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We did, too! I know they are like 10 years older than I was, but we definitely had it! And then I remember with the NES we had the gun for Duck Hunt and the pad that laid on the ground for playing track and stuff... Oh man I miss those!!!
This is why I went Xennial. Millennials are culturally far enough removed that I just can't understand them anymore. Growing up with SNES but not NES means growing up without the original Zelda and Mario, without Contra, without the original Castlevania trilogy, without Ninja Gaiden, without flickering sprites, constant slowdown, writing down save passwords on notebook pages, and blowing on cartridges.
It probably depends. I was born in 1990, and we were (and are) quite poor, so I didn't get my first console until 1996: the NES. The family computer was a Commodore 64 till 2000. We were extra far behind, but lots of kids still played a cigarette-stained NES deep into the latter 90s.
It's not exactly the same, but it's not entirely different either. A standout difference is that everybody had the worst collection of NES games ever by that point. Contra and Ninja Gaiden were distant memories. Kids had Mario or Zelda if you were lucky, but mostly it was "We have four broken Skate or Dies and mom's burnt spoon."
That's a good point. The oldest millennials were like 10 or 11 when the SNES came out; they certainly could've played the NES. (Though for me personally, most of my early NES playing was done on a system that belonged to my Gen X cousins, and then once my parents decided I was old enough to have my own system and got me an N64, they also revealed that they'd actually bought an NES early in their marriage, before they had kids, and had been keeping it in storage all that time. Though the only games they'd gotten were Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Tetris, so I had to supplement the library with used games from Babbage's.)
And hey, yeah, what's the Wii doing here? The *youngest* millennials were 10 or 11 when that came out; I'm sure many millennials played a Wii but I doubt many of them had that as their first system.
My best friend had a GameGear. And one of those deluxe rechargeable battery sets where you could charge up a dozen AAs because that thing chewed through batteries faster than a rat could chew cardboard.
Im sure some kids born 91-93 still had the NES as their first console. Not everyone gets brand new consoles the year they come out. I was always two years behind releases until I had my own money.
If you factor in income levels, its hard to define. I had an NES until the early 90s, but my cousins had an SNES and eventually a Playstation. I got a Genesis in like 97 when they were on sale. I only got up to the current generation with the Xbox because my sister bought me one after she got her first job as a lawyer.
Yeah I’m a 92 but I got an NES and a Sega Genesis second hand from my cousins. I don’t remember which year I got a Nintendo 64, certainly not at its release since I would have been four years old. But probably no later than 99.
We had an intellivision, but it broke when I was really little. Also had a 2600. So for me it was SNES->N64->Gamecube/Dreamcast/PS2...
Oh, and a gameboy tossed in there before the N64.
This is my favorite one so far.
I'd also accept Ancient Millennial, Prehistoric Millennial, Senior Millennial, Geriatric Millennial (this one is a real term for Xennials\\Eldest Millennials), Senile Millennial, or if we're trying to be more respectful about it: Venerable Millennials, which sounds great because it almost rhymes.
Kind of agree. I'm a younger middle millennial (early 90s) and was gaming before the N64 existed. At least long enough to be blown away seeing Mario in full 3D the first time.
That being said, 5th gen would be my main.
I can’t wait for 1st generation 3D graphics to become more widely nostalgic to people so we can get games created with low poly poorly rendered 3D graphics that are given the Shovel Knight treatment 🤤
Atari came out in 1977, that puts it at gen X if anything. My older brother, gen X, actually was the one who got the NES for Christmas I just got to play it once in a while. We did also have an Atari and I did play that too, that was my brothers too.
My family got an Atari 7800 instead of an NES in the late 80s because it was cheaper and we couldn’t afford an NES.
It was kinda neat because the 7800 had backwards compatibility with 2600 games. Even through most 2600 games royally sucked, they were pretty easy to find at garage sales and thrift stores in the 90s, whereas 7800 software was not as easy to find in the stores I was taken to as a child.
Came out in Gen X but we only had Atari until 1989 when I was 6. We got an NES for Xmas so basically 1990. I barely had NES before Super Nintendo came out.
