What Was Your First Gaming System
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24 and I had a few because a lot of them were being sold cheaply in car boot sales (similar to yard sales but in a field where everyone brings their crap and sells it literally out of their car boot). I had a little yellow thing that played Pac Man by using a system of LEDs to light up the symbols instead of using an actual screen. I had a SEGA Master System, an NES, another little LED rip-off thing that played the original Donkey Kong game and last but not least.
One of these bad boys.
EDIT: Off topic, but out of curiosity, did anyone else in the U.K. find it difficult to get games for the NES? I had loads for the Master System and the Mega Drive II, but barely any for the NES. I remember getting Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania and the original Ultima (which I never completed) and some racing game I can't remember the name of, but not much else.
One of these bad boys.
EDIT: Off topic, but out of curiosity, did anyone else in the U.K. find it difficult to get games for the NES? I had loads for the Master System and the Mega Drive II, but barely any for the NES. I remember getting Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania and the original Ultima (which I never completed) and some racing game I can't remember the name of, but not much else.
I'm 30, and my first gaming rig that I owned was a ZX Spectrum. Although my family had some older system that plugged into the tv and let you play pong in like three or four differnt colours.
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That's the fella! Christ, that brings back some memories...k-ossuburb said:
One of these bad boys.
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.
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.
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.
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.