What is your favourite gaming console you have played?

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Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one.

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Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The SNES will always be my favorite console. It’s got some stinkers in the library, but the best games of the console still frequently rank among theh best games ever made

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- gilindoeslemmy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  32-bit pixel art is basically the standard that all modern “retro” games use and the SNES was one of the best for it. Neo geo also was amazing for that art style.
  
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- queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I got the SNES Classic just for Donkey Kong Country. The other games were a nice bonus. I have some novelty electronics that I never use anymore but that one gets pulled out on the regular.
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The Dreamcast and Wii are what comes to my mind.

The DC was ahead of its time and has a kick ass library. It also had a sweet gimmick with the VMUs. If SEGA had supported the fuckin’ thing, it could have been even better. Perhaps even gotten further iterations. And if the VMUs came with it, they possibly could have figured out a console/handheld hybrid like the WiiU and Switch before Nintendo.

The Wii is really just for it’s gimmick. The motion controls were super well done, especially after Wii Motion Plus. Even tho the only games these days I would go back and play are all the Wii Sports games and maybe uh… Forgot the name, but the samurai FPS game.

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- Throbbing_banjo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Loved my Dreamcast. The multiplayer games were fantastic, and you could pirate games pretty easily. So many good memories of Soul Calibur parties
  
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- Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh yea, the Wii was bae when it came out. I played Wii bowling so much.
  
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  - Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I regret not bringing mine when I moved just because the motion bar got busted. I could have replaced it hella easy and be playing Wii Tennis rn. 😩
    
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- atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  By the time the Dreamcast came out the writing was already on the wall. The Sega CD and 32x were both expensive and had little support while still looking barely as good as what the SNES could do with the Super FX chip and similar. Then the Saturn was basically forgotten despite being stupid powerful for its day and given the Osborne effect by the CEO of Sega of America. When the Dreamcast came out mid-cycle in 1998 nobody who had bought a PlayStation or N64 in the previous couple of years was in the market for a new machine and a lot of Sega fans weren’t willing to jump in before seeing how serious Sega was. Sega on the other hand was on the heels of low sales and relative failure and so keen to wait for the Dreamcast to be a hit. That chicken and egg paradox was the death knell. They also weren’t helped by Microsoft who had been their partner on the Dreamcast and who basically threw them under the bus to develop the Xbox based on what they learned (not for the first time, MS also did the same thing to IBM by developing Windows while working on OS/2 with IBM). This is why ‘The Duke’ controller looked so much like a Dreamcast controller and why, according to some reports, the Xbox could play Dreamcast games earlier in its development.
  
  TL;DR Sega killed the Dreamcast before it even came out and Microsoft happily looted the corpse.
  
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- PodPerson@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Crazy Taxi on the DC was just so much fun. Seemed thr DC was doomed from the beginning but it definitely had its strengths.
  
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zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Gamecube probably holds the most special place in my heart. More for the games that released for it than for the console itself.

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- _aj@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I love the design of the console. It’s fun, which was miles away from the testosterone teenage boy styling of the ps2 ( no shade still a good design)
  
  But. The controllers weren’t the most comfortable.
  
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  - zikzak025@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It was definitely the most portable console. Made it very easy to just throw it in a backpack and bring to friends’ places for Smash Bros nights.
    
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- TootSweet@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Came here to say this. N64’s a close second, but a the re-releases of N64 games on the Gamecube helped a lot with that too.
  
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- ProfessorScience@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yeah, I think Gamecube would win for me if just for all the time spent playing Smash Bros in college.
  
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DigDoug@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Playstation 1

Over 4000 games, many of which are weirdly experimental because “how to make 3D games” wasn’t codified yet, and CDs gave developers about 20 times more space than they had on the biggest cartridges - not to mention the lower cost of production.

Also, most of the soundtracks are absolute bangers.

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- homes@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  PS1 was truly an amazing console
  
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c64z86@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Playstation 2

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hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
PS2. Due to it’s game library.

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theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
N64 for me partially nostalgia but I still love the cartridges even though i know they are sub optimal and the controller and the games in general are still top tier to me.

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missingno@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I have to give it to the Nintendo DS. Absolutely incredible library, much of it too unique to play anywhere else.

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- Datz@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A third of my vote for 3DS is just because of DS games, really. Almost cheating, but my favourites are the 3DS ones anyway.
  
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- kolmaskommentoija@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  My 3DS is easily the best console I have ever used. I do not even care about the 3D part, but it has all the DS games, and bigger screens, yet it is still small enough to be held easily. 10/10, I can also play ocarina of time, and original pokemons with it.
  
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- Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I was going to say this. Still way underestimated because of a lot of shovelware kids stuff in stores (depending on location). It’s not close to being my first or early device either (that was TI 99/4A).
  
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ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
PC

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cimmerian@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My first console was a sega mega drive. My favourite was the PlayStation 2

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funkajunk@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The OG Xbox was so good.

Modding it was surprisingly easy, all you needed was a memory card (or a DIY adapter for plugging in a USB drive into a controller port) and a copy of Splinter Cell.

Not only would this allow you to rip games and play them directly from your hard drive, but it also opened up the world of emulators and homebrew apps & games. Shoutout to the xbins IRC channel.

XBMC was amazing, it allowed me to watch all my legally obtained media without having to burn DVDs. Crazy to think that would eventually lead to Plex, which I still use to this day.

I also played around with Damn Small Linux on the Xbox, which is what got me interested in Linux in the first place.

Now that I think about it, tinkering around with that console ultimately led to my love of homelabbing and Linux - I now run 9 servers in my utility room, and only use Linux on all my machines.

Thanks Microslop!

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artyom@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Steam Deck?

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mlg@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Nintendo DS

That era was do good that Nintendo didn’t even know what they had until they screwed it up and lost to modern smartphones.

