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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
Alby_da_Wolf on 30 July 2015

Intellivision, 2nd gen. Later someone gave my dad a 1st gen console with 4 pong and pong-like, not replaceable games, so I played on a 1st gen later than on a 2nd gen.



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thatguymarco on 30 July 2015
ninjapirate42 said:
thatguymarco said:
The N64 was my fucking jam, and I was blessed with an uncle who had a PS1 so I got to play Crash too, I was never aware of the concept of a "console wars" as a child.


You had it all good sir.


Not a Dreamcast, though. :P Anyway, I got to play both Sonic Adventures on the GameCube, so it was all good.



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ninjapirate42 on 31 July 2015
thatguymarco said:
ninjapirate42 said:


You had it all good sir.


Not a Dreamcast, though. :P Anyway, I got to play both Sonic Adventures on the GameCube, so it was all good.


I've still yet to play any of those games. Maybe someday!



green_sky on 31 July 2015

2nd gen with Atari 2600.



Aeolus451 on 31 July 2015

Gen 2 for me.



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Lawlight on 31 July 2015

NES



ninjapirate42 on 31 July 2015

Really have a craving to play some Battletoads now...



kinisking on 31 July 2015

5th gen ps1. Not including the snes games I played through emulators



Ltd predictions by the time 9th Gen comes out

Ps4:110million

Xbox one :75 million( was 65) 

Wii u: 20 milliion

VGPolyglot on 31 July 2015

4th gen, Sega Genesis/Mega Drive.



S.Peelman on 01 August 2015
ninjapirate42 said:
S.Peelman said:

Not sure. Depends on whether I played the Odyssey2/Videopac G7000 or the NES first. So was either a second or a third generation console. Technically though the fourth generation was already underway when I started playing, though obviously I didn't yet realize how things worked.


I was the same way. I had no idea until years down the road that the Super Nintendo launched the same year I got my NES.

Yeah at the age of four or five, I think, I just played whatever was first handed to me. That was either my mother's old console from her own childhood or my aunt's NES. She had the NES ready to play in the attic because my aunt was an avid gamer back then. I also played the SNES with her first as well, but though I am sure she already had it fairly early on, I don't think she let me or my cousins play that system until a bit later. Since my own mother's G7000 console wasn't hooked up at our house as far as I recall, I'm leaning most towards the NES as being the first console I ever played.