What's Your Gaming Platform Timeline?

[racketboy]

What is the progression of your gaming platforms throughout your life?
(For the consoles you owned, list the year you purchased them)

Here's mine:

1985: Arcades
1986: Atari 2600 at Cousin's House
1991: PC (286)
1987: NES at Friends' Houses
1992: Nintendo Gameboy
1994: Sega Genesis
1997: Sega CD*
1997: PC (Pentium II)*
1999: Sega Saturn
2000: Sega 32X
2001: Sega Dreamcast
2002: Super Nintendo (inherited from wife)*
2002: PC (Pentium IV) - not used much for gaming
2002: Nintendo Gameboy Advance
2003: Nintendo Gamecube
2006: Nintendo DS
2006: GP2X

*= Do not own this machine any longer

[All Hail The New Flesh]

1989: NES
1990: Gameboy
1992: Arcades
1993: SNES
1994: PC (Pentium I)
1996: Playstation
1999: Gameboy Color
1999: N64
2001: PC (Pentium III)
2002: Playstation 2
2002: Atari 5200
2003: Dreamcast
2003: Genesis
2004: Xbox
2004: Gamecube
2004: Atari 2600
2006: Sega Saturn
2006: Xbox 360
2006: Mac OS X (intel)

[Retromaster]

1989- genesis
1998 Game Boy color
1999 Dreamcast
2001 Game Boy advance
2002 PS2
2003 Game Boy Advance SP
2004 Game Gear
2005 NOAC
2006 NES & SP backlit
2007 Home Made NESp

[lordofduct]

1986: Colecovision (prior to this I was not old enough to play the family colecovision)
1988: SMS (at my neighbors), NES
1989: Arcades
1990: Gameboy
1991: Sega Genesis
1992 or 3: Tandy computer (didn't play games much on it though)
1992-3 [winter]: Atari 2600 (at the local rec center)
1993 [Spring]: GameGear
1993 [summer]: Sega CD
1994: VIS
1995: Atari Jaguar (neighbors... payed a lot)
1997: PC Pentium 75mhz(I didn't really play games on PC it until early 98 when I began to hang out with John)
1999: Atari (got one of my own)
1999: Sega 32X
1999: Sega Dreamcast
1999: Sega Saturn (only days after the DC)
2000: SNES, Playstation, 3DO, N64, SMS (bought one for myself)
2001 [summer]: Gameboy Advanced
2001: PC Pentium IV
2002: Gamecube
2003 [spring]: Gameboy SP
2003 [fall]: XBOX
2004: multiple PC upgrades and purchases collecting together 4 PCs
2004 [fall/winter]: PS2 (built one out of spare parts)
2006: [spring/summer]: GP2X
2006 [summer]: PC intel core 2 duo
2006 [fall/winter]: XBOX 360
2007 [release date]: Wii
2007 [release date]: XBOX 360 elite


I think that covers everything. I have purchased a Mac and ran Linux... never gamed on them though. Also I had a TG-16 somewhere in there, but it broke and I forget when.
I've also purchased doubles/triples/and quadruples of consoles variousily through out time, unlisted.

I still own every console I purchased, except for the SNES, Gameboy Advance and SP

[Espio 1919]

1989 - NES* (born in this year and my brother got it as a birthday present the day before I was born)
1996 - Sega Genesis
1997 - Sega Game Gear*
1998 - Game Boy Color*
1999 - Nintendo 64
2002 - Nintendo Gamecube
2003 - SNES*
2003 - Game Boy Advance
2006 - Sega Dreamcast
2006 - Nintendo DS Lite
2007 - Sega Saturn

* - I do not own this console/handheld anymore

[Daigr]

Not sure what I had in which year but here's the order

1. Atari 2600*
2. Commodore 64
3. NES*
4. Gameboy*
5. SNES*
6. Genesis*
7. N64*
8. Genesis*
9. Playstation 1*
10.Playstation 2
11.Dreamcast
13.Saturn (USA modded & JPN)
12.Gamecube
13.Gameboy Advance
14.Nintendo DS
15.Wii

