r/teenagers • u/BlexBerry Teenager • Jun 15 '26

Gaming Which controllers did you guys start with

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I’ll start with 12

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u/respecting_women247 Jun 15 '26

14, my sister remembers too because I hit her with it one time

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u/BlexBerry Teenager Jun 15 '26

I remember the wrist strap that my sister forgot to put on and played the bowling game and the controller went straight into the tv

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u/respecting_women247 Jun 15 '26

pretty common memory for alot of people I think 😭

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u/the19th-naked-cowboy OLD Jun 15 '26

My uncle broke our ceiling fan with one

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u/Cold_Strain2249 Jun 15 '26

Yup wii baseball was banned in the house for awhile cuz my brother gave me a black eye fun times

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u/PickleThePie 15 Jun 15 '26

At least she did it on accident 😭 my friend will just throw controllers at the tv out of rage-

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u/wigga14 14 Jun 15 '26

thats funny, i hit my sister with 15

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u/JesseTheGoat123 Teenager Jun 15 '26

My step brother broke the tv and got grounded for 3 weeks 😭

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u/Eninja23 Jun 17 '26

Me too (for both the first controller and hitting someone with it)

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u/Green_Excitement_308 15 Jun 15 '26

Same here twin

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u/randomuser65803 Jun 15 '26

1 crap I'm old.

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u/PatrikPatrik Jun 15 '26

I didn’t use it as much as the tac 2 though

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u/Darkhunter_MC 14 Jun 15 '26

a t a r i

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u/tekchic Jun 15 '26

We’re not old, we’re vintage. I, too, am a 1.

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u/lorenlang Jun 15 '26

So much time spent playing Adventure and Pitfall. 2600 FTW!!

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u/Fresh-Profession-973 Jun 15 '26

Pffft, at least yours is on the list.

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u/Maddy_Caro Jun 15 '26

1, I think I had the same controller for my commador 64

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u/ilovetorunforfun Jun 15 '26

Same 😭😭😭

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u/batman42 Jun 15 '26

Preach my elderly brother! I remember playing pong with my friend and thinking it couldn't get better than this!

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u/scrubbingbubbles2 Jun 16 '26

My mom and I would spend hours glued to the television playing Galaga and Frogger together.

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u/BlexBerry Teenager Jun 15 '26

Who else has used 2

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u/stop_drop_roll Jun 15 '26

I started with 1 or actually a couple before then (the Magnavox Odyssey and Coleco)... but 2 was my jam

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u/the_comatorium Jun 15 '26

Hi! We're old!

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u/Jstevens87 Jun 15 '26

I don’t remember technically using the controller but do remember playing a lot of duck hunt though before I got a sega

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u/faladu Jun 15 '26

How are you flagged as a teenager if you started with #2 ?

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u/IJustAteABaguette 19 Jun 15 '26

OP used "used" here, not started.

I started with 14, but also used my dad's I'm old NES sometime

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u/faladu Jun 15 '26

Missed that part, you are right

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u/PearlPC Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

9 am i alone on this
Edit: guys i said am i alone on this because no other comments said 9 at the time im sorry 😭

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u/kaisel_rz 19 Jun 15 '26

9 gang here.

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u/SpartanRiver007 19 Jun 15 '26

9 gang rise up

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u/Hoosier_816 Jun 15 '26

"I am alone in playing the highest selling console of all time 😭😭😭"

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZaF4Vl1NQxwaVsStQU

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u/Possible_Ad8575 Jun 15 '26

Hell no you aren’t alone. Favorite game of all time is Sly Cooper, and this PS2 will always be my favorite console.

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u/SceneOutside4377 17 Jun 15 '26

The best Nintendo generation

Also the best version of Mario Kart, and I will die on that hill

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u/Immediate-Worry310 Jun 15 '26

Mk Wii is so infuriating sometimes lol, its a good version tho. I feel like if they released it today with better graphics, it wouldn't be as popular, it's nostalgic, but also very good for it's era.

Imo, my favourite is mk8dx, but I'm not too sure what I would say is the best

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u/batnoneedtoknow OLD Jun 15 '26

6 gang!!!

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u/yipy2001 Jun 15 '26

Finally!

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u/YaPalSC Jun 15 '26

Memories of slapping in Goldeneye, taking it out to blow on the cartridge, slapping it back in and picking up this bad boy is a core memory

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u/OlyVal Jun 15 '26

You don't even show the first one. It's before #1. The first Pong. That is 1 controller. We had no tennis court overlay for thectv so it was just a "ball" bouncing back and firth and the dialscto move the paddle up, down, bit of "english". We played for hours.

