Best. Game Console. Ever

[YoshiM]

Since "arguement" was encouraged I've got to say a piece on the Intellivision by IntelliSteve.

I have a hard time swallowing the idea of the INTV controller being the "grandpappy" of the modern gamepads. I think the NES gamepad was a natural progression from the joysticks of old for the type of games that were played on the NES. Could you imagine playing SMB with INTV controllers? Your hand would hurt something fierce after a while alternating between the two side buttons. The controller had to be somewhat comfortable and have the buttons be more accessable. I'd say the NES Max is more of a direct relative of the INTV pad than the standard NES pad.

I look at the INTV controller as an attempt to be "something different" than everyone else at the time. VCS had sticks and paddles. Why not create a pad that one could slide their thumb around to simulate rotation and still be used as like a joystick? Odyssey2 had sticks and a keyboard. Why not combine the control with the keyboard? BAM! INTV controller. IMO, jack of all controls, master of none. I'll agree hands down that the INTV controller had direct impact with the systems of that era (5200, Coleco), but that's where it stops.

Anyway, that's just my opinion on that.

[NE146]

In my opinion, it should be about the one you had the most fun on, not the one that had the most games, or something like that.

i agree

I don't know.. just because a console is your favorite doesn't necessarily mean you have to vote it as the "best". Like I said above, my favorite and the one I have the most memories of fun times with is the 5200..

but I can't bring myself to say it's the best console overall.. but it still IS my favorite.

[Nature Boy]

For some reason I keep thinking about this topic. I think mostly because Best wasn't defined. Oh yeah, and I can't let things go sometimes

Maybe we should start a new topic about what qualities a great or the best system would have in someones eyes. You know, quality of titles, quantity of titles, genres begun perhaps. That sort of thing.

[Iron Monkey]

Iron Monkey vote PC ENGINE!
HAAAAAAAA! Again weakling Digitalpress Miss!
Best system on List NOT!
HAAAAA!

[YoshiM]

Could someone please, for the love of all that is good, call a vet and have them put the monkey to sleep?

This is probably troll bait by this dude, but I'll bite. I'm bored.

Iron Monkey: to answer your post, the PC Engine IS on the board. It was called the Turbografx-16 in the States. I would assume you knew that but your sensei must've been hittin' the rice wine a little hard teaching you about the whole East meets West Game Hardware Transformation Phenomenon.

[spoon]

Why the NES? Why not?

Nintendo improved in all areas and was as smart as could be when it came to buisness(back then anyway)

great games, great genres,great rpgs(dragon warrior series, best series of rpgs on one console every, dont come at me with the FF playstation series garbage, so easy I could beat those games in my sleep, and the same story line all over again, it's like one big soap opera)

and a agree that the NES controller is the pre.controller the modern ones.
I also agree that the Snes is one of the biggest wow systems of its time(whats wow, when your face goes "o")

I think a seperate thread should be started as someone suggested!

[consoledatabase]

I voted NES. It has loads of great games and has given me hours of enjoyment.

I remember a man in a second hand store telling me once that I could trade in my NES, Genesis and Master System plus all of their games (400+ in total) all for a PlayStation with no games. I told him to bugger off. I can get more enjoyment out of 400+ old games than I can out of 1 or 2 new games (or no new games in this case, just the system). :rainbowafro:

[Kid Fenris]

After a good deal of thought, I decided to vote for the PlayStation. It didn't have the same impact as the NES and Atari 2600, but I have a hard time thinking of a better game library. There isn't a genre that doesn't have an A-list representative in the PSX catalog, and the system hosts more of my favorite titles than any other console. It's not an objective choice on my part, but I guess that's the point.

And for the record, my runner-ups were the SNES and the highly undervalued Sega Saturn.

[kainemaxwell]

The PSX tended to turn everyone into a 'gamer"...

[chips and gravy]

the sega saturn.

no other reason other than it's the one that's given me the most fun.

[bargora]

OMG I wanna cast a contrarian vote for the Sega Saturn, purely for the modern 2-D shooter library (almost all import, excepting Galactic Attack and Darius Gaiden). But then, that would be best "for me". So I won't.

