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TheJokersWild53@reddit

They always leave out the Colecovision!

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slash_networkboy@reddit

They leave it the Odyssey 2 as well.

Every time this is posted, I'm offended by the lack of Coleco love

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Blackbird136@reddit

Burgertime was the shit!!!! And Night Stalker.

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Hellament@reddit

We had the IntelliVoice sound card…only for the fame B17 Bomber….which, if I remember correctly, sounded pretty impressive at the time, but like dog shit by today’s standards.

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GA6foot9@reddit

"Mattel electronics presents; (thick southern accent) B17 Bomber"

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I remember the guy saying B 17 Bomber. We played Horse Racing and Frogger too. I know w there were some others, but those stand out. My uncle had it before we got an Atari. But we always would play it when we went to his house. Definitely the first gaming system I ever played.

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Blackbird136@reddit

Beeee seeeventeen boooooooooomber. Lol.

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Hellament@reddit

Same. The game I remember playing the most was Triple Action, because it could be played with friends. Also, Space Armada and Star Strike.

A few years back I actually bought one of those Intellivision Flashback consoles with all the built in games. Had fun playing it again with my adult siblings.

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Thecalin33@reddit

I quickly managed to outplay my parents on the racing, and won more than I lost on the biplanes. Those were because I had faster fingers and more time to practice. But my father used to kick my butt on the darn tank game because my undeveloped brain couldn't understand the angles he'd find. While I'd immediately start off driving somewhere he'd just park and snipe me. When I finally got old enough (5 or 6) to beat him he gave up on video games and decided I needed to learn chess lol.

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kookyz@reddit

I still contend that Burgertime on the Intellivision was by far the best version. I've tried playing it on different consoles and even the arcade and nothing can match the ability to navigate those ladders like that circle pad.

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Blackbird136@reddit

I agree. I got so good at walking over just half of the top bun, letting the food guys (I remember an egg) get on it, and send them flying all the way down.

My uncles used to play that at family gatherings when my cousin and I were itty-bitties, before the rest of the group was born. It scared us so bad! There is a picture somewhere of the two of us frantically burrowing into the couch cushions to hide. For several years, I was absolutely terrified that a dragon or a demon would be hiding in a dark place and would get me. I still remember the sounds...

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phillysleuther@reddit

I loved My ColecoVision. I got it in 1982, I think. Ladybug and Mr. Do! were my favorite games. I also loved Campaign ‘84. I had an Atari adapter and Seaquest and Pit Fall became my favorites.

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JulesChenier@reddit

This.

Best system in the 80's hands down

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Sevennix@reddit

Damnit. My back hurts and I need to test for colon cancer

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Neither-Principle139@reddit

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Kumo999@reddit

This one.

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briankutys@reddit

I can hear this games music in my head

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CapnHuff@reddit

This game was ridiculous, lol.

Gently bump into a rock? Death.

Step in a hole in the ground that's 2 inches deep? Death.

Stub toe on a blade of grass? Death.

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username__0000@reddit

I kind of want to play it again just to see if it’s as ridiculous as I remember it.

I have a memory of being at that big skull and being so stressed out because everything in that game was deadly and obviously a skull will be extra deadly. lol

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Key_Independence_103@reddit

GET YE FLASK

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icybowler3442@reddit

You can’t get ye flask

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

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This. Parents bought one when I was born, as they went to arcades before me.

Yes! There’s at least two of us!

We had only one game (at least that I remember) that was some sort of space invaders game.

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shaithiswampir@reddit

Yep. Had that one and some sort of dungeon game if I remember right

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WheelLeast1873@reddit

1

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elpi314@reddit

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Ok_Alternative261@reddit

1

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ProfessionalAd2911@reddit

All but 1, 19 and 20

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Sunsfever83@reddit

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Segazorgs@reddit

And I still own my original 5 and it still works.

