What was your first console?

[Damien Thorne]

Pong. My father let me play that when I was a toddler.

 

[Milwaukee Macho Man]

My family had an NES when I was born. They bought me and my sister an SNES when I was around 3 but I played it way more than her.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

A red Game Boy Pocket.

 

[Pee Cola]

A Vectrex. All-in-one console with a monochrome CRT mounted in portrait mode, vector graphics and colour overlays to try and make it look a bit less monochrome. I still miss it.

 

[A Grey Cat]

My parents SNES with Jurassic Park, mk II and mega man x

 

[Dom Cruise]

A hand me down Sega Genesis from a coworker of my mom's was the first console I owned, which in hindsight was extremely lucky and fateful, it's quite possible I never would have owned a video game console as a kid had that not happened or at least the 16 bit era would have mostly passed me by.

 

[Santiagothrumachifacku]

My father bought me a Gameboy SP that looked like this. I remember playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and Spongebob Squarepants the movie

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

You're supposed to hold down the power button to turn it off instead of just flipping the switch; that's why fat PS2s were so "prone" to breaking. Though my SCPH-70001 has a disc read issue in that it usually can't read the disc's region code at bootup, but once in-game it reads them just as well as the SCPH-75001 I got used at GameStop in 2008. Would probably work fine if I installed a modchip in it because it bypasses the region check.

Mine works fine and I've been flipped the switch since 2002. Maybe I'm just lucky. Should probably break that habit.

The GBC was a Christmas gift. First console I bought with my own money was the GBA. No, not the SP model.

Damn kids and their backlights and frontlights and sideways lights. We stuck a tapeworm on our Gameboys and liked it! Well, until the batteries died.

 

[c-no]

A Super Nintendo with games like Mortal Kombat and Super Mario All Stars. Honestly wish we still had that thing but my parents gave that to a relative when I was young.

 

[Overcast]

According to my old man, I played Duck Hunt on the NES when I was three or so. Although I remember starting out with Crash 2 on the PS1.

 

[Cod of War]

My Mom just came home with a Super Nintendo with Super Mario World one day.

 

[Teadrinkr]

My older brother's Gameboy. He only had Pokemon Emerald. Good times. I wish I still had it.

 

[w4vy_gr4vy]

A Vic 20 and then a C64, though those were more "family" things rather than just my own if that makes sense. *My* first console was a SNES I got for Christmas in 1993. Good times.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Feelings of getting my first console, illustrated.

Did not care for vidya at the time.

 

[Wonderful Id]

The first one I played on was my Mom's 2600. The first console that was specifically mine was a Super Nintendo that I got for Xmas.

I opened a present from my dad first and it was a Game Genie for the SNES. I looked at it wondering why I got this when I didn't have an SNES...and then Mom gave me a big present which was the SNES. That was awesome.

We also had an NES back in the day, but that stayed in the living room, the SNES went in my room.

The first console I ever bought with my own money was a 3DO. I had some cash left over after doing some chores and a local used game store had one for $30. For all it's faults, the 3DO was a fine system, it was just being run by retards.

 

[The Penultimate Warrior]

Original Game Boy, with the SNES being the first home system. First one I bought with my own money was a replacment PS1 after the disc drive started playing up, first actually new one was the Dreamcast.

 

[Battlecruiser3000ad]

I got a very cheap used Wii about 2 years ago, but mostly I was just messing with the homebrew stuff and once I got it all set up and running I didn't touch it again.
Growing up in a PC country only console I played before that was couple minutes of friend's og gameboy in very late 90s which I guess was quite obsolete by then.

 

[Elysian]

First shared family console was the PS2. Still have it and it still works - even survived a fall off a friend’s dresser. (She had the box room and the only plug socket was on the other side of the doorway that the dresser was beside, my clumsy ass tripped over the power cord on my way out of the room to go to the bathroom.) I played so much Muppets Party Cruise, and Simpson’s Hit and Run on that thing back in the day. First vidya game I definitively remember playing is Disney Skate Adventure on it but we lost the disc and never found it again. I really ought to buy a new copy for the nostalgia one of these days.

Not long after that I got my first DS (Of 3, 2 of them broke eventually) which was the first console individually owned by me and my main games console for years since my parents didn’t relinquish custody of the living room TV very often. Also my uncle eventually got me a flash cart and would put roms on it for me so my parents didn’t have to pay for games. He even installed moonshell and put episodes of the x-men cartoon and YouTube rips of j-pop music videos on there for me to watch in terrible quality back when I was a fledgling weeb that didn’t have a computer. I remember (among other things) playing The Sims 2 DS and getting really annoyed because the game was in real time and one of the goals could only be completed past my bedtime. I tried time travelling by switching the clock but the game somehow knew I did it and spawned aliens everywhere and it really spooked me. Also I had a theme on the flash cart that made it look like the computer from Star Trek: The Next Generation which was really cool in a super nerdy way.

I also have really faint memories of playing Bubble Bobble on a Game Boy Advance SP and something with ninjas in it on a Sega Game Gear.

 

[Naamaleipuri]

I was a 90s kid so Playstation. I did mess around with a Commodore 64 before that too but that is technically a computer (Chris isn't a console goddess lol, commodore 64 is a computer XDDD).
Good memories were shared when me and my sisters would save money for that next game we all wanted to play.

 

[A Grey Cat]

A Vic 20

The count on the Vic 20
Don't know how to FUCK something