What was your first console?

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

A classic XBoX with a Snes emulator and a bunch of games, including Snes Doom

[out_of_service]

10 hours ago, gayzad said:

And did you homebrew it to run Doom? The consoles that are shitty 500 in 1 handhelds don't count.

My first console was the Wii! Homebrewed it 5 days after getting it. And of course I played Doom and Wolfenstein 3D on it!

My first ever console was the Sega Genesis from way back in the day my main man!

[Redneckerz]

Super NES in 1996 or something. Then i got a PSX by myself and a Gameboy Pocket, 1997/1998. Both still work perfectly fine over 2 decades later. By contrast, my Nintendo DS is broken.

 

9 hours ago, Martin Howe said:

Binatone TV Master, basically Pong and similar games, bought by my parents for my brother and I in 1977 (I was 11 yo at the time). The "processor" was a  AY-3-8500, the old skool equivalent of that Doom on FPGA project; it was a dedicated logic circuit that could only play those games.

Now that's a CPU i haven't heard in a while. Pong-on-a-chip or POAC really. Really the first mass-consumer chip before discrete processors (Intel 8080/Zilog Z80) would take over. Before my days, but i love these oldskool platforms.

 

[ax34]

Lifa (bootleg Famiclone)

[noob_killer012345678]

xbox 360

nuff said

[Unregistered User]

1 hour ago, openxt said:

It was the Wii U, I don't get why people don't like the Wii U.

The Wii U is fine, albeit unnecessary. The DS just looks better, is more ergonomic and fills the handheld role much better. But, the Wii... I hate the Wii. It looked ugly, the hardware seemed to lag more than it's predecessors. Maybe the games were just too demanding for the console. But worst of all were the controls and UI. Way too much time was spent syncing the controllers and setting up the receiver. The receiver presented at least one problem per gaming session. And only the person who owned the Wii really felt confident using it as the controllers were totally different. I always felt handicapped playing with my friends due to this. I mean, not owning the console your playing on will always be a disadvantage, but less so when the controller is at least somewhat similar to those of other systems. And before playing a game, we all had to select ugly Nintendo characters. Made no sense, I just wanted to play the game. 

[7Mahonin]

Atari 2600 was our first console. Now, we got it fairly late in its life-cycle though, so I'm not as ancient as one might think.

[Doomkid]

My older brother already had an NES from before I was born, but I loved that thing as a kid. I considered the PC my "main gaming machine" back then though. It could run Wolf3D and Doom.. No way the NES was playing either of those.

 

I did get an N64 when I was like 6, and by lucky coincidence, a family friend gave us their old SNES in exchange for a couple bikes shortly after. Even though the SNES was clearly inferior to the N64 I still loved it, because it truly felt like a souped-up NES.

 

..side rant - I came to love the Sega Genesis as an adult, but as a kid I remember going to a friend's house after school and all they had was a Genesis. I think they probably only had some lame LJN games or something, because I came away with the distinct impression that it was "just a shittier SNES". Years later (when I was like 20) I played some great Genesis games and came to love it as well. Better late than never!

 

My dad insists we (the family) had an Intellivision voice module before the NES and had it all the way through the late 90s (the one that says BEEE SEVENTEEEN BALLLMER) and that he used to occasionally play Dungeons and Dragons on it. I must have somehow blocked that thing from my memory, because I haven't thought of it one single time since then until my dad mentioned it recently..

[Ringo64]

My first experience with gaming was my mom’s pink DS. I remember playing through 1-1 of New Super Mario Bros and then flipping out because 1-2 was so hard for me. The first console I owned, however, was the DSi.

[Antkibo]

Gameboy Color. Had most Pokemon games for it (even the TCG game!) and the two Zelda: Oracle of X. Great, little machine.

Edited July 3, 2022 by Antkibo

[Noiser]

My older sister had an Atari 2600 that I played as if it was my own, but my first actual console was a NES clone called Phantom System. Then I had a Playstation 1, but much later. I never had a Genesis, SNES or Gameboy as they were kinda expensive for my family at the time (on the country I live). Still, some of my favorite games are from these consoles and I play them on emulators to this day.

Edited July 8, 2022 by Noiser

[enigma101]

First console was the PS2. Loved playing Guitar Hero on it.

[Daytime Waitress]

5 hours ago, Walter confetti said:

My first console was the Sega Master System with exactly 6 freaking games: Shinobi, Wonder Boy, Ghostbusters, Hang On, that game with the light gun that i don't recall the name now

 

 

Was it Operation: Wolf?

 

6 hours ago, LadyMistDragon said:

Atari 2600. No, it actually ended its run like 4 years before I was born and my family was poor, but probably a little cheap as well. You know how it goes. But my first real console was an NES

 

Are you me?

