Atari turned 40 today! Come celebrate your console beginnings!

[NightDragon83]

spurgeonryan said:

NightDragon83 said:

My first ever game console was the Atari 7800!

And this X-mas it'll be 25 years that I've had it, and it still works like a charm.  In the same time, I've gone through 5 NES's... 4 originals (only 1 still works) plus one top loader.  And my cousin still has his original 2600 with the wood panel finish.

They don't make game consoles like they used to lol.

All of my Ataris and Nes consoles have broke over the years. But SNES onwards for Nintendo have worked wonderfully! N64 still is played daily, and my dreamcast even works still!

True, I should ammend that because all my systems in the 90's (SNES, Genesis, N64, Dreamcast) all work great to this day.  I had a disc-read problem with my Gamecube and had to send it into Nintendo, same with the Wii, and my 360 RROD'd like so many others.  But the NES was really the only Nintendo system that was a little iffy when it came to quality because of the poorly designed cartridge connectors on the original model.