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So...How old are you? and what was your first Console?
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I'm 24 and my first console was the SNES.
Wow, apparently I'm in the youngest age group on the poll. And there's only 77 of us? I thought there'd be more. I guess forums are more of an "old people" type of thing now. :p
Wow, apparently I'm in the youngest age group on the poll. And there's only 77 of us? I thought there'd be more. I guess forums are more of an "old people" type of thing now. :p
Wow, I did not expect to see a name I didn't know in this thread. I know a lot of obscure consoles, but not this one.
I even have this book, which details a ton of failed consoles most people have never heard of, and I took it out to see if I'd forgotten. But no, it's not in there...except for on the last page, there's a list of consoles so lame they didn't even get into the lame consoles book. (Just kidding, I guess the author just couldn't get pictures in time.)
You are rare and special, my friend. :)
You might know it by its name in North America, the Odyssey2.
32.
My first console was the NES.
It was all we had until we got an N64 in 1998.
The SNES and Genesis were the stuff of legends that I only knew of through my older brother's friends.
Most of the kids my age seemed to also only have an NES.
My first console was the NES.
It was all we had until we got an N64 in 1998.
The SNES and Genesis were the stuff of legends that I only knew of through my older brother's friends.
Most of the kids my age seemed to also only have an NES.
I'm 39 from the US, and my early consoles were:
1. Mattel Intellivision II
3. NES
4. 386 PC
5. 486 PC
6. SNES
8. PlayStation
1. Mattel Intellivision II
Dad bought this for the family with the ulterior motive of getting us interested in technology. My sister and I took to it immediately and it quickly became the main focus of my childhood attention, weird numpad + disk controller or not.
2. Mattel Intellivision System IIIA replacement console for the family, won via some Kool Aid/Toys R Us sweepstakes because life was good in the 80s. Did expand our horizons a bit with a 2600 converter add-on, which revealed the wonders of Pitfall.
3. NES
Bought under the guise that it was for the whole family, but here's where it quickly became clear that I was the game-obsessed weirdo of the family. Jumped in a few years well after the launch, but at least that meant that I got to avoid the awkward Black Box days. As all my friends also had NESes, I'd say this was my first exposure to gaming as a community concern.
4. 386 PC
Dad again attempts to course-correct, nudging more towards tech and computers over just games games games, and brings home an amber monochrome monstrosity. I quickly learned how to bop around in DOS if it meant I got to play some games, even if they were mostly educational titles.
5. 486 PC
Dad brings home another work computer, but finally with color! A mouse! Speakers! A CD-ROM! Windows! Truly the good life. Got to see gaming from a different and more esoteric view, with stuff like X-Com and Ultima Underworld, as well as stumbling around some local BBSes for the first time. For as much as I feel like my dad's mission of getting me pointed towards a career in tech got waylaid by my fanaticism for games, I will have to credit this time in my life for my current career, after having to manually configure IRQs for SoundBlaster and such helping me get comfortable tinkering with computers.
6. SNES
Again, bought for the "family" a few years after launch, just in time for Street Fighter 2. There was the standard parental lament common for this time, "why do you need a new Nintendo, you're still playing the old one?", strange to consider now days that iterations of technology weren't always the established pattern. I had played RPGs before this, but here's where I went completely into the genre, body and soul. Enough to have opinions about the characters of 7th Saga.
7. Game BoyGot it from some sort of playground trade? Didn't make the hugest impact on me, despite my affinity later in life for handheld gaming.
8. PlayStation
The last "family" console, but this time I could introduce my younger brothers to the fun. The pattern continued, we got it a bit after launch, this time spurred on by FF7. Even managed to get dad to play Gran Turismo or Tiger Woods every now and then.
I'm 19 and also 55. I started with the PS3 as a toddler and also the Atari 2600 as a part-time college student.
And I can't vote in this poll.
And I can't vote in this poll.
I voted 50+ because, at 49.75 I'm definitely not really in my 40s. We had a Sears "four play" kind of thing that had Tennis, Squash, Pong, and some other basically Pong game. After that an Odyssey2.
Good gravy, so many old people on this forum! /s
I'm 25 and my first console was a Mega Drive. My parents have a picture of my older brother na some playing Streets of Rage on it haha
I'm 25 and my first console was a Mega Drive. My parents have a picture of my older brother na some playing Streets of Rage on it haha
45 - First thing that played games for me - ZX Spectrum. Not a console but it played games, so I count it. If not then, I skipped the NES, SNES, Mega Drive, etc, and popped back up for the PSOne. Technically then PSOne was my first but tell that to Willow Pattern and Beach Head and Jet Set Willy that I played on my Speccy. Played the PSOne before analogue sticks were added - fond memories of that simple pad with just the d-pad and buttons.
Ah, yes. I was just reading that on its Wikipedia page. And it is indeed included in the book under that name. It's its successor, the G7400, that was listed in the book as not included, and was not released outside of Europe.
38 and the first console I owned was an NES, but I do remember playing Q*bert on an Atari (or another pre-NES console) at a babysitter's house prior to that.
crazy to think theres a subset of gen z that look at games like gta 4 and Bioshock the way I look at super mario world and Sonic 1-3
super nintendo gen z is probably like atari for me
super nintendo gen z is probably like atari for me
I am not allowed to vote. Too Old. First console was a Sega Megadrive, but I was an Atari computer snob, (Started with Atrai 400 ended with Mega 2 ST)
I turn 39 in a couple months.
Uh... we had a 2600 I remember playing, but I think my Pop borrowed that from one of his friends. We had an NES which I played the ass off of. The first console that was "mine" mine and not the family's though, was the Sega Genesis.
Uh... we had a 2600 I remember playing, but I think my Pop borrowed that from one of his friends. We had an NES which I played the ass off of. The first console that was "mine" mine and not the family's though, was the Sega Genesis.
38. NES.
I'm actually surprised that I'm part of the most popular age group there. I thought older folks wouldn't be on here.
I'm actually surprised that I'm part of the most popular age group there. I thought older folks wouldn't be on here.
28.
First console was PS1 when i was 4. I was already emulating GBC stuff on the pc and playing Mame stuff or Doom on Pc by then, though.
First console was PS1 when i was 4. I was already emulating GBC stuff on the pc and playing Mame stuff or Doom on Pc by then, though.
31 and I started with a Nintendo 64 that my dad bought me shortly after my 7th birthday. I was hooked and ended up getting all of the 6th generation consoles.
