Original NES. My Dad and I spent ungodly hours mastering the first Dragon Warrior game :) Mom hated that thing lol.
The gameboy that was gray, the size of a brick, and just as heavy as one. Dr. Mario was the bomb..
Pong was the first family system, then the kids got Intellivision for x-mas. Loved playing those games. We even got the Intellivoice for it a few years later. Had Atari 2600 at our dad's house as well. Playing the Olympics killed about 4 joysticks.
The only game system I ever had was a PC (not counting the big iron frame [we played Black Jack and Star Trek on the Frame]!) - Pong, Space Invaders, and then there was Tetris! I still wish I had a tetris game that would play in either Win Xp or Win 7!
NES - with every Super Mario game.
Colecovision. It had the best Zaxxon home game ever. Just like the arcade.
God, this question makes me feel old.
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