Your Favorite Gaming Console

[Symarip]

I know, it's geeky. Some consoles are sentimental to me. Just today, I bought a used Dreamcast off of ebay because when I was in the Navy it was a cheap way for my friends and I to keep busy and not kill ourselves. It was a fun, but short lived, system. Great games.

So which system is near and dear to your heart?

Obviously, I have to leave a few out of the poll so if one's not listed just check other and explain.

[HopeHoops]

1. The original Pong machine (we had one)

[Symarip]

2. Pong is unbelievably fun

It may not be the first videogame, but it's the first videogame that mattered.

[HopeHoops]

8. Actually, the first video game was similar - recently reconstructed by the creators

[DarkTirade]

9. We had one of the knockoff pong machines at home.

Six modes of play, if I recall correctly. :P

[Shell Beau]

3. The Wii for sure. I have every Nintendo game console. Even

still have the Atari. I also have the Playstation 1 and 2. The Wii is by far the best!!!!!

[Symarip]

4. The wii is pretty cool

I have one. I just learned how to softmod one last night. It's really easy to do and play back up games.

Google is your friend.

[Shell Beau]

6. And you can play all of your GameCube games on it if you had

one of those. Which we did, so those games aren't a complete waste of space.

[kentauros]

5. Standard computer keyboard and a wacom tablet

for pinball or jigsaw puzzles :D

[Roon]

7. We had a super nintendo with Mortal Kombat two.

about 6 of us would gather every day and smoke weed,eat pizza, and play. and we played for BLOOD!!! It was always winners keep playing and the loser has to pass his controller to the person waiting to play. That was the last time I was really into video games console. I used to play Descent on PC but I played so much I would wear out $75.00 joysticks so I gave it up.

[DarkTirade]

26. Man, you can't use a joystick for Descent... gotta do mouse and keyboard.

Mouse for aiming, keyboard for... fucking everything else. I got good enough to do a circle of death maneuver in ANY dimension. :P

[Roon]

28. Cool!

I don't have the dexterity to do that, has to be a joystick.

[gatorboy]

10. Sega Dreamcast for being waaayyy ahead if it's time

• Voice recognition games like Seaman

• Online console gameplay... Quake!!! (Smooth even at 56k!)

• The cool little memory cards that even played games.

• Long before Guitar Hero there was Samba Di Amigo

Shenmue, Alien Front Online, Quake 3, Crazy Taxi...I could go on.... *sniff*

[Symarip]

11. One game owns them all:

Marvel vs Capcom 2.

MvsC2, a case of beer, and a few friends guaranteed good times for hours.

[deucemagnet]

15. The original arcade version is available on MAME

If you search around torrent sites you will find it!

[Symarip]

34. I'm big into MAME and have 6,000 games

From everything I read, MvsC2 is not yet emulated due to the complexity of the CPS3 board. But it really doesn't matter since the Dreamcast version had greater replay value (hidden characters).

Speaking of the emulation/rom/iso scene. There is a free and dedicated Dreamcast website where you can download cdi's (self boot images) which can be burned to standard blank CD's fairly easy. I made 3 last night. No need to modify the Dreamcast - just stick the cd-r in and bam, I was playing Street Fighter 3: Third Strike.

[deucemagnet]

38. Maybe it was Marvel vs Capcom 1 that I had, then.

Unfortunately, I can't check because I lost those ROMs in a crash. :(

[deoxyribonuclease]

12. NES and TurboGrafx 16

[Symarip]

13. Turbografx?

Really? I never thought much of it. Bonk was kind of fun but it never really stirred my soul.

[deoxyribonuclease]

47. Air Zonk was loads of fun

My little bro and I would spend hours playing that game.

[taterguy]

14. Xbox 360

Yes, I said it

I like the damn thing

A lot.

[Broken_Hero]

16. PS2

the PS2, pound for pound, is still the best gaming console in my view...

I hate the fact, that the PS3 added a blu-ray player, and has the iffy last gen/previous gen playback ability....I know some PS3's have last gen playability(but you gotta pay steep for it)...

