The Exigent Duality
Lineage - 09:30 CST, 9/10/19 (Sniper)
Lots of really nifty chronologies here. Some of the systems mentioned as "first-ever platforms":

  • Fairchild Channel F
  • Texas Instruments TI-99
  • Coleco Vision
  • Amstrad CPC 464
  • ZX Spectrum
  • Amiga 600

Pretty sweet! My boss at work started with the tape-loaded 8-bit Atari machines as a kid back in Belarus, in the late 1970s.

I'm a little more boring; 37 years old, and my linear sequence went like this: Atari 2600 -> Atari 7800 -> Sega Genesis -> 3DO -> PSX -> Dreamcast -> Xbox -> Xbox 360 -> Wii U -> Switch -> PlayStation 4 Pro.

Of course, that's totally excluding the stuff I've bought out of sequence; I owned an N64 for a brief time circa 1996, a PlayStation 3 for a short while prior to my Wii U purchase, bought and built an extensive library for the Sega Saturn starting in 2006, did the same for the PC Engine some years later, then yet again for the Atari ST just a few years ago. Not to mention countless handhelds, and continuous gaming PC building from 1989 to present day.

I keep waffling on whether I should save up for a PlayStation 5, or continue to dedicate myself to the Switch. Sony's stuff has always been a lot more appealing to me than Nintendo's, and as you can see from this thread I share a more common lineage with PlayStation 4 owners. But Nintendo has done a fantastic job of releasing just that "one more piece" of Switch software which I can't resist buying. Kudos to them!