* Do not own anymore

[Intangir]

In chronological terms of what either I or someone in my family owned that I had more-or-less complete access to:

1. ?????
2. NES
3. SNES
4. PC (386)
5. PlayStation
6. Gameboy Pocket
7. PC (K6-2 + onboard video)
8. PC (Tbird + Voodoo 3 3000)
9. PC (Palomino + GeForce 3)
10. Current PC (Barton + 9800XT)

It goes something like that... In the near future I'll probably upgrade my PC again and grab a PS2.

And no, I still don't know what the first system that I played was called. I just remember it had bowling, basketball, and a tank vs tank game. We had a few more games for it, but those are the only ones I absolutely remember. What it was called and whatever actually happened to it still remain a mystery to me.

And--why not--listed in terms of my preference it'd look like this:

1. PC
2. SNES
3. NES
4. PlayStation
5. Gameboy (I had one game, and preferred playing it through Super Gameboy anyway)

[alexkidd]

I'm pretty horrible at years but I can remember getting consoles either at lunch or years later:

Arcade: Galaga, Bump&Jump and DK Jr. were my big games
NES: Got it about a year or two after launch, about when SMB2 came out
Atari 2600: found one and about 40 games at a garage sale cheap
Gameboy: Close to launch
Genesis: Same thing about a year after launch when Sonic 2 came out
Gamegear: Bought the system when it got it's second wind and a ton of software
Arcade: Street Fighter 2 and Neo Geo get me waaaaaay back into arcades
SNES: Got it the day SFII came out, until then had been a Genesis fanboy

(Dead period from about late 95 to early 97 did not play video games at all)

Playstation: Had to get one after friend showed me WipeoutXL and Resident Evil in Jan '07
Gameboy Color: Pick up a new one near launch (this might have been earlier)
Jaguar: Friends buy me a new one for $30 at KayBee for a birthday gift, it's main use is Tempest 2000 and a good version of Fashback
Sega Master System: 3D goggles and coolness and rarity of the system turns me into a huge retro gamere, I collect a nearly perfect US game catalog and start gobbling up key NES titles while searching for the rare SMS carts
TG 16: Pick up a used one and about 10 key titles, never go nuts collecting it
Sega CD: Picked up a used one after it was dead and fell in love with Snatcher
Sega Saturn: I bought the late awesome titles Panzer Saga, SFIII, Burning Rangers and SF Collection knowing they'd be classics then picked up a brand new Saturn for $50 as it was dying. Saturn quickly became my fav system and I ammassed about 150 games, mostly new awesome titles on clearance and import games
Dreamcast: Bought it at launch, to this day the most amazing power and software collection at launch, best launch value ever
Gameboy Advance: the non lighted original version, but later add the Afterburner to light it (actually designed the Afterburner instruction manaul for my friend who created it)

(sold off my entire massive collection because of $ and space constraints moving to a large city for about $4000, probably made at least $1000 profit on the Saturn and NES titles, but overall probably lost or broke even on most purchases)

Gamecube (played windwaker then sold it)
Rebought 2 Saturns and chipped them
GBA SP
Nintendo DS

So I currently just have 4 systems including 2 saturns, which is about all I care to have for now. Although the GBA collection is starting to blow up because there are just too many awesome games for it to be had really cheap right now in its "dying" phase. The golden age for me would still have to be the Saturn dying phase. Picking up mint copies of PDS new and getting games like Puzzle Fighter and SF Collection brand new in the bargain bins for $10 was epic.

I'd still like to own a Turbo Duo and Neo Geo cart system some day. Those are the only two systems I ever really wanted and never got. Could have cared less about PS2, Xbox, N64. Probably pick up a Wii at some point in the future.