Have owned 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 13, 14 and 19. Also still have a 3, 5, 12, 13, 14 and 19.

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One-Comedian-8004@reddit

Where is the Odyssey, or Colecovision?

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Pale_Security3341@reddit

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Linus-664@reddit

I’ve used in this order— 2,4,3,7,6,5,9,12,14,11,13,17,18,19

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stevo36z@reddit

Pre 1

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dontmiss4827@reddit

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thespintop@reddit

I don’t feel like this controller ever gets the credit it deserves.

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green_chunks_bad@reddit

Played 2-7 as a kid

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Designer-Bid-3155@reddit

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GrimJim70@reddit

Remember the numerical keypad for Brain Games?

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AgathaWoosmoss@reddit

This one

My dad picked it up from a thrift store.

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TAGSlays@reddit

Timex Sinclair 1000.

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Qedhup@reddit

1 for me. My grandfather always loved tech. We were even one of the first of my friends to get a PC! (Tandy1000).

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Mhind1@reddit

2. Though I seem to recall seeing #1 in a closet somewhere when I was a kid.

On the plus side, I never had to blow on finicky game cartridges like I remember needing to do at my friends with NES.

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here_we_go2324@reddit

My cousins and I were a Sega family. The Wonder Boy games were my favourite. California Games was sick too.

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It came with Safari Hunt and Hang-On built in. It was great.

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friendimpaired@reddit

I had the Master System II, used to play Mahjong Solitaire, Double Dragons, and of course Alex Kidd

There are dozens of us, Dozens!

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PilotC150@reddit

They always leave out the Sega Master System.

1,2,4,7,10,14,18

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Imaginary-Skinwalker@reddit

I'm sorry.

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Fancy_Depth_4995@reddit

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Mine was Outlaw

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foamingturtle@reddit

Freakin loved this game. So many different levels

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Junebug35@reddit

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I LOVED my NES Max! Joystick controller and turbo buttons! Hated going back to the original ones.

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driftwoodlk@reddit

NES Advantage (rightmost) was the huge slab with the joystick. Max (to the left of the Advantage) had the directional pad but still the turbo buttons.

I feel strongly about this because I got the Advantage and hated it, but got the Max and loved it.

Then 2 and 7. That's it.

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ZeldaHylia@reddit

2

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ibdoomed@reddit

WTF? Why start in the middle leaving out so many? Lame. Magnavox Odyssey.

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Colt-Hammer@reddit

Pong roller knob

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SadAcanthocephala521@reddit

#2

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OkBus5864@reddit

2, wished it was 3. My friends had a NES, but my parents were anti console. I actually started on a Commodore +4, my cousin in Philadelphia had a Sega Genesis and I was jealous his Mortal Kombat had blood, not "sweat". Lol

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Apeiron421@reddit

1,2

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changrbanger@reddit

2, 1, 4, 7, 6, 9, 11, 12, 13, 17, 16, 18

1 I guess as it was a joystick for an amstrad, then a SNES, then playstation 2, and I've still got my playstation 3 but it's a dvd player now 😂

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aLAPanPolyVers@reddit

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Kittypie75@reddit

We had #1 but I was too young to play it. #2 is the controller of my early memories.

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

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Spiritual-Promise402@reddit

Definitely started with 1 and 2

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rockafellerdogington@reddit

Those sweet sweet arati days!

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Safe_Presentation_78@reddit

I had number one. First was when I got to use my grandmother's Atari 2600 and then my family got an Atari 7800.

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dogfaced_baby@reddit

Sigh.

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Withnail_I_am_I_am@reddit

1 Atari? Only ever played it a couple times. I got my first Nintendo in '86 and then stayed w/ and upgraded Nintendo whenever we could.

