What’s the oldest console you have?

I still have a Wii and an Xbox 360.

The oldest console I own is my Super Nintendo Entertainment System. I got that console as a Christmas present way back when it first came out. :slight_smile:

Still like to play my Zelda: A Link to the Past and Super Mario RPG on it.

Got an SNES in the garage. Not sure if it works anymore.

My parents lost my Atari and NES years ago when I neglected to come get my stuff :smile:

Personally? A PS4. Even though I grew up in the 90s I didn’t have a console of my own until I got a PS4 in 2015. Siblings got a PSOne and PS2 Slim in the 00s, but I never got one.

My roommate has a full size PS2 though, so it’s probably the oldest console in my immediate vicinity. It’s a shame that there are no PS2 HDMI mods, because there’s so many PS2 games but its analog output looks like absolute butt on modern TVs.

Sega Dreamcast is my oldest. I had a Sega Nomad (the portable version of the Genesis) prior to moving out of my parents’ house in the early 2000s but when they all moved to FL, no one remembers what happened to it.

I have an SNES and PS2 hooked up and working still.

I have an old Panasonic 3DO in a box somewhere in my garage.
Sadly it no longer works.

Oldest I own is an original Megadrive (Genesis). Bought it in the late '90s for almost nothing with a handful of games, and really should get it set back up again. Pity I’ll never get a MegaCD for it, but then I do only have Echo on CD and it’s the same as the cart so no real loss.

Oldest I have access to is an Atari 2600 “Darth Vader”, which I helped repair with my brother about a year or two ago. It’s every bit as terrible as it seems like it might be, but he’s happy with it so that’s what matters.

There are PS2 to HDMI adaptors. They really won’t look any better than component since they’re doing the same basic thing, but they exist. If you’re playing PSX games on it, though, you’ll need to look into soft-modding your console as they typically don’t support anything below 480i, so you need to force the output resolution.

Capacitors. It’s almost always the electrolytic capacitors. They’re cheap and easy to replace, and anything over about 10 years old is a prime candidate. Though there’s every chance that the button cell has leaked, and that never ends well - especially given that the system ROM is nearby (as is the power button) in addition to the save-related stuff.

do u have the old Sonic game…

An Atari 2600 with quite a few (mostly bad) games like E.T., Pac-Man, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Yar’s Revenge. I bet I haven’t hooked it up since the 90s.

I have a ColecoVision with several games for it which my mother owned. Someday, I’ll see how to hook it up to my CRT TV and check out those old games.

Yeah, both Sonic Adventure 1 and 2

Yeah, found that out when doing research on the subject a few months ago. Apparently the PS2Digital hardware mod is coming out sometime this year though, and it’s like other mods in that it hooks the console’s GPU directly to provide a clean HDMI signal. Depending on how it handles the various resolutions, PS1 games, etc it could make a modded PS2 a formidable retro console with how many games it opens up access to, only really beat by an original PS3 with PS1+PS2 backcompat (which are increasingly rare).

my oldest one is an NES, I believe it still works from 1986 including the dozens of games I have.

Oldest owned Pong.
My life hasn’t left room to save things I don’t currently use.
Oldest own PS4

I own multiple Atari 2600’s, I used to collect vintage game carts.

I still wanna find a cheap Magnavox Odyssey one day.

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I own:

Atari 2600
Nintendo 64
Sega Genesis
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
Playstation 4
Nintendo Wii
Nintendo Switch
Nintento Switch Lite

All of which work and all of which (except for the Atari) are currently hooked to a TV and playable.

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Oldest to newest:

Sega Genesis (Christmas 1991)
N64 (birthday 1999)
PS3 (Random gift, 2017)
XBOX 1 (Random gift, 2020)

I also have an original Gameboy, 2 Gameboy Colors, one Gameboy Advance, and a DS Lite.

N64 and og Playstation. I wonder if they still work…

I had one to up to a few years ago when it “disappeared” but the games and controllers are still in the box. I also have a Nintendo with some games but no controllers other then the gun, lol.