The first I played was my brother's copy of Pokémon Yellow, on his GameBoy Color. I think we were 6 (me) and 5 (him). I also played his copy of Gold Version. I was so hooked that I asked for my own GameBoy Color and Crystal Version.
We continued to share non-handheld consoles until our teens (when, realistically, I just lost access to his Xbox/the PS2, etc. and we got our own PCs). Those are memories for which I'll always be grateful, and that I think make us much closer as siblings for having (even though it also inspired lots of kid fighting). It's wild to me in retrospect how many RPGs we managed to share playthroughs and save files in, but we seriously helped each other past so many tough bosses and puzzles. We even had a shared village in the GCN Animal Crossing, and we'd sit in his room for hours playing it.
The GameBoy was a really wonderful little system, and I think the love I had of it, plus the fact that my brother had the consoles (by possession, which is 9/10ths the law!), is what cemented me as a handheld/PC gamer. I missed out on a lot of console franchises growing up just because the consoles were in his room and we weren't getting along. But I always had my GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, etc. and my own PC.
We continued to share non-handheld consoles until our teens (when, realistically, I just lost access to his Xbox/the PS2, etc. and we got our own PCs). Those are memories for which I'll always be grateful, and that I think make us much closer as siblings for having (even though it also inspired lots of kid fighting). It's wild to me in retrospect how many RPGs we managed to share playthroughs and save files in, but we seriously helped each other past so many tough bosses and puzzles. We even had a shared village in the GCN Animal Crossing, and we'd sit in his room for hours playing it.

The GameBoy was a really wonderful little system, and I think the love I had of it, plus the fact that my brother had the consoles (by possession, which is 9/10ths the law!), is what cemented me as a handheld/PC gamer. I missed out on a lot of console franchises growing up just because the consoles were in his room and we weren't getting along. But I always had my GBC, GBA, DS, 3DS, etc. and my own PC.