How Many Consoles Have You Owned?
By William on Thursday, July 5th, 2007 at 1:56 PM PST In Gamer Life
Time seems to fly in the video game world. It’s hard to imagine that my first console was Pong and now I am playing games on my Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and PS3. I haven’t really thought about it much, but I am one of the few people in the world who can say they have owned at least one system from every generation of home consoles. My true love for video games actually started in the arcades, which has sadly become a dying thing. Dragon’s Lair is definitely responsible for my love of games. I can’t technically say I was completely around for the 1st generation considering I got Pong and the Atari 2600 for Christmas in 1983 when I was six. If you had to ask me which system brings back the best memories, I would have to say the Sega Genesis. I’m not sure what it was about that time period, but the games for the Genesis were always great. Nowadays, it’s really hit or miss with the games out there. Below is the list of 18 consoles I have owned over the years. Of course, I have also owned a number of portable systems, and computers but that’s an article for another day.
The list of consoles I have owned follows the break.
1st Generation:
- Pong
2nd Generation:
- Atari 2600
- ColecoVision
3rd Generation:
- NES
- Sega Master System
4th Generation:
- TurboGrafx-16
- Sega Genesis
- Super NES
5th Generation:
- Atari Jaguar
- Sega Saturn
- Sony PlayStation
- Nintendo 64
6th Generation:
- Sega Dreamcast
- Sony PlayStation 2
- Microsoft Xbox
7th Generation:
- Microsoft Xbox 360
- Sony PlayStation 3
- Nintendo Wii
I still have all of my consoles – whether they all still work or not I have no clue – but here is my list:
* Atari 2600
* ColecoVision
* Intellivison
* NES
* Sega Genesis
* Super NES
* Atari Jaguar
* Sony PlayStation
* Nintendo 64
* Sony PlayStation 2
* Nintendo Game Cube
* Microsoft Xbox
* Microsoft Xbox 360
* Nintendo Wii
I think I beat you – but then again, I’m an old fart
Here’s the ones I can remember:
1st Generation:
Multi-game pong (hockey, pong, etc)
2nd Generation:
RCA (don’t remember system name)
Magnavox Odyssey
Multiple Mattel Intellivions and the PC keyboard
Fairchild Channel F
Vectrex
Atari 2600
ColecoVision
Atari 5200
Bally Astrocade
3rd Generation:
NES
Sega Master System
4th Generation:
TurboGrafx-16
Sega Genesis
Super NES
NeoGeo
TurboDuo
5th Generation:
Atari Jaguar
Sega Saturn
Sega32X
SegaCD
Sony PlayStation
Nintendo 64
3DO
6th Generation:
Sega Dreamcast
Sony PlayStation 2
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo GameCube
7th Generation:
Microsoft Xbox 360
Sony PlayStation 3
Nintendo Wii