Love Copetti. Even as someone who is not particularly knowledgeable of everything he’s talking about, I I really enjoy thumbing through his writing and diagrams. There’s just something really fun about trying to understand what is going on under the hood with these machines, especially fifth and sixth generation consoles
Copetti enjoyers should also checkout everything Fabien Sanglard has done, including the Wolfenstein and Doom Black Books, the Another World port analyses, and the other dozens of code reviews he's posted. https://fabiensanglard.net/
1994 always gets me too. It feels like they are more a late 90s thing.
They didn't launch outside of Japan until late 1995, so most people got one in '96.
Which means that we're really talking about hardware from 91-93, right? I.e. if launch was 94 then they were designing in 91-93ish.
PS2 didn't come out until 2000. Most of the games I remember are from later too.