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Atari around 1983.
Same here -- Atari. Used to spend hours playing Donkey Kong, I think. Man was I little back then!
The Atari, but I can't remember which model.
I think I had the 2600 model. I got the others through later thrift store and eBay bargains.
I think we got most of our games at Big Lots or something, a few years after the video game crash of '83. And unfortunately, we have a few crap titles like E.T. and the 2600 version of Pac-Man.
So do I...I have Atari 2600's Pac Man COMPLETE! The 5200 and 7800 versions are vast improvements. I love the sound when Pac Man dies, however.
Heck, I've been thinking of getting rid of my Atari stuff for years now -- I don't play it anymore.
Quote from: JC on August 13, 2006, 11:18:21 am
Heck, I've been thinking of getting rid of my Atari stuff for years now -- I don't play it anymore.
Go for it! There's a lot of cool titles for it.
My Dad bought my Mom a Nintendo NES when I was about 1 year old, so I've had a NES as long as I can remember.
My sister got a NES for Christmas when it came out, but she didn't play it that much, so she just let me keep it and play it in my room. I was about 3. Loved that NES. But I technically didn't own it, my sister did. The first system I ever owned was a Super Nintendo when I was 5 or so, Me and my bro bought it together.
You know Atari was semi-fun back then when your parents play with you. My mom and a friend of hers played Mrs. Pac-Man (7800 version) and Kangaroo with us.
My Mom liked videogames, my Dad really wasn't too much of a fan.
Hmm...that's seems switched, since gaming always seems like a male thing. My dad was the one who used to whomp me at Tecmo Super Bowl. :)
Quote from: TheSSNintendo on August 14, 2006, 02:09:13 pm
You know Atari was semi-fun back then when your parents play with you.
I really only had lost of fun on Atari when I played with someone, there are some really fun 2 player games for the Atari.
My Dad was never a big videogame guy. Only when it came to the arcades. He used to love those. Never bothered with the systems, though. I guess because he was used to using quarters...
Could have had him give you the quarter. ;)
Amiga 500. So many nice memories :)
Me personally a NES, but when I was born we had Atari 2600 which I still have too.
Commodore64 and Atari2600. Although I lived in New York City right when the NES came out. If you know you're Nintendo history you know that NOA debuted their system in NYC in the fall of '85. I was one of the lucky ones who got that first batch. The rest of the country had to wait several more months before the national release. I think I was there the first day they put the demo system up in FAO Schwartz.
Quote from: vealchop on September 04, 2006, 10:54:07 am
Although I lived in New York City right when the NES came out. If you know you're Nintendo history you know that NOA debuted their system in NYC in the fall of '85. I was one of the lucky ones who got that first batch.
OH MY GOD, SAME HERE! Actually, we were VISITING NYC at the time, and my Mother was like "Look, it's like Atari", and I was like "Ok". I thought I was the only one on the internet who got it via NYC in 1985, but glad to know someone else did.
The first system I remember playing was a TG-16, then my grandma gave us her NES and games, and then later we got an SNES for Christmas one year.
The first one I remember buying was our N64. Me and my bro saved up for one.
Well, I'm pretty sure I didn't buy it right when it came out. All I can really remember is Goldeneye was pretty new when I got mine. And it wasn't all me and him; we had help from my parents.
Not sure if it was an Atari 2600 or a Commodore 64.
I loved the Commodore 64, i still own the machine and it has a pretty strong scene on the internet.
ahh, it was on christmas morning so many years ago that i got my first video game system.. the Super Nintendo (that came with Super Mario World).
best. christmas. ever.
My uncle give me his Atari 2600 with four Great Games:
Mario Bros,
Star wars,
Congo Bongo,
Donkey Kong,
I even have them!!!
The first system I owned was an NES of course. ;D I had Game & Watch, but that doesn't count as a system.
The first system I played was an Atari 2600 at a friend's place, though.
I got my SNES and my GameBoy for Christmas of 1995 I believe. I was 10.
Before then, my mother said that videogames where bad for children, and she would not let me own a single game. :'(
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It was the year '89 or '90 when i got my first NES ( still own her :D ) with Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt.