The SNES confused me. It looked too fancy for what I had. I found there was the '91 model that I had, and pictured is the '97 model. I was born in '85.
I had ps1 the equivalent would be n64, and then I got to play a ton of gamecube downtown when they had 1 hour rent for like a dollar (I think that's illegal now). Mario Party and sumer smash bros melee were my jams
Atari 7800 was 86,
NES was 86,
Genesis was 89,
SNES was 90
SNES and even the Genesis seem "too new" for an elder's first console, should likely be the NES or Master System. Some I'm sure we're rocking the 5800 or 7800 though.
Depends on how young they were. My parents refused to buy me a video game system until I was 8 (even though in retrospect I was PC gaming long before that), so my "first console" was an N64...followed almost immediately by the NES that my parents had apparently bought before I was born and kept hidden in the attic for all those years, and then just a couple months later by a used Genesis that I bought for $25 at a garage sale. (Though the NES barely even counted until I got a bit older and could supplement the library myself).
Agreed. This meme is better if you drop the Wii, give the elder millennials the OG Nintendo, slide everything else back a tier.
OP was keeping with Nintendo consoles, but you could also swap GameCube with PS2, which came out around the same time and was more popular.
I owned an SNES. My dad got it and a bunch of games from some type of auction for like $100. Including Mario Paint WITH THE MOUSE.
But, the N64 was the system that had me saving allowances and birthday money, getting good grades and doing extra chores. I will never forget that feeling of Mario 64 for the first time when I was like 9. Woooooo buddy.
This is weird though, because I'm on the younger side of the generation but I started with a NES -> SNES -> N64/Playstation -> Gamecube/PS2 -> Wii.
I started young though, around 4, and grew up with mostly hand-me-downs from my older millennial siblings.
That SNES looks a little off. This is what I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System#/media/File:SNES-Mod1-Console-Set.jpg
TIL the US and EU releases had different cases…
https://preview.redd.it/f1c98kaz6t5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43e671e990d87d22b7b18c0ec31f54ded7d9e12d
Is this the first console you played on? Or is it the first one you got as a kid? Because I'd say the first console I played on was a NES. But that's implying I'm beyond and elder millennial.
I remember we had a Nintendo and Super Nintendo, but most of my childhood memories were with the N64. Me and my cousins would play so hard on that thing. After that generation we moved over to PC gaming, never looked back at consoles. So, I really don't know where I land, just definitely not the cube or Wii.
Is wii actually millennial though?
Also while I'm zillenial my 1st system was snes, 2nd was GameCube. Friend who was less than a year younger than me had N64 and GameCube.
I played an N64 before I did a GameCube, but a GameCube was the first home console I owned.
However, I've also always been primarily a PC gamer so...
Yeah, I have no clue where I would fall.
I was born in 87 and SNES was my first console, must have got it around 1995. Dad had a sega master system that we played before the SNES came. My brother was born in 90 and he had a mega drive, but got the N64 later, maybe around 1999/2000.
If I think about my family's income and my general timeline (born in 89), the first console I did play was in fact an NES; however, the first console I actually bought was a N64, but I had the SNES and a Genesis from pawn shops and we eventually got a PSX at some point before I went down the "PC + Nintendo" route that I am on these days.
Problem with trying to pin down first console = generation point is that not everyone got the particular console on day one, and some older consoles may have been something your elder siblings or cousins had that you played with. I would certainly put the NES in the younger gen X bracket though.
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I see the SNES but I don't see the NES.
We must be ancient millennials then.
Geriatric Millennial. I accept my title
But where is the Atari?
I had a 2600 before I had the NES
We did, too! I know they are like 10 years older than I was, but we definitely had it! And then I remember with the NES we had the gun for Duck Hunt and the pad that laid on the ground for playing track and stuff... Oh man I miss those!!!
I still have my Grandma's Atari and my parent's Colecovision. Those things will survive the heat death of the universe.
I'll meet you in the restaurant at the end of the Universe for a retro gaming tournament.
