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Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« on: March 06, 2018, 03:50:04 am »
The oldest console I have is a NES I got got about 2 years ago. I still works but I prefer running my NES games on a Retro Duo. My NES still has the original PIN connectors and it is kinda hard to get running but It still works.

My second oldest console is my SEGA Genesis model 2, But it has a hard time reading when the controller is plugged in. any suggestions?

but in my lifetime the vary first console I owned was a PlayStation 1 then GameCube then a Nintendo 64 then a PlayStation 2 then a Retro Duo, then a SEGA Saturn, then A PlayStation 3 now An Xbox 360 and Wii

my first PC was an Apple then a 386 running windows 3.1
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Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2018, 03:59:59 am »
My oldest system in terms of how long I've owned it, and also pretty close to being my the oldest overall, is my Intellivision.

When I was around 5 or 6 and started getting into video games (they had an SNES and Genesis at my daycare) I really wanted one of my own, but convincing your parents to buy such a thing is not always an easy task. I told my dad and he went into his closet and pulled out the Intellivision. To this day I can't get over how odd that is, because my dad never played any kind of video games in my lifetime. He gave it to me and my brother as well as the 5 or so games he had for it.

Over time he would pick up random games from the flea market he went to weekly (One that had been going on for decades as a community tradition that got closed down in the late 2000s when the land changed hands, to be developed into nothing yet still a decade later...) and give them to us, so we built a decent collection. The unusual nature of the system that no one I ever met in school knew of really kickstarted my interest in collecting video games.

It was technically in my family even before I was born but I've personally owned it for about 25 years, about 80% of my total lifetime.
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Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2018, 07:57:48 am »
Oldest Console I have SNES JR that I got 3 or 4 years ago
First System I owned was a Red GBA SP I got when I was 6 or 7

Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2018, 08:11:00 am »
First system was an Atari 2600, oldest would be my Odyssey2 or Pong dedicated.


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« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2018, 08:48:23 am »
I have an NES I got around 1994 that still works.

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Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2018, 09:28:34 am »
I still have my first NES from the Deluxe Set I got Christmas of 1987. That's the one that I've had the longest. 
The oldest I have is some kind of Radio Shack Pong Clone called a TV Scoreboard.  It's from 1976 I think.


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Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2018, 09:30:54 am »
My first console was an Atari 2600, but we sold it in the late 80s.
So the oldest console I currently own is my original NES, which I got around 1988 or so.
That is, unless you count Nintendo Game & Watches. I still own all 13 I had as a child, with the first one I owned being the Snoopy Panorama model, which I received as a gift around ‘85-86 or so.

Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2018, 10:35:46 am »
My oldest owned console is my Game Boy Color, received for Christmas, I think? When I was 13 or so. It's followed up by my PS2, purchased with my high school graduation money. The laser died on it once, but that was back when Sony was doing free repairs on lasers, so I mailed it in & it's been fine since.

My oldest console in general is a model 1 Fairchild Channel F. You can't get too much older than that!

Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2018, 10:52:25 am »
My oldest console was my NES but it fried due to a bad power adaptor. :(
Following that would be my Genesis Model 2.

the one I've had the longest is my Game Boy Advance SP, I got it new and it still looks almost new. Those things are so well built.

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« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2018, 12:23:06 pm »
The oldest I have is the Odyssey 2. The one I've had the longest is my Sega Saturn.

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« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2018, 12:52:16 pm »
I still have a Philips Odyssey 2100, it used to belong to my dad and was allready in the family before i was born. It was allways hooked up on the family TV untill we got an Atari 2600.

The first system I saved for myself was my NES.

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Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2018, 02:01:35 pm »
My Wonder Wizard Pong Clone from the 70s is my oldest.

The one I owned the longest was my NES from my childhood.

stealthrush

Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2018, 04:50:43 pm »
Similar to OP, my NES when I was around 2 years old 1989. My second oldest system owned would be SNES, since the early 1990s. My first PC had a large floppy disc drive, can't recall details no longer in possession unfortunately.

Re: Your Longest Lasting Video Game Console Or Oldest One Owned
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2018, 07:41:01 pm »
I still have my first NES from the Deluxe Set I got Christmas of 1987. That's the one that I've had the longest. 

I think I got a deluxe set right around the same time as you. Still have it, still works. I also still have my Atari 2600 I got in 1981 or so ($250 used with 4 games....that was a big deal for a struggling family). I haven't tried that Console since the 80's, but it's still at my folks house. I do have a working 2600 mini (late 80's model) that works fine...that's why I haven't touched my original 2600 in @30 years. All Atari stuff is in storage though...NES is here with me and hooked up every so often.

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« Reply #14 on: March 06, 2018, 09:22:17 pm »
I've still got my older bros's childhood GameBoy color systems from probably 1998 or so. Other than that, I've got my original Game Boy Advance from 2002 I think. The oldest system I have complete with the box and everything is my Platinum GameCube from 2003
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