I may be aging myself here, but my first console game machine was an Atari 2600. One of my favorite games was 'Adventure'. And just about all the 'Activision' games!

I am talking about the 'original' release, not the 'retro remake' of the console. This was state of the art, when the only other game machine was 'Pong'.

Ditto on the 2600. I loved the crap out of my old Atari. My favorite game overall on it was probably Frostbite, which had some of the best graphics the machine was capable of at its time. That game was brilliant. I also liked Dolphin, Megamania, and Haunted House a lot.

My favorite game on any of the older consoles though was Nightstalker on Intellivision. Of any of the older games, it is probably the most intense game I can remember. It's still fun. And it's still hard as hell.

My first console was an original Nintendo. you gatta love Supper Mario Bros. and duck hunt
my curently working system is a Nintendo 64 and it works great

does the amiga commodore 64 count.

i think it might as well. those were some good times there...

The first console that i really played was the N64. Got it for Christmas. Came with the Donkey Kong 64 game. Those were the good times. That game Mario 64, Cruisin world, DiddyKong racing and Super smash Bros owned. Though my favorite has to be the NES. Mario and all the great arcade style games ruled

My first console was an Intellivision(!), and my first computer was a Spectravideo. Instead of keys, it had rubber buttons (like a cheap calculator)- and the (detachable) joystick was part of the keyboard!!! It's hard to describe the plastic wonderfulness of my Spectravideo SV318 - but I always wished for the SV328, because it had standard raised keys made of plastic - not rubber!

A person's childhood should never contain the sentence "Well, I suppose it's not too bad. I mean, If I had a ZX81..."*

My favourite joystick to this day is the Atari 2600 single-button - I broke three of them playing Street Fighter II on the Amiga!

Drazur says: LAST NINJA MOVIE - DO IT, DO IT NOW!

Hey, do kids still have fistfights over 'their' console's superiority?



* For anyone under 30 - the Spectrum ZX81 didn't even have keys. Pure touchpad action, all the way. It was like using a microwave keypad with both hands!

@ Drazur: Yes, kids STILL fight over who's machine is better. Especially if owns Xbox 360/PS3/Wii, and the other owns whatever else the other one doesn't own. I think it's called "fanboyism"

My first system was a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES, or simply 'Nintendo'), with the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt game pak, two controllers and the Zapper. I still have it, although I don't think it works

My first system was the Atari. I can remember playing Tanks with my babysitter and kicking her sexy ass. I was too young to realize she was sexy 25 years ago, she was just a girl and therefor had to suffer my supreme tank battle skills.

Well let's see... my brother (8 yrs older than i) gave me his Atari 2600 when I was 4. My neighbors had the 7600?, a superior machine and I was jelous.

Though my father (from his work) got a promotional Atari 800XL computer system and I must say that fully owned anything at the time. Disk games and cartrige games. It was really my first introduction to PCs other than our IBM PC Junior wich my father game me around the same time with tackle football and king's quest (yes the original).

so I had all at the same time, three 'systems', though the IBM might not count.

I didn't do consoles really until Dreamcast came out. But my first was a Nintendo 64. Now I am very fluent in languages of console AND computer.

I still have my N64, albeit the controllers are all buggered beyond repair I've been loyal to Nintendo since their first home console (the NES , which I still happen to have as well), but I have to say the SNES is the best system by far. Still, I prefer my 360 these days.

I loved my Atari...
However, we owned a pong that I played for hours when I was very young.

My first system was an SNES. It rocked, but when my house burned down, the SNES went with it.

Now THAT'S a travesty

Oh yea man I know what you're talking about. Did you ever find the invisable dot & read the creators name in Adventure?
I had a Magnavox Odyssey2 that had a keyboard & some games came with overlays to put on top of it.
Later I won an Atari 2600 at McDonalds in thier Astroids scratch off game.
That was a big HOOT for a little kid.

When I was growing up...I had to spend a lot of time in the Childrens Shrine Hospital in St Louis Missouri.
If it had not been for people donating to the hospital.. Atari, NES and full arcade machines..I think I would had gone mad.
when I get a new job....I am planning on donating current games and consoles to the hospital.

