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Post by phillv85 on Aug 1, 2022 13:04:40 GMT
I always find it interesting to find out what peoples' first console was. For some people it's shaped their gaming future, for others it was just an old hand me down that spent most its time in their possession gathering dust.
My first console was the Mega Drive (PAL version, most of my gaming was PAL until the 360 came along). I got it for Christmas in 1992 and it stayed my main console until I got an N64 in late 1997. To this day it's still my favourite console and was the first one I bought games for when I inadvertently started collecting retro games in 2009. I only this year delved into the NTSC libraries for the console due to me running out of stuff I wanted and there being a wealth of great games released outside of Europe.
So what was your first console? How did affect your gaming going forward?
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 1, 2022 14:20:51 GMT
My first Console was an Atari VCS a hand me down from older brothers, my first home micro was a 48k Spectrum used to play both of them loads. I guess it made me love games from an early age and not be too worried about graphics if the games good.
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Post by megamixer on Aug 1, 2022 15:52:38 GMT
Gameboy and then a hand-me-down PS1 for me.
Used to play SoR2, Sonic, and Desert Strike and uncle's mk1 MD quite a bit before that though, just wasn't allowed such expensive things as current consoles as birthday/christmas presents.
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Post by rossi46 on Aug 1, 2022 15:55:12 GMT
Mine was the Master System. Actually my younger brother got it for Xmas but didn't show much interest in it at first. I played it more than him. Golden Axe was my favourite SMS title. The first console I owned outright was a Megadrive. I got the Sonic pack in version and have been gaming non stop since.
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Post by RetroBob on Aug 1, 2022 17:07:57 GMT
Mine was a Master System (2) as well. I'd been saving up for a NES doing stuff on the farm and in the garden for my parents, then switched my savings target to a Mega Drive, this must have been around 1991. I'd saved up £45, needing £129.99 from Special Reserve for a Mega Drive, but then I walked past High Tech Video in Congleton and there it was, a Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built in.... BUILT IN!! Decided to cut and run for the Master System. Eventually got a Mega Drive, from the same shop too.
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Post by Markopoloman on Aug 1, 2022 21:00:28 GMT
Started with the Atari 2600. My dad arrived with it and I still have no idea where he got it from! It was 1979... and it changed everything!!!
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Post by icemann on Aug 2, 2022 11:46:53 GMT
Atari 2600 for me too.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 2, 2022 14:20:16 GMT
Glad to see someone else started with one as well. |
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Post by elginmcqueen on Aug 2, 2022 14:40:05 GMT
Master System 2 for me, can't ever have enough love for the built in Alex Kidd. Wouldnt mind trying out one of the sequels.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 2, 2022 14:55:31 GMT
Master System 2 for me, can't ever have enough love for the built in Alex Kidd. Wouldnt mind trying out one of the sequels. I love that built in game its amazing, the whole idea of a built in game seemed so amazing at the time. |
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Post by elginmcqueen on Aug 2, 2022 14:59:25 GMT
Master System 2 for me, can't ever have enough love for the built in Alex Kidd. Wouldnt mind trying out one of the sequels. I love that built in game its amazing, the whole idea of a built in game seemed so amazing at the time. My parents loved that one too. Also really shocked my mum initially because she'd ask me to load it up for her and I'd be back downstairs about 10 seconds later telling her it was ready when she was expecting a good 10 minute wait as she'd be so used to my Spectrum. That was the one negative to having consoles, trying to sleep with one of my parents sitting at the end of my bed having "just one more go" 🤣 |
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Post by sephiroth81 on Aug 2, 2022 19:38:18 GMT
We had a few 8 and 16 bit home computers as a family in the 80s, but my first console that could be considered my own was the Sega Game Gear. The SNES was my first home console.
My brother had the Gameboy at the time I got the Game Gear, and my cousin had the Atari Lynx. Nothing could touch the game gear in my eyes at the time, but i'd have to concede the Gameboy is the best of that bunch with the benefit of hindsight.
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Post by englishinvader on Aug 2, 2022 21:03:46 GMT
Started with the Atari 2600. My dad arrived with it and I still have no idea where he got it from! It was 1979... and it changed everything!!! My first console was the 2600 but it wasn't 1979, it was Christmas 1991. Cost reduced Junior model and the 32-in-1 cartridge. It was very depressing to have such a limited system when there was so much more going on elsewhere. I think I spent more time reading about Neo Geo games in C&VG than I did playing games on the 2600.
In the April of 92, my parents finally did the decent thing and upgraded to a Sega Mega Drive with Sonic the Hedgehog. This was my big bang into the world of video games.
Many years later, I went back to the 2600 as an adult and grew to love the system.
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Post by Chinnico on Aug 3, 2022 7:28:41 GMT
If I don't count a multi-variant pong clone from the late seventies (which I don't have any idea where it cane from, since I was 4 or 5), then it is Atari VCS for me too.
I remember that my father had to go abroad (the Netherlands, I think) on a business trip, and we pestered him to buy us a console, as abroad seemed to be less expensive than in Italy ('nuff said).
We decided for the Atari instead of the Intellivision at the very last minute.
I remember when he came back home and we took it out from the yellow bag of the airport's duty free shop. The console came bundled with Combat, but my father has also bought Asteroids.
We played them for ages.
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 3, 2022 9:07:42 GMT
I didn't start with a console, my world of gaming was introduced with an Amiga 500 plus. Few of my mates had SNES's and Megadrive's, my friend Mark (RIP) had a C64 I used to play on (American Warewolf in London was a go to!) My best mate in middle school also had a C64, I'd go round his house after school, get one go on a game and it was time to go home! Earliest console I played way back was an Atari 7800, mostly Centipede or Asteroids. My first actual owned console was a Megadrive 2 I bought second-hand with a load of games for £30, then the whole collecting thing spiralled massively from there!
*EDIT!* I completely forgot my first ever foray into games, if you can really call it a game, was Grannie's Garden on the good old BBC when I was in 1st school! Early 80's I think nearly every school had a BBC, ours would only come out if we were 'good'
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Its just some interesting potential opportunities for AI and automation to help and free humans in the future, rather than enslave us. We need General Zod to implement it.