My very first game console which I look back on with fond memories, though that is mostly the nostalgia of an old man. To be honest, when I received it as some

My very first game console which I look back on with fond memories, though that is mostly the nostalgia of an old man. To be honest, when I received it as some sort of present (Christmas or Birthday) from my parents.... I was very disappointed. As mentioned in other comments here: it wasn't the console to have... that was the Atari 2600. And using it only compounded that disappointment... the controllers which were part joystick, part paddle and wanted you to pump the joystick for a button press was just odd and a bit clumsy. The best game I had for it was the one that came with it (as I remember): you were a block of some size and other blocks would move across the screen an you had to dodge those and not run into the sides of the screen... no characters, no theming: just square blocks. There were other games, but no cool factor at all. In the end it wasn't terrible, just OK. It was entertaining enough that we chose to play it when could have just left it turned off. I wish I still had it. But eventually I did get the 2600, and not too long after having gotten it I traded it in for a deal on my first computer: the Commodore VIC-20.... I wish I still had it, but I eventually traded that in for a deal on a Commodore 64... I wish I still had that... but...