Older consoles or handhelds that you regret sleeping on when they were modern

[2ko]

I'm usually one of the older people in online spaces, but I guess it makes sense that I actually seem a bit younger than everyone on a forum such this lol

I grew up on Playstation and then switched to Nintendo for the Gamecube and Wii, and then moved over to the 360 for middle and high school. Sega was already basically almost gone by the time I was playing games. I got a PS1 in 98' as my first console at 4 years old, so the only Sega system I could have really even had the chance of playing while it was "modern" was the Dreamcast, and tbh I don't think I ever saw one. My cousins had an N64 I saw a few times but never played myself, mostly just watched them play.

[bikingjahuty]

I'm usually one of the older people in online spaces, but I guess it makes sense that I actually seem a bit younger than everyone on a forum such this lol

I grew up on Playstation and then switched to Nintendo for the Gamecube and Wii, and then moved over to the 360 for middle and high school. Sega was already basically almost gone by the time I was playing games. I got a PS1 in 98' as my first console at 4 years old, so the only Sega system I could have really even had the chance of playing while it was "modern" was the Dreamcast, and tbh I don't think I ever saw one. My cousins had an N64 I saw a few times but never played myself, mostly just watched them play.

I think you're within a standard deviation of the average age on here, which if I had to make assumptions is probably early 40s. I'm in my late 30s and when I talk about the 90s, it's mostly from the perspective of an elementary school aged kid. I was in middle school in the late 90s.


But between my friends and I most of us had Sega consoles, and a few had Nintendo consoles. Funny enough, it was just my cousin that had a PS1 back in the day. Other than that I didn't really get to play the PS1 all that often. The first time I played the PS1 was on a road trip my parents took me on in 1996 where I played Destruction Derby at someone's house. The damage effects blew my mind back then. Now it's nothing special. I really didn't come to appreciate the PS1 until the console was nearly sunset, however I do remember specific games being shown off in gaming mags I had during the time that really made me wish I had one. Funny enough, one game that made me obsessively want a PS1 for a brief period was Star Wars Masters of Teras Kasi. The idea of a Star Wars fighting game blew my mind back then. Of course, now we know that game is complete crap, but hey, 9 year old me would have probably loved it lol.


I still can't believe that between my brother and I, we had all four 6th gen consoles back when they were considered modern. And it wasn't like we were rich, we just had some excellent birthdays and XMASes around that time I guess lol. My brother mainly gamed on XBOX (he was a Halo 2 XBL addict), while I played Dreamcast and PS2 primarily. I bought a Gamecube around 2003 or so just to play Resident Evil Remake. I only had a handful of games for it back then, half of them being Resident Evil games, but remember also enjoying Smash Melee and a few others too.

[mrkonasoni]

Game Boy Micro, though, tbh, it was already like 5 years discontinued, I mostly regret it because it was still fairly cheap and always wanted one, maybe one day if I feel like saving money for it.

For the most part I don't think I regret something, I do miss when collecting Nintendo GameCube was cheaper because when I used to do it, the console was barely 10 years old, so while it wasn't new, it was still fairly common and some rare games weren't that sought.

I actually lived Nintendo 3DS I sometimes feel it died too soon but I can understand why it did, I want to mention PS Vita but I can't stop thinking that seeing dying slowly and even Sony forgetting it until stop mention it at all could have been a bit rough considering the machine wasn't exactly cheap at the time in my country, but reading old threads and seeing how the community kept the hype alive honestly seem like it could have worth it, is one of these things I do kinda regret missing out, just like 3DS, I kinda wish PS Vita lived a few more years, support I assume we all wishes it had more, ha.

[bikingjahuty]

Game Boy Micro, though, tbh, it was already like 5 years discontinued, I mostly regret it because it was still fairly cheap and always wanted one, maybe one day if I feel like saving money for it.

For the most part I don't think I regret something, I do miss when collecting Nintendo GameCube was cheaper because when I used to do it, the console was barely 10 years old, so while it wasn't new, it was still fairly common and some rare games weren't that sought.

I actually lived Nintendo 3DS I sometimes feel it died too soon but I can understand why it did, I want to mention PS Vita but I can't stop thinking that seeing dying slowly and even Sony forgetting it until stop mention it at all could have been a bit rough considering the machine wasn't exactly cheap at the time in my country, but reading old threads and seeing how the community kept the hype alive honestly seem like it could have worth it, is one of these things I do kinda regret missing out, just like 3DS, I kinda wish PS Vita lived a few more years, support I assume we all wishes it had more, ha.

I know some people love the Micro, but for me it's probably my least favorite GBA model simply because it's too small. I found one with the alt faceplates and everything for a steal about 10 years ago, but when I actually went to go play it, it made some games fairly difficult to play, like playing them on an old cell phone. I ended up selling it. My favorite GBA model is the original, albeit with the caveat that it's modded with an LCD screen to fix its backlight issues.


Fortunately I don't have any regrets when it comes to collecting for a console at a specific time when the games were cheaper and easier to find. When I got into collecting, 6th gen consoles were rapidly becoming cheap and undesirable, 5th gen were all pretty much bargained price, and 3rd and 4th gen were still a few years away from their rapid rise. I pretty much found every PS2, XBOX, Gamecube, and Dreamcast game I'd ever wanted between 2010 and 2016 or so, all for pretty cheap. I've been out of the loop when it comes to game prices for a while,  but when I see games that were going for like $20 back when I was heavily collecting for Gamecube go for like $200 now, I seriously can't believe it.