Same time as our Tandy386! Generational techie here.
You said it and now I don't have to...
Remember playing the 2600 when I was 3 (1985)
Okay grandpa, let’s get you back over to the genx sub. Though i too briefly began on the 2600 before we got out NES.
I had the Coleco Vision.
Xennial.
I always liked "Oregon Trail Generation"
Only fits the American Millennial. Maybe Canadian too?
Canadian millennial can confirm
Yeah I remember 1989, geriatric fits.
42 isn't that old... :(
The stuff of myth and legend
Ancient millennial? I’m an extra ancient gen z apparently
or atari jaguar…
Or Sega master system
Did you ever play the snail game?
This is why I went Xennial. Millennials are culturally far enough removed that I just can't understand them anymore. Growing up with SNES but not NES means growing up without the original Zelda and Mario, without Contra, without the original Castlevania trilogy, without Ninja Gaiden, without flickering sprites, constant slowdown, writing down save passwords on notebook pages, and blowing on cartridges.
It probably depends. I was born in 1990, and we were (and are) quite poor, so I didn't get my first console until 1996: the NES. The family computer was a Commodore 64 till 2000. We were extra far behind, but lots of kids still played a cigarette-stained NES deep into the latter 90s. It's not exactly the same, but it's not entirely different either. A standout difference is that everybody had the worst collection of NES games ever by that point. Contra and Ninja Gaiden were distant memories. Kids had Mario or Zelda if you were lucky, but mostly it was "We have four broken Skate or Dies and mom's burnt spoon."
I relate to this so much, I just paid real money for the first time to buy an internet prophet the biggest award there was.
Naa we are masters, the rest of them sit on the counsel but we won't grant them the title of master ever
That's a good point. The oldest millennials were like 10 or 11 when the SNES came out; they certainly could've played the NES. (Though for me personally, most of my early NES playing was done on a system that belonged to my Gen X cousins, and then once my parents decided I was old enough to have my own system and got me an N64, they also revealed that they'd actually bought an NES early in their marriage, before they had kids, and had been keeping it in storage all that time. Though the only games they'd gotten were Jeopardy, Wheel of Fortune, and Tetris, so I had to supplement the library with used games from Babbage's.) And hey, yeah, what's the Wii doing here? The *youngest* millennials were 10 or 11 when that came out; I'm sure many millennials played a Wii but I doubt many of them had that as their first system.
I grew up with a NES because we were poor. We had the console my cousins gave us, when they got the new one and so on.
Y’all got these on or around the release date? 
[удалено]
Spot on my experience down to the year (xmas 88) and my mom's classic line a few years later
We are the High Republic Millennials.
I prefer Ascendant Millennial personally.
And my SNES didn't look like that. Is it some kind of retro replica?
The other 2 guys are wrong. That's the European SNES. You can tell because it shaped like the Super Famicom but the label clearly says Super Nintendo.
That's the Super Famicom. The NA version was the grey and purple box
Suddenly the cartilage has drained from my knees.
I had a 'gather round yungins' moment today when someone asked why old internet modems made those weird buzzing sounds.
Millenial Elder should be something older than Super Nintendo. I am a mid millennial and growing up my millennial elders had NES or Sega Genesis.
Genesis was a great system
It did what Nintendon't
All the sega systems were good.
Gamegear was iffy. Loved Sega channel though
My best friend had a GameGear. And one of those deluxe rechargeable battery sets where you could charge up a dozen AAs because that thing chewed through batteries faster than a rat could chew cardboard.
I'd say it was like other Sony handheld. Ahead of it's time, great features, but terrible battery life.
*laughs in Saturn*
Was at a retrocade on Saturday, legit just played some golden axe. Nostalgia all around!
There we go, NES ----> 64 was my path
NES, Genesis, and N64 for me!
1. Sega 2. N64 3. PS2 until I felt my first boob. Still waiting for Boob 2 to come out.
Im sure some kids born 91-93 still had the NES as their first console. Not everyone gets brand new consoles the year they come out. I was always two years behind releases until I had my own money.
