Your favorite console of all time?

[starwarsgeek]

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy 2 and 3, Super Mario RPG, Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, A Link to the Past, Super Metroid, Kirby Super Star, Street Fighter II, Mega Man X, Aladdin, Demon's Crest, Zombies Ate My Neighbor....so many classics

 

[Verkula]

PS2, due to them having alot of good IPs but, as Yahtzee said, it was only because it had a good third party support and there were plenty of equally shit games per each good one.

Thats the biggest bullshit anyone can say just for sake of being negative about a console. "Only because", yeah only because theres no other way you will ever have as big of a success then the PS2 had.
Of course lots of games mean lots of bad games as well on a popular system, everyone publishes their crap to make easy money. Also by this logic, the NES was the same.

 

[Headdrivehardscrew]

Hard to go for just one favourite. Since it's really all about the games, I couldn't possibly pin it on just one console.

Excluding all those (great) Mario and Sonic and failed mascot games:

SNES for Uniracers, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Mother/Earthbound and plenty more.

GENESIS for the mad amount of outstanding sidescrolling/platforming fare - Super Shinobi/Revenge of Shinobi, Contra: Hard Corps, Kujaku Oh, Magical Hat no Buttobi Tabo! Daibōken, and some unique (action) RPG trips - Crusader of Centy, Soleil, etc.

PSX/PSOONE for all the meanwhile dead franchises that got optical-media-based gaming started. I still have not to this day seen anything like Rollcage on any current "Next-Gen" console. Simple little games that load fast and blast your senses with motion and colors and blur and a splendid selection of music tracks you probably wouldn't have stumbled over yourself.

The PS2 didn't amaze me as much, even though we own way too many games for this one to completely dismiss it. Still, when we go PlayStation retro, it's usually PSX stuff. MediEvil!

The NeoGeo for its instant display of boatloads of hand-pixelled character animation art. The Last Blade and Samurai Spirits franchises are still best enjoyed without the loading time lag of optical storage. Oh, and even though some just have to buy their EA soccer fix year after year, everyone here still enjoys a session of Super Sidekicks 2. Easy enough for the kids, but also compatible with beer-guzzling grown male specimens.

I tried some of these titles from the various retro selection sections of modern consoles, but they are mostly ported/presented in such a half-assed way that they're just no fun at all.

 

[zeit]

Looking back I have to say SNES was a lot better than the Genesis, not because of the Mode 7 or the sample-based sound, but because the games were moving ahead with the times whereas most Genesis games were basically NES games with better graphics. Most of them you still had to write down passwords instead of being able to save your progress.

PSX is probably my second favorite console after the Gamecube, just because it had Metal Gear Solid, Wipeout XL, Oddworld, Silent Hill, and of course Parappa the Rappa. Also the discs are black, which is kinda neat. The N64 was great and all, but it had a lot of shitty games for every good one. Games like Superman 64 and Carmageddon 64 ruined my childhood.

 

[MrGseff]

Strangely enough I consider the Gamecube my favourite. I was never bored with that console, always had so much to play and even though when I look back I see the problems with the controller, back when I played it, it never bothered me. I loved it and still consider it the best.... even if it did lack a huge amount of third party support.

 

[Wayneguard]

Playstation 2. It has the majority of my favorite games.