Your console chronology

[Hobie-wan]

SNES - 8/27/1991 (also got the 2 launch titles very next day)

Game Boy Color - 2001

You went a whole decade from '01 to '12 without any new systems?

I went from a SNES Christmas 91 to a PS2 in early 2001. I was playing PC games in the late 90s and I was a student paying rent and buying groceries.

[BoringSupreez]

SNES - 8/27/1991 (also got the 2 launch titles very next day)

Game Boy Color - 2001

You went a whole decade from '01 to '12 without any new systems?

I went from a SNES Christmas 91 to a PS2 in early 2001. I was playing PC games in the late 90s and I was a student paying rent and buying groceries.

Longest I've ever gone without a new system since I started seriously gaming is from September 2004 to July 2006. Not even a whole two years.

[o.pwuaioc]

SNES - 8/27/1991 (also got the 2 launch titles very next day)

Game Boy Color - 2001

You went a whole decade from '01 to '12 without any new systems?

I went from a SNES Christmas 91 to a PS2 in early 2001. I was playing PC games in the late 90s and I was a student paying rent and buying groceries.

Likewise, I got an Xbox in 2003ish, and then I didn't get another console until 2011 when I bought a Genesis from sevin0seven.

[ExedExes]

You went a whole decade from '01 to '12 without any new systems?

Not just that, but from '91 to '01 too. What can I say? I blame that on getting my first PC in 1993, and checking out the tons of games and BBSes and such.

But from '01 to '12, I was collecting for my Dreamcast for nearly that entire period, and clearing out a rather large backlog of games. I also dabbled mainly in PC gaming (Unreal Tournament 2004, which I still play to this day), emulation, and such, when I had the time. I had a lot of stuff going on back then. But, after getting a good light gun and acquiring and completing Shenmue II at the turn of the new year, I set my sights on the GBA and beyond.

[Key-Glyph]

Some of these dates are estimates.

1985: Born.
1990: NES bought by family, intended for my brother. I was interested in the medium but not dedicated to the console.
1992: Apple IIe bought. This was my family's first computer.
1993: Sega Genesis bought by family. Fell in love and took over as the family's resident gamer.
1994: Game Boy purchased with allowance money.
1995: Sega Genesis Model 2 won in some cereal box sweepstakes, possibly General Mills.
1996: Sega Nomad purchased with allowance money (it took more than a year of savings!).
1997: Nintendo 64 gotten as a holiday gift. (Sold in 1999 to a friend; kept the games.)
1998: Game Boy Pocket purchased from a friend's brother.
1999: Sega Dreamcast gotten as combination birthday/holiday gift.

---interest in going back and exploring retro games I missed out on as a child begins---

2001: SNES Mini purchased from FuncoLand with allowance money. (Given away in 2005 to a good friend.)
2005: Game Boy Color purchased used online.
2006: Playstation 2 purchased jointly with boyfriend as an anniversary gift to ourselves.
2008: Nintendo DS Lite bought.
2009: Got married and became co-owner of: Model 1 SNES, N64, X-Box 360, Game Boy SP, Nintendo DS Phat. (Both lost systems reclaimed!)
2012: GameCube bought online with husband as a New Year's gift to ourselves.

Man. That seems... way more intense than I remembered. Childhood time seems waaaaay stretched out in my memories, but written down it looks like a frenzy!

[BoneSnapDeez]

SNES - 8/27/1991 (also got the 2 launch titles very next day)

Game Boy Color - 2001

You went a whole decade from '01 to '12 without any new systems?

I went from a SNES Christmas 91 to a PS2 in early 2001. I was playing PC games in the late 90s and I was a student paying rent and buying groceries.

I hear ya.

I went from SNES to Wii (!!!) with nothing in between. Grew up in strict household with parents who hated video games, and was poor throughout most of my early and mid 20s. Nearly all the consoles listed in my signature were purchased within the past two years.

