What is your gaming history?

[Shadow1980]

I've been playing video games as long as I can remember. My first console was the Mattel Intellivision, which I received as a hand-me-down from my father some time in the mid 80s. There was also whatever arcade games that caught my interest as a kid. Subsequent consoles gifted to me or that I bought were:

NES (Christmas gift in 1988)
Genesis (Christmas gift in 1991)
Game Boy (can't remember exactly when I got it; definitely in the very early 90s)
SNES (Christmas gift in 1994; last system received as a gift from family)
PS1 (first system bought with my own money; purchased in summer or fall of 1998)
N64 (purchased some time later in 1998 or early 1999)
Dreamcast (purchased on the 9/9/99 release date)
GameCube (purchased with tax refund in 2002)
PS2 (can't remember exactly when I bought it; some time in the 2001-03 time frame)
Xbox (roommate let me keep his second Xbox for playing LANs back in like 2004; later gifted to another friend after I bought a 360)
Xbox 360 (purchased with tax return money in 2007)
Wii (purchased with stimulus check money in either 2008 or 2009)
Wii U (purchased August 2013)
PS4 (pre-ordered and picked up on launch day in 2013)
3DS (purchased in March 2014)
XBO (purchased in November 2014; traded in for One X in Nov. 2017)
Switch (pre-ordered and picked up on launch day in 2017)
PS5 (pre-ordered and picked up on launch day in 2020)
Series X (purchased in June 2021 when GameStop had a rare in-store restock)

I will probably buy a Switch 2 as early as possible and upgrade to a PS5 Pro, money allowing.