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What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
Not strictly a games console but that is pretty much all anyone ever did with it. I was the same, though the fury true console I had was the Atari 2600 followed by the Sega Mastersystem II |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
Way longer than 10 mins!
You'd go away and come back to find it had crashed and had to start again!
Before that there was this tennis game that plugged into the tv, it was a bix with a knob on yoi twisted to go up and down, cant remember the name of it though |
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a hundred and sixty of us living in a small shoebox in the middle of the road |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times
Not strictly a games console but that is pretty much all anyone ever did with it. I was the same, though the fury true console I had was the Atari 2600 followed by the Sega Mastersystem II"
Was the mastersystem before or after the mega drive? |
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I had an Acorn Electron when I was about 4.
I used to sit in my mums lap as she would program in code listings that were printed in magazines and 'help' her with it. That lead to the job I currently have. |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times
Way longer than 10 mins!
You'd go away and come back to find it had crashed and had to start again!
Before that there was this tennis game that plugged into the tv, it was a bix with a knob on yoi twisted to go up and down, cant remember the name of it though "
I think the game was 'Ping Pong' or just 'Pong'. |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
ZX Spectrum wasn't a games console, it was a personal computer. The difference being that the Spectrum was programable - I used to write programs on mine.
The first actual games console I owned I believe was a Sega Megadrive |
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Atari 2600 for me followed by an Atari 800xl home computer and a sega master system about a year and a half later.
And thus my life long gaming hobby was born.
The best part about this story is that my parents bless them, bought the atari 800xl home computer so I could "do my homework" on it. To this day i still wonder how i was supposed to do that in 1986 with no internet, printer, floppy drive etc etc etc but hey, I remember my Dad got cross when I played games on it.
Jokes on him though now. I'm the poor bugger doing all his IT support 35 years later so kinda paid off for him. |
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"I see a lot of these old type consoles including zx spectrum are available again.
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I have a ZX Spectrum that me and my brother bought while we went to a Play Expo 6 years back.
It was fun playing games on it again |
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"Amstrad cpc464"
I had this and loved programming it with pontoon. I had 10 games with it and about loved this racing car game, I think it was Enduro or something like that.
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times
Way longer than 10 mins!
You'd go away and come back to find it had crashed and had to start again!
Before that there was this tennis game that plugged into the tv, it was a bix with a knob on yoi twisted to go up and down, cant remember the name of it though
I think the game was 'Ping Pong' or just 'Pong'."
I knew someone must know what I was talking about! |
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Had a TV game that had two paddles that sent two bats up and down the screen you could tennis and football ..
Then the atari came out and graphics were amazing pacman was the game of the time then mrs pacman |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times
ZX Spectrum wasn't a games console, it was a personal computer. The difference being that the Spectrum was programable - I used to write programs on mine.
The first actual games console I owned I believe was a Sega Megadrive"
We covered that in the beginning |
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Amstrad CPC464, then the Commodore Amiga 500 then 1200. I was *obsessed*. I went to an all boys' school and my Amigas were my girlfriend substitute until I got to university, thank god for Cover Girl Strip Poker :P |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
Zx spectrum was more the first home computer rather than a console as it could be programmed we had one and spent days writing games line by line as kids, now first console i ever played was the one with pong on it and first modern games console we had would have been the nes and saga master system, my favourite games would have been duck hint or golden axe.
Also loved centipede on the Atari console. |
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"I see a lot of these old type consoles including zx spectrum are available again.
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Not a games console.
Neiher was the Amstrad CPC-464 or the later CPC-664
Or the Commodore Vic 20 or the C64
Or the Dragon 32.
Though most if them were used to pkay games, tge big clue us tgat they had a keyboard, and did more than just games.
A ganes console will have a slot fir a games cartridge and a couple of controllers i.e. a dedicated games machine
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My first console was zx spectrum loved the test match cricket game got a ps 4 now.how technology has come on through the years and the games get better and better especially fifa.anyone remember any of the football games on the spectrum think my favourite was f.a.cup. |
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Some moody one from the late 70s where the game consisted of 2 dots hitting another dog.
Then the zx spectrum where you waited 3 hrs to load a game and half the time it would crash at the last minute.
Kids today dont know they are born
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
For me and my sisters we got a Commodore 64 could never get passed the first bloody stage of jaws  |
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"The one with Pong.
Was it an Atari?
Twizzley controller?
