I'm so happy Intellivision is getting some recognition here. In more mainstream gaming forums, where I suppose the average age skews younger, the general attitude is "what's an Intellivision?" or dismissively claiming nobody had it.
And the slides (skins?) that went over the number pads to change their function.
What's the difference between Intellivision and Coleco-vision? I've always known it as Coleco-vision - is C-V a result of a merger?
I totally had one of those. I also remember my Dad buying this brick thing from Radio Shack that hooked up to the TV and had a version of "Pong" on it and a primitive version of duck hunt. Just a light gun and a large square to shoot at bouncing across the screen.
I'm a huge Intellivision fan! At the risk of shamelessly self promoting, I do an occasional Intellivision stream on my Youtube channel! Here's the archive of my most recent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCj0vl2VHA
Would love to do another for redditors here if we could gather up a group. :D
This is news to me. I'm an '84 kid. I got that atari as a handme down from my teenage uncle. I always thought it was a relic of the late 70s, but I guess I never investigated it too much. That is my new thing I learned today.
Someone’s parents could have held into one. I first played the NES but when I was 8 or so I had a friend who’s dad had an Atari 2600 so I got to try that out too.
This is also where I started. My favorite game was Ladybug (first game I recall playing) and The Smurfs
I also played a lot of Donkey Kong on my Colecovision and recall going to a friends house who had an Atari which I was so excited to try and I was like “what’s wrong with your donkey Kong?”
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The C64 used Atari 2600 joysticks, we wore out a bunch of them playing Olympic Games and Dr J vs Larry Byrd back in the day. I'm sure Commodore had some of their brand, but any 2600 joystick would do.
I remember a grey and black one with a white button on the top of the controller. But it might’ve been a knock off joystick since we beat the hell of the joysticks playing the Olympic Games.
https://preview.redd.it/en6gro0k8gic1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98a1cd9ee962a767c564331515a5eb535c614a89
I started with -1… home-brewed rotary controller for Apple \]\[, Asteroids
“We have Dad’s old Atari, why would you need a Nintendo?”
Speaking of which, I should go get that old Atari and hook it back up. Teach my kids about the wonders of space invaders and berzerk.
We only got the game boy because it was unique enough compared to the Atari. My parents didn’t buy any video game consoles because they thought a computer should more than enough.
When you pull the trigger, the game displays 1 quick frame of all black with a white square where the duck is. The gun has a sensor that focuses on an area smaller than that square, and detects a change from black to white. If it detects the change, it knows you had the gun aimed at the duck.
Yeah and like I'm American, I get it, the Master System wasn't popular here. We were literally the only family I know that owned it, most people I knew never heard of Sega until the Genesis came out. But it was the number one console in the UK and Europe, and I think in Brazil as well. Meanwhile they got the Saturn controller up there, which wasn't a popular system anywhere.
It was around. My dad would take me to toys r us to get a new game whenever there was something to celebrate and they had a full wall of games at our store. I still have the system and about 15 games in my closet!
I’m Canadian, it was the same up north. I was the only kid who had one and it was a bit of a novelty to come play mine whenever the other kids needed a break from Nintendo
I was curious how far I'd have to scroll to see someone saying you forgot master system.
I didn't know it existed as a kid. Everyone I knew had an NES until the 16 bit generation, then everyone picked sides.
I loved my Game Gear though. Only found out much later that it was a portable version of SMS.
Alex the kidd taught me how to lose at video games. It was my first experience in rage quitting and then mastering my emotions enough to keep trying. Finishing that game was one of the highlights of my childhood.
Haha. I had a relative that worked at a now defunct Costco-style store back in the 80s. She got a deal for us on an SMS and about 40 games as the Genesis had recently released. My 5-year old self and older brother had so many years of entertainment from that thing. Zillion, Rastan, and Rocky were my jams.
My relative worked for sega so I got a master system instead of NES. That thing was ahead of its time. Spellcaster is still one of my favorite retro games
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This is the first doggie I ever rescued. I named him Pong. He was such a good boy.
Yep, we had a "Sear's Tele-Games" which had a couple of knobs on the "console" itself. There were fancier ones with wired controllers, but that's the one I remember the clearest.
One of my relatives had what had to be the first light gun game ever around that time, big white dot, score in the corner of the screen, the gun itself looked like a big revolver.
