Well before I got a PC for all my gaming needs, my sister had been given a "Colecovision" with Donkey Kong. I was jealous, so my uncle game me my first console... well not really... He gave me parts, and instruction manual, a code manual, a tape deck and and old TV.
He said to me, "If you want to appreciate something, put the effort in to it - Build it yourself".
That was my introduction to building a Tandy TRS80.
2 weeks and innumerable solder burns.. It turned on.
3 weeks and 2 60minute audio cassettes after that, I finished programming my first game. It promptly crashed.
It took me a few months, but I managed my first Ascii graphics in a game.
Here's one to celebrate the memory!
What was your first console?
Intellivision. I loved that thing. Utopia and Treasures of Tarmin on there were spellbinding games years ahead of their time.
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Still have one with the box in my closet
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If you consider PC a console, then that would be it. Otherwise, the first system I owned (not played somewhere else) was Nintendo Gamecube.
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Thanks for the chance.
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My first console was the ps2, but I only really got into gaming because of the Gameboy Advanced and the Mario Advanced series. It was kind of my fault for (mostly) not buying good games.
My passion for gaming came from wanting to know about and play the games for the fighters in Super Smash Bros. Brawl
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First console was the Atari 2600. First computer was the C64. Good times!
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I loved the C64 - got into that after the TRS, then my uncle gave me a C128 with the new 1741 FDD lol - played that to death - he was President of our local Commodore club - he had 1000's of games. We cleaned his shed out a few years back and threw 90% of it away. BIG mistake. Recently saw a working 64 go for $2000 on ebay - bare boned. He's still got 3 of those C64 DX's though - looks like a huge briefcase, but really is an all in one C64 with a 5 inch monitor built in. He's been offered $10k for each but he's not selling lol.
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I bought a few C64 games at a Goodwill store in London (Ontario) a few months ago. You never know how much you can get for them (there is a site dedicated to the C64 called Lemon64 and some of the threads are from people looking for games). For me, I still play C64 games but I use an Emulator to play them. I got games from the aforementioned Lemon64, C64.com, and a couple of other sites but I can't recall their name (had them as Favourites on my old computer).
If you are still interested in C64 games, you should check them out!:)
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Great story! Are you still a programmer?
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I dabble - I've got a few little games I've written for android and PC - but nothing I've put in the stores as yet. I'm working on a little RPG at the moment for my kids :).
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Great! I Dabble too and released my first a couple months back on the Play Store. I also did a game Jam 2 weeks ago and got placed 9th of 127. I want to make a living out of it eventually but I'm not expecting that in the near future :D.
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Pegasus :( Not sure if you ever heard of it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_%28console%29
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