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My mom gave me her old Gameboy which barely worked btw. I ended up breaking it like a year or two later. After that I got some sort of DS. I'd like to say a DS Lite but i'm unsure.
The SNES! Great console. I have great memories playing the dreaded Lion King game with my siblings. I loved the Super Mario RPG game, Earthworm Jim, Super Mario Kart, etc.
First console I owned was a Nintendo 64 I got for christmas the year it came out. I was 5 at the time and I only ever owned two games for it, Mario 64 and Mario Party 2
My first console was a V-Tech Smile. It was a Chinese cartridge based console that mainly only had licensed games for infants. Even when I was 5 it didn’t hold my attention for long and I didn’t get into video games until my mom bought me a DS Lite for my 8th birthday.
Probably the first one I played on was a 3ds, but having a few older siblings meant that there were already plenty of different consoles in the house, so most of them would have been "mine" from the same time. I have vivid memories of watching rise of the guardians on my psp all the time, playing that one Dora the explorer game on the DS lite, and rage quitting when I couldn't win playing MK on the DS. My family used to have a bag full of all our consoles for when we were travelling, it was really fun
I don't remember which console I first played, but my family had an NES, SNES, and Sega Genesis when I was little, so it would have been one of those three. The first console that was specifically mine, not shared with my family/brother, would have been my pink DS Lite.
The first ever console that was actually mine and not my brothers' (because all of the video game consoles we ever had were pretty much his and my other brothers', haha) was probably the Gameboy Advance, if that counts?? I loved that thing so much. I wish I still had it.
Other than that, I also eventually got my own 3DS and PS3!