If you where given money to buy an old console

[scoHish]

Hard to answer this with anything other than "Gimme anotha SNES." The thing is freakin' timeless.

 

[jim_doki]

see, I would go with ones i've never had. I've got a psx somewhere, anes and a mega drive, id grab an atari 2600, a master system, and possibly an N64. although I would love to find my snes, i only have one game and that shits me

 

[Nugoo]

I'd say PSX, unless you have a PS2 or backwards compatible PS3. If you do, then either an N64 or SNES. SNES is probably the better choice if you can get the games for it, but the classics are really expensive.

 

[redstar alpha]

i would by a sega megadrive and whip on sonic

 

[ayoama]

Definitely Dreamcast.