r/videogames • u/Mintangah17 PlayStation • 12h ago

Discussion / Question what was the very first piece of hardware that started your gaming journey?

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u/superspicycurry37 12h ago

If someone in this comments section says PS4 or Wii U I think I'm gonna spontaneously dissolve into dust and ashes.

Anyway it was a Game Boy Color and PS1 for me.

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u/Automatic_Day_35 12h ago

That was my second console

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u/superspicycurry37 12h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Enr4bc3JeOOzHLYY8R

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u/wiggliey 11h ago

Bro killed him 💀

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u/Automatic_Day_35 8h ago

though I recently have been getting into older consoles through legacy collections, such as the gba and ps1

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u/Malagate3 10h ago

Gameboy colour wasn't my first or second Gameboy, I paid for my own PS1 from my first cash-in-hand job, from a company that hasn't existed now for nearly 20 years.

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u/drquakers 8h ago

It was, like, my third. Dad bought it for me after the divorce so id have a console to play at his.

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u/Automatic_Day_35 8h ago

I’m talking about the Wii u

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u/drquakers 22m ago

Ahh. I see. The Wii basic was my 8th? Console

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u/dkyguy1995 1h ago

Bruh you have already done the math, dont lie to yourself 😆 PS4 launched 13 years ago. Current 18 year olds were 5.

It's alright brother, Im right there with you ✊

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u/superspicycurry37 40m ago

“PS4 launched 13 years ago.”

You shut your god damn mouth 😫

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u/McSqueezle 10h ago

Sega for me, so I guess I'm the dust particles of dust.

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u/Hoveringkiller 10h ago

Personally I had a PS1 as my first, but the neighbors had an NES that I played before that, so idk what I would put haha. Funnily enough, we jumped from PlayStation to the original Xbox instead of going PS2.

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u/etrain1804 9h ago

Not everyone had rich parents who could buy us gaming systems when we were kids lol.

Anyways my first gaming thing was an Xbox one

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u/salviaJESUSsalvation 8h ago

You didn't need rich parents lol, lots of middle class and even lower middle class kids had a gaming console.

Anyways, I grew up lower middle class and my first gaming console was a ps1, guess I'm old too.

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u/BalancedDisaster 4h ago

I didn’t have rich parents. I had an aunt that still lived with my grandma. She liked video games and worked full time so she bought herself a Sega Genesis

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u/FistOfVengeance44 7h ago

Xbox 360 for me

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u/Ozzy_Rhoads-VT 6h ago

Gameboy Color as well! With the Pikachu Yellow version. Which I still have.

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u/WulfZ3r0 4h ago

You saying all that and I was 13 when I got the PS1. Granted it was out for more than a year, but still. Guess I'm just dust in the wind.

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u/booranyu 12h ago

my first "gaming hardware" was an Apple iPad with one of those wide charging ports.

a decade and then some later, my first two actual gaming dedicated consoles are the PSP (dad's) and PS4 (my own)