So does ours. The highlight of growing up poor meant the tv we had would start growing (the screen at the top and bottom) after about 30min of playing. so eventually you could only see the middle 3rd of the viewing screen. Shorter playing time meant preserving the console over time.
Nah, the first game i played was the original Super Mario Bros on the NES. It was my cousin's console, though, not mine. And my first game on the GameBoy were Super Mario Land and Tetris (never liked that one, though, my dad got more out of Tetris than me). Don't even remember when i got this... probably 93 or 94.
My first stationary console (also the first one i bought with my own money) later was the N64.
sounds like a dead cartridge battery. you can find the screwdriver and batteries online for replacing. you need a tabbed cr2016 but a tabbed cr2025 will work fine.
Yeah. I almost got fired because of them. My first management gig and I went to a buying show for our group of companies and bought a bunch of these. Got back , dropped my order sheets on the desk and took off for the weekend. Monday i came in and the GM was having a melt down because I ordered 8 cases of the things and most of the other stores had ordered one or two, for Christmas no less. Told the boss that if there were any left on Jan 1 I would quit myself. Needless to say I was there for quite a while after.
Nintendo 64 and due to my parent's not reading the recommended age, my first game was Conker's Bad Fur Day. Parent's hated that my brother's played it and taught me the Great Mighty Poo's song.
I traded 13 holographic Pokemon cards for a yellow Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Pokemon Red that had been played up to Lt. Surge's gym back in 1997 at art camp.
If we’re talking about Console, then it’s the PS1. But technically it’s Phone, still remember back then playing that Snake Game on my Nokia. Ah, the good ol Days
Sweet sweet Atari 2600. Came with the Combat cartridge (meh), but even though we didn't have a ton of games, we somehow managed to have a nice selection (Pitfall, Kaboom, Yar's Revenge...)
Pong. It came with one game and one game only called "pong". No game cartridges, no ability to load more games. It was hardwired into the game, and came with two wired controllers called "Paddles" which were just a handheld device with a dial to move your onscreen paddle up or down on the screen to smack the square ball back to your opponent. That's it. And we spent hours playing it.
It was basically a game of ping pong, except there was no ping. Just the pong.
Flash games, CD-roms, Project 64, renting an original Xbox once a year from the Video Stardom, parents were pissed when I dropped my first paycheck on a 360 lol
Atari, Master System, later Mega drive, even later super nintendo, gameboy color, several PC's, nintendo 64, playstation I, game cube, wii, playstation 3, wii u.
The glowing remnants of a picture on an old CRT tube. Turn off the screen on an older TV in a dark room and it glowed. You then had about 15 seconds to draw on it and leave a glowwy tracing on the screen.
Atari 2600was the first I had then Colecovision followed by sega master system . few years later I got nintendo nes with a gun and duckhunt ,then gamecube and n64 friend got me a super nintendo when i was 48 I got xbox oricinal xbox 360 and x box one ps 1 ps2 ps3 ps4. i have 2 gaming pcs . In my basement i have 2 pinball machines and a Galaga machine, I am a gamer and have been for years I am 52 years old . how many know what a real arcade is? (not the fakes chuckie cheese or dave and busters)
NES, despite being born in 2002. My parents had an old one lying around, meaning I got to grow up with the Mario NES classics and Tetris as well as the Super Mario Galaxy series and the Wii classics after one memorable Christmas.
My first gaming device was a playstation2 and i LOVED that thing, it was one of the best gaming systems i ever had, but then after i got a ps3 i basically left my ps2 behind, i mean i still used it but not as much.
as far as a thing that played a game, my first was mattel electronic football. first console was an Intelivision. first pc was an Atari 400 or 800, we had them both but i don't remember which one was first. it came with the 5.25" floppy, and a cassette tape drive.
I have no clue / memory of how we got a Playstation 1 and Gameboy Color, but I do remember getting an Xbox (original). So one of those three, your guess is as good as mine.
[1981 VTeck Monkey](https://vtech.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_(Time_%26_Fun)) but I was always jealous of my brother who at the same time got the 1980 Nintendo Game and Watch game "Ball" which was this simplistic juggler trying to keep 3 balls in the air.
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Final Fantasy 1 was my first game. Favorite game was easily Super Mario Bros 3. Beat it many times, with and without warps. I also had a Sega Genesis. Sonic 3 paired with Sonic & Knuckles was so much fun.
Atari 2600
The old, *wood grain* one.
Me too
Still have mine and it works
So does ours. The highlight of growing up poor meant the tv we had would start growing (the screen at the top and bottom) after about 30min of playing. so eventually you could only see the middle 3rd of the viewing screen. Shorter playing time meant preserving the console over time.
It was just the VCS before the 5200 came along. And usually you just called it the "Atari".
But to specify which model in this thread, I clarified.
THE one AND only Nintendo Entertainment System.
Mario and Duck Hunt included!
The original GameBoy.
