Best/Worst looking Game Console

[Sonicwolf]

I wanted to know what other people consider to be the best looking console, style wise and such. Basically, whatever you think looks awesome. PLEASE DONT TURN THIS INTO PS3 VS 360. (that always seems to happen)

Rules - Console must accept cartridges/discs. No singularly dedicated game consoles.

Best Looking - Dreamcast - I always found that it looked powerful and sleek, a big difference compared to its competition at the time of release. It was also pretty compact for the power it held at the time.

Worst Looking - Colecovision - I think this thing is hideous. Its a mish mash of old pong machines, what with the attached controllers mashed on top, mixed with some Star Wars sci-fi styling. A giant brick with a matching giant brick power supply.

[Kid Ice]

best - Vectrex if it counts....if not, PlayStation

worst - Intellivision

[mnbren05]

Best- Ps2 slim looked very nice overall after the box like original ps2

Worst- Jaguar/Game Cube Both had unsusal designs and I never wanted to leave them out for others to see

[eugenek]

Best - Sega Wondermega. That is one sharp looking console, especially when the LEDs are lit.

Worst - NEC Supergrafx. It looks cheap and toylike, like the bottom of a GI Joe playset from the 80s.

[k8track]

I have to disagree with the first three posters on the worst-looking console. I'm very biased when it comes to the Colecovision; I used to be obsessed with it as a kid and wanted one very badly. I thought it looked cool--still do--and even had a Colecovision ad taped on my bedroom wall.

Sorry Kid Ice, I freakin' love the original Intellivision design, I love the gold and woodgrain and numerical keypads. Love the Jaguar as well, I love it because of its unusual shape/design and black and red color scheme. It especially looks cool (and strange) with the CD attachment on top and the wicked boss keypad gamepad controllers on the side.

Other designs I love are the original Famicom (I didn't get to see one till years later), the red Sharp Twin Famicom, the Bally Astrocade, Coleco Telstar Arcade (who doesn't love triangles?), the Mountain Dew edition original Xbox, and of course the original heavy sixer Atari VCS.

The only butt ugly one I can't stand is the original American purple and gray SNES, even uglier when the gray yellowed over time. The Japanese Super Famicom looked infinitely cooler.

Didn't I answer this already a while back? Oh well.

[slapdash]

I'm almost certain there's already a thread about this...

Best: N64 (sexy like a Corvette)
Worse: Pokemon N64 (OHMIGOD WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?)

[Misto]

Best: Vectrex, Genesis (model 2), SNES mini, Gamecube, Panasonic Q, Jaguar

Worst: Atari XEGS, 2600, O2, PS3

[theChad]

Seconding Vectrex for best and Supergrafx for worst.

EDIT: Thirding Vectrex

[Sonicwolf]

The only butt ugly one I can't stand is the original American purple and gray SNES, even uglier when the gray yellowed over time. The Japanese Super Famicom looked infinitely cooler.

I recently purchased a Super Famicom for 7 bucks and I almost died when I compared it side by side with the Super Nintendo. The Super Nintendo is hideous. I dont know why they would wreck such a beautiful design.

the SNES is pretty bad... That and the George Foreman Gri--- I mean, PlayStation 3...

[Steve W]

Best looking consoles, I'd have to say either the Turbo Duo, Genesis 3, or Atari 7800.

Worst looking consoles, I'd have to go with either the PC-FX, most models of the Philips CD-i, or the unreleased Ultravision. Damn, that thing was fugly.

[k8track]

Didn't I answer this already a while back? Oh well.

Aha, I knew I typed part of that answer before:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114474

But that thread was for good consoles with bad designs. This current one is more inclusive.

[Nebagram]

My favourites are probably the Master System 2 (with the roll-open lid), the PS3 (it's imposing) and the PSOne. As for worst, I'd probably have to go with the original NES- it just looks like a lunchbox.

[ubikuberalles]

Aha, I knew I typed part of that answer before:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=114474

But that thread was for good consoles with bad designs. This current one is more inclusive.

That thread was also in Classic gaming and, I think, this thread should be there to since it is decidedly on-topic.

>>>MOVE>>>

[deltoidsteep]

ive got to disagree with a few of you. the intellivision is a sexy machine. the sleek gold paneling, the way the controllers fit in flush with the console...mm. and the gamecube is cute, very compact, not complex looking. my favourite would probably have to be the wii though. very compact, white, shiny, everything is hidden away under little flaps. its great.

as far as ugly ones go, the intellivision model 2 is disgusting. looks like a retarded 80's house phone. the cdi and and 3d0 are also pretty bad. both look very cheaply made.

[Ed Oscuro]

My portable CD-i looks very professional, thank you. 3DOs tend to look like VCRs, though. I hate VCRs. [/francis]

[ncman071]

best:

have to say the Dreamcast

worst:

model 1 genny and all atari systems prior to the jag

[Sonicwolf]

best:

have to say the Dreamcast

worst:

model 1 genny and all atari systems prior to the jag

I personally think that the Atari Lynx II and Atari 7800 look pretty sleek. The Jaguar was nice too.

The Dreamcast is one of my favorites and it is kind of funny in a wierd sort of way. It looks like a simple, little, meak system but it sure as heck isnt. It looks impressive while giving a false sense of inferiority. It doesnt look like a system that was state of the art.

[kupomogli]

Best. Original Gameboy Advance, PS2, PSP Slim(preferably white or green,) and Dreamcast.

Worst. Top loader NES/NES2, GBASP, and the Arcadia.

[Solertia]

Best: PlayStation 3, Super Famicom

Worst: Xbox, anything woodgrain (I'm sorry, but I hate that haha)

[Rickstilwell1]

My favorite looking console is the Neo Geo CD. Big and black and nice looking controller with different colored buttons. I like the thumbstick myself. The cosole doesn't look as awkward as the skinny Neo Geo AES, taking normal sized cds instead of humongous cartridges. Apart from the hardware the games' graphics just look excellent

My least favorite looking console is the RCA Studio II. Beige and brown? No controllers? eww. Apart from the hardware being ugly, the games only being black and white makes this system lose in that category as well.

As far as the common systems go, they are just such a usual sight to see I can't say which ones look better than others. I had to pick more unusual systems.