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Favourite Console

So what's your favourite console and why?


For me it's the original PlayStation, it's what really turned me into a gamer.
I've always loved games and it was really hard for me to pick the PlayStation over the Sega Mega Drive (Genesis). 

However, the jump from 16-bit to 3D graphics was truly insane, I doubt we'll ever see as big of a shift as we did during that era. 

For better or worse, it also had a thriving piracy scene. A scene which I wrote an article about here. Which on the surface sounds awful, but I actually believe it helped gaming in the long run.  


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Reply by WhetherMan

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I think I have to go with the SNES, it was a big part of my childhood. I love the sprites and music of that generation.


I still play the same SNES console these days that I had then! 


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Reply by Web_ster

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Mine would have to be the Wii, because that's the one I grew up with the most, and the one I have the most fond memories of!


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Reply by Carboniferous

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Sega Dreamcast all the way!


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Reply by Bradley

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If we're talking retro, and since quite frankly its now considered retro imma say the xbox 360 all the way.


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Reply by Ibso786

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ps3 is 9 years old now but idk if thats retro so i got to say OG xbox couse of halo or ps2 couse of NFS udnergroudn 2


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Reply by 𝓝𝑒𝒂 ᶻ 𝘇 𐰁

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As of today I'd propably say the psp due to the usage I'm giving it lately. But when putting more thought to it the ps3 has given me the best gaming experiences in my life. Back then we only had the one console and would all take turns playing little big planet and singstar. Good memories indeed.


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Reply by Arkhan the CGA WARLOCK

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As much as I love TurboGrafx-16, I have to go with PS1.  

So many genres took flight there lol. 



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Reply by Halena ᶻ 𝗓 𐰁

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The Wii U. Best console ever.


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Reply by Toby

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Definitely the Xbox 360. I have endless memories on the 360 growing up, it is the one console that will never get old for me. It is also pretty accessible, since to games are astonishingly cheap. I also love how you can play OG Xbox games on it. 


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Reply by Raven

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For me, I'd have to go with the PS2 because I have the most memories with that console growing up. But the console that really made me a gamer was the N64 and Super Smash Bros. Seeing all those characters in one game was really cool as a kid in 1999. So I guess I'd say those two consoles haha


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Reply by engr. Alveus Nosville

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Ok so in order - The Vectrex shich I do not own. Vector graphics at home + One of the first analog sticks in a gamepad that looks very close to an NES alongside 4 main buttons, and that's 3 years BFORE NES and 1 year before famicom. Same year of release as Commodore 64, sadly died of video game crash. But man, what a console.

Then NeoGeo. Literally arcade gaming at home. I have no idea what more needs saying. Kinda wish it was better at 3D.

Gameboy - insane specs. Not in raw power, far FAR from that, but the clever design of it's proprietary chips, and the improvements it made over NES, I mean take a look at FaceBall2000 - 1991 game, first person shooter multiplaye rof up to 4 people officially and unofficially up to 15 (now 16, that Zarithya, the cool jacket GOAT made a romhack that fixes a whole lot of stuff) it could NEVER work on the NES, because NES can't update it's sprites on the fly, so it can't simulate full-screen rendering. The same with sound by the way, NES can't swap it's PMC samples on the flay and GB can.

Gameboy Color - double the clock speed 4 times the color and that means 4 times the color DATA. If you thing it's just a slight update we can't be friends. Both of them are a lot cooler in architecture than GBA ~ said a man who only has GBA Advance SP

Sega Game Gear is sorta cool, I guess, for managing to cram literally the whole master system into a handheld. That's literally what it is, their specs are literally the same, minus the FM sound chip. Insanity.

From there? I'mma be honst with you chief - the whole 6th generation. Especially DreamCast and Xbox. Xbox is cool but there isn't much to talk about there - the Dreamcast tho - revolutionary first console with networking as standard, keyboard enabled, you could play Quake 3 Arena the exact same as on PC, solving the console FPS issue so well it stood the test of the fiercest arena shooter, and then there's the big one - the handheld console inside your stationary consol controler. They messed up with the single analog tho, and it would've been better if it got Half-Life.

Also the entirety of 7th generation of consoles. I love their internal architectures because I'm that kind of a nerd, but man I am not exagerating - if Xbox 260 and PS3 had 2GB of combined memory inside of them each instead of the 0.5GB they got - we'd not gotten the PS4 and Xbox one we got. Straight to the pro models we'd've went. I am not playing, those consoles had CPUs equivalent or BETTER than the average PC made in 2014 and I know this because all average PC in the years between 2014-2017 used the same Intel i5-4460 with clock speeds of 3.4 GHz and 4 cores with no multi-threading so 4 threads too. That baseline computer would've had at least 4GB of RAM though. It WOULDN't have a motion controler tho.

Since then? in 2015 I was hyped as hell for switch, and then I bought a PC untill my interest dropped, nowadays I am thinking of buying a steamdeck and replacing it's controller bits with joy-cons for what I easily assume would be much greater effect. Other than that I've not given a damn.

But I do also love me some old computers a lot more than consoles - I own two C64s, Atari 65XE, I hope to get an Amiga soon, and there's also the PowerMac G4 with mirror drive doors I got from my uncle, same tech behind 7th gen. Also my beloved Dell Latitude e6500


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