Post your first console/computer......

in those days you'd have no 'saved game' function and if you managed to get to the Plane game or submarine section of Mario, you were on fire and praying that you wouldnt run out of lives before the end.

in primary school on 'games days' or whatever there were a few of us who'd take our Gameboys into school and hook them up for 2x way tetris which btw is immense fun.

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First system was a 48k Spectrum, the one with the rubber keys. Purchased with chess, scrabble and a formula 1 game. Had to buy a seperate tape recorder in order to play the games, oh, and not to mention the joystick interface so you could actually use a joystick.
 
first console was the 2600, after that i moved onto PC's.

Atari 800 xl, first pc i owned.. wish i had kept it.

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couple of years later, i moved onto the commodore 128d, it was huge and arguably heavier than the PC sitting next to me right now.

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Like others here my first was a SEGA MASTER SYSTEM II.

Ahh, loved it! Especially that MASSIVE pause button on the console itself haha!

I got it with Alex Kidd built in and a copy of Out Run :D
 
My first experience was at school :) on the The Acorn BBC Archimedes 305. Watching a vector flight sim of a triangle zooming over a patchwork landscape. Way back in the late 80's. Then learning BASIC in the computer room at school. Now what are my kids playing on.... a 360 with a wheel and kinect on the way. Just imgaine the next 30 years of progress...... I should be retired by then and ready to plug myself in to a virtual game fest retirement . No doubt the goverment will stop that utopian fantasy somehow.

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A Sinclair Spectrum 48K direct from Sinclair mail order when it launched. Cost £175 IIRC. A hefty wedge at that time, more than a month's mortgage.

A full set of office prog's soon cost me about another £20. The Last Word (WP), Omnicalc (SS), Masterfile (DB), The Artist (Draw). Gaming? Well it just had to be Manic Miner.

Heck, that's all nearly 30 years ago................ (Exists stage right feeling v.old) :(
 
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Mastertronic £1.99 games, that you could get from just about anywhere, even your local papershop.
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that brings back memories.. I remember the £1.99 games you could pick up anywhere. Our local video rental store had hundreds of them, real pocket money games..

Although in 1980 £1.99 was still a bit of money..
 
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