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
đź’• 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…)
Written by Bill Litshauer, Sr. Executive Producer at Implicit Conversions