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[Bablefish]

All of us, including Triverse (who I have been sending Enter Magazine to) have a rather interesting story of how he got our very 1st game system. If you like to share your own tale please add to this.

Mine was in the mid 80s for years, I read the magazines and saw those 8 bit computers and consoles in the stores, and the demos I played at the same places. Oh how I wished I had one, but when your family is short of cash and what you want is almost as expensive as your rent. A game system is not that important (Oh how things have changed), then on a trip to Sears around then could have been as late as 1985 or even 86 they had all that 2600 stuff on closeout. I still recall what we finally paid for everything $20 for a Coleco Gemini, and 2 games Keystone Kapers and Seaquest.for $5 each plus tax. I played them for hours after, I could not have been any happier. I was like a kid in a candy store snapping up games when are where I could for as little as 50 cents a piece. I know I seem to be making a big deal out of it. But believe me when you have next to nothing to start with, anything becomes of the stuff dreams are made of. 

[nickerous]

I don't remember when we got the first home console, I just remember it being there.  It could have been on Christmas day because I do remember getting something big and not being able to play with it because we had to go to the grandparents house for Christmas dinner.  The first console we had was the Atari 5200 and it was probably sometime before 1985 (if the console was out by then?), but, the first console I bought was the NES and here's that story:

1986 or early '87, I remember the kid up the street showing me Super Mario Bros on the NES.  I thought it was amazing and immediately began to pester my parents for a NES.  No luck, though.  They would not budge at the time.  I think it was after my birthday and they told me I would not be getting one for Christmas.  So, I began pestering my older sister to pay for half of it.  That actually worked, believe it or not, and we took a trip to Brendal's (I think it was Brendal's or something like that) to find the absolutely last NES in town.  It was the R.O.B. system so no mario bros.  My sister said that we would have to go buy that next, but I had moved on.  We had enough money to buy the system and 1 game.  I chose Castlevania and told her that if she wanted Super Mario, she'd have to buy it herself.  I don't think she did, but we did end up getting it somewhere down the line.  I still remember being woken up to the sound of the zapper and my Dad's laughter on a few Saturday mornings.  Good times. 

[Nreive]

Although I credit the Amstrad CPC as my first computer, my first games machine was actually a short lived Phillips Videpac G7000 that I had in the early/mid 1980s - called the Odyssey2 in the US, I think. I don't really recall much about it or the games (probably why I often forget about it) other than I had given myself a fairly nasty static shock while fiddling about with it after it stopped working. Tsk, I learned not to go sticking fingers into electronic parts like that again.

[atik]

My first console was the SNES but the first machine I had which was dedicated to playing game's was the original Game Boy. I remember not being too impressed when I read about it in the magazine's of the day but when I eventually saw one in a shop I changed my mind.
I had a lot of fun playing game's like Gargoyle's Quest, Tetris, Metroid 2 and the great pinball game Revenge of the Gator. I can't remember why I eventually sold my Game Boy but it was most likely so I could afford to buy the SNES or some video game's. Really wish I had held on to it now.

[Arcturius]

Although I credit the Amstrad CPC as my first computer

Heheh Still have my CPC464 and the colour monitor here, though it was my second computer the first was a Commodore VIC20.
First console was this big orange 8 stort game (read pong variations) unit with 2 hard wired controllers (may have been a Grandstand one)
First handheld was the MB Microvision - I still own one today, although it's not my original one that was culled by the parents long long ago.

[RedTop]

My first console was the Philips Videopac G7000 (knowm as Magnavox Odyssey 2 in the States) and it was awesome! Well, at least my five year old self thought it was.

Check it out: http://www.videopac.org/  My favorite game was monkeyshines


The first console that really got me started playing videogames was the beloved Megadrive though. Miss those days.