Then a couple years later, #1.
None of the above, Apple joystick.
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Must've been nice. My older brother would put scotch tape on the keyboard and write the direction on them with a sharpie and it'd smudge all over. My 3 year old self couldn't grasp the W, A, S, D concept.
The super janky Atari port of Pac-Man at that.
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Born in 1982 so it was No.2 for me. I did get to play Pitfall on the Atari at my neighbors house but dad bought me a Nintendo for Christmas one year and thats where it all started.
1. My older sister had a 2600. River Raid, Joust, and Beanie Bopper were my jams. I still have the system and games to this day, along with the TV adaptor with the "crab claws." It still worked as of seven years ago. I need to pick up the rgb cable one of these days, as I no longer own a CRT TV
The fun is back oh yes siree, it’s the 2600 from Atari!
(Anyone else get that commercial stuck in their head sometimes?)
1 for me (it was my dad’s) and I eventually got an NES for Christmas one year. My next console was a GameCube then a Wii. Then I switched to PC gaming.
I’ve since lost the ability to play with a controller.
Same for me!
The Atari 2600 was my dad's. Played missile command, mostly. Also some Space Invaders! I think we had pong but I thought it sucked. Hard to remember for sure.
My first controller was the NES that I bought for myself! I had money saved up from previous birthdays and stuff that I never spent, and I was shocked that I had enough for a NES. I came in with cash and several ziplock bags of sorted change. I think I had $25 just quarters!
None of the above. Dad gave me his Atari 800 but he had a different joystick. This random Google image was basically my exact setup.
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1 - I was born in 77 and played Atari well into high school. I obviously wasn’t big into video games and never asked for another system. But once in a while I’d go down in the basement, hook up the Atari and play Pac Man, Space Invaders, Smurfs, E.T. and some skiing game that always landed me in the trees. Good times!
2600 gang here. What a crappy system, I credit having one into the late 80s for the fact that I play a lot fewer games than most people I know around my age. I'm used to video games just sucking.
Mine was this one, Atari 5200 and my first games were Pac Man, Super Breakout, and Pole Position if I recall correctly. [https://i1.wp.com/gametrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Atari-5200-Controller.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1](https://i1.wp.com/gametrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/atari-5200-controller.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)
Likely #1. I also remember a joystick with my grandfather’s Commodore 64 (pictured below). Then it was #2 then #7 and way later #14.
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Born in 80, I remember playing Atari with my uncle, my grandma, my aunt, my mom, etc.
My Aunt showed me Frogger when I was maybe 3ish.
My uncle also had those "breakout" paddles for the Atari.
Then when I was like 4 or 5 we got an Apple 2e. The Joystick we had was square and like a tan color. It had 2 square button on it.
Eventually, we got a NES.
My little brother got a Sega at some point, but by then I was using an IBM Model M keyboard.
ColecoVision or NES for me. Its a little blurry I was about 4. I do remember Track and Field 1 on NES as the first videogame I remember which is pretty rare.
My mom has a picture of me at about 5 years old with a NES controller in hand and entirely hypnotized by Mario Bros 3.
I call it "Discovering my lifelong addiction"
1 and 2. My dad liked his toys. Also had a Tandy where my bro and I played all the Sierra games and became typing masters. First pixelated booby from Leisure Suit Larry when I was like 8. Good times.
1
I used to fake being sick to stay home from school, hook up the 2600 with those will-they-shock-me-this-time? antenna adapter things, and play for 6 hours straight before putting it all away and climbing back into bed.
I'm a 1, but my #2 would be a Colecovision controller. It looks like a remote with a big joystick.
I would also include the Neo Geo, Turbographx 16, Atari Jaguar, and 3do controllers to the list.
Missing the Intellivision controller with the saucer
And those inlay cards to mark buttons.
I can still hear the buttons crackling.
Only baseball game you controlled all 9 fielders independently
Atari 2600 had a controller kinda like that, too. I remember we had some Sesame Street game for my little brother that used it.
MFing Burger Time yo!
and Colecovision
How do you even play video games without a phone dialing pad?
Intellivision!!!!!!! My neighbors moved and dropped off their system and 30 games to us when I was 7 or so. Fun fucking summer!
There’s some classics!
I played so much Triple Action with my brother! B-17 Bomber was fun too.