The price tag for the PS3 is an utter joke...I don't plan on going to blu ray, until THEY force me to, as in all the dvd's for sale, are blu ray...400 bucks for a low end PS3?....

Count me out...granted, I've played the ps3, and I enjoy it, but I'm not willing to dish out the 400 bucks for it...

[Ohio Joe]

32. I got mine for $265.00

Target had a one day sale back around Christmas. I got an 80 gig PS3 for $265.00. I only have three games right now, GTA4, Fallout 3 and Call of Duty - World at War but they are all pretty sweet. I want to pick up the Sonic Collection that just came out, 40 old games for $30 and I'm also really in the mood for a good hockey game, gotta see what they have but... I'm pretty happy with it right now.

[Broken_Hero]

44. damn, thats a good price

I mean, my limit for one is 200 or so...I got my ps2 for 200 and I had to fight myself the whole time, before getting it.

I've played GT4, GHWT, Oblivion, and a few others for the PS3, and really...was'nt that impressed.

Oblivion was good, GT4 I didn't care for, and I"m a HUGE GT fan...Guitar Hero World Tour was good, I love the wireless guitar, and the fact that they made the game a little easier than Guitar Hero III...

The Madden games suck, I had 08, it blew...MLB the Series 07 was good, but not 400 dollars good...if you catch my drift, :D

I so, want to play Gears of War but sadly its only on xbox...Resistance looks good though...I haven't branched out much for the ps3 but I've played some of them pretty extensively, and just wasn't wowed to the point, where I had to sell my soul for the ps3.

[DS1]

17. No love for NeoGeo?

I didn't realize I was surfing in the poor house :hide:


I keed, that thing was unbelievable expensive, I think even the games were 60 dollars - in the 1980s!


SNES for me. It had TOP GEAR! Name entirely coincidental, that was just a fun game to learn and a better game to master.

[Symarip]

41. 60 dollars? Try 200 dollars

I remember wanting a Neo-Geo and then realizing that even if I could afford the 600 dollar system, I'd never be able to buy any games.

[DS1]

43. Oh

Damn. Well, it's been a long time, I thought I was being generous with 60 in late 80s money.

Damn. They deserved to fail.

[MilesColtrane]

18. The N64 had some great games.

[Broken_Hero]

19. The best was Rogue Squadron

I'd walk miles in the snow, and ice to visit my bud, who had Rogue Squadron on his N64....best Star Wars (fighter pilot) game in my view.

[Lucian]

25. Goldeneye was my favorite game for the N64.

[PVnRT]

46. That and Ocarina of Time - two of my all-time favorites

Slappers-only multiplayer on Goldeneye while drunk FTW

[Lucian]

50. I've always wanted to get a tattoo of a triforce...

on the back of my left hand because of Ocarina of Time.

[MrSlayer]

20. Intellivision.

[Symarip]

21. I liked the Intellivision

But what were they thinking with those controllers?

[MrSlayer]

22. I liked the overlays and stuff.

It was head and shoulders above Atari.

[Doc_Technical]

23. Mattel Intellivision

I kicked ass on B-17 Bomber, Sub Hunt and Sea Battle.

[Lucian]

24. The Super Nintendo had, overall, the best games around.

I was always able to buy a new game every time I turned around. The games were way more affordable and more enjoyable to play than a lot of today's games.

Edited to add that Super Metroid was my favorite game for the SNES, with Chrono Trigger in second. All the Donkey Kong Country games come in at number three on my list. They all bring back great memories...

[pinniped]

27. I chose the N64 because I spent countless hours beating Goldeneye, the....

best console game ever manufactured.

It's the only game I ever bought for the N64.

Did anyone buy the Atari Jaguar?

[Lucian]

29. The best part of Goldeneye was multiplayer.

I loved playing with proximity mines and "The Man With the Golden Gun" rules (where one shot gets you killed). That was fun.

[pinniped]

30. The first day I bought the system and game, I was almost late to work.

Driving the tank was cool, hearing those crushing bones and blood curdling screams.

[hiphopnation]

31. poor gamecube

:(

[Forkboy]

40. It was a great system.

Some of the games on that were better than the same games on the PS2 and XBox, and it was $100 cheaper. A very under-appreciated system.

