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| My video game and media station. Visible devices, including those barely visible are: an original SNES (top left), an original NES (top middle), a Nintendo Gamecube (top right), a Nintendo Wii (bottom right), a SNES Classic Mini (bottom right of centre), an N64 (bottom left of centre), a PlayStation 2 (bottom left), and a DVD player (centre). Also present but not visible are a Steam Link and a Nexus Player, and various switches and adapters behind the TV. |
I recently finished a personal project. I got all my old-generation consoles and some bits of newer game-playing kit hooked up to our spare TV, on a trolley stand in our spare room/library/study (picture included for those interested). It’s got me thinking.
The oldest bit of kit I hooked up was originally released, in Japan, in 1983, not too long after I was born (although the particular item I have is from the European release, so can’t be any older than 1986, and is most likely from a later production run). I also have one that could date back as far as 1992, the original Japanese release being 1990, and a much more modern piece of kit that provides a selection of games from that platform in a modern, easy-to-use, small device. Successive devices from the same and other manufacturers span my childhood and teenage years, and into early adulthood; the only things newer than 2006 are a simple Android TV device that has some free or cheap games that are fun to play, and the much-maligned Steam Link, to play PC games on my TV over the network.
