My Video Game Platform Journey

I spent some time recently reminiscing and mapping out my gaming platform journey… It all started with a Coleco Telstar Colortron, where I played “tennis”, “handball”, and “hockey” with my dad.

Eventually, my parents got me a NES, and that’s when the adventure really started!

In rough order, here’s my platform journey:

• Coleco Telstar Colortron

• Coleco Pac-Man Mini Arcade

• Lots of those little LCD handhelds

• Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

• Nintendo Gameboy

• Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES_

• PC (beginning with shareware and Wolfenstein 3-D… and still buying a new one roughly every 5 years, or at least upgrading)

• Nintendo Wii (lots of Rock Band!)

• PlayStation 3

• PlayStation 4

• Mobile gaming (mostly casual… but now Diablo Immortal)

• Oculus Quest 2 (pre-Meta!)

• PlayStation 5

💕 Honorable Mentions: I didn’t own these consoles, but I have fond memories playing with friends on them:

• PlayStation

• PlayStation 2

• XBox (modded!)

• Nintendo Switch Lite (my kids have these, not me…)

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