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1992: NES (actually several unofficial clones)
1995: Genesis (Mega Drive 2 console)
1997: Win95 PC (Pentium 100MHz, Trident S440 PCI, 8MB SIMM)
1998: GameBoy
1999: Win98/2000 PC (Pentium II 350MHz, ATI RAGE IIC PCI + Voodoo 2 8MB AGP, 64MB SDRAM) upgraded to Voodoo3 3000 16MB AGP2x & then to GeForce2 MX400 64MB AGP4x, upgraded to 192MB SDRAM)
2005: XP/Ubuntu PC (Pentium 4 3GHz, GeForce FX 5700 LE 256MB AGP8x, 512MB DDR) upgraded to GeForce 7800 GS 256MB, 4GB DDR)
2009: Xbox 360 (Xbox 360 RE5 LE) > in 2011 replaced it to new Slim.
2009: PS3 (PS3 Slim Uncharted 2 bundle)
2010: Win7/BSD/Mint PC (i5 750 2.66GHz, Radeon HD 5750 512MB, 4GB DDR3) upgraded to 8GB DDR3. -bought not for gaming, but played a bit on it-
2011: 3DS > in 2012 replaced it to 3DS XL
2013: PS4 > in 2016 replaced it to PS4 Pro -in 2019 bought second PS4 (White PS4 Slim to different room)-
2016: Win7/Win10 PC (Core i7 6700K, GeForce GTX 1070 8GB, 32GB DDR4) upgraded to GTX 1080 Ti 12GB
2017: PSVR
2020: Xbox Series S
2021: Oculus Quest 2
2022: Win11 PC (Core i9 12900K, RTX 3080 Ti 12GB, 64GB DDR5)
2022: Steam Deck 512GB
2022: PS5 (GoW Ragnarok bundle)

In 2008/2009 when I first bought a big LCD TV & consoles and set up 5.1 sound I really felt in love to console gaming. So PC also connected to a TV as a second screen. Love to play gamepad-based games on TV OLED screen lying on sofa rather than sitting near IPS monitor. 



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1984? Nintendo Game & Watch - Rain Shower
? another LCD game
? for some weeks borrowed cousins' Philips Videopac (aka Odyssey2)
1988? few times rented NES for a weekend (SMB2, Punch-Out, Megaman 1)
1990 Sega Master System
1994 first PC
1998 PC with CD drive (I had some magazine CDs and spend lots of time playing demos for a year)
1999 got internet at home (I had played tens of games before that... number went up fast from there)
2000 first time I used an emulator (SMS emulator MEKA)
2008 PC with DVD drive (also my first PC able to emulate Playstation and N64)
2015 my still latest PC...
2019 got cousin's old PS2



1998 - GameBoy Color
1999 - Nintendo 64
2000 - GameBoy Advance
2001 - PlayStation 2 (stolen by people my parents hired to renovate our house...)
2002 - GameCube (destroyed by my mother, because my brother took it, even though we were banned from playing video games, after we played too much)

-- somewhere between GC and NDS I got an Advance SP, cannot remember the year anymore though --

2007 - Nintendo DS
2008 - Nintendo Wii
2009 - PlayStation 3 + PSP
2012 - Nintendo 3DS
2014 - PlayStation 4
2017 - Nintendo Switch
2018 - PlayStation Vita
2020 - My 2nd PS2
2021 - My 2nd GameCube
2022 - PlayStation 5
2023 - XBox Classic + Series X



2003: Individual GBA and Family GameCube
2004: Family N64
2007: Family Wii
2008 - GBA SP
2009: DSi
2010 - Sega Genesis
2011: 3DS
2014: Wii U
2017: Switch
2019: PS4 Pro
2021: PS Vita. PS3 Super Slim
2022: PS5
2023: Xbox 360 E
Younger Brother got a DS Lite that I occasionally used in 2007, Brothers got an Xbox 360 Elite in 2009, Older Brother got a PS3 Slim in 2011 (used them both a little bit, but the PS3 very rarely and the 360 a little).
None of my computers have been gaming PCs but...
2015: Opened up my Steam account and did some gaming on a laptop
2017: New laptop but not a lot of gaming
2021: New Rig with an SSD and more RAM but very little gaming (hoping to do more on Steam and with Xbox).
Future platforms I'd like to get.
1. Xbox One: Probably the S, because the X is expensive, and the "VCR" has a worse processor and is bulky.
2. PS2: Probably the Slim. I've played a bit on a PS2 that my grandparents got in 2003_
3. SNES



Lifetime Sales Predictions 

Switch: 151 million (was 73, then 96, then 113 million, then 125 million, then 144 million)

PS5: 115 million (was 105 million) Xbox Series S/X: 57 million (was 60 million, then 67 million)

PS4: 120 mil (was 100 then 130 million, then 122 million) Xbox One: 51 mil (was 50 then 55 mil)

3DS: 75.5 mil (was 73, then 77 million)

"Let go your earthly tether, enter the void, empty and become wind." - Guru Laghima

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.



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Idk the exact year's I got them so I'll just put the systems more in release order. My earliest gaming memories are playing Super Mario Land 2 on a yellow Gameboy and getting a ps1.

Gameboy, PS1, GBC, PS2, GBA, GameCube, Xbox, DS, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, 3DS, Vita, WiiU, PS4, Xbox One, Switch, Xbox Series S+X, PS5.

Basically I've owned every current PlayStation, Nintendo and Xbox console except the N64 while I was alive.

I bought an n64 later at some point and I've also gamed on PC's since I was a kid too.