What was your first console?

[Basil II]

Fat Playstation 2, but mostly played PSX games on it.

 

[NerdShamer]

Goof Troop and a Pole Position clone for the SNES. Moved onto GameCube with an all-nighter on Super Mario Sunshine. Fell in love with RPGs when I got Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.

 

[Draza]

Playstation 2 with GTA San Andreas and Vice City.

 

[XYZpdq]

TI-99 4A. Not really a console, but it did take proprietary game cartridges (or a tape drive).

Didn't have one of these at home until much later, but I put a lot of mileage on it in preschool.
Similarly not-quite-a-console but the first thing I had at home was an Atari 800xl, so I never knew a Donkey Kong without the cement level.
First dedicated console was an NES.

 

[TenMilesWide]

My first console was a gameboy color. My brother bought it off a friend on the playground for $5 and I took it when he got bored of it.

 

[Stardust]

First played? NES, though I enjoyed my SEGA Genesis and SNES more.

First I bought with my own money? PS2.

My NES and PS2 still work, too. They seem to have better longevity than anything newer.

 

[JamusActimus]

Snes and nintendo 64.
My older brother allowed me to play with their old consoles.


Love you big bro

 

[Y2K Baby]

Pepsi.

 

[Tour of Italy]

Technically a Commodore 64 but my dad mostly used it for nerd shit and we only had educational games.

First actual console was a Sega Genesis, the Sonic 2 bundle.

Some of my earliest memories were of renting games from Phar-Mor and Hollywood Video.

 

[The Last Stand]

I'd say PlayStation 2.

I do remember playing the Xbox first, but that was my sister's evidently.

 

[Crazedking]

SNES, followed by N64 and a gameboy. Then i moved to PC gaming and never owned any other consoles.

 

[Balr0g]

First played on? Commodore at a friend

First personal one? Master System 2 (I still have it and it probably still works though I don't hve a TV to plug it in anymore)

 

[sasazuka]

It's sort of a three-way answer depending on how you define "console".

First device we had attached to a television upon which we could play games: one of those Sears Pong clones.

First device we had upon which we could play games on cartridge: Commodore Vic-20 (which we didn't get until 1984, by which time its successor the Commodore 64 had already been out 2 years).

First dedicated videogame console: Sega Master System.

 

[Stasi]

Surprised how many people saying PS2. Lotta fucking zoomers here (or I'm slowly becoming an old fuck).

Mega Drive for me. Sunset Riders *crack, sipp* now that was a good game.

 

[Xerxes IX]

Nintendo 64, but the only game we had was Super Mario 64. My dad worked for Silicon Graphics so that might have been related.

The first personal console I owned was the PS2, but all my friends were staunchly in Team Nintendo so I ended up getting the Wii, DS, etc. and forgetting about Sony.

 

[James Roancrest]

My first console was the original PlayStation, and my first console game was Ape Escape). That being said, my first gaming system was the Gameboy Pocket.

I miss Ape Escape.

 

[I can't imagine]

Assuming it counts, the Commodore 64; we only really used it for games, so I'd say it counts, but YMMV. As far as dedicated consoles, the NES.

 

[The Jumping Dwarf]

GBA SP as well. I still have it around, got it repaired recently because the internal battery died and I felt like playing it again.

For home consoles, it was a Wii. Could've been something like a PS2 or a Gamecube, but my mom refused to buy me vidya until I was a little older, and by that time they were already near the end of their lifespans.

I do have a NES, but that was a later gift to us by another person who had it catching dust.

 

[White Devil]

NES when I was about 4 years old.

Castlevania was the first video game I had ever played. The first console I bought with my own money though was probably a PS2.

 

[OvercookedBacon]

Either the VTech Socrates or the Amiga 500.

Reminds me, I had this one thing as a very little kid that was made by VTech, but I can't remember the name for the life of me. Sort of a handheld thing, played word games, had little plastic punch cards to choose games. Have any idea what it was?