I never owned Nintendo or Super Nintendo. I remember for like 7 Christmas's staight I would run down only to be disappointed by not getting a Nintendo. Out of all my friends and cousins I was the only one not to have either of these systems. One of the worst parts of my childhood was being left out of owning a Nintendo. I used to go to school and every kid was reading Nintendo Power, talking about new games, cheat codes and game strategies and I used to be heartbroken. My older brothers had Commodore 64 before me and my moms always complained that they never did their homework, they just played games so she didnt want to buy me Nintendo. My first system was Sega Genesis.
Good thing though since everybody had it I was still pretty much playing it everyday. Occasionally some of my friends would even let me borrow theirs.