MSX1983
The Japanese-European standard greeted you with BASIC: a blue screen that doubled as an invitation to program.
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MSX1983
The Japanese-European standard greeted you with BASIC: a blue screen that doubled as an invitation to program.
Its console in the catalog →Master System1985
The “SEGA” that appeared before the game — and with no cartridge in, it gifted you the Snail Maze.
Its console in the catalog →Famicom Disk System1986
The NES booted straight into the game; its disk sibling had this greeting with stagehand Mario and Luigi.
Its console in the catalog →PC Engine CD-ROM²1988
Console gaming's first CD: its boot sounded like the future while everyone else still blew into cartridges.
Its console in the catalog →Mega Drive / Genesis1988
“PRODUCED BY OR UNDER LICENSE FROM SEGA ENTERPRISES LTD.” — the TMSS screen, prelude to the SEGA scream.
Its console in the catalog →Game Boy1989
The falling Nintendo logo and the ding. Two seconds half of humanity can hum.
Its console in the catalog →Neo Geo1990
“MAX 330 MEGA — PRO-GEAR SPEC”: bragging as a boot screen. The Rolls-Royce of the arcades introduced itself like this.
Its console in the catalog →Philips CD-i1991
The classiest boot of a console history treated without mercy.
3DO1993
The $700 console at least welcomed you in style.
PlayStation1994
The diamond and the Sony Computer Entertainment choir: the sound of a generation stepping into 3D.
Its console in the catalog →Sega Saturn1994
Orbs, sparkles and a melody that deserved better commercial luck.
Dreamcast1998
The orange swirl drawing itself with that metallic chime: SEGA's last hello as a console maker.
Its console in the catalog →PlayStation 22000
The blue towers — each column, they say, a save on your Memory Card. The best-selling console ever greeted you with generative art.
Its console in the catalog →Game Boy Advance2001
The sung “Gameboy!” and the inherited ding: the handheld that put a SNES in your pocket.
Its console in the catalog →GameCube2001
The rolling cube and its playful tune — which, as the Z-button legend goes, hides more than one surprise.
Its console in the catalog →Xbox2001
The green orb and that low rumble: Microsoft walking in confident, with 7 pounds of console.
Its console in the catalog →Nintendo DS2004
The health screen and the two-tone jingle: the boot 154 million people saw.
Its console in the catalog →PSP2004
The logo, the wave and the XMB: Sony fitting a cinema in your pocket.
Its console in the catalog →Not a gap in the collection — history. These legends didn't greet you; they put you in the game.
NES / Famicom
No visible BIOS: the cartridge rules from frame one. Its family greeting lives in the Disk System.
Its console in the catalog →Super Nintendo
Straight to the game — the logo you remember belonged to the game, not the console.
Its console in the catalog →Nintendo 64
Every cartridge painted its own opening. The console stayed silent.
Its console in the catalog →Atari 2600
It was 1977: powering on WAS playing. The ceremony came later.
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