I started on a 286, how noobish of me
In my defence, besides my youth, most systems that aren't the PC didn't really make it well over here. Even now, the console market is pretty wierd.
In the rest of the world, consoles are sold at a loss, so that the console games will repay the lose, over here it is automatically assumed that you will install a chip into your console so you can play burned games, and so consoles are really expensive.
Then again, I can't blame the console-game-crackers, console games cost almost twice as much as PC games (which in turn cost much more compared to the average salary then pretty much anywhere else), though I don't own any console myself.
And while I'm on it, I'd just say the I don't like consoles, they just aren't as useful or comfortable as a PC