They say video games are bad..because it limits outside exercise. However, when you are in a body cast...they are the only thing to get the blood pumping. It also turned into a social event when we played. Metroid was the fav on the NES...I memorized the whole map...so I was always needed when someone played LOL

Most of the children in the hospital were too poor to own one at home...so they appreciated it more than I did.

Many don't know what the Shrine is....this will help.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shriners

So...if you are not short money...consider those children hospitals that might need machines. You could be giving a kid, like I was, the chance to play.

my first console was the orginal gameboy in 1989 which i bought myself
followed by the nes in 1990 the megadrive\genesis in 1991 and that stayed for 5 years that way untill 1996 which was the year of the snes for me

Well, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit this, but my first Console was the Wii.

This is because when I was younger, my parents wouldn't let me get ANYTHING. About a year ago however, I received a Wii for Confirmation, and so I thought, "Hey, I'll take what I can can get!"

Although, I DO have the old classics on it like Super Mario 64 and LoZ: The Ocarina of Time (Great game by the way! ).

Sega 16 bit was first , Nintendo 8bit was second. I Played both at same time. My Favorite game was Sonic series on 16bit Sega

If you don't consider a dedicated Pong type console (no cartridge... a dedicated unit for the one game), then the first console I owned was the original Nintendo. A couple years later I picked up a Sega Genesis... and haven't bought a console since (I prefer PC gaming now).

NES was my first, though I later got a hand-me-down Atari. I agree though, that SNES was probably the best console of the day.

Mine was a purple Game Boy Color. First game I ever played on it wa LoZ: Oracle of Ages. That started the madness for me; Nintendo or 'nuthin and LoZ forever!

The Atari 2600 was my first taste of the joys I would savor ever since.

30+ years of gamin', now that makes me feel olde.


hehe

20 years of gaming
make room im feeling ye olde too

Man, this topic brings back some memories. Atari 2600 with Missile Command, Space Invaders. I even had the Chess Cartridge, and believe it or not, it had several levels of play and on the higher levels it could knock you for a loop (even though it took quite a while for it to decide a move).

WilliamSea, along this same line of nostalgia, do you remember an 8-bit & Amiga game called "Kennedy Approach" by MicroProse?

my first console was an atari2600 with adventure, and missile command. my first computer was an apple II, which I think i still have lying around somewhere.
I remember when my dad got the nintendo he got it for "himself"
the first console i bought myself was a SNES, got it right out of middle school

I knew somone who had one of those dedicated pong machines, I always thought they were cool.

My first system my family owned was a sega genesis but it wasn't MY console it was my older brothers. My first console was the PS 1 and I personally think some of the best games came from that era my personal favorites were Parasite Eve 1 and 2 (when's the next one???). I also loved Capcom's Resident Evil and Dino Crisis games.

Nope, I got you beat, and I AM aging myself here, my first game machine was the first personal computer sold in the American Market Place. At the time I bought it the term PC or personal computer didn't exist yet, and neither did game console. Atari wasn't even an idea in some other humans' head yet either. I wish I still had it because it has historical significance. The first "home" computer that came off the production line for public sale. Yep, that's right I got the actual and real very first machine from the factory, the very first baby step in computer processor chips of that type too. Mine was the production serial number first entry, and it was bought in late 1969. The Radio Shack TRS 80, with cassette tape data storage!! The first hard drive hadn't been made yet. And yes it was a game machine. A keyboard housed motherboard, that name didn't exist yet either, it was called the main circuit board. With a seperate, monochrome monitor that would be called a 14 inch display by todays' standard.


MAF

Older than dirt and twice as ugly.

The Boserman


Oh BTW most computer history officanados have stated that the Sinclair was the very first "PC" manufactured. And unofficially that was true because many so called "geeks" in California of course, had built their own homemade computer circuits, using of all thing scavenged typewriter keys for building their first "homemade" keyboards. Their basic circuit design was what Sinclairs used, BUT. Radio Shack put the "first" factory manufactured unit up for sale in the "Public Market" before Sinclair sold their first "Public Market" unit.
For those that care you can find these true facts about home computers and their history by logging on to the Smithsonians website.

