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

While my first console was a SNES, I grew up with a N64, PS1, and PS2. The PS2 was the console I mostly played on, up until maybe around 2010/2011. The only other gaming device that came close was a GBA/DS.
 
I started out with a gameboy advance plus a ps1 as my standard gaming consoles. My cousins super nintendo was my first experience in older games
 
My first console was my mother's Atari 2600. I played that until got a Gameboy. Then I played that until I got an SNES. Then a Genesis. Then an N64. Then a Saturn. Then a PlayStation. Then a Playstation 2. Then a Gamecube. Then a Xbox 360. Then a PS3. Then a PS4. Then an Xbox One. Then a GTX 980.
 
I probably had a weirder game history at most. My earliest memories were playing the NES, which seems to be the cliched answer. However I was playing post 1990, after the console was already long in the tooth. I was the only person in the house still playing them (we had two) as I was the youngest. Though I played the Sega Genesis at another person's house, and had consistent access to a Super Nintendo via a friend who owned it, my next console was one you rarely hear about: an honest to God TurboGrafx-16. I owned that for a few years, and never got a Genesis or SNES of my own.

I finally joined gaming a large again when i got an N64, which was my free time for a few years, till I got a Sega Dreamcast, which is, to this day, my favorite console that I've owned. When Sega abandoned the console (a sad day indeed), I switch back to Nintendo and got a Gamecube, my second favorite console (my third is the N64). My Uncle, who lived with me at the time, owned PS1, which I occasionally played, and later was an early adopter of the PS2, which I also occasionally played, but I would have stayed Gamecube only, had the games not started drying up towards the latter half of its life, and I was essentially forced to get a PS2 slim when those came out (honestly, I'm kind of meh on the PS2, but it kept me entertained). Sometime during this generation I got a Gameboy Advance, my only handheld, but I only owned like 3 games and after a while I stopped playing it.

I got a Wii next....and only bought like two games for it. I got an Xbox 360 a year later and ended up giving the Wii away to a family member as I couldn't maintain a game library for both consoles. Then I ended up having to get a new Xbox 360 because my first one RRODed on me. I swore of Xbox afterward. When the following generation came around, I was thoroughly unimpressed with every console and got a Gaming PC instead, and I've remained a PC Gamer ever since. Considering getting a Switch at some point though.
 
Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 and PlayStation were the ones I played the most growing up. I discovered emulators in the late 90s / early 00’s and got to play a lot of stuff I missed for the SNES like Chrono Trigger.
 
First I had the Playstation (and soon later a GameBoy color). Then I got a gaming PC and lost interest in the PS1. Sold it to buy a PS2 to play MGS2. Lost interest in that as well since I had Counter-Strike and Battlefield 2 for PC. Bought the GameCube when it went on a steep discount (99€) and the PSP (to game at school while ignoring authorities). Got all I could ask for out of those two, sold them and bought a flashed Xbox 360 that I could play pirated games on. Many of my friends had flashed 360's as well, so for 5+ years we played EVERY game released and exchanged spindles of burnt DVDs regularly. Around then is when my childhood ended but eventually I ended up having two 360's, one for pirated single player games and another for legit online multiplayer. And a high-end mac for Blizzard games like Diablo and Starcraft. After that it was all PC aside from a quick detour to PS4 which was a disappointment and got sold only a year after acquiring it, not because I needed the money, but because it pissed me off by seeing my poor purchase every day when all I'd play were Arma 3 and Dota 2 on the PC.

Since then I've been PCMR exclusively.
 
First console was an Atari 2600. My grandma had a Colecovision I used to play when visiting her. My first computer was a Commodore 64, and I’m pretty sure that’s where my love of rpgs started since I used to watch my dad play games like Might and Magic and Ultima all the time on it. Got a NES for my 7th birthday and that was the one the whole family would get in on playing.
 
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The PS1 was my first console, it was given to my by an uncle in the late 90's. Then I got a PS2 not long after its launch to replace my PS1 that died. My next console was an Xbox given to me by one of my older cousins around 2003. The last two consoles that I would consider that I "grew up with" would be a launch Xbox 360 then a fat PS3 after the 360 died in 2007.
 
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Me and my brother were lucky to get an NES that our dad bought for us at a garage sale. Later though he'd go on to sell it because he thought we didn't play it anymore. After that we were given an N64 from a family friend and I also remember going to EB Games to buy a Gamecube. Me and my brothers first exposure to Zelda was when our baby sitter saw that we had Ocarina of Time. We watched him play it and it quickly became both our favourite game. I still have our N64 and the games for it too, I'm glad it still works.
 
