Was your first cd system your first audio cd system?

[thetoxicone]

Just wondering if this was the case for anyone else. My family never jumped the cd player bandwagon for quite a long time so it ended up when I got a sega cd shortly after launch it also ended up being my first way of experiencing audio cd. Shortly after I started buying more and more cds and got a standalone player and portable cd player. Not much of a story but I still find it odd that the sega cd was what first got me to experience audio cds as well as cd-based games.

[Lemmi_Is_God]

i got my first CD boombox in 1989 and my first CD based gaming system i got was around 1997 i think it was the Sega CD, then the 3DO

from 1989 to now i only bought 63 music CDs
after buying over 230 music cassettes from 1979 to 1993 changing format didnt appeal to me that much

i also have never had a car with a CD player in it, but i had a loaner car once with an 8 track player in it :)

[xtremegamer]

I got my first CD player in 1997, a 3 disc changer, oooooooooooooooo.

My first CD based system was in 1996, the 3DO with the Sega CD shortly after. I loved the 3DO for it's screen saver for audio cd's.

[jcheatle]

Interesting that you brought the topic up since I remember there being a thread not too long ago where somebody explained how the audio quality of an original PSX was equivalent with a super high-end stereo. I can't quite remember the exact details but that was the gist of it.

As for me, my first CD player was given to me at Christmas '95, while my first CD based system was the PS1 for Christmas '97. So to answer your question, no.

However, on a technicality, I could probably state that my first major experience with CDs, audio or otherwise, was at my friend's house via his PC in '94-ish. So I guess that might count also.

[Willem]

I bought my first CD player around 1993-1994, my first cd-console was the PSX in 1995-1996, can't quite remember when I bought it.

and yes, the cd-audio player in the PSX was very good.

[Pantechnicon]

First CD player: 1992.

First CD system: 1999, Jaguar CD add-on. Played CD's fine (but not CDR's), but I was less-than-wowed by the integrated graphical music player thingy.

[Alucard79]

I got my first cd player sometime between 1987-89. Not exactly sure. My first cd system (and what really got me into gaming, old and new) was the PS1.

[boatofcar]

First cd player - 1994
First cd system (PS2) - 2001

[Retsudo]

Yep my first CD based system was my first CD player. The PS1. 1996.

[Family Computer]

First CD system was the Turbo Grafx CD. Had a cd player before that.

[heybtbm]

First CD player: 1990
First CD: Faith No More - The Real Thing

[walrusmonger]

First CD player was one of the early CD Walkman models (still own it and it still works), dont remember the year.

[hades]

The Sega CD was my first CD player too. I remember unwrapping it when I got it for Christmas and after a few rounds of dying in Sewer Shark I put in some freebie discs my mother won from a radio station. It was mind blowing at the time and I think I had more fun popping in and listening to crappy music on the cds than I did playing through most of the Sega CD games I owned.

[ubikuberalles]

First CD player: A Philips POS I bought in 1988 or 1989.

First CD system: CD add-on for the Jaguar back in 1999.

The first CD I played on the Philips player was Days of Future Passed.

The first CD I played on my Jaguar was Severe Tire Damage by TMBG. I played it to test the VLS software on the Jag. The connection between TMBG and my Jag is so strong, in fact, that every time I get my Jaguar set up I absolutely MUST play the TMBG CD.

[Gentlegamer]

My first cd console and audio cd were both Sony brand, but not the same unit.

[TurboGenesis]

YES!

My first CD player was a game system.
Summer of 1991, I had compiled a vast amount of cash and make the monumental purchase of a Turbo Grafx CD player.

The game magazines of the time hype up Y's Bood I&II and I had to get it. I convinced myself that the benefit of purchase of TG CD was the fact that I could get into the music CD sceen.

I actually didn't get a non game CD player until 1996 when I move out on my own. My Turbo Duo was my CD player.

I had my console hooked up to a receiver and I had the menu memorized for the Turbo CD dashboard I could play CD's with out turning on the TV.

[Barbarianoutkast85]

My first CD platform console was the Playstation 1, and I had a CD player long before that. So the answer to the question is nope.

[DigitalSpace]

My first CD system was the PS2, and I had owned a few audio CD players before that.

(Btw, the first CD I bought with my own money was Metallica's Ride The Lightning.)

[bangtango]

The first cd system I owned was the Sega Saturn, which I obtained around the summer of 1999 or 2000. I already had a few other cd players pass through my hands before picking that up. However, I did use the Saturn quite often for playing cd's. So did my college roommate when we were both in our senior year. Nice little player that was.

[Steve W]

My first CD based game console was the TurboGrafx-16 CD-ROM attachment, but I had bought a CD boombox a year or two earlier, so I didn't use the Turbo much for music, unless it was the occasional borrowed CD+G disc.

[smork]

My first CD player was in 1988 or 1989 (probably 1989), a Pioneer.

I didn't have a CD based console until the PS1 in '96. I did have a CD ROM on my computer for gaming and other purposes in '94.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Sega CD was my first cd player and cd-based console. Even though it was an add-on. Saturn would have been my first true cd system but, I had a diskman and rack cd player by then.

[RPG_Fanatic]

First cd player 1990
First cd's Metallica - Master Of Puppets & Fobidden - Twisted Into Form
First cd system - Sega CD

[ryborg]

No, not even close.