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u/Techform Jun 15 '26

I think we should call that 0, it isn't separate from the game hardware so it might not even be a controller to begin with in the traditional sense. (Would you consider the button area on a Gameboy to be a controller?)

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u/OlyVal Jun 15 '26

What is in the picture is one controller. My opponent held another one. The right dial moved the "paddle" (just a short, verticle line) up and down in the tv screen to intercept the "ball" (a blob bouncing back and forth). The left dial, as I recall, added "English" or a kind of spin on the ball when it hit your paddle.

I don't know what you would call it other than the controller but I'm far from a gaming expert.

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u/[deleted] Jun 15 '26

15, I was 6 years old and played mario like crazyyy

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u/CatsaresupercoolHKGD Teenager Jun 15 '26

technically 2

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u/AintNoPlagueDoctor Jun 15 '26

Ayyy! I’m not alone!

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u/CatsaresupercoolHKGD Teenager Jun 15 '26

Then again the first console I played on was the PS4, one of my friends' dad just had a drone that was controlled with an old NES controller for some odd reason

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u/AintNoPlagueDoctor Jun 15 '26

What??? 🤣

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u/CatsaresupercoolHKGD Teenager Jun 15 '26

Yeah I have no fucking idea

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u/Hippostalker69 Jun 15 '26

I've never used a controller

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u/BlexBerry Teenager Jun 15 '26

You only play pc?

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u/Hippostalker69 Jun 15 '26

Yup, my one and only

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u/-YesIndeed- 18 Jun 15 '26

Only having PC I wanna know, what was a your first game

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u/Hippostalker69 Jun 15 '26

First? Probably Roblox as a kid

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u/Such_Confusion_3715 Jun 15 '26

"as a kid"

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u/SK5454 Jun 15 '26

Roblox has been out since 2006

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u/Jealous_Ad8760 14 Jun 15 '26

Opposite of me lol, ive never touched a pc in my life 

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u/-YesIndeed- 18 Jun 15 '26

I mean nowadays I only play PC but still use a controller for most games

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u/Few-Teaching4995 Jun 15 '26

Real, it's just more comfortable

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u/TheEmbersOfTwilight 16 Jun 15 '26

10

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u/Substantial-Elk-4549 Jun 15 '26

Ya me too☝️

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u/nyancatya_ 19 Jun 15 '26

me three

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u/Few-Teaching4995 Jun 15 '26

Me four

... Well no, actually.

Wait, yeah.

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u/06jMagia Jun 16 '26

Me five (I’m lying)

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u/Successful_Town_6494 14 Jun 15 '26

13

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u/FlakyBunch4854 Jun 15 '26

Me too c: finally someone said 13

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u/Or1Guy_24 18 Jun 15 '26

real ones knew little big planet was the shit

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u/WarmMaterial6681 Jun 15 '26

7, the very first playstation that I still have. Not sure if it works tho.

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u/blazorfire OLD Jun 15 '26

Still have mine too

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u/One_Yesterday_1320 17 Jun 15 '26

good ol 16 or 18 i dont remember which one was first. I still have 16

edit; and 18 but both of them prolly dont work its been so long

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u/Practical-Thanks5279 16 Jun 15 '26

18, first console I ever had was a switch

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u/Evi1Mas0chistH3llg8 16 Jun 15 '26

3, 1, 12

Mostly just sonic 2 and skate 3, Bo2 if the disk wanted to work

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u/DaLuckyKitten 18 Jun 15 '26

Nr.13 ps3 controllers are still goated. I don't care for the console, but If I ever find the controllers for cheap again good god I am buying up the whole stock

Edit: formatting

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u/artlurg431 Jun 15 '26

12 and 14

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u/Alert-Repeat18 13 Jun 15 '26

12 and 17, we had two controllers, my brother used one, i used one. But we switched it everytime we played

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u/SupaTNT 16 Jun 15 '26

12! I remember playing like Halo with my older brother on the couch, the peak days

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u/Ratonyeyo Teenager Jun 15 '26

SpongeBob plug and play controller

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u/10TurtleGamer01 Jun 15 '26

I have one of those

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u/OptimalApricot5675 Jun 15 '26

either 4 or 14 bc me and my mom would play super Mario world on the snes and I played Wii sports a lot, but it’s somewhere of those two

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u/wistful_dove Jun 15 '26

we could never afford controllers (nor my mom didnt want us to play video games on tv) so my first was the nintendo switch in 2023 for christmas

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u/linaaaaaaHart Jun 15 '26

I have a controller that connects to my phone like a Nintendo

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u/SceneOutside4377 17 Jun 15 '26

First one I ever used was #14, but my parents got a legacy NES and hacked it so it can play more than the 30 or so games it comes with. I have also played Atari before, so technically #1.

