Personally, the PS3 is my favourite. The OG backwards compatible one. And the emulation capabilities are still awesome to me.
Poor N64 and its fucked up joystick get no love
Mari Kart 64 and 007 was my love.
Steam deck. Does it count? Plays everything you see here and more.
Consoles are kinda meh. Can’t do much with them.
That said I think the ps2 with network and hardrive, then the ps3, then the wii. I like them all for what they could be made to do and have one of each.
But really: all superceded by the steam deck. (Ended up selling my PSP, no need for it anymore).
Real hard to beat the Sega in my book. Not only was it an amazing console on its own, but you could attach other consoles to it. Slap that 32x on top. Slide the Sega CD on the side. Who could beat that? Plus the Sega Channel? I mean come on.
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.
This is the only correct answer.
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.
Oh yea, the PSP is still a must have.
My favorite is SNES, very closely followed by the Playstation. I never owned a Gamecube and Playstation 2 and missed some of the greatest games ever made of its time.
The Wii was the only system me and my husband bought. It was delightful because it was the only system he could play with his cerebral palsy! (Some older systems like pong worked, but I’m only mentioning slightly modern) He was really good at the bowling! I wish ours still worked. Alas!
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.
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 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
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.
Steam Deck?
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.
PS2. Due to it’s game library.
