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How many retro game consoles do you own, and how did you obtain them?

>>12134778 (OP)
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>>12134778 (OP)
OG xbox was my birthday gift from grandma. I managed to fuck up softmodding and being new and young I sent it to some guy on forums from states to fix it. The shipping cost a lot since I am in europe but he did send it back fixed. Still have it with me, a 1.6. People say its the worst version and that it doesn't run in HD some games, but I found out if you run the game through dashboard at same resolution as the game will launch, everything works fine (so if game will launch in 720p, your dashboard must be set to 720p).

Also gave away a psp to a friend recently who ghosted me shortly after but oh well.

>>12134778 (OP)
>Genesis model 2
Received as a gift from my dad sometime around 1995. My sister owns it now.
>Genesis model 1
Bought it with some money I earned mowing lawns over the summer around 20 years ago.
>Sega CD
Bought it untested off of ebay about 10 years ago and it ended up working perfectly.
>PlayStation
Christmas gift from 1997.
>Nintendo 64
Christmas gift from 1999.
>Dreamcast
Bought it off of a neighbor friend around 20 years ago.
>PlayStation 2
Christmas gift from 2001.
>GameCube
Christmas gift from 2003.
>Xbox
Bought it with money pooled between me and my sister.

>>12134780
Holy shit, we finally know how it's really called

>>12134778 (OP)
I wasn't aware of this system

>>12134778 (OP)
Seventeen if I didn't miscount. Most of them were from my older brother giving them to me, or my mom buying them for me when I was younger. I just never got rid of them. I did get a PS2 from my neighbor and a 2600 from my coworker. I also have three GBA SPs, two of which were also just given to me. It's crazy how many people just give shit away. I even got a PS3 and a dozen games for free a couple years back. Come to think of it, I think the only retro console I actually spent money on is the Wii. There's a shop nearby that's selling a Game Boy for $80, and I was thinking about going up there this weekend and grabbing it if it's still there, so that'd be number two.

>>12134778 (OP)
>tranime
Ack ack

>>12134778 (OP)
Excluding handhelds, I have:
Vectrex
AV Famicom
Famicom Disk System
N64
GameCube
Genesis
32X
Sega CD
Saturn (JP)
TurboDuo
Supergrafx

Most of them I bought from Facebook. Vectrex from eBay. Famicom, Saturn, and FamiDisk from a trip to Japan. I'll get an SNES too at some point.

>>12134778 (OP)
A lot more than that

>>12134778 (OP)
>7 counting backwards compatibility
>eBay
I only got into vidya when I was just shy of 20, going on 4 years ago, so everything save 5 SNES carts came from scratch

>>12134778 (OP)
>SNES
Received as a gift from my aunt after I had on operation, sometime in mid-90s it all blurs together
>GBC
Christmas gift in 1999
>N64
Christmas gift in 2000
>PS2
First console I saved money for and bought all by myself
>NES
Before the end of high-school one of my friends was randomly giving away his parent's NES and games. He wanted to give me his super scope too but it wasn't in his attic anymore.
>Gamecube
Bought it when the price dropped, think I got the last Zelda collection disc that store had with it.
>Dreamcast
Got it at a used game store when I moved to the city. They tried to sell me some games but I was just going to burn them off.
>Xbox
Got it at the same store. Used an old mobo to unlock the hdd and install cfw

Never had much for Sega myself but I played genesis all the time at my cousin's.

>PSX

Grew up with one and got nostalgic, so got this one off eBay for $50

>NES

The family NES I found in the garage, got a multicart for it.

>LaserDisc player

Randomly found it in the garage.

>>12136145
Pic rel

None I fucking sold them all for like 40-50 bucks each to buy weed when I was in high school

>>12135601
>I only got into vidya when I was just shy of 20, going on 4 years ago
Does not compute. No one over the age of 12 would cope so hard to fit in.

>>12136180
What? I got the consoles because I liked the games on them

>>12134778 (OP)
Literally too many to list, all together like 40+. Most of them were acquired as an adult when I started seriously collecting, but I've gotten a couple from my childhood, like the snes and ps2.

>>12134778 (OP)
>N64
My dad bought it for me as a kid, probably from a Hollywood video rental not long after the Gamecube came out judging by the sticker on the bottom
>Gamecube
Given to me by a friend my first year of High School, iirc he got a Wii and didn't need the cube anymore, and I mentioned wanting to play Zelda OoT, he just gave me the Zelda compilation disc and the cube after I asked if I could borrow it
>GameBoy Advance SP #1
Bought at Goodwill for about 20 bucks in like 2013
>SNES
Well off Stepgrandparents got it for me for Christmas along with Chrono Trigger not long after their son married my mom and I mentioned wanting to get into retro gaming
>PS1
Bought at goodwill for 8 bucks the year after I got the SNES
>PS2
Bought at that same goodwill for 40 bucks
>OG Xbox
Same goodwill, 30 bucks
>Gameboy Color
bought from some dude on Craigslist, met up with him at a nearby Deli, about 80 bucks for the GBC and a copy of Pokemon Yellow iirc
>Genesis Model 1
same friend who gave me his Gamecube gave me this, he lost the cables for it and I've still yet to get around to buying new ones
>GameBoy Advance SP #2
bought on ebay along with link cables so I could trade Pokemon between my own games

>>12134778 (OP)
about 30
got them in take for free ads or charity shop throw outs, they had zero value until about 2016

>>12134805
Sega Master System!

