If all you have is games ... then it qualifies. Without more software (or doing basic programming), it wasn't good for much else.Octopus wrote:Why does that count as a gaming console?Duper wrote:Apple IIe+; Amber monochrome screen.
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My mother didn't want me to have a video game system as a kid (and she was probably right for doing that, as I would have wanted to spend much time playing on it), but I vowed when I was 9 (in 1987) that I would get an Atari by the time I was 12. Then my friend got a NES and I stopped caring. I played all the consoles he got after that at his place from then on, but did get a first-gen Game Boy in the early '90s. After college I got the first-gen Game Boy Advance, which I modded with a backlight, and then a SNES off eBay when I got a craving for F-Zero. A neighbor/friend gave me his Atari 2600 setup when I was 28.
I can say the same thing for my Amstrad PC1512DD! Though, I could never create anything as sophisticated as the games that came with it.Foil wrote:x2Sllik wrote:Commodore 64.
[Edit: Mine came with 0 games, but had a programming guide, so any games I played on it had to be something I created myself. I credit that machine as the beginning of my career in programming.]