Best/Worst looking Game Console

[Wraith Storm]

Best Looking-
Neo-Geo AES
Turbo Duo
Sega Saturn

All three of these systems I thought looked sleek, sexy and down right intimidating. They look like they mean business!

Worst Looking-
PS3
DS Phat

I'm at a loss for words with the PS3... I mean seriously... WTF!?!?!? The original DS just looked like a cheap pirate game system. It looked cheap, felt cheap and was just an ugly, clunky design.

[Chemdawg]

Best: Wii, ps2, and the DS

Worst: N64, and i dont know if you can count the 32X as a system it self, but the look of a sega gen with a 32X pluged into looks like one ugly beast.

[Crystalian]

BEST: PS3 (damn that thing's hot, I just wish it would have come out with complimentary controllers instead of re-recycled PS1 controllers), Turbo-Duo, MOST N64 models...

GOOD: 3DO, Saturn, PS2 version 1, Dreamcast, SNES G2, CDX

WORST: Genesis version 1, Supergrafx, PS1, Pokemon N64 (awesome call on that one...)

ABSOLUTE WORST: Virtual Boy

[Battlehork]

Best: Neo Geo AES. I'm going to go out on a limb here and make the case for the Intellivision II. Unlike the original, it was compact and didn't have fake wood. The color scheme is very similar to what was later used on the NES.

Worst: A Model 1 Genesis with Model 2 Sega CD, especially if you don't have that part that extends the base of the M2 Sega CD, and 32X attached.
For extra hilarity plug in Sonic and Knuckles with Sonic 2/3. Place on top of Model 1 Intellivision.

[Gentlegamer]

Best: Nintendo 64 - It has nice curves that look very graceful and attractive

Worst: Have to think about this one

[Ed Oscuro]

If the RCA Cosmac VIP was a console, I'd say it would be a contender. On the "plus" side, I've read it has something like Chip8 graphics statements, so...get your Chip8 on! On the other hand, it has terrible super-low-rez graphics, almost smaller than my own avatar here (and black-and-white only to boot) - only an indirect dot resolution of 64 x 32 is usable, although 64 x 128 is available too (compare that to the Evans & Sutherland Picture System series, from 1974 and on, which could output wireframe 3D and 4096 x 4096 images at 30Hz).

The case of the VIP is pretty hideous too, sorta like a ghetto Sega Pico from what I can see.

I sort of like my FM Towns Car Marty, but it's not winning any beauty contests. I still respect its looks though; it's a functional dark gray box, made to sit somewhere around the armrest in a compact car.

I also never really liked the way the Super Famicom / Euro SNES looked. I've seen a prototype SFC that looked much nicer, I thought.

The normal NES and Toaster NES and A/V Famicom look decent and so does the SNES Model II, but a real killer design...hmm, probably something from the PC-Engine line. The original white PCE tends to get dirty looking, but others fare pretty well.

I like the look of the DS Lite, although I don't like the ergonomics.

Dreamcast is sort of just this little white box, hokay. Not terrible, and a whole lot better than that scary looking spider-like prototype with three "legs" on the sides, yikes. The Divers 2000 DC is nice looking, but I don't need yet another monitor cluttering up my house.

Wondermega is pretty nice looking stuff; CDX is very functional, probably more than the Wondermega, but will get mistaken for a clunky old portable CD player (which it very nearly is!)

I think that, right now, the 360 is the best looking console produced so far.

Edit: Crystalian reminds me to get a Virtual Boy, heh heh...it's not such a bad looking machine. Mostly just odd. (Who am I kidding? I need my eyes.)

[icbrkr]

Favorites:

- Gamecube (sorry, I love the design, and my 'spice' colored one is just freakin' awesome looking)
- Jaguar - yep, another oddball but I find the grey and red with a low profile design a good idea.
- Dreamcast - it just 'feels' like a powerful machine.

Least Favs:

- RCA Studio II - reminds me of a big ol' remote control
- Atari 5200 - the sheer size of it alone prevents me from keeping it hooked up most of the time
- Sears' Intellivision clone.. oh gawd, the colors.

[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.

[Game Freak]

Best: SNES. Always gets the job done, a good amount of space to take games out at an angle, and the eject button helps you get the contacts lined up just right, not to mention take games out.

Worst: Sega Genesis. Hideous thing, looks like a CD player, practically is a CD player with its headphone port, and its cartridges are so hard to get out without space to pull straight up

[tom]

not the best picture, but i think my Teradrive looks pretty sexy:


worst:
C64GS

[TurboGenesis]

Why is there so much hate for the Super Grafx look?

It is a marvel of art.

The design is supposed to be that of an engine from a motor vehicle. A V6 engine to be more precise. Many Japanese engines at those times were I-4 motors and the V6 was a performance upgrade and the Super Grafx was supposed to be like that of a high performance PC Engine.

Anyways, the worst looking console…



Viewmaster Interactive Vision

[Ed Oscuro]

Why is there so much hate for the Super Grafx look?

Agreed, almost added this to my "looks good" list, but I've never seen one in person. The quality of the plastic does a lot, here.

[RASK1904]

Best Atari 2600 (Wood Grain?!!! Sweet!!!)
Worst X Box. (Who had the idea to make it an "X" "Box"?)

sorry I know it's not retro.....

[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)

[boogiecat]

BEST: Dreamcast,FM Towns Marty 2,Famicom Junior and PS One

WORST:NES and Atari 2600(its a good console but the wood finish is awful..)

[Marriott_Guy]

Best Looking:
o Bandai Pippin @WORLD w\the optional FDD
o Panasonic Q
o FM Towns Marty 2
o Sharp Famicom Titler
o Neo Geo AES

Worst Looking:
o RCA Studio II
o Nintendo GameCube
o Amstrad GX4000
o Gakken Compact Vision
o Commodore 64GS