Age you were when you owned your first console

My parents for a very long time wouldn't allow me to get a games console because we had perfectly good PC's for playing games on and they were concerned that I would spend all day on them and not do any schoolwork. However when I was 14 I managed to raise enough money from a carboot (yard) sale to buy an original Xbox and I made a presentation (not joking) on why I should be allowed to buy an Xbox over sticking to gaming on a PC and it worked! I made it late to the console gaming world but I did make it eventually. I then got my first handheld console (an original Nintendo DS which lasted me for 8 years) about 8 months later, albeit both consoles were shared with my younger brother.

How old were you when you got your first console?

I got a PS2 for Christmas when I was five.

i got the famicom when i was 6 or 7. man that was a long time ago

Was 11 when I got my Game Boy Advance SP and a year after I got a Gamecube.

I owned my first ever console at 5 years old, which was a PS1, I was also given an N64 not long after that!

Me and my brother had a NES, didn't really own my own console before I was 11 I think. Got my very own Playstation and TV, and boy did I spend hours in front of that thing!

PS2 with a Rayman game, and hilarity ensued when my parents gave me one of the Devil May Cry games, this was when I was 9 or 10.

My first console i owned was in '08.. so i was 28.

In 1983 I got an Atari 2600.  I was 11 at the time.  Freakin' good times on that bad boy.  :)  My friend had the original Pong.  Another had the Intellivision.  Another had the TI-99.  

My parents were pretty big gamers back in their day, so after they had kids, they handed their atari, commadore 64, and NES down to us kids. So, being the second child born in 92, I had an NES and commadore at the house waiting for me the day I was brought home :P (not real sure whatever happened to the atari I've always been told about.. My grandmother says she thinks she may have it lying around at her house somewhere). It took me until sometime at the age of 2 to actually begin learning how to play it, though.

My dad has always had a passion for computer programming and engineering, and he's damn good at it too. He used to program his own software and video games for the commadore 64, which is hard as hell if you've ever tried it.. As soon as I was old enough to become interested in it (11-13, somewhere in there), he gave me a book he used when he was around the same age, perhaps a little bit older, that taught pretty much all the basics for programming the commadore 64. I tried to uderstand the concept.. I studied it for about a year and a half, and just never could understand much of it without having to have the book... That shit was hard. I once spent 5 or 6 hours scripting crap out, and following examples from that book. My accomplishment was making a little yellow ball (actually, it was a square, but it was close enough) fly from the upper-left portion of the screen to the lower-left portion of the screen in about 2 seconds flat whenever I ran the program. It didn't bounce, or make noise, or do anything at all other than that. My dad must have been an absolute genius to have done some of the things I've watched him do on that machine. It really did help me to understand just how well we've had it made since the invention of the PC.

Sorry, a little off-topic. I just really wanted to share that :P

Bought myself an NES probably in about '91, which would have made me 27 years old.

SNES when I was seven.

SNES when I was 4 or 5. For the life of me, I can't remember what game I got for it. I think it was Mario All Stars.

I can't even recall. My first console was the Intelivision and my first game was the arcade Donkey Kong.

This is what I had to work with

I got myself a PSX at 3 years old.

I got myself a PSX at 3 years old.

Ricardomz

Sega Genesis at age 6

I was somewhere around six or seven, so that would be around 1981-82, and of course it was an Atari 2600, in fact I still have it in a box in my garage. I think I'm going to dig it out and see if it still works, while I'm at it, I think I'll see if my old NES still works also.

Here's some fun facts. In 1981 an Atari 2600 cost $211.60, in today's cash it would be $543.77

The NES in 1986 cost $199-$249 for base model or bundle, in today's cash it would be $424.14-$530.71, and games went for around $40-$50, in today's cash it would be $85.25-106.57 per game.

I figured out inflation with this cool Inflation Calculator, it's pretty fun to play with.

My first console was a PS1 when I was about 8. My first ever gaming device was a Gameboy Color a year or 2 before that.

Was 4 when I got my PS1.

I was 19 when i received atari 2600

My older siblings usually got the consoles. My dad bought the N64 for my brother and sister when I was about 3 and also bought them Gameboy Colors and then later Gameboy Advance. So when I woke up on my 7th birthday and the only one in the house was my dad and I and he showed me MY Playstation 2, I jumped with joy. 

First console I had was a nintendo shared between me and my siblings, Im pretty sure they had it before I was born.

Not counting handhelds, the first console that was bought specifically for me was my gamecube when I was 13. First console i bought on my own was a slim ps2 when I was 15

I believe I was 4.

PS1 at 6 years old.

I recieved an Atari 2600 at age eight in 1983.

I had a SNES when I was 5 but it wasn't fully mine though... The first console I bought with my own money was the N64 when I was around 9.

Luckily my parents were alright with me playing video games.  So I got my NES when I was 6 I believe :).

We got a NES when I was young. I can't remember my exact age, but I was probably around 3 or 4(My dad(not so much anymore), brother(turned into a Madden, Assassing Creed, and COD type guy), and sister played games back then also).

If you mean a console that was considered mine I would say the N64 and I would have been 8 or 9.

i got the famicom when i was 6 or 7. man that was a long time ago

jsmoke03

One of my earliest (and most vivid) memories is of my grandparents bringing an NES as a present when they came to visit. I was 3 or 4 years old. I didn't even know what it was, but I remember them walking through the door with the box and playing Duck Hunt/Marios Bros. for the first time. It's very clear.

But my parents were very strict about it. I only had 30 minutes a day to play as a kid, which bugged me at the time, but in retrospect, I'm glad I spent most of my childhood outside.

I was born into a household which already had an NES. We soon after got a Sega Genesis to go along with it and I was set. Been gaming since I could slap the controller. Been about 20 years of gaming for me and no end in sight.

As a gift, Sega Genesis when I was 7
That I purchased with my brother, PS2 when I was 12
That I purchased myself, Xbox 360 when I was 17 (Though I also bought my first PC the same year) 

Bought my Sega Genesis when I was 13.

I worked thousands of hours working at my uncle's hardware shop on weekends just to get one.  

I had an older brother, so even when I was still a baby we already had a Master System. The first console that was properly mine was a N64, which I got for my birthday when I was six.

NES at 2 or 3... so I'd be more comfortable saying that it was my Dad's console, I suppose.

Super Nes at age 4 or 5

There was always an Atari 2600 in my household for as long as I can remember (still have it too). THen my fam got the NES with the Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, Track and Field package with the power pad. The first console I purchased with my own money was my SNES.  I think I was around 12 or so.

there was a super nintendo in my house from as far back as i can remember, but i suppose it technically wasnt mine. but i'm the only one that still uses it so i am gonna with it.