What was your first system?

[QuickSciFi]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...

[Iron Lizard]

The Nes was my first. I found it hidden behind a bunch of Atari controllers after a day or two after Christmas 1988. When I went to pay for it the girl at the register freaked out. She was shocked that I had found one since they were all sold out. It was not unlike finding a WII hidden away when everyone was obsessed with them. It was the control deck set with SMB as a pack in something I believe was a special at the time.

[Phantar]

Mattel Intellivision



My parents already got one when I was born, so it sort of always had been around in our household as far as I can recall. S oit was sort of natural that this one was the first I got in touch with.

After that came a C64 and A500, courtesy of my older sister and her then-boyfriend.

[SodeePawp17]

0.0 Your so old =P My first system was a N64 ^.^

[Mamba Tabac]

Commodore VIC 20.

My first proper system was the good old Mega Drive - I wasn't that interested in the NES or MS at the time because the arcades were just so much better

[Phantar]

0.0 Your so old =P My first system was a N64 ^.^

Yeah, you could argue that gaming itself and myself have something in common: We were both little toddlers trying to take their first steps at roughly about the same time!

[Jesse813]

My First System was a NES that my neighbor gave me when I was 9 sinve they had just gotten a SNES, so for a while i Enjoyed: Castlevania, Mario, Duckhunt, Contra, Kirby, and Zelda

[TheEdge]

NES.

The little gray box that started it all.

[MrMatthews]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...

Model 2? How old were you?

[TheEdge]

This should be easy,

Model 2 Sega Genesis.

...the one that came bundled with Sonic 2 and a FREE game by mail-in-rebate from the selection depicted in the actual back of the box. I got Eternal Champions but hated the controls so much I traded it for Sonic Spinball from a friend: Best Decision I've ever made. I also bought MK2 in between, perhaps that's why it was so hard for me to get used to EC's controls. The whole thing wasn't a blind purchase, though. I'd played every mainstream console before that (including the gen). I guess I've always known Sega Genesis was the way to go. It still is...

I can't believe you got rid of Eternal Champions.

[Baloo]

I can't believe you got rid of Eternal Champions.

Yeah, I was a little disappointed to hear that as well, It's one of my favorite fighting games. I have the Sega CD one too and have played it once, but my Sega CD hasn't come in yet so the jury's still out on which one I like better.

[GameUser-16-32-128]

My first system was the Colecovision (my parents bought it for $14 at KB Toys)! I had great memories with that system and the awkward paddles!

[tomaitheous]

We had a CoCo2 in '82/83 but the first real game console was an NES. My brother got his NES in fall of '86 and I bought mine in summer of '87.

[Jared]

The first console I ever owned was the NES. First console I bought with my own money was the model 1 Genesis with Sonic 1 pack-in.

[zetastrike]

My first console was a SNES. My big brother got it for christmas when I was a year old. I grew up with the thing.