One of my previous topics got me thinking of this and as far as I could tell from searching various matching terms, no previous topic appears to exist, expect for a PC specific one.
So, what was your first ever computer/console/handheld/digital gaming experience? What gaming systems did you grow up with?
For me, it was an old Atari console, although I forget which one. It had a version of Pong and Space Invaders. Shortly after that, we got our first computer which was a Commodore Vic 20. One of the first computers to handle both cartridges and casette based games. I still have fond memories of playing Byte the Dust on cartridge via the Vic 20.
After that, we migrated to an Amstrad CPC 464 after we given one to look after for a week while its owner went on holiday (they didn't want to leave it in the house in case it got nicked.) Our version was the low end scale one, with the green screen monitor. Set us back a good 300 pounds and came with a pack of 10 or so games such as Oh Mummy (still a firm favourite of mine) and Fruit Machine Simulator.
From that era my absolute favourite games were the afore mentioned two, Starquake, Terminus, The Bards Tale, laser Squad and Lord of Chaos.
We also wound up wtih a couple of ZX Spectrums, including the the 81 with it's rubber membrane keyboard.
The jump to 16 bits saw both my brother and I obtaining Amigas. He snagged an A500, and I started with the A600 then moved on to an A1200. Most of my Amiga days were spent playing racing games such as all the Lotus Esprit games, Team 17 Games; Superfrog and Alien Breed being firm favourites. And who could ever forget the Amiga demo scene?
Around the time that Doom, Commander Keen and Wolfenstien made their first appearances, I had made the jump to a 286 PC (courtesy of a flood at my dad's office and their need to write off "water damaged" PCs in order to get newer ones. back then, we still got games on the 5 1/4" discs.
I remember having one game (although I forget the name) which came with a huge game board poster and 20 or 30 books which had the story on it. You plotted your turns on the PC, kept track of moves with the maps, and read the actual story via the books depending on where the game told you to read. Sort of a choose your own adventure. I got it dirt cheap and had a lot of fun with it, but one of the books had pages missing, so I was never able to fully complete the thing.
After that, I've jumped from 386, 486, P1 upto the quad core I have now. via so many different PC configurations that I don't remember them all. Although I do still remember when 800x600 seemed large for a desk top!
My favourite old PC game would still have to be XCom Apocalypse. I really was never any good at that genre but I loved that game to death. Would love to buy it again if GOG ever manage to get it.
I've had my fair share of consoles and handhelds too, but Computer/PC gaming has always been where I've enjoyed gaming the most.
Over to you ...

I grew up with Wolf3D when I was aroud 3, but I seem to suck at shooters now. My first RTS waaaaaay back in the day was a copy of Total Annihilation, when the game was around 2 or 3 years old and I had no idea what I was playing. But it was colorful and there were explosions, so I was pretty pacified.

My earliest memory of playing video games was when I was 4 -5 and my parents would play super mario bros. with me on the old school Nintendo. That was pretty much the only time my parents were really into gaming. They thought I would grow out of it but I showed them, lol.
Anyways, I made the switch to PC gaming later but wouldn't discover the awesomeness of Classic PC games until 3 -4 years ago. There's something about playing an old game that kicks ass even though it may be outdated or have it's flaws. Thats why I thought Mount & Blade felt like a classic game. It's graphics were reminiscent of a better time in gaming and the flaws are there to give character to the game.

First games - Battle City, Super Mario Bros and Contra on NES. I still have that working (well half-working NES) somewhere. :)

Well, my first encounter with a game was at my cousin's place on a commodore 64. I dont remember the game, but when I got my first PC, the first two games were Wolfenstein 3D and Prince of Persia :D Awesome times :D

At the risk of sounding ancient(Because I am) the first concole I had was an Atari 2600 with Adventure, Air-Sea Battle and of course Pitfall.

Keen 4 on an old Compaq computer. My father had bought this atrocious, crappy joystiq with only three buttons and on the floppy that had the drives there was a free copy of Keen 4.
I spent years playing that game and never realized you could save until I was about 12 years old. So every game I would start from the beginning and I usually died in the snow level.
I probably had played some games before then, but that's the first one I remember. I think I was about 4 years old.

My dad has always been a gadget addict so iv been lucky enough to have the latest PC/Console since i was born.
first memory has to be playing two of the McDonalds game's for the amiga one was a platformer where you could chose to be either a black kid or a white kid with a cap and the other game was a platformer where you shoot goo monsters, good times.
Also have many a fond memory of playing Soccer kid, Alfred Chicken, James pond, Zool, Boulder Dash and Prince of Persia, oh and watching my dad play a game called wizkid (i think) which was hilarious for its toilet humour
Then the super Nintendo came out and me and my brother spent mornings before school playing Street fighter II, Mortal Kombat and Super Mario World (best in the series)
Then my dad bought us a PlayStation for Christmas and i never knew fear like it. Doom and Resident evil the most of our played games gave me nightmares at night but the next day when i played it again made it all worthwhile. This was also the time i found out about RPG's with Final fantasy 7 being my all time fave i actually remember being disappointed and angry that Final fantasy 8 had a whole set of new people and a different world because cloud was cool mainly
We also got gameboy colours at the start of the Pokemon frenzy lets just say school trips to places like London the bus trip was the best 24 kids all wanting to trade and battle in a small space. my only and best LAN party so to say :P
Have to say my most fond gaming experience was playing SSBM round one of my mates house's after school

