What's was the first computer/console you owned?

[Ego-X]

You never forget your first time right?

My was with a Sinclair Spectrum +2 in the mid eighties, It was love at first sight ;)

What about you guys?

[Zinger19]

My first computer was the awesome green screened apple 2 series, and my first console was the Atari 2600

[Dazz]

The first game that I got was a full sized pinball machine at the age of 2 years old. The machine is a Gottlieb & Company Road Race (http://www.ipdb.org/machine.cgi?id=1971) circa 1969. I got the pinball machine in 1977 after my grandfathers restaurant burned down and all that was left standing was this machine with only broken playfield glass. I still own and play the machine today.

My first computerized system/console was the Atari 2600.

[The Loafer]

First console would be some Pong clone

First multigame console would be the Colecovision

First computer would be the Coleco Adam eheh

First real computer would be an Apple II+ clone with a video adapter to connect to a tv.

[cathaldub]

First Console was a rowtron
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/rowtron_televisioncomputersystem_2.jpg
Firt Computer was my bro's Spectrum 48K, I got the C64 as soon as the batman pack was released

[Ego-X]

Never seen the Rowtron.

What games were on it?

[Thebutcherjb]

Atari 2600 was my first console
IBM 386 25mhz with 2 megs of ram was my first pc

[billpa]

First console was Intellivision.

First computer was a Toshiba laptop (monochrome screen). Was actually my dad's work computer but I played games on it when I could :)

[amchine]

Man, I must be a youngin.
First console was a Nintendo Entertainment System.
First computer was some form of intel pc running windows 3.1.

[The Loafer]

eheh, long live DOS and memory management. :)

[brian_hoffman]

First console I owned was also a NES 8bit.. I got it in 86... Best christmas EVER!
My first PC was a used Commadore Vic 20 I got from a thrift store. My first PC I built was a 368.
The First PC my parents bought was a P200MMX 32mb ram and a 2.5 gig HD that the sales rep said we would never fill. I wanted it to play quake and GTA... Good Times

[Captain Flint]

Atari 2600 first system

as for a computer???? I believe it was the atari 400, it had a word processor, and played atari games on a floppy.

http://www.atarimuseum.com/computers/8BITS/400800/400/atari400.JPG

[Ego-X]

eheh, long live DOS and memory management. :)

OMG! don't go there!

That was nearly as bad as getting Plug 'n' play hardware to work with Windows 95!

[Ego-X]

First console I owned was also a NES 8bit.. I got it in 86... Best christmas EVER!
My first PC was a used Commadore Vic 20 I got from a thrift store. My first PC I built was a 368.
The First PC my parents bought was a P200MMX 32mb ram and a 2.5 gig HD that the sales rep said we would never fill. I wanted it to play quake and GTA... Good Times

Console for Christmas?

Bah lad I still remember when you were chuffed to get a beano annual ;)

[The Loafer]

OMG! don't go there!

That was nearly as bad as getting Plug 'n' play hardware to work with Windows 95!

Lo those many years ago, would you believe I thought a bunch of newbie adults memory management? I swear, two dudes almost quit the course on the spot and one started to cry! This was an offsite course, one guy lived 2000 miles away and he wanted to go home! (it was a full IT course: DOS, memory mgmt, Windows 3.11 (shuddup!), ms office, novell, training the trainer course, etc. - 2 months straight, then went back a year later to assist in teaching it).

Sorry for the off topic, still have nightmares...

[EvilDindon]

Atari VCS - Video Computer System (the old name for the 2600)

[qwerty7]

First computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 but that was quickly replaced by the Commodore 64. Then an Amiga 1000...

First console was a pong system. Then a VCS/2600. Then a Colecovision...

Pat

[MameKid]

My first Computer was a Dick Smith VZ-200, which is a rebadged Video-Tech Laser 200 back in 1982. _http://www.thepcmuseum.com/dicksmith/VZ200/default.htm

[Hansaplast]

My very first console was a Fairchild Channel F.
(Here in germany sold under the name "Saba Videoplay")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F

My best friend & me bought nearly anything that came up after that.
Philips G7000, Atari VCS, Intellivision, Vectrex, Coleco, Sinclair ZX 81, VC 20, C 64,
several Amigas and then we stopped.
Never touched N64, PS 1, PS 2, Xbox,
We both got 386 instead and i am still on PC while he is gone a Mac-freak. :)
Portable stuff: Gameboy & Atari Lynx (great little thing)

Today i am just on PC and collecting pinball machines (18 in my basement) :stupid:

[BadBoyBill]

Why is it that everyone I know that has bought a pinball never just has one, its like dominos with you guys, makes me scared to buy one in fear that I might get addicted like you and buy like 20 machines.

[Ego-X]

Well I would imagine if you can fit 18 in your basement you can easily afford it :D

[Zero_Hour]

First Videogame was an Atari Stunt Cycle Dedicated Unit.
First Console was an Atari VCS - (To this day I still can't bring myself to call it a 2600)
First Handheld was the Milton Bradley Microvision System
First Computer was C-64
And most most recently on the 'firsts' list, my first pinball machine - a Bally Attack From Mars.

