General Gaming What was the first home console you played? What was the first home console you owned?

[AbsolutSurgen]

2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Old Playstation ones didnt even have to be modded, you could just do the disc swap trick. I did get a Modded PSX on college though. That was the only time I had a modded console.

All you needed was a spring -- no modification required!

[Bloodporne]

2 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

Old Playstation ones didnt even have to be modded, you could just do the disc swap trick. I did get a Modded PSX on college though. That was the only time I had a modded console.

I totally forgot about that...

 

I think I actually had two PS1s because the first one I bought was used from some kid in school and had to be turned on its side to even boot up properly after a month. I just remember my friend and I eventually modding ours because him and his dad were highly tech-savvy.

[legend]

First console played was NES; first owned was a Sega Genesis.

 

But really, my earliest serious gaming experiences was on one of these:

 

 

[Rodimus]

Atari 2600 first played 

 

NES first owned

[Remarkableriots]

The first home console i played was the Atari and the first one i owned was NES which was a gift from my dad. The second home console i owned was the Action Max. 

Anybody else here remember this system?

[Remarkableriots]

This was the first PC my family had but i used it the most.

 

[GameDadGrant]

BAH to your "I'm not counting handhelds!"  

 

First home console played: Atari 7800

First home console owned: Nintendo Entertainment System

First home console I bought on my own: Gamecube

 

First handheld played: Game Boy (unless those Tiger LCD games or Game & Watch count?)

First handheld owned: Game Boy

First handheld I bought on my own: Game Boy

[AbsolutSurgen]

7 hours ago, legend said:

First console played was NES; first owned was a Sega Genesis.

 

But really, my earliest serious gaming experiences was on one of these:

 

 

Similarly, Many of my most memorable gaming experiences was on one of these:

[Rbk_3]

First Gaming System Owned: Commadore 64 given second hand by my aunt in 94

First Console played: NES, given by my cousin to borrow in 96

First owned: Sega Genesis, given as a Christmas present in 98

First Bought with my own Money: Xbox in 2003. 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

On 1/9/2020 at 5:33 AM, Bloodporne said:

I think I actually had two PS1s because the first one I bought was used from some kid in school and had to be turned on its side to even boot up properly after a month. I just remember my friend and I eventually modding ours because him and his dad were highly tech-savvy.

 

I think they all ended up like that. I had to play mine upside down and all the plastic parts came off the spindle of the CD player.

[skillzdadirecta]

1 hour ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

I think they all ended up like that. I had to play mine upside down and all the plastic parts came off the spindle of the CD player.

Yeah eventually all PS1's had to be played  like that in order for them to work until they released the redesign.

[5timechamp]

Atari 2600... only video game anything my dad ever bought for me.. NES had already launched too.. 

[silentbob]

I remember playing next door in my friends basement and playing with his Intellivision system. It was also my first system in my house as my cousin gave it to the family when he got his NES. (I eventually got that system too) First brand new system my family ever got was the Lion King Genesis Bundle for a Xmas gift for me. The first system I was able to purchase with my own money was a launch day release Dreamcast I remember spending like $600 on it from my first summer job working at Tim Horton’s Bought system, Sonic, Soul Caliber, and House of the Dead 2, extra controller, and a VMU. Had to wait a couple weeks before the light guns were released. So came home from school, got someone to take me to Future Shop to get everything, came home with everything and got called into work. Only worked until 8 but came home only to see that I needed a few RFU adaptor in order to play my new system. Didn’t really play until the 2nd day when I got my RFU from my local BlockBuster store

[SuperSpreader]

Atari 2600 & Colecovision

[DPCyric]

I think the first one I played was an Atari 7800 and then my grandparents got an Atari 2600 for me to play at their house. The first one I would say I actually owned however was the NES!

[Slug]

Not counting PCs, the first traditional home console I remember playing was probably the Atari 2600.  The first console I purchased for myself was a used Genesis.  The first console I purchased new was an N64.

[Alpha1Cowboy]

On 1/9/2020 at 12:59 PM, Remarkableriots said:

The first home console i played was the Atari and the first one i owned was NES which was a gift from my dad. The second home console i owned was the Action Max. 

Anybody else here remember this system?

 

 

Hell Yeah...Pops Ghostly was the shit.  

[Remarkableriots]

51 minutes ago, Alpha1Cowboy said:

 

 

Hell Yeah...Pops Ghostly was the shit.  

 I had that one , .38 Ambush Alley

and Sonic Fury.

[Dre801]

First I played: Pong Machine(if that counts)

First I owned: NES.

 

Played a lot of Atari, but wasn't until NES that I finally got my parents to buy me a system.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Played, NES. 

Owned, Genesis. 

[Rodimus]

The Atari was my sister's and she didn't care much for it. Also one of the games we had was E.T. So that probably soured my sister on video games for life. 

[silentbob]

First System Played/Owned: Intellivision at my friends house, and I think Shark, Shark was the first game I played. Was later gifted the system from my cousin who moved onto a NES and was later given that too

 

First New System Owned: Sega Genesis Lion King Bundle for Xmas from my parents, and I guess you can see what the first game I played too

 

First System Bought New with Own Money: Dreamcast which I couldn’t really play until the 2nd day I had it because we needed an RFU adaptor to work with my tv. Sonic was the first game played, but wanted House of the Dead 2 to play first but light guns were delayed a week or so.

 

 

[HGLatinBoy]

NES - Punchout, I could not beat glass Joe

 

I really wanted an NES of my own but didnt get one for a while my grandpa gave me my uncles Atari 2600 which I played with until I got a NES for christmas in 88 or something

[heydude93]

First played: Nes

 

First owned: Genesis