This is in no way a similar post as MehnazQ, but an inspiration thread.
Intitled for the more mid to late 80’s kids.
In the era I was born “The Great Crash” which was from 1982-84, Atari (2600) was dieing out because of it’s careless spending, and Atari made a new machine 5200, which flopped before it hit the market.
Like previously mentioned 1983, brought the Commodore 64, and then makes the Adam which just dies in 1988.
To me personally, the revolution came when the Family Entertainment system was released by Nintendo. A 8-bit cartridge system, which I remember to keep blowing the games and inside the system to play. 
people went to some extent to smacking their system.
Every kid had grew up with games: Super Mario Bros. 1,2,3 (Nintendo’s all time selling game, 1990), Zelda, Zelda II, Double Dragon, Tetris, Final Fantasy, etc.
Sega too got into the fun of making systems. In 1989, they released Sega Genesis 16 bit. This system was pretty expensive when released, I think around $250. I really enjoyed playing this system too, but my interest was still in the NES, as it seemed to relate more to my age group, and popularity for kids was still strong for NES.
Gameboy was released in 1989 too, with good games like Tetris, Dr. Mario, Super Mario, Breakout Clone, just some classics. Later in the years they would come out with big name games.
When Super Nintendo (SNES) was released in 1991, it blew my mind. For some reason, I was never a Sega fan, but Nintendo’s 16-bit seemed more appealing. At this time, Sega released Sonic, and there was tight competition between the two. Sega also brought Capcom’s Street Fighter II to the Genesis system.
Big names are brought to the video game system: Capcom, Konami, Electronics Art, etc.
Sega CD was made, what a joke! Same with that Panasonic 3DO, Super Gameboy, Sega’s fake 32x, Virtual Boy.
Then in 1995, Sega releases Sega Saturn. a 32-bit system that is played on CD’s. At this point there seemed Sega was only one to come out on the top. Supposedly sales were high in Japan but not in US.
But in the same year, Sony developes the Playstation. As Panasonic, JVC and other companies attempted to make video games, it looked as Sony wanted to do suicide too. The price was pretty cheap, and graphics really good too.
Then Nintendo brings out the 64-bit Nintendo 64, with cartridge instead of its competitors. Do you guys remember playing Super Mario on that? Moving all 3D.
I remember when Final Fantasy VII sold so much copies on PS, and Legend of Zelda in 1998 got 10/10 ratings for N64.
Yeah so Saturn died, and Sega decided apon Dreamcast which you all know died in a flash too.
In 1998-99, Playstation 2 was made with later comming Nintendo Gamecube and Xbox which bring up the future for us.
My personal favorite must have been Super Nintendo. It had games of all calibre, with still the good set of graphics. Nothing complicated, but still the reasonable graphics. Mortal Kombat looked great, all sports games were fun on it, and beating Super Mario was a huge achievement. Sometimes games were too expensive.
So what is your guys favorite system? game?