What brand was your first console?

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Alby_da_Wolf on 23 July 2020

curl-6 said:

Darc Requiem said:
No Atari option? Atari 2600 was my first console.

I didn't anticipate we'd have so many who started pre-NES or I would've included it instead of grouping them as "other".

Behold teh powah of us boomers!!!

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First I owned was a SNES. Before that, I had played on both the NES and Atari 2600.

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Chris Hu on 23 July 2020

Started playing games at home on a Commodor 64 my first proper home console was a Sega Master System and got a NES about six month later.

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curl-6 on 23 July 2020

Alby_da_Wolf said:

curl-6 said:

I didn't anticipate we'd have so many who started pre-NES or I would've included it instead of grouping them as "other".

Behold teh powah of us boomers!!!

I guess I misjudged the age range here on VGChartz, I thought it would be overwhelmingly folks under 40 as that's the vast majority of gamers I know in real life, but it guess it goes to show, never assume.