What home console did you play as a kid?

[nostalgic_necromancer]

The first console I remember playing was a NES, but we didn't have it for long. The first I spent much time with was the SNES. I have fond memories of playing Super Mario World with my dad, despite being utterly dreadful at it. Instead, I would play the one level I could get a bunch of lives at in the first world and then send the extra lives to my dad who carried us through the rest of the game. I must've been around 4 or 5 at the time. I also got to experience my first RPG on the SNES through Super Mario RPG.

We didn't stick with Nintendo though. We had a Sega Dreamcast for awhile until eventually moving to Playstation, which is what I used most of my middle school and teen years where I played a lot of Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, DDR and Guitar Hero, until the Nintendo Wii came out. I'm glad to have experienced such an evolution in games as I grew up myself.

[bby]

the first consoles that i owned were my nintendo 64 and game boy color, but growing up i played on a snes and windows pc too. later childhood, i ended up acquiring a game boy advance, playstation portable, playstation 2, wii, playstation 3, nintendo ds, and nintendo 3ds.

i've never owned or played on an xbox console. i would like to try the original and the 360 someday if i can though.

nintendo 64 was my absolute favorite; i have fond memories watching and learning how to play ocarina of time with my family. i also had a few of the mario games which were easier for me to play, but i was really attached to zelda :). i used to rent out the cartridges too from the local video rental place. the ones ones i know i ended up renting were pokemon snap and a sesame street game called elmo's letter adventure.

but i also played a lot of pc games whenever i could use a computer. my favorite was, surprise surprise, another sesame street game called elmo's reading: preschool and kindergarten. it had two games: elmo's reading basics and elmo through the looking glass (my favorite of the two). and when i got older, definitely the first two sims games! there was even a *nsync cell phone game and barbie magic genie game i had, but i don't really remember the game play just the cool devices that you plugged into the pc and played the games with. i also liked pinball on windows xp and solitaire.

browser games were also something i enjoyed heavily like the games on the disney, barbie, cartoon network, and nickelodeon sites.

nintendo and pc defined my early childhood and playstation my middle school and up years. very grateful that i was able to play as many games as i did then and that i still own the majority of those (although i wish i played more of the pokemon games besides yellow and soulsilver! i didn't fully get into the games until omega ruby)

[Loebas]

The first console i actually played on was the original Playstation. My first handheld was a dark blue Gameboy Advance SP.

My dad won the Playstation with a trivia quiz about the formula 1. I remember playing the Crash Bandicoot demo on the psx demo disc. The other demo's where also stunning, especially the whale demo.
But eventually we traded the playstation 1 for my uncles playstation 2 (slim). Which is still in my posession today.
I also played Kingdom Hearts on the ps2 back in 2010, when i got hooked by a amv.

About the gameboy advance sp. I actually saved up for that. I initially got: Super Mario Advance (the super mario world port for the gba), Monsters Inc.
I later got Swords of the mana, but didnt play that too much. The gba saw a lot of use, until i got my nintendo DS. I sold off the gba to my sister.

[Julikins]

First console(s) I had played at home were the Sega Genesis and Super Nintendo. I kind of wanted a N64 as a kid, but have since swapped over more to the Saturn a bit. Still kind of want both since emulation (can I say that here?) is still a bit inaccurate. N64 is more progressed than Saturn's but still... Then we had the Dreamcast and Sony Playstation 1 + 2. Like the Saturn, Dreamcast Emulation is a bit mixed and I rather have the VMU stuff on hand so I kind of want to get enough nerve to try and see if I can get ours up and running again so I can see about having some DC games to play a bit. Although both SA 1 + 2 disks we own are problematic in their own way: 1 reads only when it wants to and 2 doesn't want to load the Chao World portion nor Hidden Base. No Hero Story ending for me I suppose. 
PS2 was when I played some of Kingdom Hearts and more Sonic with the Mega Collection. Played Sonic 3 for the first time and the level select code without the option to swap carts is a pain... I ended up playing Sonic 3&K more and just debug mode my way to the end. I eventually figured out the barrel in Carnival Night and was able to beat it legit years later.

For the handhelds, my first was actually the original Dot-Matrix Gameboy! I remember playing some Pokemon Yellow before and after school since I lived right across from my elementary school. Then got the GBA and played a bit of Sonic Advance as well as Egg Mania - which I regret selling at the moment because while it had its issues, it was a fun and interesting puzzle game for the handheld. Didn't get my next handheld until at least after graduation from high school with the old 3DS that I used to main a bit until the battery charge became borked - read: battery was replaced but it still refused to read the charge normally. So I was given a New 2DS XL for Christmas and to this day is still my main driver for DS and 3DS games.