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Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.

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[–] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 points 58 minutes ago

Ngl I love the wii

[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

The SNES had the perfect balance of old school arcade simplicity that anyone can pick up and play and modern sophistication for the era. Most of my favorite games of all time are SNES games.

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

It would be Nintendo 64 for me, but, that's also like the last gaming console I ever bought. Played with the Wii for a bit since I lived with a friend who had one but... nothing since then. So maybe I should say my PC instead? ah, but that's not an exclusive gaming console.

OK, yeah, N64 it is. I just beat Snowboard Kids 2 for the first time, unlocking all the boards. t'was dope.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 7 points 8 hours ago

The Steam Deck, if it counts. I can play most of the consoles pictured here on it.

If not, gotta go with SNES.

[–] Absolute_Slayer@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

Doom 2016 favorite game༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ

[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago

Pegasus. You most likely never heard of it. It was super cheap Chinese clone of famicom downclocked to run with PAL TV standard. All cartriges in distribution were pirate. All of them. The unique property of downclocking was that all games ran around 20% slower than NES

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 9 hours ago

The ones that don't connect to the goddamn internet. I also still use my ipod. Tracking sucks.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

Dreamcast, that system was awesome back in the day.

I had the original Gameboy, and that was cool as fuck at the time. Later I had a PS2, loved that shit, spent an entire summer sat in a squat with my site boy mates, smoking crack and playing vice city. And silent hill, on my own, in the dark. Great machine, great memories.

But really I think my favourite is the one I have now, the OLED steam deck. Nostalgia aside, it's amazing to see how tech has progressed in my lifetime. (My first computer had 1k RAM lol). Steam deck is, IMO, the best so far, certainly best I've had. I'm just pleased to have lived long enough to see things come so far from pong and pacman.

[–] huey_m@reddthat.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Sega Genesis. We got it with Revenge of Shinobi, a game I still play with a soundtrack to rival some of the best Nintendo stuff (a very high bar), and Power Monger, one of the real fathers of RTS that ignited my love for strategy games.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, taking off my nostalgia goggles here, I'm gonna say the Switch. Handheld and TV usage in one device was amazing. It's got its problems, yeah, and Nintendo is not really an admirable company, but it was nice.

With my nostalgia goggles on, PS2, no question. Because it was a PS2 AND a PS1. Never played PS3, barely played 360. By that time I was basically a full PC gamer. My original one broke (don't remember how), so I got the slim one. it's crazy durable, I think because it has a lot less moving parts. I tried to do some hot swap disk stuff with it, so I had to use clamps to hold it shut lol, but it still worked. Never could get the disk swap to work.

If we include handhelds, then I think it's the Gameboy Advance SP. Rechargeable and backlit was a crazy innovation. (Yes yes, I know in Japan there was a version of a Gameboy that was backlit.)

The OG Gameboy pocket I had was shit. It was my first gaming thing ever though. So hard to see. Gameboy color was fine. Just not really as amazing as Advance. GBA loses to SP though. As for DS, I don't know, I never had a beef with it, but I feel like the jump from color to advance wasn't quite as big to me as advance to DS. Plus, the DS was sort of the beginning of Nintendo's weird gimmick era. I'd call the Wii U the end. So many motion controls...

I had a PS4, but didn't play too much on it. Basically just Ratchet, God of War 2018 and Ragnarok, and Death Stranding. It didn't feel any better than a computer to me. At least the Switch is unique in that it can be portable.

Yeah, nostalgia is a big thing here. Past experiences that were amazing just don't hold up compared to modern tech. In most cases anyway, some stuff is fairly timeless.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

This picture has a criminal lack of DS and 3DS..

[–] 007ace@lemmy.ca 1 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

I don't see any handheld devices on there. I would argue that this question is about consoles not portables.

[–] Denalduh@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

What no Virtual Boy?!

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Handhelds are consoles...

[–] Kitchel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 16 hours ago

PS2, you never forget your first love.

[–] Iusedtobeanalien@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 2 points 10 hours ago

One of these days, I'm going to put in the work to sit down and complete Zillion.

I'm probably going to have to retire first...

[–] S_H_K@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 18 hours ago

I have to admit I love playing games on pc they do so much more. But the Dreamcast and the Genesis have a special place in my heart. I would love to have a gamepad with 6 facing buttons but I brought one of those hitbox thingies that has keys and is the fucking shit I tell ya and gone for half the price...

