Your First Console.....

[hottsaucekid]

Gameboy Color with Pokemon Blue

 

[xHipaboo420x]

My first game was Super Mario Bros./Operation Wolf/Rad Racer/Star Wars on the NES (we got them all at roughly the same time). NES was my first console, natch.

 

[Museli]

My first game was Gift From the Gods on the ZX Spectrum +3, a side-scrolling action game. I don't recall what the goal of the game was - heck, I don't think I was ever aware that there was a goal. I just enjoyed running from room to room fighting stuff.

My first handheld console game was Catrap on the original Gameboy. That was a fun puzzle game that revolved around killing all the monsters in each room by figuring out how to reach them all amongst various obstacles. It had a nice ability to rewind time if you made mistakes, a mechanic I didn't see again for many years.

My first non-handheld console game was John Madden Football on the Megadrive (Genesis). It was half of the EA Sports Double Header with EA Hockey, and cam with a brick-thick manual containing most of the rules of the sport. EA are the reason I love most US sports, despite their usually unfriendly TV times here in the UK.

 

[pelopelopelo]

An original Playstation; the first game I had was F1 '97. Played it again last week for the first time in years, it hasn't aged very well...

 

[RockyH]

Probably one of my earliest games is Mario. That one with 4 people at once, on N64 I think. And Space Worm Jim (If that is what it was called.) And Donkey Kong!

 

[Gincairn]

Showing my age now, the atari 2600 and the game was Spider-man and the green goblin.

first game i ever remember playing was Space Invaders in the arcade

 

[Nalgas D. Lemur]

Ok probably aging myself and it wasn't necessarily a true console but a VIC 20 with Gorf, Space Invaders and some driving game. Unless of course you count the ultra early "consoles" then it would have to be Radio Shack's "Pong - console."

Yay. You're the first person I've ever seen on here (besides me) who's mentioned the VIC-20. Yeah, it was more of a crappy computer than a console (the predecessor to the C64, which had a lot more going for it), but it did have a cartridge slot for games, so I'm willing to let it slide...mostly because that lets me count it as my first, too.

I still have it in a box in the closet, and it even works, although the pins have worn off some of the cartridges to the point that they're pretty much unplayable, and I'd be amazed if any of the tapes aren't demagnetized. You can still boot it up and type in stuff in BASIC by hand, at least. I'd have to pull it out to see what games I had for it, but off the top of my head I can remember Omega Race, Jupiter Lander (Lunar Lander knockoff), and Sea Wolf.

First "real" console would be the NES, after they started packing SMB/Duck Hunt in a single cartridge, but before they changed the Zappers to be bright orange, so I still have the dark grey one that was somehow too "realistic"-looking, despite pretty obviously not looking like anything other than a plastic toy.

 

[bam13302]

Play Station 1
only reason i have the PS2 is because someone bought it for me...
same will be true for the PS3
I like my computer too much to buy a console

 

[Kagim]

PS2: Kingdom hearts 1

 

[high_castle]

First console was the NES (technically we also had the 2600, but I don't really remember playing it much). The first games I remember on it were Super Mario Bros and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

[Lamppenkeyboard]

My first system was a Super nintendo.

The first game was Super Mario World. I started playing when the SNES was firmly planted in the grave, so the overall gaming hobby didn't begin until I got a... Gamecube or PS2, can't remember which came first.

But I remember that my first Gamecube game was Metroid Prime. That sparked my love of video games.

/emotional montage

 

[LeonLethality]

My first console was the SNES and my first game was Megaman X. Such good memories.

 

[WorldCritic]

Super Mario World on the SNES.

 

[Glogzilla]

The Atari 2600 with a little game called Pressure Cooker [http://www.videogamecritic.net/images/2600/pressure_cooker.png].

 

[A random person]

First console was a Game Boy Color with Pokemon Yellow. First home console was a Sega Genesis with a random assortment of games including the Stargate game, a Madden game, Tazmania, X-men, and the first two Sonic games. Obviously, that last thing is what I played the most.

 

[Mr. In-between]

NES with the SMB/Duck Hunt multi-cart.

Good times, good times.

 

[Darkenwrath]

*deep breath* NINTENDO SIXTTYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYFFOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOURRRRRRRRRRR! First game was Legend of Zelda ocarina of time. Blew my mind.

 

[Danpascooch]

Sega Genesis, I miss sega channel