I mostly gamed on PC at that stage of my life and those pieces of crap broke all the time. It was hard to get emotionally attached to random bad sectors and the regular windows 95 blue screen of death lol.
I did get sort of emotionally attached to my amp I saved up a lot of money for. Flagship Yamaha model, future proof (back then) 7 channel amplifier with digital and optical audio, component video switching and AC3, DTS capabilities before DVD even came out. It was a 62 pound monster, center of my entertainment hub with TV, CRT projector, S-VHS recorders, LD, PC, PS, PS2, DC, N64 all cross connected to it. My PC would mix CD audio with game sound and send it back optically to the amp together with S-VHS video out signal to the projector, including TV pip from the S-VHS vcr mixed in via a capture card in the PC.
I took it with me when I moved overseas and bought a 1200 watt voltage upconverter for it and the REL storm subwoofer as they both run on 220 volts. I always left it on, it was never allowed to cool down, plus my theory was that as long as warm air rises out of the top, dust can't drift down inside it. It worked as it was a night and day difference with the dust collector my PC was. I still have it sitting in the basement as unfortunately HDMI took over. I sadly replaced it when the Wii U came out as that didn't have optical audio as an option, plus I was out of HDMI inputs on my tv. It is a solid piece of tech which I don't know if I can get rid of. Too many movies and games played through that piece of equipment.
Back then my goal was to use every input on the rear panel!
I got close, I don't miss the enormous cable mess though.
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