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rialucia@reddit

Same here. My stepbrothers had an Atari and I played Pong maybe 2 or 3 times. Then my Mom bought an NES because she liked playing Tetris while riding her exercise bike, and we never bothered with Atari again. I got a Game Boy around age 10.

morganalefaye125@reddit

1, then 2. In between that, I had a mini arcade "handheld" thing that was Donkey Kong Jr. I played it SO much, it finally stopped working

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elteegilbreath@reddit

2. I’m old.

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jeers1@reddit

1 (several of them)

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read-the-directions@reddit

This one and the #2 in the photo! Man I loved the Philips CDi so much. I played the heck out of the Bernstein Bears and Tell Me Why with this controller! And my favorite Nintendo games were a Sesame Street game with the Count, Duck Hunt, and Mario 2.

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Donkey_Karate@reddit

2 crew

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seuadr@reddit

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claytonjr@reddit

I rarely see the wood grain pongs. This was my first. Thanks for the memory!

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seuadr@reddit

Not just pong! Tennis, soccer, football etc (they changed the color of the background) ours had a light gun too. Very swanky.

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perhaps_too_emphatic@reddit

Same but different I think? This is the first one we had.

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flapjackboy@reddit

Sinclair SJS-1 joystick.

1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 12, 14, 18

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Fasttrackyourfluency@reddit

Obviously 6 & 7 🤔🤪😆

I used 2 then 4 then 6

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Wolfisaurus@reddit

My first console was #3. I actually still have it and all my games in the original boxes.

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emc_lmt@reddit

1 and then 2 😂

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MaestroLogical@reddit

2, 4, 6, 7.

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CornishShaman@reddit

Loved the 5 mins of cassette squealing before the game beginning

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Imgjim@reddit

I can't be alone on this one

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Imgjim@reddit

I’m almost sad I didn’t start out with Sega, so I could say…

Three! Six! Nine!

I’ll show myself out.

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Madsy9@reddit

Still got one which I play Nintendo World Cup on.

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a_seventh_knot@reddit

1

Dad had a 2600

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dsp_pepsi@reddit

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bigred1978@reddit

Oh lordie, the memories. I was little, and my dad had an IBM PC with some games as well as a tape cassette deck with games I'd play.

valboots@reddit

Sega Master System.

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peet1188@reddit

I soon thereafter fell in love with a short Italian plumber who had a side hustle looking for loose coins on the street and breaking brick walls with his bare hands.

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christybird2007@reddit

1 & 2 and stopped there. Old school ✌️

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AverageDecency@reddit

Playing Sneak and Peak on Atari with my brother is some of my earliest memories.

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Malaguy420@reddit

2

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fubo@reddit

The BOSS (no really, that's what it was called)

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Fit_Low592@reddit

1 as a hand me down, 2 brand new

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cashews_clay15@reddit

1 then 2 then 4

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spderweb@reddit

Intellivision.

Atari 5200 with this abomination

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DASynnthetik@reddit

Same, but I also had the joy of playing Centipede like an arcade machine with the Trak Ball controller.

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HolodeckMoriarty@reddit

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Peelboy@reddit

1

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dadoomombo@reddit

I have had about 1/2 of them starting with 2.

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Canthelpit2056@reddit

2 and 1

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platinumperineum@reddit

1, It was my sister's Atari but we both played it.

Eventually 2 was given to me for Christmas one year. It was the “Power Set” with the Power Pad and Duck Hunt. I still have no idea how my parents pulled that off. It was pretty much all I got that year, and I was absolutely thrilled. Later on, Tetris and The Legend of Zelda became my favorites. I was also enough of a nerd that I hand-drew all the levels of A Boy and His Blob in colored pencil on notebook paper, then taped them together into one giant map so I could remember all the tunnel structures and where everything was. I remember spreading that thing out across my bedroom floor—it was friggin’ huge. And going to the local video store to rent games as a reward for a good report card? That was the best.

Honestly, I never outgrew it. Tetris is still my comfort game. Perimenopause, middle-of-the-night stupid wake-up, can’t sleep… Tetris. Somehow my brain settles, and I can drift right back off.

