Teens seeing a NES first time in their life...

[lombardsoup]

You should have conserved them in good condition. A few decades more and those things will be worth some serious dough.

IRS breaking into your shit > The vidya

I did make a bit extra though so it wasn't a total wash.  Not as much into games as I used to be, it didn't bother me to sell them as much as it should have.

[Franke]

My uncle got me a Commodore C64 for my 8th birthday. With a computer in the house, my parents never allowed me a console. I always had to visit a friend to play on his NES and later SNES)...  But I remember that awesome football game for the NES with those ugly/obese looking players in it.

EDIT: Nintendo World Cup was the name.

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[Molly]

I played this on my C64!

[Angantyr]

I had Commodore 64 ('portable' version), NES, Gameboy, SNES, Megadrive, Playstation 1, N64, PC 386, PC Pentium 1, and only PC's from then on. Played a lot of Amiga 500 elsewhere, it was probably the best back then, though the SNES and PS1 were really good platforms.

With little exception and as per some kind of consumer policy my parents consistently forced me to sell my old system before getting a new one, which is hardly commendable to think of today, in particular considering the mere symbolic amounts you got for your old systems when a new generation was on the market. Would've been great to have had all these old systems today.