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So, what was the earliest console you've ever owned?  Ours was the Atari 2600, followed closely by the Intellivision and Colecovision.  I am surprised, though, at just how many consoles were released prior.

NES, followed by a Gameboy. I miss my grey brick.

Ditto, still have a NES (really, put a new pin set in one and watch your games work on the first shot everytime - you don't have to blow into the carts!) but I don't miss the original Game Boy since the Gameboy Pocket has a much better screen and takes way less batteries. Gotta have something to play Metroid II on!

NES for me. At some point, I also had its contemporary, the Sega Master System. And then, yes. The Gameboy.

Edit: Wow, lots of NESers here. Are we all around the same age?

The earliest console I owned was a Nintendo, tho I did play a family friend's Collecovision a lot prior to that.

Our first was the Intellevison. Though it actually didn't grab me - it was my dad's. I think it was the Apple IIe that got me into gaming.

I was actually late getting on the NES bandwagon. When I got into games - and finally got one - the SNES was already out. A year later I upgraded, but I still got to experience some of the better games before that.

First was my toaster NES. It turned 20 this past Christmas and still works beautifully.

"Earliest" may be the Atari 800 I picked up 15 or so years ago. I don't know if it counts as a console, but hey, it has cartridge slots.

Atari 2600 for me.  Annoyingly my parents sold it once we got a NES.

The first console gaming memories I have are of an Atari 2600, but my parents had borrowed that from a friend, so it wasn't actually ours.
The first console I ever owned myself was, indeed, the NES. When I wanted to buy an SNES some years later, my parents forced me to sell the ole Nintendo, because they objected to me having more than one console at a time (I sure showed them), so I ended up selling it, but yeeeeaaars later, I would pick one up again at a flee market for about 10 bucks.

I <3 my NES

Here are the consoles that I have had over time, in order of when I got them:

Sears Tele-Games System (essentially an Atari 2600)
Vectrex
NES
Game Boy
TurboGrafx-16
TurboGrafx-CD
SNES
TurboDuo
SuperGrafx
Atari 7800
Sega Saturn
Dreamcast
PS2
Gamecube
Nintendo DS
PSP
PS3

I don't know what happened to the Game Boy, and I left the Atari 7800 behind when I left grad school, but I still have the rest (either with me or at my mom's house).

You know, I kind of want to nab a Dreamcast at some point - and not for the really obvious titles. I liked "Climax Landers" (err... TimeStalkers) a lot despite the hate it recieves. Still, this is coming from a guy that likes SaGa Frontier, so....

Hot!

The first console I ever owned was an original Fat Boy which I purchased with own hard earned money in January 1991 since my parents wouldn't allow me to own a console that connected to a TV set.  It took me a long time to earn back the $90 I spent on that wonderful gray brick with its pea-soup screen, but I loved the little guy.