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Hello!

I'm interested to know what consoles and/or handhelds you have
and what year you got each one! Add the console then the year, like this:

Super Nintendo - 1995 * i was 5 years old at that time.
Gameboy Pocket - 1996
Sony Playstation - 1998
Gameboy Color - 1999
Nintendo 64 - 2000
Gameboy Advance - 2001
Nintendo Gamecube - 2002
Gameboy Advance SP - 2004
Playstation 2 - 2004
PSP - 2005
Nintendo Wii -2006
Nintendo DS lite - 2007
Nintendo Entertainment System - 2007
Sega Mega Drive - 2007

Atari 2600 - March 2003/January 2004/August 2005 (my 4-switch system is the only one I have now, which I got at CGE 2K5)
Atari 5200 - February 2004
Atari 7800 - August 2003
Atari XEGS - September 2007
Atari Lynx II - January 2007
Atari Jaguar - August 2004
NES (front loader) - 1988/September 2003 (my original one died when I was 5)
NES (top loader) - 1996
Famicom - July 2007/March 2008 (sold my first one, then bought another one recently)
AV Famicom - February 2008
SNES (model 1) - September 2007
SNES (model 2) - Christmas 1997
N64 - Christmas 1998/2000 (my first one was given away a few years after I got the blue one I have now)
Game Boy - January 2006
Game Boy Pocket - Christmas 1996
Game Boy Color - January 2000
Game Boy Advance - July 2001
DS Lite - July 2007
SMS (American)  - August 2001
SMS (Japanese) - June 2007
JVC X'Eye - February 2008
Game Gear - February 1992/February 1995
32X - January 2002/June 2006
Saturn - January 2008
Dreamcast - January 2008
PSX - Christmas 1999
PS2 - Christmas 2007
Neo-Geo Pocket Color - Christmas 2003
PC Engine Duo - August 2007
Colecovision - September 2004
Commodore VIC-20 - 1982/March 2002 (my dad bought it new)
Commodore 64 - 1987/March 2002 (dad picked it up at a garage sale)

wow! and i though 14 consoles was large!
I wouldn't mind getting a famicom in the future.

Atari 2600 1980s? -my Dad's
SNES 1995 -xmas present, shared w/ my brother
N64 2003
Dreamcast 2005 -#1 #2
PS1 2005
Genesis 2005
Xbox 2006 -modded immediately
Gamecube 2006
Wii 2006 -US launch date
NES (top) 2007
PS2 2007
Dreamcast 2007 -#3
INTV 2007
X360 2007 -week of Halo 3

GBC 1999 -Pokemon!
GBA 2006

My poor SNES held out so long for us.  The N64 saved gaming for me in my junior year of high school.  Smash Bros, Mario Tennis, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario 64, and other amazing titles from the last great cartridge system.  My Dreamcast collection is so large now due in part to the time I started collecting.  It hit a sweet spot where the games were readily available, prices had fallen, and nobody seemed to care because they didn't realize how awesome the system was.

I have no idea what year I got my consoles. Except:

PS2 fat - Thursday the 13th of December 2001
Xbox 360 - Friday the 13th of October 2006

Hmm....

Master System: 89/90, but I don't have that thing anymore. :(
SNES: 92/93? Somewheres in that time.
Game Boy Pocket: 96/97/98. I have no idea what year it was, but it was in that time frame.
Playstation: Christmas 97/98. Don't remember what year.
Game Boy Advance: 01/02.
Playstation 2: Christmas 2001. Along with Grand Theft Auto 3. My parents rule. :D
Sega Dreamcast: Late 2005. I think it was new year's eve.
NES: Summer 2006
Wii: Launch night, 2006.
DS Lite: February 2007.
Playstation 3: Halo 3's launch day last September. :D
PSP:  March 1, 2008.

I'm done as far as current gen consoles go after spending God only knows how much on them. I've decided against getting a 360 because I don't want to deal with the shoddy hardware and have it die on me. My next console will probably be a Genesis or a Saturn, whichever I can find first.

Lets see...

Year they were launched:
Genesis
Game Gear
N64
Playstation
Gamecube

2004: Xbox
2005: PS2
2006: NES
2007: Everything from Odyssey^2 to Xbox 360

I'll try my best at this.
NES - Christmas of '89, I was almost 2 at the time, so it was really for my older sisters.
SNES - I think around '94 or '95.
N64 - Must have been around '98 or '99
Gamecube - '03 maybe.
Genesis, TI-99/4A, Atari 2600 (and probably some others I'm forgetting) - I think '06
PS2, GameGear, Nomad, and everything else was from 2007.

