Your oldest gaming items?

[Asura]

Tonight we put on the PS3, as we tend to use it as a DVD/BD player rather than the PS4, as I have the official remote. After the movie we played some Soul Calibur 2 HD, and that led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the titles in my download list on the PS3 store (after going through the ****house of logging online on the PS3, which is a real pain now).

Anyway, this is all to say that when I wound back to my very first PSN purchase (Wipeout HD), I realised I bought the PS3 slim at Christmas 2009. That makes it ~13 years old, and, also, my oldest piece of gaming hardware - and perhaps the console I've owned for longer than any other. It's not my favourite console (like, at all) yet despite that, possibly because for a decade it was been a great BD player and prior to things like Chromecast, was good for stuff like Netflix, it's outlasted the Xbox 360, WiiU, so many others.

This put me in a mindset to think; the Sega Saturn was a huge part of my childhood, and had a profound influence on how I engage with videogames. Yet despite that, when I think back, I realise that I owned it for less than 3 years; closer to 2. Yet I've had the PS3 for over a decade and it's had nowhere near the same sort of effect.

This made me think.

What game have you owned for the longest? When did you get it, and why do you still have it?

What non-console hardware have you owned for the longest? Pads, wheels etc. Same questions.

What console have you owned for the longest? Why do you keep it around, and do you still use it a lot?

[wakka]

Good question.

I think I would have to say that it's probably my Gameboy Pocket. I got my PS1 a little bit earlier, but I have no idea what happened to that. It broke, at some point, after spending much of the latter part of its life upside down otherwise it didn't work.

My transparent Gameboy Pocket came with Mario 1 + Mario 2, and again, no idea where my earliest PS1 games are - think they got traded into Electronics Boutique as they were mostly bobbins ones Toys R Us bundled with the machine - so I'd say those are the games I've had longest.

As for accessories, I really couldn't say. Probably something boring.

Still got the Pocket, though, somewhere at my parents' house. It's got a Charmeleon sticker on it and plenty of scratches and dings. And my Mario 1 and 2 cartridges are right here with me on my desk right now - I've been playing them through again on my Analogue Pocket. The stickers are faded at the top from my sweaty childhood fingers grabbing them to pull them out of the cart slot back in the day

[Cepp]

Killer Kutz is the gaming item I've owned longest, from new. The game and watch are long gone though. My original PSX memory cards are still with me, one has a Time Crisis sticker that came with a mag still stuck to it.

I don't think I have much left that I purchased pre-2010. A lot has been sold, or sold and rebought and sold again. My original PSX died after a good long run, my N64, DC and GC got sold, SNES was given to family and my parents chucked out my NES without telling me The DS Light is probably the oldest gaming hardware I own from back then but I'm not that attached to it. I am attached to my 21" Dell Trinitron monitor I got sometime in 2010ish though, still use that a lot. I think I purchased my Voodoo 2's around the same time and they're always in use.

Gameswise it's the copy of Baldur's Gate II I bought from Gamestation back in the day with it's book sized manual. I also have my copy of Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines and a few other PC games I've never parted with from the early 2000s.

[dataDave]

What game have you owned for the longest? When did you get it, and why do you still have it?

SNK vs. Capcom: MOTM, which I got at the same time as my NGPC. So June 2000, or so. I still have it because it's a sick game.

What non-console hardware have you owned for the longest? Pads, wheels etc. Same questions.

My NGPC link cable.

What console have you owned for the longest? Why do you keep it around, and do you still use it a lot?

My NGPC. It managed to survive my Great Clearout of 2009 because I'd loaned it out with all the games, and I only got it back again in 2016. It's probably my favourite handheld ever, and yes, it still gets played a lot between me and Jimbo.

[Soundwave]

Going to be hard to pin it down but I think my oldest gaming item will be something in my Spectrum collection
Pretty sure I still have a Horace game but can't remember if it's Goes Skiing or Hungry but whichever one it is it came with my original 48k+ kit that I got in 1986
The plastic key Speccy is gone & replaced by a +2 which I still have so that & my Spectrum game collection will be my oldest stuff full stop

After that my NES Turtles console will be my oldest Console that I still have

None if it is ever played as I just don't get to use them (or have anyway to use them either) but they will stay with me regardless of that fact

Neil

[Hirst]

Oldest Game: My first machine was a used Spectrum with dozens of games, so it'll be loads of them all at once! I can't think of the specifics, but I know one was Hungry Horace and another was Stop The Express.