"Thanks for the memories."

...yeaaah i think you got your dates mixed up ..not too mention your facts unless you were joking
the trs 80 wasnt released till 1977
i kind of doubt you had a ddp-516 or a kitchen computer both by honeywell and from 1966 and 1969 respectivley
the first real personal compyters were the imsai 8080 and the altrai they came both in kit form and premade both date from 1975
a time when atari was already making strides

the first truly personal computer for non geeks that you could get premade with a plastic case room for automatic sanctioned expansion that didnt usually required a soldering iron a keyboard ( something the altair and the imsai lacked) and an rf modulator so it coudl be hooked up to a screen ( another thing those two lacked ) was the apple II from 1977
the apple I was stil just a breadboard where you had to add your own hardware

and the ibm 5100 might have been the worlds first portable but at 20 grand in 1975 it was anything but cheap or aimed at the home user

the whole sinclair thing sounds dubious to me
considering the imsais altair and apple II were there years before the sinclair zx80
the sinclairs only real claime to fame was the fact that it was dirt cheap compared to the others such as the trs 80 and the apple II
the zx 80 showed the world it was possible and usherd in a new era by being a 'real' computer for less then a 100 that however doesn not make it the first personal computer
the apple II was already 3 years old by the time the lisa was released and so was the apple III and countles others the ibm pc was released in 1981 as a response to apple and commodore mostly

the zx80 was a bottom of the barrel dirt cheap machine with 1k of ram 4 k rom and a membrane keyboard
2 year later commodore stepped up to the plate and did it all over again with a better machine the c64

as far as that first facotry made unit
i could have sworn the apple II came in both kit and fully assembeld form in april 1977
the tsr 80 was released in august 1977
the sinclair didnt see the light of day till 1980
make of that what you want

I ended up with a dreamcast just as the games stopped being made.

My baby sister got Pong on the Atari for Christmas. I was too old for such nonsense.







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If gameboy counts, the GBPocket with Pokemon Red and Blue...if not, the n64 with pokemon snap.

My first machine was a Comodore Vic 20 and I loved playin the Radar Rat Race

If you count a dedicated console, I had a Pong type game (with different settings: speed, paddle size, PvC, PvP, PvP with two paddles each...). The first multi-game system I had (many, many years later) was an original Nintendo... with Mario3 (just how does a racoon tail enable flight? ).

My first console was Atari

My first console was an inherited Atari 2600. My first new console was the NES the first Christmas it was available. We got the uber pack with the light gun and that s****y robot with, I believe, 6 games. Of course, when The Legend of Zelda hit the market both of my parents monopolized the machine. My dad finally quit playing when we'd call him for game tips when he on business trips. Ahh... good times...

-T-

An atari when I was around 3 even though it was rented

Sega Megadrive - Streets of Rage


Back in like.. 92? Idk.. whatever year it was released.

my first console game was actually the second commerically released console ever made. the pong system, and i dont mean the one made for other consoles. this system was only used for pong. there were no cartridges. just turn it on and pong came on.

incidentally, the first console game ever released commercially was an asteroids type game.

Megadrive 2 (i think its called genesis in America)

It came with Sonic 2 and Echo the dolphin.

*double post sorry!*

Sega Genesis. I loved that machine and the games on it. You wouldn't believe how hard I cried when that thing broke(I was about 7 I think. Hard to remember)

My first system was the atari 2600, funny enough i still have it. I stored somewhere in my basement cant remember where though, maybe i should see if it still works, if i can find it that is, man it brings back memorys. After that it was the Nes still have that to.

i still have my old pong system, although i'm unsure where it is. i still have my nes and gensis too; i still play them from time to time.

My first exp @ gaming was a vic 20 befoe atari bought the company they then change the name to commadore...I rememder spend two to three day enter in ascii script to play a game.
this was the firt time I met lesure suit larry...I also remember a game called farmers daughter...hehehe...such a blast...these are all word txt games,but it was fun