Poll: Best gaming generation

[Nostalgia]

I'm torn between the fourth and fifth.
Late into sixth gen, I was dying.

 

[willard3]

I honestly think it's the sixth. I was too young and/or immature to truly appreciate the 4th generation's gems, so I can't really say that. The 7th is excellent, but the huge amounts of bugs and pay-more-for-patches are annoying...plus local multiplayer is dying out.

In the sixth, we had the clear powerhouse of the PS2, but the other systems had their contenders as well...the Xbox had Halo as the fallback and generally better hardware, while the Gamecube was largely inferior but had a couple of grand gems in the forms of SSBM, RE4, Windwaker, and a couple others. Plus it had the Gameboy Advance and the SP...man I loved my SP.

 

[Valiance]

I voted fifth, but it was kind of a mix of 4, 5, and 6 in my mind...

 

[shatnershaman]

Consoles: 5th generation because it contains most of my top 10 favourite games, sure it lacked quality control and the N64 had terrible third party support but it had Super Mario 64!
Handheld:6.5(?)Generation, PSP finally brought quality "T" and "M" games to a handheld.
PC:Early 4th Generation, Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM sucked up many a hour.

 

[Singularly Datarific]

1st, who needs a backstory for a series of blinking light bulbs?

 

[jimduckie]

look how far we've come in 35 years and the future is coming fast but for now this is the best generation