Intellivision, it's not up there. Vertical controller with numbers on the front, games came with plastic overlays that slid over the numbers. Round disc for movement below the numbers as well as buttons on both sides of the controller. Usually found at garage sales
Heck yah, loved my intellivision! Would pause the asteroids/space invaders knockoff game if I had to leave the house and it was going well. That and the biplane game were my favorites.
I loved my Intellivision. We got a ton of games when it was losing popularity. My faves were Triple Play, D&D, Astrosmash, lock n’ chase, bump n jump. We also got speech synthesizer from someone that no longer wanted it. I was so pissed when my mom threw it away. I was going to rebuild the controllers. Those membranes in the controller sucked
The sad part; I can tell a youngling made this because they're holding some of the controllers wrong, yes they're holding the obvious way, but that's not how most games employed the controller. Example N64...
I miss the days before MS decided all PC games needed to use the Xbox controls, even PS ports. All my muscle memory is YXBA and now you want me to use XYAB? But Switch is still how I remember it? My thumbs never really learned how to context switch like that.
I started with the N64. I would have liked to play video games earlier than that, but the way I was raised I felt like wanting anything made me a bad person. My parents always had to make wild guesses on what to get me for Christmas or my birthdays because I would never ask for anything since I felt like I would get yelled at or get in trouble for wanting anything.
Hotsauceman
7 then 6.
guardianzero
finally! number 1!!
PacMan4Life
0, Coleco Telstar. The tri-corner hat one with the gun, steering wheel, and paddles. The carts were triangular. Wild times
NachoPete
Number 1. Oh look, I need to take my Aleve.
Phycohb
1
DaDudeAbides
5/7
LtGenObvious
A perfect score!
bdata71
Pre 1 Intellivision
cavymeister
Same
chefsoda
Between 1, Atari, and, Nintendo, there was Colecovision, my first system & by far the coolest thing I had seen at the time!
RunsWithBullShit
Somewhere before 1. I don't remember the system but it had a built in game if you didn't have a cartridge in it, it had been my uncles.
DonjuanV
What the hell is #3?!?!?!
StunttheRunt
Where's the Coleco? w/ roller controller. I did use a #1 when at my Dad's.
JoeMangoJello
americgold689097
Sega Genesis!
whiskeychive
2,4,5 all around the same time
16vscotch
Technically 1, but I can't remember that so 2 is what I Remember starting with.
namtrohs
(Atari 2600)
16vscotch
I'm OLD I assume you knew that already.
namtrohs
EH? Speak up!
FormerGloriousGuyWhoCameBack
0 -
CrocodileGandhi
That weird period in time when ANYTHING needed wood veneer.
FormerGloriousGuyWhoCameBack
PONG, Station Wagons...
Mrpipboy3000
1
Piscivore
#.5, the paddle controller on my cousin's Magnavox Oddysey. The first we owned for ourselves was #1
Drew442
Intellivision, it's not up there. Vertical controller with numbers on the front, games came with plastic overlays that slid over the numbers. Round disc for movement below the numbers as well as buttons on both sides of the controller. Usually found at garage sales
cempics
Heck yah, loved my intellivision! Would pause the asteroids/space invaders knockoff game if I had to leave the house and it was going well. That and the biplane game were my favorites.
delusionaldaydreams
I loved my Intellivision. We got a ton of games when it was losing popularity. My faves were Triple Play, D&D, Astrosmash, lock n’ chase, bump n jump. We also got speech synthesizer from someone that no longer wanted it. I was so pissed when my mom threw it away. I was going to rebuild the controllers. Those membranes in the controller sucked
namtrohs
How are you going to only have Nintendo in the tags when it's not even the first image >.<
aThingWithAKeyboard
The sad part; I can tell a youngling made this because they're holding some of the controllers wrong, yes they're holding the obvious way, but that's not how most games employed the controller. Example N64...
ihatedmyoldusername
2
UserNamesArentEasy
Hell yeah brother
PoliticalWanderer
Same. Back in the day when Mario and Duck Hunt came on the same cartridge and Mike Tyson's Punch-Out was the hot game I wanted to play.
tokyobear19
Reminder to take your ibuprofen
Canigetbannedagain2
#2 I see, well let's just sign you up for that colonoscopy.
HereGoesNothingBoys
your math is crap
YpsilantiRomani
I started with #1 & I'm 41 I have atleast 4 years till i need to schedule 1
idownvoteyourpuppy
What number is a keyboard?
Illithidbane
"Oh I played with a PS2, a PS/2 CONNECTOR!"
ThatPug
I still used one of those right up until windows stopped supporting xinput. I still have the adapter somewhere around here.
Illithidbane
I miss the days before MS decided all PC games needed to use the Xbox controls, even PS ports. All my muscle memory is YXBA and now you want me to use XYAB? But Switch is still how I remember it? My thumbs never really learned how to context switch like that.
ThatPug
00000001
CunaGreenleaf
4
mikenaulls
I’m offended by the lack of Sega Genesis on this grid
mtgjbone
aw yiss. #3 sega master system. grandparents had bought one for me and my cousin for when we came over.
DeepFriedAndSanctified
-1.
SquirrelWithATophat
I started with the N64. I would have liked to play video games earlier than that, but the way I was raised I felt like wanting anything made me a bad person. My parents always had to make wild guesses on what to get me for Christmas or my birthdays because I would never ask for anything since I felt like I would get yelled at or get in trouble for wanting anything.
MRNate
But you know you didn’t hold it like that pic. No one held both sides of that controller.
SquirrelWithATophat
It depended on the game. There were a few that did have you hold it that way.
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
C64 kids, am I a joke to you? But for me #1 also.
RetiredPlumber
Least you folks could plug a Joystick in! Stupid ZX80,81, and 48k needing to plug in a wobbly Kempston adaptor in first
tr0lleyjack
I also choose this guy's dead console
moochie8ter
Commodore Vic 20, just the keyboard for a controller!!
kagnub
We had a Competition Pro, a Konix Speedking with autofire, and the original Commodore Joystick which had a button on top of the stick.
dangerspouse
I'm this controller, but Amiga 500
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
Earlier than 1. The system had tennis, squash, and a shooting game built in. The shooting fame even had a gun you pointed at the screen.
Piscivore
Magnavox Oddysey.
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
Yes! Thank you!