What consoles did you grow up with? - He's going to take you back to the past...

[King]

This thread is for talking about the consoles you grew up with, it can be your very first console or your first time getting introduced to gaming over at a friend's/relative's house. I'll start with something simple.

My very first console was a NES when I was 6, we're staying in a nice Hotel when I was given it. Me and brother woke up too late for school the next day because we stayed up late playing Contra. It came with a neat Nintendo brand red and blue carrying bag. How ever my first experience with gaming was over my younger brother's house when I was 5, my first game was A Link to the Past on SNES, my second game being Super Mario RPG.

Edit: If you didn't grow up with consoles/handhelds but instead home computers, then still tell us your story! All a gaming console is is a gimped computer that is only used for one thing anyway!

 

[MG 620]

NES, and we got it quite late. And Gameboy. Never bothered with the newer stuff. A friend had a SNES, but I only remember Super Mario World and Mario Paint.

 

[LofaSofa]

Gameboy SP and Old Snes were my go to consoles.

Wario Land 4, Donkey Kong Country, Kirby Super Star and Earthbound were my favorite games to play.

 

[Tootsie Bear]

When I was younger my cousin gave me his two NES, SNES, games, and other accessories for free! Soon after my brother gave me his Gameboy with at least five games: Link's Awakening, Super Mario Land 2, Donkey Kong, Dr. Mario, and Mortal Kombat.

Growing up in the 90's I recall a lot more people selling used games at garage/yard sales or flea markets/swap meets. Which was perfect for a young gamer like me who was on a budget, and didn't care if the games didn't come with their original boxes and instructions.

 

[Deathfromabove]

Nintendo 64 was the first console I played as a kid but the Gamecube was out by that point, that was like 2002. My grandma had one at her house and my brother and I would go over and play it good times. Then we got a gamecube and Animal crossing for Christmas one year and that was my first real console

 

[King]

Nintendo 64 was the first console I played as a kid but the Gamecube was out by that point, that was like 2002. My grandma had one at her house and my brother and I would go over and play it good times. Then we got a gamecube and Animal crossing for Christmas one year and that was my first real console

I had my first game cube when I was 9-10ish maybe 8. I had first found out that it existed by walking to bro's friend's house during christmas in the very early 2000s and saw him playing what looked like a version of Smash 64 on steroids, blew my damn mind. Then my younger brother got one with Star Fox Adventures and Super Mario Sunshine, I got mine during the summer of 2002 with the Wind Waker Bundle. 2 days later my house got struck by lightning and my cube was fried. Thankfully my mom went to Walmart and used the return policy to jew them out of a new gamecube. I ended up swiping the teeny tiny memory card so I would have space for Sonic Adventure two on the spare card. Since wind waker took up the entire space in the included memory card.

 

[Fuck you jewish cunt]

Xbox, PlayStation 1, GameCube, PlayStation 2, Gameboy Advance, and a old Sega Genesis



My relatives usually delivered

 

[Replicant Sasquatch]

Gamecube, and occasionally some PC games on the shitty laptop my dad bought so my brother and I wouldn't tie up his computer.

 

[Ravio]

Grew up on the NES. We didn't have much as far as games. Yet every year it seemed like we would get something new like the Genesis, the Snes, N64 And the 32X.

 

[EH 110]

My family bought an Atari 2600 before I was born, so that was my first console. I loved playing Pitfall. Later, we got an NES.

 

[Charlie Delicious]

My parents were very much against owning a video game console. They believed I would just sit in front of it all day and never leave the house. They weren't against me playing them, just against having one permanently in the house.

My friends all had the latest consoles, do I didn't miss out too much. It did make me more obsessed with gaming though. This forbidden machine my parents refused to buy. I would buy EGM magazines and study every article. Every ad. It was a sacred text.

Of course they cracked and bought me and my brother Gameboy when they wanted to keep us quiet for long vacation rides in the car. They also bought me a used Atari that I wish I still had. This was when the SNES came out. Sigh. Even had a copy of ET.

Then I got more into PC gaming. Doom, wolf3d, Ultima 7, simcity 2000, and ooooh lordy did I ever play Dune 2 to death.

The first console I actually bought for myself was the PS2. This was right after I played GTA3 at a friend's place and there was no way I wasnt going to own that game.

Since then I've owned a 360 and a Wii. Still mostly gaming on PC but very much tempted to pick up a Switch and PS4

 

[Dunsparce]

My mom's Atari 2600, we didn't get anything newer until my dad bought an original Playstation. I didn't get my own system until I got a Gameboy Color

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

I was more into Lego was I was a lad, but I asked Santa (AKA Mom and Dad) for a SEGA Game Gear with Sonic Chaos. It was a battery hog, but I loved the hell out of the thing. I also asked for a Genesis the next year and even a Nomad to prove how much of a fanboy I was.

 

[Dr. Tremolo]

Well let's see, I played on an NES knockoff at my cousins (everyone in Poland had one of those in the 90s except me, my dad didn't want me to have it because it's "Chinese crap"), a Nintendo 64 at the nearby supermarket (I can remember the specific games I've played, they were Diddy Kong Racing and Star Wars Battle for Naboo) around the turn of the century (the PS2 was already out but as a little kid how would I know what's the latest), then when I was a bit older I got a GameCube, I was the only kid around to have one so it was a treat to invite friends to play Smash Bros, placing a spare TV in the hallway. But for most of my childhood I just played out of date PC games on my crappy out of date computers.

 

[The Valeyard]

I didn't have a gaming console until the first Xbox was released. I was raised on home computers, starting with the Commodore 64, followed by the Amiga 500 and 1200.

 

[PsychoNerd054]

I grew up with the GameCube and PS2, both of which my parents owned. I was also one of those lucky kids who grew up in the 2000s who got the chance to play a few PS1 games, it wasn't like we had any other PS1 games other than Spyro and Crash, though. I also enjoyed plenty of Sega Genesis games, most of which were just collections of games for those consoles.

 

[Kiwi Jeff]

NES, SNES, N64, PlayStation, and Sega Genesis.

The NES was my dad's. I don't know how long we had it, because I can barely remember it before my mom sold it.

After that, we got an SNES. I can't remember how long we had that before my mom sold it.

Then my dad got himself a PlayStation, which I was allowed to play on sometimes. We still have it.

Then my parents got me and my sister a N64. We still have it, although it needs a new power box.

Around this time, my older brother gave me his old Sega Genesis Model 2. I still own it, and play it to this day. This was the system I played the most.

 

[Loxiozzz]

I had a PS1, my childhood buddy had a NES. We used to play Sonic together all the time. Then the Game Boy came out. I don't miss that stupid light you had to attach to the console to see the screen.

 

[R.A.E.L.]

Playstation 1 and 2, and Gameboy Color and Advance.

 

[Bob Page]

Playstation 1. My favorite games on that system were Spyro 1, Medal of Honor, GTA 1 and Legend of Dragoon. I still have my PS1.