What Was Your First Nintendo Console or Handheld?

There are always rumors and talk about what’s next for Nintendo. Lots of details coming up suggest a new console could show up in the next few years. Not to mention we’re celebrating the Famicom’s 40th anniversary today. So let’s talk about which Nintendo console or handheld got each of us into the game.

My first Nintendo console was the original Game Boy my Mom played in hospital while pregnant with me. Spent a lot of time playing Super Mario Land, Space Invaders and Super Hunchback. We didn’t get round to playing Pokemon until the Game Boy Color came around, but when we did it pretty much guaranteed us playing Nintendo handhelds for the next 10 years. — Elliot

That’s a complicated question! As, I imagine, it is to anyone with older siblings. The first one I played was my brother’s NES. I remember being way better at TMNT than I am now, somehow, and playing a lot of Jeopardy! with my mom and brother and… not being way better, because I was like two and that’s not the best age bracket for trivia.

The first one I possessed was the Game Boy, which again was definitely my brother’s, but he left the table at Shoney’s after he opened his birthday gift and I was still there in a booster seat and I’m not sure he ever touched it again.

So the first one that was mine in a somewhat more legitimate respect? That’d be my Nintendo 64. I got it with Mario Kart 64, and that was a fine enough game, but it wasn’t too long until I went back and kept playing Super Mario Kart instead.

What can I say? Little me had good taste. — Graham

I remember when I got my first Nintendo console, because I wasn’t alone. When I was a kid, my best friend at the time and I were in the same class, same school, and had parents who were friends. Sears Outlet had gotten some Game Boys in after launch, and they decided to take us both to each go get one on the same day. So it was a whole fun outing and big deal, during which we each got a system, Tetris and Super Mario Land. I still have the system, though its needed screen replacements a few times and the D-pad pulls to the left! — Jenni