Favorite 1st Gen Console
Never played any
Favorite 2nd Gen Console
They all sucked, especially the Atari systems
Favorite 3rd Gen Console
NES--it made games a huge social event with all our friends
Favorite 4th Gen Console
Genesis--was cooler than what Nintendo was doing at the time
Favorite 5th Gen Console
PS1--they had so many good games back then
Favorite 6th Gen Console
Xbox--successfully brought the arcade feeling home with Xbox Live
Favorite 7th Gen Console
Xbox 360--took XBL and social gaming to a new level, made fps the #1 genre
Of course, if you don't like fps games then that wouldn't really matter to you. But they are my favorite genre. Also, the 360 was the first time I've ever bought a successor system from the same console maker. Starting with Atari during the second gen, I jumped to Nintendo and then Sega and then Sony and finally to Microsoft. Today I have pretty much every system from the third gen until now but as far as when you are only getting one system for an entire gen I kept jumping ship to another console maker until this gen.