gaming What was the popular and new gaming console when you were a kid?

[Cash In 22,511]

That would have been the Nintendo GameCube, PS2 and Xbox. Time sure flies.

Edited July 24, 2020 by Cash In

[AveryGamerDude 4,640]

When I was 10? Uh... that would be the NDS, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, and Wii.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

Well, when I first started playing video games at about 6 years old, it was the Game Boy Advance. I remember it being almost everywhere. Heck, I first played Pokémon Red on a Game Boy Advance...

I still have a couple of cartridges, but one's for Shrek 2 and the other is a Ruby cartridge I haven't seen in a while... I do have an emulator, but it's on my dad's computer. 

[Phosphor 11,532]

I think it was the Playstation 1.

[Twilight Luna 31,420]

When I was a kid, it was the Atari 2600 (yeah, I’m that old). After the video game crash, it was the first Nintendo system.

Edited February 11, 2019 by Twilight Luna

[Treeglow Flicker 13,873]

My first console was a SNES. I still have it with all my games.

Way before that though my family had a Sinclair ZX Spectrum that used tapes to load games. If the game failed to load, you would have to rewind the tape and try to load it again. Which happened a lot.

Spoiler

 

That loading sound is forever burned into my mind.

[Megas 27,769]

For me I started gaming in between the transition between the SNES/Genesis and the PS1/N64

[LeafFerret 3,382]

PlayStation back in the late 90s. 

[PaulBron 173]

PS2 ________________________

[Tacodidra 61,292]

PlayStation 2 was by far the most popular console at that time, and I know several people who had one... But I had a GameCube myself and started playing my old games on it again a while ago.

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

I got my first console, the PS2 in 2007. So at the time, the XBOX 360 and PS3 were the brand new consoles.

[ExplosionMare 18,085]

It was a regular Nintendo DS. I got a pink one on one of my birthdays and I still have it for a little GameBoy game I put in their.

Edit: Oh wait, if you mean consoles on TVs than it was a Wii. I got a white one for Christmas but it came with a red Wii remote and Nunchuk.

Edited February 16, 2019 by ExplosionMare
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[Dawnchaser 🌄 8,092]

I remember picking up a Pong clone game at a school sale when I was about 5.

I then had a Spectrum 48k in '82

A friend had an Atari VCS

So, I suppose, to answer the question, the Atari was current and popular and the Speccy48 and Commodore 64 were new (but not consoles) and would go on to be very popular.

[ToastedScone 397]

Nintendo DS Lite! I still have my original one somewhere...it's covered in G3 pony stickers haha

[The Historian 516]

When I was a kid? Everything was new. But I'd say the main ones were the NES, Super NES and Genesis. But when the Playstation hit, everyone went bonkers. Don't recall the Atari 7800 ever being that popular. I do, however, remember the hype for the Jaguar, 3D0 and NeoGeo. Straaaaaaaaange times.

[Stone Cold Steve Jobs 22,441]

When I was a kid everyone talked about the Nintendo 64. That was the big system at the time.

[Emerald Heart 24,944]

Nintendo DS and the Wii

I actually still have mine.

Edited March 8, 2020 by Emerald Heart

[Dark Bun 681]

It was either the PS1 or the Gameboy Advance, although when I was around 8 the PS2 had landed and made history. Honestly, that console was the single best thing to come out of the mid 2000s. 

[Wayzer 1,418]

I had a GameCube as a kid, I remember my friends being all about the Xbox and the PS2 but I’ve always been a Nintendo fanboy.  I remember I played melee so much as a kid (and never actually got good haha!) 

 

I also had a gba but never got that many games for it. I remember the DS being introduced while I was still in elementary though and it was super popular. I got one at some point as well

[EpicEnergy 23,224]

It think it was the first Xbox that as popular when I was a kid.

[Tom Gallagher 33,595]

I remember the Wii being very big. I'm proud to say I still have it. 

[Splashee 28,566]

Sega Megadrive and Super Nintendo. There was a big war on the school playground, but when it came to actually playing games, everyone loved good games, no matter if it was Sega or Nintendo!

[dead account 2,713]

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System! But I was lucky! I got the NES first and basically never missed out on something (Nintendo related).

[baba_booey 4,303]

I was born at the start of the PlayStation 2, GameCube and Xbox older however I remember being old enough to witness the PlayStation 3 vs Xbox 360 wars (and getting a Wii myself one christmas lol) and got a 2DS for Christmas at age 13 plus wanted to get a Wii U for most of my teenage years, though I also got into PC gaming when I was about 14.

Didn't actually own a Wii U until after the Switch came out and the system and games were dropping in price significantly though lol.

Was also really into retro gaming around that time too though (hence my username).

Edited July 21, 2020 by SuperNESBrony

[Rainbow Cloud 18,315]

In the late 90s when I was getting towards 10 the popular console was the PS1 but I was behind with the current gen with my fist console which was the Mega Drive, when I later got a current gen system it was a Saturn. The Saturn was a fairly exclusive console to have, knew friends who has PS1's and N64's at the time but no one else with a Saturn.

In the early 2000's when I was in my early teens the console to have was the PS2 but I was again a gen behind with the PS1 at this point, and when I did get current gen systems it was the Dreamcast, then the Gamecube which was my favourite console of that gen. I eventually did get a PS2 towards the end of it's generation.