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I’m from both the 80s and 90s. Growing up I was introduced to video gaming through my cousins NES. Mainly because of Super Mario Bros 3 in which the hype for that game made Cyberpunk 2077 look like a modest interest back then. Our first console we had was a SNES even though I salivated over the mighty 16bit Sega Genesis. Things were far simpler back then. Not like today where companies always find was to nickel and dime us with loot boxes, paid dlc, and other insidious practices.

Regarding Wireless controllers: They do have Wireless controllers for the Atari 2600. Regarding buttons: Have you seen how many buttons the Atari 5200, Intelvision, Colecovision controllers have? Not to mention Atari Jaguar. *Edit* Atari 5200 controller: About 19 buttons. PS5 controller: About 16 buttons.

I was born in the beginning of 1977 , , my memories don't even begin until 1980 , , ,🎉😮😮

Great blast from the past. I had the parachute MC Hammer pants in the late 80s, then in the late 90s as a Raver kid was wearing bell bottoms. I still favor Adidas as a tribute to those Great times.

Sega Master System and Genesis were my first consoles. I'd played Pong on my friend's Magnavox system in the early 70s, but my parents wouldn't let me have a video game system, so they were my first consoles, which i bought when I was an adult and had moved out.

I remember us having a PC-50X in the early 80s but I only vaguely remember it at around 3-4 years old and none of the adults really played, I think. My first real console was the Family Computer in 1988, then Gameboy (1990), Sega Mega Drive (1991), Game Gear (1992?), SNES (1993), Sanyo 3DO (1995), PS1 (1995/6), N64 (1996), Saturn (1997?), PS2 (2000), Xbox 360 (2009). I haven't bought a console since, but I've looked at the current gen consoles a few times in recent years.

I didn't get a console until the snes... When I was growing up (from 1978) my dad made me program my own games on our Ti994a 😂

My first gaming console was the Atari 7800. I loved the backwards compatibility with the 2600 games. I had a pretty good library of games. Eventually i got the NES in '89. We GenX-ers have been fortunate to have witnessed the growth of video games to what they have become nowadays.

I was born in 1985, and I remember the first console I ever had was the Atari 2600 somewhere around 1989-1990. I had it for about 6 months - 1 year before I swapped it for the Sega Master System. I then got the SNES for Christmas the year it launched in the UK in 1992 and a Sega Mega Drive the following year for my 8th birthday. I used to go to my grans every Sunday for dinner, and she had an NES in the bedroom, which I would always play when I was there. I remember she had Shadow Warriors (Ninja Gaiden), Megaman II, Super Mario Bros./Duckhunt, Super Spike V'Ball, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I have had close to every console released at some point in time, but sadly, I had to partways with them.

still got my C64GS, the motherbaord was a little diffeant by moving the cart slot to the top but if memory serves (its been a while since I looked inside) I thinkg the board bad the pads to solder a keyboard conection on, though like I say my memory may be fuzzy on that one. Pretty fun system but my god the games cost, same issue with Amstrads GX4000, I had some good times with mine

I'm gen Z, but I grew up with the Mega Drive, SEGA, and the arcades like all the cool kids before me. As a mid-twenty year old, it makes me feel so old knowing the systems I grew up with are in their 20 - 40's and even moreso when I see other people as old as me and younger not knowing what a SEGA Saturn is.

Born in 1978, NES, Sega Master System, C vic-20, C 64, Game&Watch: donkey kong 2 double screen, , Game boy pocket, SNES, Wii

My first console was the Odyssey 2. I still have it but I can't play it now.

i remember the vector and having a go in the Tottenham court road , it was ahead of the rest

My dad once told me of when he was with his first wife, they had bought a new Magnavox TV in 1972 from the door-to-door Magnavox salesman and the Odyssey was included. He said it was boring and didn't do much and threw it in the closet 15 minutes later, never to use it again. Always thought that was funny considering what we know how of it's importance to the future of this hobby.

Sadly, the fairly popular Odyssey2 with its superior PacMan clone, KC Munchkin that Atari sued them as a catalyst for the Great Video Game Crash sold 2 million consoles and is not mentioned here.

How can you include the Commodore 64 GS and not the Atari XE GS?

I don't even know what Gen X means should i really care? I would love to get back to the 90's it was such a great time! The things we have now startet in the 90's

If the C64GS did had a keyboard input, and if it came up with a keyboard included, it could,ve been saved from it’s grace, looks at the atari XEGS, (a consolized atari 800), it did had a keyboard input and came with an external keyboard included and it was a huge success, if the atari XEGS didn’t had a keyboard input, then it might,ve flopped hard as well.

Ah...the Atari 2600 days!

The Sega Master System had a much smaller market share in North America compared to the Nintendo Entertainment System, to be sure, but I suspect it wasn't quite as lopsided a victory for the NES in Canada compared to the United States because, where I was (outskirts of Montreal), most video stores had a decent selection of Master System games to rent and I don't think it was just my family renting the games. The main reason most stores in my area stopped carrying Sega Master System games by late 1990 was probably because the Genesis had already been out around a year and many of us Master System families had already upgraded. The Sega Master System was my family's first dedicated console but the first device we had that connected to a television and played games mainly off cartridge (and also audiocassette) was actually a Commodore Vic-20.

Well, that took me back. Thanks.

