The oldest gaming console I've owned was the original XBOX released sometime in the year 2001. I actually never played it since I was born in '06 there were better options out such as the PS3, Wii, and my favorite the XBOX 360. Man I played the hell out of that thing whenever I got the chance. I never really cared for the Wii besides tennis or bowling. But unfortunately I don't own any of my old consoles due to me moving a bunch and not understanding that they could be a potential relic since I was so young. I'd like to see if anyone has owned anything older as I'm pretty interested in how they ran and how different it is from modern gaming.
Amiga CD32 back in ‘94 or thereabouts on the back of having an Amiga A600 then later A1200 as my first gaming computers.
I mean, this is a difficult one because it gets into how you define it, I had assorted micros back in the day, since the UK market was bigger on those and it wasn't until the late 80s and early 90s that Sega managed to make the penetration with dedicated consoles that Nintendo had crashed and burned attempting with the NES. I had the old Acorn Electron for software compatibility with the BBC micros every school had a bunch of, but like, I also had a two player or single player mechanical Pong game which used electronic dial inputs to move physicalised paddles and a single LED sitting on a gantry behind a tinted glass screen that could move in the X and Y axis and had logic for individual play. Do we draw the line at my Master System? Or do we allow it to blur and include all the gaming I was doing for years before that on the micros, at which point we need to ask if the definition extends beyond that to the electronic/analogue hybrid devices?
The oldest console I have owned which was a console, I mean that took a cartridge and had a joy stick was an atari 2600. You could call it the rolls Royce of consoles with it's walnut dash.
The oldest console I own is an Atari 2600. I have others though which are: Sinclair ZX Spectrum + (currently not working) Sega Master System * Sega Mega Drive (needs a new power cable) Nintendo 64 Nintendo Game Cube * Amiga 600+ * Sony PSOne (the little one) * Sony PS2 * Sony PS3 * Sony PS4 * Sony PS4 Pro (x2) * Microsoft XBox One * Owned since new
I started my interest in Computer games with a Sinclair ZX81 when I was 15.. My first actual console though was much later and was a Sega Megadrive. I only ever had 3 games for it that I can remember. Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Monaco GP and Populous. I’ve had a lot of consoles since, starting with a PS1 through to my current PS5 Pro. Also had a few Xboxes. I mainly like handhelds though. My biggest collections are DS, Switch and PSP.
I'd be interested to know how many invested in a Panasonic 3do as it wasn't really a mainstream console at the time but had fairly decent graphics for the period.
Atari 2600 and my dad's homemade console with Pong and Tank Pong. We're talking early 70's with the homemade games.
Growing up my parents had a Sega Genesis that I would play Sonic on, while at my grandparents they had an NES that I enjoyed playing Tetris and Donkey Kong with. As I got older my parents traded the Genesis in for an N64 as a birthday gift for me one year. At some point that got traded in for a PS2 (which my dad still has and uses, funnily enough). After moving out on my own I bought a 360, which evolved into an Xbox One (the COD Advanced Warfare version). The One became a One X, with the X going to my wife for her to use after I bought my Series X during COVID. I've also owned a Gameboy Color and a Gameboy Advanced over the years, but much to my deep regret they've been lost to time. Thankfully the MyOldBoy emulator on Android works really well! Currently, aside from my Series X, I have both a refurb N64 and Gamecube set up with modernized controllers and proper HDMI adapters. I don't play either very often, but aside from emulation they're the only way for me to play the older Star Wars games (and Starfox lol).
Oh, are we doing our complete collections? Do I need to pull out the Master System, Mega Drive, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, Wii, XBox, 360, One, and Series X/S from where they are all hooked up (be it to CRTs or via HDMI adaptors) and line them all up for a glamour shot now?