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digitalgraffiti-ca@reddit

2

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SubstanceNo1544@reddit

Started at 1.. missed a few in the middle

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bloviatingbloviator@reddit

I held an Atari controller last summer for the first time since the 80s. It was like falling off a bike...you never forget how. My kids marveled at my knowledge of how to hold and use that controller, which seemed so awkward to them. I got to feel cool for 30 seconds.

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OffMeta13@reddit

1, 2, 3, 6, then 14.

Space Taxi!

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Vegas_Steve@reddit

Same, had the Powerplay Cruiser and The Bug

In kindergarten.

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briankutys@reddit

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DjNormal@reddit

1, but only just. Pretty sure my parents got the Atari before me. We had a weirdly large amount of games for it. My dad didn’t play it. My mom only played space invaders. My elder half-siblings played it every now and again.

I think they may have gotten it at the swap meet or something. I don’t think it was new. My dad made a custom transformer to power it. We also had a random assortment of different controllers and a storage case.

—

Christmas of ‘84 we got a Sega Master System, which was specifically for me. Honestly, I don’t remember playing it much until I was a bit older. I would have had to ask for time on the family TV, which probably limited its availability at first.

My grandma got me a NES somewhere around ‘87 I think (for her house). We used to rent games from Blockbuster.

1 and Sega Master System

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Kellzy1212@reddit

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1 and 2

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Cael_NaMaor@reddit

I started with 0 (Coleco) loke many others. Atari 1 was my family's first console...

I stopped at 10/13 because f*k all that noise. I'm not blowing a paycheck for a system every 4yrs just to have to blow multiple paychecks to have any fun on games that probably aren't really for me anyways.

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Usual-Role-9084@reddit

It was the gun from Duck Hunt, not pictured.

Missing Sega Master System controller between 2 & 3, and 6 & 7 need to be swapped positions, PS came out before N64. Also where the frick is the Neo Geo AVS controller between 4&5?

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jamescockroft@reddit

Bacch@reddit

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Silly_Sherbet5543@reddit

1

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BigOlBoots@reddit

Number 1, baby.

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Ossmo02@reddit

1, 4, 7.

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Cold-Monk5436@reddit

1

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djsynrgy@reddit

1.

Used to drive my dad nuts because for some reason my legs would kinda spasm every time I pressed the button to make Pitfall Harry jump. 😆

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mikerad1983@reddit

2

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Creative_Incident323@reddit

2-3-4-5-7-11-14-15-16-18-20

What all have I been missing out on, so many years without XBox? I logged in thousands of hours Halo 1 and 2.

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macmasher@reddit

Here's where I started, so between 1 and 2?

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Foreign-Commission@reddit

Atari 7800 was my first console, then SNES. Never had another

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cutlineman@reddit

1, 2, and 7 were my first three.

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Dicfive@reddit

1980

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bloodectomy@reddit

Get off my lawn

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BilingualClothes27@reddit

I was a #1 Woot Woot

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Neither_Internal_261@reddit

2

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facesnorth@reddit

this was my first (atari 5200):

along with the game river raid, I'm guessing around Christmas 1983. however the controller kept breaking, so we eventually returned it. I thought we got a 7800 instead at that point (can't add 2nd image to show that controller....) but apparently it didn't become widely available until mid '86. I don't know recall that long of a gap between owning these 2 systems... but I did also acquire a massive garbage bag full of 2600 games which were backwards compatible.

I definitely wasn't the first kid on my block to own the NES, I don't think we got one until some time in '87. I know I did get Zelda and Tyson's punch out right around when they came out that year.

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unbossing@reddit

2, 3, 5, 7

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mojo4394@reddit

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laydeebug1678@reddit

1 & 2

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ZedRDuce76@reddit

Good old 7800

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Cephalopod_Dropbear@reddit

TI-99! Car Wars, Hunt the Wumpus, A-Maze-Ing, Parsec. So many good games!

