I was 15 or 16 it's so long ago I can't remember. Me, my sister and my friends, used to play on it for hours. Then one friend and I had a Vic 20, we used to buy magazines that had pages of basic codes so you could enter that took about 8 hours! and then play games like Blitz, then I went through C64 and Amiga onto Ninty after that.
I have 3 brothers, 2 older than me, so the first console in our house was probably Atari. My first console that I actually owned was the Gameboy color I think. I don't know, I have every console thanks to growing up with boys. \o/ Nostalgia!