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[–] lawofchaos ago (edited ago)
I was about 6 (1992) when my parents picked up a console from some local market. It was called the 'Pegasus Entertainment System' and we had one game cartridge that was something like 150 games in 1. Super Mario Bros, Battle City, Bomberman, Pooyan, Mappy, Excite Bike, Elevator Action, all that jazz. Back then we didn't even know any better, they were just referred to as 'TV games'. Only much later did I even find out about Nintendo or that our 'TV games' were chinese knock-offs, my parents didn't care about that shit so I only found out from friends who had magazines or something.
A few years later I got hold of a Sega MegaDrive II. There was a local video shop that you could hire (and sometimes swap) MegaDrive games from so luckily I got to play quite a few. My favourite games then were Sonic the Hedgehog, Streets Of Rage, Golden Axe, Light Crusader, Battletoads, Vectorman, Comix Zone (I partly credit this game for my taste in music today).
Nintendo prices have never been very third world friendly so it's never been too big here even to this day. Back then Sega had the lion's share of the console market and in later days it was Sony. Only got my first PC two years ago.