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applyheat@reddit

I heart hunt the wumpus

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I_M_urbanspaceman@reddit

2 at friends' houses. 4 was the first we had at home.

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BaldEagleRising17@reddit

Intelevision is missing here.

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dirtjiggler@reddit

I remember wrenching on that controller, and it just took it.

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dragon925@reddit

Number one. I've been in this game a long time.

Get it?

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cellrdoor2@reddit

2 and 3 and then right to 18. I was a late video game adopter because we couldn’t afford it. My grandparents bought my sister and I an original NES in 1992 and we played the heck out of that thing. I still have it actually and sometimes play it. My kids very much enjoyed the power pad.

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Mc-Laney@reddit

No. 1, although connected to a Commodore C64, not an Atari console.

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Mr402TheSouthSioux@reddit

1

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My cousin had 1, but our first in-home system was 2. And what a truly glorious era that was..

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Reasonable-Note-6876@reddit

Started with #1.

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Slobound76@reddit

1

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VisiblePlatform6704@reddit

1 we had porky's revenge , seaquest, moon patrol and other games. Good times

I only had 1,2 and 4. Also Gameboy is missing. The "poorest" kids in my circle had GB only. (I also had it, OperationC was rad!)

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hiirogen@reddit

1 is closest but my first system was a Magnavox

1, 4, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 19, 20. Progress peaked with the indestructible Gravis joystick for my Atari 2600, owned several for PC too. Now my hands hurt after a few minutes of playing; it was a good run while it lasted.

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Critical_Liz@reddit

What asshole designed six man? That thing was a pain in teh ass.

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TheMidnightHandyman@reddit

2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10,11,12,13,16,17,18,19,20.

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rAndoFraze@reddit

2, 3, 5………….17

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Negative-Wrap95@reddit

Started with 1,2 and 3 at friend's houses as my parents were afraid of screen burn.

I saved lawn mowing and allowance money for this brand new thing called a "Game Boy".

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phalse21@reddit

1

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

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DramaticPinkumni@reddit

Odyssey never gets the attention it deserves

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

Best video/board game crossover ever!

2-3-7. And I've been with PlayStation ever since

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Lima3Echo@reddit

1

with a console that my uncle had. it burned so many CRT TVs that my mom never wanted to know about consoles at our place. lol

4 (and I still have it!), #6, #9 or #13 (that one belonged to my bf), and many drunken nights Wii bowling with #14.

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the_kid1234@reddit

My first was Magnavox Odyssey II!

1, then 2, then 4. Also had the old school Q-bert and Frogger. The original hand-held gaming consoles.

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HandaZuke@reddit

PC Engine / TG 16 is the GenX of game consoles.

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bigmanbananas@reddit

12,2,7,9,12. I still have my original 12.

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iwanttobelieve74@reddit

1,2,4,6,10,11,12,14,15,17,18

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smoot99@reddit

236

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Shed_Some_Skin@reddit

The most satisfyingly clicky stick ever

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Purple10tacle@reddit

Competition Pro - that was mine as well! Classic black/red version, though.

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BritOnTheRocks@reddit

I almost posted this one until I remembered it wasn’t my first, but it was my best!

1-20

Also got a flight stick and throttle for Mechwarrior 5

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81JSB@reddit

1,2,3,7, 12

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ladyeclectic79@reddit

Started out w #2!! Got an NES Christmas morning 1986 and never really looked back from gaming. 🤩❤️🤩

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DeschainSWNC@reddit

My childhood Megadrive still works, although finding a TV which it can connect to is near impossible these days.

Then from age 18 and getting my first proper job, I've had 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 19 and 20.

Yes, I am a massive nerd.

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NatWilo@reddit

Parents bought an Atari 2600 just before I was born, and Dad had an ancient Calico with the reostat controller that only played pong. Those were my first video games. First anything. I used to demand to watch my parents play frogger. I was addicted to the music, and to watching the frog go SPLAT!