Think it was called "circus" or that could have been what we called it in our house. Where you had to ping pong the ball? "
I think it was a grey box with circular knobs you twisted to make the paddle move up and down. |
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"The one with Pong.
Was it an Atari?
Twizzley controller?
Think it was called "circus" or that could have been what we called it in our house. Where you had to ping pong the ball?
I think it was a grey box with circular knobs you twisted to make the paddle move up and down."
Sounds like an Atari to me.
We had frogger and jungle hunt on that console too I think |
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"The one with Pong.
Was it an Atari?
Twizzley controller?
Think it was called "circus" or that could have been what we called it in our house. Where you had to ping pong the ball?
I think it was a grey box with circular knobs you twisted to make the paddle move up and down.
Sounds like an Atari to me.
We had frogger and jungle hunt on that console too I think "
There was the Grandstand which we had as a family, that sounds a lot like it. |
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It was either an Atari 400, with the awful membrane keyboard, or an Intellivision console. I cannot remember which.
(Then Atari 800XL, Atari 520STFM (it had midi which I used), then Atari 1040STFM.
Also had Amiga A500, but never really liked it. Avoided the Spectrum too.) |
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I can't recall what make it was but I'm sure it had some sort of walnut the design from on it
Was a strange shape
Could be been a early sega I'm not sure
All's I know is the fucker deprived me of sleep
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"It was either an Atari 400, with the awful membrane keyboard, or an Intellivision console. I cannot remember which.
(Then Atari 800XL, Atari 520STFM (it had midi which I used), then Atari 1040STFM.
Also had Amiga A500, but never really liked it. Avoided the Spectrum too.)"
Yes thanks was trying to remember the name, Intellivision. |
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"Family had a Binatone console given to us when I was 12 or 13 - had various variations of Pong and also a football game that consisted of two paddles on each side and goals "
The Binatone Master IV. We had one in the 1970s, had four games, tennis, squash, squash practice, and football. I discovered that if you moved the game selector slightly away from the football setting, one side had a third paddle appear just in behind the opposing side's "attacker", made it so much easier to defend.
My sister still has it, and it still worked about 10 years ago. |
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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago
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Ironically, when in my loft a couple of years ago, I found one of the original Commodore units, with the accompanying Cassette unit, leads to connect to a TV, an electrical lead too and a few games of the time.
I still have it boxed up, should see if it's worth anything. It still seems in very good condition. It must have been left by a previous owner, as I bought the house 29 years ago. |
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By *awk90Man
over a year ago
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The Super Nintendo. It's still my favourite consol! So many great games... Mario All-stars, and Super Mario World, and Donkey Kong Country! Ooo, and Mario Kart. And A Link to the Past.
I still bring my SNES with me wherever I move |
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I grew up with older brothers so was always consoles around, I have early memories of a mystery console which I think was an atari but I think I was too little to properly play it, but the first proper memory is sega mega drive which was technically my brother's, my first one which I owned was the old grey brick of an Nintendo game boy, then my playstation 1 |
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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago
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Still have my rubber key spectrum in original box with manual, that manual is amazing, taught a whole generation of kids to code , I used to write my own games as a kid, then 20 years later redeveloped one and published it !
First console though was an Atari a few years earlier |
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"Still have my rubber key spectrum in original box with manual, that manual is amazing, taught a whole generation of kids to code , I used to write my own games as a kid, then 20 years later redeveloped one and published it !
First console though was an Atari a few years earlier "
Worth a good bit now the rubber keyed ones! |
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First computer was a Commodore 64. First console was a NES. I also bought the mini NES and SNES when they were released. Waiting on a mini N64 but have a feeling it'll never be released 
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Had a 'Pong' tv game, zx81, bbc micro, ps 1,2, mega drive, dreamcast now pc. Apart from the tv game and zx81 which were gifts, I saved up for the rest. I still have all except the tv game, zx81 and megadrive. The bbc micro still works!
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I had a Grandstand thing, with 8 or so games like pong. Remember having to retune the tv to pick up the frequency it outputted on.
It was shocking but I loved it. |
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"What was your first ever games console as a kid?
Mine was the ZX Spectrum. The amount of fun me and my brother had on that. I loved it when the game would take 5-10 mins to load with all them beeps and static like noises.
My favourite games on that console were The Untouchables, The Rocky Horror Show and Donkey Kong.
Good times "
The loading time plus noise lol and if half way through something went wrong you had to start again lol |
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