GenX Nostalgia.......What was your first home video game system?

[marmar]

Poll question: GenX Nostalgia.......What was your first home video game system?

Mine was the venerable Atari 2600.....with that awful first version of PacMan.

[MorningGlow]

1. Other: Pong

What--too old? :shrug:

[HopeHoops]

2. The ORIGINAL Pong

And yes, it was fun.

[MorningGlow]

5. Boop...

(wait an eternity for the square "ball" to get to the other side of the screen)...........................boop.................................be-doop (that was a rebound shot off the edge of the screen)....................boop.........
:boring: :rofl:

[Jokerman]

3. Pong: My first and last video game console.

I still have it and it still works.

[gmoney]

4. Is this a "system"?

It had 7 different games, but they were all self-contained (no cartridges or anything) so it might not technically be a "system" but it was fun in the day.

Breakout was always a favorite, but the video pinball was quite fun, too. The console had buttons on the sides like a pinball machine to control the flippers. Wonder if it's still in the basement...

[begin_within]

6. Pong, in fact,

it's the only home video game system I've ever had. My sister gave me one for my birthday when it first came on the market.

[rcrush]

7. VECTREX

http://cgi.ebay.com/VECTREX-ARCADE-SYSTEM-with-7-GAMES-OVERLAYS_W0QQitemZ360167123768QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVideo_Games?hash=item53dba22b38&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A1234%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

[EndersDame]

8. The one I rember playing was the Super Nintendo

I believe we had a nintendo but don't rember playing that much

[Bertha Venation]

9. Baby Boomer Nostalgia: PONG

[hobbit709]

10. None, never have and never will.

[PVnRT]

11. Atari 7800 (n/t)

[marmar]

13. That one never caught on.

n/t

[appal_jack]

12. Apple //e

Yes, the Apple was ostensibly for school work, and yes it made writing term papers MUCH easier (I attended a high school where 20 page term papers was the norm). BUT, I sure did play a lot of Archon, Defender, Zaxxon, Moon Patrol, Loderunner, and Karateka on that wonderful old machine.

All the games were green though, as my life savings up to that point was not enough for a color screen.

Wish I still had it now, along with all those pirated games on 5.25" floppies (that statute of limitations has long since expired on that crime, right?), but I sold the whole rig (computer, dual floppy drive, greenscreen, joystick, printer with some fancy parallel interface, lots of floppies...) in 1989 for $900 and bought a Mac Plus (my second video game system - mostly Mille Borne while I should have been writing college papers...)

I still feel a little guilty selling a machine that obsolete at the time for that much money, but I'd pay that price right now to get it back...

-app

[Xithras]

14. ColecoVision. Still have it, along with my Atari 2600 and my Sega Genesis.

And yes, all three still work perfectly. I hook them up on occasion to annoy my kids who cannot grasp how we could have POSSIBLY enjoyed games with such horrible graphics.

[bigwillq]

15. Atari

not sure which one though.