Non-console Hardware: The Sinclair SJS1 joystick that came with it, absolutely lousy stick. Like driving a Chrysler 180 with a knackered gear linkage. Still got it in the box.

Oldest Console: Spectrum again, 128K +2 model. It's actually broken at the moment and in the loft, but I have another working one I use. I'll get it recapped at some point. I also have an Atari VCS but I bought that a lot more recently, that's my oldest machine.

[Brad]

I still have my original JetPac for the Vic-20. All other stuff has been re-bought so doesn't count I guess. I also still have my school calculator and it's only on its second battery (calc is 40 years old at least).

[beecee]

general gaming item its my Tomytronic 3D-sky attack, still play it as well.

As for console/computing, probably my launch Wii, all my other consoles I've re-bought after that.
so the games would be the ones i got with it, Zelda Twilight Princess/Red Dawn/Wii sports

[charlesr]

I've got a Donkey Kong Game and Watch still....

[charlesr]

1982...

[Neon Ignition]

What game have you owned for the longest? When did you get it, and why do you still have it?
Technically this will inevitably be some digital purchased game at this point. Physically though it's probably a handful of Wii remotes that never really saw much use


What non-console hardware have you owned for the longest? Pads, wheels etc. Same questions.
Pretty much the same answer, it'd be short term otherwise thanks to clearing out stuff a few years back

What console have you owned for the longest? Why do you keep it around, and do you still use it a lot?
Currently it's the WiiU, it is set up and ready to go but rarely is used atm. Ever though, either my Amstrad CPC464 which I had for a good 12-15yrs or Dreamcast which I had for... possibly slightly longer than that

[speedlolita]

I sold everything I owned around 2012. The one thing that slipped through is a clear Dual Shock controller that I got with my PlayStation for my 9th birthday, that was 23 years ago. The analog sticks are a little bit smooth but otherwise it still works great.

[fuse]

In my flat I have a couple of SNES games I bought in the 90s that miraculously survived the 16-bit sell off. Link to the Past, Killer Instinct, Legend of the Mystic Ninja... whereas on the hardware front I think it's my original PS1 that's been in service the longest? I haven't used it in a long time now, but I do have intent for it to get set back up in the retro config. Thinking about the controller side of things, my PS1 Namco stick and my original IIDX controller have both probably been with me for 20 years or so now. Somewhere I still have the majority of my old memory cards, too.

It's when I include what's still left over at my mum's house that things go a bit further back though. I can't remember if my Acorn Electron or BBC Master B are still about, but there's definitely some games for them (last visit I remember digging up a copy of The Sentinel and some Ultimate Play the Game titles), along with loads of old 'big box' PC releases and other 90s bits. It's been out of service for the longest time but I'm pretty sure my original Gameboy is still there too. There are some great collectable things there, but everything's essentially gone untouched for the past 20 years.

[Atticus]

Still got the dog tags from the Metal Gear Solid Permium Package. God know what happened to the rest of it.

[QualityChimp]

What game have you owned for the longest? When did you get it, and why do you still have it?
Probably something for the Mega Drive or Game Boy. I can't remember which I got first, but around '89.
I have it still because I'm a terrible hoarder and rather than keep a diary, just looking at something brings back lovely memories. Just writing this is giving me great childhood flashbacks.
Also, have you seen the boxart on some of those JP MD games?


What non-console hardware have you owned for the longest? Pads, wheels etc. Same questions.
We used to have a Vic20 and Atari 2600, but they're long gone because they're rubbish, so it's probably something that predates the Game Boy like one of those LCD games:


What console have you owned for the longest? Why do you keep it around, and do you still use it a lot?
Probably the Game Boy, I keep it around because I like to keep stuff and very rarely I use it for a bit, but emulation has replaced it, really, especially on the Miyoo Mini.
I still use my PS3 to play PS2 Gradius.