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    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.

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    NES with Mario/Duck Hunt when I was 4-5 years old, back in 1988.
    Sold it to buy an SNES and recently got another NES that actually seems to work better than the one I got in '88, go figure.

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    I got a 2600 and a NES at around the same time... it was 20+ years ago, so I'm not sure exactly which one came first. I do know, however, that the gap between the two wasn't more than a couple months.

    I still remember my first game on each of them, though... River Raid and Dragon Warrior.

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    I'm an 80's child. It's not really a console, but the first system I played on was my dad's commodore 64. My first console was of course the NES. That was the beginning of my gaming addiction.

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    NES, though in technicality it belongs to my brother. First system I had that I could call my own was a Game Boy Color in either '98 or '99. First console was a Gamecube in 2001. We had other systems prior, but everything up until then belonged to "us", not me.
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    The first system my family had in the house was my brother's atari 5200, I played Pitfall II A LOT! I got my very own system for Christmas, the NES Action set with smb/duck hunt. Ah, memories.
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    Technically our first game console was an Atari 2600 my father bought in 1978 off of a friend. It was put into storage long before 1990, the year in which I was born. My sister and I recieved what I consider our first game console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Super Set bundle in Christmas, 1994.
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    Technically the Atari and NES were bought for the family but I remember my dad playing the NES into the wee hours of the morning. I was with him when we bought a Sega Genesis at Sams club with an Autofire controller, Sonic, and Evander Holyfields real deal boxing, plus a mail away for Sonic 2 for free. But that system was the first that I had exclusively in my room but it was still for the family.

    My very first system of any kind given directly to me was Game Gear for Xmas. First Console solely for me was Sega Saturn.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NESGamer24 View Post
    Technically the Atari and NES were bought for the family but I remember my dad playing the NES into the wee hours of the morning. I was with him when we bought a Sega Genesis at Sams club with an Autofire controller, Sonic, and Evander Holyfields real deal boxing, plus a mail away for Sonic 2 for free. But that system was the first that I had exclusively in my room but it was still for the family.

    My very first system of any kind given directly to me was Game Gear for Xmas. First Console solely for me was Sega Saturn.
    Wow, with all that Sega stuff your username is quite ironic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by BetaWolf47 View Post
    Wow, with all that Sega stuff your username is quite ironic.
    Yeah, After Saturn I got N64 but NES was always my first love of video games. When we moved in the mid 90s we threw it away because we didn't know how to fix the blinking light. But I bought one off ebay about 4 years ago and then bought an SNES off ebay just last year.
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    My first system was the Intellivision. It is still my love and passion.





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    Mine was a Genesis model 1 that I got for my 6th birthday. It was the 1993 Sonic 1 bundle. The day afterwards my uncle brought up his stashed NES and put it next to my Genesis as he realized they could both run off the Genesis cords as his NES power cords had gone missing.

    All I had for Genesis was Sonic 1, but for NES I had Super Mario Bros. / Duck Hunt, Duck Hunt by itself, RC Pro-Am, Wizardry, and Tecmo Super Bowl.
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    I started gaming on NES, SNES, N64, Gameboy, and GENESIS. But I got my first system for christmas of 1998. I remember nearly begging for an NES ( I called it "Intendo" at first). I remember my parents telling me that the Original Nintendo is too old, so I asked for a Super Nintendo, they said the same thing. finally I tried Nintendo 64 at a friends house with Super Mario 64. I fell in love. I asked and asked and asked.

    Then came December 25th, 1998. I opened up a great big box with my name on it, and sure enough there it was in all her beauty..... the original Nintendo 64 with SM64 and Bomberman Hero.
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    Wow Im gonna seem really young for posting this,
    but I first played the N64, then I was bought a GC in 2002. I was
    6 at the time.

    I still love my black lunchbox..
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    I can't remember for sure if I got a Bally Astrocade or a Colecovision first. They were both found at a thrift store at about the same time. I think around 88'.

    I remember that I kept bugging my dad to get me an NES, and one day he came home with an Atari XE Game System for both of us. That was the first "new" system I got. I think he thought he would be able do some massive computing with it. That didn't happen, but I did get to discover the joys of Miner 2049er.

    I saved my money for what seemed like forever, and finally bought an NES. That was almost exactly one month before the SNES came out. I was so freakin' pissed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sonicwolf View Post
    Technically our first game console was an Atari 2600 my father bought in 1978 off of a friend. It was put into storage long before 1990, the year in which I was born. My sister and I recieved what I consider our first game console, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System - Super Set bundle in Christmas, 1994.
    I wanted to post a pic earlier and I just found it now. My sister and I, December 25th, 1994.
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    Technically my first system was an Odyssey2. My dad got it at a garage sale and I think it only had the Speedway/Spinout/Crypto-Logic cart with it.

    Really though, I'd count the NES as my first, since it was the first I really wanted and asked for for Christmas. It seems like everyone I knew already had one at the time so it was pretty exited to get it.
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    My first console was a sega megadrive model 1,bundled with sonic the hedgehog it cost £300 i believe,i was only 3,and the only reason i got it was because my mum and my dad had an arguement he goes out,and comes back with a sega to make things better.

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    my first system was either a sega genesis or ps1, it was a while ago so i'm not sure which it was... my dad/mom bought me and my brothers the ps1, although my brothers an i preferred playing mortal kombat on the sega genesis our cousin gave us.

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    Sega Genesis.

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