Do you remeber your first gaming setup?

[darksakul]

As a child of the 80's I remember TV sets with turn knobs, needing antenna adapters to convert coaxial to leads (two wires) type connectors was the norm (especially for early NES owners). Some Kids and their personal TV sets (if they are lucky enough to have one) were missing knobs and thus require a pair of pliers to change the channels.

My First gaming system was an Bally/Midway Astrocade (Google it) back in 85-86, which is kind of a knock off Atari with games that were knock off versions other systems had. It was kinda cool that the controllers where pistol grip shape, with a joystick knob (which also twist for games that require a paddle controller instead of a joystick) at the top and the fire button was a actual trigger. The It was set up in the living room on a color TV (with knobs) before my parents decided they want to use the TV as well, and move my game system to a tiny Black and White unit. My parents didn't think a 5 year old needed a personal Color TV at the time. Oh those where the days, back before I had a NES.
When I was 7 or 8 and the Astrocade gave up the ghost is when and only when Santa/my parents broke down to get me a NES for the Holidays.

What was your first gaming system? And you younger readers, do not feel bad if your first system is alot newer.

 

[Buizel91]

Mine was a Keyboard that plugged into the TV, it had a slot for Floppy disks, was kinda fun, i was always on ROBOCOP ^_^

Can't remember the Consoles name though =\

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I remember the family had one of those Pong machines that plugged into the TV when I was very young (about 84,85), so I suppose that classifies as the first gaming system I played on. In 1988 though, I got my very own ZX Spectrum, and with a light gun no less! It was all very sci-fi and my impressionable young mind was veritably blown away by the unbelieveable feat of technology I now owned.

Yeah, laugh it up.

 

[GWarface]

My own setup, i only remember that it ran on Windows 98, had 64mb RAM and had a Voodoo graphics card... And it was the bomb!

My parents first setup was a DOS computer.. Never has the Prince of Persia been that pixelated...

 

[mikecoulter]

I think my first gaming setup was a Sega Game Gear, closely followed by a PS1.

 

[GWarface]

wtf edit fail

 

[Imbechile]

Mine was SNES. Got it in 1996, when I was 6 years.
Oh the days ........

 

[Mr Pantomime]

I had a Playstation with Crash Bandicoot 1. It hooked up to the TV with the White/Red/Yellow cables. That tv was new then though. I remember a year ago when my friend hooked his PS3 up to a TV with a Aerial cable. I really had no idea what was going on. Ah ignorance

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

My first was a Sega Genesis which I always played Sonic 1 and 2 on.

I still love those bright graphics.

 

[BlastedTheWorm]

A Master System and NES that took turns being plugged into an old TV. That eventually became a Mega-Drive/SNES.

 

[Danceofmasks]

1979 Apple 2+ ... with a *GASP* new fangled cutting edge floppy drive.

That computer was SWEET .. I did everything on it, from playing games to schoolwork to writing programs (in assembly no less) to wiring up and controlling robots I made.

I still have it .. sitting on top of my wardrobe.
The video output is glitchy, and all the disks have long since got moldy and useless, but the actual computer still works.

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

Mine was an Acorn BBC. It had 32kb of raging processing power, could produce (count 'em) EIGHT colours and had and external 5 1/4" floppy drive.

Donkey Kong, y'all!

 

[teqrevisited]

When my dad bought me my own playstation so I wouldn't spend all my time on his. Sounds harsher than it was really but we're like that.

My first PC was a far cry from what I have now; 800mhz CPU, nvidia Riva TNT something or other and a 20gb HDD. I remember it being a stubborn sod, having it play games that required up to 1.4ghz just fine. The settings were all rock bottom of course, but back then even that blew my mind.

 

[Alexander Cron]

My first was a very tempermental Sega Genesis.

 

[Falseprophet]

Technically my first setup was a Coleco Gemini (Coleco's Atari 2600 clone) but it didn't work for some reason, so we replaced it with an Atari 2600. But it was shortly followed by my Commodore 128.

 

[Falseprophet]

EDIT: Sorry, double post.

 

[SturmDolch]

My first one was my Gameboy Pocket. I sucked at the games, but watched my dad play Super Mario Land. That was fun.

First real system was PC I guess... Reader Rabbit, Math Blasters, Sierra's Mother Goose. And then the really good games started coming, like Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders. Those games were awesome. I have no clue on the specs of the PC, except that it had like 64 MB of RAM or not even.


Aw yeah!

 

[antidonkey]

The Atari 2600 was my first console. That was a great christmas. so great that all the adults stayed up late playing the damn thing and fried the power supply. We were quite disappointed when we woke up the next morning.

First computer was a TI 994-A with a floppy drive that weighed about 20 pounds. I love playing parsec and hearing speech. Twas sweet.

 

[lolmanxe]

ahh the gameboy color, takes me back.

i was 7 and i couldnt ride a bicycle, i tried and tried never realy got it. but when dad told me he'd get me a gaming console if i learned how to ride my bicycle. around 15 minuttes passed and i could do all sorts of small tricks on my bike. so yeah gameboy color, i mainly played legend of zelda on it as i weren't a big fan of pokemon. not realy much more to say about it