Bunch of young'uns in here. Seriously, some of you guys are younger than The Simpsons!
Born in '81, first console was an NES (in '86-87, I forget which exactly). Although I also played games on my family's Apple IIE and later 386.
Man, I loved that NES. I remember wanting to see The Wizard just to see Mario 3. Those were the days! Ahh nostalgia.