What was the very first video game console you ever owned?

[Snoopy Fan 17,477]

What was the very first video game console you ever owned? Handhelds count too. The very first one I owned was a Nintendo DS.

[Longhaul 10,095]

My very first console was a Coleco Telstar.

[CowBoyKid 2,130]

My first gaming console was the Sega Genesis.

 

My first handheld was a Gameboy color.

 

[ZiggWheelsManning 16,384]

My first console was an Original NES.  My first handheld was a Sega Game Gear.  

[Starlighty 1,080]

It was either a Gameboy Adv or a GameCube i can't remember which order i got them in... lol 

[Ganondorf8 11,813]

The Acornsoft Family computer way back around 1985 or 1986 although this was more of a family thing than anything else.

By myself? A Nintendo Game Boy back in 1991 which I still own to this day.

[Dreambiscuit 12,560]

7 hours ago, Longhaul said:

My very first console was a Coleco Telstar.

Same here! Coleco Telstar! Had three built-in games; Tennis, Hai Alai and Handball, I think. And there was an Easy, Intermediate and Hard mode. Simple as it was, I still prefer it to the modern systems. The next I had was SuperNES, quite a while later.

[Pentium100 2,366]

A knockoff NES. It looked similar to this:

 

But it was not this, I do not remember what the model was, but I remember that it had some numbers. Also, the controllers did not have the red buttons, though IIRC the controllers themselves were red.

I only had a few cartridges, of the type "9999 in 1" where it pretends to have thousands of games, but they are modifications of a few real games. I played with it, but IIRC I preferred the PC when my parents finally bought one. 

It was fun using the two antennas that came with it to have a wireless connection to the TV and to turn on a TV in a different room and see the game. 

[Megas 28,540]

My first memories was that of the Sega Genesis, so I’ll pick that 

[SharpWit 3,080]

Nintendo 64 for the whole family, and a Gameboy Advance much later for myself. I don't actually remember who I got it from or what happened to it, but it came with only a SpongeBob game which I would kind of speed run, and Brother Bear which I didn't quite finish. I did buy a Harry Potter game of some kind, but it was too dark for me to see much so I didn't get very far. Also a Van Helsing game based on the Hugh Jackman movie, but again would get to a point where I was stuck. Skill issue 

I couldn't really afford to get more games and was put off by the two I got being "duds" so when I felt done with the original 2, I was done altogether.

I got this later, but shout out to Pocket Poker!

 

[ZiggWheelsManning 16,384]

7 hours ago, Dreambiscuit said:

Same here! Coleco Telstar! Had three built-in games; Tennis, Hai Alai and Handball, I think. And there was an Easy, Intermediate and Hard mode. Simple as it was, I still prefer it to the modern systems. The next I had was SuperNES, quite a while later.

Wow!  You're way ahead of me acquiring the Coleco machine than I am with the Original NES and Sega Game Gear Dreamy  

[Clawdeen 26,510]

I mean I always shared consoles with my dad and step sister. So while technically our oldest was the Sega Genesis. The Gameboy Color was my first personal console I owned that I didn't share.

[Midnight Insight 391]

The very first game console I had was the Playstation. I remember playing Metal Gear Solid  in a very small CRT TV. 

[Tacodidra 62,098]

The first one I owned was a GameCube (which I still have!), though I had played various games on my sister's NES and Mega Drive before that.

[Silly Druid 8,524]

I never owned any video game console.

[KPackratt 1,728]

My first video game console was a Silver Nintendo GameCube.

[rascalrat 411]

i personally didnt own it, but i believe it was an xbox and gamecube. my parents owned them, so i rarely used them. as for the first console ive ever used, it had to be the ps2/wii.

[ExplosionMare 28,728]

My first console was the Leapster. I loved those games, especially the Pet Pals and WALLE ones! I don't have it anymore, though, since it was battery-operated and it was meant to be educational, so I've outgrown it.

[Megalobronia 222]

Gameboy Advance SP, although at the time, I didn’t actually have any "traditional" Nintendo games like Mario, Zelda, or Pokemon (I wasn’t even into those franchises yet at the time). I just had games that were tie-ins to movies released at the time like Polar Express, Madagascar, and Cars. Oh, and I had Namco Museum too.

I can’t remember whether I got the Wii or DS next, but it was during those consoles that I started getting into Nintendo stuff.

15 hours ago, ExplosionMare said:

My first console was the Leapster. I loved those games, especially the Pet Pals and WALLE ones! I don't have it anymore, though, since it was battery-operated and it was meant to be educational, so I've outgrown it.

Hey, I was a Leapster kid too! Thomas was one of my childhood goats.

Edited September 3, 2025 by Megalobronia

[Dawnshine Wonder 5,015]

A Sega Master System. Hang On was a fun game to play, and day and night cycle was an interesting feature of it as well, if you got far enough into the game you could ride to the city at night.

[Iforgotmybrain 8,202]

A black GameCube that I got for Christmas, alongside Mario Kart Double Dash, Animal Crossing, and a red memory card. Still have all of those things and they all still work, although I don't have my original Animal Crossing save sadly. My first handheld was a Game Boy Advance SP, the AGS-101 model, how lucky for younger me because the AGS-001 is a huge downgrade in picture quality.

[Retro*Derpy 3,821]

I'm pretty sure it was the gameboy advance. I remember having pokemon and donkey kong on it.  

[BritishBrony2012 917]

I believe it's keyboard thart used for game play with Cassette tapes.