Weekend Open Forum: What's your all-time favorite video game console?

Genesis.

Philips G7000 - Laser Wars was the bomb

Quite frankly, after staring at the screen for 2 minutes, I've come to the realization I don't have a favorite console. They were all good parts of my long childhood. It's equivalent to ask what type of candy you liked the best back then. Not an easy task. I'd prefer to list my favorite games on my favorites consoles from each generation; it's easier that way.

For me, back when I had my NES, I remember I borrowed a NES Zapper from a friend, and it was fun as hell with: Duck Hunt.

When I had my SNES the best one had to be: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. (Although Super Mario World is a <I>very</I> close second.)

When I had my N64: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. (GOAT)

When I had a PS: Valkyrie Profile.

When I had a PS2: Final Fantasy X.

And now, well, I'm a PC guy. My girlfriend has nearly convinced me to get a PS3, as she now wants a Blu-Ray player. Who knows, I might buy one or two games if I get one. Sadly, however, things have changed; companies are now more about day-one DLCs and monetizing on players than delivering meaningful experiences like the games I listed (well, <i>except</i> Duck Hunt as for a meaningful experience, but you get the point).

I'll have to go with the 64, I guess I had the most fun with it pwning my school buddies in GoldenEye, also racing and kart battling with my brothers in MarioKart was priceless, lol now that I think about it I remember playing RainbowSix with a neighbor and of course the endless nights playing Zelda.

Been a PC guy for 2 years now, I rarely turn on my 360.

Probably the SNES, n64, or gamecube. For multiplayer purposes ( had to play with 3 brothers) probably the n64. Donkey Kong 64....what a freaking AWESOME game.

SE-GA! I'm talking about the Genesis/MegaDrive, of course.
The original Playstation was also very neat.

Computer was the first for me, any one remember LHX attach chopper? Oh I hated when I couldn't find the book for the answers to first get into the game lol

Out of the ones that I have owned (Atari 2600, SNES, Xbox) and played (intellivision, colecovision, odessey, NES), the 2600 was probably my favorite. I probably spent more hours on that than all other consoles combined, but part of that was my age, when i didn't have a job or kids to raise so I could devote much more time to it. And this was when Activison still made good original games, before Bobby Kotick took over and made the name synonymous with evil and franchises. I got my SNES too late in it's life cycle, when very few new games were being released. I got my Xbox because it was cheaper than a new gaming PC, but I had already been playing space sims and FPS on my PC and just never really got into the Xbox.

Sega Saturn all day ever day. Rolllinngggggg startttttt, gotta love daytona usa, virtua fighter the first 3d fighter to use polygons and virtual on was the best damn game ever. But im a pc fan since the 3dfx days to show my age a bit.

Dreamcast (with Soul Calibur) ftw.

Nintendo- F-Zero all day

SNES and N64 where my most memorable, PS2 however was my favorite. 360 when it first came out was good but then PC finally took over my life.

I still have my Dreamcast and SNES. But he DC gets the nod as my favourite console ever, it created the whole idea of online play (albeit on a dial up connection at the time).

The Gamecube?

INTELLIVISION, I think there's two L's in that

Then Coleco Vision, not sure if I got the spelling right on that one either

SNES

My first PS1, the phat one. Final Fantasy 7 was my first game. sogood.jpg

Kind of a long post but I dont care cause this is definitely something that has been intertwined throughout my life.

I, like the author, got my first NES system back in 1987, i was 6 at the time. I was lucky enough to actually get the one that had the robot you could control to go with it. The robot malfunctioned, according to my parents and took it back to the toy store and bought a SEGA system, not the genesis, but the 8 bit system before 16 bit was the cool. Remember Altered Beast? Good game. Kinda scary too for a 6 year old. Something happened with it too, so my parents got another NES system again but no robot included. That system stayed with me and my brother from 1988 to when we sold it and all 25 games in 1995. Why? the SNES came, and consumed me until the 64 came along and held me all the way through high school.

Something happened though between nintendo and snes: The computer. Dad bought a Packard Bell with a NEW 386sx processor in it. I had a tank game at first and then came Doom on 3.5 inch disks. The game didnt play though, and i didnt understand that. i thought any computer could play any game. I remember the MSDOS prompt saying "not enough physical ram to execute" This started my obsession with pc parts and upgrading. I was 10 and began opening up computers to see whats inside.

Anyway, i digress. One interesting system that i got that was on its way out was the Sega Saturn. i was impressed with cd technology at the time and that you no longer needed cartridges but cd discs to play on this. The sound was incredible on a sega saturn. I had mortal kombat 3 for it and it was just like the coin op game at the arcade! I ended up selling it to a younger kid at the time. I just lost interest because of the very few games produced for it and i ended up only buying 5 games for it.

original xbox was fun, but mainly for halo. Other titles were good but thats the main reason i bought it.

I bought a wii 2 years ago but seldom play it. It seems too kiddy for me.

I never bought a 360. I never owned a sega genesis, game cube, ps1 or 2, 3. And strangely, the PC is the one thing I still enjoy playing games on. i just bought a new gaming rig and i have the latest titles right now and love it. nothing compares. Even my old packard bell days with Doom and Wolfenstein were some of the best gaming days.

I've loved and owned just about all of them, but none of them compare to the nostalgia I have for my Dreamcast. I was never so completely obsessed and excited with a platform before it, and haven't been since. I'm on my third one... And still a moderator/regular poster at www.dcemulation.org