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Post by chronocross on Dec 19, 2023 20:51:29 GMT -5
My parents bought me and my brother the NES w/Super Mario Bros. and Duck Hunt, can't remember what the occasion was.
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Post by Malcolm on Dec 19, 2023 20:59:11 GMT -5
First game console that was "ours"? The NES on Xmas with World Cup/Dig and Spiker V Ball + Super Mario Bros.
First console that was MINE? Sega Dreamcast, 14th birthday 2001.
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Post by HMARK Center on Dec 19, 2023 22:27:50 GMT -5
I feel like it's possible my family got a NES with me in mind when I was a toddler, but it's also possible they got one because my parents were just getting out of their game buying days around the mid-to-late 80s - they'd had a Calicovision, after all.
The first console I have a legit memory of being gifted directly to me, though, was a Sega Genesis, just can't remember if it was 1991 or 1992. My uncle had one, and needless to say I was amazed by the graphics, and especially taken with Sonic 1, so it was all a no brainer. I was lucky enough to end up being gifted a SNES a bit later; ended up being the only generation where I had more than one home console...ok, technically I've had more than one console over the last number of years, but the XBox 360, PS4, and now the Series X are all my girlfriend's, not mine, and I don't really end up playing them.
First console I bought for myself, though? GameCube. I had gotten a side job during high school and I ended up picking up a bundle at Costco that came with the system, Smash Melee, a Melee strategy guide, and a memory card, and I must've turned into my local Best Buy's favorite customer because it seemed like any time I went there I walked out with a new game, so it's the first system that was both bought with my own money and then mostly supplied with games by me. Needless to say, I'm a Nintendo guy; as long as I can play Zelda, I'm happy.
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Post by Paul on Dec 19, 2023 23:07:11 GMT -5
No not your dad's old SNES he let you play so he got an hour of peace. First one bought for you. Home Console not handheld. Atari 2600 for me. Won it from Godfather's pizza when I was in 1st grade. 2 days after winning it flooded in my area and no school for the rest of the week. Only game I had was Combat,which sucks solo. Mom went out and got Space Invaders. Months later old cousin taught me how to "fry" the system and get more shots on screen in Space Invaders. Your Mom went out in a flood just to get you Space Invaders? Best Mom ever!
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 19, 2023 23:09:13 GMT -5
A NES, which I got after having surgery in 1991.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 20, 2023 0:26:07 GMT -5
No not your dad's old SNES he let you play so he got an hour of peace. First one bought for you. Home Console not handheld. Atari 2600 for me. Won it from Godfather's pizza when I was in 1st grade. 2 days after winning it flooded in my area and no school for the rest of the week. Only game I had was Combat,which sucks solo. Mom went out and got Space Invaders. Months later old cousin taught me how to "fry" the system and get more shots on screen in Space Invaders. Your Mom went out in a flood just to get you Space Invaders? Best Mom ever! Nah,from what I can remember it was the areas south of the Interstate that got flooded. We lived north of it and a store was in that area. I did a few years ago find an old newspaper ad from that time frame that showed how much Space Invaders was 30 or 35 bbucks. That is what 65 or 70 now. She is the mom that the year the Knight Rider KITT car came out went to every toy store or place that sold toys from New Orleans to Mobile AL trying to find one.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 20, 2023 0:31:04 GMT -5
I got a NES for my 4th birthday. Coincidentally a few months after my uncle bought one and got my dad hooked on it.
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Post by ayumidah on Dec 20, 2023 2:30:53 GMT -5
SNES. Somehow my dad got ahold of this magazine that would sell used or new games and systems, and he bought me the SNES, and a few Mario games and other titles. Used to spend so much time on that thing playing Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Ms. Pacman, and so many other games. Ah, I miss it.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Dec 20, 2023 3:09:17 GMT -5
Gamecube. We and my brother had one but sold it(or it broke can't remember), then I ended up getting one for myself.
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Post by 6pathsoftommy on Dec 20, 2023 3:16:43 GMT -5
Sega Genesis.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Dec 20, 2023 5:32:26 GMT -5
PlayStation in June 2000. My parents got it for my younger brother and I as a "present from the new baby".
The games we got with it were Tekken 2, Tomb Raider 3 and A Bugs Life. Admittedly I was sad that I never owned Tekken 3 until I had a PS3.
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Post by Push R Truth on Dec 20, 2023 7:47:03 GMT -5
original GameBoy but if you want to get technical about "home console" it was many years later when I picked up a PS2
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Post by H-Virus on Dec 20, 2023 8:00:57 GMT -5
First one that was bought for me was a NES. First one I ever bought for myself was probably a PS2.
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Post by pinja on Dec 20, 2023 9:36:48 GMT -5
commodore 64/sega mega drive. depending on your definition of home console. Same. I was late with both. The PlayStation was freshly on the market when I got the Mega Drive.
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Post by Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!! on Dec 20, 2023 10:08:22 GMT -5
For me it was my SNES.
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Post by salz4life on Dec 20, 2023 10:14:33 GMT -5
The NES.... we had an Atari 2600, but my Dad bought that more for himself I think. I eventually played it.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Dec 20, 2023 10:22:22 GMT -5
Guessing I am one of the few old enough to remember going into Toys R Us and seeiing 2600,5200,intellivision and Colecovision games on the wall?
Or how within a year of release Friday the 13th on the NES dropped to 20 bucks at every Kaybee Toys and Circus World toys stores. So that Xmas pretty much everybody I knew with a NES got a copy from an Aunt or Grandparent.
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Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Dec 20, 2023 11:22:59 GMT -5
Guessing I am one of the few old enough to remember going into Toys R Us and seeiing 2600,5200,intellivision and Colecovision games on the wall? Or how within a year of release Friday the 13th on the NES dropped to 20 bucks at every Kaybee Toys and Circus World toys stores. So that Xmas pretty much everybody I knew with a NES got a copy from an Aunt or Grandparent. I’m too young for those, but I do distinctly remember my dad checking all over town every day for like a month trying to get a copy of Super Mario Bros 3. Which included buying a Famicom copy of it that somehow had found its way to Brandon Manitoba. That not working crushed our dreams, but luckily it was pretty quick after that that Dad managed to get a copy. That $20 Friday the 13th story probably explains why almost every random lot of games I’ve bought over the years has had a copy of that f***ing game. I’ve had at least 5 or 6 copies of that, I believe I still have 2 copies.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Dec 20, 2023 11:37:28 GMT -5
I'm the youngest so I had several either shared or passed down but the first console that belonged to me and lived in my bedroom was the N64 and I was obsessed with it.
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Post by Perd on Dec 20, 2023 11:45:39 GMT -5
The NES. I forget what year. But probably 89 or 90. I remember my grandma sneaking me over my cousin's copy of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out. And he was not happy about it. And my dad still talks about looking all over for the original TMNT game. He didn’t think he was going to find it, but one of his buddies had bought an extra copy and sold it to him.
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