Hello! How nice of you to read this.
I've been playing games for 25 years now, starting at age 5 with the wonderfully non-portable portable C-64, the SX-64: 


  
Is that a 5-INCH COLOUR SCREEN, you ask? Yes, I tell you. 
Is that a BUILT IN DISK-DRIVE? you follow up with. And I slyly answer: "oh yeah". 
I played some Commando, some Cobra, some He-Man, a lot of Boulder Dash and a bit of Monty Mole. And about a million other games.
I also attempted to write my own games on it, copying the code from a library book, and failed miserably - probably because of a misplaced semicolon. I sometimes wonder if, had I placed that semicolon correctly, I would have been part of the teams creating some of the great games I play today.
The SX-64 is long gone, sadly. My dad sold it long after it became irrelevant, presumably to buy cigarettes or something. 
I didn't care at that time of course, I had my Amiga 500, my Sega Master System II and my original Gameboy. 
I think Link's Awakening was the first game I really finished, at least the first game with a proper story. It was so amazing to me, a 13-year-old kid on an epic journey while sitting in my mom's couch staring at a little green screen. I had to call the Danish Nintendo Hotline to get past a room where I had to kill 3 enemies in a particular order. That one stumped me.
And then I never finished another Zelda game. 
I never had a NES or a SNES, they were too expensive. There were too many other distractions for me. 
But as I got older I looked back on 13-year-old me playing that first Zelda game, and the sense of discovery and wonder hadn't been surpassed since then. 
A couple of years ago I got a Nintendo DS, but it broke before I could finish both Phantom Hourglass and Spirit Tracks and I never bought a new one.
I desperately needed to scratch that Zelda itch again, so I bought a really cheap used Wii, and am currently playing through all that I can get my hands on: I'm in the middle of both A Link To The Past and Twilight Princess, and Wind Waker is only an internet order of a GC memory card away. 
I haven't felt younger in 17 years.