Got an Atari 2600 when I was 5, also played Intellivision at my cousins' a lot, and Coleco at my friends place
Then we were really poor, and couldn't afford a gaming system. My sister's bf would always bring his NES over, and that's where I played most of my games until we finally bought our own, right after the SNES was announced.
Again, too poor to afford an SNES, right away, but I eventually got my own, and my brother even got a Genesis at the same time. Now that was an awesome christmas!
Started playing PC games at school of all places. Made a life-long friend too, and he went on to get his own PC, while I did all my PC stuff vicariously through him. Eventually he became a video game developer, and now works at google which is cool.
Sort of skipped the N64 at first, but did get a PS1. Modded it myself with a mod chip, and used to rent Japanese games all the time. This was probably the height of my video game geekness. Then I met my current wife, whose brother was 5 or 6 at the time, and was growing up on games himself. He had a Genesis and an N64. I brought my PS1 over a lot, and we played games together a lot, which was fun.
Then I kind of stopped playing console games completely. Skipped the PS2, except to play Gran Turismo and Final Fantasy VII (IIRC). I did have my own PS2, but sold it relatively quickly. I was still quite into PC games, especially shooters like Quake 2, 3, Team Fortress, etc.
Randomly got a Dreamcast, and started playing console games all over again. But then sold it, and went back to PC games.
Skipped XBOX 1 entirely, and Gamecube mostly, except for when I played with my wife's brother. Picked up things like a Gameboy Advance SP, but most gaming was done on console.
Then when XBOX 360 came out, I got back into console games, pretty hardcore. Picked up a PS3 as well. But I don't play either of them as much anymore. It makes no sense, when the experience is so much better on PC now. I did get a DS Lite and PSP, but barely ever played them.
I guess I just keep going back to PC gaming
