Your favorite console of all time?

[Jazoni89]

This, bad boy.

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There are many Reasons why this is my favourite Console.

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1. It had the best good game to bad game ratio than any console then, and since.
2. The Memory Cards were like miniature gameboy's.
3. With only 200-odd inexpensive games, it's great for collectors.
4. It's a very sexy looking console.
5. The Pal cases are awesome, if a little flimsy.
6. The First console with fully functioning Online modes.
7. Loose piracy protection, means that CD-R's with self booting Roms can be easily be played on it, if you are so...inclined.
8. Amazing graphics for its time, and they still hold up well today.

It also feels great to own one, which is what I don't get with the other consoles I have.

 

[syndicate]

Are you allowed to choose PS2 baring in mind it is backwards compatible?
I say that the backwards compatible consoles have a real advantage.
But even PS2 library alone, PS2 still pretty much wins.
The only crap thing I've found is that in most cases the Gamecube versions/ports are slightly better in terms of loading and graphics, but PS2 has too many great exclusives for that to even be an argument.

SNES is great too!

 

[newwiseman]

NES

Amazingly simple controls and the largest concentration of my favorite games of all the time. Final Fantasy I and II, the MegaMan series, Zelda and Zelda II: Link, Mario 1 through 3, Tetris, Dragon Warrior; I could go on all day. That said my favorite game of all time is for the SNES.

 

[esperandote]

The virtual Boy for its extense library, its awesome graphics and accesibility.

 

[The White Hunter]

Yeah I'm pretty stumped why anyone likes current day consoles with the ads, fees to use certain things, ridiculous lawsuits.

Remember back then? PS2, PSOne, N64, SNES , Dreamcast, Genesis, where things made sense? You got a game and that was that, there wasn't constant ripping off, crazy weird DRM and console lives being shorter than a year? Those were fun times. Now I have to agree to an update of Terms of Service to play games....right. Great.

Yeah, my megadrive, master system, ps2, they all still work, though all of my old sega controllers are slightly broken in their own way (2 button on master system so i cant attack in alex kidd, one of the face buttons on the first MD controller, the dpad doesnt go left on the second MD controller), within a year my PS3 had a problem with the disc reader not moving and had to go away for a week. My PS1 is kinda dead but it's original, and chipped, so it's finnicky about working. God help me if I had a 360 it'd last under a week knowing my luck.

I dunno how microsoft suceed with hardware that unstable it's the mainr eason I stuck with sony this gen.
My Wii has never let me down though and very rarely has updates, I think 2 in 3 years or so?

[EDIT] I forgot, My gamecube works fine too, bought it for £10 to get the official controller to use with my wii, I use it mostly as a coaster.

 

[Joccaren]

N64 or PS2.

Neither really get used by me a lot any more. Been PC gaming for the last 7-10 years or so now, but those were the good consoles, at least IMO.

 

[bojackx]

I'd have to go with everyone else and say PS2, as it did have the least shit games.

And if you consider it a console, the PC would definitely be up there, since they've been around for forever.

 

[deidara]

Definitely the N64. So many of my favorite games are on there.

 

[Angry Camel]

Gotta decide between Snes and Xbox 360.

So many classic Snes games (Super Metroid, Axelay, Castlevania 4) and the mods communicty has tons of hacks to keep things interesting (Metoid maps, BoF2 retranslation, Meagamn X3 Zero hack).

But the 360 has given us Crackdown, Rocksteady's Batman games, the Ninja Gaiden series (ignoring the third one), Bioshock and the online market has great games on offer.

 

[malestrithe]

Based solely on the amount of great games in my preferred genre, nothing holds a candle to the Playstation 2.

 

[necromanzer52]

PS2. To this day I'm still trying to play every renowned great game on that thing, and I've had it for a decade.

 

[Smithburg]

Mine would either be the N64, PS2, or the 360. They all had wonderful games, PS2 and 360 hd a huge amount on them, but N64 had Majoras Mask and Golden Eye

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Anyone who doesn't say the GBA (SP) is a stupid doo-doo head.

d-(^_^)z​

 

[Killspre]

The console I grew up on the Nintendo 64

 

[Spygon]

I am going to be slighty different and say the original playstation.Because i was talking to one of my mates about our top 10 games and i quickly realised that at least 4 of them were on the original PS1

Also pc gamers make up your mind if the PC is a "console" you whine when its added to console conversations saying "the pc is not a console" then you say it is in conversations like this one.

So all PC gamers have a group meeting and decide if the pc is or if its not a console.

 

[LilithSlave]

SNES, it was a bliss machine.

And that's because it was good. I grew up on other systems before the SNES. The Atari 2600 of my family and my NES that I got when I was like, 4 years old. And I did play and like a lot of it. I especially had good times with the Adventures of Lolo series.

But the 16-Bit era was an exploding rainbow of glorious happiness.

Megaman X took the gameplay of classic Megaman and kicked it in the face.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, took the NES Zelda games and kicked them in the face.

The SNES gave us fighting games that would inspire a million clones.

The SNES gave us the best jRPGs to date. Final Fantasy in their prime, and something that kicked Final Fantasy in its prime itself the face: Chrono Trigger.

I believe the Super Famicom is included in this definition. This gave us not just Secret of Mana, but Seiken Densetsu 3.

This is also the era that Rare was in their prime. And called, properly, Rareware. With the Donkey Kong Country series.

The first Harvest Moon.

Okay, I made a mistake one time in saying that the SNES didn't have bad games. I had blocked stinkers like Shaq Fu out of my mind. But in general the SNES had so much amazingness that it blows my mind.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

As much as I love the NES, I think I've got to give my vote to the SNES. I have an NES right now but I haven't played all of the classic games yet and, I know I haven't beaten all of the NES games I've played too. The last NES game I beat was Predator which was a pretty shit game...and it was pretty good honestly.

That being said, SNES. I've played a ton of the games, it's ingrained in my subconscious, nostalgia, blah.

 

[acsoundwave]

I say SNES, then Wii.

The Wii: can play all of Nintendo's past backlog...and even games from Sega's backlog. Add in games from the Turbo Grafx 16 library (like Ys: Books 1 & 2), and you have ultimate backwards compatibility.

Because of the Wii, I discovered the joy of Shining Force without ever owning a Genesis and I can play Skies of Arcadia without a Dreamcast.

But the absolute winner is the SNES for one reason: Yoshi's Island, the *perfect* platformer. (I'm basing this on my initial experiences, not my recent SNES discoveries (Breath of Fire 2, Chrono Trigger (which lives up to its masterful reputation)--those I owe to the Wii and discretionary income).)

Yes, the SNES had the Donkey Kong Country trilogy, my favorite SNES Kirby game (Kirby's Dream Land 3), and other games I hadn't played; but Yoshi's Island was perfect. More than Super Mario Bros. 3.

 

[Torrasque]

The first console I ever bought was my N64, and I grew up with my N64 with many amazing games that shaped my gaming (and musical) taste. So I would be slapping my childhood in the face if I said anything else. Gamecube would be a close 2nd.