How did you get your first system?

I believe it was Christmas in 1976 and I was sick as all hell. I managed enough strength to transfer to the bed downstairs but I was still fairly miserable and didn't last long enough to take part in much of the present unwrappings. A few hours later I became somewhat more coherent and my parents came into the room with a large box bedecked in the usual seasonal trappings. I slowly tore away the paper to reveal....MY FIRST GAMING SYSTEM!

A Hanimex Model 7771 Electronic TV Game! :D

It had 4, count 'em 4 variations of pong! Oh my god the bliss!!!!

Hey we were horribly bored in the 70's! :x

It was that or go dig holes in the dirt to make tunnel homes for my Hot Wheels!

Before i got my PS2, i always go to my cousins house to play PS. Then after his PS broke, I ask my dad to buy me a PS. Then one day he went to the US(we live i the Philippines) and went home with a PS2, that's why i got my PS2. I'm 8 yrs. old back in the day and my PS2's now 5 yrs. with me. Still going strong.

MY first official video game system was my atari lynx. i payed like $179 for the system, and 2 games.

then a year or 2 later i got the sega genesis (with sonic1) for christmas. then i got the 32x a year after that i think.

I inherited my parents' NES when I was 3. Though I didn't play regularly until I was 4.

My Dad brought home an Atari VCS I was very young.

Got me into gaming

"It was that or go dig holes in the dirt to make tunnel homes for my Hot Wheels!" - Lord_Daemon

By the gods I loved doing that (back in the 70's too ^_^), as it gave me an excuse to use that stupid HotWeels Car Wash with the foam rollers. Of course it never really cleaned the cars from all the dirt, but it was still pretty fun.

My first system was a 2600 for christmas of '78. I still have it. I was shopping with my dad after a little league game. He had just got back in from working over seas for a year and needed to get funiture and other items for his new apartment. While we were at the mall he decided to get a new "quadraphonioc HiFi system" (oh god, the quadraphonic scare of '78....AAAAGGGHHH), and I saw the 2600 on display. I asked for it. He asked about getting that too and they sales man explained they were showing it off and taking preordersm but they would delivering until the holidays. So I waited and forgot after all those months. Lo and behold I open my presents and there it was. But as I was soon to find out, it was a dupe. The only real game I got was Combat and thats because it was a pack in. The rest of the carts were Atari's "educational" games. Math and hangman are not somehting a child wants in a video game system. Anyway, my dad let me take the 2600 with me to my mom's place. My mom would get me real games. My dad would only buy the rest of the horrid edutainment titles they put out. The next year I got my first computer. Then he started buying real games for the computer (to make me use it more), and he forgot all about the Atari. Oh when the great game crash of '83 started I was in bliss. I already had a Colecovision, Atari 5200, Apple II, C64, TI 994/A, TRS-80, and a few others. With the game crash and my summer jobs cutting grass I was able to buy console games for the 2600 on the UBER cheap. Zayre had them for as little as 2 for a buck. I loaded up on games for my first system. I got more than 100 of my 2600 games that summer and I also had my computers to keep me busy for the rest of the crash. Good times.

i was about 5, and i got a master system from my cousin, then i got a NES from another cousin and another NES from another cousin.:D