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I didn't have a NES. A friend down the street did. His parents got tired of me hanging around all the time, I think. Zelda and Zelda II were the most amazing games I'd ever played, and I still love both of them. Dragon (Quest) Warrior and Faxanadu were my first exposure to Japanese RPGs, and the NES version of Ultima III: Exodus was my first Western RPG (along with Alternate Reality on Atari 8-bits), albeit done with a Japanese graphical and musical facelift.

I'm mostly familiar with the Apple II because it was the default computer in schools when I was in school, and there weren't many of them to go around. And mostly, we were limited to educational applications (I learned how to type 60 WPM on an Apple II at school) and edugames like Oregon Trail. Every once in awhile there'd be something like Montezuma's Revenge or Pulsar II (a Star Castle clone), and I think I saw Karateka for Apple II once. It wasn't as good of a gaming computer as the Atari 8-bit line, but in school, we took what we could get, lol.

Nowadays I am a Mac user and haven't touched Windows outside of work for almost ten years. 

I missed the Colecovision. I was a little young, and plus my family had computers at home. I didn't get my first dedicated gaming systems until the Game Boy in 1989 and the SNES in 1994, so I had to mooch off of my friends, who went from the Atari 2600 to the NES. I will say that the Atari 8-bit computer version of Donkey Kong was awesome, and it was one of the few versions that had all four levels from the arcade. Most versions dropped the Cement Factory screen, including the NES version that Nintendo itself made.

The Colecovision games that look the most interesting to me are the ports of Exidy games like Mouse Trap, Venture, and Pepper II, mostly because those are hard to find otherwise. I think there's a Colecovision collection on Steam.

Tears of the Kingdom is my most anticipated game. My second most anticipated game already came out - Fire Emblem Engage.

Even back in the day, critics praised Intellivision as the best sports console out there. I saw Intellivision in stores, and I occasionally see them in the wild at used game shops. I'm mostly familiar with the games they had that were ported to the 2600. Those are the ones where the cartridges are Intellivision cartridges with an Atari 2600 adapter attached to them. They were generally simpler versions of Intellivision games and slightly changed names. I played Astroblast (Astrosmash) and Space Attack (Space Battle), which I remember because you couid set up chain-reaction explosions of enemy ships.

It's a more old-school FE experience, so it doesn't have the Persona-style time management, and the social links have been dialed back. Its combat engine is much beefier than Three Houses. Overall, 3H is a more polished experience, but Engage is very fun. It was built on Unity rather than Nintendo's usual standard of building its own in-house game engines. 

I want to try Sonic Frontiers. I've heard some pretty solid things about it.

I had a PC in the 1980s, with CGA (later EGA) graphics. The PC Speaker was an audio abomination unto God and video games. It drilled into your eardrums, and the PC was very poor at playing action games, with a few exceptions (there was a surprisingly good version of Dig-Dug on PC). Still, there were a few goodies to be had. My dad had a subscription to Big Blue Magazine that always had a few games like Kingdom of Kroz on it. My favorite PC game of the 1980s was Starflight, from EA and Binary Systems. 800 procedurally generated planets and an actual storyline to follow. Nowadays I really enjoy No Man's Sky, which is its spiritual successor. It's too bad I could never find a copy of Elite back in the day. The Ultima games were a gold standard for computer games back in the day, but I definitely enjoyed Ultima III more on the NES than the PC.

I missed out on these games, as well as on the Coleco tabletop games. I did have a few LCD games from Radio Shack as well as a Nintendo Game & Watch, which tided me over until Nintendo released the Game Boy in 1989.

We had a knockoff Pong console. We may still have one somewhere. 

Fun fact: Nintendo's Pong clone consoles were the best-selling video game systems of the 1970s. So Nintendo actually won the first generation of game systems. Even before the NES they were kickin' tail.