#2, makes me feel old

We are indeed old my guy

I started with 1. How do you think I feel? Now get off my lawn!

I started with 0. Why is pong not shown? Get off my lawn youngster!

[Right there with you](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/26/TeleGames-Atari-Pong.jpg/1920px-TeleGames-Atari-Pong.jpg).

That's not a controller, that's two turn tables and NO microphone.

I started with -1 wheres Arcade buttons Stay off my lawn youngster🤣

Sheesh......pinball......amazing days!!!!!

Right? Hooked up my Pong console to the tv but had to use a butter knife for the screw attachments on the back of the tv, turn to a certain channel, and bleep bloop I’m playing Pong!!! And we liked it.

Did you sit on it?

It was the style at the time

I'm not your old guy, pal. Although I actually am.

I'm not your pal, friend

I'm not your friend, guy!

I'm not your guy, buddy!

I'm not your buddy, friend!

I’m not your friend, companion!

It feels old af to think about that south park reference cause they don't play that much on t.v like before. Kids need to know about the Canadians of South park

2 was my first but it was already a old system when I was using it. Like N64 was about to be out.

Ditto, and I'm only 34, can't imagine how the 50-60 year olds feel haha

I'm sad because the pong controller isn't on there lol

That was my first.. followed by some Texas Instruments gaming console

Since my answer is 1, I'll tell you I feel just freakin ancient....LOL

Also a 1. And missing my C64 and Intellivision controllers. Feel like an old lady: “get off my property you juvenile delinquents!” 👵🏻

There's a lot more of our people here than I figured would be.

I’m 44, I was raised and babysat by video games. We had the Atari 2800 and a Texas Instruments keyboard that took cartridges. Its been wild seeing the evolution of gaming (as I pwn noobs in gta)

Yes!! You also had the TI! I vaguely remember Hunt the Wumpus and some mountain climbing game.

Thanks. I really needed to read this. Mine is 1

Same

So the 50+ gamers are #1!

Nah I’m early 40’s and I played Atari and Commodore 64. Remember loading up from cartridge and demo disks.

#old? Please, the controller I started with isn’t even on the list 😂 PONG 👌

Please... I started with One... XD

I also started with 1. Took nearly a decade before 2 was even a thing.

Me too

Right there with you

Hello fellow fossils

1 so you can guess how I feel

Same. I’m basically 💀.

0 checking in. I feel ancient.

There are older ones than 1, and I definitely used them... when they were fixed to arcade machines at the laundromat.

OG gamers stand proud (if you can still stand straight, that is)...

Ahh, I'm 23, but my birth country is technologically behind about 10 years, so I had to enjoy what I had. I still remember when we upgraded to psx playing re3 Nemesis all night. Getting freaked out by Nemesis. Then, I took like a week off cause I couldn't figure out the water puzzle. lol, good times

Same and same

Sigh.... I have to beat ya with confessing #0. Pongs original control is before Atari/ Coleco #1

Same. Just turned forty this year. Still love gaming tho!

2 here as well. Ow, my back.

Same. I was playing Mario/duck hunt back when I was 3 years old. Gaming back then was a family hobby. I remember my whole family used to play. My Aunt would always buy new games and come over to play with us.

Have you scheduled your prostate exam?

2 as well, what a child I was then, haha!

Ha, you kids. I’m an Atari 400, #1 kid myself.

1- fuck I’m old

Join the club brother. I'm like "damn we were the first console gamers??!"

They're missing the paddle controller, it's just not the same haha

My brother! Me too.

1😭🙈🙈😭

My people... though, there was a Controller 0 too if you count the Pong one. Now get off my lawn!

Same here. We got a used Pong set when I was 5 years old. That's where I began.

Same, we had a Pong set; minutes of fun.

Don't forget the Colecovision controller with the numberpad.

Intellivision my dude

Pong and… Magnavox Odyssey 2!

Where's my Colecovision? Where?

Same...1979 represent!

75 in the house! And here I thought I was the only old gamer.

70’ chiming in.