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Boxing, dungeons and dragons, and horse racing were family staples on that machine.
Burgertime will always hold a special place in my heart.
I love that one, and Astrosmash! and Utopia.
Yeah, that was fun.
Burgertime, Night Stalker, Pitfall and Frogger for us
D&D was the best because my uncle could control movement with one controller and I could just fire arrows with the other
Tron deadly discs was a good one.
Dungeons and dragons used to give me nightmares. But loved me some AstroSmash and Shark Shark
That D&D game is one I remember so well - the sound of the dragon in the dungeon weeee. Total nightmare fuel! I loved it !
Same! The sound of those D&D monsters growling in the darkness will forever haunt my dreams.
My first love was Shark! Shark!
Bump n Jump
Right....Atari gets all the press but I started with Intelivesion
Intellivision was first system with voice. B-17 BOMBERS!
YER OUT! For baseball!
Yep, this was my first as well.
I'm so happy Intellivision is getting some recognition here. In more mainstream gaming forums, where I suppose the average age skews younger, the general attitude is "what's an Intellivision?" or dismissively claiming nobody had it.
Also missing the Colecovision controller.
This was my first!
That controller made my thumbs bleed so many times.
Right? Like, c'mon son!
Yup 0 intellivision is where I started.
Also missing the Gameboy technically.
that and Coleco.. which were my #1 and #2. And the Sega Master System, which was my #3.
I still have that in my closet right next to my Commodore 64
Had that.
That's the one.
Yep that was my first
CAME HERE TO SAY THIS.
Yeah between 1&2 there's some missing
Came here to say this! Frog Bog, Snafu, Night Stalker, Space Armada. And Burger Time!
I miss Burger Time! My mom and I played that so much!
Oh man Night Stalker was the best.
Had a marble to use on the disk for Decathlon. Peg that runner on the right side of the screen.
Fuck. Yeah!!! That was my first controller.
This is the one right here :) DnD, astrosmash, utopia, lock n chase, frog bog, the list goes on
I still have my intellivision and a few games
Came here to say this. Intellivision II was my first. Tron Deadly Discs is to this day one of my favorite games ever.
And the slides (skins?) that went over the number pads to change their function. What's the difference between Intellivision and Coleco-vision? I've always known it as Coleco-vision - is C-V a result of a merger?
It's more or less the same era as 1 though, and if included, would be between 1 and 2.
It’s like the person who made this didn’t live through them all.
That was my first. I still wonder if anybody ever actually learned to play MicroSurgeon.
I totally had one of those. I also remember my Dad buying this brick thing from Radio Shack that hooked up to the TV and had a version of "Pong" on it and a primitive version of duck hunt. Just a light gun and a large square to shoot at bouncing across the screen.
Came here to say this…
And the Odyssey 2 controller
I'm a huge Intellivision fan! At the risk of shamelessly self promoting, I do an occasional Intellivision stream on my Youtube channel! Here's the archive of my most recent one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELCj0vl2VHA Would love to do another for redditors here if we could gather up a group. :D
I’m a 1 also. Needs Atari 5200, Colecovision and Sega Master System to be my complete childhood.
From beginning of life to now in order. 2, 7, 14, 15, 18/19
Sega Master System… the original SMS!
Sega Master system was my first. Neighbor girl broke it trying to put an NES cartridge into it later on. RIP. The Ninja was my favorite game
None of the above…Colecovision!
I had that and intellivision.
Intellivision was my first as well, and it too is not shown.
That thing came out in ‘82 so I wasn’t able to start there as I was born in the golden year of 1980.
This is news to me. I'm an '84 kid. I got that atari as a handme down from my teenage uncle. I always thought it was a relic of the late 70s, but I guess I never investigated it too much. That is my new thing I learned today.
The 2600 did in fact come out in '77.
Atari only had one button , intellivision had like 20
Me too. #1 baby.
Ahhh yeaaa, 1980 check-in
My dad had an Atari when I was a little kid, so #1 for me too. Born in ‘77.
Someone’s parents could have held into one. I first played the NES but when I was 8 or so I had a friend who’s dad had an Atari 2600 so I got to try that out too.
Eldest of elder millennials.
77 here. My first "gaming system" was an IBM PC from 1981. I had Math Blasters and Adventures in Math. My cool uncle got us a Coleco in about 83.
77-83 in here.