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- Ashtear@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Other than PC, the SNES probably had my most favorite games, but the breadth of the library on the DS was fantastic. Once I got an R4 card and was able to stop carrying a dozen carts around, I was on it all the time.
  
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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I haven’t played many, more of PC gamer. But, of the Atari 2600, Radio Shack TV Scoreboard, Atari 5200, Sega Genesis, GameCube, and Wii, I’ll pick the Sega Genesis.

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zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Probably either the NES or the SNES. The NES felt the most “magical” at the time. Before the NES, consoles had games that were general clunky and not particularly fun and controllers that were all over the place. There was a good reason that the NES revived the console industry. The SNES just happens to be the home of many of my favorite games of all time. If we’re going newer, then I suppose the PS1 or PS3 (before Sony ruined it) would be my choices.

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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
For me it’s the N64. I know it’s a slightly dubious pick, but there’s something alluring about the beginning of 3D graphics. No one knew what they were doing yet and it produced some of the most lovable jank.

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- Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  A friend had it, I remember controlling Mario around the castle and being unable to make sense of where I was. The 3D camera was baffling
  
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Meatwagon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
N64. Such a solid lineup of games.

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- SlothMama@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This one is just objectively false. The N64 has an exceptionally small, weak library. Weaker than the Sega Saturn, on par with the Atari Jaguar and 3DO tbh
  
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  - isyasad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I know it’s all a matter of taste but do you really think there’s a Sega Saturn game that’s even half as good as Super Mario 64 or Ocarina of Time?
    
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samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The Steam Deck, if it counts. I can play most of the consoles pictured here on it.

If not, gotta go with SNES.

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- deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Valid but glhf with your PS3 emulator on steam deck
  
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  - samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There are actually a surprising number of PS3 games that run well on Steam Deck. Plenty don’t, of course, notably Infamous 2.
    
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rozodru@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dreamcast.

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- SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That would get my vote, too! A pity the hardware potential was limited by the drive type … if only they’d done a revised version with DVD or something
  
  I really enjoyed Soul Caliber and Metropolis Street Racer :-)
  
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  - rozodru@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    there are a lot of gems for the DC ESPECIALLY if you import from japan or heck just burn japanese games to a CD-R.
    
    Honesly yeah going the GD-Rom route really hurt them. the system was just so painfully easy to pirate for and play imports.
    
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AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Definitely a tie between xbox360 and PS2.

Definitly not biased because they’re the 2 consoles I played the most growing up. No. There’s a totally reasonable explanation. And would you look at the time! Gotta blast!

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CADmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I wasted many hours on my PS2. So much ratchet and clank.

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datavoid@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Poor N64 and its fucked up joystick get no love

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- Anonymous_Leaker@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Mari Kart 64 and 007 was my love.
  
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ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The SNES. Hands down.

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- thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  This is the only correct answer.
  
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- Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Gameboy Advance is a close second. Third is a far off Nintendo DS, Fourth is Wii.
  
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  - ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    The DS was better than the GBA IMO because it plays GBA games lol. And it had pretty innovative games, too.
    
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Pika@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
ps2.

I loved the ps3 don’t take me wrong, but the ps2 just had that nostolgia and legacy aspects of it. The splash screen, the menu design, the simplicity. It was so nice.

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ryan_@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
360 for me. All my friends had one and spent soooo much time playing halo 3 and GoW online. Good times

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rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Ranked:

SNES for sure. I fucking loved Super Mario World. It’s probably why I love video games tbh

PS2, the first thing I ever bought with my own money was a video game for the PS2 we got for Christmas. It was the Medal of Honor trilogy

PS1. Vandal Hearts permanently changed my preference of video games

PS3. Skyrim.

Xbox One. I know, I know, I can hear the boos from here. It got me through some tough shit and I loved that system. I used it for years before microslop permanently bricked it with a bad firmware update

PS5. I was one of the elite gamers to get a hold of one before they launched (/s). I was a QA tester for Call of Duty, and used the same system for my entire time at that job. I became an expert with that dev kit.

N64. It was a lot of fun, but it just never held the appeal over the ones above

Xbox 360. I liked playing it, but I never got much time with it

Xbox series S. It’s a streaming box. When I worked on CoD I was getting game pass for free. Without it, it quickly became obsolete with my arr setup

PS4. My retail experience was fine. Working with it on CoD fucking sucked and is the reason I hate the system.
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Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
September 1997, my dad gets us a second hand Sega Megadrive from who knows where, with Sonic and a couple other games. My mind is blown. All these gorgeous, rapidly-moving images… some time later we get a stack of games at the flea market : Sonic 2, Coolspot, Rocket Knight Adventures (gorgeous platformers), Hellfire (a horizontal scrolling space shmup), D&D, an F1 game (maybe Senna?), Last Battle (impossible to beat), Streets of Rage 1&2, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat… I have most of these installed on my computer with Romstation today

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Leviathan@fedinsfw.app ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
SNES or PS1

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tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I couldn’t possibly choose. To this day I still get a lot of mileage out of the SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, GBA, and Nintendo DS libraries.

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Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dreamcast, that system was awesome back in the day.

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- chippydingo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You beat me to it. I loved my Dreamcast. It had so many great innovations like the VMUs, those chonky controllers, high density discs, and some really excellent games. If you picked up a VGA box it could also display on a PC monitor and you got super crisp video output…I played a ton of Phantasy Star Online and this was the ideal setup. Sadly, Sega screwed up their timing on the release since the PS2 was around the same time, if I recall correctly, and I think that is what ended their contention as a serious console maker since I am sure they lost bucket-loads of money.
  
  I finally unloaded my DC about 6 years ago during a yard sale to a console collector…ahh well, good times.
  
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