The console your nan played.
Motion controls, Wii Sports in the box, and a strap you were told to use and did not.
It got non-gamers playing games at Christmas, which nothing before it had managed. Bowling was the gateway; tennis broke the television.
Nintendo sent out free replacement straps after a wave of flying remotes met a wave of flat screens.
Cost back then
£179
Goes for now
£40–£120
Keep going
PC magazines with a CD or two taped to the front, full of game demos, utilities and one very large free ISP installer.
Point and shoot digital cameras that ate batteries, filled a card in an afternoon, and were still a revelation.
ADSL arrived with a microfilter on every phone socket and changed the household relationship with the internet permanently.
Apple's music player, and the click wheel that made scrolling through 5,000 songs genuinely pleasant.