Ahh, the times when mom and dad would try to get me to stop playing the thing, because i had to sleep or eat or do other "stupid" things. :D
"taking away" my Nintendo was considered punishment in my household for many many years haha! I would find where my Mom hid it and hook it back up to play it. When my mom figured that out, she just kept it plugged in, but if the AC adapter was warm, she knew I was playing, and I got in even bigger trouble haha!
You should have had a second ac adaptor and always change after playing. ;)
true, but this was when I was like 9, so I couldn't even leave the block let alone go to toys r us on my own! My mom is a pretty clever lady and always knew when I was lying anyway hahaha!
Awesome, man! :D And Welcome! I hope you stick around.
Bump, now that we have more members. ;)
Gameboy Color
sue me.
NES I still remember when my parents brought it I didn't know what the fuck it was or how to plug it in. Actually my dad plugged it in and I got hooked on Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, and Track Meet for MONTHS!
nes
Atari 2600 with my brother, NES my own
The Super Nintendo baby! Super Mario world was my first game ever.
Atari 2600 was the first system I co-owned with my brother (at least I think I co-owned, maybe my parents really owned it ???). The first system I ever owned myself was the top-loading NES. I co-owned quite a few more with my older brother before that, but this was the first one that was all mine.
I also remember that the first handheld game I owned was Wizards and Warriors. I still have it and it still works ;D
Quote from: UglyJoe on June 15, 2007, 12:29:01 pm
I also remember that the first handheld game I owned was Wizards and Warriors. I still have it and it still works ;D
This wouldn't happen to be Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear, would it?
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on June 15, 2007, 09:39:05 pm
This wouldn't happen to be Wizards & Warriors X: Fortress of Fear, would it?
No, I mean old handheld game, like the ones Tiger used to make. There's a blurry photo of it here (http://www.domainnamesanity.com/webumake/wwwsites/www.gameinhand.net/Gamepics/xx%206b%20%20play%20all%20the%20time%20games.jpg). It's the one in the upper-left.
Wow - nice.
Quote from: UglyJoe on June 15, 2007, 12:29:01 pm
Atari 2600 was the first system I co-owned with my brother (at least I think I co-owned, maybe my parents really owned it ???). The first system I ever owned myself was the top-loading NES. I co-owned quite a few more with my older brother before that, but this was the first one that was all mine.
I also remember that the first handheld game I owned was Wizards and Warriors. I still have it and it still works ;D
really kewl retro stuff.
Sega Master System
Commodore 64! The Commodore was my childhood system. Giana Sisters, Hot Wheels, the Wizard (best game EVER) njLode Runner, Jumpman, Bad Dudes (the president has been kidnapped by ninjas!) and the very evil 1942 are the games I probably played the most.
In fact, I feel I should post a video of the Wizard. It was a game without music, but its sound effects were so much fun. The latters were just the coolest. Its too bad there isn't a Famicom version of it. I'd snatch it up in an instant.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGOSM0R8wg
That looks cool. :D "Where's Mario?" :P
My first videogame console was the superb Odyssey!
Odyssey in Brazil is the same as Odyssey 2 at USA.
I just loved playing Turtles!, UFO!, K.C. Munchkin 1 & 2,
and much more!
A nes with smb3 smb1 and a racing game.
My parents bought it from my nephews.
I was very happy with it and im playing, 15 years later still with it.
An awesome machine! ;D
My very first system I ever own was and still is the 1976 Atari Super Pong that my mother got me.
I still have the origanl box and manual of the system heres a pic I did on the Superpong,
(http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/2935/superpongho3.th.jpg) (http://img162.imageshack.us/my.php?image=superpongho3.jpg)
But in 1985 the first video game system I got by my self was the Nintendo NES Deluxe set with Rob the robot that I saved up the money to get^_^
original Playstation
Quote from: Har the cat on August 01, 2007, 08:16:12 am
A nes with smb3 smb1 and a racing game.
My parents bought it from my nephews.
I was very happy with it and im playing, 15 years later still with it.
An awesome machine! ;D
Yeah the NES was sure the dream machine. I still remember how excited I got every time I got a new game....great memories.
Or w/ hammers in SMB3 (from the hammer brother suit).
My first one was the NES. My parents had one when I was born and so I grew up with that. Even when the PSX and N64 rolled around, I was still into the NES. So with that in mind, I guess you could say I've playing NES for most of my life.
Super NES packed with Super Mario World.
