Sega hardware owners, which platform has become your new home, and why?

[Shadow1980]

I got a Genesis as a Christmas gift back in 1991. I knew it existed thanks to old Sears catalogs, but other than that I knew very little about it and wasn't interested in it. I was all about Nintendo at the time. My parents probably got it because it was cheaper than the SNES was. I was pleasantly surprised by the Genesis. While I only own like six games for it, I did rent quite a few for the system until I finally got my own SNES on Christmas 1994. It was a solid system all things considered, even though I still always preferred the SNES.

I never owned a Saturn. I remember its high price, poor reception, and lack of a proper Sonic game, and I remember being utterly disinterested in it. By time I got my first job back in June 1998, it had already been discontinued.

I was however interested in the Dreamcast. Pre-release coverage in gaming mags seemed pretty promising. It had a reasonable price point, too. I bought one on the 9/9/99 launch day, with Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure being the games I got with it, and I had a lot of fun with them. I never owned any other games for the system, though, and throughout most of 2000 I didn't really have the money for games. By time I did have some spending money again in 2001, the Dreamcast was already on the way out, my interest in gaming was at an all-time low during Gen 5, and I was spending most of my spare money on anime DVDs.