Your first gaming system you owned?

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Sega Genesis Nomad. My mom was deciding between this and a gameboy for my birthday. She noticed the game boy had worse graphics, no color, and no backlight. I think she made the right choice.

 

[NeonKnights]

This was my first. Eventually followed by OG Gameboy DMG-01.

 

[cheepsheeps567]

purple game boy advance bb

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This was my first. Eventually followed by OG Gameboy DMG-01.
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tiger electronics im old but i aint that old gawd dammn i havent seen those in years =3

 

[ThunderBoy]

The unforgettable Game Boy

 

[IyoTheHelpfulWolf]

Atomic Purple Gameboy Color.

 

[tigg]

 

[Mecharocca]

A Game Gear, and my dad buying me a strip of very cheap 30+ batteries from a dollar store, where I had to Active Reload each set of 6 every 30 minutes because they would barely last a world or two in Sonic the Hedgehog.

 

[Antihero]

It was psp for me

 

[naizou's icon naizou naizou]

The first one I bought was a Toys R Us exclusive Game Boy Color.

 

[dr grim]

Game Gear.

with sonic 1, colums and marko magic football.

 

[Deleted member 884]

Something like this.
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But my first "real" console was a psp 1000.

Mine too.
I'd say Game Boy.

 

[GardeniaSky's icon GardeniaSky GardeniaSky]

Gameboy. First game I ever played and beat on it was Pokemon Blue.

 

[Lena CE]

A Gameboy Color with a copy of either Pokemon Blue or Yellow (can't remember which I got first). My second game would be The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages!

 

[Dyne]

A red Gameboy.
The old style Gameboy, not Gameboy Color.

 

[PhaseJump]

Older junk was always kicking around. The first one that mattered was the Gameboy from when it launched. I still have it nearby with Tetris in it's plastic shell. I don't know if it's fried or not. The screen needs to be replaced. I never opened it up yet to look at the state of it.

 

[fthealgorithm]

A purple Gameboy Color

 

[Deleted member 121503]

Gray Nintendo DS Lite!

 

[43615]

a yellow PSP, bought almost 20 years ago and still working fine today. Had minor surgery (multiple battery changes and 1 time power switch board change).

I'm still amazed how this device stays alive.

Too many memories with this one, I will frame it and keep it as a house deco if it dies one day.

 

[Hotwer]

I believe its a black PSP 1000, Nintendo handhelds back then in my country wasn't as prominent as Sony's.

But now Switch is literally everywhere I see whenever I go to a game store.

 

[The Missing Link]

Gameboy Advance with the little twisty light you could attach to it. Played SMW advance 2, and Kirby Nightmare in dreamland all night.

 

[GAL]

Game Boy Color with Pokémon Blue.

What a damning intro to gaming I had. My father bought a used SNES off someone at work. It came with Super Mario World, Super Bases Loaded, and Street Fighter 2. That next half year I got the Game Boy. I absorbed every core genre in less than a year.

Probably why I'm butterfly effecting this reply on this forum.

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Gameboy Advance with the little twisty light you could attach to it. Played SMW advance 2, and Kirby Nightmare in dreamland all night.

NID is goated.

 

[Lemons]

Iconbit Xfire 550DV​

 

[HyperTurboFox]

Nintendo DS Lite

 

[sun0wl]

SNES at age six...Didn't do the trick for whatever reason, so I sadly don't feel any nostalgia for it at all.
I didn't end up get hooked on gaming until the PS1 came out about three years later. Maybe I was too young to appreciate the SNES...

Edit: I'm an idiot and can't read what forum or topic I'm in lmao so I'll add that a big beautiful black original Game Boy was my first handheld, and I played through so very many AA batteries lol. I feel blessed to have grown up during a time when everyone had a link cable and knew the pain of squinting at a poorly lit screen.

 

[TropicalFreeze3499]

Original GameBoy