The 5200 was technically my first gaming console. Sure I played the 2600 and others at friends' and families' houses, but the 5200 was the first one I owned. I got it for Crhistmas one year and I didn't even ask for it, so it was a total surprise. Before then I played games on our Apple 2+ computer, which I was OK with since the games were better on that than the 2600 anyway. The 5200 staved my desire to own a NES for about a year, as I was perfectly happy playing games like Pengo on it during the crash and games were cheap on it.


