Atari

My first console was some generic nonsense that could have been made by any of the major tech companies at the time.

My first real console was obviously Nintendo.

PS1

Atari.

oooh but also played on a Game and Watch handheld from nintendo that had jumpman on it.
Before that it was PC-PAL if you can consider that a console.

A NES

Interesting to see how many of us started on systems outside of the Big 4. I didn't expect that.

For me, it was the SNES I got for Christmas of 1994.

First I played was an Atari, first I loved was Mega Drive (Genesis), first I bought Playstation 1.

Commodore 64 bought it second hand with a huge amount of original games , on top was it came with more accessories like 4 joysticks brand new floppy drive to replace the tape drive that hadn't been used and the icing on the cake a action replay cart that was valued at $100 at the time and could copy almost any game .

For a question like this Atari is actually more important than 2 of those "big 4".  They were actually the clear winner of Generation 2.

It's 35 apparently, which would mean born in 1985 and growing up in the 80s and 90s, and during Gen 3-5.