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Pokemon, Mario, Donkey Kong, link cables, infrared. Need I say more? Truly childhood defying devices

One of the coolest things I ever owned was this Sega Game Gear. I had a really hard Batman game with it and Sonic. This thing required a sh!t load of batteries and blew through them fast, but had a backlight color display. It was well ahead of the Gameboy Color and Advance, but it just didn’t catch on. It costed too much, was heavy and bulky. Oddly I remember this had a antenna attachment so you could watch tv on the go, I never got that but I thought it was the coolest thing

I remember seeing this thing all the time in the store Hills, which became Aims, which now doesn’t exist, and honestly thought the idea of it was pretty cool. A handheld gaming system that could connect to the internet and had a touch screen, it sounded like the future, expect is wasn’t. I got this on clearance after it bombed sales wise, it wasn’t particularly great at anything it claimed to do and needed an attachment to go online. I thought it looked cool tho

My mom really went all out that Christmas. It was awesome. I got this and like 4 games, plus two for my GBA. I’d come home from school everyday, pop a few beef burritos in the microwave and plop down on my bed and play some Crash Team Racing, life was good

I remember reading a magazine before this came out that showed it white with orange buttons, it looked amazing. When it actually came out there was no white and orange version, it was just a prototype. I did get the regular white one (with grey buttons). This also released around the same time as Pokemon Crystal, and the epic era of the GBA began.

This was a birthday present, it was subsequently my first DVD player. My first PS2 game? Metal Gear Solid 2. Followed by GTA 3, all friends would come over, cram into my tiny bedroom and play with the cheat codes “everyone has weapons” and “everyone hates you” activated and see who could last the longest. Getting bazooka’d by an old granny never got old.

Clamshell redesign, backlit screen, rechargeable battery and a strategically timed release around the same time as Pokemon Ruby & Sapphire. Primo 👌

My favorite console of its generation, while I had great fun with the PS2, the GameCube was where my heart was, and where I had the most fun and best memories. Destroying my friends in Super Smash Brothers Melee, and Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance was awesome, but Animal Crossing was arguably my favorite game, while Mario Kart Double Dash was a mainstay in my household.

Finding out the next gameboy wouldn’t be a gameboy was a hard sell, but a promise of a port of Mario 64 (with 3 new playable characters), wireless and online play, plus reverse compatibility with the gameboy and I was in. And so the DS era began