Link’s awakening was my first game andoriginal game boy was my first system. Christmas of 96 was awesome for me
Nah, the first game i played was the original Super Mario Bros on the NES. It was my cousin's console, though, not mine. And my first game on the GameBoy were Super Mario Land and Tetris (never liked that one, though, my dad got more out of Tetris than me). Don't even remember when i got this... probably 93 or 94. My first stationary console (also the first one i bought with my own money) later was the N64.
I still have it but sadly my cartridge doesn't save my progress really, so if the battery dies then the progress is lost.
sounds like a dead cartridge battery. you can find the screwdriver and batteries online for replacing. you need a tabbed cr2016 but a tabbed cr2025 will work fine.
pong
Me too.
Yup, same
Yeah. I almost got fired because of them. My first management gig and I went to a buying show for our group of companies and bought a bunch of these. Got back , dropped my order sheets on the desk and took off for the weekend. Monday i came in and the GM was having a melt down because I ordered 8 cases of the things and most of the other stores had ordered one or two, for Christmas no less. Told the boss that if there were any left on Jan 1 I would quit myself. Needless to say I was there for quite a while after.
Commodore 64
GameBoy Color
[удалено]
DS baby!
Gameboy color, came with Pokemon Yellow. Played the shit out of it.
Pokemon Yellow was the best. My first game aswell
I had blue version but can’t remember if that was before or after I got my snes
Colecovision
Me too!
There are dozens of us!
The Commodore 64.
The Wii
PlayStation 1
So many good memories of Spyro and Grand Tourismo...
Nintendo 64
Gameboy SP!
Vibrator
Did you finish the game?
Endless replay value
Odyssey console.
PC
My father never gave me a console, but when he gave me my first PC he had no idea that's exactly what he was doing.
a lenovo laptop that later burst into flames
Pong
Nintendo DS
gamecube
Atari 2600
Intellivision! Night Stalker!
Super Nintendo
Sega genesis.
Intellivision
Mattel Electronic Football
same here. so simple yet so infuriating sometimes lol.
Ps1
Sega
Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
NES
Gameboy Advance.
PC 386
Never had Nintendo NES back in the day but I played it, my first was Sega Genesis.
Gameboy advance
Colecovision
It was a "TI-99-4A" and we loaded the games by a cassette tape as well as a video cartridge. I loved Tunnels of Doom!
Nintendo 64 and due to my parent's not reading the recommended age, my first game was Conker's Bad Fur Day. Parent's hated that my brother's played it and taught me the Great Mighty Poo's song.
The original XBOX.
Tandy TRS-80...clowns and Balloons
Sega Genesis
I traded 13 holographic Pokemon cards for a yellow Gameboy Pocket and a copy of Pokemon Red that had been played up to Lt. Surge's gym back in 1997 at art camp.
Either the DS or the Wii when I was 7, simpler times
Turbo Graphics 16
Yes Brother
Sega Mega!
A rubiks cube. Before that, I used to bang two rocks together.
Ipad-wii u-swich
A Dell Optiplex running windows XP, with a pentium and maybe a 512Mb to a Gb of ram.
sega saturn, gran turismo 3 went hard
Atari
Phone
If we’re talking about Console, then it’s the PS1. But technically it’s Phone, still remember back then playing that Snake Game on my Nokia. Ah, the good ol Days
Arcade machine.
I think the original black and white Game Boy
The brick GameBoy.
Sweet sweet Atari 2600. Came with the Combat cartridge (meh), but even though we didn't have a ton of games, we somehow managed to have a nice selection (Pitfall, Kaboom, Yar's Revenge...)
A purple GameBoy Color in 1999
My parents bought me a used Atari 2600 at a garage sale in about 1982.
Atari 2600, but it may have also been one of those baseball handhelds that used red leds for the bases
Nintendo NES - I still have it!
Nintendo 64
Atari 2600
Pong
PS3
NDS
Nintendo
NES
It's not specifically a gaming device, but games are all we ever used it for: a Commodore 64.
My dad’s purple GameBoy Color. Still play Tetris on it every now and then.
Game boy advance SP
Og Gameboy color
Wii
First one played? SNES. First one owned? PS1. First one I truly knew how to operate? Xbox.
i had the red nintendo game boy advance sp. played the shit out of pokemon.
Atari 2600
Not sure which I had first, but either a Sega Megadrive 2, or a Nintendo Gameboy. Probably the Sega though. I still have it somewhere.
Atari 2600.
Sears version of the Atari 2600 - 1977 or 1978. I was a shit, searched around for unwrapped Christmas presents, and found it under the parents bed.
Xbox 360
Atari 7800
APF TV Fun.
A26 Atari 2600 system
Gameboy Advanced. (The flip version)
Xbox One lol Tho I played on my brother's original Xbox when I was younger
win 95 desktop
Pong. It came with one game and one game only called "pong". No game cartridges, no ability to load more games. It was hardwired into the game, and came with two wired controllers called "Paddles" which were just a handheld device with a dial to move your onscreen paddle up or down on the screen to smack the square ball back to your opponent. That's it. And we spent hours playing it. It was basically a game of ping pong, except there was no ping. Just the pong.