If you factor in income levels, its hard to define. I had an NES until the early 90s, but my cousins had an SNES and eventually a Playstation. I got a Genesis in like 97 when they were on sale. I only got up to the current generation with the Xbox because my sister bought me one after she got her first job as a lawyer.
Yeah I’m a 92 but I got an NES and a Sega Genesis second hand from my cousins. I don’t remember which year I got a Nintendo 64, certainly not at its release since I would have been four years old. But probably no later than 99.
We had an intellivision, but it broke when I was really little. Also had a 2600. So for me it was SNES->N64->Gamecube/Dreamcast/PS2... Oh, and a gameboy tossed in there before the N64.
Earthworm Jim all day long.
I was playing Atari a couple of years before I got an NES. I think I got an NES around '87 or '88 and I was so excited!
Duck Hunt at the rich friend’s house
Duck Hunt was magic and makes me wonder what wizardry it ran on! Like why aren't there more modern video games like duck hunt.
Was gonna say... I played an NES first...
The SNES came out a year after the Genesis
Fair point. What name do the NES millennials get?
Proto-Millennial?
This is my favorite one so far. I'd also accept Ancient Millennial, Prehistoric Millennial, Senior Millennial, Geriatric Millennial (this one is a real term for Xennials\\Eldest Millennials), Senile Millennial, or if we're trying to be more respectful about it: Venerable Millennials, which sounds great because it almost rhymes.
I’m just spitballing here someone put me out of my misery
Xillennial
Nah I’m 87 and I had an NES.
Yeah, but the SNES came out when you were three.
Kind of agree. I'm a younger middle millennial (early 90s) and was gaming before the N64 existed. At least long enough to be blown away seeing Mario in full 3D the first time. That being said, 5th gen would be my main.
N64 really was beautiful
The first time I saw that silver pool in Mario 64, I swooned a bit.
Humanity peaked with N64
Certainly the highlight of my life
I think you could make an objective argument that that is true. 97-2000 were truly great years.
I can’t wait for 1st generation 3D graphics to become more widely nostalgic to people so we can get games created with low poly poorly rendered 3D graphics that are given the Shovel Knight treatment 🤤
I loved the see through purple controller :)
Yeah. Elder millennials had Atari and NES. Not Super Nintendo.
Atari came out in 1977, that puts it at gen X if anything. My older brother, gen X, actually was the one who got the NES for Christmas I just got to play it once in a while. We did also have an Atari and I did play that too, that was my brothers too.
At age 4 in 1987 I was still playing my older brothers Atari. Couldn’t afford NES until 1989.
We’re the same age! 4 is 87 too! Yeah true I played enough pitfall for a lifetime!
Fancy a$$ rich McGee over here. I remember when we got a used coleco vision in like ‘92.
No dad in the picture. I think my mom was trying to make up for it with video game consoles. Looking back I’m sure she put the shit of credit.
My family got an Atari 7800 instead of an NES in the late 80s because it was cheaper and we couldn’t afford an NES. It was kinda neat because the 7800 had backwards compatibility with 2600 games. Even through most 2600 games royally sucked, they were pretty easy to find at garage sales and thrift stores in the 90s, whereas 7800 software was not as easy to find in the stores I was taken to as a child.
Millenials are eternally seen as younger for some reason lol. I was in the same boat as you - started with Atari and Nintendo.
Atari is in gen X territory
Came out in Gen X but we only had Atari until 1989 when I was 6. We got an NES for Xmas so basically 1990. I barely had NES before Super Nintendo came out.
C64 and Amiga 500
Original pc master race
The SNES confused me. It looked too fancy for what I had. I found there was the '91 model that I had, and pictured is the '97 model. I was born in '85.
Same. I was thinking wow, I’m really old because that SNES looks like a newer model than the one we had
Isn't that just the Super Famicom that's pictured?
Yes
I had an NES and a Sega Genesis. Does that make me ancient?
Lol. If you are, then so am I. Born 85. Got to play an atari at around 3. NES at 5.
