Most loved and most hated consoles?

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

[RMK305]

I still remember when my brother got his 2600. We connected everything, put in the Defender II (?) cartridge and turned on, it looked so cool, except we could only shoot and not control the craft. After a few days of sadness one of us reconnected the stick into the other port......

Ah that's brilliant.

I think I'll have to find a place to set mine up. It's a machine I have had from new that isn't setup. The other consoles I have and enjoy I bought second hand from ePay. Nes, Mega Drive (Genesis) and the CD32. The NES, I always wanted but back in the day I could only have 1 machine and that was the Amiga 500. The CD32 I somehow got obsessed with it overnight and dicided I had to have one. The Mega Drive was after a friends bought one on ePay and I got one boxed with about 56 games for around £55, so it was a bargain.

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What's crappy about Mario 2!

Are we talking about the original Super Mario Bros 2 that was released in Japan, known in the west as Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, or Doki Doki Panic with the characters changed to the characters from Mario?

Nintendo is the last great gaming company left.

I agree with you on that one. Notice also how the older machines, and recent Nintendos all seem to be far more reliable than the current crop of 360s and PS3s?

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I like a lot of the 360 games, but wouldn't buy a machine that I know is going to give me grief in a years time.

I haven't played Lost Levels, but I intend to download it on my Wii.