>>12136186
>What? I got the consoles because I watched a youtube
thankyou.jpg

>>12136665
Second person I've seen mention youtube in a short timeframe. Given the state of this board, I think I'm entitled to call coordinated spam

>>12136665
NTA I have a binatone pong machine because of youtube? How? Did a jeet from google get shot back in time to hand one to my parents in the late 70s or comething?

>>12134778 (OP)
>NES
From childhood gifts
>Genesis model 1
One from childhood gift, 1 cheap from a thrift store (was in mint condition)
>PS1
One from childhood (we sold our genesis games to pay for it), 2 cheap from thrift stores
>PS2
Two from childhood, one bought cheap from an ex gf
>XBox
Found for free in a bin at the thrift store
>Gameboy DMG/GBP/GBC
From childhood gifts
>Virtual Boy
Got on clearance at TRU

>>12134805

It's called the Zeta System. The "zeta perfect system" was the bundle with the zapper and the game.

>>12134778 (OP)
I bought them or had them bought for me as a kid.

Retron 5 (for NES, my bro has our NES, and NES toploader)
SNES x2
SNES 2
Gameboy player for SNES
N64 black
N64 gold (jap)
N64 Orange/Yellow Pikachu (modded for USA)
GC black
GC Indigo
Panasonic Q
PS3 slim x2
Zelda botw Switch

That's all I have.

Most of the consoles in this pic are not my originals.

>PC Engine
My original import that I picked up from Game Gallery back in the late 90s.

>NES
My original NES has long been retired. I did recap it and it still works but I didn't want to mod it. Got a AV Famicom that I recapped and installed a RGB mod in and used that forever. Replaced that super recently with a Lave FC which uses original CPUs and PPUs but everything else is new and already has a RGB mod in it. Best sound NES i've ever heard.

>SNES
Original SNES got recapped and retired. Got this 1 Chip Famicom back before I even knew what 1chip meant, also got from Game Gallery but in the mid 2000s, CIB dirt cheap. Its been recapped and has a SNESRGB chip in it

>N64
Still using my original N64 I got for Christmas back in 96. It's been recapped and has a N64 RGB chip in it. I do have a Ice Blue N64 I got recently that i'm going to board swap with a NS1 N64 (already bought one with a busted shell) that will also be recapped and a RGBN64 board installed, then ill retire my childhood N64

>>12136884
>Gamecube
My original childhood console I got for Christmas 02, original caps but does have a GC Loader alone with official component cables. No plans to replace it

>Sega Genesis
Have my childhood "High Definition Graphics" Genesis that was a hand me down from my sister, it's been recapped and retired. Same for my Model 1 Sega CD. Got this Megadrive 2 off ebay 10ish years ago. Recapped and has a triple bypass in it.

>Saturn
My childhood Saturn I bought by working my first real job, Model 1, black, recapped but retired years ago. Got this Model 2 Saturn off ebay uhh 5 ish years ago maybe? I recapped it and installed a Fenir ODE.

>Dreamcast
My childhood Dreamcast, first console I bought at lunch with my own money. Factory caps has a MODE in it.

>Xbox
My original Xbox is MIA, pretty sure I left in an old apartment I trashed. Really regret that since I have a ton of Halo 1 split screen memories on. Got this Halo Xbox 15ish years ago with a complete steel battalion setup. It's been recapped and has a SSD in it with CW

>>12136691
>I think I'm entitled
Everyone knows you are kiddo
>NTA i have reading comprehension problems because of youtube?
This kid gets it
> How? [batshit rate]
Bad parenting skills. Send your parents a screen shot of your insane tirade and see if they agree.

>>12136896
>PS1
My original PS1, got it for Christmas 95. It's been recapped and has a X Station in it. Kinda wish I got another PS1 to install the X Station into but it is what it is.

>PS2
My original PS2 Phat died and I'm not sure what happened to it. My current PS2 is a SCPH-500xx that I bought new in box in 2010ish maybe 2011. Original caps, got a soft mode and a sata adapter hot slot in it.

>>12136912
What?

>Dreamcast
>GBA
I got my Dreamcast from a girlfriend of mine, and the GBA was the first console I bought with my own money.
I had more but I learnt this jewish trick; Buy low and sell high, that's been my approach. I played "for free" (technically getting paid and making a profit) and have been doing it forever. Still, I held onto my Dreamcast and Game Boy Advance because of the personal significance they hold for me. Nowadays, I just emulate everything, only a idiotic goy would spend a fortune on a worn-out copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga or a vandalized copy of Art of Fighting for the AES by Dion. The goyest goy is about to spend 200 bucks on a mister in the name of "fidelity." Most of you are beyond saving. Most of you lack soul. Most of you should stop wasting resources and die childless.

