For example, my first console was the Atari 2600, and my second was the NES, then the Sega Genesis came out, so I played that a lot at the front of the Kay-Bee Toys, often with other local kids who were stranded at the mall and sick of hanging in the clothing aisle of J.C. Penney with their parents and teenaged siblings. AFter that, a girl on the school bus got a Game Boy, so I saved up my allowance for awhile to $75 to buy one of my own and got 2 games with it as b-day presents. Two kids, Jeremy and Octaw (not sure if that was their names for real) - middle eastern friends - got a Super Nintendo when it first came out, leading me to again save the ole' allowance and go in halfsies on a brand new SNES in 1992 with the mail-in rebate for Super Mario All-Stars (I had one of the first copies released). After that, I sorta' dropped out of modern gaming as I got re-kindled with the 2600 and NES via the internet and emulation.

Later in my high school years, I bought a second hand Sega Genesis off my old lead singer Zach, our bassist Brian gave me an Intellivision for my b-day, I borrowed Zach's N64 a few times to play the Cruis'n series games (about the only games I was really into on that console). And I bought a Sony Playstation off of a classmate for $20 because he felt it was cursed because he put a Backstreet Boys sticker on it (or somesuch shit). All the while, since the age of, around 5-7ish, I had been playing Arcade games, and getting exposure to other platforms. More recently, YouTuber Bithead1000 inspired me to take a look at the TurboGrafix 16/NEC PC Engine (not to mention several games like Golden Axe and Rastan which I have on the Tandy 1000A) - nothing like a game of two random Japanese comedians posing as detectives, pissing on lamp posts and kicking each other around (Ken Chan and Kato Chan), LOL! And now my wife has me looking out for a cheap Colecovision.