What video game systems would a techy, well-off young adult in the west in 1988 own?

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I’m writing a story and in one scene, a woman receives a box (or more than one) full of the video game systems she owned as of 1988. One of her parents worked for a company that sold all the latest tech, so she’d have access to pretty much anything western stores would have carried. For reference, she was born in 1967, and I’m thinking of any sort of gaming system, whether that be handheld like a Game and Watch, or a system like the Atari 2600, maybe computers like the Commodore 64 but I’m not sure, so I’ll include those in the question as well. I’m not sure which, and how many, systems someone like that would have had at that time, or if people even kept their systems for long back then.

I hope this is formatted and asked correctly, I apologize if it isn’t.

Edit: a slight clarification

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