[–] joranm1@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

SEGA Megadrive

[–] huggingstars@programming.dev 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The Wii or the Wii U. One of a kind experiences along with the golden era of the internet.

[–] Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago

Both can be modded but you should really mod a Wii U. And mod the regular Wii option inside it.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

The venerable Atari 2600.

[–] jimp@feddit.uk 1 points 18 hours ago

GameCube. Just because it was the console I played most with my daughter. Mario Sunshine, Double Dash, Metroid Prime, Windwaker and Twilight Princess. Such fun! And the game discs were cute

[–] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

I wasted many hours on my PS2. So much ratchet and clank.

[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 1 points 19 hours ago

Well since the Magnavox Odessy isn't pictured I'll have to pick the halo 3 edition of the Xbox 360. So many awesome memories of halo 3 online, cod black ops. GTA... Man.

[–] forgetfulmeat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

PS3 was the last revolutionary console imo. It's my favorite as well. It was focused on gaming but I could watch porn on it too! Plus it had blue ray!

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago

The interface was so clean and beautiful. Now it's loaded with bloatware that can't be removed after update because Google jerked them off too.

The PS4 and PS5 devs were god awful. Messy interfaces. Too many menus to power off. When you see PS3 after using PS4/5 for a while, it's so refreshing.

[–] Godort@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

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[–] directive0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

The Wii.

It is such an underpowered console, with only a handful of must have titles if that.

But man those titles hold up. Even my little gen alphers love it and get into it. Its mostly just a wii sports machine but its still going strong even in this era of mobile and AAA gaming.

I have a bunch of old consoles but the Wii is the only one that gets regular play without needing convincing.

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

For me it's the N64. I know it's a slightly dubious pick, but there's something alluring about those early 3D graphics. No one knew what they were doing yet and it produced some of the most lovable jank.

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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 6 points 1 day ago

September 1997, my dad gets us a second hand Sega Megadrive from who knows where, with Sonic and a couple other games. My mind is blown. All these gorgeous, rapidly-moving images... some time later we get a stack of games at the flea market : Sonic 2, Coolspot, Rocket Knight Adventures (gorgeous platformers), Hellfire (a horizontal scrolling space shmup), D&D, an F1 game (maybe Senna?), Last Battle (impossible to beat), Streets of Rage 1&2, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat... I have most of these installed on my computer with Romstation today

[–] missingno@fedia.io 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I have to give it to the Nintendo DS. Absolutely incredible library, much of it too unique to play anywhere else.

[–] kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz 1 points 7 hours ago

My 3DS is easily the best console I have ever used. I do not even care about the 3D part, but it has all the DS games, and bigger screens, yet it is still small enough to be held easily. 10/10, I can also play ocarina of time, and original pokemons with it.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

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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[–] Laricheard@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Do handhelds count? 3DS.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

The Dreamcast and Wii are what comes to my mind.

The DC was ahead of its time and has a kick ass library. It also had a sweet gimmick with the VMUs. If SEGA had supported the fuckin' thing, it could have been even better. Perhaps even gotten further iterations. And if the VMUs came with it, they possibly could have figured out a console/handheld hybrid like the WiiU and Switch before Nintendo.

The Wii is really just for its gimmick and Miis and the music. The motion controls were super well done, especially after Wii Motion Plus. Even tho the only games these days I would go back and play are all the Wii Sports games and maybe uh... Forgot the name, but the samurai FPS game. Just the first one tho. The second one kinda sucked.

[–] PodPerson@lemmy.zip 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Crazy Taxi on the DC was just so much fun. Seemed the DC was doomed from the beginning but it definitely had its strengths.

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My PC.

But if it has to be a console console, N64. Easy.

[–] Datz@szmer.info 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

3DS, no contest. Even factoring in PCs, Steam Deck is a bit behind.

I'm past the phase of daily playing it, but still don't usually leave home without it, and I feel I'm only halfway through games I might be interested in after almost a decade. I just found Professor Layton this year.

[–] RichardNixos@lemmy.ml 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Not to mention, instant boot into a list of gba roms by holding start when turning on the 3DS is a game changer

[–] Datz@szmer.info 1 points 15 hours ago

That's... new. I've been injecting GBA roms the whole time, which takes some more time to setup than just copying files.

But I only learned yesterday that L+R+Select resets the current 3DS game instead of having to relaunch it, and last year that Select+Start launches DS games in native resolution.

This damn thing, man. Keeps on giving.

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