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What is your favourite game console?

It sounds dumb but my pick would be the SNES. There’s just something about 16 bit games I love.

The SNES has so many good games, like sf2. The first party games and some good arcade ports.

It also has a lot of good RPGs, like chrono trigger

The controller is really cute

Tho, the PSP is a close second. Tekken dr running at 3x resolution looks beautiful

Yes I’m a sucker for dpad centric devices. Yes i love emulation.

16 bit stuff looks amazing

mp3 ,
@mp3@lemmy.ca avatar

N64 for me, I’ll always remember my first all-nighter playing Super Mario 64 on Christmas.

noob_dragon ,

Not counting PC since that is easy mode, I would probably say the Wii for me personally. I have had: n64, gc, gameboy (pocket, color, and advance), DS, and ps2 besides the Wii. But I think I put more hours on the Wii than any of those. Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Zelda Twilight Princess, smash bros, and mario kart wii. Very solid catalogue. Plus it had the virtual console and was what allowed me to play some old classics like Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country 2. I never had a snes growing up so that was pretty huge to me. I even cut my teeth on some FPS games like call of duty, world at war and conduit lol.

The Wii might be cheating a bit too since a lot of my fondness for it does come from its backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, and gamecube games were still very relavent during that time. Metroid Prime 1 and 2, part of the Trilogy of course. Smash bros melee. I even had the Zelda collectors edition disc which had GC ports of zelda OOT and MM.

So yeah Wii was definitely kind of cheating since in some ways in my nostalgia I mix it up with basically every Nintendo system that came before it heh. But even on its own it had a solid lineup IMO.

Legendsofanus ,

Xbox 360, it was my first console and I had a jailbreaked version so I could play anything and it introduced me to achievements haha

SternburgExport ,

PS2 for sure. So many great games that made my childhood and its easy to mod and repair.

SNES is close second. Was lucky enough that I got one growing up (it was 10 year old console at that point) and the 16 bit graphics and the music always take me back.

ethd ,

You and I would have been enemies in the 16-bit era, but I adore the Sega Genesis. (However, I’m also a sleepy bisexual, so I’m gonna say we’re probably nowhere close to enemies.)

It was an arcade monster and got a ton of amazing games from the arcades and purpose-built for the machine — many the SNES also got, but some exclusives that really took advantage of what the Genesis could do well. I’d argue that the gritty FM sound chip was better for certain types of game music as well, though that’s not to say that the SNES wasn’t largely superior on that front.

At the end of the day… yeah 16 bit stuff looks amazing

sleepybisexual OP ,

I should get into the genesis, any recommendations?

Megaman_EXE ,

I have no idea if they hold up today, but I really enjoyed Zombies ate my neighbors, Mickey Mania, World of Illusion (another mickey mouse game), and Taz Mania.

any1th3r3 ,

PSP, hands down. So many incredible games, it was a RPG powerhouse, that screen was great for the time and for me it was an “everything” device (I remember browsing the web and reading mangas on the PSP… Janky but incredible all the same).

The Vita comes close - nigh “home console” games on the go and the OLED screen to make those shine.

bonegakrejg ,

SNES does have a lot of the better games in lots of great series. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy etc etc etc.

Though the cheat answer is probably PC since its been around for decades can just evolve with whatever is going on.

BruceTwarzen ,

It's obviously pc for me because that's pretty much all i use for 30 years. But i always liked the nes because it's pretty satisfying to put in a cartridge and pushing it down.

t3rmit3 , (edited )

PSP, followed by Gameboy Color, followed by Advance SP.

I recently got a Retroid4, and took an amazing trip down memory lane with Mana Khemia, MG:AC!D, FF Tactics Advanced/A2, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and a bunch of pkmn ROM hacks. All of them easily held up today.

Unless SteamDeck counts, in which case it wins hands-down.

sleepybisexual OP ,

I has the 4 pro. PSP is a good system

Megaman_EXE ,

This is a really hard question for me to answer. So I’m going to go with a bit of a catch-all.

I really like the GBA. But the DS can play DS and GBA titles. But the 3DS is great too and can play all 3 and then some.

I guess the 3DS. There’s just so much that can be packed into it. I haven’t played mine in a while. I wish it was easier to install a capture card in them. There was something special about the games from the GBA to 3DS. The limitations of the hardware had developers experimenting, and we ended up with so many interesting titles. If you factor in the couple n64 games ported over to the 3DS, it’s just so much nostalgia in one handheld.

If I had to go with a runner-up, I think it would be my series X. Being able to play so many backward compatible games is also super nice.

If I truly had to pick single consoles only, with only the games designed for that specific console. I would probably go with the 3ds and the xbox 360. The 3DO or Dreamcast would come after as they had so many unique titles.

I never got to play the ps1, ps2, or psp and vita. So I’ve been curious what I’ve been missing out on over the years.

sleepybisexual OP ,

You could always emualtr them. Psp is a good system

Megaman_EXE ,

Playstation and psp emulation is not something I’ve looked into much. I’ll have to do some digging!

sleepybisexual OP ,

Ppsspp is good,

Vimm.net has most of the ROMs. For PSP tekken dr is a very good game. Especially with resolution upscale

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

To me, Atari Lynx and Sega Dreamcast.

sleepybisexual OP ,

Never played lynx, always found Atari stuff kinda bad, that or the 2600 is a pos.

Any lynx recommendations?

bufalo1973 ,
@bufalo1973@lemmy.ml avatar

The VCS is an old console, not a POS. When it was new it was state-of-the-art. About the Lynx, the catalog is not long. You can get all the games (76 in total and the max size is 2 MB) and try some. I’d say California Games, Klax, Batman Returns, Toki, just to name a few.

sleepybisexual OP ,

Yea, good point.

I’ll get into lynx

tiredofsametab ,

Probably snes for me as well. Then again, I missed a couple generations by being busy/poor (I still hate trying to play anything on n64 or it's cursed controller).

I had Atari 2600, nes, genesis, Gameboy, snes, playstation, switch. I think I may have had or borrowed a gamegear at some point. In my first apartment, one of the other guys had a playstation 2.

darkphotonstudio ,

While I really like the Genesis/Megadrive, and PS1, I have to say the SNES is an almost perfect console. It had everything that made the NES great, but with beautiful 16 bit graphics.

sleepybisexual OP ,

MD is nice too, I should play more sega

Caffeinated_Capybara ,

I feel a lot of nostalgia towards my ds lite, even though I don’t play with it very much these days.

Faydaikin ,
@Faydaikin@beehaw.org avatar

I gotta go with the NES. It’s the only console I ever owned, so…

When they released the mini-nes I snagged that little fucker up so fast.

01011 ,

Dreamcast.

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