Want to Feel Old? PS2 vs NES Launch Timeline

[arcadifvid]

congrats on making me feel old. i was born a few years before the crash. i cant even imagine whats it like growing up in the PS2 era. would it be better or worse than the ones growing up with NES?

[nightrnr]

Tetris turns 30 this year. Being introduced to the game on NES, yes, I feel a little old.
Weird that the PS2 beginning to be seen as old.

I was born the year of Pac-Man, among a few other arcade legends (Warlords, BattleZone).

I'd like to think I was also born the year of Tempest (my favorite arcade of the era), but I can never get a clear answer on that. It's most likely 1981, but several websites also cite it at 1980.
--EDIT--
Okay, so just checked the back of my Arcade Greatest Hits: The Atari Collection 1 manual, and Tempest is copyrighted at 1981. Still weird that so many people have mixed years, and Tempest is not the only one being confused.

[flex wood]

The NA launch of the PS2 hits 14 years ago this October. Wow, makes me feel old, but wait....

When the PS2 was released in NA (Oct 2000), the NA NES was 15 years old (October '85).

Essentially, the NES was as old then... as the PS2 is now (one year variance). Let it sink in...

WHOA!

That's right, the NES officially turns 30 next year. The same year I do.

Me too, but I totally just said wtf am I doing with my life.

[ApolloBoy]

I was born the same month and year the Genesis and TG-16 were test-marketed.

[SpaceBooger]

I was born the same year that Atari started selling home versions of Pong.
I was in 6th grade in October 1985 and didn't get my NES until the Spring of 87.
I purchased my Dreamcast the day after release (9/10/99) with the first paycheck of my current full time job/career to celebrate the achivement
I got my first PS2 as a house warming present when I purchased my house in 2005.

[dsheinem]

wow a buncha whippersnappers in here

[J T]

At 36, I am the equivalent of two legal adults (18 + 18).

[prfsnl_gmr]

DSH and JT have me beat, but I am about the same age as Pac-Man.

[dsheinem]

At 36, I am the equivalent of two legal adults (18 + 18).

I saw a movie like that once

[isiolia]

I'm also right about the same age as Pac-Man (October 1980). Funny enough, the NES launched in the U.S. on my fifth birthday exactly. I didn't get one until a few years later.

Relative to that...I worked at Software Etc in college, and part of that was working the PS2 midnight launch.