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What Was Your First Gaming Console?


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#1 Scorbing

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:46

Mine was the ColecoVision. I thought that was the most awesome console back then. I hated the joysticks though. They were a pain to use. I remember this thing was quite expensive too. $300.00 if I remember correctly?

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:49

Technically not a console but the first gaming machine I had was the original ZX Spectrum

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My first actual games console was the SNES I think.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:50

Intellivision.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:50

Original Playstation :)

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:50

Atari :p

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:53

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Mine was a Binatone TV Master Mk6. There were dozens of these type of machines in the '70s.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:53

View PostMephistopheles, on 04 February 2013 - 19:50, said:

Intellivision.

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God...Those things were ugly in design!....LOL...LOL...I remember them.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 19:56

I think my first console was an Atari 2600. Probably around 7 yrs old. The first console that I loved was my NES!

I think I rented the NES w/Super Mario so many times that my parents decided it would be cheaper just to buy it for me.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:00

Intellivision for me, but my Vic 20 could play games if you programmed them your self.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:00

Hard to remember. We had so many back when i was a id.

I know we had an Atari, but i also remember getting the NES.
Had alot of great games on that. I miss that big ugly running pad we got for it, ha.

After that Super nintendo, then Sega along with sega 32x :D RoadRash was awesome.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:03

My first video game consoles were hand-me-downs from my Dad - Colecovision and Intellivision. But I'm a child of the late 80s and 90s so the ones I purchased new were:

NES, Super NES, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:04

I had a Odyssey² iirc, followed by a NES.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:05

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Had most of the others over the years until around the N64, after that I was pretty much PC only for gaming. Kind of miss the old Vectrex and Intellivision, fun games with crappy controllers.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:11

Atari 2600, which my dad bought before I was born (1980). Fond memories and it started the awesome 2P games my dad and I would have.

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Posted 04 February 2013 - 20:15

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