Your top favorite consoles

[Figuremod73]

Thought this would be interesting. What consoles to you were the best you ever played? (pre 1990 computers can count to).
10: Neogeo
9: Atari ST
8: sega genesis
7: sega saturn
6: playstation 2
5: sega dreamcast
4: super nintendo
3: atari 2600
2: playstation
1: Nintendo (nes)

This is kind of my order to what I like best. The nes still gets alot of play time. While some of the others were just good systems that should have had more games or continued a little longer. (like the dreamcast).

[raider5gt]

Consoles that i like playing on are:

1. PS3
2. PS2 i play this more than my PS3 Final Fantasy series rocks :smiley1:
3. Amiga CD-32 (hardly any games released)
4. Atari 2600
5. Wii (great fun for all the family)

Not really in order,as they all have their good points of fun and gameplay.

[Figuremod73]

for some reason im just not into the newer systems. i rather crank up something from ten years ago most of the time,lol
FF does indeed rock. Have you ever played Panzer Dragoon Saga on the saturn? I also like the dragon warrior series.

[raider5gt]

No never played the Panzer Dragoon Saga,is that the one where you fly about on a dragon?I'm a big fan of RPGs FF 10 is my favourite.

I like playing a mixture of old and new systems. :wink:

[torgospizza]

The only ones I've owned are the Atari 2600, Super Nintendo, Playstation, and Playstation 2. I have a fondness for all of them, but I think the PSX was the most shocking to me--it just seemed revolutionary. The first time I played a sample disc with Tomb Raider 2 on it, I had to get the system--I couldn't believe games like that were possible.

[Werewolf]

In no particular order:

Dreamcast
Super Nintendo
PS2
PS3
Xbox 360
Super Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Intellivision
Atari 2600
Gameboy Advance

[Figuremod73]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiG-b9JFixw
Panzer Dragoon Saga is one of the coolest games ive ever played on any system. Its a strategic rpg. You are on a dragon at many parts of the game but at other stages are wondering in areas zelda style. wish it would get ported or get a sequel. The other panzer dragoons are all action games.

[Figuremod73]

i bought a playstation and saturn at almost the same time. i was kinda upset the saturn didnt do better. the playstation was a solid machine though and i havent even stratched the surface of the games on it

[The Bat]

Xbox(original)
Xbox 360

[jwyblejr]

No love for the Gamecube?

[Werewolf]

i bought a playstation and saturn at almost the same time. i was kinda upset the saturn didnt do better. the playstation was a solid machine though and i havent even stratched the surface of the games on it

I really liked the Saturn at the time.

Good exclusives like Panzer Dragoon Saga, House of the Dead, Daytona USA, Nights into Dreams, etc. The Saturn had more ram and did 2d games really well but the PS1 did polygon games and textures much better. Because of it's graphic limitations the Saturn has aged very poorly, in my opnion. Blocky graphics and migraine inducing flickering low rez textures. Had to sell my Saturn and collection of games a while back. Couldn't play them anymore without getting a headache.

The PS1 has aged a lot better.

[Figuremod73]

Oh I have no problem with the gamecube its just after square left Nintendo lost alot of its appeal to me. I did get one eventually just for zelda and i will probably get one again for the newest link

[Figuremod73]

ps1 is where the rpg's are at. (same can be said about ps2)

[Figuremod73]

the new zelda looks simply alsome. the wii is looking even better to me now

[The4thDoctor]

Any Playstation platform,NES and GameBoy Advance......GBA had a lot of VERY good games....PSP rocks as it is the most hackable handheld item ever(not recommended),will play any number of emulators which means my PSP has over 10000 games in it!! LITERALLY...PSP GO with a 4 gig stick besides the internal 16 gig it comes with...Nintendo..nuff said, who doesn't love Mario..it taught us all basic gaming skills.....IMO...Wayne:scarf::happyk9:

[tjanse]

no order
saturn
nes
ps1
game gear
ps3
dreamcast
gensis
but i think saturn had some great games im a collector of video game systems and games so re living my saturn days have been fun. Ps3 fat boy has to be the best playstation has ever had i think.

[torgospizza]

ps1 is where the rpg's are at. (same can be said about ps2)

Definitely. If you haven't played Champions of Norrath on PS2, do yourself a favor and grab it. One of the best games ever made, IMO.

