My parents had some kind of screw loose in their brains that consoles were bad somehow and we weren't allowed to have them (but we could play them at our cousins' and such), though Gameboys were quite alright, and mom played Tetris a lot herself. I'm probably the only video-game-playing person my age who never had a NES or SNES or Genesis or anything like that. Dad finally gave in when my aunt got us an N64, long after it had been out, and of course that got the ball rolling and now my bros have a 360, a Wii, and I think they still have the PS2, and since moving out on my own, I've got a Wii and a GameCube, and am looking to get an N64 ('cause Virtual Console doesn't have what I want, and it's just not the same anyways).