Atari 2600: To this day, I'm still surprised that my father brought this home out of nowhere. It wasn't like him at all. My mom bought all gifts. Regardless, he did, and I had a blast with Defender, SeaQuest, and Pitfall, among others. My very favorites were Super Breakout and Yar's Revenge. Had a ton of bargain basement crap-ware, as well, some of which I never even figured out how to play.
NES: Bought this one myself with money saved up from Christmas and Birthdays. So much fun. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Double Dragon, Contra, Shadow of the Ninja, Final Fantasy, Nobunga's Ambition--just so many entertaining games.
SNES: Had a lot less fun with this one, to be honest. It really was just more of the same from the NES. Zelda was far and away the highlight until I chanced upon Final Fantasy VI in a used game store. Didn't even know it existed. That changed everything. Unfortunately, I couldn't find any more RPGs like it, so I gradually drifted away from console gaming. By this point, I was tired of the never-ending cycle of plat-formers, beat'em ups, and side-scrollers.
PS1: This is the big one for, the one that brought me back and made me a gamer. Final Fantasy VII grabbed me and the PS1 never let go. Suikoden, Final Fantasy, Final Fantasy Tactics, Gran Turismo, Breath of Fire, and countless others made me very happy.
PS2: So many games. The PS2 kept me pleased for a long time. ICO, Suikoden, Gran Turismo, Way of the Samurai, and Soul Calibur were just a few of the many highlights.
DreamCast: I had a good amount of fun with this console, even if I didn't have many games.
PS3: At the start of this generation, I was a PC gamer. I played Ragnarok, WoW, and other non-MMOs on the PC and didn't even think about console gaming that much. After my best friend died, who was the person who would drag me from one MMO to the next, WoW lost all appeal. Around that time, I starting paying attention to console news, which was when people were going crazy for Uncharted and The Last Guardian. I got a PS3 and I've been very pleased so far. I'm still about 50% PC gamer, which will probably never change, but I like console games a lot, as well, and I've very much come to appreciate Sony's Worldwide Studios.
