What Was The First Video Game Console You Owned?

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

For me it was the Atari 2600. I then got Intellivision, ColecoVision, Atari 7800, NES, and so on...

My biggest regret is trading my old stuff in for pennies instead of keeping it and storing it away. I had a pretty decent Sega Saturn collection that I let go for practically nothing but I needed money for the new Sega Dreamcast. In hindsight I was a big dummy. Keep your stuff and take care of it.

 

[isildur1]

My first console was a Nintendo 64 and I have the same problem. Gave it away for basically nothing in order to get a Gamecube. Had the sickest games, Mario Kart, Mario 64, Smash Bros, Pokemon Stadium...

 

[D-rock]

The first game console my family owned was the old school NES. I guess that's not technically me owning it as much as my parents did, but I think that's what your getting at. I played several Atari consoles before that, but they were always at other people's houses. Eventually we ended getting some of those also when people quit playing them and they went out of flavor. I was lucky in that my parents were pretty understanding of the whole video game stuff for us back in a time where a lot of them weren't and video games were considered a kids thing.

If you mean the first console I own as my personal private possession then it's the Playstation 1, (although around the same time I got a hand me down SEGA genesis from a friend of my brother so I'm not totally sure what came first now that I think about it.) although in a de facto sort of way I pretty much got our SNES almost all to myself even before that.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

Having had both Atari 2600 and the NES, I am really into the systems that came in-between those.

Intellivision I was excited when the Intellivision first came out. It had better graphics than the Atari 2600. I leaned that graphics weren't everything but gameplay was king. Intellivision was a pretty decent system. It had some good games that looked better but many of the games were 2 player only. Not a lot of people I knew were into Intellivision but I did have a buddy 2 blocks from me that I'd play Intellivision with either at his house or mine.

ColecoVision I have always loved the ColecoVision. This was the system that did the Arcade games right. Played every game I got on that system to death.

Atari 7800 Another forgotten system that I wish lasted longer. It was what I wanted from an Atari system. Just not enough games. Then Nintendo takes over...

 

[darkwarrior3007]

The NES.

 

[Steve-FreeOnes]

Not really a console, but my parents got me a Spectrum 48K for Christmas one year. I never asked for it but they regretted buying it as it led to me demanding a C64, Gameboy, NES, Master System and so on.

 

[CrimsonBolt]

The NES, my oncle gave me, but I didn't play a lot with this console.

Then I buy a Playstation, and then I get in love with video games, my first game on PS was Skullmonkeys

I've also received a GameBoy "pocket" at X-Mas, but I don't remember if it was before or after the Playstation.

 

[afterlights]

Atari 2600.

Friends had ColecoVision and Intellivision, so we had a variety of gameplay in the neighborhood. I later found an off-brand console at a garage sale. The controllers consisted of a single up-down slider and the console was battery-operated. All the games were Pong variants.

If I'm remembering correctly, Intellivision was the one that had the plastic controller inserts for different games? I think that's when I started realizing the potential of gaming beyond the Atari controller.

 

[maildude]

The family bought one of those old Pong 3-game TV hook-up machines. It played Pong, Solo practice and a 2-paddle version of Pong. That was way back in 1860. Like Steve mentioned, I bought the C64 when it was still the VIC20. I actually got the Super Nintendo before the NES.

 

[whalers90]

i'm old, atari 2600 -

For me it was the Atari 2600. I then got Intellivision, ColecoVision, Atari 7800, NES, and so on...

My biggest regret is trading my old stuff in for pennies instead of keeping it and storing it away. I had a pretty decent Sega Saturn collection that I let go for practically nothing but I needed money for the new Sega Dreamcast. In hindsight I was a big dummy. Keep your stuff and take care of it.

i'm old - atari 2600 i remember from the 80s - but as Dino Velvet said - i also wish i never got rid of my old systems- i currently have my ps2, ps3, ps4, ps5 - original black Xbox and a X360. i had a modded PSone that my cousin did for us and we just rented games brought them to his house and he would copy/burn copies for all of us. so at some point i think he/we had every PSone game made. still wish i kept that system & my N64, Sega Dreamcast and my Genesis. i still always talk about getting the Commodore 64 again - for Micro league baseball but then again it's 2021 and i am sure it won't hold up now from the late 80s. but i also don't have the room to get all these systems hooked up.

 

[D-rock]

As a tip for people with old NES consoles not only keep the console, but try to pick up a good number of the original controllers also if they are in good condition. Just about every aftermarket copy of them you can buy are crappy in comparison to the originals, especially the D pads on the them. I found even old used ones from the 80s that are still decently functional are still better than what you can buy now.

I was hoping that with the release of the NES Classic that Nintendo would of also re-released new controllers that would have worded with the original NESs but it didn't happen.

 

[VillellaMcMeans]

Vectrex, then pretty much every console after that until PlayStation 2, then sadly no time anymore...☹️

 

[Ruddiger]

Sega Game Gear. It was supposed to surpass NES's Game Boy because it had color while Game Boy was black & white. But that's the only good aspect Game Gear had going for it. It was a battery drainer. Took up six double-A batteries and, within four hours, Game Gear would go dead. My mom had to buy a forty dollar AC Adapter just so I could play the games. Many of the games were easy to beat.

The only noteworthy game was Axe Battler: Legend of Golden Axe and it was a rip-off of Zelda.

 

[srakat]

It's sad, but my first console was PS4. All my life I played game on PC and mobile devices. However, now I'm fan and dream of PS5.

 

[VillellaMcMeans]

It's sad, but my first console was PS4. All my life I played game on PC and mobile devices. However, now I'm fan and dream of PS5.

Consoles are good, but PC and mobile are awesome too 👍

I remember all the old PC games and alot of them ended up on console too.

Especially the strategies one like Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh etc all Koei games.

Old PC games like Space Quest and Kings Quest and Warlords Ultima etc🍻

 

[deathmetaldude]

Atari 2600
ColecoVision
Nintendo nes
PC
X Box
X Box 360

 

[freeryan]

nes but sega genesis made me fall in love with games.

 

[NKW]

SNES

 

[Legzman]

NES

 

[Pantspopsicle]

Sega Megadrive 2 (Genesis)