I recently started to see some people referring to the PS1 as a 20-year-old system.
I looked it up on Wikipedia. It was released in Japan in December 1994 and in the west in 1995, so it isn't quite 20 years old yet.
Still, it's close. The SNES did persist for a few more years after that, but let's give it about 15 years ago, that I "fell off" the console advancement bandwagon. Games got weird and hard to understand or something. I wasn't too interested in what the PS1 was doing (and PC games were an even weirder beast, between games where you didn't move your characters around individually, and games that seemed all about killing stuff dead and producing as much blood as possible), but I felt bad about bugging my parents to buy me an N64 (which would have been the only system I wanted). Aside from getting into Pokémon, that was the last of my commercial gaming activity until a few years ago.
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I looked it up on Wikipedia. It was released in Japan in December 1994 and in the west in 1995, so it isn't quite 20 years old yet.
Still, it's close. The SNES did persist for a few more years after that, but let's give it about 15 years ago, that I "fell off" the console advancement bandwagon. Games got weird and hard to understand or something. I wasn't too interested in what the PS1 was doing (and PC games were an even weirder beast, between games where you didn't move your characters around individually, and games that seemed all about killing stuff dead and producing as much blood as possible), but I felt bad about bugging my parents to buy me an N64 (which would have been the only system I wanted). Aside from getting into Pokémon, that was the last of my commercial gaming activity until a few years ago.
Was never entirely successful, though.