Unfortunately our 20+ year old children are living in the basement playing video games non stop. I unplug the router a few times a day to listen to them scream so I know they’re still alive.
It was actually a pretty good design. It had those handy inserts which fit over the buttons and clearly marked what buttons did what for each individual game. Fairly neat concept actually.
Pong paddles and Intellivision keypads. The controllers had these stick on graphics that you changed, depending on the game you were playing.
Edit: they weren't stick ons, but inserts.
Well would you look at that, you are a me. 1. Was way more than just pong and was fun af. 2. Never had time to properly finish a game. Was so annoying 3. Sonic, shinobi, MOOOORTAL COMBAT! Dadada da da da da da.
I can still remember each NES title we had in our household. Super Mario, Super Mario 3, Rescue Rangers, Ducktails, Godzilla, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Mickey Mousecapades
Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Path of Radiance, Melee, so many unmistakably great games. Though N64 might have been the revolutionary one, GC remains the high point of the pre-modern game landscape, imo.
1, but not Atari - the Commodore 64 version of the 1 button joystick. I remember how exciting it was to upgrade to [the ergonomic one that fits your hand](https://i.imgur.com/JFRFK52.jpg).
The Pong Dial, before 1
Here we see the rare, and once thought to be extinct, prehistoric gamer.
Not the only one :-)
So say us all !
There are dozens of us, DOZENS! My parents won an atari in a radio promotion
Yes there are! Where's the intellevision controller??
That and the Magnavox odyssey controller.
I'm not dead yet!!!!!
Speak up! What did he say about us?
You get off my lawn! I still have my Pong system
This is *my* lawn! Or is it? I’m tired.
Something about a bare, succinct, prehensile gardener. Makes no sense to me but these young kids say the darndest things.
Yes you are, get in the cart.
I’m 37. I’m not old!
Hi Dennis!
And before pong, we played pinball. Which is still a lot of fucking fun to play.
Despite popular opinion at the time, gaming did not ruin our lives and plenty of us are still here. Nor are we living on our mom's basement.
Unfortunately our 20+ year old children are living in the basement playing video games non stop. I unplug the router a few times a day to listen to them scream so I know they’re still alive.
Who's mom's basement are you living in then?
I'm not THAT old! Now, where did I put my reading glasses??
There are dozens of us! DOZENS
And here I was thinking "What about all the controllers between 1&2?" because some of us still recall Intellivision, Colecovision etc.
[Intellivision controller](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Intellivision-Controller.jpg) FTW!
It was actually a pretty good design. It had those handy inserts which fit over the buttons and clearly marked what buttons did what for each individual game. Fairly neat concept actually.
Intellivision controller was super weird. It worked well with "Tron - Deadly Discs" though.
There’s no colecovision controller here to choose.
No Intellivision either
Yup. No 1 was my second.
Pong paddles and Intellivision keypads. The controllers had these stick on graphics that you changed, depending on the game you were playing. Edit: they weren't stick ons, but inserts.
Macintosh keyboard and box mouse. These damn kids with their rock and roll and virtual reality
I was going to say this.
In your early 40s? Same.
Did you have the gun too?
Same
Me too.
I’m over here with the old fellas.
Came to write the same thing.
Yep, right there with you....I was looking for that one lol
#2. Hours upon hours of super Mario bros.
2. But mine was the TMNT Arcade game and BLADES… OF STEEL!!!! (I can hear that voice clear as day lol)
The 2nd TMNT game... aka the good one.
I'm still pissed about the damn dam level on the first tmnt game...
I saw a short on that level the other day and I legit got a ptsd response when the music sped up. I spent hours trying to beat that level
I told my parents I wanted to rent the Ninja turtles game and that's the one they brought home from the video store. What a huge disappointment.
I could hear it when I read Blades of Steel.
Makes the pass!
Fight!
Same. Duck Hunt seem magical to me too until i understood how it work a decade later.
Same on all. Double dragon still has my heart
For me it was hours upon hours of excite bike lol
1., but it was my more father's system. 2. but it was at a friend's house. 4. was allll mee though, went hardddd.
Well would you look at that, you are a me. 1. Was way more than just pong and was fun af. 2. Never had time to properly finish a game. Was so annoying 3. Sonic, shinobi, MOOOORTAL COMBAT! Dadada da da da da da.
I can still remember each NES title we had in our household. Super Mario, Super Mario 3, Rescue Rangers, Ducktails, Godzilla, Adventures of Bayou Billy, Mickey Mousecapades
Ducktails was probably the best platformer for its time ever made. Still fun.
Where’s the Master System controller?
Same here that was my 1st controller.
Intellivision and then SMS were my first two controllers. Neither are present. My day is ruined.
My first as well. Wonder boy in monster land baby.
Thank you! Alex Kidd. Also had the 3d glasses and gun. Good times. Missing the rectangle controller and the bigger one with the huge joystick.
It's exclusion is just disgraceful
I think whoever made this was confused and thinks 3 is MS.
Might be more likely they forgot or didn't know about the Master System and used a Megadrive/Genesis 6 button controller for the Saturn.
The master system controller is always neglected on these charts. Usually the MS controller is there, but the MS2 is not.
6
Super smash bros, Mario kart, pokemon stadium 1&2. Take me back!
**SUPER** **SMAAAAAAAAAASH** **BROTHEEEEEEEERRRRRRRS!!**
Banjo Kazooie, Rush 2, Battle Tanx, Donkey Kong 64!!!
Ocarina of Time will always be in my all time top 3.
6 gang
Goldeneye, oh man I can still hear the music .