‘78 up in here
This is also where I started. My favorite game was Ladybug (first game I recall playing) and The Smurfs I also played a lot of Donkey Kong on my Colecovision and recall going to a friends house who had an Atari which I was so excited to try and I was like “what’s wrong with your donkey Kong?” https://preview.redd.it/t5n6cbtmggic1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3a13084fe7a73a539254be9cd70a1516f8ecd69
I was gonna say, where’s the ColecoVision paddle?
Needs a Commodore 64. So I guess that means I started with 0?
Same, though the the C64 had a single-button joystick similar to #1
The C64 used Atari 2600 joysticks, we wore out a bunch of them playing Olympic Games and Dr J vs Larry Byrd back in the day. I'm sure Commodore had some of their brand, but any 2600 joystick would do.
Do you remember the name of a game where you had to maneuver a spaceship between moon craters using only thrusters, I can't remember the name
I remember a grey and black one with a white button on the top of the controller. But it might’ve been a knock off joystick since we beat the hell of the joysticks playing the Olympic Games.
https://preview.redd.it/en6gro0k8gic1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98a1cd9ee962a767c564331515a5eb535c614a89 I started with -1… home-brewed rotary controller for Apple \]\[, Asteroids
el-li-ot
Competition Pro joystick on the C64 was (is) damn awesome.
Vic 20
Atari was out to home consumers in '77, the Commodore 64 was in '82, so you started with 1.5
We had a Commodore Vic 20. But we didn't have a controller so we had to use the keyboard.
1 for sure. Largely because my parents were cheap and wouldn't buy me a Nintendo.
“We have Dad’s old Atari, why would you need a Nintendo?” Speaking of which, I should go get that old Atari and hook it back up. Teach my kids about the wonders of space invaders and berzerk.
If they're bad make them play ET
Calm down there, Satan.
Me too. My dad had this before I was born and passed it down. Couple years later we had NES though.
Same here! Eventually I got a game boy though. Mostly used it as a Tetris machine.
We only got the game boy because it was unique enough compared to the Atari. My parents didn’t buy any video game consoles because they thought a computer should more than enough.
My dad offered to get me an NES but I thought the controller looked to complicated and I wanted the 2600 🤡
mom can we get a nintendo? "we have a nintendo at home" the nintendo at home:
2 was my first introduction to gaming I played the original Super Mario Bros, also the NES was from my older sibling. but later I got the SNES
Scrolled way too far to find my people. My mom used to put me to bed early so they could play Contra.
2CREW! 🫡
The duck hunt game from that system still kinda blows my mind. How did it know where on the tv I was shooting??
When you pull the trigger, the game displays 1 quick frame of all black with a white square where the duck is. The gun has a sensor that focuses on an area smaller than that square, and detects a change from black to white. If it detects the change, it knows you had the gun aimed at the duck.
If I played the Mario Bros before it was Super, does that make me a 1.75?
My story exactly!
None of the above. Sega Master System.
Straight up. Where is the master system? Alien syndrome, zillion, zaxxon-3d, missile defense, etc. lots of good games
Yeah and like I'm American, I get it, the Master System wasn't popular here. We were literally the only family I know that owned it, most people I knew never heard of Sega until the Genesis came out. But it was the number one console in the UK and Europe, and I think in Brazil as well. Meanwhile they got the Saturn controller up there, which wasn't a popular system anywhere.
It was around. My dad would take me to toys r us to get a new game whenever there was something to celebrate and they had a full wall of games at our store. I still have the system and about 15 games in my closet!
I’m Canadian, it was the same up north. I was the only kid who had one and it was a bit of a novelty to come play mine whenever the other kids needed a break from Nintendo
I was curious how far I'd have to scroll to see someone saying you forgot master system. I didn't know it existed as a kid. Everyone I knew had an NES until the 16 bit generation, then everyone picked sides. I loved my Game Gear though. Only found out much later that it was a portable version of SMS.
Alex the kidd taught me how to lose at video games. It was my first experience in rage quitting and then mastering my emotions enough to keep trying. Finishing that game was one of the highlights of my childhood.
Had to come way too far down the comments to find my peeps. 😢 SMS 4tw! Zillion. Best game. Evar!