I bought a CD boombox with paper route money in 1992. I'm not afraid to admit that I also picked up Kris Kross' "Totally Krossed Out" and the Wayne's World soundtrack that day.

My first CD-based game system that I actually owned myself was the 3DO in 1999-ish. I had always been around the PS1/PS2/3DO previous to that, but they were owned by roommates and friends.

[YoshiM]

My first personal CD player was a refurb Fisher boom-box that I got for Christmas I wanna say in 1990. My dad got one before me as a "spiff" for selling a lot of REALLY expensive GE lamps (got a 20" or 25" TV, a 35mm sports camera and his boom box from GE). My first CD was Rush: Grace Under Pressure.

My first CD system was the Sega CD, months after it launched.

[p_b]

My first cd player was a sony stereo tower for 1000$ :-) Can't remember the year and am to lazy to look it up, but the first Nirvana CD was in the charts then. And this was the first CD I ever bought.
I had been working on some holiday jobs for a few weeks and really really wanted to have a stereo. It would have been even more expensive, but it was on discount, hehe. Still, it was worth it, it's still running today.

First CD system? Dreamcast in 2000.

[JPeeples]

I don't remember what my first audio CD player was, but my first CD-based gaming system was the Sega CD, which I got in '93 to play WWF Rage in the Cage and Sonic CD.

[Rob2600]

My parents bought a CD player for the family in 1987. It was an expensive JVC that could hold up to seven CDs. It died eleven years later in 1998.

[diskoboy]

Got my first CD player for Xmas of 1987 - it was a Sony. Back then, the player was almost $300. Nowadays, a really good CD player runs you around $50 or less..

My first CD was The Beatles' Abbey Road.

The CD player still works. The amp doesn't. So it sits in my attic. It's been replaced several times over.

My first portable CD player was this.
http://photo.head-fi.org/data/695/medium/sond35-4.jpeg
The Sony D-350. Has the features of (what was by 1990 standards) of a top of the line shelf system, and sound you wouldn't believe. But the laser was prone to failure, and broke after a short time. I went through 5 of these, before I gave up on it, and Sony completely.

My first game CD game system was the Sega CD.

[Chuplayer]

Personally, my first CD player was my first CD based gaming system. It was the SEGA Saturn, and I got it in August 1999.

My parents had a Sony boombox player with detachable speakers since the early to mid 90s, but I never used it.

[mailman187666]

yes actually my first CD player was the Sega CD as well. I thought it was the best thing ever. My first 2 CDs were NWA "Str8 outta Compton" and Eazy-E (It's On). I thought it was the greatest thing ever. I think it was around 1994-1995 era.

[sabre2922]

My first CD based console was the 3DO yea but it was still impressive at the time.

My first CD player was with a very nice stereo back in 1990. It was single disc but still pretty damn expensive.

[Icarus Moonsight]

I think my first music CD's were Nirvana - Nevermind, Pearl Jam - Ten and Alice in Chains - Dirt... think I got Tool - Undertow after that. :embarrassed: I wore alot of flannel back then.

[Damaramu]

Wow, this topic really makes me feel nostalgic.

My first CD player, IIRC, was a Sony Discman D121: Pic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Discman_D121.jpg)

My first CD? The Soup Dragon's Lovegod: Album Info (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovegod)

My first CD based game system was the TurboGrafx 16 w/ CD attachment and something like 25+ games (both hu-card and cdrom) I traded two long boxes of comics for with a friend.

[Azraelscross]

First cd player: A Koss Discman in like 97-98. For actual full player. A koss boombox like 4 years ago
First CD: Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
First CD Based System: PS1 in 2001

yea. i was a bit late in that regard.

[T-1000]

My first cd-based system was the Sega CD. Model 1. Still have it somewhere. All I remember playing on it was Sonic CD & Eternal Champions: Challenge from the Dark Side.

As far as my first audio cd player I remember it but I can't tell you exactly what kind it was. Probably an off-brand from Wal-Mart. It wasn't portable. Boombox style. I can tell you first cd....Metallica's black album. I believe the year was '92 when I bought that.

[tom]

What, no one had a CD-Rom for PC?
My first CD player was also my CD system: Mitsumi single speed CD-Rom for my second PC (HP 386 Vectra) in 1993 (I think). I couldn't enclose it into my desktop, so I nailed/ taped it to the desk. Served me well until 1996 or even later?

[p_b]

Oh, I remember my first CD-ROM. It was a huge external single-speed drive (about as large as your usual DVD-standalone-player) and cost me $400. I don't remember what year that was in, but I bought it together with a friend of mine. Then we bought a shareware-CD (for approx $80) and thought it was a really good investment, because no one's ever going to need more software, right? *sigh*

[eternalblue81]

The Sega CD was the first CD player my family ever owned. I can't really remember what music CDs we first played on it, though. It wasn't until we got stand-alone CD players that we really started buying any CDs.

[Tron 2.0]

My frist cd based console was the TG16+Turbo CD.

It was back in the early 90's heck i was the, only one that had one none of my friends did.

[Cambot]

Our first CD player was part of our stereo in 1986 (no we weren't rich). I didn't get a CD based game system until the PS2 in 2001, 15 years later.