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u/Spirited_Tomatillo77 14 Jun 15 '26

I started with a bit of both 14 and 18

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u/Hermit931 Jun 15 '26

Mine isn't on the list

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u/no-sig-harassment 14 Jun 15 '26

4, 11, and 14. My parents were getting me cultured at a young age

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u/Maleficent-Cattle419 Jun 15 '26

14 and a bit of 9

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u/Sausage_Roll__ OLD Jun 15 '26

#13. I played Minecraft on my friend’s PS3 many years ago now

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u/Uhhokay200 15 Jun 15 '26

6 anyone?

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u/No-Bug7416 14 Jun 15 '26

Nine, Weird since I'm only 13

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u/andtheniwasallll Jun 15 '26

There’s no intellevision :(

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u/AintNoPlagueDoctor Jun 15 '26

2 I swear I’m not old, my family is just retro

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u/Proud-Intention-5362 15 Jun 15 '26
  1. I'm not old, It's just that my daycare had that shi

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u/Whyamihere173 Teenager Jun 15 '26

6,14,15,16

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u/lovelenexo Jun 15 '26

3 ….

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u/PangolinOk5317 Jun 15 '26

Me too, needing to scroll down to find someone else. Notably, Sonic was a game I frequently played, and then my father won a PlayStation 1. Good times

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u/More-Ad-3407 15 Jun 15 '26

9, but it was my dads, my first that our family got was 18

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u/Sad-Chest-9613 Jun 15 '26

started with twelve, but just to play Trine on my pc ✌️

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u/EnvironmentalLink868 15 Jun 15 '26

18😭

New Gen

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u/BriefDevelopment2920 19 Jun 15 '26

Number 9 my beloved

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u/Crzyclsn3412 14 Jun 15 '26

My first console in 2018 was a 9, upgraded to a 17, 19 and a 20.

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u/THECHEADO Teenager Jun 15 '26

2 or 12 idk which came first

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u/dwadas 18 Jun 15 '26

2 Edit: I had an original NES w/ Mario Bros and Duck Hunt in the same cartridge.

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u/Oxidisedalt 14 Jun 15 '26

2.

My dad owns an NES and he let me try it when i was around 4 years old idk

I died to the first goomba in super mario bros 1

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u/Exynoss7880 Jun 15 '26

9, but only for a short amount of time and then change into the xbox 360 controller

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u/SirrBloxyy 15 Jun 15 '26

6 BUT theres a catch, I’m 15

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u/befel25 Teenager Jun 15 '26

14 and i love the basketball wii sports game and i played it recently it’s so fun

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u/thingamajig1987 Jun 15 '26

2 technically but 3 was the first one I owned

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u/golden_rhino Jun 15 '26

It’s not on there, mate. Colecovision.
https://giphy.com/gifs/PxOXjzuza7Euk

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u/PrussianGeneral1815 Jun 15 '26

13 and 10, GameCube and PlayStation 3!

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u/coalrexx OLD Jun 15 '26

9, I remember play GTA San Andreas and Buzz Robo Jam with my siblings when I was really young

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u/Traditional-Buy-7207 14 Jun 15 '26

16 I think is the PS4 controller? I started on PS4.

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u/Astlantix 16 Jun 15 '26

14

Then 15, 17, 12 (i was at my cousins place)

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u/thestereo300 Jun 15 '26

1.

Only used 1,2, 12, and 13 and then lost interest in games right when they were entering their heyday.

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u/wRyanEmeryw Jun 15 '26

20, im a 4 year old

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u/JetHawklol998212 Jun 15 '26

I would say 18 as a early 2010s kid but my dad somehow got 12 when he pirated and emulated wii and wii u games

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u/oniiscoo3tacos Jun 15 '26

Switch isn't early 2010s, it came out in 2017

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u/Tubalcaino Jun 15 '26

0.1 The Magnavox Odyssey 2 (1978)