First console

[Thesly]

What was the first ever console you played on and do you still have or play on it

Mines was an Xbox one s

 

[TypeRDC5]

My first ever console was the original Nintendo. It is long gone and having emulated some of those games they have aged terribly and I cant go back to play them now.

We didnt have a lot of money growing up so it was more of a case of renting games for the weekend and trying to finish them before having to drop it back to the shop which 9 times out of 10 was never possible as the games were hard back then.

Some great memories. Especially for Excite bike, you can look it up now and it looks extremely basic, sound effects were awful but its all we knew and loved every minute of it.

 

[UKMikey]

A tie between OG Gameboy and a Mega Drive imported from Japan.

Unless you count Game & Watches back in the early eighties

 

[666666]

my first console was probably an Atari 2600 or something very similar can’t remember the exact make, it had a stunt bike game with handle bars controls , where after a while the end of the line was off the screen and was always great to hear the bike land safely

 

[Greycap]

The first I played was a friend's NES, but my first own one was a SNES and yes I still have it with the Donkey Kong Country that came in the bundle. It's not been THAT long since I tested that it still works, perhaps last year.

 

[Spacegoat]

SEGA Master System II.

Don't have it anymore but maybe in the future again? I was recently looking at how much Master System stuff goes for these days and it's quite cheap. Guess that tracks as it's probably only middle aged folks like myself who would be even vaguely interested in it.

 

[PletdeKoe]

My parent had an Atari. But my first own console that I paid myself was an original playstation. So many fond memories of these years....

 

[sesselpupser]

SEGA Master System II.

Same here, I assume it's still at my parents' house. I bought another and installed it in my first car back in the Pimp My Ride era, it only got used once but it was pretty funny. I remember my younger brother taking a shopping bag full of cartridges to a friend's house and coming home without it in the though so even if we have the console, we don't have the games anymore.

I occasionally still play the official emulator that used to be (I think its gone now) on Steam, thanks to the unbelievably permissive Workshop mod manager you can get any game ever released (and a few that weren't). Super Hang-On is possibly my favourite.

 

[TheCracker]

Philips G7000/Magnavox Odyssey2.

 

[m355y]

A Game Boy, the original one with the green and grey screen - with Super Mario Land and Tetris. I played both to death. Objectively SML is an awful Mario game, I'll be honest. The graphics are terrible and the difficulty level, particularly in the later submarine levels, is insane, borderline impossible. But I have such insanely happy memories and that bleepy music is ingrained in my head forever.

 

[SPhilli911]

The first console I bought myself was a Gameboy Advance but shared an Intellivision and PS1 with my siblings before that.

 

[GTvsForza]

First played, PS1. My parents surprised me with it when I had good grades at elementary school. Sold it when we moved and we got the PS2.

First bought (handheld), PSP Go. Still have it. I... changed it a bit to play GT2...

First bought (console), PS4. Good console for a few years until I got the PS5.