Most loved and most hated consoles?

[Colani1200]

Like:

- Atari 2600: The mother of all consoles. I only need the H.E.R.O. cartridge
- Atari Lynx: Quite ahead of it's time, quite some Amiga spirit in there, and the devkit was based on Amiga
- NES: Despite other opinions, I really like the controllers. Form follows function at it's best. Some really great games. Have a look at e.g. the NES version of Gyruss.
- Playstation 1:  The perfect console in the emerging 3d age
- PSP: awesome device, but what I don't like about it is how Sony locked it against homebrew stuff. Hopefully there will be an Eloader for 6.20 soon.
- CD32 (I guess, unfortunately I never had one, but it is an Amiga)

Dislike:
- everything else from Nintendo (maybe I am just too old for that stuff)
- All the Xbox stuff: Yeah, I admit it: because it's from Microsoft.


Never really had the chance to try the Sega stuff, so I can't say anything about it.

[koaftder]

My favorite console would have to be the dreamcast, followed up by the game cube.

Most hated console, the original playstation.

[yoodoo]

favourite: N64
Least liked: Xbox

[whabang]

I loved the GameCube. Too bad Nintendo screwed up when it came to attracting decent games to it (Yeah, yeah, I _know_ Metroid prime and Resident Evil 4 were awesome).

Least liked would be the Mega drive. Mainly because I never got one.

[Amiga_Nut]

I love Sega, which is why one of my favourite consoles is Xbox 1 lol haven't gone crazy don't worry.

Seeing Jet Set Radio Future load up and do the attract screen for the first time on a massive TV would have made your jaw drop to the ground. And Panzer Dragoon Orta was just beautiful. Plus it had some truly excellent rally games too, that my £1400 PC couldn't replicate at the time like Colin McRae 3.

Probably my favourite console though is the PC-Engine. (NEC Turbo Grafix in USA?) I remember looking at this console the size of a CD case and then being stunned by games like Gradius/Nemesis and Salamander and Outrun. Hell even the first time I saw it at a computer show whilst chatting to Julian Rignall was with a R-Type running, boy did it look arcade perfect.

[dougal]

Favoites:

SNES - Love all the games like Starfox, Battletoads, Mario World etc..
Gameboy - Was cheap and very portable and loads of great games
NES - Mainly for Super Mario 3
Game Gear - Ahhhh Sonic and Dragons Trap
Megadrive - So many amazing games
Playstation 2 - for the same reasons as the Megadrive
N64 - Was an amazing console back in the day
Xbox 360 - Best current console

Dislike:

Atari 2600 - The graphics and sound suck and so do many games
Atari Jaguar - Most of the games suck and its ugly
NeoGeo Pocket - Because most games are crappy on it
Amstrad GX4000 - Because its rubbish

[Ral-Clan]

Intellivision and Colecovision are the most fun from the early 1980s.

Intellivision for smart, creative "involving" games.

Colecovision for the excellent arcade ports.

I've never had much interest in any consoles made after 1985 for some reason.  I suppose because nowadays it's mostly driving games and first person shooters.  Nothing wrong with those but I miss the variety, and the fact you could sit down and play a console game from start to finish in five or ten minutes instead of hours and hours.

[fishy_fiz]

Cant really say I hate any consoles, but the ones that stand out for me most nowadays would be sega master system, cd32, saturn, dreamcast (probably my all time fav. console), and xb360. I also started to have a little more interest in the original xbox once they stopped making them. Theyre quite versatile little boxes (emulators, media players, etc) and can be picked up very cheaply these days.

[Thorham]

I like:

Playstation because of Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9.
Playstation 2 because of Final Fantasy 10, 10 Part 2 and 12 (11 is a MMORPG, never played it).
XBox because of Fable and Jade Empire.

Dislike:

Anything that doesn't have any games I like to play

[J-Golden]

Like:
 
All things nintendo (yes, I even owned a Virtual Boy or two).
Sega Genesis (3-button controller)
Sega Dreamcast
<---Xbox (AFTER modding it) w/ Steel Battalion:Line of Contact on XLINK KAI
 
Dislike:
3DO (controller)
Sega Genesis (6-button controller)
Xbox (PRE modded)

[koshman]

Like:

NGC - I just love it. It looks so cute No, really, how can anyone not like the design? And the exclusive titles - Metroid Prime, Wind Waker (underrated!!!), Resi 4 (originally...), Mario...
N64 - cartridges - enough said...
DC - very nice - small, powerful, great exclusive games (Shenmue above all, Sonic Adv.), arcade ports - shmups, fighters...
XBOX - noisy, huge, heavy, by Microsoft, but for some reason I like it. Probably because of how versatile it can be with XBMC, emulators and the graphics still rocks today.
PS2 - I have the latest revision and it' just so much fun in such a small package. Soooo many games - FFs, GoWs, Ico, Okami, MGSs and thousands of others...
Mega Drive - an honest console with great games and controllers.
Sega Saturn - an ugly ducking sort of, but has some great exclusives - PD Saga, Nights, Radiant Silvergun...
Gameboys, NDS - Mario in my palm? What can be cooler???

I don't like (S)NES very much, I don't know why, maybe cause I've never had either of them...
PSOne - the first console I had, it's OK, but the beginnings of 3D gameplay were painful...

[Linde]

I like all consoles up until the point where you couldn't tell what console it was pretty much only by looking at the graphics and sound.

That, and I sort of have a soft spot for the Wii -- not because of its native library, but for the homebrew/emulation options.

[Einstein]

Of those consoles we owned we did not hate any. The only thing we did hate *about* them was that it wasn't simple to bit-clone cartridges. which was our moral right as poor teenagers, nuff said.

I think I loved NES, SNES, N64, and DC the best. I also had a fetish for Master System when we had NES.It could display more colors on screen and had some interesting games like the Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy series. Sadly, we didn't have it.
If any of you haven't yet I suggest you to try Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle. I loved that game so much that I played through it again 1 year ago with a Mega Drive emulator. :drink:

No doubt, how could we forget the NeoGeo?!?!

I had no choice:

1. Not being able to buy the $$$ games.
2. Not being able to pirate the $$$ games.

[RMK305]

Atari 2600 has a special place in my heart as it was my first ever machine....and what a machine at the time.

[Matt_H]

QFT.

If I was stranded on a desert island with one console it would be the Sega Saturn.

You and me both. Absolute charmer of a machine with some amazing games from developers who truly put in the effort to get the most out of the hardware. Plus the best controller ever designed.

[XDelusion]

Oh yes, 8-bit + 8-bit = raw power.

Let me not forget the Turbo GFX 16!