What Was Your Favorite System From Each Previous Gen?

Mine goes like this:

NES/Master system era: NES

SNES/Genesis/Turbografx era: SNES

Saturn/PS1/N64 era: PS1

PS2/Gamecube/Xbox: Gamecube

Nintendo had my favorite consoles most of the time, but all the great rpgs won me over for the ps1.

360/PS3. Hard to choose

PS2, though I liked GC as much as any console not names PS2 or N64

N64

SNES, I don't have a genesis though.

Systems:

• Colecovision
• Nintendo NES
• Super Nintendo
• Sony Playstation
• XBox
• XBox 360

Handhelds:

• Game Boy
• Gameboy Color
• Gameboy Advance-SP
• Nintendo DS

That's not to say I only like those system from those eras, those. Those were just the top ones from each era, IMO. I still like Genesis, Saturn, Dreamcast, PS2, and others just fine.

G1-Pong if that counts. :P

G2-Atari 2600

G3-Sega Master System

G4-Sega Genesis

G5-Sony PlayStation 1

G6-Sony PlayStation 2

G7-Xbox 360

Third Gen: NES

Fourth Gen: SNES

Fifth Gen: Nintendo 64

Sixth Gen: Playstation 2

Current Seventh Gen: Playstation 3

1.NES
2. SNES
3. PS1
4. PS2

G1- Pong :P

G2- Atari 2600

G3- NES

G4- Sega Genesis/SNES

G5- Nintendo 64

G6-Playstation 2

G7- Playstation 3

G1-Pong if that counts. :P

G2-Atari 2600

G3-Sega Master System

G4-Sega Genesis

G5-Sony PlayStation 1

G6-Sony PlayStation 2

G7-Xbox 360

amari24

NES

SNES and Genesis equally

Sega Saturn

PS2

1. not know probably atari pong console

2. easily atari 2600

3. easily nes

4. mega drive but snes is equal if not better, however kept off some brilliant games, i prefer most oriented arcade sega' s library, i had both, i sold them

5. playstation

6. ps2 but gc is very close choice

7. not played any consoles

8. very curious about next gen consoles

Sooooo many people are putting Atari 2600 on their lists. Why? Is it because of lack of knowledge of other systems or what?

Atari 2600 may have been innovative and pushed the video game market where it needed to go and away from Pong clones. But it wasn't a very good system. The games were a far cry from their arcade couterparts. The graphics were barely recognizable. And the sound, oh the sounds of Atari, so bad, like nails on a chalkboard. Plus you have the ultra-stiff joystick (which is easily fixed with a Sega Genesis controller that's amazingly compatible with Atari 2600).

Pretty much any other system from that era was better. Intellivision, Commodore 64, Colecovision, etc. All those systems had MUCH better graphics and sound and even had some exclusives that Atari 2600 didn't have.

Of course there's still some good games on Atari 2600. And I own one myself. But for me it's more about the memories of being a child and playing it and to have a system from that era in my collection. I'm just saying pretty much any other system from then is better.

Sooooo many people are putting Atari 2600 on their lists. Why? Is it because of lack of knowledge of other systems or what?

Atari 2600 may have been innovative and pushed the video game market where it needed to go and away from Pong clones. But it wasn't a very good system. The games were a far cry from their arcade couterparts. The graphics were barely recognizable. And the sound, oh the sounds of Atari, so bad, like nails on a chalkboard. Plus you have the ultra-stiff joystick (which is easily fixed with a Sega Genesis controller that's amazingly compatible with Atari 2600).

Pretty much any other system from that era was better. Intellivision, Commodore 64, Colecovision, etc. All those systems had MUCH better graphics and sound and even had some exclusives that Atari 2600 didn't have.

Of course there's still some good games on Atari 2600. And I own one myself. But for me it's more about the memories of being a child and playing it and to have a system from that era in my collection. I'm just saying pretty much any other system from then is better.

Emerald_Warrior

you' re right but i had not luck to play any other systems belong second generation games, atari 2600 was officially my first console i owned and i do today and was sudden love for it, i can remember play over night to combat with my father, my favorite game was yar's revenge i consider still in my top ten shoot'em up games behind masterpiece games as ikaruga and wings of wor but in front of gradius dodonpachi, it was a game really simple but immediate to play and involving, at times i believed to be that damn fly battling with that damned invincible spider in its hole, nice times

Sooooo many people are putting Atari 2600 on their lists. Why? Is it because of lack of knowledge of other systems or what?

