PS2, you never forget your first love.

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

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.

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 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.

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

The Nintendo wii

xbox 360 in its prime

then ps2

then wii

I feel like my steamdeck would be a cop out a bit but it is my favorite at the moment. It has all the consoles and my steam library of more than a decade. Plus I can switch between my laptop and my steamdeck without issues.

But if I were to guess off the top, it would probably be a toss up between Gameboy or GBA. So many good games and distractions from my early childhood.

PS1, I had the original gray box and later the small white boy. Both modded to accept any CD from the get go (yay for Brazilian piracy!), which brought me great joy once broadband internet reached my home in late 2003.

Console-wise it's the PS1.

I grew up a Nintendo kid but the PS1 was the first console I bought with my own money, bought and installed a mod chip myself, and played everything I could get my smelly teen hands on. That library of burned discs was a huge influence on my gaming tastes and is packed full of nostalgia for me.

Well since the Magnavox Odessy isn't pictured I'll have to pick the halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360. So many awesome memories of halo 3 online, cod black ops. GTA... Man.

The venerable Atari 2600.

I think I liked all the ones I owned but switch was my fav since it had so much and 3rd party classics and everything and it was power efficient, compact, portable. Steam deck has taken over for me though. Way more of a swiss army knife.

In no particular order: and NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, PS3.

SEGA Megadrive

I would have to go with either the Steam Deck or the Oculus Quest. But realistically I've spent orders of magnitude more time on the Steam Deck so I'll go with that. But both were revolutionary in a way that no other console approached. Sure, the PS2 was great, but it was just a PlayStation with better graphics, and the PlayStation was AMAZING, but in my mind it was a Nintendo with better graphics.

PS Vita or PS2.

PS2 mainly for the games, so many fantastic ones I still play and replay decades later. Keeping track per platform the owned-played ratio and how many liked games in absolute numbers each has for me, the PS2 is still king in both. Even lesser known games I generally have a blast with.

On the Vita, its library isn't as strong as the PS2's, even if many of my favorite games were found through the Vita. But it compensates at being a fantastic console to mod. While I know people modding consoles do it for playing ilegitimate copies of games, if you ignore that, its mods still give you a lot to use the console for, possibly risking seeing the console dying in your hands while you read an ebook on it, try some homebrew ROM from Itchio, play with PSP homebrews, etc. Also it's a bit of a learning curve and technical information on it is sparse, but learning how it ticks makes tinkering second nature (...unlike the PS3 =.=").

PC.

I mean. in some ways its the odyssey because it has games that were so much better than other systems at the time despite it being black and white

For me, I think it's the Megadrive/Genesis.

I was a Nintendo kid, originally. We had a NES and a Gameboy in our house, and I loved them. But during a visit to the US in the summer of 1993, I got to spend pretty much the whole of the 4th of July at a family friend's house in Massachusetts, playing Genesis games with a bunch of American kids. That cemented it in a special place in my mind.

Wii hands down! I had twilight princess on release so it was soft modded early. I got to play super Nintendo super scope games on an lcd, and any Wii game I wanted. Dreamcast being a close second.

GameCube. Just because it was the console I played most with my daughter. Mario Sunshine, Double Dash, Metroid Prime, Windwaker and Twilight Princess. Such fun! And the game discs were cute