What Was Your First Gaming System

[Snoozer]

21 and my first gaming system was the good old grey Game Boy. My first console was a super nintendo I bought used because my parents wouldn't let me have a N64. I got to play all the awesome SNES games that way, downside was I never owned a N64 which had very good games as well.

 

[maddness666]

I'm 19. My first gaming system was the Atari. My dad set it up on the kitchen table. After that I was hooked. It wasn't long before I convinced my dad to set up his old computer and install Baldur's Gate and Age of Empires on it for me. Those were the days. Brings back so many memories.

 

[Wes1180]

17 Was either the sega megadrive or the genesis

 

[Telperion]

Commodore 64

 

[gorfias]

49 and, while I don't think this is the exact model, it was very much like this:

I think mine had a 2nd knob on each side so you could play "soccer" or "hockey" with one paddle in front of another paddle standing in a "goal". Either way, you didn't have a controller. You sat next to your opponent with 1/2 this thing on your lap controlling your own 1/2, with a long RF cord going to the trusty 13" Black and White TV with rabbit ears and knob channel controllers. It was a nice diversion when you couldn't find anything to watch on the 3 networks, 2 UHF channels or 1 PBS station on TV. This may be, in part, why I over-compensate with too many toys nowadays.

 

[sibrenfetter]

MSX, awesome computer that was

 

[Danish_4116]

My first system was the PS1 and my first games were Croc: Legend of the Gobos and Need For Speed: High Stakes.

I'm 18 now.

 

[Ed130 The Vanguard]

IBM home system running MS-dos. I was 4 at the time, playing Lemmings.

Now I'm 22.

 

[phoenican]

im 36, my first was the Amiga 500 when i was 15. best graphics around at the time and i paid $200 to get a 1/2 meg upgrade for it.

 

[Jakub324]

PS2. I'm 17. First game I really liked... Timesplitters. Legendary game. Still got it, still play it (not that it really holds up against modern shooters).

 

[calza27]

17. First game ever played was Roller Coaster Tycoon for PC. First console was the Play Station 1, and the first game on the PS1 I played was Muppet Race Mania. Fun times.

 

[tycho0042]

31, first system I owned was a colecovision with an atari adapter so I had 2 systems to play as a kid.
Favorite games were Donkey kong junior and Pitfall!

 

[PSIcho2468]

I'm 15, but since I had an older brother, I grew up with a N64 and at my dad's place was a NES.

 

[AngryBritishAce]

16 PS2

 

[Maleval]

I'm 21 and my first was the Dendy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System#Hardware_clones], basically an NES ripoff sold in the countries of the former soviet union in the early to mid nineties. No specifically warm gaming memories from back then, though I do distinctly remember playing Mortal Kombat on it. Also those wonderful buggy over-9000-games cartriges.

Yeah.. I had a couple of those they broke down like once a year.. and you couldnt repair them so you just went out and bought a new one.. The controllers tired out in lika month if you play constantly.. And oh those fun yellow cartriges.. like 999 in one were actually bout 15 different games and a million versions of those..

Good times..

Oh yeah.. I'm 23..

You know, that specific system is still alive and kicking. It's like 15 years old right now and I got it second hand from friends. My grandfather still plays tetris on it.

 

[Sammaul]

30 years old now and my first console was a Sega Master System II, with an onboard copy of Alex Kidd in Miracle World......

Memories, sweet mammaries.

 

[MCrewdson001]

16 and it was the ps1

 

[WolfR]

20 and it was the very first big ol' fat yellow Game Boy, LOVED IT.

 

[Random Encounter]

Super Nintendo. Good Times.

 

[Takolin]

Either the orginal gameboy (got it when I was 6 or 7) or my brother's NES. I'm not sure what came first.

I'm 24 now.