Did you know that the very first video game console which could be connected to a TV set was introduced in 1972? It was called Magnavox Odyssey and featured a variety of simple games such as volleyball, hockey, tennis, and chase. Game consoles promptly gained momentum and became a huge part of the gaming industry. As a result, there are many people out there who can't even imagine their childhood without video games. This Twitter user named Dilan is one of them. Recently, he shared some of his old handheld consoles and realized that people out there probably haven't even seen them before. His post has spiraled into a full thread of gaming consoles from the past that are rarely used these days. From the very first Nintendo Entertainment System, which was released in the 1980s, to the much more modern PlayStation Portable, which entered the industry in 2004, these blasts from the past are rarely remembered. Feeling nostalgic yet? If so, scroll down below for this wonderful trip down video game console memory lane.

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My 6 year old plays Atari. He played ET recently and proclaimed it the worst game ever. Yep, he knows his stuff!
You kidding?! I'm in my teens and got one of these from my grandparents as a kid, me and my brother loved it to death- literally. We killed it.
Those of us that are slightly older remember the earlier version that had 6 switches on the console (pre 2600) Combat, Pong & Asteroids were the best games
When I was 8 or 9 I got sick for a week, my parents gave me the Atary and ONE game, Defender. With nothing to do all day, three days later I mastered it. The next day unplugged it, was fed up of the damn game.
My very first console! Used to play "Rampage" a lot with my brother 😁
There's a lot of retro gaming stores in Houston. In October there's a retro gaming event in Austin (maybe). You can buy anything for Atari, N64 and anything else you can think of.
Load More Replies...My first console was a second hand ZX Spectrum in about 1987. I still have it.
I'd trade mine for a national knock-off (the CCE's Top Game, in Brazil) because it has the Japanese cartridge hole already in the console.
Can understand if some kids of today have no clue regarding the original Gameboy but seriously, the first Nintendo DS came out in 2005 and DSi is from 2008. Who exactly is intended as "kids of today" then ?
Exactly. Plus, the classic Game Boy is iconic, and I don't think nowadays' kids are completely unfamiliar, at least with the look of it. It even appears in Adventure Time, if I'm not mistaken.
Load More Replies...There's mine! (Bottom right corner)... and I still use it once every year or so (just to prove it is still awesome!)
3ds and new 3ds havent been forgotten i kno a ton of kids who have them and asked for them they arent that old. the ds is another story
Nice collection! Even bigger than mine. should have had some Segas in here tho!
I found several of my GB games last week. Not sure if I should throw them away or sell them.
Sell. Heck I'd probably buy them depending on what you've got
Load More Replies...Before the days of back lights..this extra set up did use to tax your batteries, then you had to explain to your folks why you had to change batteries every few days since you were secretly up all night under the covers playing Pokémon Blue 😅
Back in the '90s I couldn't even afford one of these. I wanted one for my birthday in '93 or so and I got a plain calculator (and even that one was a Casio knock-off). S****y childhood in s****y Eastern Europe.
Got on of these off my grandmother. I then found out she’d given my cousins a brand new Sega Mega Drive. My gran wonders why we never wanted to spend time with her. Favouritism sucks.
My kids had these and while they were at school my missus had to childmind them
I'm actually in my tween years and I have an original one that's not a hand me down.
Ah, yes Intellivision. My cousin had one of these. I had the Atari 2600. We would bicker as to which was better when we were kids. (Atari was better)
I feel like if this were an open list I could put a ps3 on here and people would be like "dang I'm that old". PEOPLE! UR NOT THAT OLD!!!!
My friend had this one. The sticks were weird but Beam Rider was awesome.
Plus, this is technically the first Xbox. (DirectX integration into a gaming console, which is litterally what "Xbox" mean)
Microsoft actually made the software for Sega, Microsoft then based the XBox software off that work, and even hired a lot of Sega's designers to build the Xbox. Microsoft kept a good relationship with Sega and why many Sega games and sequels became Xbox exclusives. Microsoft still works closely with Sega. The whole Xbox line, including the idea of console online gaming comes from this one console
Load More Replies...Still have mine, some games on that console gotta have, like wacky races, resident evil code Veronica, crazy taxi, my first soul calibur, good times
This was the first machine to have integrated broadband connectivity, in this way it was way ahead of even the PS2 and original XBox...it's too bad they made so many poor choices in development (launch window, game sponsors, lack of 2nd joystick etc) that it got run into the ground...
This was the catalyst to my marriage. Many nights spent playing Soul Caliber with my husband (then brand new boyfriend!)
I got really unlucky. I got one of the few defective ones(screen was internally damaged). Wound up swiping my cousin's whenever she was over until I got a Gameboy Advance.
The first colour hand held computer. If you still had the original then you wasn't with the times.