Atari 2600 may have been innovative and pushed the video game market where it needed to go and away from Pong clones. But it wasn't a very good system. The games were a far cry from their arcade couterparts. The graphics were barely recognizable. And the sound, oh the sounds of Atari, so bad, like nails on a chalkboard. Plus you have the ultra-stiff joystick (which is easily fixed with a Sega Genesis controller that's amazingly compatible with Atari 2600).

Pretty much any other system from that era was better. Intellivision, Commodore 64, Colecovision, etc. All those systems had MUCH better graphics and sound and even had some exclusives that Atari 2600 didn't have.

Of course there's still some good games on Atari 2600. And I own one myself. But for me it's more about the memories of being a child and playing it and to have a system from that era in my collection. I'm just saying pretty much any other system from then is better.

Emerald_Warrior

well being born in 1990 that really puts the first couple gens out. my gaming really started with the SNES, but i was able to play the NES also.

ill list my consoles then do my favorites from each gen.

i have: NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Ps2, Xbox, Xbox 360, Ps3, Wii.

so my first couple of gens are just biased but the later gens are more fair.

Fave systems:

3rd gen: NES
4th gen: SNES
5th gen: N64
6th gen: Xbox
7th gen: Xbox 360

NES

SNES

Tie PSX and N64

PS2

NES
SNES
N64
PS2
PS3

NES

SNES

N64

PS2

PS3

colecovision

NES

SNES

N64

PS2

PS3

color tv game 15

atari 2600

nes

snes

n64

ps2

wii60

NES/Master system era: NES

SNES/Genesis/Turbografx era: Genesis

Dreamcast/PS1/N64 era: N64

PS2/Gamecube/Xbox: PS2

PS3/360/Wii: PS3

3rd gen - NES
4th gen - MEGA-DRIVE
5th gen - PS1
6th gen - DREAMCAST/PS2
7th gen - NOT A FAN OF THIS GENS SYSTEMS

Genesis

N64

PS2

PS3

Consoles:

• Fairchild Channel F
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• CD-i
• Atari Jaguar
• OnLive

Handhelds:

• Atari Lynx
• Neo-Geo Pocket Original
• Tiger GameZone
• Gizmondo

I kid, I kid.

Everything before this generation. A little something that I have to get off...

Don't get me wrong they are fine n' dandy systems... It's just that they (the systems) are so horribly engineered in regards with cooling capabilities. All three company's know this catastrophe exists, yet they barley moved a finger. Instead of smooth running gaming systems, we get the worlds best $300 paper weight. Expect your crap to not last for more than 5 years max. Come three years, and you have to re-apply new thermal compound hoping that you get atleast a month out of it before the damn thing decides to cook itself dead again.

For this generation, I give it... the middle-finger trophy/achievement award! Whatever, I'm going back to my PS2...

Consoles:

• Fairchild Channel F
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• CD-i
• Atari Jaguar
• OnLive

Handhelds:

• Atari Lynx
• Neo-Geo Pocket Original
• Tiger GameZone
• Gizmondo

[pic of Triumph]

I kid, I kid.

Emerald_Warrior

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

Consoles:

• Fairchild Channel F
• Atari 5200
• Atari 7800
• CD-i
• Atari Jaguar
• OnLive

Handhelds:

• Atari Lynx
• Neo-Geo Pocket Original
• Tiger GameZone
• Gizmondo

[pic of Triumph]

I kid, I kid.

Stinger78

Is the Atari in with G1? Or is it it's own gen? I'll go by it being it's own.

G1: Atari 2600

G2: NES

G3: SNES

G4: N64

G5: GameCube

G6: XBOX 360 or Wii.

If Atari is in the same gen as NES, then Atari wins out on that one. The only things I REALLY like on the NES are the Mario Bros. games.

Is the Atari in with G1? Or is it it's own gen? I'll go by it being it's own.

bub166

Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS) is 2nd Generation. The first generation was the Pong home systems starting with Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 (not starting with Atari's Pong which many people mistakenly believe).

Atari 2600 is also not alone in the 2nd Generation, other systems include:

• Atari 5200 (well, this one is strange. I'm not sure if it counts as 2nd generation or 3rd generation, because Atari 2600 is 2nd genration for sure, and Atari 7800 is 3rd Generation for sure, but Atari 5200 is smack-dab in-between them.)
• Fairchild Channel F (which actually pre-dates Atari 2600 by 1 year, being released in 1976, Atari 2600 in 1977)
• Colecovision
• Commodore 64 (Techinically an early PC, but this PC was a whole lot more video game oriented than other PCs at the time)
• Intellivision
• Magnavox Odyssey 2

[QUOTE="bub166"]

Is the Atari in with G1? Or is it it's own gen? I'll go by it being it's own.