I started with the very first Prince of Persia on my old 286, when I was 4, then The lost Vikings, Simcity, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and so forth

Super Mario Bro's 1 and 3, Duck Hunt and Mega Man 2 on the NES, Q-Bert on the GameBoy... I don't remember which game of those was actually the first I played. Most probably I got the NES before the GameBoy, and I think SMB 1, 3, and DH came with it.
Those were my first own games at least, but I may have played the built-in games on dad's Mac PowerBook 140 before that (some jigsaw puzzle and 15-game maybe? can't remember if there even were some games built-in, only know those came with some System 7.x (the PB had 7.0.1)).

Q-bert is that the isometric jumping game, if so that game rocked

The very same, I remember being a bit pissed that I didn't get Tetris like everyone else or some other cool game, and I never got around to get another game for it. I have no idea where it is now, though I can't remember selling it like I stupidly did with the NES.

I remember waking up one day and finding a Sega Master System connected to the TV (my dad worked during the evening so I didn't see him bringing it home). I went through the games and decided to play Michael Jackson's Moonwalker first because I thought it was set in space, I'm not even sure if I knew who MJ was back then.
I remained loyal to Sega in they years after that, buying a Mega Drive, 32X (ugh) and a Saturn.
In 1995/96 I also got my first PC and played exclusively PC games after I sold my Saturn until I bought an Xbox 360 late 2007.

THOSE PEOPLE ARE WRONG! WRONG DO YOU HEAR ME? WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!
Okay, the sanity is back in place now.
You people are all such n00bs! The machine that took my gaming virginity was a giant brick wih a coax out, power in and 2 sliders, it played "Electronic Tennis". It didn't have an on off switch, it didn't keep score and it weighed as much as an original Xbox. In the right hands, it could be viable bludgeoning murder weapon, like a +1 flail of occasionally playing a crappy pong knockoff.
Ahh you modern kids and your graphics, in MY day we had to make our OWN 16x anisotropic filtering by squinting our eyes, and we were happy about that, damnit! Well maybe "happy" is the wrong word, "too stupid to know how lame it was" might be better.
After that, I moved up to the big leagues, a machine with MORE THAN ONE GAME!!! Good old atari 2600, I swear my atari sticks would still work today if I knew where they ever ended up.
Post atari I came to the finest machine ever made by man, the C64. I learned to program basic text adventures (basic in both senses of the word), I used GEOS and saw the joys of yet another company ripping off the Xerox Star, I butchered thousands of monsters & aliens and it even helped me withmy homework. Well okay it helped me AVOID my homework.
The Amiga came next, if it weren't for the C64 and maybe th F16 Falcon it'd be the best machine ever made. Games by the bucket including a version of cannon fodder that I swear had a theme song.
I'd used an 086 (yes, not 186 or 286, 086) based machine at a mate's place, he had one of those tandy type analogue joysticks that was a single stick with one button in a white box (In fact, it was this one: [url]http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/hardware/Tandy_Color1_Joystick_1.jpg[/url]) and could hold calibration for all of 4-5 stick movements. It was a piece of crap but it played Ultima 6 and so I decided I needed a PC. Oh, it was also "85% PC Compatible".
Sometime later got my first 486 and in keeping with being a nerd, my first bit of software for it was the Interactive Star Trek Technical Manual. It shipped with Dragon Naturally Speaking built in which was, for the time, total shit. if you manage to get a 95% match on the 100 odd words it understood, you could talk to it like the enterprise computer and impress the friends you have who'll never know the touch of a woman. Lets just say it's not going to compete with the voice command system in EndWar. I started experimenting with overclocking at the time and managed to squeeze my DX75 chip all the way up into the 90mhz range so I could play diablo. If I had a few hours to walk from one side of town to another that is.
Got a Slot 1 celeron 333 next & voodoo banshee 3d adapter so I was finally able to play fancy games that needed video memory and voxels. I was the first person I knew who broke the 1GHz barrier with a crappy old athlon thunderbird that still serves me today as my "big download that I want to start & then do something fun on a different computer" system. It was also the first PC I completely self-designed & assembled.
I think I got my xbox next and the dozen or so good games there were for it (my only regret was never getting beyond good & evil but it eventually got GOG another sale so there's an upside).
I went for a P4 2.8GHz system next, ended up replacing the old geforce 4 my 1ghz machine was using with a geforce 6800GT and that machine managed to serve me well until it died a few months ago. Now I'm left with the xbox 360 I bought a bit over a year ago, a fancy media laptop thats not the best for modern games but ideal for GOG stuff and a few weeks ago I got a netbook thats JUST powerful enough to play most of the Telltale games I own.
Edit: Woohoo, I think I've just managed to write more than bansama