 

Having the 2600 so late in its life did mean that I could amass a ridiculously large collection, which was initially great, but one hell of a shock when seeing the price tag for new NES games at the time!

 

The NES was actually my older sister's, and stupid kid me asked for (and got) a Master System II probably not all that long before actually seeing 16-bit consoles the_more_you_know.gif

 

Adored all three of them, though.

[Remilia Scarlet]

My first was an Atari 7800, though I mostly had 2600 games. Then came a Genesis, my favorite <3

[jupiter_ex]

Famicom (NES) japanese red and white version clone. Those were ubiquitous here back then.

After that, I moved definitely to PC and my hands never touched other than WASD + mouse till today :thumbs-up: 

[Rymante]

A Super Nintendo bundled with Star Fox (or as it was called here, Starwing).

 

I have a lot of fond memories of that system, getting full completion in Super Mario World & all 3 Donkey Kong Country games, playing through the strange Jurassic Park games Ocean Software released for the system (those damn dinosaur eggs!), although funnily enough I actually missed out on a lot of the top tier classics back then.  No 'A Link to the Past' or 'Super Metroid' for me until long after I had traded in the SNES for an N64.

[DoomPlayer00]

First consoles I have clear memories of playing as a kid are my family's Playstation 1 and NES.

Though supposedly I did try using my dad's computer as a toddler to play the games I watched him play on it so technically PC if that counts for a console in this case.

[BlueThunder]

My first console was the NES, Super Mario Bros, Punchout, Legend of Zelda, and Contra were most Saturday mornings and evenings after school. 1989 at its best for me anyways.

[Kes Gaming YT]

My parents never allowed game consoles growing up. My mother thought they were a waste of time, so the only time I ever played games was on a computer.

The very first console I ever owned was in 2017, when I bought a Xbox 360 for $19 on eBay. I wanted to start playing the Saints Row series, and the first game in the series was exclusive to the 360, unlike all the others which ran on PC.

Prior to that, the only console I really spent any time with was the Wii, which was a popular item at friend's houses/birthday parties, etc. To this day, I'd still call it my favorite console.

[Firedust]

PS One. It was awesome.

[Kor]

NES for me, before Doom even came out.  Though I have a vague memory of playing pong when I was really little.  I couldn't tell you what console that was or if it truly belonged to my family.  Then I got a Game boy and then an SNES.  Then I got Doom and didn't get a console again for like seven or eight years (N64 in the early 2000s).  

Edited July 3, 2022 by Kor

[Grillsen]

My first console was a psp which my dad modded for me and I had a ton of emulated games on it. I was dumb though and sold it eventually to buy a DS. I still regret selling that psp. My first real home console that I owned though was a ps2 and I spent many late gaming nights with my friends playing battlefront 2.

[Mission Mars Base]

SEGA Megadrive (Genesis)

 

I had two games for it, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and the Page Master.

[Mr. Cowboy Zombie]

Dreamcast... sweet childhood memories :')

[HydroFS02]

First console I ever played had to be the Nintendo 64 or my sister's original Game Boy in the late 90's. Was very young so I can't remember which was first. But I didn't get my own console until the Game Boy Advance came out.

[Nikku4211]

PS2, and then I got into other retro consoles as a 5-year-old.

[Wyrmwood]

Sega Master System, had it for maybe 2 years before upgrading to Megadrive when I got my first Job. It was more-or-less less a waste of time as the games cost too much for kids back then unless you had very generous parents. I only had Shinobi and Hang-on, so I just used my trusty old ZX Spectrum all the time, games were affordable with pocket money not to mention magazine cover tapes had multiple free games.

Edited July 4, 2022 by Wyrmwood
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[Somniac]

I had a Gameboy and later a Game Boy Advance (think the mediocre Doom port was the only thing I owned for it, as a novelty). Aside from that I was purely PC, though I was exposed to Playstation, N64 and Xbox through friends. 

[Jello]

My first console was an NES in 1991, on Christmas morning. It was a present for my older brother and myself, and we really didn't even know what a console was at that point. They weren't really prevalent, and honestly I don't think we had any friends that had consoles either, so it was a new experience. We got Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt with it, and it was absolutely amazing. Over the next couple of years we got Metroid, TMNT 2, Super Mario Brothers 3, Legend of Zelda, and Bill and Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure, but most of the games we played were rented. But it still seemed like we had quite a few games to play.

 

Now I look at my Steam list of almost 600 games and I have a hard time finding something to play.

[Daytime Waitress]

12 hours ago, Jello said:

Now I look at my Steam list of almost 600 games and I have a hard time finding something to play.

 

My favourite part of childhood was heading to the video rental place and trying something new each week. And not knowing what ennui was.