For me, it was the OG Nintendo Entertainment System, NES. My first game was Super Mario Brothers and Duckhunt. I still refer to any switch as a “gameboy.”
For me, it was the OG Nintendo Entertainment System, NES. My first game was Super Mario Brothers and Duckhunt. I still refer to any switch as a “gameboy.”
I was born in '85, and my boomer parents haaaaaaaaated video games. I played the Atari 2600 at my cousin’s house and also the NES, and wanted my own terribly badly. I had friends in the neighborhood who had Sega Genesis and SNES as well. It took me ages to save up enough to buy a Sega Genesis in ~1996 even though my cousins always had console systems of their own. I had a Sega CD and a 32x as well, but after that I jumped to the Nintendo 64 and then the Playstation 1. From then on, I played PC games. I never got to own a Playstation 2, 3, 4, or 5, never got to own a gamecube, wii, or switch, never got to own an xbox of any kind. I never had the money to devote to a dedicated console system. Only PCs seemed worth it because I could gradually upgrade them - RAM, CPU, GPU, etc, one piece at a time at a fraction of the cost of a whole-ass new console system. Plus I could just, you know, emulate console games eventually. I haven’t emulated in a long time. Nowadays, if a developer wants me to play a game, they will put it on Steam or GOG. If they don’t put it on Steam or GOG, then clearly they don’t want me buy it from them and I’ll just fucking pirate it instead if I want to. I usually don’t care enough to go that far.