As ever you all make me feel old. Many of the things I see being initial or notable earliest experiences for you I was playing either new or at a point when I could already think about things/quasi review them as art or whatever.
As for the question then nothing I will note as my first. Various friends, people I was visiting (their power as child distraction devices has long been recognised), cousins, hand me downs from parents/uncles all feature here as things it could have been. Even if I do remember it then I will have trouble distinguishing it from what I played of them afterwards; I was doing retro before it was cool and realised the games still played just fine so continued on with them for years, not to mention no flash carts and Christmas and birthday money is so far apart that you would only get a minor injection per year to do anything with. Even when I did start to get pocket money it would have taken an age to get games.
Equally computer gaming was not a distinct thing for most of my youth -- barring the easily ignored piece on the news it was mostly a toy for children and treated as such, no different to playing with lego really.
As for the question then nothing I will note as my first. Various friends, people I was visiting (their power as child distraction devices has long been recognised), cousins, hand me downs from parents/uncles all feature here as things it could have been. Even if I do remember it then I will have trouble distinguishing it from what I played of them afterwards; I was doing retro before it was cool and realised the games still played just fine so continued on with them for years, not to mention no flash carts and Christmas and birthday money is so far apart that you would only get a minor injection per year to do anything with. Even when I did start to get pocket money it would have taken an age to get games.
Equally computer gaming was not a distinct thing for most of my youth -- barring the easily ignored piece on the news it was mostly a toy for children and treated as such, no different to playing with lego really.