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

Well my family started off w/:

Atari (1983)
Commodore 64 (not sure what year)

Then MY own systems:

NES (1987)
Gameboy (1989)
Genesis (1990)
Sega CD (1992)
SNES (1994)
PS1 (1995)
DreamCast (2001)
PS2 (2001)
N64 (2002)
GBA (2003)
Gamecube (2003)
Xbox (2005 or 2006)
Wii (2007 or 08?)
XB360 (2010)

[8bit]

I was an only child and my parents were not interested in video games at all themselves, so I was fortunate enough to get gifted the following systems as I grew up starting at age 5.

NES.... Gameboy.... SNES.... Genesis.... N64.....PS1......

Then from 8th grade to 11th grade and could manage some of my own affairs by selling and trading with friends and game stores... through that time period I moved on to....

Dreamcast.... PS1 (again)..... Xbox.....

Then came the dark ages for games... sold everything and put it into every 16-17 year old boys favorite thing.... their car....

Sold Dreamcast, PS1, Xbox.... kept NES!

Then came college where I started really collecting and re-discovering what I had missed or sold over the years.... Also queue music for discovering racketboy.... filling in the blanks with everything I had already had previously and some new faces.

PS2.... Saturn.... Sega CD..... Xbox 360.... Wii..... PS3...... GBA.... DS.... Gamecube

Now I am a grown man, married, and making my own ways and I am still finding lots of joy in collecting the great titles for all of my consoles which you can see in my signature.... some late additions beside growing my already sizable collection are...

PSP.... Mrs Pacman/Galaga Arcade......3DS..... MVS Arcade...

I am now 27 and have amassed right above 1000 console and handle held games over 20 Systems.... but I still look forward to finding those gems I do not already have and am excited to see what the future will bring for Nintendo, Microsoft, Sony, and cough Sega!

[ExedExes]

Man. That seems... way more intense than I remembered. Childhood time seems waaaaay stretched out in my memories, but written down it looks like a frenzy!

Awesome acquisition stories there. You got a Cube now too? Nice.

Your talk of Model 1 and 2 systems has me needing to refix mine -- so I am

I should add more info also:

Born - 1977
Atari 2600 - 1986 after I found out we had almost as long as it was out
Atari 7800 - 1988 because I still didn't sell the folks on an NES and they wanted my expansive 2600 library of nearly 100 games not to go to waste
NES (Model 1) - Christmas 1989 after MANY years of pleading.
Game Boy - Christmas 1990 was no problem getting that
SNES (Model 1) - August 27, 1991 as a kind of surprise from my folks and they got me F-Zero and Pilotwings the next day. Makes up for the NES delay.
NES (Model 2) - 1994 after my Model 1 bit the dust.

No other systems from '94-'01 as I got 3 PCs over the course of those 10 years and discovered how great the games were there and hung out on BBses.

Game Boy Color - 2001 I got that before the Dreamcast because I wanted a 2nd gen Pokemon title (Crystal)
Sega Dreamcast - Later in 2001 after playing Crazy Taxi 2 in a Toys R Us while picking up Pokemon Yellow on September 10, 2001 (omen)

No systems from '01-'12 as I was building and playing a long backlog of nearly 30-40 DC games I acquired in that period, and was also playing modern PC titles and emulated games.

2012 - Game Boy Advance after the Racketboy community sparked my interest in collecting again.
2012 - GameCube with Game Boy Player because I wanted the full-screen experience.

So that's a little bit more fleshed out.

[3DSStrider]

-Deamcast: My earliest memory was actually playing Soul Calibur when I was 2
-SNES: My first retro console. I think my dad took it when my parents divorced
-Xbox: Hours of Star Wars Battlefront 2 spent on this thing
-GBA SP: I think this came before the Xbox, but I'm not sure
-Gamecube: Taken from my dad when he left
-Nintendo DS: Gotten when I was 7 or 8 for Christmas
-Wii: For my 9th birthday, my dad's girlfriend got it for me
After that I moved to my mom's then boyfriend's house and he got me into retrogaming.