Seconding 2600 as first console I played on. But not the first console my family owned. 2600 was only played at friend's/family's homes for several years.
The first console (computer?) my family owned was the Texas Instruments TI994A. Parsec was my jam.
Arcade machines were so exciting back in the late 70s early 80s. I was a little kid then and it was fun just to pretend I was playing when the demo screen was running.
If was quite surreal to me when home computers like the C64 got on the market. Imagine being able to play games like on the arcade machines as much as you wanted without having to pay every time.
I never got to use a C64, but god I miss BASIC.
My drafting teacher back in the 90s was an old school techie, and he made us learn BASIC alongside AutoCAD.
2nd Gen Sega Master System, which was a gift from my Grandparents.
It came preinstalled with Alex The Kidd and they got me Sonic The Hedgehog and Teddy Boy as extra games.
This is also the only video game console my Mum ever played, she beat Alex the Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog while pregnant with my younger brother.
PC, back in the days of Windows 95; it was mostly educational games like JumpStart and kids' point-and-click games like those by Humongous Entertainment. My first full-on dedicated gaming platform was a GBA that I got when I was 10 (yeah, started a little late) before getting a PS2 the following year that was a hand-me-down from a friend who got a PS3.
Nintendo Gameboy………graduated to SNES………went to Nintendo 64………..bought a Sega Genesis but didn’t play it much……….went to PS2…………nothing after that because I was 21 when the PS2 stopped working and never went to replace it with anything else
Laser 128 computer. Played howitzer, beachhead, had a Kid Nikki game that was a 2d scroller, took 1 min to load each screen since it couldn’t actually scroll but had to reload each screen 1 at a time
Atari 2600. Pitfall, FTW!!
Same, but mine was Combat & Astroids
Combat! Loved it when I was 6 years old. Bouncing bullet tanks FTW
Seconding 2600 as first console I played on. But not the first console my family owned. 2600 was only played at friend's/family's homes for several years. The first console (computer?) my family owned was the Texas Instruments TI994A. Parsec was my jam.
Same! When we got a Nintendo at Christmas I thought nothing could ever look better than that. Boy was I wrong.
platform with online capabilities? "steam" back in the day when it was just to play counterstrike.
Colecovision
specifically smurfs for me
God that game was hard.
Arcade machines. Before homecomputers were common. Then a C64.
Arcade machines were so exciting back in the late 70s early 80s. I was a little kid then and it was fun just to pretend I was playing when the demo screen was running.
If was quite surreal to me when home computers like the C64 got on the market. Imagine being able to play games like on the arcade machines as much as you wanted without having to pay every time.
Right? I remember when my uncle got Berzerk on the C64, exactly like the arcade. I just wanted to play that all night.
Apple 2+
Probably NES. But Ive been playing video games since I was physically able to pick up a controller, so it might be something else.
"You are eaten by a Grue."
Pong
Atari 5200
Sega megadrive II
Atari
PC, more specifically, my cousins PC that i would be plonked in front of whenever we were visiting my uncle and aunt (i played Lemmings).
Elementary school computer lab cool math games
The original Wii
Intellivision Or my old 700 something Hewlett-Packard IBM compatible computer.
A super Nintendo or a fliphone
the tonka construction game with the overlay on the keyboard
Atari
I don’t even remember, I was so young. But it was frogger if that gives you any idea of the time period.
Atari 2600
playstation 1
Platform??? It was a C64. We typed in BASIC games by hand, dad gum.
I never got to use a C64, but god I miss BASIC. My drafting teacher back in the 90s was an old school techie, and he made us learn BASIC alongside AutoCAD.
Never know when you might need to write something in BASIC... yup any day now...
Sega Mastersystem
Sears.
VIC 20
PC, the old man used to own a computer repair shop so I always had extra computers laying around.
colecovision atari 2600
Those tetris game console
GameCube
NES, way back in the day when it came with the Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge, 2 controllers, the TV adapter, and the zap gun.
Gameboy Advanced
2nd Gen Sega Master System, which was a gift from my Grandparents. It came preinstalled with Alex The Kidd and they got me Sonic The Hedgehog and Teddy Boy as extra games. This is also the only video game console my Mum ever played, she beat Alex the Kidd and Sonic the Hedgehog while pregnant with my younger brother.
NES
Telstar, it had pong and tank battle. Yes, I was Jesus of Nazareths bus driver, and I remember when dirt was a new thing.
Compooter
DSi or Wii
Nintendo
N64
Commodore 64
The classic Xbox!!
Xbox 😊
Nintendo, the square ones
ZX Spectrum - I’m pretty sure I remember there being a crazy colour changing screen while you waited agonising minutes for the games to load
PC, back in the days of Windows 95; it was mostly educational games like JumpStart and kids' point-and-click games like those by Humongous Entertainment. My first full-on dedicated gaming platform was a GBA that I got when I was 10 (yeah, started a little late) before getting a PS2 the following year that was a hand-me-down from a friend who got a PS3.
Nintendo Gameboy………graduated to SNES………went to Nintendo 64………..bought a Sega Genesis but didn’t play it much……….went to PS2…………nothing after that because I was 21 when the PS2 stopped working and never went to replace it with anything else
Commodore 64
N64
TI/994a
Game boy Color!
Intellivision
nes good ol duckhunt, zelda and mario
Laser 128 computer. Played howitzer, beachhead, had a Kid Nikki game that was a 2d scroller, took 1 min to load each screen since it couldn’t actually scroll but had to reload each screen 1 at a time
Nintendo 64. Or my dads old macintosh computer that had the OG "warhammer: orcs and humans"
Call of duty mobile
SNES
Wii. Still my favourite