GameBoy

Master System (shout out Alex The Kid)

Commodore 64

MegaDrive

PlayStation

PlayStation 2

Game Cube

Xbox 360

Xbox Series X

The megadrive was the first one that was truly mine. I can’t begin to imagine how many hours I played on that thing and as a kid it blew my mind. ToeJam & Earl, Sonic, Aladdin. I remember the kid across the street beat the cave level in Aladdin and he was like the Don of gaming for about a week. Also not forgetting Mortal Kombar. I didn’t have to go to the arcade to play it anymore! Trying to remember all the fatalities, trying to do that uppercut that sends them off the bridge and onto the spikes. Such good times! So many debates were resolved by a couple rounds of Mortal Kombat.

The other standout was the gamecube. Man, Smash Bros Mele, Double Dash, Viewtiful Joe, Die Hard, Metroid Prime, Pokemon Colosseum. I spent so long playing all these games going into all these worlds! But none more so than Sonic Adventure 2. The idea that there was the game, and then this weird other game where you raise a little creature in a garden and watched it grow and could race it and compete and mould it. It blew my mind!

Obviously gaming has come a long way from these days, but even today it blows my mind what some studios can do. It feels like this generation has barely even started yet and I can’t wait to see what happens!