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

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Sega Genesis. That was the first gaming console my family ever got and of course the first game we ever got to play was Sonic The Hedgehog 2.

 

[Medici]

Those shitty plug-n-play things you get from dollar general. Also the Gameboy Color / Advance and PS2.

 

[Endir]

My first console was the SNES. The amount of hours I must've clocked in with Super Mario World and Chrono Trigger is scary.

After that I went into a short handheld console phase (Gameboy Color & Advance but we also had the original 1989 Gameboy).

After that it's all homevideo consoles-- PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360. Only home console now however is a PS4.

Recently though my main platform that I use for gaming is my pc.

 

[Flowers For Sonichu]

My older brother had an atari but by the time I was old enough to play vidya I was on THE NES

in 2nd grade I won a drawing at Meijer for something up to $100 so i got a SNES but no games until Christmas

Guilted my dad into getting me a psx due to ruining my childhood via divorce

PS2. See above.

PS3 with dead grandma money. Traded it for and was hardcore pc master race for a decade until I bought a switch last month. First console I bought with my own money and owned in 10 years.

 

[Lackadaisy]

I used to play my dad's Gameboy the Kuwaitis gave him during Desert Storm until some neighbor kids wanted to throw out their Gameboy Colors.

 

[CriscoRocket]

I had an atari 2600 and commodore 64 as a kid, both of them were obselete by that time but luckily where I lived Toys r us still sold games for them.

 

[GravityBeliever]

My uncle had a PS1 with a Pacman game, and my family a PS2 with a Hercules one. Those were the first games I ever played, and Hercules couldn't even save progress because of something to do with the memory card, so every day I would just start the game over, never actually finishing it.
I was always jealous of all the other kids with their gameboys.

 

[Quijibo69]

I had an Atari 2600, Intellivision, Vtech Socrates and NES when I was ages 4 to 11ish. In middle school I got a SNES and a Genesis. Then, in high school I got a PS2 for Christmas.

 

[TheClorax]

I vaguely remember playing the shit out of the very first X-Box. My grandparents have a PS2 that I now have tucked away in a box under my bed due to the lack of actually worth while games.
Then when I was maybe 4 or 5(?) my parents got a Wii system and the new TMNT game at the time because I really liked the 2007 movie. I still have fond memories just swinging that remote around. Then Super Paper Mario came around, never actually completed it because I was too young to comprehend what was going on, and the reading. I absolutely adore the game nowadays though.
Then I got a DS and Transformers: Decepticons. That was the first game I ever actually completed, and still pick it up now and again today. For a good long while, the Wii and DS were my bitches.
Now, I have a Switch, and New 3ds. Though I do plan on getting a PS4 sometime, mostly to try out the upcoming Spider-Man game.
TL;DR: I’m a faggot for Nintendo.

 

[Pop-Tart]

PCuck, my family brought old work computers home. I got to play with them. Still got all the old CD jewel cases on my wall. From Quake, to Half Life, Star craft, and Battlefield 1942.

 

[Super Collie]

My parents owned an Atari 2600 and had it set up in the living room for the longest time in the house I grew up in. My dad was sort of into video games back then as I remember him periodically looking through those Atari game catalogs for new ones to try out. He was also subscribed to the Atari Fan Club where he either bought or otherwise received a copy of SwordQuest: Water World (which today is worth a few hundred dollars loose but at the time I fucking hated that game and its other two iterations, which he also owned). I remember he had a few of those Activision patches they'd send you for getting high scores in their games too, but he never ironed them onto a vest or anything, he just kept them loose.

I played a lot of your bog standard 2600 games that have already been mentioned in this thread. Games like Pitfall, Pac-Man, Combat, and the arcade game ports like Missile Command and Space Invaders and all that. I remember really being into two specific Activision games though: Pressure Cooker and Sea Quest. Sea Quest was all about rescuing these divers and shooting at sharks and stuff, sort of like a sideways Space Invaders except a lot faster paced. Pressure Cooker though, that game was crazy complex for such a simple system. You played as a little chef and had to read these food orders at the bottom of the screen and then assemble hamburgers based upon which ingredients were noted.

Games I hated included E.T., of course, because while I sort of "understood" the concept of the game it was so broken and hard to play that to this day I've never actually beaten it. There was also the Superman game which I never really understood what to do and couldn't figure out how to navigate through the city because you could fly in any direction but it seemed like flying up and down a screen would just drop you off at some random place. I also kept getting trapped in what I assume was the city "subway". My attempts at Superman would usually end with me catching one bad guy, then getting hit with kryptonite, and then giving up.

We had one of those chunky Wico "Boss" joysticks, too. The Atari joysticks were nice and all but I swore by the pistol grip on the Wico one.

Not sure what happened to the 2600. I know my parents did not get rid of it. It's probably in a box in their garage or attic somewhere.

 

[whatever I feel like]

As a kid I had an SNES, Genesis, N64 and Gamecube before leaving for college and getting out of console gaming for about a decade. Ahh the days when you could actually see games technology improving at a rapid pace over the course of a few years.

 

[InLivingTuna]

My brother bought a PS2 before I was born and I played it for WAY too long (well into the 2010s). I've also owned every Nintendo console since the Wii, and yes this means I'm admitting to owning a Wii U.

 

[Clown Baby]

NES was my first console. I had Contra, Castlevania, All the SMB games, Kirby's Dreamland, Ghosts and Goblins, tLoZ, The Goonies II - a personal favorite, even though it makes no sense. I loved to hit the lady in the head with the hammer, you feel me? "Ouch what do you do?"

I got an SNES when I was like 12, maybe? I had Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, And to this day my favorite game ever is still A Link to the Past.

 

[Gordon Cole]

Playstation 2 & 3 (Got them both in the middle of their runs. My first PS2 games were Spider-Man 2 and NHL 2003.), Game Boy Advance (Warioware), Nintendo DS (Ultimate Spider-Man, Star Wars: Episode 3) and Wii (Super Mario Galaxy, Geometry Wars: Galaxies), along with untold amounts of time spent playing flash games.

 

[AJ 447]

Nintendo 64, Gamecube, and Gameboy Color. Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64 (fuck that game was hard), Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Legend of Zelda, Pokemon. Really good times.

 

[weirdMcGee]

PlayStation one, ps2, xbox 360, and just Xbox.

Ironically, I wanted a Nintendo console since I saw that some do the games looked fun.....sigh, someday.

 

[Red Hood]

Sega Genesis, then PSX.

 

[Plasmid Salamander]

I had quite a few consoles as a kid. First console was a Sega Mega drive and I played Crash Dummies, Batman and Robin and I played those two religiously. (Batman and Robin was hard as shit) I then departed from Sega and got an N64. As I got older I got a Game Boy Color and a GBA SP, then I got the Original Xbox, The Gamecube and the PS2

 

[American Lollinator Mace]

My first system was an N64. Didn't use it for anything but Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2. *ducks rotten vegetables*
Then there was my Playstation, which I played Squaresoft games on for a long while--FF7, Chrono Trigger, Vagrant Story, FF Tactics, all that good stuff. Man...remember when Square actually made good games? T_T