Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
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!
The SNES. Hands down.
Gameboy Advance is a close second. Third is a far off Nintendo DS, Fourth is Wii.
Not a console but the psp, it was so hackable and customizable and one of the first handhelds that did 3d and emulation well.
As a console, probably the n64, mostly cause the game changing factor compared to its predecessors and sick ass titles. Nintendo sucks balls now and I dont buy any of their shit but it was cool back then.
I mean. in some ways its the odyssey because it has games that were so much better than other systems at the time despite it being black and white
I recently modded a Wii and I must say it’s starting to become one of my favorite.
The PS3 is also a very good one to mod, Oh! And the PSP! Also the PSP GO’s still cost a bit of money.
Wii hands down! I had twilight princess on release so it was soft modded early. I got to play super Nintendo super scope games on an lcd, and any Wii game I wanted. Dreamcast being a close second.
Steam Deck?
Nintendo DS
That era was so good that Nintendo didn’t even know what they had until they screwed it up and lost to modern smartphones.
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.
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.
I think I liked all the ones I owned but switch was my fav since it had so much and 3rd party classics and everything and it was power efficient, compact, portable. Steam deck has taken over for me though. Way more of a swiss army knife.
PS2. Due to it’s game library.
Playstation 2
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.
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 the best games ever made
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.
16-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.
The original Xbox was my absolute favorite. Still old enough to have the classic memory cards and weird console ports, but new enough that its all actually just reskinned pc hardware. The UI was simple but easy and had this fantastic early 2k style. I didn’t even care that it was disgustingly green.
On top of all that, it was an era where basically everything could get greenlit. Shrek sequel game? Do it. Bounty hunter in a batshit crazy world using bigs as bullets? Knock yourself out. Love letter to golden eye, even if we can’t get the rights? You bet! What if I wanna watch softcore porn with the bros but justify it by saying we’re gaming? That’s fucking weird, but have at it. Literally anything could get a game.
