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Most loved and most hated consoles?
« on: May 16, 2010, 01:29:10 AM »
What game consoles did you love the most, and which did you hate the most?
 
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2010, 04:31:50 AM »
Hate anything with a thumb joystick on it. I'd say C64 and SNES as my favourites.
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #2 on: May 16, 2010, 04:32:49 AM »
I was always very fond of the Sega Master System.
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2010, 06:06:40 AM »
Nintendo. For screwing with Sony on the SNES-CD project. Luckily it was the catalayst for the original Playstation console, a console so perfect for it's environment and timing that only the Atari VCS was comparable in genius.

NES - for all the overpriced crappy Mario games and terrible rock hard square joypads.
Gameboy - For every putrid Pokemon game, cancer to the gaming world propping up themselves whilst Sony tore them a new one in the home console market.
SNES - For putting such a stupidly slow CPU in a machine AFTER the Genesis/Megadrive. Also for all the babying of their userbase by removing all the blood from MK. Oh and putrid Mario games.
Wii -  Pathetic PS2-o-clock graphics, and some extremely woolly controllers, all for a rip off price above that of the 360.  Oh and yes the controllers are inaccurate toys because now we have Wii+ controllers wooppeeee lol
DS - Abolutely pathetic technical spec at launch, couldn't even play video files on the go for the price. Total joke except for Korg's DS10 cartridge....all those other silly brain training games can lick my left one.

Think that covers it, oh yes except for the fact they screwed you all over by getting exclusive console rights to Tetris due to some Russian fool not following correct procedure (hope that idiot is in a goulash for that sin). Nintendo are as much scum as Microsoft, I hope there is some massive financial catastrophe where they both simultaneously sink without a trace from the world...sooner the better :)
 

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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #4 on: May 16, 2010, 06:18:09 AM »
Quote from: Fanscale;558762
Hate anything with a thumb joystick on it.

QFT.

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

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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #5 on: May 16, 2010, 06:28:15 AM »
I have to say Dreamcast is my all time favorit, folowed by Mega Drive and Nes.
In 93 I was close to sell my Mega Drive with Megs CD and by the Amiga CD32, but that never happend when the Sega Saturn came out.
 

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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #6 on: May 16, 2010, 07:16:41 AM »
Nice Consoles,    
-Atari 2600
-Atari 5200 (i know some people talks bad about this but i liked)
-NES (just Some Little things)
-Sega Genesis
-AMIGA CD32 (Offcourse!!!)
-Sega DreamCast
-PS
-PS2
-PSP
-DS (some things)
-PS3
-WII (By the Massive inovation)

Not like

-Turbo GFX16
-3DO
-GameBoy
-Atari Lynx
-Atari Jaguar
 And others i not rememember the model right now..
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #7 on: May 16, 2010, 07:20:46 AM »
C64 is not a console..... but anyway.

It would have to be the Dreamcast, it is still an amazing little machine. Small, well designed one of the better graphically of the time. Force feedback, little micro games in the memory cards... nice little touches everywhere.

I still have a mint Dreamcast boxed with all the gear, keyboard, mouse, light guns (shame they dont work on Plasma/LCD screens) modem...

I even have a custom case which I'll prolly never install... there's a HDD hack for them and if you're lucky you can pickup a NIC for it.

Top that off with a VGA adapter it's fantastic.

Xbox, this is great too, mod it stick a larger drive in it and it becomes a multimedia center plus mame box :-) (Or Amiga emulator... lol)

Classic consoles would have to be the master system, have found memories playing my girlfriends at the time... I even purchased it off her... still have it and it still works.
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #8 on: May 16, 2010, 07:24:05 AM »
Oh and portable... would have to be the Sega Gamegear... :) and back in the day when I was at primary school it would have to be Nintendos Time and Watch games. :D
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #9 on: May 16, 2010, 07:29:45 AM »
Oh yes, let me not forget the 3DO!!! I loved that system and it had the absolute best version of Po'ed amongst other games like Road Rash, Death Keep, and the like.

Of course I still own a Sega Dreamcast and get much use out of it thankx to the homebrew scene (yes Amiga runs great on it).

The Saturn was another great system that seemed to have a more unique library of games than it's Sony competition at the time, I.E. Panzer Dragoon II and Saga!
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #10 on: May 16, 2010, 08:59:56 AM »
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c64 is not a console.....


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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #11 on: May 16, 2010, 09:20:00 AM »
No one mentioned Neo Geo

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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #12 on: May 16, 2010, 09:25:18 AM »
The Dreamcast has to be one of my all time favourties. Like Lurch I have most of the accessories mint in box, at one point I had them ALL!
 
I also love the Megadrive, Snes, N64 (WWF No Mercy & PD!!!) and XBox (either of them).
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #13 on: May 16, 2010, 09:27:52 AM »
No doubt, how could we forget the NeoGeo?!?! :)
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Re: Most loved and most hated consoles?
« Reply #14 on: May 16, 2010, 10:24:45 AM »
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.