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Mark Knopfler said:
Me and my brother were lucky to get an NES that our dad bought for us at a garage sale. Later though he'd go on to sell it because he thought we didn't play it anymore. After that we were given an N64 from a family friend and I also remember going to EB Games to buy a Gamecube. Me and my brothers first exposure to Zelda was when our baby sitter saw that we had Ocarina of Time. We watched him play it and it quickly became both our favourite game. I still have our N64 and the games for it too, I'm glad it still works.
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You had a male babysitter? 🤔
 
I also had a PSP that I bought off some Nigerian dude in my local market. It was brand new and like half the price it should have been, probably feel off the back of a truck now that I think about it.
 
The Nintendo DS, also the PSP, PlayStation 2, Wii, the 3DS and the Wii U.

And my mom's laptop with Windows Vista (or 7 idk) where I used to play Club Penguin and Poptropica.
 
Master System followed by the Game Boy. From there it went to Pc Gaming and PS 1.
 
My primary consoles as a kid were Genesis, SNES, N64, PS1, GC, PS2, and GBA, though I have a couple fleeting memories of the NES too.

Best memories were with SNES because most other kids had it too, so we could swap games and stuff, and we were all familiar with its library. Plenty of Super Mario Kart and NBA Jam with us all passing the controllers around. Good memories.
 
First console was a PlayStation, and at my age that was games like Frogger. I don't hardly remember it and it's been there for as long as I can recall.

Second console was a PlayStation 2. I don't remember if this was the PS2 or the XBox 360, but my Mom has a story about how she was going to get me one for Christmas, couldn't find them, told me that and I told her sweetly (imagine little kid) that it's okay, I already have the PS, and that was when she resolved to get one. I was less of a shithead back then. I don't remember my full game library on it. I don't seem to have saved it, either. I have no idea what happened to it in the end. Maybe Mom and Pa gave it away at some point. I had a couple of kiddie games (like the really good Avatar: The Last Airbender one that was kind of an RPG, Shadow the Hedgehog) and my brother's collection, which is how I came to have GTA San Andreas. He was a doper in those days, wound up in jail. I also recall on at least one occasion he just gave me Destroy All Humans. I had Guitar Hero: World Tour and when nobody was around I'd play as a female character in a flesh-colored bikini because I was a horny retard kid.

I got the XBox 360 for LEGO Star Wars (I know that sounds retarded, but I was still a kid and it was the first time I'd ever run into the notion of having to upgrade systems).

The whole family except for me was super excited about the idea of a Wii, but to their disappointment I didn't want one. I didn't play bingbingwahoo or those party games. Actually somewhat of a shame, they would have used it if I'd had it but they weren't the kind of people that was going to go buy silliness like that for themselves. I would have never used it, though. I have no clue what the modern version of a Wii is, but that was a real sensation in the day, but it was all normalfag party games, it was a social toy, not for the gooncave.

In high school I got a PS4. That was the first time I was old enough to actually be aware of console wars and to also know this thing was going to sell out, so I dogged my Mom about reserving it (if you're going to get this thing, you need to preorder it). I remember how glorious it was back then, I had become aware that Sony was the better company for my interests and then Microsoft just completely shit the bed that generation. I wonder if anybody else remembers just how bad it was? They COMPLETELY fucked up with the XBone, their own fanbase was livid. My first game was AssCreed IV: Black Flag, I think. I also wanted The Last of Us (for no reason other than muh pretty graphics, but it was genuinely great). Most of the games I recall playing my teenage years away, being a loser faggot, were on it. At some point in grad school it up and died on me and I stopped playing games for a few years until I got a gaming desktop. I do still mean to get it looked at (if it can be repaired cheaply). That was also when I finally had to buy a smart TV (a cheap shitty thing called a Roku) if I wanted to be able to watch YouTube or stream movies on a TV screen.

I only ever had one handheld and that was the Game Boy Advance. My favorite games was Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga, two Pirates of the Caribbean games (one was a level-based isometric view, the other was an open world side-scroller, both had their charms but the second was better-better), and really I can't recall anything all that good besides. Of course I had regular Mario, Mario 3, too.

I mused at times about getting a Switch in college, because my friend was deep into bingbingwahoo and he had one and it honestly seemed really great. Things like Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey. But I never got around to it - paying hundreds of dollars to play fucking Mario or whatever - and so here I am.

Consoles became completely boring to me in college. I played my PS4 a ton, but I wasn't the least bit interested in upgrading. I paid no attention to the PS5 and I don't even have a clue what came after the XBone. Now I'd sooner die than go back to consoles. Gaming desktops are expensive upfront but you can have basically infinitely many games (for as cheap as they are) in every conceivable genre. It makes me almost pissed to think about in retrospect, but if I'd had a gaming desktop as a kid (and you just don't buy kids stuff like that, consoles themselves are really expensive toys to spoil a child with) it may have been a complete vampire on all my productivity and potential.
 
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