The other day whilst reorganising my games I found some old cartridges for the Commodore 64, which I fondly remembered playing when I was just a young un'. Looking back at it now I realised just how old I was and how the gaming industry has vastly changed since then.
Saying that, I just wanted know what was the first console (can include computers of course) that you've ever played and which one made the bigger impact. Doesn't hurt to mention what game you played as well.
Edit: Turned out it was actually a Commodore VIC-20 first THEN the 64. Also, computers are just as welcome.
Dude I honestly dont remember, my dad used to be a gamer so he had some stuff that Im sure I touched but the first one I considered my own was the ps1.
Probably played a bit of the Mega Drive, dont really remember much of it. Otherwise, I guess it was the PS1...kinda late to the games scene compared to most
the only console i ever played was at my mom's friend's house.. i touched it once. arabs call any old console "atari" (lol) so thats what i used to call it and i dunno which one it was. but my gaming is on PC only
My mom bought me a second-hand Atari 2600 when i was 8 years old. That must've been 1984/1985. There came two games with it: Space Invaders and Missile Command.
I'm guessing most of us are about 16-20 or so? Despite playing older consoles first I was really more of a SNES/PS1 kid. My friend had a Sega Genesis and my cousins had a NES though I didn't have a chance to play them much.
Was talking to my dad a minute ago, turns out it was the Sinclair ZX-80 (he liked it so much he got two) that was the first computer in my house. I remember seeing it but not playing with it.
I'm not sure, but it was either the Saturn or NES. I'm pretty sure the NES, because I have fond memories of playing through Batman all the time back then.
@guiseppe: Was the VIC-20 a tape player or was it orginally the 64? I found the tapes but I don't remember how to use them. (I was too young to fathom the technical details at the time).
If we're including computers, then I believe it would be some very early 90s Mac model before they shifted to the PowerPC architecture. Super Munchers, Carmen Sandiego, and Oregon Trail were definitely my best friends on that thing. But if we stick exclusively with consoles, then it'd be the Model 2 Sega Genesis, which I ended up getting from my parents towards the end of its life, years after being weaned on the Mac. To this day, I still think that games like Sonic 3 and Earthworm Jim 2 are really fun and playable. The majority of my library from that time might not be so high in quality due to ignorance at the time, but I probably wouldn't be nearly the sort of gamer that I am if I didn't have that machine and fall in love with it.
" @guiseppe: Was the VIC-20 a tape player or was it orginally the 64? I found the tapes but I don't remember how to use them. (I was too young to fathom the technical details at the time). "
If I remember correctly, VIC-20 also had a tape player. I never owned a VIC-20 so I don't know for sure, but I think you could even use the same tape player for both systems.
Sega Genesis/32X. Sonic the Hedgheog 2 and Virtua Racing were a couple of the very first video games I played. This was around 1994 or so, when I was 3.
@guiseppe: Considering the fact that the 64 was really just an updated model on the VIC-20 it would make sense that it uses the tapes as well. I mean, apart from the colour they looked virtually alike.
Mine was the SNES. After that, the Gamecube. Then the Wii. Yet I do not and will not consider myself a fanboy, as I don't like the Wii games anymore and I want a Xbox 360.
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