I played all these on the "Cube".

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes
Super Monkey Ball 2 (great party game!)
Timesplitters 2
Metroid Prime (awesome game)
Animal Crossing
Pikmin 2
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Resident Evil 4

There's others that I'm forgetting. I had a PS2 and Gamecube at the same time, and for a long stretch my Gamecube saw far more action. If it wasn't for Madden and the NHL games I would have barely used the PS2 at all. :)

[limit18]

33. Xbox 360

[Lost in CT]

35. In order

Intellivision (George Plimpton is a gaming god)

Xbox360 (Fallout 3, Mass Effect)

Playstation (Final Fantasy 7)

Commodore 64 (Does anyone need a 64 or 128 programmer? I know what those symbols on the key fronts are for)

XBOX (Controllers the size of a buick)

Playstation 2 (To jaggy for it's own good)

Turbographix (Great war game)

3do ($700 to play a Dennis Miller game and a bird game starring I believe Tallie Shire)

Tank (Aw the joy of seventies at home consoles)

[Iggo]

36. The standup Asteroids game from the arcades.

With the standup Defender a close second.

Haven't been a gamer since then.

[TZ]

37. I looved old school Atari!

I've found some of the old games on line and played them..I was particuarly fond of Adventure. Believe it or not the fake dragon roars in that game used to scare the shit out of me..:rofl:

[Forkboy]

39. For sheer quality and quantity of games the SNES is the best, hands down, imo.

There's more classics on that system than you can shake a stick at. Some of the best RPGs ever made graced the SNES, and they continually upped the gaming ante. Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Might and Magic, Front Mission...not to mention the Mario games, which are just fun dammit. And I don't really even like platformers.

Plus, unlike consoles today, they actually had games in multiple genres. You could find actual strategy games on it even (GASP!). All the Koei games like Romance of the Three Kingdoms (new ones are ok), Genghis Khan, Nobunaga's Ambition, PTO...they were all there. The XBox and PS2-3? Maybe three strategy games....combined. You're lucky to even have one watered down Civ game.

To the PS1's credit they tried a lot of things early on, before all the consoles settled on either shooters, racing games, or endless GTA ripoffs. The PS1 had games like Panzer General (I played it on the PC, but credit to the PS1 for doing it).

Nintendo has constantly surprised people. The Gamecube was actually a decent system (Metroid: Prime anyone?), and to Nintendo's credit they try a lot of different ideas that the others don't touch. The Wii is sheer genius, and the market share it's getting shows that a ton of people agree.

I can find great points about almost every system (YAY for the Atari ST!!), but to me the SNES really offered it all, and at the time that was cutting edge stuff. Worse graphics, better games.

[PVnRT]

48. Worse graphics, better games - that pretty much is Nintendo these days

And I'm not complaining. Give me better gameplay rather than complex rendering and "realistic" backgrounds. It's a fucking video game - of course it's unrealistic.

The Madden games seem to be going down this road - sacrificing gameplay for graphics and extra bullshit.

[LSdemocrat]

42. Nothing much cooler than playing the Mega Man series on the original NES

[PVnRT]

45. Atari 7800, my first one

[ACTION BASTARD]

49. Other: 360

Of course HALO, Gears of War & Left 4 Dead rule me HARD. Yeah, I like shooting things in the face, wanna fight about it? Looking forward to the new Street Fighter 4 game. It looks bloody gorgeous! So many great games coming out this year.

Waiting for the PS3 price drop & what other exclusives drop for them this year. Killzone 2 is looking mighty fine. God of War 3 should be epic on the PS3.

I got custom firmware on my PSP so that's what I use for SNES, Sega, MAME games. I got a guy getting me a metric shit-ton of Capcom & Neo-Geo games for the PSP. Can't wait to be playing Marvel VS Capcom on my PSP!

[Symarip]

51. Street Fighter 4 looks incredible

I have my copy reserved. I love the 360 - it's the best gaming system since the fall of the Dreamcast. I would think more favorably towards the Wii if most of the games didn't suck donkey balls. Plus, the 360 has the netflix application which makes it just about as perfect as perfect gets these days.