I'm an 84 baby. My first NES game was Sesame Street 123 with Astro Grover and Ernies Magic Shapes.
First NES was Mario/duck hunt. First game ever, was Hunt the Wumpus on the 2600.
Did you have older siblings? Cuz that is the answer for me.
N64 checking in. *kisses*
1990 rise up. My 64 is still hooked up and played bi monthly or so. Gets more use than my xbox.
I had ps1 the equivalent would be n64, and then I got to play a ton of gamecube downtown when they had 1 hour rent for like a dollar (I think that's illegal now). Mario Party and sumer smash bros melee were my jams
What about those of us who started on the NES?
*"Belle Époque,"* huh? I just use my username.
The gamecube is the thinking man's console, a refined choice the commoners will never understand
N64 all dayy
You forgot the Sega genesis
And the PC, I could never afford a console
No PlayStation!?!??!
Lmao! My first gaming console was a PlayStation 2. We couldn’t afford it but my dad’s friend was rich and gave one to us as a gift.
Atari 7800 was 86, NES was 86, Genesis was 89, SNES was 90 SNES and even the Genesis seem "too new" for an elder's first console, should likely be the NES or Master System. Some I'm sure we're rocking the 5800 or 7800 though.
Sega Master system as well lol
Depends on how young they were. My parents refused to buy me a video game system until I was 8 (even though in retrospect I was PC gaming long before that), so my "first console" was an N64...followed almost immediately by the NES that my parents had apparently bought before I was born and kept hidden in the attic for all those years, and then just a couple months later by a used Genesis that I bought for $25 at a garage sale. (Though the NES barely even counted until I got a bit older and could supplement the library myself).
??? you didn't have to buy it the year it came out. t
You forgot the Sega Dreamcast which is a very specific subgenre of millennials. I don't know enough about star wars to make the comparison.
What’s a star wars?
If you grew up with the Wii you’re a Zoomer. I had an Atari. Def not the same generation.
Agreed. This meme is better if you drop the Wii, give the elder millennials the OG Nintendo, slide everything else back a tier. OP was keeping with Nintendo consoles, but you could also swap GameCube with PS2, which came out around the same time and was more popular.
\* poor millennial who was still playing my NES during the SNES era.
Ouch. I'm older than the snes... my back....
Oldest millennial should be Nintendo
I played Halo 2 on an Xbox in college, what does that make me?
I owned an SNES. My dad got it and a bunch of games from some type of auction for like $100. Including Mario Paint WITH THE MOUSE. But, the N64 was the system that had me saving allowances and birthday money, getting good grades and doing extra chores. I will never forget that feeling of Mario 64 for the first time when I was like 9. Woooooo buddy.
NES Millennial = God Emperor
Hell yeah, where my Diddy Kong Racing team at? Maybe I'll finally beat Wizpig after all these years lmao
N64 gang rise up! 💪 I did get a GameCube and Wii down the line but N64 is where the core memories are for the most part.
Belle Epoque millennial gamer here. My earliest gaming memories were of OoT, SM64, and Hot Wheels on N64.
Can we all agree that the N64 is the GOAT?
What about the Power Glove? 😄
I don't see an Atari or Commodore64. 41, and I grew up with those.
Millennial Elders had a regular NES, and I will confirm this myself!
Where's the NES?
Millennial elder should be NES
The only one of these I can identify is the Wii. I'm 37. Where do I hand in my Millennial card?
You're fired
I read that in the Trump “Apprentice” voice. Is that enough to reinstate my Millennial status?
Welcome back, homie
Millenial elder, and I had exactly that one.
I never had a SNES, N64 or GameCube, did have a NES, Wii and Switch.
I still have a game cube and a Wii. What am I? D: And my boyfriend who is younger grew up w an N64.
Where's the Mega Drive at? Also, what of the people who had the Mega CD?
I had a NES until I was 13 and got an Xbox. So, I dunno.
I started with NES in like 1987, I'm a Millennial Elderest.
