Your first games console

#13

My first system was an old Atari 2600 and we still have it. But I don’t think it still works. It sat in the attic for over 10 years in the Texas heat, then for 7 years in a outbuilding on our property and then another 3 years in our horse stables (at least its in a rubber made storage box.

My second system was the original Nintendo followed by the Super Nes.

I also had a Sega Dream Cast and Nintendo 64 and PS1. After that the systems got to expensive so I just played computer games and played consoles at my friend’s house.

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#14

My first game system was the original Nintendo. Oh, those were the days. I remember anxiously waiting to get out of school so I can go home and play on it. Years later, I got the Playstation 1 and was sooooo hooked on gaming. Darn you Crash Bandicoot!!! I remember staying up until the wee hours of the morning and even sleeping on the living room floor. As of now, I have the Playstation 2. I haven’t had the need or desire to upgrade to the latest Playstation. Probably because I entertain myself with iOS games. If I had to upgrade my PS2, I wouldn’t know which to upgrade to since there’s been so many versions out after mine. And besides that, I remember that games were pretty expensive. Don’t know if I want to go thru all that again.

#15

PS1. PS2 later

#16

I’m old enough to say so.ething like a BBC, IR spectrum or similar… In the kids home we had that thing in the 70s, that plugged I to the TV to play pong!

I’ve never had a console of any shape, but I did used to play on a friend’s… It’s the one for GOLDENEYE, James Bond. I loved that game and it was the only one I was Deliberately good at. Yes I’d win several games of streetfighter (random spasmodic tapping of buttons more than anything).

Somehow I was good at Goldeneye, don’t ask how, I’m not sure… Plus it was bloody years ago!

I think the only TV type gadget I’d want now, is either the Samsung DX (or similar, where i dock my S8 and have it mirrored on the TV) or it would one of them Google things! Don’t let my technical knowledge put you off.

#17

As an 80s child I remember playing games at other kids house or even my cousins as we never had our own. But when the original Nintendo came out, Christmas that year when me and my sisters opened it we flipped out lids haha. You could not get us off that console as we played through the night, went to school and back on it again taking turns. When other consoles came out I still played the nintendo. It wasn’t until Playstation 2 came out that I brought it, usually my uncle would buy all the newest game systems but he held off saying it cost too much. So I was the first in the family to have ps2 and eventually ps3. I currently still have my ps2, ps3, wii, and my wife’s xbox.

My son has the psp,game boy, game boy color,psp vita.

All of us computer game now so they don’t get used that often.

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#18

Never had a games console too…

I only play some mobile games.:joy:

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#19

Ooh I just remembered we had coleco vision and atari as well as a comodore. We had these at my grandmother’s house at my mom wouldn’t let us have at game system in ours, until Nintendo came out and those other game systems are long gone now

#20

What mobile games do you play @AnkerOfficial?

#21

The game that I have never unloaded on my phone was the hearthstone.:joy:

#22

Oo I love playing hearthstone, I kick but with my priest

#23

The priest is my favorite character!:laughing:

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#24

I remember a game we played in those old days.
It was simply called “hack”.
After some time we got an innovation, this “hack” could be played in our local net at the company.
Now a multi-user game.
This was called “nethack”.

Many hours of serious work was lost for the company.
(And … The “panic key” was very important:
By pressing it a C-program popped up at the screen :slight_smile: )

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#25

The original NES for me. Looking back on it I know my dad said it was for me, but i was barely into kindergarten and I can almost be sure I was his excuse to buy one lol.

I would still have the system if it didnt have the CPU problems that plagued the system. I too retain everything I have ever bought for the most part as well though. (The wife is always trying to make me clean out that box)

I just recently won the xbox one X from the every60seconds.com giveaway so I am stoked to start a new console generation with my son, just as soon as he is old enough haha.

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#26

@Monk3e congrats on the win👏🏻

#27

The first console that I remember that was “mine” in the house was the Sega Mega drive. I got it when I was about 4, it did belong to my brother’s however they got the SNES for Christmas and I got given this :grin: I spent hours playing Sonic the Hedgehog and Bubble Bobble (usually with my mum!)
This got me hooked on games. And as such, every time my brothers got a new console, I’d take their old one. This didn’t stop me playing with theirs though!

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#28

This post is going to reveal our age :joy: My parents would not buy one but when I moved out in 88 I purchased an original Nintendo action set.

I still have it today in its original box, mint condition with the original games super Mario and duck hunt. We used to rent games to play on it. I set it up for my son to play about 10 years ago and h thought it was pretty cool. Has only been out of the box about 50 times in 30 years.

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#29

Mine was the N64, but I did play on my friend’s Sega Dreamcast before my mom bought me a system.

#30

NES. Mario Brothers, Tetris, ExciteBike, etc.

I also had a PlayStation later on.

My 9yo son and I recently built a retropie out of a Raspberry Pi 3. I’ve now got all those games on a microSD. Did you know that Super Mario Brothers was only 32 kb? That’s like 1% of the average 3.5mb mp3.

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#31

I had an Atari 2600 way back in the day… Then a NES, then a SNES, and then I shifted interests in videogames to justify having a new system. I got a PS3 as a gift but never played it much - though I though about buying it when Beatles Rock Band launched.

These days, every time I think about videogames I think what I would give up doing in my little free time to play, and can’t find the answer.

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#32

Ahah, a very eventful story, but everything was completely different for me. I have never had consoles like dandy, psp and others. I don’t know why, but in childhood I was not interested in it and most of all I liked to play basketball with my dad and go fishing. These were my favorite pastimes. After my father left, I bought a new PS 4 console and started playing it, and I played throughout quarantine. Mostly I played the League of Legends and this is one of my favorite games of all time. I fell in love with this game so much that I even decided to buy an account boost from https://elo-boosters.com. Many say that this is a stupid decision, but it will save me great time and besides, they have very high-quality services at affordable prices!