my 1st systems were the original gameboy and the sega genesis. i remember it like it was yesterday, playin true lies on my sega and the best and highly favored mortal combat. good times ppl
PlayStation. Now known as the PrayStayshun (riff on the commercials). But I digress... 'Twas a wonderful console, and the reason for my current alignment with Sony (and no means to "defect" in sight ;) ). First played a video game on it when I was four...the game was either this one Rugrats game, or PacMan (how fitting, if it were...either way it's fitting, but still) on this Namco Anniversary Collection game thing. I wanna say twenty years, but I could be wrong, and probaby/highly possibly am. But yep. Pretty sure it was PacMan, but it could have been Rugrats...yeah maybe. My dad bought both of those games at the same time when he bought the PS, so it's a tad fuzzy... Either way, I had a wonderful experience, and both games were/are amazing. Granted I haven't touched the Rugrats one in years, but at the time of course it was great. Heh, I am sure I could pick it up today and still enjoy it. Ahh...that started it all...what beautiful memories. :_ ) Eleven-ish years ago...wonderful. T-T Okay, I'm done. :D
NES was first i played with my cousins, SNES was the first one i owned. Man i remember rage quitting all the time when i was a little kid now that i think back.
" NES was first i played with my cousins, SNES was the first one i owned. Man i remember rage quitting all the time when i was a little kid now that i think back. "
Games were harder back then. When a "big" game had 8 levels you had to be. ;)
NES. I remember being in the store and getting it and I was only 2 or 3. It was my parent's who are extremely casual gamers. Shit it may even be my earliest memory haha!
@LzkInFamous: If you remember that so vividly then you're not too old to play videogames. Welcome to GiantBomb btw. @Spike94: I may be the first person who mentioned the Rugrats game on the 'net in years. As far as I know, nobody else has played it but me. Still have my copy somewhere actually.
It's not my original, but it was my first console "Atari 2600". These are straight up... mine, pictures scanned. Do I want to play them? Hell fucking no... I got better games to play now.
Wow, the giant bomb community is a lot younger than i thought.
The first console I ever played was the NES, but the oldest console I've ever played around with was a Texas Instrument TI-99/4A. Apparently it's classified as a cartridge based "home computer" but i only played games on it.
@super_mario_john: You do get some sort of impression that the GB community is somewhat older than you think. I do anyway, maybe because most of us are articulate enough to bother with spelling and punctuation (unlike other sites I could care to mention).
If you don't mind me asking, how are old are you? I'm 19 (I'll be hitting that awful 20 in the near future though).
@eroticfishcake: I'm 20, I know that my post might make me sound a little older. I got the the TI-99/4a as a gift for my ninth or tenth birthday, so it had been out for a really long time before i got my hands on it.
I just can't believe that people are saying that the N64 or the Playstation was their first console, not that thats a bad thing. I still have the N64 hooked up so i play some Starfox 64 or F-Zero X whenever i want.
@super_mario_john: Ah, you do sound older than you claim to be. I've never heard of the TI-99/4A, I suppose Sinclair and Commodore did better in Europe than it did in America. Then again it's understandable how most would say that the N64 and PS1 was thier first console since it was built just for games. Although my first memory was the Commodore 64 it wasn't until the SNES that gave me first taste of "proper" videogames.
Just thought I'd upload a pic of the C64. Oh man, I'll never forget those F keys.
@eroticfishcake: From my understanding, the TI-99/4a wasn't a huge success here in the states. I think I'm the only one in the world that has never played a Commodore 64, i kinda want to see what all the hype is about. I've always heard good things about the C64.
Comodore 64, imported from Russia or Germany. Still works, and I still have a bunch of tapes for it. That was the first, but the oldest I played was a ZX Spectrum back in grade school at a friends house. And you though the C64 had rubbish loading times, you've seen nothing...
PS: I'm 22. Note that the Polish console market was lagin badly behind back then, what with the ex-soviet block thing and all. C64 where a bit popular, then came the Amiga. We didn't even have a NES and SNES. We'll we had a NES ripoff called the Pegasus and stayed all the way into PlayStation and Saturn days, and I think those where the first consoles to be OFFICIALLY released in Poland. The Pegasus became popular by storm, the guys that made that thing where probably rich. Heck, it even had commercials in TV and on VHS tapes with children's cartoons. If only they new it was a ripoff...
If you're wondering what they guy's saying in Polish it's just "Family computer game".
N64, I got introduced to video games pretty late in the cycle, but I learned fast. My first game, for that matter, was Ocarina of Time, shortly followed by SM64. Good a place to start as any.
Someone gave us a Commodore 64 once, and some games, but it never actually worked. Pretty sure most of the games she gave us were educational though... she was a teacher.
We've always had some gaming PC's around the house though, so it was probably that. But my first actual console was the Panasonic 3DO. :) Mostly played stuff like Total Eclipse, Off-world Interceptor, Star Control II, Cannon Fodder and Wolfenstein 3D which was probably the best PC port at the time.
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