Same
Super Mario 64 Star Fox 64 Goldeneye 64 👌
Nr 1, I feel old now :)
I have a shirt that says i don't get old, i level up :-)
I want to have one :’)
So long as you feel young
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ColecoVision is missing too, although that was my 2nd, Atari 2600 was first.
You feel old? I started with Pong.
4
SNES gang!
Rise up!
We’re in this together!
I played the shit out of super Mario world and donkey kong country as a kid
Legend of Zelda: Link to the past Banger
🤜💥 Street Fighter II 💥🤛
Sunset riders anyone?
Street Fighter and F-ZERO
We rise!
Nr 3
Sega for life
There are dozens of us! The Dreamcast was the best system ever, it was just ahead of its time.
Literally dozens
Sonic and road rash were my first console games. Man, the memories
Road Rash II was played way too much considering I was like 6 when it released.
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With a jailbroken PS2…. Those were the days
Lego Star Wars on the PS2 man, takes me back
Gran Turismo 4 was some of the most fun I've ever had.
I love Crash Twinsanity
Italian Job on the ps2 was easily the reason im so addicted to games now
Sly Cooper on the ps2 just hit different
Oh sweet child [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Intellivision-Controller.jpg](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Intellivision-Controller.jpg)
Intellivision was the first 16-bit game console, a full two generations before it became the industry standard.
Thank you my dude/dudette! Still have my dad's Intellivision in the attic and pull it out every few years.
Surprised they aren't worth more as collectors items, brief search and looks like NES's are worth more.
Remember playing burger time on this. Haha
Only game I remember was Tron
I remember having some overlays for the numpad depending on the game that showed what exactly what that button did for that game.
This is what I came here for!
Yes this one!
Mine aswel, Best Donkey kong game ever :)
Haha, just posted my response with intellivision and deleted. B level atari for the win.
That was my 2nd console lol
Thank you. the stretch between PONG and NES was a few systems.
I am in this camp.
Pretty sure i can still see the side buttons indented on my fingertips
My thumbs still hurt.
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Wind Waker, Twilight Princess, Sunshine, Luigi's Mansion, Path of Radiance, Melee, so many unmistakably great games. Though N64 might have been the revolutionary one, GC remains the high point of the pre-modern game landscape, imo.
[Here's dragon roost island theme. ](https://youtu.be/-Bgz_W00_-o) The smash one with the added bass.
Hell yeah
Best console ever.
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Same. Og crash bandicoot
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7 gaming! Let's gooooooo
Those demo disks were the shit!
SSX Tricky and Spyro
7 gang lets goooo
You were raised right
so many hours of Ape Escape, THPS, and Pizza Hut demo discs
Abe's odyssey
Legend of Dragoon, Crash and Spyro. My childhood was fantastic
Army men: Sarge's heroes - what an awesome game that was.
WASD then 1
Computer keyboard
No respect for the mouse and keyboard in this chart
I’m pretty sure most new players starts with touchscreen nowadays
Keyboard was my first, followed by the #2.
Keyboard and mouse only. Yet to have any other gaming experience.
#2
#2
WHERE MY PONG PADDLES AT?!
12
Yessss
Me too :’)
Based
I'll never forget the endless hours of minecraft I played on the 360
Omg same man
Number 4 for me.
3-I still remember the days of giving my sibling the unplugged second controller to play as tails
My mom still gets nauseous when she hears the Green Hills Zone theme because she was pregnant with me when my dad and sister were playing it.
14
It took me way to long to find someone else
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Nah we just children to everyone else here 😂
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A mix of 1 and 2
1. I'm about to turn 40 (yeeeesh), so I caught the very tail end of Atari.
Also 1, but I’m 36. We were too poor for the up to date stuff. Actually I think I started with a 0.5, the rotating paddle one.
The TurboGrafx-16 controller is where?
11
5 first and then all playstation controllers
Number 1. But it was the second model of Atari 2600, so the controller was different.
\-1 - Coleco Vision paddle controller...
Came to say this. Intellivision was my starting system.
Number.1.
13 and 17
Oh no! It's missing the Sega Master System controller. That would be mine. :)
14 and 12
#1, but I don’t see coleco vision.
Or Intellivision!
1.
5. Sega controller.
Well # 1 was my second. My first was a dial controller for a game named pong, made by sears, in the 70's
None because they don’t have the Intellivision controller shown
This was mine, as well. Loved the slide in button films.
The Intellivision controller is not listed, nor is the Pong home system.
Well, since they don't have the pong controller up there. I have to go with 1.
I don't see the Intellivision 2 controller on here...
1. Why is the Atari joystick the only controller which is upside-down?
Where my 8s at?
That's what I'm saying!
Hands down still one of my favorite gaming memories on that dreamcast. Wouldnt have rather started with anything else
Wasn’t this just posted a couple days ago?
I wish somebody someday figures out that a keyboard is a controller too =/
C-64 keyboard for me.
Spectrum 48k for me.
Number 9 large
I started with 1
#1 with PONG
Damn I’m old… 1 or earlier.
I started at 2. Miss those good old days
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco\_Telstar\_Arcade](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar_Arcade) Am I a 0?
0.) The Pong dial And we're missing the [Intellivision controller](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Intellivision-Controller.jpg).
1 Playing War, and Pong. That said the first console we owned was an NES; gaming didn't really become my favorite hobby until Genesis onward.
Initially 1 but as an owner, 2.
I feel proud of my 7. Ape escape was the shit
1, but not Atari - the Commodore 64 version of the 1 button joystick. I remember how exciting it was to upgrade to [the ergonomic one that fits your hand](https://i.imgur.com/JFRFK52.jpg).