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What generation did you start with?

Gen 1 46 11.70%
 
Gen 2 76 19.34%
 
Gen 3 98 24.94%
 
Gen 4 54 13.74%
 
Gen 5 71 18.07%
 
Gen 6 36 9.16%
 
Gen 7 8 2.04%
 
Gen 8 1 0.25%
 
Other?? 3 0.76%
 
Total:393

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]



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5th gen, whatever Sega released in the 5th gen, was it Saturn it was called? It wasn't mine though. The first console I owned was the PS2.



Nes



Teeqoz said:
5th gen, whatever Sega released in the 5th gen, was it Saturn it was called? It wasn't mine though. The first console I owned was the PS2.


I do believe it was Saturn. As well as Sega CD? That was just an add-on maybe? I really lost track of Sega between Genesis and Dreamcast.



Super Mario Bros on the NES



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NES!



4th gen with the SNES! Those were some darn good times!



                
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I briefly tried video games for the first time at a friends house once when he had an Atari. But my first console was the NES.



4th gen with Super Nintendo.Good god, that console was just sublime.



My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

First console my family owned was an N64. Then we got a ps2. Then I personally own a ps3 and ps4. I didn't get really into gaming until gen 7.