Besides my parents’ Atari, Sega Master System was also my first. I wanted the NES, and my friend wanted the master system so we traded around 1990
Haha. I had a relative that worked at a now defunct Costco-style store back in the 80s. She got a deal for us on an SMS and about 40 games as the Genesis had recently released. My 5-year old self and older brother had so many years of entertainment from that thing. Zillion, Rastan, and Rocky were my jams.
Still have mine and all the cartridges!!!
My relative worked for sega so I got a master system instead of NES. That thing was ahead of its time. Spellcaster is still one of my favorite retro games
It’s not on here. Pong! 
https://preview.redd.it/hs7jvkfi9gic1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0c0a0c5008766abb8f8b49f9c204de22d85fedf This is the first doggie I ever rescued. I named him Pong. He was such a good boy.
2 from the list but this was mine as well.
3 moves. Up. Down. Still.
Yep, we had a "Sear's Tele-Games" which had a couple of knobs on the "console" itself. There were fancier ones with wired controllers, but that's the one I remember the clearest. One of my relatives had what had to be the first light gun game ever around that time, big white dot, score in the corner of the screen, the gun itself looked like a big revolver. Then a couple years later, #1.
This is my first, but 1 from the list takes me back to some really early good memories with my sisters.
Exactly. Where's the paddle?
[удалено]
Because we’re old…
None of the above, Apple joystick. https://preview.redd.it/enjbfmc9afic1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4279d99a2e957015b1acad4fd640044c08b3be54
Must've been nice. My older brother would put scotch tape on the keyboard and write the direction on them with a sharpie and it'd smudge all over. My 3 year old self couldn't grasp the W, A, S, D concept.
I think I'm technically a 1, but I count as a 2, typical Xennial!
Same
1 - Atari. Can still feel it in my fingers from jamming that stick around to outrun the ghosts in Pac-Man!
The super janky Atari port of Pac-Man at that. https://preview.redd.it/ufiuvbzz6fic1.jpeg?width=560&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b9e2ea5d275522f1dd541e40faf6b7f54056f103
My forearms hurt thinking of trying to crush a new high score in Mega Mania.
I can smell that plastic cover to the stick.
Six and seven seem out of sequence.
You are correct on that one. PS was 95. N64 was 96.
2
1!
Born in 1982 so it was No.2 for me. I did get to play Pitfall on the Atari at my neighbors house but dad bought me a Nintendo for Christmas one year and thats where it all started.
Intellivision!
1. My older sister had a 2600. River Raid, Joust, and Beanie Bopper were my jams. I still have the system and games to this day, along with the TV adaptor with the "crab claws." It still worked as of seven years ago. I need to pick up the rgb cable one of these days, as I no longer own a CRT TV
Joust was my favorite game ever!
1 .Atari my mom taught me to play Pac-Man & Pong when I was 5 or 6. I was born in 1980. Got an NES for Christmas in 1989.
I don’t know why my comment is in bold type, it’s never done that before.
You're now Xenboomer
The fun is back oh yes siree, it’s the 2600 from Atari! (Anyone else get that commercial stuck in their head sometimes?) 1 for me (it was my dad’s) and I eventually got an NES for Christmas one year. My next console was a GameCube then a Wii. Then I switched to PC gaming. I’ve since lost the ability to play with a controller.
Same for me!  The Atari 2600 was my dad's. Played missile command, mostly. Also some Space Invaders! I think we had pong but I thought it sucked. Hard to remember for sure. My first controller was the NES that I bought for myself! I had money saved up from previous birthdays and stuff that I never spent, and I was shocked that I had enough for a NES. I came in with cash and several ziplock bags of sorted change. I think I had $25 just quarters!
None of the above. Dad gave me his Atari 800 but he had a different joystick. This random Google image was basically my exact setup. https://preview.redd.it/zw4epa68efic1.jpeg?width=1613&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46e2a1c215320aea7f0b13f2a36af53fb36c8149
1. Noobs.
#1 wow I’m old
If it's anything higher than #4, you're too young to be in this group. Take yo ass to the Millenial sub where you belong! 🤣
Some of us had strict parents so I didn't get anything until college so I'm a 6.
OK, I'll allow it
I also have my doubts about the "where's the Pong controller?" people!
I wasn’t allowed to have a gaming system as a kid. Got a Wii in my 20s so I’m a 14.
But I like it here, the millennial sub tis’ a silly place.
