What gaming generation was the first console that you played?

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ninjapirate42 said:

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. 

Would you please add some information to the OP about the generations, a lot of people seem to be confused or seem to think that Gen 1 was Atari2600 from the comments and there is a knock on effect of that on all the gens.

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]

 

There we go, a brief history of gaming Gens haha. Feel free to copy paste this into the OP if you want NinjaPirate42 would rather people know which gen is which for the poll :)