Your first games console

[dan_bo]

Used to play Daley Thompson loads - might just have it on the arcade machine.... will have to check..

Ooo.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

This. You flicked switches to choose game and speed, one player, two player etc. Tennis, squash, a firing game etc.

 

[Slioch]

Spectrum 48K for me.

Favourite games were Elite, Fairlight, and Tir Na Nog IIRC.

Oh, nearly forgot Jet Set Willy - Mario Bros eat your heart out!

Do you know that apparently you can download emulators onto modern pc's/laptops these days. And to give you the authentic experience, it takes 10 minutes to load a game with the yellow/black flashing borders and screeching noises. Why would you?????

DAMHIKT

 

[Electric_Andy]

C64 in 1989. Loved it. It was bought used so had about 100 games.

We got a PC in about 1993 but games were limited to solitaire.

Then when at Uni in 2001 i got a used PS1. Hogs of war, worms, tony hawk and matt Hoffman pro bmx were played daily for 2 years solid. Great times.

Then had a PS3 but only played Gran Turismo and i collected all 1000+ of the cars

 

[NorthernDave]

I've still got a PS2 and occasionally play FIFA or Die Hard on it - two great games.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Vic 20, blitz, cant remember anything else
I loved the arcade games, Defender, Phoenix, Star Bird, Asteroids etc and Space Invaders of course

Now I'm addicted to Tom Clancy The Division2 on xbox one, just brilliant

 

[classic33]

Philips Videopac

I've a Playstation(Unused) somewhere.

 

[Alien8]

Back in the day (70's), we had one of the Pong consoles which I'm sure was a Prinztronic Tournament IV.

I got a 48k Spectrum in '82 when it was still only mail-order.

The first game I bought was a reasonable Defender clone: Orbiter.

Played it for hours, and hours, and hours, and ...

 

[cyberknight]

Spectrum for me with the rubber keys
Impossible Mission

With 2 kids i dont get time to play although a MMO that closed in 2012 that ran for 8 years is now in the hands of private servers so if you like super hero stuff with no PK ( apart from from designated zones ) its a winner
https://massivelyop.com/2019/07/08/city-of-heroes-homecoming-interview/

 

[fossala]

My Dad had a ZX spectrum and some floppy based system, I remember him playing Bomb Jack a lot. My first console was a NES, me and my Step-Mum played that for hours together. Over the years we got a megadrive, amigacd32, PS1, N64, Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube. Guess I was quite lucky.

I rarely game now (although I just downloaded dmc5 to give it a go) but my wife and son love it. They both have an Xbox one and play online together a lot.

 

[Cletus Van Damme]

Mine was a binatone in the 70's. That had variations of tennis. Or pong or whatever it was called.