Emerald_Warrior

Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS) is 2nd Generation. The first generation was the Pong home systems starting with Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 (not starting with Atari's Pong which many people mistakenly believe).

Atari 2600 is also not alone in the 2nd Generation, other systems include:

• Atari 5200 (well, this one is strange. I'm not sure if it counts as 2nd generation or 3rd generation, because Atari 2600 is 2nd genration for sure, and Atari 7800 is 3rd Generation for sure, but Atari 5200 is smack-dab in-between them.)
• Fairchild Channel F (which actually pre-dates Atari 2600 by 1 year, being released in 1976, Atari 2600 in 1977)
• Colecovision
• Commodore 64 (Techinically an early PC, but this PC was a whole lot more video game oriented than other PCs at the time)
• Intellivision
• Magnavox Odyssey 2

[QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

[QUOTE="bub166"]

Is the Atari in with G1? Or is it it's own gen? I'll go by it being it's own.

Darkman2007

Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS) is 2nd Generation. The first generation was the Pong home systems starting with Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 (not starting with Atari's Pong which many people mistakenly believe).

Atari 2600 is also not alone in the 2nd Generation, other systems include:

• Atari 5200 (well, this one is strange. I'm not sure if it counts as 2nd generation or 3rd generation, because Atari 2600 is 2nd genration for sure, and Atari 7800 is 3rd Generation for sure, but Atari 5200 is smack-dab in-between them.)
• Fairchild Channel F (which actually pre-dates Atari 2600 by 1 year, being released in 1976, Atari 2600 in 1977)
• Colecovision
• Commodore 64 (Techinically an early PC, but this PC was a whole lot more video game oriented than other PCs at the time)
• Intellivision
• Magnavox Odyssey 2

Commodore 64 did have the best graphics of the 2nd generation. But I don't think I'd put it in 3rd generation. Late in the Commodore 64's life there were some impressive games coming out for it, for sure. So I guess it is all a matter of perspective.

But I owned a C64, which unfortunatly died last year. A lot of the game I owned on it were games from the Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision era. And the load times were absolutely excruciating. Nothing compares, not even Neo Geo CD. 5 minutes just to boot-up some disks, no exaggeration. Plus by the mid-80s we had Macs and very early Windows systems. So even though the Commodore 64 was alive in the mid-to-late 80s, it was pretty obselete considering it was still using the larger floppies, cassette data, and ran on BASIC. It was like the economy computer by then.

[QUOTE="Darkman2007"][QUOTE="Emerald_Warrior"]

Atari 2600 (or Atari VCS) is 2nd Generation. The first generation was the Pong home systems starting with Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 (not starting with Atari's Pong which many people mistakenly believe).

Atari 2600 is also not alone in the 2nd Generation, other systems include:

• Atari 5200 (well, this one is strange. I'm not sure if it counts as 2nd generation or 3rd generation, because Atari 2600 is 2nd genration for sure, and Atari 7800 is 3rd Generation for sure, but Atari 5200 is smack-dab in-between them.)
• Fairchild Channel F (which actually pre-dates Atari 2600 by 1 year, being released in 1976, Atari 2600 in 1977)
• Colecovision
• Commodore 64 (Techinically an early PC, but this PC was a whole lot more video game oriented than other PCs at the time)
• Intellivision
• Magnavox Odyssey 2

Emerald_Warrior

Commodore 64 did have the best graphics of the 2nd generation. But I don't think I'd put it in 3rd generation. Late in the Commodore 64's life there were some impressive games coming out for it, for sure. So I guess it is all a matter of perspective.

But I owned a C64, which unfortunatly died last year. A lot of the game I owned on it were games from the Atari/Intellivision/Colecovision era. And the load times were absolutely excruciating. Nothing compares, not even Neo Geo CD. 5 minutes just to boot-up some disks, no exaggeration. Plus by the mid-80s we had Macs and very early Windows systems. So even though the Commodore 64 was alive in the mid-to-late 80s, it was pretty obselete considering it was still using the larger floppies, cassette data, and ran on BASIC. It was like the economy computer by then.

NES

SNES

Playstation

Playstation 2

Playstation 3

Atari2600

Nintendo

Super Nintendo

PlayStation

PlayStation2

PlayStation3

NES

SNES

PS1

Gamecube

Wii

NES

SNES

PS1

PS2

PS3

-NES

-SNES

-N64

-Xbox

-PS3

NES

SNES

PS1