The Nintendo wii

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 Steam Deck, if it counts. I can play most of the consoles pictured here on it.

If not, gotta go with SNES.

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.

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.

Dreamcast, that system was awesome back in the day.

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

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.

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.

The SNES will always be my favorite console. It's got some stinkers in the library, but the best games of the console still frequently rank among the best games ever made

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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.

This picture has a criminal lack of DS and 3DS..

The Wii or the Wii U. One of a kind experiences along with the golden era of the internet.

Sega master system

I wasted many hours on my PS2. So much ratchet and clank.

The Dreamcast and Wii are what comes to my mind.

The DC was ahead of its time and has a kick ass library. It also had a sweet gimmick with the VMUs. If SEGA had supported the fuckin' thing, it could have been even better. Perhaps even gotten further iterations. And if the VMUs came with it, they possibly could have figured out a console/handheld hybrid like the WiiU and Switch before Nintendo.

The Wii is really just for its gimmick and Miis and the music. The motion controls were super well done, especially after Wii Motion Plus. Even tho the only games these days I would go back and play are all the Wii Sports games and maybe uh... Forgot the name, but the samurai FPS game. Just the first one tho. The second one kinda sucked.

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.

Gamecube probably holds the most special place in my heart. More for the games that released for it than for the console itself.

PS2, you never forget your first love.

I have to give it to the Nintendo DS. Absolutely incredible library, much of it too unique to play anywhere else.

Playstation 1

Over 4000 games, many of which are weirdly experimental because "how to make 3D games" wasn't codified yet, and CDs gave developers about 200 times more space than they had on the biggest cartridges from the previous gen - not to mention the lower cost of production.

Also, most of the soundtracks are absolute bangers.

Edit: another point - growing up poor, I still got to experience a lot of the PS1's library because of the abundance of demo discs.

For me it's the N64. I know it's a slightly dubious pick, but there's something alluring about those early 3D graphics. No one knew what they were doing yet and it produced some of the most lovable jank.

I have to admit I love playing games on pc they do so much more. But the Dreamcast and the Genesis have a special place in my heart. I would love to have a gamepad with 6 facing buttons but I brought one of those hitbox thingies that has keys and is the fucking shit I tell ya and gone for half the price...

Playstation 2

The Wii.

It is such an underpowered console, with only a handful of must have titles if that.

But man those titles hold up. Even my little gen alphers love it and get into it. Its mostly just a wii sports machine but its still going strong even in this era of mobile and AAA gaming.

I have a bunch of old consoles but the Wii is the only one that gets regular play without needing convincing.

PS2. Due to it's game library.

N64 for me partially nostalgia but I still love the cartridges even though i know they are sub optimal and the controller and the games in general are still top tier to me.

PS3 was the last revolutionary console imo. It's my favorite as well. It was focused on gaming but I could watch porn on it too! Plus it had blue ray!

September 1997, my dad gets us a second hand Sega Megadrive from who knows where, with Sonic and a couple other games. My mind is blown. All these gorgeous, rapidly-moving images... some time later we get a stack of games at the flea market : Sonic 2, Coolspot, Rocket Knight Adventures (gorgeous platformers), Hellfire (a horizontal scrolling space shmup), D&D, an F1 game (maybe Senna?), Last Battle (impossible to beat), Streets of Rage 1&2, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat... I have most of these installed on my computer with Romstation today

PC

3DS, no contest. Even factoring in PCs, Steam Deck is a bit behind.

I'm past the phase of daily playing it, but still don't usually leave home without it, and I feel I'm only halfway through games I might be interested in after almost a decade. I just found Professor Layton this year.

The OG Xbox was so good.

Modding it was surprisingly easy, all you needed was a memory card (or a DIY adapter for plugging in a USB drive into a controller port) and a copy of Splinter Cell.

Not only would this allow you to rip games and play them directly from your hard drive, but it also opened up the world of emulators and homebrew apps & games. Shoutout to the xbins IRC channel.

XBMC was amazing, it allowed me to watch all my legally obtained media without having to burn DVDs. Crazy to think that would eventually lead to Plex, which I still use to this day.

I also played around with Damn Small Linux on the Xbox, which is what got me interested in Linux in the first place.

Now that I think about it, tinkering around with that console ultimately led to my love of homelabbing and Linux - I now run 9 servers in my utility room, and only use Linux on all my machines.

Thanks Microslop!