Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
PS3. It’s probably wholly nostalgia but it was where I grew up playing games, even though the PS4 was well into its heyday by the time I got mine. So many games on there that I adore
Ngl I love the wii
The SNES had the perfect balance of old school arcade simplicity that anyone can pick up and play and modern sophistication for the era. Most of my favorite games of all time are SNES games.
The Steam Deck, if it counts. I can play most of the consoles pictured here on it.
If not, gotta go with SNES.
It would be Nintendo 64 for me, but, that’s also like the last gaming console I ever bought. Played with the Wii for a bit since I lived with a friend who had one but… nothing since then. So maybe I should say my PC instead? ah, but that’s not an exclusive gaming console.
OK, yeah, N64 it is. I just beat Snowboard Kids 2 for the first time, unlocking all the boards. t’was dope.
The ones that don’t connect to the goddamn internet. I also still use my ipod. Tracking sucks.
Pegasus. You most likely never heard of it. It was super cheap Chinese clone of famicom downclocked to run with PAL TV standard. All cartriges in distribution were pirate. All of them. The unique property of downclocking was that all games ran around 20% slower than NES
Was that the same as the “Family Game“ ? Lots of people have that one back in the day, and multi-game pirate cartridges were very common too.
There were many ‘Famiclones’ in the mid-late 90s it was popular system sold under tons of different names.
Dreamcast, that system was awesome back in the day.
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I had the original Gameboy, and that was cool as fuck at the time. Later I had a PS2, loved that shit, spent an entire summer sat in a squat with my site boy mates, smoking crack and playing vice city. And silent hill, on my own, in the dark. Great machine, great memories.
But really I think my favourite is the one I have now, the OLED steam deck. Nostalgia aside, it’s amazing to see how tech has progressed in my lifetime. (My first computer had 1k RAM lol). Steam deck is, IMO, the best so far, certainly best I’ve had. I’m just pleased to have lived long enough to see things come so far from pong and pacman.
Honestly, taking off my nostalgia goggles here, I’m gonna say the Switch. Handheld and TV usage in one device was amazing. It’s got its problems, yeah, and Nintendo is not really an admirable company, but it was nice.
With my nostalgia goggles on, PS2, no question. Because it was a PS2 AND a PS1. Never played PS3, barely played 360. By that time I was basically a full PC gamer. My original one broke (don’t remember how), so I got the slim one. it’s crazy durable, I think because it has a lot less moving parts. I tried to do some hot swap disk stuff with it, so I had to use clamps to hold it shut lol, but it still worked. Never could get the disk swap to work.
If we include handhelds, then I think it’s the Gameboy Advance SP. Rechargeable and backlit was a crazy innovation. (Yes yes, I know in Japan there was a version of a Gameboy that was backlit.)
The OG Gameboy pocket I had was shit. It was my first gaming thing ever though. So hard to see. Gameboy color was fine. Just not really as amazing as Advance. GBA loses to SP though. As for DS, I don’t know, I never had a beef with it, but I feel like the jump from color to advance wasn’t quite as big to me as advance to DS. Plus, the DS was sort of the beginning of Nintendo’s weird gimmick era. I’d call the Wii U the end. So many motion controls…
I had a PS4, but didn’t play too much on it. Basically just Ratchet, God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, and Death Stranding. It didn’t feel any better than a computer to me. At least the Switch is unique in that it can be portable.
Yeah, nostalgia is a big thing here. Past experiences that were amazing just don’t hold up compared to modern tech. In most cases anyway, some stuff is fairly timeless.
Sega Genesis. We got it with Revenge of Shinobi, a game I still play with a soundtrack to rival some of the best Nintendo stuff (a very high bar), and Power Monger, one of the real fathers of RTS that ignited my love for strategy games.
This picture has a criminal lack of DS and 3DS…
I don’t see any handheld devices on there. I would argue that this question is about consoles not portables.
What no Virtual Boy?!
Handhelds are consoles…
Probably either the NES or the SNES. The NES felt the most “magical” at the time. Before the NES, consoles had games that were general clunky and not particularly fun and controllers that were all over the place. There was a good reason that the NES revived the console industry. The SNES just happens to be the home of many of my favorite games of all time. If we’re going newer, then I suppose the PS1 or PS3 (before Sony ruined it) would be my choices.
Sega master system
One of these days, I’m going to put in the work to sit down and complete Zillion.
I’m probably going to have to retire first…
