1st console you owned?

[Nintegageo | 583]

I was actually just pondering this and realized it has several answers and one I am not sure I'd recognized.

 

So to explain, the 1st one that I owned was the GameBoy so it is a handheld. It was a present along with Yoshi. I played so many games thanks to friends and fam. Honestly, I adore this console.

My 2nd answer is the SNES, though it was a Christmas present that was given to my sister and I so not sure it counts. This is my jam! Greatest console.

The last console was the one I hadn't considered. One Christmas my dad and I saw a Game Gear in a pawn shop and I mentioned that as a present. He didn't want to purchase it with me there so he went to the store some other night and it was sold. He did see a Genesis though and thus that has a legit claim as well.

 

What was your 1st console? How does it rank in your console history?

[MegaMan52 | 2,720]

The NES was both the first game system I owned and played. It was, is, and always will be my favorite video game system. Not even because of nostalgia, but because Super Mario Bros. 1-3, Mega Man 1-6, Kirby's Adventure, Battletoads, StarTropics, Batman, and the Ninja Turtles games are so good they're hard to top. Even Super Mario World and Mega Man X aren't as good as the NES games in my opinion (I also like the original Mega Man series more than the X series).

Edited September 28, 2021 by MegaMan52

[Gloves | 12,577]

NES.

[docile tapeworm | 4,332]

sept 22 1988

floks hooked me up with the NES action set.

[Tulpa | 3,771]

Atari 2600. Sometime before 1984.

NES came sometime in 1988, control deck set with SMB.

[DarkTone | 1,039]

Game boy, then NES. My family got a ZX Spectrum first. 

[ifightdragons | 234]

NES.

Playing Zelda, DuckTales and Mega Man was nigh on transcendental.

[JamesRobot | 6,256]

The Nintendo was my first and one true love.  Though I played the field in 2000s and have a soft spot for PS2 and 360.

First console I played was an Atari.  River Raid may have been my very first video game experience. 

[RegularGuyGamer | 2,093]

The first console that I got that was all mine was the N64. We had an NES and SNES in the house but they were for the family. The N64 was the first console that was definitely all mine. 

It was December 96 and I got Mario 64 and Shadows of the Empire along side the console. Such a sick memory. 

[Hammerfestus | 4,201]

NES

[DorkOverlord | 689]

My first console was an Atari 2600 (Vader). My mom bought it at a garage sale with a bunch of games super cheap in the mid 80's. I was actually kind of sad when she gave it away to the Salvation Army once I got my NES a few years later.

 

I re-bought a Vader a couple of years ago and have most of my childhood games now. 

[Bearcat-Doug | 5,133]

I got a NES in summer of 1987. I'd rank it #1 on my personal console list with the SNES being a close 2nd.

[TrekMD | 1,504]

My first console was the Atari 2600. 

[DreamCuPS | 32]

I got an Atari 2600 in 88 or 89, for Christmas. It came with two cartridges: Enduro, and the one below:

 

[cj_robot | 559]

NES was my first. Got it on Christmas 1990. A little late to the game, but I still got a whole lot of use out of it.

It's long been supplanted as my favorite console, but I'd say it will always be near the top.

[Tanooki | 5,256]

The first console I ever owned was the NES, gifted Christmas of 1985.  Technically though, it was co-owner with my brother, so I had no dominion over usage annoyingly.  I don't consider handhelds consoles, so despite same holiday but 1989 for Gameboy, my first actual console I truly owned for myself was the SNES.

When I bought that at launch day was fun given it wasn't supposed to be bought, but again a Christmas gift.  I had my mom go get the thing so it was a rare known gift to be situation, but I flipped out realizing I hadn't bought any NES or GB games in awhile.  Because of douchy grifter behavior(like we see now on games) having priced me out of baseball cards that year, and mostly out of comics(out in 92) I had lots saved in a few places (random shelf, kids wallet, mostly in a hard wood/metal postal box safe.  I ravaged the room as she left, used a calculator knowing what was needed down to the penny.  When she returned, she had no clue, but I had it, and then some which is pretty solid for 1991 and being 14.  I more or less tossed it at her, I still remember the amount too which maybe a bit crazy ($216.50) and it went right to my room.  A solid two weeks of work, 100% cleared Super Mario World, then got to getting more starting with ActRaiser and Gradius III.  That money blown on it there, got me a nice stash of real gems for Christmas that year.

[NZCollector | 108]

PS2, I got it when I was 6. Or first console that was bought for me specifically was the Wii, I got it for my 8th birthday. I'm 21 now. You're welcome for feeling old  

Edited September 29, 2021 by NZCollector

[Alder | 243]

I was born in 1991. It's all fuzzy and I don't know the exact order, but here's my best guess:

1. Game Boy Pocket (red), hand-me-down? No idea how I got it or where it went.
2. Uncle gave me his old NES, I nearly cried on the ride home, to this day the sight of random NES carts in an old cardboard box makes me happy in a weird, visceral way.
3. SNES for Christmas in 97 or 98, I think. Came with SMW and All Stars on separate carts. Played the hell out of them both. I still have my original All Stars cart, not sure about the others.
4. Game Boy Color (atomic purple), I remember picking it out, along with a handful of games at Wal-Mart. I still have it and it's one of my most cherished gaming items.

[JeremiahJT | 76]

I am 95% sure it was a 7800 ProSystem and up to a couple of weeks ago it would have been 100%. Now I am wondering if I did not get my Action Max first.

After that would be NES third, Lynx fourth, and Genesis fifth. At this point I cannot remember when I started getting older systems. The first system I ever played was my cousin's Vader which she later gave me sometime in the '90s.

[Driftwood | 209]

1st   Sega Genesis. 
2nd  sega gamegear.  
3rd  gameboy pocket

all 3 are still very special to me, though were never made a priority in my collecting 

[LifeGame | 816]

1st was a Coleco (mostly played Zaxxon from what i remember)

2nd was a NES (my first games were Metal Gear, Ice Hockey and Cobra Command)

 

[mbd39 | 2,147]

1st Atari 2600

2nd Atari 7800

3rd NES

4th Sega Genesis

5th SNES

6th Sony Playstation

7th Nintendo 64

8th Sega Dreamcast

9th Microsoft XBOX

10th Sony Playstation 2

 

[themisfit138 | 523]

Atari 2600.

[Jeevan | 9,351]

first console I ever owned and bought with my own paper route money was the snes.  family had a nes and atari 2600 prior to that.  Snes is best!!!!!

[croagunk | 798]

My first handheld console was the Game Boy Color, and my first TV console was either the GameCube or PS1. My GameCube is my top favorite console.