I started in 1990 with a good old c64 and a floppy drive. Then we got a tape recorder, because there were many good games on it. (Amiga was only for the lucky ones here in Hungary.)
Around 1992 I switched to a PC with a Hercules monitor. Yes, 16 color machine, 2 color monochrome monitor was a bit of a step backwards, but the VGA monitor was unaffordable for us then, but slowly in about 1 year we collected enough for that with my brother.), but this is history now ...