Probably easier to group them based on how I got them.

>Thrifting back when it was a reasonable option
Atari 2600, Odyssey2, ColecoVision, NES, SNES, Genesis model 2, GBC, GameCube, PS1
>Used game store
Atari 7800, Dreamcast
>eBay
Twin Famicom, CoreGrafx, GBA SP, NeoGeo Pocket Color
>Gifted from friends
PS2, N64
>Facebook Marketplace
Intellivision, Intellivision 2, APF TV Fun

Got my Saturn from a swap meet, my Game Gear as a hand-me-down from my dad and my Vectrex from an antique mall

>>12136150
>LaserDisc
awesome, anon. what discs do you have?

>>12134778 (OP)
xbox, ps2, dreamcast, wii (for gamecube, gen, sms, snes, nes, turbo, and neogeo emulation), ps1, n64, sfc (for super game boy 2), game boy advance, game boy color, game boy

>>12137070
forgot to say i got them all locally on facebook, through game shops, and via ebay. i had some of this stuff years ago but sold it all, and got back into retro around 2018, right before it exploded in popularity. i remember going to the shop and getting almost any gameboy game for $3-$30 (only higher end stuff like pokemon) and then one day even tetris was being sold for $15-20. i guess i'm one of the assholes that caused the prices to bubble. i only have a handful of physical xbox and gameboy games now, mostly i play with flash carts, cd-rs and usb loaders. oh yeah i also have a saturn with a fenrir.

>NES
On ebay for $25
>SNES
Flea market for $30
>Genesis
Flea Market for $20
>PS1
Flea market for $10
>Saturn
Ebay for $40
>Sega CD
Ebay for $50
>GCN
Flea market for $10
>N64
Flea Market for $10 It had dead roaches in it, but worked fine and came with an expansion pak
>Dreamcast
My sister's ex left it at my house and never took it back
>PS2 slim
Got it at Gamestop for $40 when they were going to stop selling them

Pretty much got all this stuff right before retro prices went stupid high between 2011-2015

>>12134778 (OP)
Main three from each gen starting from 3rd and all Nintendo handhelds
Got most of them from a few years ago because mine were PAL, well, the ones that weren't chipped
Got them all hooked up to a CRT too

>>12134778 (OP)
Wtf is that square to the left of the Saturn?
just looks like a case, is it supposed to be the 3DO?

>>12136740
>>12136912
>>12136915

>>12134778 (OP)
>How many retro game consoles do you own,
No idea. Somewhere in the 50s not counting multiples?

>and how did you obtain them?
Thrifting since the 90s.

>>12137167
Probably a squared off 3DO.

>>12137163
>Main three from each gen starting from 3rd
You have an SG-1000?

>>12137696
No
Master System
Famicom
Atari 7800

used to own 11
cut back on everything down to 4, miss my saturn and pcengine though
>Model 1 Genesis
gift from a friend
>NES
bought it fucked up a few years back and repaired it completely, redid all the caps, blinking light win, etc
>SNES
got it free from a local shop i used to do a lot of consooming from a few years back
owner gifted it to me since i was always playing genesis
>PS1
had mine from when I was a kid
did a full recap and it was compatible with xstation so eventually did that.

A good 30, got half while growing up and the rest in the last 10 years. I've got all the Nintendos except a Virtual Boy, all the Segas but an Sg1000 and a Nomad, all the Playstations but a 5, an Xbox and 360, an Intellivision 2, a CoreGrafx 2, a 2600, a Jaguar, a 3DO, a Neo Geo CD, a Neo Geo Pocket Color, a Wonderswan, and my favorite as of late a Panasonic A1wx MSX2+. I've recapped almost everything, RGB modded everything that needs it, and everything has a Flashcart or an ODE. I've done a few case mods too.

>buy xbox from CEX
>open it up to re-apply new thermal paste and give it a clean
>fuck it up, it doesnt turn on anymore.
>claim it broke naturally and get another console shipped to me under warranty
im such a devlish boy.
they better lock me up.

>tfw I sold almost all my "worthless" retro vidya stuff at a garage sale almost 15 years ago
My Gamecube, Xbox, PS2, PSP, GBA, GBC, N64, PS1, most of my games though I kept a lot of my gamecube games because I played them on my Wii.

I still regret this so much to this day, at the time I didn't give a fuck I just wanted some extra cash, most of the games I made just a few bucks each for, nothing was really worth anything back in 2011.

The only """retro""" consoles I still have are my Wii, 360 and PS3 if you can even consider them that anymore.

Orig GB, SNES, GBA.
All from parents within a year of release. I've had many more (CD-i lol) but these is what I've kept.

>>12138478
At least two units each of
WS/WSC/Swancrystal
GBA
GBC
Megadrive
Super Nintendo
NGPC
N64
DC
Saturn
PCE
Bought everything in untested condition off YAJ for cheap, almost everything works except for one bad megadrive I didn't bother looking into yet