What Was your first ever console/gaming system?

Hey everyone, Hopefully your day/night is going well. As gamers, we can all remember the memory of getting our first console and being introduced to the wonderful world of gaming. What was the console that captured your herat, mind and soul and got you into gaming?

We had things like megadrive and nintendo, but the day I got the Nintendo 64 was the best! We used to play Diddy Kong Racing for hours, just flying around the free bits playing tag.

For the PC, Command and Conquer was my first experience followed by Shogun Total War - my first experience of Shogun was via a demo disc bought from Paddington Train Station when I was about 11 I think (first PC Gamer magazine too).

Ahhh nostalgic to think about the days where patches were included on pc gamer discs.

I watched my dad play video games for as long as I can remember. My most vivid memory is when he played Final Fantasy VII and I was building a bad ass, amazing blanket fort on the bed. He summoned shiva and I thought that was the coolest shit ever.

My favorite thing to play in my childhood, and I'm pretty sure the first game and console that I ever had, was Harvest Moon 64 for the Nintendo 64.

All good times~

I remember my first console was an NES my godfather gave me and my sister, that used to belonged to his sons. I remember he gave it to us because he had bought them a Genesis. I remember it came with 50 games so we were set for that whole year lol

The first system I had was the SNES, and game for it was Kirby Superstar. The first portable I had was a Gameboy Color with Pokemon Blue.

The first system I had was a PC and I can remember playing Rollercoaster Tycoon on it, albeit, it wasn't the first game I ever played, that was Sonic CD. My first portable was a PSP with FF7 Crisis Core.

Nintendo Entertainment System was my first and Game Gear was my first handheld.

I had a Binatone Pong System in about 1977/78...first proper system was the Commodore 64 in 1983, and the first game I played at home was Wizard of Wor (cartridge).
Had Jupiter Lander, Tooth Invaders and Pinball Spectacular bundled too.
First tape game I got was Booty....first one I saved up for was Gribblys day Out (£7.95) and first tenner game I got was Ghostbusters.
Magical times.

My brother had a Nintendo and my Grandma had a Genesis so those were technically my first systems, but I blame the Dreamcast for my nerdy beginnings. :nerd:

My parents got a spectrum at an early age that my dad played a bunch (especially an early football manager game) and I got to play too. The loading screens and screeching sounds taught a lot of patience back then :) The games were interesting and very diverse (tho i probably mostly got addicted to the arcadey ones). I think the hobbyist scene in those earlier days outside of console allowed for so much variety as anyone could have an idea and run with it! My favourite games that I remember were R-type (rarely got past level 4 which required turning the tape over and loading which was 50/50 as to whether it worked!), Uridium, Robin Hood (by codemasters!) and Oh Mummy! (was one of a few bundled games with the system https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bONV0osw44).

My parents made the decision to throw an Atari 2600 in front of me when I was little. Haven't turned back since. Grew up a Nintendo kid and was converted when playstation hit shelves. Became a bit indecisive by the time xbox360, ps3, and wii came out because I owned all three at some point. That all changed when I built my own PC though and decided to switch to computer gaming. The only thing I play often aside from PC is my Super Nintendo.

The first memory I have of games is watching my older brother play Vampire Killer(Castlevania) on our MSX. Played on it aswell for awhile untill we got a better PC. First portable was a Gameboy Colour with pokemon red. First proper console I think was a ps1. I always had a feeling that consoles might not have been very big here in the Netherlands,because nobody I knew had any for the longest time,until the ps1 era.

I grew up as a PC gamer, but I managed to snag myself a Gameboy Color as my first dedicated gaming system with Donkey Kong Country and Pokemon Silver. My first console was the PS2, so I'm relatively bad at classic console gaming, as proven by my skills on the SNES Classic and my NES. Yikes, avert the eyes.

For whatever reason, dedicated gaming systems were frowned upon in my home for the longest time. I had to borrow my neighbor's gameboy to play Pokemon Red (and hide behind my bed to play it so my parents didn't find out!), and my constant begging for consoles fell on deaf ears. The year my family got the PS2, I had been asking for a Gamecube, but my dad felt the PS2 was a better choice because "it also plays DVDs" and we didn't have a DVD player. The console was a first-gen so it barely played DVDs anyway, haha. Two years later, I had saved enough money to buy myself a Gamecube.

The first computer game I ever played was on the Commodore 64. It was a cartridge game that was about exploring some kind of vampire castle, I can't recall the name of it at all, I just remember typing the commands "look north, look south, open north, go north" for hours and hours. First actual computer game that was played on a desktop machine was the original King's Quest in black and white ridiculously horrible graphics, but back then it was SO COOL!

Atari 2600 for me, though it was pretty quickly followed up by an Apple ][+. Sadly, I missed out on the NES (got to rent one a couple times). In college I knew someone who had an SNES and a Sega Genesis (with the 32x and the SegaCD).

The first one I bought with my own money, though, was an Atari Jaguar (does that even really count?).

Since then it's been almost the whole laundry list.
Saturn, PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, GameCube, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, Wii U.

And for handhelds,
Game Gear, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, Nintendo 3DS.

And I've been part of the "PCMR" since Windows 95 and have run every consumer Windows version since.
* I didn't own the ones in blue and I no longer own the ones in red.

My first handheld was a Nintendo DS lite and my first console was a Wii. I played a lot of animal games at that time.

We had some Chinese NES knock-off, though we didn't know any better. So we'd play Mario and Adventure Island for days. But then i was introduced to the beauty that was the Gameboy. First game was Pokemon Crystal. First console was the ps2 in '05 with Gran turismo 4 and later GTA San Andreas.

My first console was a red game boy pocket. After this I won a painting competition with 8 years and I got 300 DM (Deutsche Mark). My mom allowed me to buy a Playstation One :D My favourite games was Pokemon red and Harvest Moon.

Fable 1 was my first xbox 360 game :)

My first game was most likely the first mariocart on the SNES since then I have played every single Zelda game. [Other than the CDi. We don't talk about those.] I have also played the main three fable games and the humor made it one of my all time favorite series. My favorite videogame character is Reaver because I have read way too far into his diary and now emphasize with him. My first computer game was Diablo and the first MMO I played was Everquest [Wow old. That was right when I was learning to read.] My mother played videogames and read a lot. So she would play games with me and my sister before I could even read. I like to say I learned to read to play The legend of Zelda Ocarina of time.

A colecovision my parents found in a thrift shop.

I loved that thing.