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I did a quick search to see if this thread already exists somewhere else, but apologize if I missed it.
So, you read the title, and you know what to do. :)
My first system was an Atari 2600 that I inherited from my dad.
The first system I bought for myself was the NES (saved up for about sixty years to buy that thing, it felt like - in reality it was probably only a few months).
My first system? NES. I quickly traded that in back in '89 for a Genesis. Hehe....good times.
Genesis/SNES (product of a divorced family), bought in the same year. We never had an NES, which was unfortunate. I'd always play it at cousins or friends houses, and it killed me that I couldn't own Super Mario Bros.
My first system was the brick gameboy, I had many frustrations trying to figure out how the hell you play tetris, and then trying to beat Super Mario Land.
My first home console though was the SNES, I remember wanting an N64 so badly for christmas, but when I woke up and found a SNES with a four games, I was ecstatic.
The games I got were:
Mario Paint
Super Mario World
StarFox
StuntRace FX
Later on in the same year I got Super Mario RPG and a HongKong Pirate of DKC3 from my aunt.
My first I own was a NES..But it was the VCS with my brother
an Atari 2600 clone!
My first was the Atari 2600, loved that thing. Close after was a C64 computer, but that's another thread.
I suppose my Macintosh Performa 600 could count. Played edutainment stuff on it from about age 3 onwards.
But my first real gaming system? A sleek red Game Boy Pocket, age 5. With Super Mario Land, and Tetris Plus not long after that.
I spent a hell of a lot of time on just those two games. And my life was forever changed.
I still have the Pocket, and you can tell it was used a lot. The battery cover is broken, the labels on the back are peeling, there are scratches everywhere, and part of the rubber on the start button is missing. But it still works and I even play it from time to time.
That depends; the first system we had as a kid was an Atari 2600. It was out of date when we bought it, and I didn't play it much. I had already played a friend's to death years earlier.
The first system I ever bought with my own money was an Atari Lynx. I still own it, and it's the only system that I've never sold (well, except for the Genesis 3 that I bought at TRU which got me into Genesis games, but I sadly sold most of the games, only to re-collect them later:().
My first gaming system (actually my first computer overall) was an early compact Macintosh that we got in the late 80's. Probably a Macintosh ED, if my sources are correct. After that, a couple of Macintosh Plus'es came along, before our first PC (a 486) was bought in '93. It wasn't until '95 that I got my first games console, which not coincidentally was a Megadrive.
The first system my family owned was the Atari 2600. My father picked it up at a garage sale while I was at school one day, and when I came home, I saw everyone else playing it on our black and white TV. Good times were had between myself and my father with Combat.
However, the first system that was specifically for me, was the Atari XEGS. I still have it, and it works fine to this day. I also still have every game I ever bought for it. I've had many years of enjoyment on that odd little half console, half computer.
My brother had NES and SNES. I wanted a Genesis from the time I was born until 1997. The first console I got was a silver Gameboy Pocket. The first home console I owned was my brother's NES which he finally gave to me after years of neglect.
My very own first game system, was the Sega Master System Power Base with Hang-On/Safari Hunt Built-in the memory...Got it for Chritsmas of 1988....I actually had a choice to pick between the NES or SMS then...And that's one of the very few personal things that I don't regret of the past... Getting the SMS over the NES, totally Priceless!....
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I've had a Genesis and my first NES since before I was born, and then I either bought the rest of my systems (Saturn, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Playstation X, Genesis Model II, second NES) or got them as gifts or for free (Nintendo 64, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advanced, Saturn, PSone, Nomad). The first NES broke.
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Go Gemini! ;)
First we had (hooked up) was an NES my parents got around the time I was born. (the Power Set)
Other than that I had a PC, starting with a B/W monitor and only educational games, it got upgraded to color when I got "Dino 3D" which required color for the (red/cyan) 3D to work. X-Wing was the first "real" game I remember having. (1994 CD-ROM release, I can't remember playing it on DOS though, I think we had Win95 by the time we got that game)
We did have an Atari packed away ("light sixer") that my mom had piced up at a garage sale years earlier. That didn't end up getting set up until ~2000)