What was the very first computer type console/system you played your first game on?

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What was the very first computer type console/system you played your first game on?

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I played my very first computer game on a Comadore 64 and an Atari console.
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Atari 2600 of course
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Some realllllly old pong console, all it had was pong, and in black and white too. I think it may ahve been a sears system?
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NES and Apple IIE
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Atari 2600, but midway through my Atari era, I got Zaxxon for my grandparents' Radio Shack TRS-80.. lol Zaxxon rocked!!
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mine was on a state of the art apple computer, running (brand new) Dos 3.0

quite a few different games, too
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striker8000 wrote:mine was on a state of the art apple computer, running (brand new) Dos 3.0

quite a few different games, too
Apples ran DOS?!? :eek:
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commodore64

I still have it and it still works. Also have a 2600 that still works.
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I wasn't in the Game as early as some of y'all

We used to have an Amiga back in the day.
a friend of mine used to have a Commodore don't remember which one it was...
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Burke wrote:Atari 2600 of course

Got mine Christmas '79...got it with Combat & Breakout...
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celico vision or however u spell it.

had like 5 games and thought it was the shiznit, had a smurfs game where u had to jump over fences and watch out for crows who would swoop down and bite ur head.
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Indy wrote:Got mine Christmas '79...got it with Combat & Breakout...
lol, at that time i was almost 2 months old :D
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Brent wrote:lol, at that time i was almost 2 months old :D

Lol, I had just turned 12 right before that Christmas...
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My first one was my own joystick. I won too :)
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fastchevy wrote:My first one was my own joystick. I won too :)
well u couldnt really lose...
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Meggie wrote:celico vision or however u spell it.

had like 5 games and thought it was the shiznit, had a smurfs game where u had to jump over fences and watch out for crows who would swoop down and bite ur head.
ya know, as neat as those coleco visions were i never got to actually play one
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Brent wrote:ya know, as neat as those coleco visions were i never got to actually play one

Colecovision was cool...we had one...loved playing Donkey Kong :nod:
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Indy wrote:Colecovision was cool...we had one...loved playing Donkey Kong :nod:
hahaha yea i had that one too!

couldnt remmeber if that was coleco or atari. i had em both.
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As far as the different consoles I've had:

Atari 2600
Atari 5200
Colecovision
Nintendo (SNES)
Playstation
Playstation2

Plus, we had one of the original pong TV Consoles from way back around '77 or so (actually my grandparents had it over at their house for all us grandkids)...
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I think it was Odessy or however its spelt, and Atari 2600, commodore64, amiga, ibm 286, etc.
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well, I had a maganavox PONG console, yellow and black, had like 3 versions of Pong on it, also an Apple II and Atari 2600
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atari. I pwned KaBOOM!!!!!!
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Atari 2600....although either before, or around that time, I also remember a Sears console of some sort that a friend had.
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First was NES but I did play a few Atari games.
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Pong
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anyone have one of these too? Im sure alot of you did! Man so many good times with this
http://www.tripoint.org/games/literatur ... ecob11.jpg
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Pong...plugged directly into the TV using the supplied antenna adapter.

then Atari 2600 of course.


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Atari. I still have it. Wonder if it works?
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pong

Then when I was 10 or 11, I asked my Dad for an Atari, he got me a Commodore Vic20 and said, "write your own games". So I spent many an unfulfilling evening copying code from books to play space invaders and some tank game.
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Meggie wrote:celico vision or however u spell it.

had like 5 games and thought it was the shiznit, had a smurfs game where u had to jump over fences and watch out for crows who would swoop down and bite ur head.

:rotfl:

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Nintendo with Super Mario/Duck Hunt cartridge and gun combo.
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Atari. Probably the 2600 or 800XL, can't remember which one I had my hands (and mouth) on first.
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schlurpee wrote:Some realllllly old pong console, all it had was pong, and in black and white too. I think it may ahve been a sears system?
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64bit wrote:anyone have one of these too? Im sure alot of you did! Man so many good times with this
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HAHha! Yes! Used to play that with friends all the time. There was a basketball one too wasn't there?
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YeOldeStonecat wrote:Atari 2600....although either before, or around that time, I also remember a Sears console of some sort that a friend had.

A few friends had these...they were identical in every way to the Atari, save the name...
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Brent wrote:I played my very first computer game on a Comadore 64 and an Atari console.
The Ping game for Home TV...maybe it was a Coleco I forgot.


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schlurpee wrote:HAHha! Yes! Used to play that with friends all the time. There was a basketball one too wasn't there?
Yeah basketball too. I played that to death also lol.
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ZX Spectrum 49kb+ :)
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3-man Atari football KILLS Madden 2005!!!

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Coleco Vision and Commodore 60 FO :D
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