Game Boy Color (Atomic Purple) - I probably got this some time in 1999 for my birthday or Christmas, originally purely because of the Pokémon craze.
Nintendo 64 - Got this one for my birthday in July 2000. A visiting relative actually got me my first game before I got the console on my actual birthday, so confused not-quite-seven-year-old me tried putting the cartridge in my VCR.
Game Boy Advance (Blue) - I probably got this sometime in 2002, though it could have been late 2001. My uncle was a bus driver and found it left behind by a passenger. After the lost & found holding period ended he gave it to me.
GameCube (Silver) - Most likely this was a 2002 Christmas gift, as I remember getting Super Mario Sunshine with it.
DS - The original silver launch model as a 2004 Christmas gift.
PlayStation 2 (Slim) - I probably got this some time in 2005. I barely ended up using it and don't have many memories of it.
Xbox 360 - Launch model with the hard drive for Christmas 2005. Red ringed twice.
Wii - I know I wanted this for Christmas 2006, like every other kid on Earth, but it took until sometime in 2007 to actually get my hands on one.
PlayStation 3 (40 GB) - Birthday present in July of 2008. Got it purely as a Blu-ray player initially but then started gaming on it once my 360 became unreliable.
3DS (Blue) - Launch model I got sometime in the latter half of 2011; don't remember when exactly. There was virtually nothing to play on it and I sold it pretty quickly.
PlayStation 4 - Original model; I got this in April of 2015. Bought my copy of Dragon Age: Inquisition months in advance of getting the console itself.
New 3DS XL (SNES design) - I think I got this sometime in 2019? But it honestly could have been 2018 as well. Sometime after the Switch was established, by which point there was finally stuff I wanted to play on this damn thing.
PlayStation 5 - Original model in its discless Digital configuration, not because I wanted that but because it's what I could afford. Had to line up for hours in the cold morning before sunrise outside of a GameStop in April 2022 for the privilege of paying way too much for a mandatory bundle with crap I didn't need.
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