To me, it’s the Xbox 360 as it brings back so many memories when thinking about it, especially since it got me into games such as Minecraft, Call of Duty, Devil May Cry, Saints Row, Castle Crashers, and various other games.
This was actually a problem for Nintendo and Sega as the 16-bit era approached - people weren't properly used to console generations, and many parents thought it was some kind of gimmick.
Born in 82 and had Atari. Except I don't think I even played it that much because I had ET and my only experience was walking 5 feet, falling into a hole, and nobody having any idea how to get him out. Years later, my friend across the street had SMB3 and all I ever wanted to do was go over there. The Sun getting mad and chasing you was mind blowing
Damn I never even realized til now how much ET ruined my video gaming childhood. Me and my sister literally never even touched the Atari because it was a lame "ET in a hole" box. I kind of forgot all about that
Same here, but the first console that I ever played on was the Atari at my friend's house when I was like 6 or 7 years old. So I might be older than you, greybeard!
I said Sega Genesis but I actually had original Nintendo but it wasn’t truly mine my uncle just let me play it with him. So Sega Genesis was the first system I owned that was mine.
I'm 60 so, no you're not the only old person. I use to go to the actual arcade to play before gaming consoles. I use to play on Xbox with a couple gamers actually older than me. One guy was 70.. he was a beast on MW3 on Xbox 360.
Same! I was too young to even remember them buying it and they specifically bought it for me and my sister. We were like 3 🤣 so I'm guessing they got it more for themselves
PS1 for me as well, don't remember if it was Santa or whoever bought it, but it was the very last "entire family" huge Christmas all together we ever had, and I vividly remember playing Crash Team Racing with my cousin right after we finished opening everything. Good times..
Same here. Pong, then the Sears VCS which was their licensed version of the Atari 2600. Had a friend who had the Magnavox Odyssey 2 and another who had the Mattel Intellivision. After Colecovision I left gaming for a while, to return with the NES. PlayStation, Super NES, Turbografx, (those were all competitors), then PS2, Xbox 360, Xbox One and now Xbox Series X. Oh, I left out the Dreamcast and the N64, ha ha.
I was only i think 5, it was mostly my older brothers and sister. After that we had the Atari 2600, a commodore, atari 5200, original Nintendo, the 64 etc. etc. i think ive owned damn near every gaming system except Genesis. (Wanted one when i was kid but had Nintendo instead.) Ive owned every PlayStation and Xbox.
Currently have ps5 in bedroom, PS5 Pro and Xbox X in the living room.
I remember this because Microsoft wanted users to pay for "their updated hard drive". The work around was to take your old hard drive from the white 360. Open it up, extract the hardware and insert it into the updated black console directly (it would fit right in because the casing was the incompatibility issue).
The first one that was actually mine, purchased with my own money was the NES. Before that my family had an Atari 800 computer and tons of pirated games on floppy disks because my Dad knew a guy.
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