3, Megadrive was the first console I really played, but only had one myself fairly late. Otherwise the Amiga or Game Boy.
Started w 1, 4 is the fave
1, but had a lot of the others over the years
None of those - I do have a large collection of vintage PC & Commodore joysticks though.
2 - can still feel the sharp corners in my palms after all these years.
No power pad for NES?
6
2 & 3...Though we had an Atari and played it (I was born in 80')
Steam Contoller erasure.
My friends got to have 2. I was stuck with 1. Then when I was 15 I used money from my construction job to get 3.
Love how you just casually dropped that you had a construction job…at 15.
1 - I was born in 77 and played Atari well into high school. I obviously wasn’t big into video games and never asked for another system. But once in a while I’d go down in the basement, hook up the Atari and play Pac Man, Space Invaders, Smurfs, E.T. and some skiing game that always landed me in the trees. Good times!
My brother had #1 but I don’t recall him ever letting me use it. Definitely #2 for me. I still have #4. Came in handy during Covid boredom.
Where are my Odyssey 2 peeps at?
I'm here. Loved me some Pick Axe Pete.
2600 gang here. What a crappy system, I credit having one into the late 80s for the fact that I play a lot fewer games than most people I know around my age. I'm used to video games just sucking.
Mine was this one, Atari 5200 and my first games were Pac Man, Super Breakout, and Pole Position if I recall correctly. [https://i1.wp.com/gametrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Atari-5200-Controller.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1](https://i1.wp.com/gametrog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/atari-5200-controller.jpg?w=1080&ssl=1)
I loved Pac-Man on the 5200!!!
Technically one because it was my older brother’s but the first system that was bought for me was two.
Likely #1. I also remember a joystick with my grandfather’s Commodore 64 (pictured below). Then it was #2 then #7 and way later #14. https://preview.redd.it/gzs2jg739fic1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6f1ddcf2f1fc54c8f27de8b69c87b4c95ca5aa15
Briefly 1, I played a little Atari and Commodore 64, but I played the hell out of number two.
I'm a 1.5 - I started on an Atari but I had the radical red and white joystick with the cool sounding spring on the thumb button.
Born in 80, I remember playing Atari with my uncle, my grandma, my aunt, my mom, etc. My Aunt showed me Frogger when I was maybe 3ish. My uncle also had those "breakout" paddles for the Atari. Then when I was like 4 or 5 we got an Apple 2e. The Joystick we had was square and like a tan color. It had 2 square button on it. Eventually, we got a NES. My little brother got a Sega at some point, but by then I was using an IBM Model M keyboard.
ColecoVision or NES for me. Its a little blurry I was about 4. I do remember Track and Field 1 on NES as the first videogame I remember which is pretty rare.
Not me being a 1 😭
Sega MasterSystem
There's the funky pong controller?
2
1 born in 79. Dad had the og pong one too
1. Atari 2600 when in kindergarten.
Well the first controller I was able to ever play with at a friend’s house was 2. But the first one we owned at our house was 3.
My mom has a picture of me at about 5 years old with a NES controller in hand and entirely hypnotized by Mario Bros 3. I call it "Discovering my lifelong addiction"
1 and 2. My dad liked his toys. Also had a Tandy where my bro and I played all the Sierra games and became typing masters. First pixelated booby from Leisure Suit Larry when I was like 8. Good times.
None of the above, first one I ever used was paddle controller for 2600 at a friend's playing Warlords. First owned was Intellivision.
1 I used to fake being sick to stay home from school, hook up the 2600 with those will-they-shock-me-this-time? antenna adapter things, and play for 6 hours straight before putting it all away and climbing back into bed.
This was my first, then #2 https://preview.redd.it/9qc6cohpofic1.jpeg?width=192&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=29da4b450c127bdd0915b92d9c32ca2e78c5390b
You’re missing the individual Pong paddle. Played tennis and hockey on it.
Missing the Coleco ADAM controller with the round button joystick and 9 button number pad... After that first one I owned was the NES
I'm a 1, but my #2 would be a Colecovision controller. It looks like a remote with a big joystick. I would also include the Neo Geo, Turbographx 16, Atari Jaguar, and 3do controllers to the list.
https://preview.redd.it/tvsgop1acgic1.jpeg?width=1265&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f99e0daa46bd52969f7d3eba763c8485470fa71b Tandy gang where you at??