Which Console Generation Were You Seduced By Gaming?

The Xbox was the first system i played regularly. I didn't care about games back when i had a Mega Drive or N64.

Now I started playing PacMan and Berzerk on the 2600 when i was little, but it wasn't till my parents surprised me Xmas of 89 with a brand spanking, fresh from release SEGA Mega Drive that I started to lurk in the shadows.

Nintendo Entertainment System.
 
It's kinda strange connection, but every time I remember the NES, I remember how much I love my parents.

I had a GENESIS as my first console but I didn't get into games until the PS1/N64.

" Nintendo Entertainment System.  It's kinda strange connection, but every time I remember the NES, I remember how much I love my parents. "

I was seduced back in the pre-bit days by a Mattel Intellivision at the age of three. Played a lot of Astrosmash and BurgerTime back then.

Good times, despite what Game Room would have you think.

Lame consoles didn't lure me in, it was the PC!

My first actual console was a playstation 1; and it all went downhill from there.

either the N64 or Gamecube. 

First system I bought was a PS1, but I didn't play regularly until I bought the original Xbox, and even then it wasn't as much as on the 360 now.

I spent all the money i had on an N64 when it launched and haven't stopped gaming since. 
(I did play games before then but I didn't get into it that much until the n64)

Arcade games before the NES seduced me.  I trully fell in love with games with the SNES RPGs.

The NES with its Super Mario/Duck Hunt combo.
 
Point gun straight at screen for insta-win, fool.

I played a lot of NES back in around the early 90's so I would say that's where I started. Hell one summer I whored myself out to elderly folk who needed help around the house so I could raise the cash to get my own console, even though the SNES was out, that NES was where it was at for me, plus it was only 100 bucks at the time. Once I raised all the cash myself, I was in for life after that. This was when I was about 10.

95-04 PC.

I started on the PC with shareware Doom then Doom 2 and got an old Amstrad CPC 64 one year with a ton of games most of which didn't work. If it counts I also had the dismal failure that was the Amstrad GX4000 with Burnin Rubber. The first proper console I got was a Nintendo 64 and then a Playstation so that gen for me, but even after that I mostly played PC games until the PS2 came out and the Xbox after that.         

The poll results are about what I expected.

The Nintendo 64 is when I started playing video games frequently and I started following gaming news more closely about the time I got my Nintendo Wii.

Twas the SNES, good times, gooooooood times.

" @jim_dandy said:

" Nintendo Entertainment System.  It's kinda strange connection, but every time I remember the NES, I remember how much I love my parents. "

Same with me for buying me a SEGA, I had no idea what it was. Think we would've had Mario vs Sonic rows you and I... until I moved on to the SNES anyway. "

PC, in early console gen 1 era.

I got a Gameboy Color and Pokemon Red when they came out in 1998. Even before that I would play Star Wars TIE fighter and Jedi knight on the PC (I sucked though since I was 5 years old). 
I also spent as much time as possible at my friend's house playing his Nintendo 64 and his older brother's SNES. Past that I would play a ton of PC games on my computer and in 2006 I got my first video game console, the Xbox 360.
 
So even though I never owned a console until 2006, I've pretty much always been in love with video games my whole life.

Super Mario... in three dimensions? Let's do this.

" The poll results are about what I expected. "

N64 was the first time I ever really got into gaming.

PS1, Tekken was the first game I ever played.

SNES was what got me started, but I was too broke to really get into it until the current generation. The Xbox 360 has hooked me and good...

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Lame consoles didn't lure me in, it was the PC!

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I think this poll will almost always show the same results if we could have everyone age... 
 
I got into gaming with the NES (that is what I voted here) but got really in to it with the Super NES. 
This might be because the Super NES was the first system that I could call my own... The NES was a shared system and I am pretty sure it was given to my older brother initially.

The NES peaked my interest in games, though the Sega Saturn and N64 were what solidified my love of games.

8-Bit all the way. But I seem to have more memories of my Genesis.

I always played my PS1 and PS2, but when I got my 360 I hadn't really been playing much. Then I became addicted to Xbox live.

I was 1 when the NES came out... and my dad bought one "for my birthday".

I got a PlayStation 1 for my birthday when I was 7, before that the only games I knew were batman and superman activity centers. My first game was ape escape which I still think is a mega awesome game. I really hope Sony makes a non mini game collection sequel :(

Had an Atari 2600 as a tyke, but what really hooked me was Super Mario Bros. at Pizza Hut. Some 6 months later I find out its on this thing called a Nintendo  and had to have it. I managed to get it for my birthday (thanks mom!) in '86 (I was 10). SMB was the only game my brother and I had for a good few months, but we saved our pennies and got Legend of Zelda and Metroid. 
 
I've been hooked since, although I largely abandoned consoles in the mid-90's for the PC.

" I was seduced back in the pre-bit days by a Mattel Intellivision at the age of three. Played a lot of Astrosmash and BurgerTime back then. Good times, despite what Game Room would have you think. "

Mario on the NES was the lure, Mega Man 2 really pulled me in.

My first system was a Super Pong in 1978 (I think) a year or so later I got a 2600.  My first game was probably in a couple of years before that at an arcade on the South Jersey shore.  I can't recall the very first game, but I remember playing a tank game, a baseball game and submarine game with a periscope. 

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I meant to click B, but accidentally clicked C instead. Quick, someone else do the opposite, LEST THE INTEGRITY OF THE POLL BE RUINED!

The Atari was the one that sucked me in.
The C64 was the one that got me totally hooked.
And the PC was the one that pushed it to premiere pass-time status.

Atari 2600 was 8bit btw.

I was hooked before Atari.  There were video games in isolated places that I went to as a child...bars mostly...in teh 70s a kid could hang out in a bar with a parent without anyone blinking an eye.  Playing Tank, Gran Trak, and Tank was awesome even though I had to drag up a bar stool and kneel on it to see.  I also played a light gun game over at a friends house.  Just a shooting a chunky white-dot on a TV screen seemed awesome (mind blowingly awesome) in 1977. 
 
When I finally got a Atari in 1979 I was shocked, I asked for a Radio Shack light gun/pong game that was $79, so my parents buying the $200 Atari was CRAZY!  

I started with the SNES.

the first console I have clear memories of playing was the NES, which a neighbor had when I was a kid. I'm pretty sure another neighbor had one of the older consoles too, I have vague memories of some simpler games, but looking through videos of pre-NES consoles (and home computers) I haven't found the game for any system.

But yes, the 8-bit generation was the first where I did know the name of the console, wanted to have it (and never got it - nor any other console), and played a lot on my neighbor's and class mate's systems.

I've always been a home computer/PC gamer at heart though, and I was seduced by gaming before I knew of TV consoles - playing Dig Dug, Castle, Castle Wolfenstein (the top down adventure pre-cursor to Wolfenstein 3D) on my father's work computer with a monocrome monitor.

NES. I actively began buying my own games and expanding on my collection on the PS2/Xbox 360 however.

I started on the PC mainly. The first console I got was the PS1.

I was born when PS1 and N64 was in full swing and loved playing on them even though I never owned one of those consoles myself