I'm a zealot because I feel companies like Sega and Nintendo that design their own games deserve more respect.(and since they make a lot more and generally better than microsoft or sony, they get more respect) Plus, for some reason I think they may have a better idea of what makes a good console without outside input from 3rd parties. Oh yeah, and I like their games and generally I can pick any game made by them and come home with an enjoyable experience. Oh that, and I like consoles where the best games for it are games I can't get for the computer(and better), however if I had the time and money, I'd probably own all the consoles.(not sure if my next pick after gamecube and without a revival of dreamcast would be ps2 for the games, or xbox for sega games, halo coop, other sequels, at least in spirit, to dreamcast games, and for true HDTV res in games, though xbox has less games that I want than ps2)
Plus, for some reason, I always seem to gravitate to the underdog. While I started with a NES(or maybe it was a computer), I then moved onto the genesis. It was at a time when I still didn't care about graphics in games, and was furious nintendo was abandoning the nes, but more upset that super mario all stars featured the Japanese nes version of super mario bros 2, and nintendo never released it in America on the NES!(hey, I was like 4...or 7, my thinking wasn't much more rational than it is now, though I later found out the lost levels were nothing worth getting excited over) I also preferred IBM cpus to Intel(though I wonder if I even had an IBM 486), until I was forced to get an Intel cpu to play the latest games, then I got an AMD(and I've stayed with AMD since) and wanted to go pure cpu over having to own a video card....then when I finally got one I got a voodoo 3, and was steadfast to 3dfx until the day they went kaputt, despite only owning one card and considering the voodoo5 too expensive for its performance, in particular that while 4x FSAA looked great, it lowered framerates to less than what my voodoo 3 could do.
Oh, back to consoles, after genesis I went back to snes while it was the underdog. I bought a 32x, but returned it since I couldn't figure out how to install it(that or it was glitched, the game ran, but had lots of problems..in 98 I picked up a 32x again for $20, brand new). I wanted a nomad, but it was too expensive and disappeared from store shelves too quickly(I got one in 2000 for $80, brand new). Then I wanted a saturn, but chose to wait for the n64, and missed the saturn entirely due to its high price and quick disappearence from the market.(and lack of any real good games...well it didn't have sonic, which is what I mainly cared about, and nights was only a decent substitute...I hate time trials) Ok, I did get a psx(used for $20 after dreamcast came out) but that doesn't count cause who knew the psx would continue to outdo n64 and dc? Oh, and then I got a dreamcast, and then a gamecube.
Unfortunately, I'm sad to admit that I have owned the original gameboy(the clear play it loud edition), a gameboy color, and a gameboy advance, as well as an nvidia geforce 3 and an ati radeon 9700 pro. Then again, when it comes to video cards, performance matters more than brand loyalty, or I would have owned a voodoo 5.
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