What was your first game console?

[Chris from Washington]

Let see how old each of us are

Here was the first game console I had when I was a kid.


My favorite game UFO




Specifications

* CPU
* Intel 8048 8-bit microcontroller running at 1.79 MHz
* Memory

CPU-internal RAM: 64 bytes (1/16 KB)
Audio/video RAM: 128 bytes (1/8 KB)
BIOS ROM: 1024 bytes (1 KB)

* Input
* Two 8-way, one-button, digital joysticks (in some Philips G7000 models, directly connected to console, i.e. not removable)
* QWERTY-layout membrane keyboard
* Output
* RF Audio/Video connector
* Media: 2/4/8 kilobyte ROM cartridge; cartridge slot also used for expansion modules such as:
* The Voice - Speech synthesis
* Chess Module - Increased the Odyssey²'s computing power such that it could play chess
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OK, I just dated myself, now it's your turn.
post pics of your first game console and your favorite game.

[Justin from Detroit1]

MY first one was a NES, but we always had a Commodore 64 laying around that was never used, as well as Atari.

[Chris from Washington]

After the odyssey got old, we got the atari 2600 (ours had the wood trim too)

Came with Pac-Man (which sucked bad!!)

The game I liked the best on this system would have to be
PitFall


My parents still have both systems sitting in the garage in the original boxes.

[Scarrell]

no one had a 3DO? i did, it was awesome at the time...paid $500 for it when it came out

[Chris from Washington]

I sorta remember that, it had some pretty good games at the time didn't it?

[Audio From SanDIego]

Nintendo. Super mario brothers.

[William from NOLA]

I had an old Atari (forget what model number) and an Atari computer. Now THAT was old. That computer had my favorite game, Keystone Cop. Man that's old.

[Chris from Washington]

I had keystone coppers too

[GlassWolf]

I had a colecovision (pong) and an atari 400, which ran at 1.65MHz and had 16KB of RAM. I had a Timex Sinclair 1000 with 2KB of RAM, and a couple of frankensteined Atari 130XEs with 320KB of RAM, and upgraded 16bit 68816 CPU, an MIO box and adaptec offboard controllers with 320MB of HDD space for the BBS I ran, and some other toys.
I think my absolute first computer though, was a teletype from the pentagon in 1976, which had a wide carriage printer for a display, and played hangman over a coupler-modem )110bps) dialed into a server in Colorado.
Now that's old school. :)

[William from NOLA]

...ok, you win...


The slowest modem I ever owned was a 9600 bps