What year did you get you first SMS?

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I got mine for christmas 1990, in 1989 i got an atari 65xe and that year my cousins got the sms and i was gutted after playing that and having to return home to my atari. I had to work on my parents all year and in early december 1990 i went to dixons with my dad and picked one up for christmas. It was a really cold horrible day but i was grinning all the way home clutching the sms on the bus then i had to wait 3 weeks to unwrap it. I got 2 games with it as well alex kidd in miracle world and wonderboy, the sms had hang on card and the snail maze built in.

I sold it in 1993 to get a mega drive and buy then i had 25 games, i sold it for £150 and the guy who bought it paid with 3 £50 notes... i went to rumblows to buy a megadrive and the lad there said my notes were fake ... he said f*** it, its my last day and sold me the megadrive anyway lol

[Rastanfarian]

Its funny how many of us have had similar experiences. Parents anti NES, sold and regret, etc. I am also surprised how many of us got our first system around the same time 87/88. I only knew one other kid besides myself way back in the day that had a Sega and not a Nintendo.
I threw the question out there because I was curious of the general age group of the forum members. I figured I would be one of the old timers, but it seems a majority of us are roughly the same age. Looking forward to more responses!

[Rastanfarian]

Jan 29, 2015 7:46:08 GMT @marc35 said:

I sold it in 1993 to get a mega drive and buy then i had 25 games, i sold it for £150 and the guy who bought it paid with 3 £50 notes... i went to rumblows to buy a megadrive and the lad there said my notes were fake ... he said f*** it, its my last day and sold me the megadrive anyway lol

Awesome story Marc!

[Rastanfarian]

Bump...
Some new members out there since I first threw this question out there.

Can a pole be added to this thread?

[fisher007]

1992 master system 2 with the game alien storm. Almost 25 years latee i bought a real mastee system model 1

[joemontana16]

Mine I want to say was U.S. Christmas 1988,,, And my Aunt must have went shopping with my Mom because my cousin got the SMS version 1, with Hang-On, 2 controllers, 1 phaser and Safari Hunt also... Everybody in school thought we were dumb for not asking Santa for the NES

[BobSega]

Xmas 1991. The price had come down so much on the SMS II at that point that I could ask my parents to buy me one for Xmas. Not so long before, the price had been a lot higher. It seems as though many kids in New Zealand started owning SMS IIs around this time.

[IrishNinja]

christmas of '86, friend of the family was out in Houston and saw some demo of some kind, brought it back for the holidays! it was my older brother's until he left the next year or so, then it was finally mine! loved it so much, i played the crap out of Hang on & Safari Hunt, even found the Snail game!

[Chunkchenko]

It's hard for me to properly remember when I first got my master system. I would have to say it was Christmas 1992. It was a boxed model 2 with Alex the Kidd built in to it. I was only 3 years old but can always remember my brother being ecstatic with it. To me I just liked staring at the pictures on the box until it was plugged in haha It must have been around that time because I have another memory of taking games cases to pre-school to look at them. I remember what games I had but none from what I owned on that Christmas.

We never owned a mega drive and went straight to the Saturn so the master system had plenty of use.

Here's what I remember having.

Indiana Jones (bought from a catalogue)
Sonic 1 (brothers birthday)
Sonic 2 (had this before sonic 1)
Ninja (from some shop maybe comet)
Mortal Kombat (given off a friend)
Alex Kidd Shinobi World (give off a friend)
Road Rash (local car boot)
Golden Axe
Double Hawk
Super Monaco GP
Lucky Dime Caper
Castle of Illusion
Aladdin

These are just off the top of my head

[GhostSweeper]

I'm thinking it must of been Xmas '92 for me. Got a Master System 2 with the Alex Kidd In Miracle World game built-in. I still love that game. Actually my bro had it bought for him as I got a NES that same Xmas but we always played both, similar to what we did with the Megadrive and SNES. Having access to both 8 & 16-bit consoles was awesome and I truly appreciate the times we had on all of them.

[ryanretro]

I got my master system II for xmas 91 ,  well I got it a few days after xmas , maybe even the beginning of 92 .

By 91 it was no longer Santa bringing me presents ,  I knew my dad wasn't going to fork out £150 or whatever it was for a Megadrive but I had noticed the master system in our local " Max Electrical " store for a reasonable £60 .
So in the run up to xmas I made it known I was interested .

So Christmas day arrives and I rush down stairs to open my presents and to my disappointment my dad had got me an electronic battleship game .  
I was disappointed but I still played it a few times over Christmas day , then mercifully the thing broke , completely packed in .

I immediately complained to my dad and asked that we return it .  Once at the store I managed to get a straight swap for the sms II with Alex Kidd , played that non stop for two months until I finished it , still my favourite sms game . 

[Retrobob]

How on earth was an electronic battleship game equivalent to an SMS II? Must have been pretty sweet.

[nearbythiscafe]

You must have been pretty happy with that exchange!

[ryanretro]

Yeah I think the difference in value was only £5 or £10 which I had ,  think the battleship was this one

www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Vintage-SEA-BATTLE-Game-TANDY-Electronic-Battleships-Game-Working-/272495554768?hash=item3f720030d0:g:h0IAAOSwepJXZshi

A few years before this I had got an atari for xmas , at this point I had no idea video games existed , it was just an extra gift Santa gave me .
I only noticed it after lunch when my dad was setting it up in the kitchen , initially I had no interest in it , seemed something to do with watching tv , which I didn't want to do .
Every morning during the school holidays I would go to my parents bedroom and they would be playing Battlezone on it .

But eventually it made it's way to my bedroom and I enjoyed it loads , but perhaps my initial luke warm reaction was the reason I never got the sms .

[nearbythiscafe]

I really wanted that battleships! It used to be advertised on tv on saturday mornings, I just got the bog standard one though lol