a old "sega master system", it had games on a creditcard style cartridge and a more normal game cartridge.
sadly mom sold it and later we got a nintendo 8-bit instead
I'm not a gamer, so I've never thought about buying a game console. As for PCs, I mostly used them (and continue to use them) for work, although even on the very first machine I sometimes had fun with various Tetris games, etc., these were the days of DOS domination, I just don't remember what games were then.
A gameboy pocket, about a week after the gameboy color released; my mom was so distressed, she wanted the color but got the pocket, and was sure it was just too inferior, and said if I could wait a week she could return it for that. I failed the marshmallow test on that one, but I played the absolute hell out of Pokemon Red, so it was no trouble to me.