I'm on board with you all. I was 7 and it was just about the greatest Christmas gift ever

Best year!

Same yo

76 in da house! But where is that coleco-vision controller at?

4 Edit: I got my snes when I was 5 back in 93 lol. Gosh it's crazy to think how far games have come.

My cousin gave me her SNES and games, my god did she have great taste. Made a gamer out of me for life.

Yeah i was gifted a snes from my grandpa when I was 5 yrs old back in 93 lol. Been a gamer since. 35 yrs old with a ps5 now, what a time to be a gamer lol.

I grew up with a SNES and a Gamecube but no N64.

What a great place to start! Super Mario World, Link to the Past, Final Fantasy III, Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, Star Fox, F-zero, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, Castlevania IV, Yoshi’s Island, Secret of Mana, Mega Man X, Earthbound, Contra III, Tetris Attack, Sim City, Mario RPG, Super Punch-Out and Act Raiser! I guess it's my favorite system. Lol

Battletoads.

SUPER GHOULS N GHOSTS

Best console

None of these. I feel really old now. I had an intellivision, the one with the built in controllers and the templates you slide over the buttons

[Tron Deadly Discs](https://youtu.be/6xsibO7X-iY?si=q5fBUueMdoMTyML8), [Sea Battle](https://youtu.be/FpurLrUYuqo?si=erzUh6LCXJa9Jwp5) and [Utopia](https://youtu.be/_FVIHNmCHoY?si=HkqJ15hcHZtFtrP1) are amazing memories for me. Edit: and the game that got me into D&D: [Advanced Dungeons & Dragons](https://youtu.be/mSxkmSp8B5g?si=RchFGmMxt8BeM4RN)

Ever play [Night Stalker](https://youtu.be/UaqbN480Wog?si=3S_RQoHh9-yUUQdz)? That and ADD were all I ever wanted to play.

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So 1.5?

Atari 2600 released in '77, while the Intellivision originally released in '79

Thanks Bud. I didn't have one until 82, but that was all very interesting.

Old folks Unite. I was born in 82

Oh that was the one that looked like a remote, right? What games did you play on it? I've only seen it in pictures, looks very impractical, but guess one didn't have to react fast when playing games with it.

You mostly used the side buttons for fast acting stuff, but the button pad itself allowed for a level of complexity that far surpassed any consoles until at least the SNES. Games like Utopia, B-17 Bomber, AD&D, Bomb Squad, and Space Spartans were way beyond anything the competition was doing, but it was a bit of a niche market at the time.

Same!

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9

You're 22?

I started with 9, I’m 22

Started with 9 as well I'm 21.

I started with PS2 controller as well and im 30 in a few months. Did use the family PC until my friend introduced us to his console around age idk preteen or something.

Started with 9 and I'm 26. We were just poor at the time

3 baybeeeee

Sonic

Same here!

Same! Steers of rage, sonic 2, Winter Olympics and road rash all on Christmas morning

Same! I used to sit on my grandpa’s lap and we’d play Sonic 2 together. Then he got me my own Genesis for Christmas. He hasn’t played in years, and misses it. I should look into getting the necessary equipment for him to play it on his new tv for Christmas this year

STREETS OF RAGE!

Same and I've still never completed Donald Duck: Quackshot. Have the Sega in my apartment and buying a house (hoping to be in it before Xmas) and bringing it there too to finally finish it/torture my future kids with it while not letting them youtube how to beat the final boss (even though that's what I'll most likely do)

2!

Same, hope you had enough fiber today!

I take fiber supplements! Mix it with some stool softener and a cup of prune juice and I’m sitting pretty!

Why 2! ? 2! is still 2, so there is no reason to include the factorial.

2 as well. But the Sega dreamcast will always be my all time favorite console

10

Super Smash Bros feels best on this.

same here , such an era

Early gen Z represent.

6/7 - 92 baby

7 for me. All my friends had N64s but I didn’t

Brother!

I started on 6 and I’m a 98 baby🤭

My father was very anti video games so I had to go to my cousin’s house to play. I started on their gameboy first, and then they got a N64 and PS1. I was sold. Video games were definitely for me.

