First gaming device/console?

[bosskbot]

Just journaling and am curious what devices users owned first. I believe I played some version of Pac-Man: World on a couple different floppy disks (thanks Dad) but one holiday I got a SNES and Donkey Kong Country 2. I think my next game was Super Empire Strikes Back. Needless to say, I didn't beat either of those games until much later.

How about you all?

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

Hand me down Nintendo 64. The games were great, but the controller was too fucking big and built for aliens.

 

[BoysenBarry]

I still have my Model-1 Sega Genesis with the copy of Sonic 1 that I grew up with!

 

[wilddogsdivorce]

i love my ps1! i only had like two games for it, Digimon World and the first disc of Chrono Cross. but it was still a really fantastic time. i used to go down the elevator at the start of chrono cross over and over to see all the funny guys you could get.

 

[SpectreOverflow]

My first console was the Wii, and the first console I personally owned was a Nintendo DSi.

 

[mandm69]

C64 hands down. Best gaming machine of its era.

 

[Deean]

A famiclone named V/COM
The first game i played was a sprite hack of Adventure Island 2.

 

[RageBurner]

The Sega Master System.

 

[Clippy]

Amiga 500. It's probably still in our basement somewhere.

 

[Prism_Red]

PS1, currently in grandma's house collecting dust.

 

[LaserMoose]

In terms of a system to call my own, I grew up with a DS lite.

Before that however, I was introduced to games through my father's NES and Sega Genesis.

 

[Oni]

I will always remember waking up Christmas morning to the sound of Super Mario bros for the NES. We were the first of the neighborhood kids to get one. My dad was setting in front of the TV playing unsuccessfully, but having fun. He wouldn't let us play at first. I also remember he had to change the games out at first because he thought we would break them when we pushed them in and down. He looked so proud. Unknowing his one act of kindness would start my downward spiral into the grimy world of gaming.

 

[Samatonic]

My proper Introduction to gaming came when I received my first PlayStation 1. Sadly it broke and I never saw it again. Then I got a PSP.

 

[Raziya The Seeker]

My l'il yellow Game Boy Pocket. I was so small back then that it didn't even fit in my pocket. My mom had a Super Nintendo, and she and dad played it now and then, but I wasn't allowed to play it myself until I was a bit older.

Other than that, my cousins' Genesis / Mega Drive was fun to play with them whenever I was over.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

Both an NES and an SNES, although they were both my parents technically. My parents loved games, so I had a lot of access to them growing up.

 

[RageBurner]

Both an NES and an SNES, although they were both my parents technically. My parents loved games, so I had a lot of access to them growing up.

That's really cool! no such thing as gamer parents for me, haha.

 

[Yukyon]

The first console my family owned was a Pikachu N64 and the first console that was mine alone was a green Gameboy Color; I still have both.

 

[Samatonic]

Both an NES and an SNES, although they were both my parents technically. My parents loved games, so I had a lot of access to them growing up.

You're lucky in your own way. I would love to see parents with actual kids that play games together. Any games you played in particular.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's iconRanmyakuIchi]

You're lucky in your own way. I would love to see parents with actual kids that play games together. Any games you played in particular.

We all played stuff like Super Mario and Donkey Kong Country together. My dad likes stuff like Final Fight, Double Dragon, and Street Fighter 2 also. My dad used to be able to beat Final Fight on a single credit.

 

[TotzOnGaming]

We had the Famicom and a Gameboy

 

[stealthRUSH]

besides arcades, NES in the early 90s oh and MS-DOS computer games.

 

[Hotwer]

Technically it was a PS1 but it wasn't mine, a family member of mine shared it with me. For the first device that I got, its the GOAT PS2.

 

[DunkeyKong]

Can I put bootleg console? Because that's what I started with, the 999 in 1

 

[Hotwer]

Can I put bootleg console? Because that's what I started with, the 999 in 1
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If we're counting this then I guess this is the first one for me too, different model I think but its the same thing anyway

 

[Stingy Perry]

SEGA MegaDrive bundled with the OG Sonic and Golden Axe 1.