N64 with Super Mario 64. 8)
Quote from: natedogg on October 08, 2006, 03:55:14 pm
It was the year '89 or '90 when i got my first NES ( still own her :D ) with Super Mario Bros & Duck Hunt.
Ahh, the times when mom and dad would try to get me to stop playing the thing, because i had to sleep or eat or do other "stupid" things. :D
Applies to me 100% down to not knowing for sure if it was '89 or '90, but one of those years.
N64
Pong.
The year was 1983, down under BMX Bandits was out... Armored Trooper VOTOMS was debuted in Japan and became the lesser known Japanimation sensation in the shadow of Gundam and Macross... the musical group Journey had even more kick ass tunes with Steve Perry belting them out... Huey Lewis was going on about how this chick had "heart & soul"... the video game crash had occured... and at a Garage Sale my father bought me an 6-Switch wood paneled ATARI 2600 VCS with like 27 games to go along with it. That for me was the first foray into home gaming. Me and the old man stayed up all night (I think I might have fallen asleep around 2:30AM or so) playing Video Pinball, Bowling and Combat: Bi Plane Dog Fights. Within 6 months I would end up with nearly 85 games for the system (not counting the original 27 games) as the market was shit for everyone else. But for me it was awesome.
The rest for me was history. Of course knowing that whenever I ventured into a Pizzaria, a shopping mall, a convenience store, etcetera... well, there was going to be even more bad assery in the form of Arcade Cabinets with all kinds of 16-BIT goodness that just couldn't be pulled off on the Atari 2600. Snoopy & The Red Baron ended up being my all time fave A2600 game along with *River Raid* and the port of Nintendo's original Mario Bros.
First system I ever had was an Atari VCS. We had a small, but fun collection of games like Donkey Kong, DK Jr., Frogger, Q Bert, Vanguard, Pac-Man, Combat, Dolphin, Pitfall, Jungle Hunt... I still own these same carts to this day. Granted, not all of the games were the best ports they could have been (Pac-Man for the 2600 here), but they were still a ton of fun, and great games. The original heavy sixer we had burned up (something fragged on the board), and it was later replaced with a 2600 Jr. I still have this console.
I didn't own it(like, our whole family did), but the first system I ever played was the SNES, with Toy Story. I can remember being like 4 years old and hiding under my bed because Buzz Lightyear scared me... >_>
Atari 2600 back in 1984. My dad bought it from a guy across the street. I still remember the day we got it. I played Adventure and Donkey Kong all night.
NES my Dad won it before I was born, it eventually became mine.
My first system was a Nintendo 64. My first handheld was a Game Boy Color.
My first was a ZX Spectrum +2 technically a computer, it was bought for games so that counts in my book. It hardly had any other software other than games.
1st console I had that was all mine was a game gear, man I loved that thing!
On my DC, I have a GG emulator with almost all games ever made for it.
I may have answered this elsewhere. Oh well.
First system I played on was Atari 2600, it was my dad's... good times. We had a colecovision too but dad sold it... :-[
My very first system that was mine was The N64 packaged with Pokemon Stadium, and then grandma got me a gold cart of Ocarina of Time... so lucky.
NES. I paid completely for it. My parents were very against video games.
And they're still against them now?
My father has always been a hardcore gamer but my mother was against video games.
Now she actually likes some of the newer stuff.
My dad likes video games (but he's going to be 60 in a year, so he doesn't have the reflexes anymore). My mom? Eh...not so much.
My parents don't care for vidja games that much, and since neither of my brothers are usually home, I usually play alone.
In my lifetime a NES
But when I was initially born we had Atari 2600
The Atari 2600. I remember I was imressed by that back in the day. ::) Wow, times change. ;D
Quote from: manuel on March 28, 2009, 01:59:33 am
The Atari 2600. I remember I was imressed by that back in the day. ::) Wow, times change. ;D
I hated those darn things. I never found them impressive. It was like every game was blocks and blocks revenge
Haha.
Maybe it has to do with age?
How old are you? Maybe you were used to better stuff before. But all I saw before the Atari 2600 was some Pong machine, and the 2600 was definitely better than that. :D
No need to say I was like blown away when I first saw an NES in action. ;D
PS3
Gamecube XD My first were street basketball and Mario Sunshine:P