[Werewolf]

Definitely. If you haven't played Champions of Norrath on PS2, do yourself a favor and grab it. One of the best games ever made, IMO.

That was very good. I also recommend Champions Return to Arms and Baldurs Gate.

[Figuremod73]

i really liked baldurs gate. I'll write down champions of norrath and champions return to arms for future referance. im almost resistant to play a system beyond the ps2 because of all the games ive missed. (ive missed alot of games on n64 and gamecube to).
i have a xbox360 but i think i havent turned it on in about a year. it sits in another room by its self...

[Figuremod73]

but i think saturn had some great games im a collector of video game systems and games so re living my saturn days have been fun.
i was collecting systems for years i seem to have lost interest a little in the last few years. im really not doing as well financally either, but i think its mostly because the newer systems are so involved. really most of the time i rather crank up 2600 ms pacman or a psx game.

[VintageMike]

Without question the PS2 is my favorite console. Huge selection of emulated classic arcade games (some only seeing release on the PS2/Xbox) and PS1 backwards comparability. Sony really blew it IMO by not having the PS3 be backwards compatible with PS2 games. I would have easily picked a PS3 over the 360 if that had been the case.

[Werewolf]

Sony really blew it IMO by not having the PS3 be backwards compatible with PS2 games. I would have easily picked a PS3 over the 360 if that had been the case.

The first PS3s are backwards compatible with the PS2. That feature was later phased out.

[VintageMike]

The first PS3s are backwards compatible with the PS2. That feature was later phased out.

I'm not a a "Buy it at rollout" type. The systems are always improve (say increased storage) and the price goes down as time goes by. So by the time I was ready to pick between a PS3 or an Xbox360 the feature was long gone. Just seems ridiculous with the way technology has advanced that it was so hard to keep including it.

[Figuremod73]

i would find the ps3 more desireable if it played ps2 also...

[torgospizza]

That was very good. I also recommend Champions Return to Arms and Baldurs Gate.

I'm like 99% sure CoN was built on the Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance engine (an excellent game in it's own right, as you said [Kromlech FTW!]), but I could be wrong. They were both by Snowblind, so probably so. As far as Champions: Return to Arms goes, I'd never been so excited waiting for a console game to come out, and was there waiting for the store to open on release day. There were some genius moments in it (importing your character via memory card, new classes and races), but I found the medal rounds could be insanely daunting and the quality of the drops seemed nerfed in comparison to the great gear I got in the first game.

Having said that, it was easy to hack w/ a Game Shark, and you could create your own gear with whatever stats you chose. I had a ring that would grow your health back literally faster than you could die from being one-shotted, and a lightning hammer with somewhere in the neighborhood of 10,000 damage. It's fun to play around with them, but it kills the fun after a bit, because there is no challenge. It's best to have two separate game saves for this: a legit one and the cheating one.

[Werewolf]

As far as Champions: Return to Arms goes, I'd never been so excited waiting for a console game to come out, and was there waiting for the store to open on release day. There were some genius moments in it (importing your character via memory card, new classes and races), but I found the medal rounds could be insanely daunting and the quality of the drops seemed nerfed in comparison to the great gear I got in the first game.


I agree Return to Arms wasn't as good as the first game. I personally didn't care for the portal zones. I liked having the one larger world like the first game. Still good, just thought the first one was a bit more fun. Same with Baldur's Gate. The second one was good but I still liked the first one better.

I wished Sony had continued the Norrath series onto the PS3. Untold Legends Dark Kingdom wasn't nearly as good. I still would have liked an improved sequel though. The two PSP ones were fun.

[Bruce Banner]

In no particular order:

SNES

ColecoVision

Intellivision

PS1 & PS2

GBA & DS

Dreamcast (a good console... went before its time.)

Xbox & Xbox 360

GameCube (a great machine! Nintendo dropped this little gem too early to concentrate on all that arm-waving nonsense. :silly: )

TurboGrafx-16 Entertainment Super System/PC Engine

[Figuremod73]

i have never owned an tubographx 16. i knew someone with the portable (turboexpress?) neat little machine. i liked that it used cards instead of cartridges. The Legendary Axe was the best game i played on it. Some good pinball games too.

[Werewolf]

The Turbo didn't have the biggest library but it did have some really neat games. I always liked Bonk and Neutopia.

[pmwasson]

I pulled out my turbographx recently and my son really liked it. We had fun playing the 2 Bonk games and Devil's Crush.

