Bring out the :old:

[hool10]

No, not SNES old, but older. You see back then they had Coleco Vision and the Intellivision game systems. I specifically remember being 4 or 5 years old in 1990-91 and watching my dad come home smelling a little like oil for his lunch break from the auto shop. Those were the days anyways before he hated video games and actually played them. Anyways I have a bunch of Intellivision games and 2 systems with the voice synthesizer. I also remember laughing but being in awe at the voice that was coming out of the synthesizer. It was like the computer or system really was talking to you! The controllers were screwed up and usually the control layouts would get mixed up/lost in other boxes. So put out all your old memories if you have any of ancient game systems! Angry Video Gamer Nerd should tell you tons on how the system played out:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/32245.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAkXoCAIA3w <<Only like a handfull people who code and most of the time goof off back in the 80's. That puts in comparison to a modern game company like Valve.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision

 

[dfc05]

We used to have a ColecoVision and Atari 2600. I remember playing Adventure, Defender, Kaboom!, Freeway (like Frogger, but with a chicken crossing a road), Looping (you try to navigate a little plane through a maze, but it was really hard cause you mostly just made a lot of round/looping movements...), Air Sea Battle, Turbo (fun ColecoVision game with a driving wheel and pedal component that you hooked up), Breakout, Space Invaders (or something like it, e.g. Centipede/Millipede), Outlaw (aka Gunslinger), 3-D Tic Tac Toe, some tank game... etc.

My favorite game was Defender. I used to play Outlaw against my sister but I sucked at it, so I always lost.

Oh wow, that driving game that comes up at 1:54 on that first video you linked = TURBO. Awesome.
2:49 -- that tank game on the left. Played that one too.

I wish my dad hadn't thrown away both systems.

 

[Dekstar]

I remember Duck Hunt for the NES. Had a lightgun, and would play that sucker for hours.

 

[Darkside55]

One of the greatest discoveries of my gaming childhood was that Sega Genesis had the exact same pin connections as the Atari 2600, and controllers could be used interchangably. Much fun was had.

 

[Apocalypse89]

Back in the early/mid '90s, we used to have this awesome console called a "Sakhr"...it was basically a huge keyboard that you plugged into your TV, and it came with dozens of games pre-installed and it also accepted cartridges.

It was actually an American '80s gaming system(Commodore 64, I think) produced under license by a Lebanese company...several of the games were Arabic and obviously geared towards the Middle-Eastern market(such as a quiz game on the History of Islam).

We also had an NES which we stupidly called an "Atari". Hey, I was in pre-school at the time.

 

[Dekstar]

Don't know if anyone else remembers the Gamecom, but it was one of the most advanced hand-helds of it's time. It had dual cartridge slots, touch screen, even internet capabilities. It was amazing. Even the boot up sound ("Gamecom Active") was so awesome that turning it on made you feel all powerful.
http://www.miniarcade.com/tiger/gamecom.htm

I had Batman and Robin and LightsOut, and could never find other games.

 

[ríomhaire]

I think our first console was a Mega Drive. Brilliant console.

 

[Deleted member 56031]

My first console was also a Sega Mega Drive. Amazing system

 

[Saturos]

NES and Mario Bros/Duck Hunt was my very first video game and console.

In fact Mario Bros/Duck Hunt was the very first time I ever played a video game in my life. It was 1988 and I was only 4 yrs. old.

P.S. Has anyone noticed the tags? It says, "old fags". WTF? Tags are screwy.

 

[kupocake]

The earliest system my family had was a Amstrad CPC, basically the third horse in a race that was only ever between the Commodore 64 and the Spectrum ZX81. We had some miscellaneous crap for it but nothing really notable - lots of early system bundle-ins and unlicensed rip offs of other titles (e.g. Haunted Hedges which was a Pac-Man clone). The only game that anyone would probably recognize was DragonNinja, source of the cult meme 'The President has been kidnapped by ninjas. Are you a bad enough dude to rescue the President?'. That said, I distinctly remember that this game would never load on our CPC. You pop it into the tape loader and after 15 minutes of sitting on your hands, it would lock up. Except I believe it worked just once...

I inevitably sucked at the game though.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Back in the early/mid '90s, we used to have this awesome console called a "Sakhr"...it was basically a huge keyboard that you plugged into your TV, and it came with dozens of games pre-installed and it also accepted cartridges.

It was actually an American '80s gaming system(Commodore 64, I think) produced under license by a Lebanese company...several of the games were Arabic and obviously geared towards the Middle-Eastern market(such as a quiz game on the History of Islam).

We also had an NES which we stupidly called an "Atari". Hey, I was in pre-school at the time.

Bahahaha, i grew up in a "culturally enriched" suburbian town, that's exactly the stuff we played apart from SNES. While the kids' parents gave us REALLY sugary baked sweets. I always envied the kids because they got to watch violent stuff like Tarkan, the turkish hercules. Good times.

 

[hool10]

The oldest console I own is a Sega Genesis, so I guess I'm banned. It's always awesome to boot it up now and then to play some Sonic the Hedgehog or Ecco, but my controllers are so shitty that it makes playing those games pretty difficult... time for some more Virtual Console.

I can't fit the controller in my hand. I remember trying the Xbox controller in my hand for the first time and it was just too big (not anymore though). The Gamecube felt great in my hands though. That was when I was a "kid" though. So I guess modern consoles will fit for an adults hand and Nintendo will always be smaller for the kids.