QOTW: What was the first game console you purchased?

[rs4847]

First would be a Atari 2600.

Own money would be a Nintendo 64.

[meuvoy]

I've got a Super Nintendo, and a Master System as gifts when a kid. But I've never bought any console in my entire life.
I'm basically a PC gamer and consoles I merely emulate either in my PC or in my Smartphone.

[big_hairy_rob]

first I bought, Atari ST. first bought for me, Sinclair spectrum,,

[Bishi]

Never bought one. Whats the point if you have a PC?

[matts-uk]

In 1977 I wanted an Atari VCS for Christmas. What I got was a cheap clone of the Grandstand 'sports' console, that my father bought from some dodgy geezer in the pub. Basically 10 different ways to play Pong

By 1981 I had an after school job and managed to put away the £189 (IIRC) for a VIC 20, on the second import wave. I had to buy it from a type-writer shop two bus journeys from home and probably drove the owner potty turning up every Saturday to ask "Is it in yet?" I bought the VIC to play more games than I could afford to pump 10 Ps into the local Space Invaders machine. I ended spending less time gaming as I preferred the challenges of debugging and building simple electronic projects.

My first 'proper' console was an X-Box. Amped stood out because the soundtrack meant I could play for hours in the living room without my wife getting bored. Followed by a PS3 and now PS4 Pro. Currently playing IoM TT on the Edge after it was on sale last week.

[Kovoet]

Xbox one S and got rid of it a week later. Hate the controllers on it.

[Fogoldgaming]

This is a trick question. I have never had nor intend to have a "Games Console". I am prepared to denounce others.

[Lord Midas]

Parents got me and my bro an Atari VCS2600. The start of my gaming life.

The first console I bought with my own money way a Playstation 1. When I saw Gran Tursimo being played in a drug dealers den, well, I my jaw just hit the deck. I had to haves me some of that awesomeness.

[Core2Extreme]

I've only actually bought one console, and that was an Xbox I bought from a friend around 2014, a few years after college. This was the original XBox, from 2001, so it was two generations old at the time.

I have many fond memories of playing games such as Halo, Halo 2, and Soul Calibur II on that platform with friends during high school in the mid-late 2000s. For a long time, games that supported both the XBox and the 360 were our bread and butter, as it took awhile until enough people had a 360 to switch to it as our primary platform. In the meantime, system link with both XBoxes and 360s was perfect.

Growing up, we never had a console at home - though we did have good PCs - so while I'd occasionally play PS2 games at friends' houses, the mid-2000s XBox era was my console heyday.

[spacein_vader]

The only console I've ever bought is the Nintendo Wii. Largely because unlike the PlayStation & xbox of the time it could do things my PC couldn't due to the motion controls.


Still use the wiimotes with Dolphin.

[Salazaar]

Sega Master System, though my dad had brought a BBC micro home from work long before that which I'd been playing games on (with a 'shades of green' monitor most of the time, and on special occasions in colour connected to the TV via an RF modulator).

[Smudger]

As an Amiga owner, I saw consoles as inferior at the time, but went in with a PS1 when I saw Gran Turismo on the monitors at Blockbuster. Amiga was dead by then so it was the cheapest route back into gaming, plus GT was amazing graphically, and not at all bad gameplay-wise at the time

[RichMc]

Made my first ever one, from an Elector magazine design it played pong and a number of other games. After that went onto ZX81 and spectrum for games.

[Psihomodo]

Philips Videopac G7000 in '80 I think, then the C64 in '83 and 386DX in '91.

After that nothing beats the PC.

[phoenix198]

Sega Megadrive - sometime aroung late 1991? Favourite game was Sonic, of course

[cam]

SNES was my first but switched to Sony when the original PS was released.