Gameboy with Tetris pack-in. My Dad and I went to Target and he got it for me and he wouldn't let get me another game until I added another digit to my high score on Tetris (10000 vs. 1000). But I had no idea about getting more points for Tetris's or anything.
Then SNES. Remember getting it with Super Mario World at Costco. I think I was 4 at the time and I remember my Mom saying it was for ages 6 and up. But she caved and got me it.
Then the Christmas N64 out I really wanted one, but didn't think I would get one so I acted like the 3-dimensional gameplay would make you dizzy and you'd get sick all the time. Well my Mom had actually bought one for me and had it tucked away, but after overhearing my conversation with my friends, returned it. Sad news. I was an idiot.
My Aunt (who was living in Japan at the time) then bought me a PS1 but didn't realize I couldn't play NTSC games on it, so I got it modded and played that sucker all the time.
Then bought a Dreamcast when they were on clearance at Best Buy one Black Friday.
Then an Xbox when Halo 2 came out.
Then got into NES/SNES again and bought those, along with an N64 and PS2.
Well my first encouter with bleeps and bloops was a Donkey kong jr panorama game and watch wich i still have but my first console was the Deluxe set back in 86/87. Best gift ever for a 8 year old. It felt like magic!
My brother got a NES for his B-Day in 1987 I believe. Then around 91ish I got asked for a Sega Genenis for Christmas (Played tons of SNES at friends houses though). I bought with my own money a N64 in 97. After that I bought Gamecube and Wii on there launch days.
Atari 2600, NES, then a Sega Master System. The Atari 2600 was a hand me down from my cousin and came with like 40 games. The SMS didnt get much play because I only had 2 games for it, Monopoly and Football...and there were no stores by me that rented those games.
My first "console" was a C64 that I could call my own. I had played the Atari 2600 but it wasn't considered mine. Shortly after the C64 I also got NES.
A Famicom, in the summer of '84. I remember my dad telling me "These are sold out everywhere in Japan! I had to twist arms for this!" I didn't even know what the hell it was! Anyway, I still have it and I still play it.
The first system I ever played was a 4-switch Atari 2600 that my mother bought brand new six years before I was born (she bought it in '79, I was born in '85...a couple weeks prior to the release of the NES ). It was sometime in the later part of '88 when my mom finally put the Atari joystick in my hands... Within a couple years (I still wasn't in school yet), I was better than my mom or my older brother at Jr. Pac-Man (who's 7 years older than I am).
The first system I ever owned was a front-loader NES, a hand-me-down from my older brother (the same one I mentioned earlier), during the summer of '92. He gave me 13 games to go along with it...mostly fun stuff, SMB/DH, SMB 2, SMB 3, Metroid, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, etc. Within a few months, though, my parents had thrown out the system (72-pin connector wasn't any good any more...of course I didn't know that at the time, nor did my parents). In April of '93, I got a replacement in the form of a top-loader NES, purchased brand-new at Kay-Bee Toys. I still have that to this day...still have the outer box, paperwork, styrofoam, plastic bags, twist ties, etc.
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Handheld: Gameboy Color Pikachu Edition (which I still have and play lol).
Console: Nintendo 64 and PS1. I don't remember which one I had first; they're kinda blurred together in a sort of Spyro/Crash/Mario haze.
Handheld: Gameboy Color Pikachu Edition (which I still have and play lol).
Yes! I have that too. I got it after my PS1 but it was my first handheld.
Then SNES. Remember getting it with Super Mario World at Costco. I think I was 4 at the time and I remember my Mom saying it was for ages 6 and up. But she caved and got me it.
Then the Christmas N64 out I really wanted one, but didn't think I would get one so I acted like the 3-dimensional gameplay would make you dizzy and you'd get sick all the time. Well my Mom had actually bought one for me and had it tucked away, but after overhearing my conversation with my friends, returned it. Sad news. I was an idiot.
My Aunt (who was living in Japan at the time) then bought me a PS1 but didn't realize I couldn't play NTSC games on it, so I got it modded and played that sucker all the time.
Then bought a Dreamcast when they were on clearance at Best Buy one Black Friday.
Then an Xbox when Halo 2 came out.
Then got into NES/SNES again and bought those, along with an N64 and PS2.
And just bought a PS3.
Intellivision. Hours of Astrosmash and Pitfall!
Yeah baby! Pitfall! and Tron deadly discs for me (until I got older and evolved to Utopia and Snafu)
Still have it, still works great, still love it.
NES of course, Christmas '88. Good times.....
Same here. It's the very same NES I play to this day. My family had a 2600 hundred early on but it was long broken by the time i was playing games.
Mine was the Famicom. My dad gave it to my older brother after he got circumcised haha
I'm not sure if that's much of a consolation prize. How old was he? Sounds pretty traumatic at any other age but birth.
The first system I ever owned was a front-loader NES, a hand-me-down from my older brother (the same one I mentioned earlier), during the summer of '92. He gave me 13 games to go along with it...mostly fun stuff, SMB/DH, SMB 2, SMB 3, Metroid, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, etc. Within a few months, though, my parents had thrown out the system (72-pin connector wasn't any good any more...of course I didn't know that at the time, nor did my parents). In April of '93, I got a replacement in the form of a top-loader NES, purchased brand-new at Kay-Bee Toys. I still have that to this day...still have the outer box, paperwork, styrofoam, plastic bags, twist ties, etc.