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onikaizoku11@reddit

No shame here. I started with #1. Fave game was Empire Strikes Back.

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Adbam@reddit

I don't see the intellivision remote but it would be one two after that

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GoldMedalSwimmer76@reddit

1

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Less_Likely@reddit

Apple IIe keyboard and paddles.

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Straight_Flow_4095@reddit

1 - Atari 2600

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Neezy3000@reddit

Started with 1. Have played and owned all but 7,8,11,16 & 20. Now I own a Steamdeck and play pretty much everything on it. 😁

Lifetime:

1, 2, 4, 6, 7, (wired PS2 - missing), 9, 13, 24, 18, 20.

48 y/o male.

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dragon34@reddit

1, 2, 4, 7, 9, 13, 18

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OskeyBug@reddit

1

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o_0dk-frlsyall314@reddit

1 and 2

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IAm5toned@reddit

1, 2, 7

also in that order

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Titfortatbrat@reddit

Then 2,3,4,6,11,14,15,18.

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lemystereduchipot@reddit

2 in 1987

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narwhal_platypus@reddit

Technically none b/c my dad bought a Sega instead of a Nintendo..."Aren't they the same thing?"

Hubs bought me the NES classic edition for Christmas several years back so now it's 2+

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ebmfreak@reddit

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This_Fkn_Guy_@reddit

8,12,14,15 are the o ly controllers i havemt used

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ConqueefStador@reddit

Apple II joystick was my Grandpa's.

Sega Master system was the first I owned.

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Puzzleheaded_Race_90@reddit

1 through 5 are the most important ones, all of them bring back a flood of memories. 1 was the first, as far as consoles go. C64 might be the tell first, though

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balzstein@reddit

2. Most time with #3.

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Liqwid9@reddit

laughs in Atari 7800

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Incubus1981@reddit

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betelgeuse206265@reddit

9, but only because my parents wouldn’t let me buy a gaming system and I got my first one in graduate school 🤣

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mrmcgeek@reddit

1 started it for me. My uncle had one and whenever we’d visit I’d play Defender and Space Invaders for as long as I could.

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dbwedgie@reddit

I started with a used #1. Thanks, now I feel old.

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poop-money@reddit

A stick

But fior real, 1, 2, then 4.

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lmpcpedz@reddit

Atari 2600 kid here. #1
Space Invaders was prob my favorite game.

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Ubilease@reddit

No love for the ol PC engine? Keith Courage in Alpha Zones is a absolute BANGER

Of ones I have actually owned, 6 and then 14. In order from what I’ve played on, 2, then 1, then 4, then 6, 9, and 14.

Also, whatever the remote was from the Compact Disc Interactive system my dad gave my brother.

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Gwendolyn-NB@reddit

Neighbors had #1, which was the first I played; I won #2 when I was like 8 so that's the first I owned.

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zerohero83@reddit

First was 2.

3 carried me for decades.

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dominator5k@reddit

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Sodamyte@reddit

I have used them all.

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Number 1, because it was a hand me down from my cousin.

1, 2, now 18

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Peanut083@reddit

I didn’t own a NES myself, but used to regularly use my friend’s console when I was at her house, so number 2. I actually used and/or owned every console in the second column, with the only deviation from column 2 being number 15.

Funny story about how my now-husband ended up with a Game Cube; he was hanging around the shopping centre near where I was working at the time waiting for me to finish work. He went into EB Games (I think it’s the Aussie version of Game Stop) and saw a Star Wars game that he liked the look of. So he bought it. Then the sales assistant asked him if he had a Game Cube. My husband was like “Uh, no”. The dude was all “You need a Game Cube to play this game”. So he bought a Game Cube.

He literally only ever bought one game for it. I later bought a second game, which was the sequel of the first game. We still have the Game Cube and a whole two games for it sitting around our home somewhere.

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