What is your Second Nintendo Console? ~ Cuál es tu Segunda Consola de Nintendo?

[Nelson2001]

Because for me it was this:
Porque pa' mí fue esta:

Nintendo Wii (2006)
Standard Model ~ Modelo Estandar (RVL-001)
White Color ~ Color Blanco

 

[Bluewyne]

I'm not sure whether I had the N64 or Gameboy Color first, so I'll jump to the next I received: the Gameboy Advanced. Many happy memories with that console and I still play GBA games even to this day.

 

[Sunnyside]

Oh wow, a chance to share a stupid anecdote from my childhood. My second Nintendo system was an N64. But I'm willing to bet I didn't buy it for the reason most people did.

So I grew up in the late 90's when Pokemania was everywhere. At the time all I had was a Super Nintendo because my parents would not allow me to own a Gameboy. They were of the belief that a portable game console would ruin my development. Giving me a way to game wherever and whenever I wanted was irresponsible, as they put it. And they may have been on to something, judging by how many people worry about kids with smartphones nowadays.

But anyway! Everyone was playing Pokemon and I couldn't. Sad times. That is until my father bought me Pokemon Red and a Super Game Boy for christmas. Blew my mind. I had a way to play Pokemon despite portable consoles being forbidden. Even better, Pokemon Gold was coming out the following year and I now had a way to play it day one with all my friends. Needless to say I played both of those games to death.

But then later on a wrench was thrown into my new addiction. Pokemon Crystal came out, I bought it on release and went to load it up. Only to be greeted with a screen stating "This game cannot be played on a Super Game Boy". I was devastated. Not wanting to return it, I started searching around online for any possible way I could play my new game. Those of you with knowledge of console peripherals might know where this is going.

So I'd tried the N64 a few times at friends' houses but the 3D stuff everyone was raving about didn't really appeal to me at the time. It was high tech for sure. I just didn't enjoy actually playing the games. However! I discovered the existence of Pokemon Stadium 2 and the GameBoy Tower mode. I then confirmed that you could indeed play Pokemon Crystal this way by plugging the game into an N64 Transfer Pack. Yes. I saved up multiple months of allowance and bought a brand new N64, Pokemon Stadium 2 and Transfer Pack. All so I could play a GameBoy Color game. The only other N64 game I have ever owned is a copy of Yoshi's Story a friend gave me. And that's how I got my second Nintendo console. Kids make the smartest financial decisions.

 

[Pearly]

Got a game boy pocket as my first nintendo console and I upgraded to a gameboy colour a few years later.

Was a huge pokemon fan at the time, later just used my nintendo handhelds as RPG machines

 

[droid_koe]

SNES

 

[Nelson2001]

SNES

Now You're Playing with Power, Super Power!

 

[el_principe]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐲 𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐃𝐎 𝐃𝐒 𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄, 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐢 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞.

 

[bjork]

NES. I had a Game Boy first, as my parents wouldn't let me have an NES when it came out; they'd bought a Commodore 64 not long before that and didn't care that the C64 didn't have games the NES had, or would get really iffy ports (C64 Double Dragon, for example). So fast forward to 1996. I was sitting on some variant Star Wars figures I'd come across but didn't care about, and a friend wanted them. I asked what he wanted to trade, and he offered up his NES with about 40 games and an Advantage controller, and a big tub with the first 50ish issues of Nintendo Power, probably another 40 or so issues of EGM including those really fat ones from (I think) 1994, and various other magazines including the first Gamepro. I couldn't turn that down, and he was happy to be rid of all the stuff he wasn't using anyway.

 

[Nelson2001]

NES. I had a Game Boy first, as my parents wouldn't let me have an NES when it came out; they'd bought a Commodore 64 not long before that and didn't care that the C64 didn't have games the NES had, or would get really iffy ports (C64 Double Dragon, for example). So fast forward to 1996. I was sitting on some variant Star Wars figures I'd come across but didn't care about, and a friend wanted them. I asked what he wanted to trade, and he offered up his NES with about 40 games and an Advantage controller, and a big tub with the first 50ish issues of Nintendo Power, probably another 40 or so issues of EGM including those really fat ones from (I think) 1994, and various other magazines including the first Gamepro. I couldn't turn that down, and he was happy to be rid of all the stuff he wasn't using anyway.

Now You're Playing with Power!

 

[Waffles's iconWaffles]

The Gameboy Pocket.

I saved up like crazy for an used model I had seen on a store... It didn't even have a battery cover, but I loved it.