[Figuremod73]

it also had galaga 88. fantastic game

[Werewolf]

Galaga 88 and Devils Crush are really fun games. I'm gonna have to hook up my Turbo now thanks to you guys. :yes:

[Figuremod73]

so who had a 3DO? dont really remember much about it. i was waiting for the saturn (barely avoiding the 3dx)

[pmwasson]

I bought a Atari Jaguar and pretty much all the games for it a song. The games are really bad and the controllers are worse. It deserved to die quickly.

[Werewolf]

I bought a Atari Jaguar and pretty much all the games for it a song. The games are really bad and the controllers are worse. It deserved to die quickly.

Where did you learn to fly?

Lol, I like the Jag. But then I am kind of an Atari nut. I feel it was a good system that never got to reach its full potential. The system had its fair share of stinkers but overall I feel the games are surprisingly good when you consider how tiny the budgets they had and how small the development teams generally were.

[Figuremod73]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5cZ57L9R9U&feature=related
jaguar wasnt to bad, it was overshadowed by the hype of the newer cd systems. this is the best game on it, imo.
the jaguar had so many things going against it. i think atari was on the verge of bankruptcy to begin with when this was released. the lynx had already kinda fizzled as well.

[jwyblejr]

Oh I have no problem with the gamecube its just after square left Nintendo lost alot of its appeal to me. I did get one eventually just for zelda and i will probably get one again for the newest link

Square Enix is putting out games for Nintendo. They've done more for the DS. Dragon Quest X will be coming out for the Wii and Wii U. Also got a Monopoly type game coming out using characters from Super Mario and the Dragon Quest series.

[Figuremod73]

ff7 not being on n64 really turned attention away from nintendo for a long time. who evers decision it was to not make the 64 cd based must have really been behind the times. not really slamming the n64 though, it was a good system once given a chance. resident evil 2 was even a good port. i do think not having square during that time made it even harder for the gamecube to compete. sony has brand loyalty now.

[Figuremod73]

square has some amazing rpg's on ds :yeah:

[bizzaro megomauler]

mine are
Super Nintendo
Dreamcast
Genesis
xbox360
commodore 64
psp
Intellivision
atari2600

[jwyblejr]

Thanks to the Virtual Console,I'm putting the Wii on my list.

[Figuremod73]

its amazing that i have barely played the wii. about ten years ago i bought every system when it was released.
ill probably get one used once its nice and cheap, lol

[jwyblejr]

Gamestop has used ones for 80 bucks.

[misterdroid]

Sorry to zombify this thread, but it seemed fun.

10 sega saturn... woefully underrated
9 Atari 7800... also woefully underrated. A lot of people dont realize 7800 games were still coming out well into the nes era.
8 PS1, the console that brought games back to the mainstream. Plus it has a million titles
7 original xbox, I stayed away from the xbox for a while. I picked one up about a year before it started to be phased out. Along with the dreamcast and JFK, it is a "what could have been" situation. the hardware was really coming into its own and...yoink! Goodbye.
6 Sega Dreamcast, see above
5 SNES, I didnt have a SNES in its retail lifetime. It still has some of the best rpgs ever made.
4 Sega CD, although its an expansion of a different console, I count it as its own. Looking back, the" full motion video" games are embarassing and shockingly bad, but back then, hoowee!, I was hooked. Also has more solids rpgs than one would expect.
3 Sega Genesis This is why I didnt get an snes until much later, I loved genesis. So many great titles and a distinctly different feel that the nintendo catalogue
2 Tie TurboGrafx, Sega megadrive, this one is a tie now because it was a tie for me then... for a brief period my gaming setup was a Megadrive and a Turbografx side by side with a radioshack switcher. I loved both systems, but were a challenge to find games for.
1 NES More than a console, and icon, and for many of us a way of life. The NES was the center of my world for a long time. My buddy Steve and I spent a whole summer fishing, drinking beer and playing Tennis on NES. Everything was solved by Tennis.
I lived in a pop up camper in my parents front yard. The only things I had was a mini fridge and an NES. So much fun, So many great games.

