First games console?

[Josy]

What was the first games console you ever owned?

Mine was an atari I was addicted to the Smurfs game which was essentially just the same level over and over just a little faster each time [emoji23]

And also a spectrum.

[Crimson Dynamo]

literally this bad boy

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/5b/6b/dc5b6bc77ffaba4ab1e587a081d6ba37.jpg

[rk3388]

I personally owned many Nintendo handhelds including the Gameboy, Gameboy Colour,Gameboy Advance, DS, and 3DS. My family didn't get a console because my parents hated video games but finally we got a Wii because it was "active". In the last few years I have purchased a Wii U and Switch, but last Black Friday got a PS4 and have realized what I was missing out on.

[Alf]

I had both of those.

Atari first, then an Acorn Electron, then a Speccie zx, then a Commodore 64, then a Mega Drive and finally a Playstation.

[Alf]

literally this bad boy

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/5b/6b/dc5b6bc77ffaba4ab1e587a081d6ba37.jpgThat rang some little bell in my head.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Pong was my first game

[Nicky91]

Nintendo64 :flutter:

[Wizard.]

PS1

[Niamh.]

Atari :laugh:

[bots]

literally this bad boy

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/dc/5b/6b/dc5b6bc77ffaba4ab1e587a081d6ba37.jpg

i had one of them too :laugh:

Then I shifted up to one of these:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/Dragon_32.jpg/1200px-Dragon_32.jpg

[AnnieK]

I had a ZX Spectrum with rubber keys, Jet Set Willy was the best game.
My brother had a Commodore 64 and an Atari.

I got a Sega Megadrive and was amazed by the speed of loading the games.....after spending years waiting for tapes to load up, then crash, then try again.

[Tom4784]

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ETCD0fORL._SX466_.jpg

Street Fighter 2 Turbo was the first game I ever played.

[RileyH]

DS or Wii

[Ant.]

Either Nintendo 64 or GameCube

I remember playing Mario Kart 64 after Nursery onwards (2/3 years old) but I got a GameCube when I was 5. I'm sure I have a memory of playing Super Mario Sunshine younger than that though :laugh:

[user104658]

First that was officially a "console" was PS1, although the oldest console I now own is a SEGA MasterSystem.

But the first "thing I gamed on" was one of these badboys:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0560/9965/products/Amstrad_CPC464-IMG_7169_grande.jpg

...you could rent and copy games for it using a 2-deck HiFi :joker:



Though my first true love was this beauty

http://www.generationamiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Commodore-Amiga-1200-recap-service-United-Kingdom-on-Ebay.gif

And then onto PC gaming on the Compaq Presario 486/66, DOS and Windows 3.1 (later upgraded to Windows 95) :laugh2:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/07/9f/05079ff28c8abc9b25d13002774531b1.jpg

Also did my first internetting on this. AOL 3.0 :flutter: "BBbbbrrrzzzzzsshhhhcccchhhh... Welcome... to AOL..."


Simpler and better times online tbqfh.

[Josy]

First that was officially a "console" was PS1, although the oldest console I now own is a SEGA MasterSystem.

But the first "thing I gamed on" was one of these badboys:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0560/9965/products/Amstrad_CPC464-IMG_7169_grande.jpg

...you could rent and copy games for it using a 2-deck HiFi :joker:



Though my first true love was this beauty

http://www.generationamiga.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Commodore-Amiga-1200-recap-service-United-Kingdom-on-Ebay.gif

And then onto PC gaming on the Compaq Presario 486/66, DOS and Windows 3.1 (later upgraded to Windows 95) :laugh2:

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/05/07/9f/05079ff28c8abc9b25d13002774531b1.jpg

Also did my first internetting on this. AOL 3.0 :flutter: "BBbbbrrrzzzzzsshhhhcccchhhh... Welcome... to AOL..."


Simpler and better times online tbqfh.I still have my sega master system and play it occasionally I loved Alex the kidd in miracle world and ghouls n ghosts [emoji23]

[Shaun]

My uncle bought me a SNES for Christmas when I was either 6 or 7. It came with Super Mario Allstars (aka that package with 3 or 4 amazing games :love:)

[Calderyon]

Sega Megadrive/Genesis.

[Eddie.]

The original XBOX.

[Rob!]

Seeeeeegaaaaa

[Strictly Jake]

Sega megadrive with sonic, road rash and the lion king being the games i played the most

[-Sue-]

pong- atari
commadore vic-20
Megadrive
Ps1

[user104658]

I still have my sega master system and play it occasionally I loved Alex the kidd in miracle world and ghouls n ghosts [emoji23]I'm slowly developing a retro consoles / games collection. Got the Master System and Ultima 4 for my wife's 30th birthday because she was obsessed with it as a kid :joker:.

