Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic writes:

On 06/02/2017 02:12 PM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic wrote: >> My dad bought us kids the original Atari 2600, my first game console. I >> preferred the planes over the tanks. Gen-X all the way. It is customary >> to reply to a thread such as this. > > Original Pong was my first "console" in the mid 70s followed by Atari 2600 and intellivision (5 kids in the family so one console didn't cut it!) > Apple II in 1978 and it was more Apple II gaming than anything till the early 80s when highschool and girls took precedence! > > BBS/AE line took over the Apple II for years so it was mostly consoles for gaming and still is to this day.

My first game console was an Atari 2600. I bought it in 2013. I haven't powered it up yet.

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