I came into this thread expecting discussion about Atari, Nintendo, etc.
I was disappointed.
I started gaming in the Spectrum age, I must have been 7 or 8 years old; back when we needed a tape recorder to run games that arrived on tapes
Nowadays, there are a lot of websites that provide Spectrum games for free, and playable online. I confess that recently I've played Bruce Lee, lol... It was one of my favorites. And those text based RPG's...Epic! That's how I first started to have contact with the English language, and without false modesty, that's how I've always achieved high grades in school, without studying jack shit, and not even going to English classes :] (Along with the help of movies, shows, and songs, obviously...)
But yeah, I was actually expecting, at least, the playstation 1 to be mentioned. It's interesting, though, that DR's age range goes from 12 to 35 years old, if I'm not mistaken. After all, DR is turning 9 years old this year of 2015 :] When we reach a decade of age, we should make a DRcon. LOL!