Your first gaming platform?

[Smiley Cat]

I live in England, and when I was a kid it was mostly home computers that dominated the gaming market over here, such as the Spectrum, Amstrad and Commodore.
My first ever experience of gaming was when my parents got a Commodore VIC20 (the predecessor to the C64) and my mom taught me how to program games for it.

From there I went on to own other platforms such as 8-bit consoles, a Commodore Amiga, 16 bit consoles, a 3DO and many others, including PC's since the Windows 3.1 days, and of course 32 & 64 bit consoles etc.

How about you?

 

[VampireLord1024]

I believe mine was the Nintendo 64.

 

[TheWanderer]

To me it was the NES (kinda) basically those Chinese offbrand that has the ability to run those 9999999 in 1 multicarts
It was a ton of fun
Playing battle city or TENNIS with my brother

 

[It's Thinking 2]

Sears Video Arcade that my relatives had before I was born. Played stuff like Space Invaders and Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back on it. My parents had it hooked up to a small black and white tv too. Never even saw Atari 2600 games in color. lol We did get a Sega Genesis model 2 eventually that came with Columns so my older cousin gave me his copy of Sonic The Hedgehog. Played those to death along with Taz Escape From Mars and Toy Story. Also got his Game Boy with 3 games: Alien VS. Predator, Bo Jackson's Baseball and Football 2 in 1, and Operation C. The first two games kind of sucked so I played Operation C the most. I'd fire the games up whenever i needed a blast of nostalgia. My dad had a job where he'd get floppy disks with computer games on them along with free demo discs in the mail with a subscription of MacAddict magazine. Played so many games on the old Power Mac. Everything from point n click adventures to edutainment games. MacPlay had a bunch of good games too like Power Pete, Frankenstein, Mario's Game Gallery, Star Trek 25th Anniversary, Flashback, ect. LucasArts had Star Wars games like both Rebel Assaults and the first Dark Forces, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Day of The Tentacle, Sam and Max Hit The Road, Full Throttle, The Dig, Afterlife, and Mortimer and The Riddles of The Medallion which was basically the 3rd Rebel Assault but it was educational about animals.

 

[Note]

The first gaming console I had was a GameBoy actually. I got it as a gift in 1991, IIRC. Other than Tetris, I received Super Mario Land and Final Fantasy Adventure with it. A year or so later, I got a Super Nintendo for Christmas in 1992.

My cousins that are a few years older than me were into gaming, and I pretty much got into it through them. They had a NES, SNES, and Genesis around the US launches of those systems, and after spending time with them and experiencing those systems, I wanted in. Lol.

 

[Smiley Cat]

The first gaming console I had was a GameBoy actually.

Wow, original gameboy as your first console. That's actually cool!

 

[DunkeyKong]

You guys got a really good consoles to start, mine was some random handheld consoles clone. Do you guys know those 400 in 1 consoles? I think I got exactly that.

I don't quite remember the names and games I've played in it (like the karate one), what I did remember playing was NES Classics like Super Mario Bros and Contra and I really like it so much when I was a kid (probably the reason why I remember it so well)

Nowadays it looks like this

But mine was quite different because it has a different shape (PSP like, without both analog sticks and shoulder buttons) I don't know if it exist today but it's definitely a quite bizarre journey for me to Retro games

 

[Don Patch]

First I played was no doubt the NES. It was just around so I played it!
First console I purchased for myself was the Gameboy Advanced.
Got the nifty transparent purple one, too:

DELISH!

 

[stealthRUSH]

NES/Nintendo Entertainment System with Super Mario Bros. Duck Hunt

 

[Waffles]

The Famicom!

 

[dejiko]

mine was the megadrive! first game was sonic 2

ironic as i do not like the sonic games anymore www

 

[Kacho]

The first in our household was the NES but the first console I owned that was all my mine was Gameboy Pocket.

 

[spicemeister]

Super NES. First I owned was the Playstation though.

 

[guppy]

It was a mac/commodore/tandy or something like that. I played Word Muncher and if this is right - Math Blasters? Maybe that one came later. I am not sure why my family had this computer though, as it was very lonely and seemingly tucked away.

 

[MajesticSiN]

My parents had an atari 2600 I grew up playing but purchased a NES for me so either of those two count in different ways.

 

[CRTRebel]

My first gaming platform was the Atari st 1040 (stf) which I still keep to this day, and to which I am most affectionately attached. Later I turned my attention to the NES, which was also given to me by my parents.