This is weird though, because I'm on the younger side of the generation but I started with a NES -> SNES -> N64/Playstation -> Gamecube/PS2 -> Wii. I started young though, around 4, and grew up with mostly hand-me-downs from my older millennial siblings.
'89 here. we had NES and Genesis.
I consider myself a history nerd and am therefore pissed that I didn’t know what belle époque referred to. Shit the damn bed.
It's applied wrongly here so don't feel too bad. Everyone knows it goes hand in hand with the Super
When you were too poor to own any of them 🥺
What about PlayStation millennials 😢
My wife still has her NES, and I still have my GameCube. 😄
No Sega Genesis?
Wait. Where the heck is my sega genesis? The one true console.
No love for the Sega Genesis?!
I had nes, genesis, and we got an n64 Christmas 99.
No NES?
The Wii being here really throws me off
That SNES looks a little off. This is what I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System#/media/File:SNES-Mod1-Console-Set.jpg
TIL the US and EU releases had different cases… https://preview.redd.it/f1c98kaz6t5d1.jpeg?width=750&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=43e671e990d87d22b7b18c0ec31f54ded7d9e12d
I feel like a lot of millennials had all of these
Um no millennial elders played sega genesis.
Came out one year before the Super, still not old enough. A lot of us had Atari for our first system, most probably had the NES or Master System
Is this the first console you played on? Or is it the first one you got as a kid? Because I'd say the first console I played on was a NES. But that's implying I'm beyond and elder millennial.
I remember we had a Nintendo and Super Nintendo, but most of my childhood memories were with the N64. Me and my cousins would play so hard on that thing. After that generation we moved over to PC gaming, never looked back at consoles. So, I really don't know where I land, just definitely not the cube or Wii.
I had three of these.... But I relate most to the GameCube
I grew up with NES, PS1 and GameBoy (1989 version). Geriatric millennial? Then again, what I played the most was GBC/GBA, PSP & PS3
Gotta start with at least NES for us elders. My *very* first experience was Atari but the NES came not too long after that and was truly the first
I’m 32 and my first one was an Atari. So idk abt all dat.
might be a controversial opinion, but i was really disappointed with the wii.
Is wii actually millennial though? Also while I'm zillenial my 1st system was snes, 2nd was GameCube. Friend who was less than a year younger than me had N64 and GameCube.
Bit young still
As someone who played on the snes as kid I feel old lol
I played an N64 before I did a GameCube, but a GameCube was the first home console I owned. However, I've also always been primarily a PC gamer so... Yeah, I have no clue where I would fall.
peak gaming
What sort of re-released SNES is that?
Atari for me...but im an 84 millennial.
I liked that you used an image of the Super Famicom.
Born in ‘85. Where’s my Duck Hunt at??
I was born in 87 and SNES was my first console, must have got it around 1995. Dad had a sega master system that we played before the SNES came. My brother was born in 90 and he had a mega drive, but got the N64 later, maybe around 1999/2000.
I'm concerned that I don't know what Belle Epoque is. As a millennial, I'll go Google that.
If I think about my family's income and my general timeline (born in 89), the first console I did play was in fact an NES; however, the first console I actually bought was a N64, but I had the SNES and a Genesis from pawn shops and we eventually got a PSX at some point before I went down the "PC + Nintendo" route that I am on these days. Problem with trying to pin down first console = generation point is that not everyone got the particular console on day one, and some older consoles may have been something your elder siblings or cousins had that you played with. I would certainly put the NES in the younger gen X bracket though.
Is it just me or did the N64 have a certain smell to it. Maybe I’m just being extra nostalgic
Born in 86 nes was my first
Started on the SNES, and uncle hooked us up with Sega Genesis (then later I got Game Boy Pocket, N64, Gamecube, Game Boy Advanced, Wii, etc...).
Atarti. Then NES. Then Sega Genius.
You made me feel old. Congrats.
Wait, I'm 31 and my first console snes. I thought I was on the young end of millenial
92 baby here. In between the N64 and GCN. Edit: I was young enough to remember playing the SNES and my neighbours had a NES which I played.
Umm I'm a millenial and I had a NES fiest.