How long have you been console gaming?

Btw thanks to Calpis for the idea.

Anyways, what's your gaming background.

I started at probably 8 years old with my Sega Genesis.

EDIT: Actually I had a Sega Pico first and eventually I went through the maybe 5 games the system had, and I begged my parents for a Sega Genesis.

The main thing before this (1993 that being when the Pico was released). Was simply going over to my cousins house who lived fairly close (we carpooled, did elementary school lunch there, family dinners,etc)

 

Hmmm... my parents never actually bought a new console for us until about a year after the Xbox came out. My neighbor convinced them to get one so we could play Halo with him.

Before that, though, I remember playing the NES at a very young age. A lot of Mario and Blades of Steel. Then up until the Xbox we always got hand me downs about a generation late, and people would always take them back from us. Most of the gaming I did was at the homes of friends and family. Over the years we've owned an NES, SNES, and N64. And that's about it.

 

The first handheld of mine has to be the GameBoy Pocket in 1997 followed by my 1st console which was the N64 back in 1999 when I was 10.

Yeah I know, I don't have that much of a gamer's history to look back at and I also missed the glory 16-bit age. But at least I try to catch it up after afterwards

 

God, it must have been what, 1990? I remember playing older arcade games like Joust, Galaga, and Pac-Man before getting my Genesis in 1991, if i remember correctly. We didn't have much money back then, so I only got games for Christmas and my birthday. First handheld was the Game Boy Pocket with Donkey Kong, although I had played the brick gameboy well before. I remember wanting a N64 for Super Mario 64 in 96, but they were all sold out. Before my father died, he bought me a Playstation with Crash Bandicoot for Christmas.

Didn't really become a hardcore gamer until '99, since I was living with my grandparents and they were anal about console games (Still played games like Tetris and such on their computer). I had started to memorize release dates, console websites such as Gamefaqs and Gamespot, and random facts about gaming around that time, and bought many of the old games I missed and played them for the first time (Such as Super Mario Bros, the old Final Fantasy games, all the old Zelda games, and such). I guess that since I grew up with Nintendo, Sega, and Sony that I am not really a fanboy for one system over the other (Still think that some consoles do things better then others, though).

 

NES, age 5. Mom got a NES to play Mario 3.

The first game I ever played though, was Sonic 2. I think.

 

Sinclair Spectrum 2+ when I was 6 back in 1991. Then I moved onto a Sega Master System and then onto an Amiga A600.

 

My first console experience was in 1989/1990 with Super Mario Bros 2, Duck Hunt & NES Pinball, I was hooked. I got my first console, the GB, for Xmas in 1991.

 

Amiga 500 ... I had a original Gameboy a year or two after that

 

asid from Arcades.. mine has to be 1989 i was 8 and a kid at school had a new Jap Megadrive!!! and Altered Beast was THE game to play!

I didnt get my first console until 1994 (SNES) but had a variety of Commodore units from 1988...

Now i just cant get enough of the,m. they still fill me with a childlike warm fuzzy feeling!

 

An Acetronic MPU-1000 back in 1981, my I feel old... had two games Grand Prix (consisted of dodge the oncoming traffic and grantrak-10 like games) and Olympics (think pong with some games using gravity like basketball and volleyball), ah those were the days.

 

Atari 2600 back in 1989 when I was 4.

 

I have 2 older brothers, so I always remember a Sega Mastersystem and NES since a year or two after we moved, which was when I was 2. They probably had it longer, but memories before that are few and far between. The first thing I owned for myself was the original Gameboy (original model anyway, not the original release of it. Brand new). My brothers both got one too. Then a Gameboy Pocket when Pokemon came out. First console that I owned all for myself was the Dreamcast

 

Playing a borrowed Spectrum 16K in 1983.......feck......

Had a wobbly ram pack on it and tool about 10 goes to get Jetpac loaded on a massic tape deck.

VCS 2600 was first console - playing defender on xmas morning....and the playing combat by myself......

Remember watching my pal write basic code on a Vic 20 and thinking it was awesome.

I've just gone and downloaded a speccy emulator and am playing it now on my DC - this thread has brought back so many memories!

 

My brothers NES in about 92-93

 

My first console was the RCA Studio II back in the '70s. Had 5 built in games, several ROM carts, numerical keypad controllers built into the face of the console and a B&W screen resolution of 40 X 24.
And it beeped, too! AWESOME!!!

 

My first console was the Master System, although i started in the gaming world playing my brother's Atari 2600.

Both consoles bring a lot of good memories.

 

I was too young to remeber correctly but I think I started with a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48k and Full Throttle (I could barely speak at this time)

I used to play Spectrum +2 and Amiga at my cousin's,played some SMB on a NES at display at a local shop and around the same time my first arcade games were Moonwalker and SuperHangOn.
And finally I got my own console, a MegaDrive, and so the madness started...

 

The first Console I played was the NES. However prior to the NES we had an Atari 5200 Computer. Our neighbor across the street from us got a NES at some point and not long after that we were wanting one as well and got one the following christmas. I was probably something like 3 years old.

I still remember playing Joust and Pac-Man on the Atari, and then ofcourse playing Super Mario Brothers, Mega Man 3, and maybe others. And I mean remember playing them as a kid, not remembering just the game itself.

But the NES is responsible for my very expensive gaming addiction to this day.

 

First was an NES. Rented games like Zelda 1 and 2, but never got to finish them. The closest NES game I ever came to beat when I was that age was probably Super Mario 3. The first game I ever beat was Super Mario World for the SNES. My brother got a Genesis, and I played and beat some of the Sonic games on it. He got a Sega CD as well, but I didn't play it much. Mainly because it was too hard for me to understand. Or at least I thought.

I skipped the PSX generation when it was new, never got a Saturn either, until way later. The first console that I've ever OWNED was an N64. As I got older, my collection started growing. Around 1999 or so, I decided to start a collection. I sold my N64 in a panic to get enough money for Arc the Lad Collection (Because I was broke and desperate, basically) and I only found one copy. And that was the last copy I've EVER seen in stores.

So long story short, I've been console gaming all my life. And I played tons of handhelds as well.