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As an intertesting note, the 5200 was a repackaged Atari 8 bit *(400,800) ... it might have been more successful if it was interchangeable with the 5200 <> 800/8bit

Everytime I see one of these videos, no one ever mentioned the Odyssey 2. It was a really good system, IMHO, that had better graphics and games, than the Atari 2600.

How does the quality of this video have such little likes? It’s a good video! Great job! Subscribed and liked!

I am 30 and my first game console was the PS1 and then the Dreamcast. A couple of years ago I started collecting consoles and I bought every second generation console. As an adult gamer I am discovering the whole gaming history. It is awesome that you are a native gamer growing up with 70s consoles.

I'm mostly a 90s kid, I absolutely remember the Atari, but my first console was the 80s and 90s SNES, I own a newer version of the SNES.

Never throw out your consoles.

i was 9 years old when i got the Atari 2600 for Christmas. i remember seeing a demo set up at sears. later i wanted the nes & i got stuck with the sega krappy system. i did get a nes later on

Great video just subscribed. I had a sega master system as a kid and played shinobi alot

Intellivision was my first. I loved mouse trap.

What about the grand stand channel f Game unit They had a brilliant. Game Pack man. It was a home brew version. Waste better than the Atar 2600

My home was all home PCs until my younger bother got his NES, but I remember playing a demo Vectrex in the Erols Video store while my Dad was doing something, probably buying or getting a TV repaired. I never had one but I wanted one for several years. In the early eBay days I bid on a couple, but never got one.

Pc gaming was still doing well during the crash

Damn, I loved Vectrex, but the games was too pricey for younger me. :(

You missed the Channel F, the first console that used cartridges. You also missed the Odyssey 2, which my parents owned. There's some others in there as well (Bally Astrocade, RCA Studio II, etc), but they were less common. Also kind of odd you added the C64GS; the obscure of the obscure.

The atari 2600 was my first console and i played a few others but the nes is really where gaming for me took off. Good video! Subbed

Nice video. Coleco didn't die because of the crash. Coleco died from their own self-inflicted wound of promising a super system add on to make the Coleco a Super Coleco, and delivered instead the Adam Computer, which is arguably the worst of the old early 80s computers. Also one fact you don't notice nowadays. When was the last time you saw a right-handed controller for a console? Other than Beeshu who made joysticks for other consoles, the 7800 and a lot of the old pre-crash systems were the last ones to have ambidextrous controllers. This Lefty situation was so bad, I unintentionally made a point when I bought a right-handed fight stick for the Sega Genesis and went undefeated against my friends, one of whom was the local Blockbuster champion and later became a national Xbox champion. He said there was no way a right-handed joystick could beat him yet are four common friends played a prison match where loser stays in prison and he never left prison against the others who borrowed my right hand fight stick. And it wasn't just a fight stick it wasn't everything stick. I know you can only talk about so much but have you heard of the Bally Astrocade? If the then price was adjusted for inflation of the 2600 turns out to be $1,050, then the astrocade would be $1,600 of today's money, even beating out the Neo Geo Home and the 3DO as the most expensive console relative to the economy at the time ever. However in the 90s, I found three Bally Astrocades at three different thrift stores at three different times with a bunch of games and extra controllers for 5 bucks a piece. When my friends heard I was both collecting games and flipping ones I have doubles of, a couple of my other friends that saw me do it become retro game collectors too in addition to the then modern stuff. I assume you are personally Gen X. Your voice doesn't sound significantly younger or older than mine. If you're not from Gen X, then you're hiding your youth / age well. It's okay that other people take interest in what Gen X did with video games.

First console was Intellivision. Favorite game on it was Tron Deadly Discs

Bashing the C64gs because of the lack of a keyboard? There was a version that had a keyboard. It was the C64.

I'm going to give this channel a chance. Really enjoyed this first video. Good Content. Subscribed.

Didn't know you only had 20 subscibers when I watched this! This is a great channel! You have 21 now.

I'm Gen X, and I started gaming with the Nes and Master System in 1986. I was a casual player until I got my Sega Genesis in 1989, and I still play today. I play everything across all platforms, genres, and generations of gaming. I will be a gamer until the day I die. Addendum - The video game crash of 1983 was not a worldwide event. Yes, it was felt throughout the world (despite what people from the UK or Europe tell you), but it did not directly effect them like it did us. They were all gaming on microcomputers when we in the US were all feeling the "Atari Shock." Their platforms continued to sell incredibly well all while most Americans walked away from gaming. They did not have to deal with the social stigma many of us here in the states had to fight. Like "only lones play video games" or "gaming isn't for females."

Awesome job on your first video. I enjoyed it very much. I'm a 90 kid but oh boy I played the hell out of Atari arcade, Atari 2600 growing up with my mothers side of the family. Without those people I wouldn't have the memories I have today. Keep up the good work brother. I look forward for more content 👍

I'm 14 as of 2024 and just got my NES and I'm enjoying it a whole ton! I even found a trick that makes the games work every time.

My first console was the Atari 2600. I can remember back then I had pac-man, Donkey Kong and barnstormer. It was great until the AC adapter died lol. And then I wouldn't have another console again until my game boy. I played other consoles, I just didn't own one until then. Needless to say I went to friends houses a lot if they had a game console

5th subscriber ✌Great video!

My 1st console was the Acetronic MPU 1000, circa 1979.