Persisted?
Anyway the great thing about the English language is you can use completely the wrong word an people still know what you mean.
I had Commodore 64 as a kid, bought by my parents. A university flatmate had a NES I played on a bit. But neither of these things convinced me to by a system of my own. My brother got himself a Playstation in the mid-nineties. He needed some money, so I lent him the money and I held the PS as ransom. He never paid me back, but I got a lot of gaming in for the 3 or 4 years that the PS was my prisoner and pleasure slave. A few years later PS2 comes out, I want it, but it's too expensive. Eventually price comes down, but a pure gaming system is really not justifiable to the wife. Yay! PS2 plays DVDs and we didn't have a DVD player at the time.
PS1 gaming was what got me to buy my first console (PS2). DVD playback is what convinced my wife to allow me to get the PS2.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
