Your Game Console History Timeline

[senatorpjt]

1. NES
2. Game Boy
3. TurboGrafx-16
4. Game Gear
5. PS1
6. Game Boy Advance
7. Nintendo DS
4. PS3

I'm only counting systems I got when they were still "new". e.g. I got a Virtual Boy for $15 when someone found an old box of them at Walmart, and systems that were obsolete when I got them, like the Master System, Genesis, Atari 2600, etc.

After getting burned on the TurboGrafx-16 (it was pretty expensive with the CD addon, didn't didn't get many games, then NEC pulled out of the market), I was wary about buying new consoles. I got a PS1 after the popularity was pretty well established. Then for some reason I decided to get a PS3.

Hopefully the TG16 isn't a bad omen for my PS3 (expensive system with slower, yet massive game storage made by a large electronics Japanese manufacturer, much more popular in Japan than in the US).

Then again, it could also be good if I compare the TG16 to the 360 :) (inexpensive Core system with expensive addon for the additional storage medium, made by a company inexperienced with gaming, released a year before the Nintendo, which was the last to market and pulled way ahead of the others :)