The games cost as much as the consoles though... I have a mint condition SNES Zelda that was over £70 :omgno:. Also a mint condition original grey GameBoy in box that's worth a bit.

Considering breaking into my friend's parents house because I know for a fact that there's a cupboard there packed full of his old N64 cartridges, all in brilliant condition, most worth £50+ and I'm pretty sure he has no idea they're worth anything at all :joker:.

[James]

I was a big Amiga fan back in the day. I had computers before that though.

[Lostie!]

Sega Megadrive / Nintendo 64

And its my life's mission to own a Nintendo 64 and Diddy Kong Racing again one day

[montblanc]

playstation 1

[Tom4784]

Sega Megadrive / Nintendo 64

And its my life's mission to own a Nintendo 64 and Diddy Kong Racing again one day

I imagine it stands a good chance of being included with the inevitable N64 mini.

[Natalie.]

Sega Megadrive

[Mystic Mock]

Officially it's the PS1 that was around in my house first.

However my first Console that I ever played on was the Sega Dreamcast with Sonic Adventure and Sega Worldwide Soccer.

[BigSister]

Game Boy then a PS2

[Brother Leon]

The chunky PlayStation 1.

[Jake.]

I think it was the N64??

I’d played consoles up until that point but yeah I think the N64 was the first I actually owned

[Daniel-X]

PS2 I think. I was obsessed with a Crash Bandicoot game called The Wrath of Cortex.

I was about 4/5 (?) icr properly.

[LaLaLand]

Sega Master System!

[JerseyWins]

PS1 or gameboy, don't remember which I played first

[Scarlett.]

The Sega Mega Drive, never had a Nintendo console til the Game Boy Pocket

[LaLaLand]

Oh actually, we (well my sister) had an NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) that had the game Duck Hunt on and had the plastic gun you used to shoot the ducks!

Amazing.

[Josy]

I'm slowly developing a retro consoles / games collection. Got the Master System and Ultima 4 for my wife's 30th birthday because she was obsessed with it as a kid :joker:.

The games cost as much as the consoles though... I have a mint condition SNES Zelda that was over £70 :omgno:. Also a mint condition original grey GameBoy in box that's worth a bit.

Considering breaking into my friend's parents house because I know for a fact that there's a cupboard there packed full of his old N64 cartridges, all in brilliant condition, most worth £50+ and I'm pretty sure he has no idea they're worth anything at all :joker:.Thats quite a thoughtful birthday gift for the mrs TS kudos to you for that.

I have shoe box full of old atari games but no atari now [emoji23][emoji23] but yeah some of the prices if the older games are mental these days.

Jake has a very impressive retro console collection

[Mystic Mock]

As da hood would say, respect to Jake, I'm envious of that collection.:joker:

[Maru]

My NES and my first computer was a 486... DOS gaming ftw :love:

[Maru]

I'm slowly developing a retro consoles / games collection. Got the Master System and Ultima 4 for my wife's 30th birthday because she was obsessed with it as a kid :joker:.

The games cost as much as the consoles though... I have a mint condition SNES Zelda that was over £70 :omgno:. Also a mint condition original grey GameBoy in box that's worth a bit.

Considering breaking into my friend's parents house because I know for a fact that there's a cupboard there packed full of his old N64 cartridges, all in brilliant condition, most worth £50+ and I'm pretty sure he has no idea they're worth anything at all :joker:.

We literally just took a lot of our retro gear to the resale shops. The only thing i kept was my Genesis (Megadrive) with all the original Sonic games. The rest just collected dust :shrug: I could display those things in my room, but I barely have enough space for my studio gear and my drafting table... also have a little meditation spot and a place to write in my journal... I did used to have a CRT for playing old games (because old games look like a jaggy mess on an LCD...)... had to leave it when we moved halfway across the country... :spin:

A "treat" I would love though, I've said to my husband, is to be able to play a lot of the Japanese classics.. so an important PS1 would be nice. I can read Japanese and enjoy playing imports... I picked up a lot of everyday vocabulary farming in Harvest Moon, and I had my Wii hacked and setup for all that, but the hard drive crashed and I just never got around to changing it out. Also a PSP, but I would just love to own some originals... they make retro consoles that play a few of the older systems, but nothing that plays the PS1 games... my greatest era aside from the Genesis era... imo. Though I did own Phantasy Star Online v2 in Japanese and I could boot it on my DC and play it before they locked it down, and used to have a japanese sub before they finally ported it to here... we could convert our characters with codebreaker hack, so that was awesome :love:...