But hey, WTF? Shouldn't you vote what's best "for you"? But then, if I voted Saturn, I couldn't vote for the 2600, and I'd surely burn in VG hell! Ohhhhh--I just can't vote at all!! :shock:

[mezrabad]

For me it would be a tie between 2600, NES and Sega Master System. Since I can't vote for all three, I voted for the Dreamcast because it can emulate all three.

[richard]

very easy question........the nes,why? well lots of the games that were produced by the nintendo company were famous for makin these games.. metroid,legend of zelda and who can forget the mario bros.that's why.

[beamish13]

NES. Genesis is a close second. If portable systems were included, I'd easily go w. the Game Boy Advance.

[ROBOTRON]

Neo-Geo....he, he!

[dreamcaster]

1. The SNES is easily my favourite console. From the second I opened it up on that great day in 1995, to when I just fired it up a few minutes ago - I love it. And always will. Best console ever = SNES. The only reason I rank the SNES above the Dreamcast, is because it was my first.

2. The Dreamcast comes a close second. This was the first non-Nintendo console I actually considered buying. But I kept putting it off, and putting it off. Then I finally picked up a second hand one. For some reason, the Dreamcast feels so right - it's as if I was born to play it. I remember I first played one at a computer and technology expo in 1999 - from the first time I picked up that controller, I was impressed. Everything about it - the controller, the games, the graphics, the console itself. Dreamcast = perfect console - for me!

3. This is a tie between pretty much all my other consoles (N64, Atari 2600, GameCube, NES, PS2 and Saturn) becuase I like all these consoles equally as much - but not as much as my SNES or Dreamcast!

[Charlie]

I voted for the SNES. I care not about historical value or whatever crap you want to throw around. Video games are all about the games, so I decided to vote the the system with the highest total of games I consider to be five-stars. Let's count shall we?

Super Mario World
Mario All-Stars
Yoshi's Island
Mario RPG
Zelda: Link to the Past
Tetris Attack
Tetris/Dr. Mario
Donkey Kong Country
DKC 2
Mario Kart
Earthbound
Final Fantasy 2
Final Fantasy 3
Mortal Kombat 2
Sim City
Super Bomberman 2
Super Metroid
Kirby's Dream Course
Kirby's Super Star...

I could go on, but I won't. Nobody here is going to be able to convince anyone any differently. The truth is that I didn't consider very many PSX games to be mind blowingly fantastic (Although SotN and the Point Blank series are amazing). The Atari 2600 stuff is mostly not that fun anymore, almost to the point of being unplayable. The really good stuff on the NES is drowned out by mounds upon mounds of wretched stuff. Most Genesis stuff hasn't aged all that well. The N64 games I used to like REALLY haven't aged well. The DC might have won but Sega cut the machine off just when it should have hit it's prime.

DC is easily second. Bomberman Online, Chu Chu Rocket, Soul Caliber... damnit Sega, you suck.

[RubbarDucklin]

I voted for NES because it was my firstr system (I'm little, 15 :x) When i was 6 or so I was in LOVE with my NES. More than anyone should love anyone. Naptime....? NEStime
Happy Gaming,
The Rubbar Ducklin

[hezeuschrist]

While I had a 2600 (just found 9 games for it, complete, while cleaning out my closet), and I had an NES... SNES gets my vote.

I started on NES mostly (2600 was out before I was born), and that got me hooked on video games... but the SNES is what made me play the games I play today. I can't count the number of times I've beat Super Metroid, A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy 2/3, Secret of Mana, Earthbound, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario World, ect. I'm playing through FF5 on PSX right now and I'm loving it.

Oddly enough, while I'm reminicing about these great games, Metallica comes on my playlist. Memories abundant right now.

[Videogamerdaryll]

NES...it ruled in it's day..and I still make good money selling them..

Everbody knows the word Nintendo..it's so well known.

I don't have a favorite system myself..I play everthing..it's all about the games to me..
I'll buy a system just for one game...