Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
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
16-bit pixel art is basically the standard that all modern “retro” games use and the SNES was one of the best for it. Neo geo also was amazing for that art style.
Gamecube probably holds the most special place in my heart. More for the games that released for it than for the console itself.
Yeah, I think Gamecube would win for me if just for all the time spent playing Smash Bros in college.
Came here to say this. N64’s a close second, but the re-releases of N64 games on the Gamecube helped a lot with that too.
PS2. Due to it’s game library.
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.
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.
I have to give it to the Nintendo DS. Absolutely incredible library, much of it too unique to play anywhere else.
I was going to say this. Still way underestimated because of a lot of shovelware kids stuff in stores (depending on location). It’s not close to being my first or early device either (that was TI 99/4A).
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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!
PC
I haven’t played many, more of PC gamer. But, of the Atari 2600, Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Atari 5200, Sega Genesis, GameCube, and Wii, I’ll pick the Sega Genesis. Yes, I was around for the launch of all of these, including the original Pong, which was the first video game I played. I’m fucking old.
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.
Definitely a tie between xbox360 and PS2.
Definitly not biased because they’re the 2 consoles I played the most growing up. No. There’s a totally reasonable explanation. And would you look at the time! Gotta blast!
Nintendo DS
That era was so good that Nintendo didn’t even know what they had until they screwed it up and lost to modern smartphones.
Other than PC, the SNES probably had my most favorite games, but the breadth of the library on the DS was fantastic. Once I got an R4 card and was able to stop carrying a dozen carts around, I was on it all the time.
I wasted many hours on my PS2. So much ratchet and clank.
The Steam Deck, if it counts. I can play most of the consoles pictured here on it.
If not, gotta go with SNES.
Valid but glhf with your PS3 emulator on steam deck
There are actually a surprising number of PS3 games that run well on Steam Deck. Plenty don’t, of course, notably Infamous 2.
ps2.
I loved the ps3 don’t take me wrong, but the ps2 just had that nostolgia and legacy aspects of it. The splash screen, the menu design, the simplicity. It was so nice.
