Does it mean more...

[houstonlibrarian]

If you still have the actual game console you had when you were a kid, (kept it up in the attic all these years sorta thing) how much more does that mean to you than some console you bought off Ebay?

[Jehusephat]

I still use my original NES, even though it has quite a few malfunctions (all of them having to do with the loading mechanism). My original SNES didn't mean as much to me because I bought it at a pawn shop three or four years after it was originally released, and it smelled like cigarette smoke. When it finally started showing its age, I gave it to a friend. I think my NES is the only system I have where the specific console feels important, mostly because it was the only system I played much when I was younger, and I went through a great deal of trouble nagging my mother in order to get her to buy one for me. My family was quite poor when I was growing up, so it meant a lot that she actually decided to get one for me.

I think I tend to reserve my feelings of nostalgia for specific games, like Mega Man II or SMB2, because I can very clearly remember getting those, playing them to death, and then continuing to play them for the rest of my life. It doesn't hurt that they were some of the first games I ever got. I doubt I'll feel any fond memories about any of my DS carts 20 years from now, though I may have to revise that statement once the console game download model becomes widespread and games no longer come on any kind of physical media. Then I'll probably stop buying video games entirely.

[Ro-J]

I still own and use my original NES from back when the NES was new. There is even a soda ring stain on the top of the console that I REFUSE to clean off, it's been there for 20 years and for the weirdest reason I'm attached to it. Nostalgia is funny.

[sebastiankirchoff]

I still use my original PlayStation that I got as my first console back in 1999. Works perfectly after all these years.

[tomaitheous]

The only original system I have from BITD is my Turbo Duo. It doesn't play CD's anymore, but that's ok. Even if it died completely, I don't plan on ever getting rid of it. I somewhat recently gave my original SuperGrafx to a friend that I got back in '93, on the condition that if he wants to get rid of it - he can only sell it back to me. No one else. I have a spare SGX though. Sadly, I don't have my original snes, genesis, gameboy original (have my original gameboy color though), nes, etc.

[BetaWolf47]

My original NES had wall paint dripped on the system and AC adapter. My parents were messy, I guess... But no way in heck am I getting rid of it!

[aclbandit]

My SNES is still the same one I got for christmas in '92. I would have been four at the time. I was apparently a very careful child -- thing's still in great shape.

[Mobius]

All the systems that I got new from the NES back in '88 on through the Wii and 360 have more sentimental value to me than my second-hand systems, EXCEPT for one. My TurboDuo. I lusted after one for so long that when I finally got it, it gave me all the same giddy feelings as a new system. Plus I spent so much time with it opened up to repair the laser that I know it inside and out. It's very much "mine" at this point!

[Gameguy]

I still have the systems I had when I was a kid(that were purchased new), there's no way I'd sell them. I don't really use them as much now, but I'm keeping them.

[retroman]

in a way i would say yes it means more. More because you know what the system has been through and how it was treated. I have always hung onto my systems starting with the Intelevision 2. You dont want to buy someone elses stuff. Keep your own. You will want it down the road.

[Ed Oscuro]

I still own and use my original NES from back when the NES was new. There is even a soda ring stain on the top of the console that I REFUSE to clean off, it's been there for 20 years and for the weirdest reason I'm attached to it. Nostalgia is funny.
Haha. For some reason I can't disapprove.

I still have my original PSX and N64, both are pretty much the same as they were the day I bought them, strangely enough. Well, the controllers for both systems are pretty shot, but that's about it.

[Kiddo]

My OG SNES, Genesis, and N64 are still here.

[thom_m]

I still have my original Mega Drive; it's ac adapter is long gone, though, so I don't play it, and use the Megavision instead. But I'll get a new adapter someday, it's just a shame to see it just laying there, with nothing to do, wathcins his clone do all the work.

I threw my original Famiclone out a few years ago. It surely went FUBAR, but even so, I regret throwing it away now...

[kaedesdisciple]

I still have my 2nd NES as we replaced the original way back in the day. It still has outlines of where I put these stupid fish stickers on it, I'm not sure why I put those there lol. Anyway, I love that old toaster, malfunctions and all.

I wish I could say I still had my original ColecoVision, but in unsuccessfully trying to repair it I fried it and had to throw it out. However, I do have a working ColecoVision again (Thanks, Joe!) and it's ALMOST as good as having my original.

Again, I wish I could say that I still had my original C64. The computer worked, but the 1541 crapped out and I think my dad threw it out. Oh well, I'll find another one eventually, and I've got a boatload of disks, 2 1541's, a Koalapad and a modem waiting for it when I do get one again.

I still have my original Model 1 Genesis, works almost as well as the day we got it. It's in storage, but I wouldn't dare sell it.

[JunkTheMagicDragon]

i have an ebay nes, but i often wish for MY nes that i sold with a bunch of games for $50. what a dumb kid. :sadface:

miss my atari too, even though i've replaced her with a heavy sixer.

[Robocop2]

I miss all of my old systems my mom made me sell them back in 94 to buy a computer for school use...I had just about every console from an NES to a TG 16 and all 3 major handhelds and even a Jaguar :( I still regret having to do that

[PapaStu]

Some people just want to play the games not caring where the system came from. Others conjure up their memories of yore (or some kind of attachment) when playing on their old system that they had as a kid and can still sit in front of and enjoy today.

Personally save for one system, I don't think i'd be all that destroyed if I didn't have my childhood system to play the games on. As long as i've got a system, i'm good. I play on a different Genesis than my childhood one (thats at my parents house still being used by them on occasion) and could care less that its not 'my' system. Sonic isn't any less 'sonic'. Hell I don't care that i'm on Xbox 360 #3, I just care that i've got a working system (and my game saves).

I've got all of my original systems save for the 2600/7800 (2600 died, replaced by 7800 which was garage saled when I couldn't have cared less about it cause it was all Nintendo all the time), Xbox (drive died, replaced the unit, moved over as many saves as possible), 360's (drives died, MS refurb replacements), DS 'Phat' (battery gave out, replaced with the wife's DS 'phat' and that was put aside for a DSLite about 6 months later).

Now I did get my grandparents SNES a few years ago, it had vid problems and I had those fixed, rather than get a new system because it was their system and with Grandpa gone, there was no way i'd be getting rid of his system.

[Jorpho]

It means more than that crappy subject line. :p