uhhh okay i guess i should join in on this too
alll of this is very vague as basically all of the stuff i used to have is completely gone now, even including the harddrives of all the computers which i deeply regret throwing out
consoles:
sega megadrive/genesis, 1990 to 2006(?)
first console i have ever played (as far as i remember) - most memorable games from it was Puggsy, Sonic 1(could've been 2 tho), Gunstar Heroes and a bunch more.
parents bought it way back when the console first came out and kept it until me and my brother were born. threw it out like riight back in 2006 i'm estimating along with every game. my parents tell me that they just sold it to somebody at a stupidly low price and hasn't ever heard of it since. i've yet to find any remains of the console, like any spare games, manuals or even cables.
xbox original, 2002 (when i was born) to 2010/2011 (rebought in 2017)
second console: the original xbox. bought probably right as it came out, and used to have quite a lot of games for it. we did actually keep like 20 games for it, but the console and rest of the games were sold in around 2011. I remember my favourite game being crash tag team racing, and there's a forgetton more games we played on it. I actually mostly just watched my brother play then me actually playing it. my parents have a tape containing me and my brother playing the xbox way back in 2003-4ish. the way we handled the game disks in that clip made me intensely cringe - its a miracle these game disks even work today, we used to just throw them everywhere.
right now, though, we've actually bought another original xbox and now we're playing the games we've kept with it. fun!
gameboy advance sp, 2004
we have two of these, both for me and my brother. still have kept them along with all their games - it's much easier to store away somewhere then an entire console. again, probably bought at or near the time when these originally came out.
here's a really interesting story with this console: when buying this console, my mother of course wanted a bunch of games to go with it. well, she must've ordered the games online. two big reasons why i think this: first, she bought a loving gameboy color game. luckily it's compatible with the gameboy advance but she must've not really known what she was doing when ordering as it was a different console. but the biggest thing is that: the pokemon games we had didn't look like typical pokemon cartridges. they looked like regular carts, completely gray with a simple printed sticker. recently my brother had realised that these carts don't look normal (the actual carts' plastic is transparent and coloured, and the sticker is shinier), and after some investigation we had realised: my mother, way back then, had bought counterfeit cartridges. I mean, they work just like normal pokemon cartridges, apart from the save battery being stufftier and only lasting a couple years, but it was quite heartbreaking to realise that we were playing on stuffty cheap fake carts throughout our entire childhoods.
first gen nintendo DS, 2005
I havent picked a random nintendo DS image, we did (and still do) have the very first nintendo ds model from when it was first released. still working too, with the screens still working fine. we did have two, one for me and another for my brother, but I had lost mine as far as i remember - we went to the hairdressers and i had taken my nintendo DS, then I must've put it down somewhere and then... forgot to take it back. no clue where it is right now. I remember me and my brother taking our nintendo DSs on holiday and to multiple places. I mostly remember using the chat feature which connects DSs together where you can talk to eachother and even draw and send black+white images to eachother, it was way more fun then expected. most memorable experience was playing nintendogs whilst on an airplane to spain.
that's all the consoles from my childhood i'd say - in around 2010/2011 i had steered away from consoles and just went to the computer. my brother carried on though, playing on an xbox 360 constantly back in 2009/2011. I even have a video he made in 2009 ''''instructing'''' you how to install modifications/hacks on a call of duty game, by somehow connecting the xbox 360 harddrive to the computer. I remember my dad being really pissed to hear that he was banned off of xbox live permanently due to hacking.
computers:
before i begin: there's a couple other computers my family owned before these, but i know so very little about them. I didn't even know some of them existed until i watched old home videos and noticed them in the background somewhere. I do, however, remember when one of them (running windows xp) one day suddenly started constantly freezing on bootup, my dad being angry about having to reinstall windows
this computer, as far as i can remember, was actually custom-built by my dad. no idea what year. it's too old for me to remember any of it's specs (i didn't know or care at the time). I know for a fact that it run windows xp, however i'm also sure it used to run an older windows version as i very faintly remember the windows xp upgrade screen on it and also the fact that the screensaver '3d pipes' was left over from the previous OS. it was a slow computer just becuase it was an old one my dad just gave to me to use as my first personal computer. the best moments with this computer was when I made my first roblox account in 2008, bought blockland in 2009 and i also greatly remembering spending hours installing skins and plugins for a media player called winamp - for some reason i loved winamp as a kid. it's my most nostalgic computer.. mostly because its the one i remember the least, but it was also where everything started, really. I believe it was thrown out in late 2010, along with it's harddrive. one of the most memorable things of this computer is when my dad got extremely angry at me and my brother, and literally picked it up, kept hitting it and literally threw it across the room. the computer (somehow) survived this though apart from the fan, so for a week i could only use it for half an hour before it would shut itself off due to overheating.
this is a prebuilt computer from HP, but i have no idea what model it is. It ran windows vista home premium, and judging from a console.log created on 12/29/2010, had 2gb of RAM, a 3.40Ghz processor(?!?!) and a nvidia geforce 7600. my parents had owned this computer for a while, and so when i recieved it in 2010 it had a forgetton of programs installed, along with a forgetton of things running at once on it. on the desktop image, the desktop icons are hidden - i have another image with the desktop icons and there's so loving many of them. this computer is where i first started playing minecraft in 2010, and created my youtube channel.
this is the computer i'm using right now. kinda. I have no idea where this computer came from, my dad got it from... somewhere back in 2011 and although it was labelled as a 'gaming computer' with it's super-edgy (cheap af) case, it had an integrated stuffe graphics card (ATI Radeon 3000) and a really slow processor. I'm quite sure we wasted our money on it. however, from 2011 to now, i've replaced literally every single part in it, one at a time, aside from the (really cheap and stuffty) case. first was the RAM, then the motherboard+CPU, then the graphics card, then the power supply and then the harddrives. it's been very interesting to build upon a computer like this instead of just buying new ones, and although this has meant a lot of incompatibilities, right now, in 2017, i've gotten to a point where i have absolutely no want to upgrade it. i'm not quite sure of the specs it started out with, but this is what I have right now:
I was going to continue this post, explaining all the other devices i've used over the years such as my ipod touch and camcorders, but i've spent two hours on this post trying to find info. i could continue this later if i'm bothered and if anyone cares, though. doing this has been actually quite fun - i'm a huge fan of diving into my past and finding all the things that have shaped me to be who i am, and reflecting on the past.