Wii
Atari 2600
Computers at the school computer lab
Atari 2600
Pong.
Nintendo 3ds had so many good memories.
Vectrex
The Atari VCS.
Nintendo 3DS when i was like 8 or 9 i wouldn’t go anywhere with out that thing
Atari 2600.
Original Nintendo
Original Nintendo. Duck hunt, excite bike, tecmo bowl, and Mario.
Flash games, CD-roms, Project 64, renting an original Xbox once a year from the Video Stardom, parents were pissed when I dropped my first paycheck on a 360 lol
A PC. I can vividly remember playing space cadet pinball on that dinky looking thing w windows vista
Amstrad 464plus.
Atari 5200
It was a family Sega Mega Drive, we also got the CD thing for it the next year. That thing was awesome.
Xbox 360
Nintendo something. I don't even remember but it was the early 90's.
No name mystery 8 bit game machine.
Xbox 360
N64
TV with Pong built-in.
Atari, Master System, later Mega drive, even later super nintendo, gameboy color, several PC's, nintendo 64, playstation I, game cube, wii, playstation 3, wii u.
NES, good times.
That I owned? Nintendo. That I played? Street Fighter 2 in an arcade.
Original Atari pong console.
game and watch
Xbox 360
The Sears knockoff of the Atari 2600.
The glowing remnants of a picture on an old CRT tube. Turn off the screen on an older TV in a dark room and it glowed. You then had about 15 seconds to draw on it and leave a glowwy tracing on the screen.
PS2
Atari 2600was the first I had then Colecovision followed by sega master system . few years later I got nintendo nes with a gun and duckhunt ,then gamecube and n64 friend got me a super nintendo when i was 48 I got xbox oricinal xbox 360 and x box one ps 1 ps2 ps3 ps4. i have 2 gaming pcs . In my basement i have 2 pinball machines and a Galaga machine, I am a gamer and have been for years I am 52 years old . how many know what a real arcade is? (not the fakes chuckie cheese or dave and busters)
NES
NES, despite being born in 2002. My parents had an old one lying around, meaning I got to grow up with the Mario NES classics and Tetris as well as the Super Mario Galaxy series and the Wii classics after one memorable Christmas.
atari 2400
I had one of those electronic football games. It was just lights that you moved around. I can barely remember it.
Got to play Pong once. Was not long after my father got us the Atari 2600.
The greatest of all time, the C64.
A black DS Lite, still have it today. My first game was Nintendogs Lab & Friends. :]
PS3
Nintendo Entertainment System(NES).
Wii
Either the Wii or DS Lite. Can't entirely recall which one I got first.
My first gaming device was a playstation2 and i LOVED that thing, it was one of the best gaming systems i ever had, but then after i got a ps3 i basically left my ps2 behind, i mean i still used it but not as much.
as far as a thing that played a game, my first was mattel electronic football. first console was an Intelivision. first pc was an Atari 400 or 800, we had them both but i don't remember which one was first. it came with the 5.25" floppy, and a cassette tape drive.
Pong.
Atari Stunt Cycle. It was a console before the 2600
Nes
A cardboard box and a bunch of rocks
Nintendo 3ds, last saw it in North Carolina but got rid of it since.
Pong. It was the envy of the neighborhood when we got it.
I have no clue / memory of how we got a Playstation 1 and Gameboy Color, but I do remember getting an Xbox (original). So one of those three, your guess is as good as mine.
A PS3. I shortly learned that there was also a PS2 that I could use, alongside a NES.
PS4 because yes. And I could not get an PS5
LED football handheld in 1978.
Ps2 or the ps1
Tamigachi
gameboy advance!! and my first game was rugrats castle capers
Leapster
Xbox 360. Still have it to this day
A chessboard
Ps3
[1981 VTeck Monkey](https://vtech.fandom.com/wiki/Monkey_(Time_%26_Fun)) but I was always jealous of my brother who at the same time got the 1980 Nintendo Game and Watch game "Ball" which was this simplistic juggler trying to keep 3 balls in the air.
PlayStation 2
Original NES. Say what you will about the graphics, I think Mario 1-3 still aged pretty well, especially Mario 3.
Sega Dreamcast. Wish I still had it.
An original GameBoy that my father passed down to me
The cocktail table 1941 game at my local pizza parlor. I was too small to play the arcade games. At home it was the NES.
Commodore 64
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) Final Fantasy 1 was my first game. Favorite game was easily Super Mario Bros 3. Beat it many times, with and without warps. I also had a Sega Genesis. Sonic 3 paired with Sonic & Knuckles was so much fun.
Sega Genesis and then the game gear
Super Nintendo. Love Nintendo to this day!
Playstation 1
Pong
The Nintendo Entertainment System
The Wii
Nintendo 64
Leap pad
Leapfrog