still never owned a wii u or a switch, but i'm gonna go ahead and say yuzu counts for the latter.

continuing the tradition of buying consoles for fromsoft.

not gonna lie: the nintendo nostalgia got me hard on this one.

i've never had a real psp, but this was probably the first game to make me look into ppsspp. i still need to actually PLAY play it, never mind actually explore the rest of the psp library...

i've never owned a wii, but dolphin was pretty viable by the time this came out...

late to the ps3 because of its launch price, this was the one i could no longer resist. an absolute fucking monument and the beginning of a new era.

i've never been a big fiend for puzzle games, but i loved rez and this was another mizuguchi game. it also rules.

it was either this or ff4 advance.

i got around to the gamecube a couple years late, and i think this was the only game i had for it at first.

for a fair bit after the ps2 launched, i was quite content with my ps1 and dreamcast. i was still playing older stuff, too, as always. this got my attention in magazines, and so i caved. zone of the enders would be another reason, though that was more for the included mgs2 demo...

i don't want to make an entry for, like, every version of windows or whatever, but i played this on an aging but new to me pc from my mom, and it was pretty much my gateway back into pc games after going console-only for a few years.

pretty sure i picked up sonic adventure and soulcalibur along with this when i bought a dreamcast in early 2000, but yeah: this was my reason for wanting one in the first place.

another obvious one. i had the ps1 and my high school bff (not the aforementioned rich kid) had a 64.

one of my freshman year high school friends had the kind of mom who bought him goddamn everything he wanted. lucky me: he cared more about his pc and games like ultima 7, so he sold me his ps1 and a stack of games. i was already working at a grocery store at age 14 (fucking hell), so i didn't hesitate.

probably a fairly typical first saturn game. i actually played it at a best buy kiosk long before i ever bought a saturn used in 1998, but i'll count it.

no doubt about this one. that opening video was incredible. the game was... well, it wasn't sonic 2. my friends and i played it on a cdx we'd stolen from media play. heh heh...

my first dos pc (a gateway 386sx 20mhz) was also a hand-me-down courtesy of my aunt, and she included a huge stack of disks full of shareware. i couldn't tell you how many times i played this game. it was the primary reason i asked for a soundblaster 16 one xmas.

kind of obvious, since it came packed in. alttp would soon follow.

over at the college kids' house nextdoor!

my cousins had a game boy before i did, and i was very jealous. played a bit of this every time i visited, until i eventually got a scuffed old used one of my own with a copy of link's awakening.

at some point, my mom got an old amiga 500 from my aunt (who worked in typesetting). california games was among the games for it i played most, but far more than that i liked to fuck around with its text-to-speech program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILgKv-WGcV0

truthfully, this one's a wild guess. one of the college guys nextdoor when i was 10 or 11 had a master system and he let me check out it, but by that point i'd already played some genesis games and i was still pretty fixated on my nes. it could have been wonder boy...?

typical story! it was probably about 1988 when my dad bought our nes. i know i'd played some nintendo at friends' and neighbors' houses, and i'm assuming smb was the first one i played. it certainly was once we had our own.

i must have been about 6 years old when my dad brought home a used commodore vic-20 with a bunch of games. i think this was the first one i played.

the kid nextdoor was a few years older, and he had a 2600.