Hey guys, just wondering where everyone started out in terms of playing video games.
Feel free to discuss below!
Generation 3 for me. I played a hell of a lot of NES when I was younger. There's a chance I might have touched an Atari or something beforehand but I don't think so.
EDIT:
Generation 1 (1972 - 1977)
Magnavox Odyssey, TV Tennis, Home Pong Systems, Coleco Telstar, Binatone TV master, Nintendo Color TV-Game.
Generation 2 (1976 - 1983)
Atari 2600, Fairchild Channel F, Bally Astrocade, Magnavox Odyssey2, Intellivision, Emerson Arcadia 2001, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, Vectrex
[Gen 2 also had some Handheld systems - Milton Bradley Microvision, Nintendos Game and Watch Series, Entex Select-A-Game, Epoch Game Pocket Computer.]
Generation 3 8bit era (1983-1987)
SG-1000, Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) , Sega Master System/Sega Mark III , Atari 7800, Commodore 64
Generation 4 16bit era (1987-1996)
PC-Engine, Megadrive/Genesis, Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES), Neo Geo AES, Philips CD-i
[Gen 4 handhelds Game Boy, Atari Lynx, Sega GameGear, TurboExpress]
Generation 5 (1993-2003)
3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Sega Saturn, Playstation, Nintendo 64, Apple Bandais Pippen
[Gen 5 handhelds - Sega Nomad, Game Boy Pocket/light/color, Neo Geo Pocket/Color, Wonderswan/color, Virtual Boy]
Generation 6 (1998-2013)
Sega Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox
[Gen 6 handhelds - GBA/SP/Micro, Nokia N-Gage/QD]
Generation 7 (2005-)
Xbox360, Playstation 3, Wii
[Gen 7 handhelds - Nintendo DS/Lite/DSi/DSi XL, PSP series/Go
Generation 8 (2012-)
Wii-U, Playstation 4, Xbox One
[Gen 8 handhelds - Nintendo 3ds family, Playstation Vita/TV]
