In light of the "how old are you" thread, my question: *What was your first gaming system/platform?* Mine was called the Odyssey 2000. Tons of fun. Also during that time we got a Super Pong system at a garage sale or something. It was a self-contained system that ran a few variations of Pong. And then came the NES. Holy sh!t. Mind-blowing. You younger kids have no idea what a revolution that was. (If there is already a thread on this subject, please remind me, with great hostility, that I should use the search function. [I did.] And then don't provide a link, and heavily imply that those who can't find the mentioned thread are morons. Thanks!)
technically, it was the Atari 5200..it was a hand-me-down from my dad. My first computer was an Apple II, which i played games on, of vourse...but things REALLY picked up when i got my NES.
that kids is probably 15 now...He plays the drugs and woman... as for me, a n64 as well i would love playing with myself and my brothers! I always beat them so hard! i was only 4 they were like...6 and 8!
SAMESIES BRO! ... well, actually, I just remember the pikachu on the side, and not the ridiculous color scheme, but I was in the 1st grade.
My first system that i got was the NES. Got it from my uncle, who has just about every system out there. Used to play that thing every day. MARIO FTW! But my first system that i bought myself was the gameboy. THE ORIGINAL! Anyone remember the Dreamcast? Like a phone, but the controls slid out...it was handheld...wow, i should really just google it, since i cant remember. EDIT: Sorry, i was thinking of the NeoGeo Pocket...haha, what a difference. Heres a pic of what i meant.
My parents owned it before I was born, I just picked it up at the age of two. Nearly everything in the late 1970s had faux wood paneling for some reason, the later models dropped it from the design.
My dad had a Commodore Vic-20, played a few classic games on there like Pac-Man, Clowns, and a few others that I can't remember. The first console I could actually call mine was a NES. I'm a ways off, but when I have a kid, I'm gonna force him to start off on a NES and work his way through the SNES, N64, PSX, and onward before they get to the new stuff. Raise em right.
YES! I've been saying that for years. 20 NES games, 15 Genesis/SNES games, 10 PSX/N64 games then they can play whatever they want.
N64... Which is still in good condition and I still play. Some of my favorites are on that system like Paper Mario, the Banjo-Kazooie games, and Bomberman Hero (yes, that low-budget Bomberman action game... It's still fun). My first handheld was a Gameboy color, with my first game being Wario Land 1, both of which I still have.
I got an Atari VCS (which later got renamed 2600) probably around 1980 -- guess that qualifies as my first console. I remember getting a summer job in 1981 and spending all the money I made on game cartridges -- my parents were pissed! Most of my early gaming took place in arcades, though. At the time, consoles delivered only a pale imitation of what you could get for a quarter at the mall.
SNES, Mario RPG and Super Mario Allstars! Why won't they make a sequel to Super Mario RPG?! It was one of the best games ever!
My first real console had to be the NES. Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and 1942 ate up a lot of my time. Then we come to the 64, ad take a giant leap to the original XBox and now all three next-gen consoles.
