What was your first video game system ever??

[WizardEric]

My first was the Atari 2600. And I still have my original game unit.

[ozatariprincess]

The first console I had was a Colecovision, that my father had bought for me from a garage sale when I was 5.

[The_Cane_Toad]

Atari 2600, It was a gift to my sister and I from our cousin in 89 or 90

Still have it and all the games he gave us

[Mr_8bit_16bit]

Atari 2600 Vader (traded it for a woody before I realised what I had and what I was getting!.....man was I stoopid or what?!) :-)

[Rob Mitchell]

Our actual first system was the Odyssey but I was fairly young at the time.  I remember enjoying the haunted house game and the shooting games w/ the overlays but the system that I remember most & actually consider "my" first system was the Bally.  I played & programmed on it constantly and still do to this day.

 

I played the first Odyssey at a friend's house. Then later I played the four person PONG at another friend's house. I played the Channel F at the store in 1976. Then we got the Sears Video Arcade (VCS 2600) in fall 1977.

 

I remember lusting over the JS&A ads for the Bally Computer because it was programmable !! By that time I was programming in BASIC in school.

 

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA

[adams_ale]

2600 6-switcher I'm pretty sure it wasn't the '77 heavy version. I was pretty young so it's hard to remember the small details. Remember playing the games just fine.

[Flojomojo]

Mine was a second-hand Odyssey 2 that my parents bought from my friend's parents once they got a Colecovision. The Quest for the Rings was so boss to me back then.

 

As was ... ATTACK OF THE TIMELORD! (thanks to Phosphor Dot Fossils for putting up these great scans)

 

[atarianer2003]

Atari VCS - 1998

 

My parents didn't use it for years, and I got it then, incl. 29 games and some joysticks

 

 

Mike

[BydoEmpire]

Around '81 (give or take) my family got an Intellivision for Christmas. We had the pack-in card game (blackjack, iirc), and one other game. Baseball perhaps. Good times.

[n8littlefield]

My complete system history:

I went Odyssey 2, Atari 2600, C64, Atari 7800, NES, Genesis, PSX, PS2, Cube, Dreamcast, SNES with various portables and my first real PC in there at some point as well.

 

Currently, I have a GBA SP, a Nintendo DS on order, SNES, NES, PS2, Atari 2600, PC.

 

Oh for the days of Pick Axe Pete and KC's Crazy Chase!

[hex65000]

My folks had a pong machine of some sort as their first unit, my first real taste of gaming was the RCA Studio 2. Yes, I still have it and a majority of the carts and boxes in the library. Yeah, nobody prolly cares.

 

Hex.

[ Hopes he can find all the power & video parts for that unit too... ]

[madmjennifer]

My parents bought me an NES around 1989 soon after I discovered it was possible to play video games at home. Before, I thought gaming could only happen in the lobby of the Pizza Hut. Then I witnessed my friend's Atari in action and the rest is history.

[caveman]

Mine was the four switch 2600, and the first games bought were Missile Command and Breakout. My parents both liked Breakout, so my strategy was to get a game they would like, and maybe then it would be easier to talk them into buying more games for us. Too bad that it didn't quite work out that way....

[Famicoman]

Played: NES

Owned:...Pico

 

Don't judge me.

[TailChao]

Sega Genesis,

I'm such a n00b

[Ferris]

Original 1984-style Atari 7800 in the silver & purple box. Followed by NES and TurboGrafx-16 at the same time.

[cvga]

My first system was a six switch Atari VCS that I received for Christmas in either 1978 or 1979. It came with Combat and I also got Breakout. Shortly afterwards I bought Basketball at our Sears for $18. I remember looking at the game catalog over and over thinking about the games that I wanted to get next.

[Zonie]

VCS Heavy sixer I still have today. Got it in 77 or 78. I asked for it for Christmas and wanted "Target fun" with it. Since I didn't know Target fun was the sears version of "Air-sea battle" at the time, my mom couldn't find it. I got Superman with it instead.

 

Moved on to a Vic-20 then A C=64. Borrowed a friend's NES in 87 or 88, totally missed the 7800 until I found one at a swap meet about 10 yrs ago and bought it without a power supply or any games. Didn't even know what the hell it was.

 

Collecting for the 7800 now and also a Dreamcast that came to me with my second wife. (Her Kid got a PS2 and didn't want it anymore) I gotta say. the DC is a great console. It's fun to burn emulators of other systems for it. Seems to play everything so well, I scrapped my Mame Cabinet plans. I have an N64 as well that My kid has a lot of carts for. He needed something to play when he comes to visit, y'know?

 

Probably more infor than anyone wanted to read, anyway...