Consoles.exe
I have played video games for as long as I can remember, and I am done pretending otherwise. My first console was a Mega Drive, unwrapped around Christmas 1990 with Shinobi and Altered Beast. Here is every major console since the NES, plus the strange and wonderful ones from the 90s, with a tick next to the ones that lived under my TV. 18 out of 48.
| Year | Console | Had it |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | NES | · |
| 1986 | Master System | · |
| 1987 | PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 obscure | ✔ |
| 1988 | Mega Drive | ✔ |
| 1989 | Game Boy handheld | · |
| 1989 | Atari Lynx handheld, obscure | · |
| 1990 | Super Nintendo | ✔ |
| 1990 | Game Gear handheld | · |
| 1990 | Neo Geo | · |
| 1991 | Philips CD-i obscure | · |
| 1991 | Mega-CD obscure | · |
| 1993 | Atari Jaguar | · |
| 1993 | 3DO obscure | · |
| 1993 | Amiga CD32 obscure | · |
| 1994 | Saturn | · |
| 1994 | PlayStation | ✔ |
| 1994 | 32X obscure | · |
| 1994 | Neo Geo CD obscure | · |
| 1995 | Virtual Boy handheld, obscure | · |
| 1995 | Sega Nomad handheld, obscure | · |
| 1996 | Nintendo 64 | · |
| 1996 | Apple Pippin obscure | · |
| 1998 | Game Boy Color handheld | · |
| 1998 | Dreamcast | ✔ |
| 1998 | Neo Geo Pocket handheld, obscure | · |
| 1999 | WonderSwan handheld, obscure | · |
| 2000 | PlayStation 2 | ✔ |
| 2001 | Game Boy Advance handheld | · |
| 2001 | GameCube | ✔ |
| 2001 | Xbox | · |
| 2003 | Game Boy Advance SP handheld | ✔ |
| 2004 | Nintendo DS handheld | ✔ |
| 2004 | PSP handheld | ✔ |
| 2005 | Xbox 360 | ✔ |
| 2006 | PlayStation 3 | ✔ |
| 2006 | Wii | ✔ |
| 2011 | Nintendo 3DS handheld | · |
| 2011 | PS Vita handheld | · |
| 2012 | Wii U | ✔ |
| 2013 | PlayStation 4 | · |
| 2013 | Xbox One | · |
| 2016 | PlayStation 4 Pro | ✔ |
| 2017 | Switch | ✔ |
| 2017 | Xbox One X | · |
| 2020 | PlayStation 5 | ✔ |
| 2020 | Xbox Series X|S | · |
| 2022 | Steam Deck handheld | ✔ |
| 2025 | Switch 2 | · |
Years are first launch anywhere in the world.
And the PCs
I started building my own PCs in 2003. The first one ran on an AMD Athlon 64, bought in September 2003, the month AMD launched it and the first 64-bit chip for home PCs. It ran World of Warcraft. The next big upgrade was the legendary Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600, the quad-core everyone overclocked. I loved that chip. Today's build is a Ryzen 5 5600X with two NVIDIA cards, and it spends more time running a language model than games.