I didn't even try to place my Gameboys, everything but the original Gameboy came from the 90's sometime I think.

Oh god...I have no idea.

Hmmm

2 of my 2600's I got new. My Intelli I got new. My Genesis I got the week it was released. The rest I have gotten over the last 7 years.

These are purely guesses on my part. Since I only started collecting 5 years or so ago many of these dates don't represent my first system but the ones I own now. The extra dates are guesses for my backups I've picked up since then. Fortunately my blog filled in some specific dates on some of the newer ones:

Game Boy Pocket - March 20 2008
Xbox 360 Elite - March 12 2008
Sony PSP Slim - March 8th 2008
RadioShack TRS-80 - September 2007
FC Twin - 2007
Nintendo DS Lite - November 15th 2006
Game Boy Color - 2006
Game Boy - 2006
Atari Jaguar - 2006
Xbox 360 Pro - April 2006
Sony PlayStation 2 Slim - Feb/March 2005/2007/2008
Sega GameGear - 2005/2006
Commodore 64 - 2005/2007
Commodore VIC-20 - 2005
Tiger R-Zone - 2005
Game Boy Advance SP - 2005
Atari 2600 4 switch - 2005
TurboGrafx-16 - 2004
NES - 1990?/1998/2004/2006/2008
Coleco Gemini - 2004
ColecoVision - 2004
SNES - 199?/2004/2007/2008
Sega Genesis/Genesis 2 - 2004/2005/2006
Game Boy Advance - 2004
Sega Dreamcast - 2004/2005
Mattel Intellivision - 198?/2004/2006
Sega Master System - 198?/2004
Atari 2600 6 switch - 2004
Nintendo Gamecube - 2002/2006
Microsoft Xbox - 2001/2004/2007/2008
Nintendo 64 - 1997/2004/2005
Sony PlayStation 1996/1999/2004

I couldn't tell you when I got all the systems I've found at thrifts or garage sales. All within the past 7 years though. I'll attempt the ones I got new.

Xbox 360 - 2008
PSP - 2007
Mattell Hyperscan - 2006
DS - 2005
Xbox - 2004
Gamecube - 2003
GBA SP - 2003
N64 - 2003
Dreamcast - 2002
PSOne - 2002
PS2 - 2002
GBA - 2001
GBC - 1999
PS1 - 1998
Genesis - 1992
NES - 1987
C64 - 1984
Atari 2600 - 1981

I really wanted to answer this, but when I tried to remember everything my brain nearly asploded, so I gave up

1979 - A black and white Pong console, not 100% sure which one it was but very similar to Binatone TV Master 4 Plus 2 http://www.old-computers.com/MUSEUM/computer.asp?st=3&c=1033 . I was 6 years old and my mum bought it from a flea market. I thought I'd discovered gold! :)

1982 - Acorn BBC Microcomputer Model B
1984 - Tomy Tomytronic 3D Sky Attack (handheld)
1985 - IBM PC XT 5160 (with 20 megabyte hard drive hehe)
1986 - Sinclair Spectrum 48k (rubber keyboard)
1987 - Commodore 64
1988 - Sinclair Spectrum 48k (plastic keyboard)
1988 - Sinclair QL
1990 - Commodore Amiga 500
1991 - Sega Megadrive/Genesis
1994 - Panasonic 3DO
1997 - Sony Playstation
1998 - Nintendo 64
2001 - Sony Playstation 2
2005 - Sony PSP
2007 - Sony Playstation 3

Atari 7800 - Parents had this,  got it before they tossed it lol
NES - Year of release, i was around 5 ish i  think
Sega - Year of release
Game gear - year of release
N64 -  1998
Ps2 thin - 2001
Gamecube - 2006 girlfriend gave this one to me
ps3 - 2006
Wii -  2007

nes-1989
gameboy-when it came out
snes-when it came out
n64- " " " (couple months after)
gbc- " " "
gba- " " " (actually i got a japanese import before it came out)
gbsp- " " "
DS- " " "
wii- when it came out. (waited 2 days) (in line)
virtual boy- 2005 boxed- 2006
psp- " " " (couple months after)
gamecube- " " " (couple months after)
xbox - year after release
360(halo edition)- when halo 3 came out
atari 2600- 2005
atari 5200- 2005
colleco vision- 2006
genesis- 2004
master system- 2004
lynx- 2006
game gear- 2006