Your First Game Console

[retroguy]

The first console my family had was an NES, which my sisters and I got for christmas in 1987 with SMB/Duck Hunt, Bugs Bunny's Crazy Castle and The Adventures of Dino Riki.

The first one that was all mine was a Game Boy I got christmas of 93 or 94 (I don't remember which) along with Darkwing Duck, TaleSpin, Wario Land and Super Off Road. They must have stopped packing in Tetris by then because I remember getting that game seperately later.

Mom told me later that she originally got the games as a way of improving my hand-eye coordination (which I guess was important for an autistic kid). I don't know how much it helped, but I sure had a lot of fun.

[NE146]

Coleco Telstar Colortron was the first video game we had on our TV. My dad bought it for us and it rocked the house.

After that it was the Sears VCS.

[NBaco]

The good old NES...That was my first too. I got it on my 4th birthday. Opening it up and playing Super Mario Bros would forever change me... It wasn't too long that I discovered Contra, Double Dragon, and Mega Man and it was all downhill from there. Not long after that, I got a Sega Genesis and the rest is nerd history.

[shifted]

Sega Master System - hand me down and still with me!

[mikesides]

Sega Master System in 1987/1988. My Dad worked two jobs and my mom needed something to keep me occupied while she was pregnant.
Still have it and all of the games too. I have never had an issue with it yet.

[TheShireGamer]

Well, Im pretty young so my first system that I received which was for christmas many years back was a new N64, the first system however that I played growing up in the 90's was the SNES!

[Genesaturn]

I received an NES on Christmas when I was 4 in 1988 I didn't even know what video games were outside of the green Apple II screens at school. It was a nice surprise and I spent many days playing Super Mario Brothers with my dad....I will never forget how he would pull the couch up right to the TV and whenever he would make Mario jump...he'd jump out of his seat!

[DylanOZ]

My first game console was the top loading NES, i don't remember how i actually came into posession, I think it might have been
a friend of my mother's. My favourite games for it were Mario Bros and Battletoads. I still own my top loader but i have only 3 carts for it a 3 in 1 with (SMB,Tetris and some soccer one). Flintstones and Battletoads. Most of my best memories were when i visited my uncle who had a Mega Drive and i'd play with him, mostly MK3. When he moved onto bigger and better things (PC gaming) he gave me his games and mega drive.

[o.pwuaioc]

Atari 2600, followed by an SNES and then a Genesis (although I went over the neighbor's to play their NES a lot).

[donkeypunch360]

It was a NES and it was kick-ass

[Kal Zakath]

Atari 2600. The first video game I ever played was Combat. It took a while before I figured out the reason the other tank wasn't moving was because it was a two player only game. I was four, give me a break.

[sloan]

Sears Tele Games Video Arcade 4 switcher. Still have it too.

[disorderlyvision]

Atari 2600 was the first one I played, but the first one i actually got into was the NES

[Neal]

hi friends.
My first game is Need for Speed Underground i like to play this game very much this is a good game and if you are play this game with networking with your friends then you also enjoy this game very much

[Andy]

I don't remember the specific model, but it was a Telstar console, one knob on either side of the unit for playing Pong and derivative games like Jai Alai.

[nouserever]

My first was a snes.

[Yamazaki]

my first ever game system was a good old Game Boy, black color.

I remember buying it at an american import/export store in Turkey. Bought Primal Rage together with it.

Good old times

[madman77]

Deja Vu as I thought I posted something like this before, but at any rate the first system we had was Intellivision. I was very young and didn't really understand what it was, I just remember the dealer in Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack and then some memories of Bowling (still a GREAT classic bowling game). I always seemed to enjoy my neighbor's Atari 2600 more, but it wasn't until I got older that I really realized how great the ole INTV really was. I played a LOT of Burgertime, Utopia and Astrosmash.

[NYLatenite]

The very first console I had growing up was one of the Coleco Telstar Pong units.

Then it was Coleco Telstar Combat, Coleco Telstar Arcade followed by the Atari 2600. (and eventually many more systems)

[sennaho]

My first console was the original Game Boy! I got it for my birthday in 1996 togheter with Asterix (Never liked it, it was too hard back then) and because of that, handheld systems has always been my favorite ones!

[PacKid]

Pikachu GameBoy SP.
got it for my birthday with pokemon red rescue team. Hated it and played saphire

[starchildskiss78]

I swear I had posted in the thread before but apparently not!

My first console was the Mattel Intellivision II that my parents got me from K-B Toys in 1983. It seems like it was around summer. I had a grand total of three games for it and all of them were "Space" something. (One of them was the one with the overlays that had "triforces" on them and made "fart noises" as the AVGN put it...)

Someone mentioned before that most people's first console was also their favorite. While I liked the Intellivision and I enjoy playing Intellivision Lives! on Gamecube, it is far from my favorite. My favorite console is actually the third (if you count the Commodore 64 as a video game console...I know that's all I played on it!) one I got: the Nintendo Entertainment System. It may not be the system I have the most games for, but it is the one I have the most love for.

[markusman64ds]

My first system was an NES because someone in my house had it already. I remember playing Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt. We also had Tetris, Double Dragon II and Super C, but I wasn't allowed to play the last two.

Later around 2002 I got an N64. I read in a catalog that it was $300, so me and my dad saved up the money, then bought it for $30 at a thrift store. Don't remember what games we bought for it originally, but it was so exciting to have it. Played a lot of Banjo and Mario 64. I played Banjo so much that I posted a glitch I found on Gamewinners when I was 5! Back then I was Mario 64 Man.

[DeseoParadise]

A Nes clon called Super Casel... I'm still looking for it

[jms5118]

First console was an nes.