My first console? It was a Coleco Telstar Colortron pong console. It required two 9 volt batteries, one for video, one for audio. If you couldn't stand the piezo tweeter beep coming out of the built-in speaker, just unplug that 9 volt. It took me years before I discovered that it indeed played in color. I was used to playing it on a black-and-white TV.

Years later, for Christmas my brother and I got an Atari VCS, with Space Invaders for him and Asteroids for me. And thus my obsession began.