The original DS is no longer supported in terms of Wifi. Their games can still be played on the 3ds/2ds. But it looks like that is being dropped in favor of the switch. I don't know how long it'll be until 3ds and Wii U online support is dropped but hopefully won't be for awhile.
Load More Replies...You’re missing the grandfather of hand helds, the og Gameboy.
My son still has the top one. I still have the OG and the Pokemon Yellow Pikachu Exclusive GameBoy Color :)
And who could forget the 900 batteries you needed to get it to work!
Aww the Game Gear! Will happily gobble 6 AA batteries in about 4 hours! What a beast.
Most regular people without an interest in gaming, yes. Gamers knows what these are, come on
Virtual boy, something, the power glove with the NES, and the SNES with another thing.
The second picture is the SEGA Game Gear. Probably the only portable console made by them. "Virtual Boy" was an already discontinued console as it sold very poorly (was discontinued already after 1 year). The Snes features the infamous Satellaview, a very expensive, pretty useless device for the very first paid downloadable content for some Nintendo games.
Load More Replies...Once I've played a Virtual Boy. It's terrible and red, very red....
You could play Super Mario Sunshine on that. The game came out in 2002.
First generation Zune had issues, the second and third (like the pic above) were superior to the ipod and the others on the market. Microsofts issue was a glichy and ugly first generation zune, which hurt its reputation, as well as a god awful marketing campaign.
I was looking for a MP3 player when the Zune came out, what turned me off was the plastic feel it had, it just felt very cheap in the hand.
Load More Replies...My teacher in high school had so many Marlboro miles there point system. She won the train trip there ultimate promotion prize. But all Marlboro did was keep extending the date of the trip. Due to health concerns of the workers it got canceled. But she got such cool stuff even a kayak and a lot more.
About 4 lifetimes ago you could get Marlboro branded merchandise by saving the tops of cigarette boxes. The more you saved the better the prize. My parents had tons of the water jugs. Can't imagine how many packs you'd have to smoke to get one of these
honorable mention to the gamecube? its not even that old! and it ROCKS
Well, good thing here are a million ways you can play donkey kong, then! might I suggest a classic mini console?
Oh, the original, where you had Mario jump over barrels. They have a throwback level where you have to jump over spiky balls to win on new super Mario bros 2.
Yup! Some Mcdonalds did have Gamecubes though. I remember getting my first taste of Spyro: A Hero's Tail on one.
Load More Replies...McDonalds actually had N64 controller skins on the Gamecube controllers. So ahead of their time!
True. However games stopped being made for it earlier than that. And it dropped from the public eye extremely quickly. Most kids today don't even know it existed, the marketing was that bad.
Load More Replies...The vita is great to collect for as games for it haven’t sky rocketed yet.
I installed an aftermarket backlight into my 1st gen GBA. That was quite the operation. Worked great though!
Me too. I had Manhole, a brown one, but the odd thing is that in school (say 1985 when dad bought it) we called it Gamewatch, not Game & Watch. Even today I was thinking "Where's the Gamewatch?"
Load More Replies...You know the 3 in 3DS was because it was in 3D right? And then the 2DS came out because you could play the 3DS games but only in 2D...
It has been 9 year since i bought DS and its casing is start yellowing, yet it still work perfectly
Fun fact: The 3DS came out before the 2DS! (Nintendo knows how to count, right?)
Fun fact! The 2 and the 3 refer to the display style, not the order of release so yes they can count.
Load More Replies...can this stupid "im older than you, you don't know what this is, therefore i'm better than you" war thing come to an end?? it's really annoying considering gen z kids have most likely seen those and played with those. sorry to burst your millennial bubble but you're not really that old.
Well, it is fun to get nostalgic, but this is a rather random collection from different epochs of video gaming...
Load More Replies...not one mention of the spectrum 48k? who else remembers the noise the tape made as it was loading?
I remember the commodore 64. Sometimes you wait all that time and then it dont load.
Load More Replies...Is it wrong that I know all of these and played with them thought I’m like 11? 😂
Man if I'd known about this Twitter thread, I would have gone and taken a picture of my Virtual Boy lol
can this stupid "im older than you, you don't know what this is, therefore i'm better than you" war thing come to an end?? it's really annoying considering gen z kids have most likely seen those and played with those. sorry to burst your millennial bubble but you're not really that old.
Well, it is fun to get nostalgic, but this is a rather random collection from different epochs of video gaming...
Load More Replies...not one mention of the spectrum 48k? who else remembers the noise the tape made as it was loading?
I remember the commodore 64. Sometimes you wait all that time and then it dont load.
Load More Replies...Is it wrong that I know all of these and played with them thought I’m like 11? 😂
Man if I'd known about this Twitter thread, I would have gone and taken a picture of my Virtual Boy lol