[Figuremod73]

Great list misterdroid. I still wished I had gotten an turbographx when it was released. The Legendary Axe was a great game. It also had a few good rpg's as well. Double Dungeon was one I remember liking.
The NES wins my best award just narrowing it out the ps1 and atari. Atari was the system that started it for me but for every good game there was probably five bad ones. I remember my neighborhood having tournaments with ms pacman on 2600 way into the nes era. The ps1 was great but I always found some of the games lackluster. The Resident Evil series, Metal Gear, and Square RPG'S are my favorites on it.
The NES was just fantastic to me. Me and friends would get together as much as possible on the weekends back in the late '80s and play for hours. We like everything from Rygar, Zelda, and Castlevania to the sports games such as Bases Loaded and Ten yard fight. I still play NES games on a regular basis.

[Jason73]

Atari 2600
Intellivision

[Figuremod73]

Intellivision was a fun one to. I use to play the heck out of Frogger, night stalker, and space hawk. I had the Sears version of it. The Sears Video Arcade.

[misterdroid]

Yeah, the 2600 is legendary, and responsible for a lot, but man the games. I collected 2600 for a while and would play every game at least for a little while to see what was up. I can tell you with some certainty, most of the games are crap. Just mind numbing, ugly and blisteringly hard. It has some gems, no mistake, but they are few and far between.

[Figuremod73]

Atari 2600 games i have been playing alot of lately: Hero, adventure, Oink!, and jungle hunt. The fun never ends....

[misterdroid]

Yeah, I could play 2600's kaboom forever. It's like crack.

[Werewolf]

Yes, the 2600 library certainly had more than its fair share of stinkers. Probably more bad than good do to the vast amount of games released. But there is still lot of pure gold on the system as well. Games that are still fun to play some 30 plus years later. Because of the simple graphics I think it has allowed the system to age better than many recent ones. I remember when PS1 and era polygon games were cutting edge and now they are a real eye sore.

[Figuremod73]

The Atari 2600 is also the system that beginner programmer go to for learning as well. Its really helped the home brewed game scene (meaning new 2600 games)

[misterdroid]

I remember when PS1 and era polygon games were cutting edge and now they are a real eye sore.

Yes, I'd have to agree. Take Final Fantasy 7 for instance, I thought that game was stunningly beautiful when it was released. I tried to play it through agin a couple years ago and whoo boy is it ugly. The polygon sprites did not age well. Not at all.

[Figuremod73]

Did they ever re-release FF7 on another plateform? On a gameboy for instance? Ive lost track of it as time has gone by.

[Werewolf]

I thought that game was stunningly beautiful when it was released. I tried to play it through agin a couple years ago and whoo boy is it ugly. The polygon sprites did not age well. Not at all.

For me it was Nights into Dreams on the Saturn. When it was first released I thought it was an absolutely gorgeous game. Now it's a blocky, flickering migraine inducing mess. It's not just the PS1 and the Saturn either, the N64 has aged equally poorly in its own way. I used to think Mario 64 looked great and now it's a washed out blurry mess.

[ddgaff1132]

Cool Thread Idea!
Listing in some kind of cronology.

Atari 2600. Love that console.Had crates of carts Still play by emulation today.

Sega Genisis. Again Alot of carts Luved Road Rash!!!

Amiga 500. We gave up on consoles. I was supposed to be WORKING on the Amiga (Hehe)

Gameboy . Went retro for a bit. Loved Mario tennis

Gameboy advance. Tryed roll playing games. couldnt deal.

PS1. Grabbed one used at Game store and some disks. Got addicted to Nitemare Creatures2

Thats about it for me. Currently I just pop a game in the laptop when I feel like playing. Rampage 3!!!

[The Nawd]

Did they ever re-release FF7 on another plateform? On a gameboy for instance? Ive lost track of it as time has gone by.

I looked briefly and found out today that back in 2009 it was re-released on the Playstation Network as a software download (no new physical media re-release) for the PlayStation 3 and PSP. That's all I know.

[jwyblejr]

Just for the heck of it here's a breakdown of what the numbers are for the Wii's Virtual Console:

Commodore 64-9 games

Neo Geo-24 games

NES-92 games

N64-21 games

Sega Genesis-72 games

Sega Master System-15 games(most are actually Game Gear games)

SNES-72 games

TG-16-63 games

Virtual Console Arcade-19 games (these are games like Zaxxon and so forth)

[Figuremod73]

Im afraid if I did get a wii i would end up playing the virtual console over anything. I was at a friends the other day and finally got a chance to see Mario Galaxy and that other mario side stroller ( dont know the name). My thought was "boy, Mario has come a long way since donkey kong!"