First home video game system you owned

[rocklobster]

Mine was the Colecovision. What about the rest of you?

[TheMelodyMaker]

The good old Atari 2600. ^_^

[Myoti]

We had an Atari we didn't play too much, then our uncle gave us his NES (and this was around the time the SNES came out, which we didn't get till the N64 came out Xp ).

[Nate]

Atari 2600, w00t!

[Esoteric]

Mine was the Colecovision. What about the rest of you?

WOOOO! Colecovision! That was my first too, if you count hand-me-downs. If you're talking about consoles you actually bought with your own money, Gamecube.

[dyzzispell]

Yeah, if you're talking about the first game system that was actually mine, not my brother's or something, then it would be GameCube. Got it from my hubby for my birthday right after we were married.
However, my brothers had the Commodore 64 and Intellivision. We never had Atari 2600. After that, my older brother got the NES and TurboGrafx. We weren't allowed to touch them though for a long time after he got them. Then eventually my younger brother got the NES, SNES, Playstation, PS2... and I just played his systems.
Now all we have is SNES, PS2, and GameCube.

[Mega.EXE]

Super NES 'nough said

[bigsleepj]

Golden China Family Computer, which was actually a pirate port of Nintendo Famicon / Entertainment System games and machines, but we did not know that. We bought it from a major chainstore who did not deem it inapropriate to sell pirate consoles. Before that we had an Atari 2600.

[GrubbTheFragger]

Snes

[Radical Dreamer]

An NES. My cousin gave it to my brother for Christmas one year, and he and I have been into games ever since. XD

[Kkun]

NES, got it from my grandparents shortly after it came out. =D

[Tommy]

NES.

[Raiden no Kishi]

N64.

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[Photosoph]

NES.

Ditto. Got ours when the PS1 was coming out, second hand with a coupla games.

[jon_jinn]

sega genesis. we had it before i was born.

[Myoti]

Speaking of NES, someone we know has one of those "8000 games in one" systems (that's really only maybe 80 or so, copied over and over again for some reason), and all of the games on it where NES ones.

While looking around on it, I located Castlevania. I think I keep forgeting how much I love that game...

[Tenshi no Ai]

For my first unofficial system was NES (aka borrowed from my cousins who were tryign to sell it, until I wanted to get rid of it or they asked for it back... had that thing since I was 7 or something and now they finally asked and got it back :/) First official would be the orginal, bulky Game Boys. Went from having 4 AA batteries to a DS Lite that plays fresh outta the package, and hasn't need a recharge or whatever yet :/

[Locke]

Jaguar baby. Followed by Sega CD.

Boy was I putting my faith in sand....

[Sammy Boy]

Nintendo Entertainment System. Cost 145 AUD. My dad got it for me. 1990.

Had Super Mario Bros., Kung Fu, Mega Man 3, and Battletoads. I can still hear the background music in my head...

Years later with my own money I bought the GameCube. Don't really play it now as I am too lazy to plug in all the wires / cables each time (I usually store it away in a cabinet).

[Bobtheduck]

My first system was the good old 2600... The first system I really liked was the NES... We gave our atari away after we got the NES... I got Kung Fu, Baloon Fighters, Ice Climber, Duck Hunt, and Gyromite (with the ROB baby!) I still remember the day I got Super Mario Brothers... Then Donky Kong.. I got in trouble because DK was a present and I looked at it beforehand, so I wasn't allowed to play it for a week or so... And I could only play it if I didn't talk about it... I think it was the woman that lived with us that gave me that requirement... My parents weren't that sadistic...

I was really excited, though, when I got my 2600 back... Actually, we got a 7200... It played 2600 games (but not 5200 games, which sucked because there were better versions of all the classics on there, wheras the only game I remember on the 7200 was Galaga...) NES totally beat any of the atari systems, though... I mean, those stupid joysticks were very unweildy and unresponsive... I'd totally buy a 7200 or a 5200 now, though, if I could get some Genesis controlers (which actually work on every atari system right up to the Jaguar, I think...)

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

The only one I've owned is an N64 as of 2003 (yes, I know it was very late but I decided it was time) second-hand ofcourse.

I've played Atari 2600, Commodore 64, original Nintendo, NES, Sega MegaDrive and Dreamcast and loved them all. Wasn't a fan of Playstation 1 though.

[rocklobster]

Jaguar baby. Followed by Sega CD.

Boy was I putting my faith in sand....

COuld be worse. You could've had the most expensive system ever: the Neo Geo CD. The system was $700, and the games were about half that.

[KBMaster]

My first game system was my mom's atari, but unfortunately, it broke shortly after I was able to play on it. >_< Everything I touch breaks.

Then, in '97, we got a Playstation, and I learned how not to share.

[Mithrandir]

Well, the first "game system" I ever owned was one of those toaster-oven-sized ones that played one game. My family owned an original atari before that, but I'm not sure when we bought it. Must have been in the late 70s, I guess. It was a 2600, which is ironic, since the next model (5200, maybe?) came out a couple of years after that. I've always been impressed by atari's ability to stay alive. I mean, look at Coleco (my apologies if I'm bringing up some bad memories here):

1932: Coleco is founded. They sell leather products.
1982: 50 years later, the company enteres the VG console market (They had dabbled in single-game units prior to that).
1983: Personal computers become a more popular game platform. Coleco also begins selling another product, "Cabbage Patch Kits."
1984: Coleco is almost bankrupt and shifts their market focus away from the VG field.

So a company that's been around a half a century nearly folds due to entering the Video Game consol market, despite releasing an unbelievably successful line of toys (You "older" member know what I mean. Remember Cabbage Patch Kids fever?)

Yet atari didn't abandon the 2600 for nearly 15 YEARS. It was successfully sold from, what, the late 70s until the early 90s?!? Of course, they were selling for 49 bucks by then, but still!

Now you can buy the retro pack of games for the PS2. I can't tell you how funny it is to play pong or combat on a 30 inch LCD screen TV, heh, heh. Anyway, that's my $0.02 on the topic. Although, it may be more of an interesting topic for me, then anyone else. I do tend to ramble.

[Shinja]

the NES!

[mechana2015]

Gameboy if that counts, PS2 if the gameboy dosn't count. Another option would be the DOS 3.1 IBM compatable PC that I used to play simcity, gunship and carman sandiego.

[TriezGamer]

The good old Atari 2600. ^_^

[righteous_slave]

I had an original Gameboy first. Many hours on Tetris, Super Mario Land, Castlevania, Mega Man, and a few others. In high school I finally shelled out for a SNES, and spent many more hours on Donkey Kong Country, Killer Instinct, Super Mario World, and the usual few others.

[Roy Mustang]

Atari 2600 was first for me and then the Sega Master system was system that I got for Chirstmas in 1986 or so.


I still the the Sega Master system and it still works too.


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[Neko Niisan]

I was alate bloomer, I didn't start gaming till me parents got me a playstation in 2004 (talk about a false start >.< ). Anyway, I got a Gamecube last year and I've never looked back...