ZX Spectrum (ok, so not a console, but we could play games on it, so yeh) - I wouldn't be surprised if, somewhere in the bowels of their loft, my folks still have the packaging it was originally delivered in, nearly 30 years now)
Commodore 64- ended up giving this one away to a friend.
Megadrive - first real console. I knew I had to get one of these after I used to go the family across the roads house to wait until my mum got home from work. They had a Megadrive and that was my first introduction to Sonic - knew I ahd to get one immediately after that.
Sega Saturn - by this time I was a dyed in the wool Sega follower, so despite the peer pressure, there was no question that I was going to go for A Saturn of the Playstation. I still remember the ribbing I got when going back to school after that Christmas when my classmates found out my choice of 32-bit console didn't align with theirs.
After that, I went PC for a while, so I could sit with all my cool friends at school and talk about AI bots and the maps we were creating for Quake and Half-Life. I stuck with PC until around the time I got tired of playing World of Warcraft.
DS Lite - I bought one so I could play Ouendan more than anything else. Currently gathering dust somewhere.
PSP - I was able to get a staff discount on one of these through my Christmas job at the time, so I thought I may as well go for it. Played it constantly for a couple of years, then one day I left it one the floor and stood on the screen causing some heavy damage. I didn't care enough to get it replaced/repaired so that was the end of my stint with the PSP.
360 - got one mainly as at the time it was going to be the only way to play Mass Effect and, wanting to get back into consoles, it seemed a no-brainer as the majority of people I knew also had the 360.
For the next gem, I'm definitely lumping for the PS4, because that's what all the cool kids are doing. But really, there are games on PS3 that I would like to try (could really do with playing The Last of Us right about now) and they seem to be more on the ball with the indie games side of things so there's also that. Most of the other games I want to play so far in the next gen are multiplatform anyway and it just seems more likely that if a platform exclusive game appears that I really want to play, it will be on PS4.
That, and it'll be cheaper.
Commodore 64- ended up giving this one away to a friend.
Megadrive - first real console. I knew I had to get one of these after I used to go the family across the roads house to wait until my mum got home from work. They had a Megadrive and that was my first introduction to Sonic - knew I ahd to get one immediately after that.
Sega Saturn - by this time I was a dyed in the wool Sega follower, so despite the peer pressure, there was no question that I was going to go for A Saturn of the Playstation. I still remember the ribbing I got when going back to school after that Christmas when my classmates found out my choice of 32-bit console didn't align with theirs.
After that, I went PC for a while, so I could sit with all my cool friends at school and talk about AI bots and the maps we were creating for Quake and Half-Life. I stuck with PC until around the time I got tired of playing World of Warcraft.
DS Lite - I bought one so I could play Ouendan more than anything else. Currently gathering dust somewhere.
PSP - I was able to get a staff discount on one of these through my Christmas job at the time, so I thought I may as well go for it. Played it constantly for a couple of years, then one day I left it one the floor and stood on the screen causing some heavy damage. I didn't care enough to get it replaced/repaired so that was the end of my stint with the PSP.
360 - got one mainly as at the time it was going to be the only way to play Mass Effect and, wanting to get back into consoles, it seemed a no-brainer as the majority of people I knew also had the 360.
For the next gem, I'm definitely lumping for the PS4, because that's what all the cool kids are doing. But really, there are games on PS3 that I would like to try (could really do with playing The Last of Us right about now) and they seem to be more on the ball with the indie games side of things so there's also that. Most of the other games I want to play so far in the next gen are multiplatform anyway and it just seems more likely that if a platform exclusive game appears that I really want to play, it will be on PS4.
That, and it'll be cheaper.
