Me, Summer of '87
Does anyone else whose family couldn't afford one of these remember renting them for the weekend from a home video store? There were never enough hours in the day...
@stereoplex I did that with the SuperNintendo several times. And then got a Genesis.
If you don't count the hand-me-down Atari VCS (actually the Sears rebranded model), the Genesis was my first system too! Saturday mornings were Sega mornings.
This was me, except maybe '84-85, the 2600 (once it got cheaper), and Pitfall.
I remember renting games for my Sega, but I was never good enough to beat a game in the 2-day rental period (and my dad would yell at me if I spent the whole 2 days playing Sega), so I rented the same game over and over until either A. I beat it, B. I lost interest, or C. my parents figured out it would be more economical to buy the damn game.