Personally, I really have a hard time suggesting people buy pinball machines unless they know they like them already. There are just too many lousy tables out there, and if you are not inclined to do maintenance, you will almost certainly regret the purchase. I love mine, and just hope that I eventually live somewhere with more space so I can expand the colection.

[Lochnar]

first gaming system was a pong clone
first comp was a trs80 from rat shack

[chubb]

Im 24, 1st system i owned was atari 2600 original wooden 1 also had the slimmer version off it aswell:) games like space invaders ,pong,river raid. :) sweet memorys

[Circo]

1st system was the "vader" 2600 with pac-man pak in.

1st computer was the c64, beuatiful machine and after i switched to pc's it took years for the sound to catch up lol.

[AllisterFiend]

First computer was a Timex Sinclair 1000 but that was quickly replaced by the Commodore 64. Then an Amiga 1000...

First console was a pong system. Then a VCS/2600. Then a Colecovision...

Pat

Ahhhh, a Commodore Amiga, my favorite computer of all time!!! (and also way ahead of its time when it was released)


First console was the Atari VCS (2600), then ColecoVision.

I then moved on to my first computer, the Commodore 64 (tape drive for the win, 300 baud modems ruled!), then a Commodore Amiga 500, and then the Commodore Amiga 1200.

Then I moved to the PC and life has been hell ever since!!!!!


Allister Fiend

[Ego-X]

Then I moved to the PC and life has been hell ever since!!!!!

I dunno as much as I loved Amiga this image was a way of life.

http://haftbar.de/wp-content/guru-meditation_error.gif

[brian_hoffman]

In the Emu finalburnalpha if you give it a incorrect commandline argument it shows that message..hehehe

[kingb33]

Atari 2600 / Colecovision

[Ego-X]

In the Emu finalburnalpha if you give it a incorrect commandline argument it shows that message..hehehe

lol, I wasn't aware of that. Classy :D

[FatNasty]

Atari 2600 was the greatest thing I had very seen in my life (at the time).

[Visitor Q]

Commodore Amiga 1000

[EVEGames]

Atari2600 -> Colecovision -> Commodore64 -> Amiga500 -> IBM 486 DX-2 66

[Thombar]

Back in 1980 I got my first computer - the Tandy TRS80 model 1 (4k of Ram and Tiny Basic)
Crap as it was, it changed my life, hobbies and careerwise.
I still have it, slightly upgraded since then to 32k and level 2 basic, but it's in a cupboard behind my pride and joy (A Twilight Zone pinball machine) so I can't get to it. (Not without some major moving of stuff around the room, I'm pretty sure there is quite a bit of Scaletrix in that cupboard too.... What else did I put in there...).

[doxiedoggie2358]

Commodore 64:cool: when Amiga 500......Those were the days....LOL

[sp33dy]

Vic 20 -> CBM64 -> Atari ST (for 4 months) -> Amiga 500 -> PC 486 -> PC P4 3Ghz -> PC Quad Core...

[chrisschenosky]

Atari2600 old vic 20 c64 c128 100mhzpent 200mhz pent 900mhz then a 2.4ghz dell
that i'm on now and i still don't know anything lol

[ghoolster]

First seen RML 380z, First used RML 480z, First owned ZX81.

Have got 2 480z`s now....

[Visitor Q]

I would not really could Atari2600 as a computer.

[EVEGames]

...
I then moved on to my first computer, the Commodore 64 (tape drive for the win, 300 baud modems ruled!), then a Commodore Amiga 500, and then the Commodore Amiga 1200. ...

Allister Fiend

Allister,
If you had a C64 with a 300baud modem like I did, I'd bet you were a Q-Link subscriber? I don't want to hijack this thread, but it's rare to come across fellow Q-Linkers these days. When people point with pride to the fact that they were online way back in '93 "at the beginning of it all", I just laugh...

[mattdyer07]

First console I got was for Christmas it was a Super NES with a copy of Megaman 6. Yes I said Megaman 6 the one that was released for the regular Nintendo. My mom realized I couldn't play the game later and took it back to buy me Donkey Kong Country

[wood tick]

Vic 20 was my first but the love of my life was my Commodore 64...

you could cook with it....bake with it....telecommunicate with it.....commodore 64

I worked an entire summer back in '83 washing dishes in a hotel to buy a colecovision with turbo and the wheel.......that was my first dedicated console system.

The first video game I ever played was on a Commodore PET when I was about 8 or 9....it was a car dodge type game.....where you go around the maze and the other car goes in the opposite direction and you try not to meet head-on.....circa 1979....

:)

never had a handheld system but there were Mattel football and baseball games out when I was a kid with little blips that represented the players and a similar sized blip that was the ball, puck, football etc......and those little mini versions of frogger and pac-man shaped like arcade cabs and I remember the video game watches...hee hee hee...

:)

Wood Tick