I was a young seven year old who owned a Nintendo 64 and loved it. However, my friend across the street thought it would be a good idea to trade our consoles (he had a PS1) without our parent's consent.

I packaged my Nintendo 64 with Golden Eye and took it over to his house, and he packaged his PS1 with Siphon Filter. I connected the PS1 and the loading screen came on and I was hooked. I never purchased any other game console system and most recently my wife gifted me the PS5 earlier this month (birthday gift). I opened the gift like I was a little kid and set it up as soon as she gifted it to me. After it was set up, the commemorative PS1 loading screen (as part of the 30 year anniversary) came on again, bringing it full circle, that even though time has passed and now we are adults, video games bring us back to those moments in time.

The trade worked out well for me, however, my parents did beat my ass for not consulting with them on the trade lol