First system i ever played was in the 80's on the 2600. First Owned a NES.
Early 80's was a mess of systems and bad games.
But the wars didn't truly begin until the 16 bit era,nothing has come close to being true console wars like that was.
Amazing games on all platforms and Exclusive MEANT Exclusive. You wanted RPGs platformers and Nintendo,you went SNES. You wanted more Sports,Arcade and Sega you went Genesis or maybe you just wanted beat em ups and fighters so you got Turbo graphics 16...etc.. many other systems but each one was truly unique what types of games.
It was awesome. Hell in some ways it truly was a war as Sega and Nintendo went beyond competing brands but duked it out in courtrooms over things.
I could say so many things about that era. I still love gaming to death but now it's too corporate and mainstream and honestly the console "wars" are just big shows and sales charts. Oh and Fanboys and graphic whores. You didn't really have that then,at least not the negative spin it has now.
