Video-gaming: What's your favourite ever console?

[Toby]

Hi guys,

Its a big time at the moment for gaming. E3 has just ended and Gamescom is just around the corner. We thought we'd open up a few fun discussions on the subject.

We're starting off with what is your favourite ever gaming console?

Do you prefer hand-held devices? Was the look of the console an aspect that grabbed you? Is Pong as far as gaming goes for you?

For me, it will always be (in my view at least) the original PlayStation. It was the console that opened my eyes to the video gaming world and Crash Bandicoot was my first ever game

How about you?

[viridis]

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@Toby wrote:

Ah yes it was a Sega

The Mega Drive gave me many happy memories. Has anyone owned a PS Vita? I think they're brilliant.

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I've had 2 vitas, but with remote play on xperia I found the vita surplus. 1st party support has all but gone and now it's marketed as a ps4 accessory.

I may get a pstv and reload all my vita content.

[blissgirl]

I'm a xbox 360 gamer (started late only played pc's games before )

[Chris_K]

SEGA Master System, aka, SEGA Genesis.

This for me was the best console I ever had and still remember the best games I ever played. Games such as Psycho Fox, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, The Revenge of Shinobi, Bubble Bobble... The list goes on. For a long time I never actually owned one - this was back in the day when Blockbuster was a household name and DVD's never existed - every now and then if I was a good little boy, my parents would hire the console for a week for me... I think it was about £20 a go.

I eventually got one for my Christmas and it was the best present ever

[viridis]

Chris,
The genesis was the US name for the mega drive not master system

[Chris_K]

Woops, fail! 😞

Worth pointing out it was the Master System II I had - forgot there were some versions before it. Still... Best console ever!

[viridis]

Yeah master system 1 took cartridges and a weird credit card sized card game thing.
The cards were relegated for master system 2 with sega heavily invested in the larger capacity of cartridges, later being expanded and used in the genesis systems.

[viridis]

And quick FYI.
20 years ago on Wednesday just gone. The sega Saturn was released in the UK.
It would spend the next 2 months having luke warm sales, as the western world was waiting for a new console to come from japan. Home electonics company Sony, having been shafted by Nintendo, had made a console with a lot more power than the giant sega did with Saturn. Reports kept appearing in magazines about the quality of the games it ran and a lot of people quickly decided to hold fire on purchasing the sega Saturn.
Long development times meant, by the time the Saturn arrived, it was already outdated and considered slow.
Many ex sega loyal users formed the day one purchasers of playstation and sega were forced to begin accelerating the development of the dreamcast.
The dreamcast faced tough, tough competition, despite its early release for that gen, people again knew that just around the corner, playstation were developing something new. With the ex sega loyalists now loyal to Sony after Sony initialised some brilliant marketing strategies, many waited for the playstation 2.
Meanwhile in seattle. ..
Microsoft was worried, the talk of ps2 not only had sega dropping bricks, Microsoft had noticed a drop in game sales for Windows based systems. The direct x team were tasked with creating a system to play games on to compete with ps2. The direct x box was born out of an old dell system and was developed using the modified os of the now failing sega dreamcast, Windows ce.
Microsoft purchased many of Segas ip's in preperation for launch as sega was now on the verge of ending console life.

With the sega ip in its machine, and the ever popular playstation 2 now released to the world, Sony vs Microsoft was born.
And all a result of 20 years ago this week, and the beginning of the end for Sega.

[Cleoriff]

^^^^^^^^^ Tardis....

If only I was in the slightest bit interested @viridis Please don't take offence :smileytongue:

[jonsie]

I never cease to be overwhelmed by your passion for things I am clueless about....but I'm happy 

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

I never cease to be overwhelmed by your passion for things I am clueless about....but I'm happy 

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Tis an age thing @jonsie.....we find other pleasures....