Nintendo. First Game: The Legend of Zelda.

My parents owned an Atari 2600 since before I was born but my first gaming experience came from the two I mentioned above.


Atari and Nintendo both still work great to this day. :)

NES was so great that if my daughter ever wants to play video games when she grows up a bit, she will begin on the NES. 

I had two actually.  Inherited them both.

The first one i played though....

Check out those crazy controllers.

Actually playing a Bally Astrocade is my third memory.  Behind climbing stairs to play the bally astrocade... (Like climbing a mountain.. stairs were carpeted.) and being in an earthquake.  Which apparently is supposed to have happened before memories formed so it may of been a "False" memory from being told the story so much as a kid.

So depending on how you look at it.  I may have been playing videogames before I even had memories.  It certaintly explains my attachment to them i'd say.

NES

The Playstation with crash bandicoot as my first game.

Those controllers are incredible! Strangest damn thing I have seen.

They worked like a dream actually.

The knob at the top worked both as a Joystick and a Knob.

So for example in a game like gunfight... you would use the knob like a joystick to move... twist the knob to change the direction your gun pointed in, and fired with the trigger.

That video does make it look like it controlled pretty well. I would have definitely played that game too as a kid.

Yeah, it's funny cause it even lets you control it in two ways.  When I was a kid I had to use two hands, but as an adult I can use 1 hand.

Also what was great was that it supported up to 4 players if you got extra controllers.  I have many fond memories of playing 4 player checkmate. 

Inherited an Atari 2600 when I was 6.

N64