I was an avid reader of Electronic Games magazine starting around 1982, so I was anxious to actually get involved with a console, but my paper route income went the way of the computer at the time (a TRS-80 Model I followed by a TRS-80 Color Computer) thanks to parental subsidies favoring that route.
The first true videogame console I actually owned was a Mattel Intellivision II, bought at a rummage sale with a handful of games in the summer of 1985 if memory serves. There were still a number of late-release titles available for sale at local video rental shops and a decrepit department store that was on its last legs. I was hooked at that point -- a year or so later I bought an NES shortly after it debuted in the states, and I didn't actually get back to the Atari 2600 and its generational peers until the early 90's.
My most vivid memory of the Intellivision at first blush was the incredibly buggy Parker Brothers Frogger cartridge that came with it -- the instructions actually said something to the effect of, "If the screen goes black, just hit the Reset button." And it rarely survived more than five minutes of play without going black!
Ahhh, those were the days.
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