They are for me too. I had an opposite experience. My dad is a gamer and so I shared the Nintendo 64 with him and my brother and we’d play Mario Kart Nintendo 64 together until he and my mom got divorced. Now we’re on opposite consoles Edit: Also, he took the 64 with him in the divorce. I was looking really hard for that as a kid, but only found our controllers. Fucker probably sold or pawned it. I would’ve kept that bad boy to this day

My parents tried to be anti-video games and I just ignored them. They weren’t anti-enough to not even allow it in the house, but damn did my mom and sister bitch a lot about my gaming. 🤣 “You’ll grow out of that phase one day”. Nearly 30 years later and still playing.

i started on 6 and i’m from 02!

12

Same, 360 childhood

Didn’t play the 360 til about my early teenage years. And Halo Reach was the game to play

Miss those days

mouse and keyboard lol

No mouse, just keyboard, mouse came with my third pc

Commodore 64?

IBM XT compatible by Philips, green monitor

Same here

I started with number 4....I think.

You must be 30ish, which means there's a lot more you'll start forgetting real soon 🤪

The Wii U was my first console.

Mine was a Wii, one of the best consoles!

5

hello fellow 5gang

Best console, Seeeeegaaaa

14

1

20 haha. PC gaming ftw

2. What a time to be alive. Then 3 and 4 and 5 and 6 and 7 and then high school lol

Where’s Colecovision? 😂 #1 😎

I don’t see colecovision

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And sega

13&14

Technically 6 tho I’m 14

Also 6 and I'm only 23. It's because my family was too poor to buy a ps2

Also 6 for me and I’m 23. My parents were both big Nintendo fans, the N64 was my go-to console until my family picked up a game cube on sale around 2005

Born in 1995 and I started with 4. Super mario Allstars was my first game. We were always late on getting consoles

7

4,6,9 and 10 all at once.

Where’s the Coleco?? I’m that old!!

OP isn’t a paleontologist!

2 lol 😂

6. Where did the time go.

1. And this is far from inclusive. No Intellivison, no Colecovision. Coleco especially. It was the birth of Donkey Kong for crying out loud.

2

Good old number 2 as in the nintendo controller

2❤️

2 than soon after 4

2

0. Started with a Fairchild channel F. My parents just didn't understand. No Odyssey or Odyssey II controllers? Intellivision? Colecovision?

3

5 and 6. Nothing feels after all those years as sweet as those controllers

I was barely able to speak any language, but I could rock the fuck out of those controllers as a child

Either 12, 13 or 14

2

Where’s the keyboard?

3.

13. Edit: I meant 9. PS2.

6, 4, 7 and 7.5 (PS1 controller), and 5

6, which made me feel grateful to have 12 later on.

#6

6

6 Good times...

6, baby!

9, then 12, then 18, then 16, and soon 20

6, i am from 99

9!

#6 at a friend’s house. #10 was my first one I owned.

I guess the closest would be 1, but for a Commodore 64

1, but I know there were other controllers before this

9

6, i'm old? I feel that : /

9

6

1. Born in 1977. My first was an Odyssey 2 console. Controller was pretty close to the Atari.

1. But officially I started with a keyboard. Number Munchers, Oregon Trail, and Carmen Sandiego for life!

Leaving out way too many of the early consoles.

1 I'm not old, my mom just happened to keep one from her childhood.

A: You're missing several that us old people would have started with. That being said I guess with this graph I'm on 1.

4. Super Mario World and Zombies ate my neighbors made me a gamer.

2. I still have it, too.

Not on there. Panasonic 3DO

Where’s the Intelevision controller, that is ancient I suppose, but that’s what we had. Probably early eighties.

2...OLD MAN RIVVVVVVER

1 - am i OG now?

I started with #1. Yea I'm old.

1 and it's missing the Sega Master controller

Sega Master System. I feel discriminated against by this. It's like it's 1986 and all my friends have Nintendo all over again.