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the first time i ever played video games was on a ps1... in 2009. we didn't have a lot of money back then and all we had was my dad's old playstation. he mostly played resident evil and similar games before he had kids; you can't give preschoolers resident evil unless you want to traumatize them, so i spent hours playing gran turismo and a handful of arcade games on that thing until we got a wii in 2011. this began a trend of our family waiting until the end of a console's life cycle to purchase it until i got old enough to buy my own consoles. now my parents wonder why i spend my money on old games instead of buying new ones...
Similar story here, just with my dad's SNES around that same time. Mainly played link to the past, as it was the only game we had for a bit, but we bought a couple others (super Mario world, where in the world is Carmen San Diego, ms pac man) on eBay later on. Both myself and my dad's old save states are still on the cartridge last I checked.
Then we got a Wii around 2013 when my uncle was upgrading to Wii U, we got a PS2 slim from my grandparents (to play DDR with these terrible dance pads we never ended up using much), and I got a 3ds xl for my (12th?) birthday. That 3ds was the only console I got when it was even remotely new, and I have moved on to pc games ever since (at least for newer titles). My brother has continued collecting retro games, and has added an Atari 2600, a sega genesis, and my dad's NES to the collection. Currently, the Wii, PS2, and 3DS have been softmodded and are still used fairly regularly.
It's probably affected my taste in video games too - I get mostly old stuff or indie titles.
I feel ya. I scraped the money together to pay for half of a nintendo 64 for my christmas gift around 2001. I bought a used PS2 in 2017. Garage sales are great for finding a system with a lot to got with it.
My favorite part of the PSP/PS3 era was that they made so many direct ports of PS1 games on the digital store. So I got to experience a lot of old games I wouldn't have been able to otherwise for dirt cheap.
Plus I could take them on the go and swap my save files easily with my PSP.