It sounds dumb but my pick would be the SNES. There’s just something about 16 bit games I love.
The SNES has so many good games, like sf2. The first party games and some good arcade ports.
It also has a lot of good RPGs, like chrono trigger
The controller is really cute
Tho, the PSP is a close second. Tekken dr running at 3x resolution looks beautiful
Yes I’m a sucker for dpad centric devices. Yes i love emulation.
16 bit stuff looks amazing
While I really like the Genesis/Megadrive, and PS1, I have to say the SNES is an almost perfect console. It had everything that made the NES great, but with beautiful 16 bit graphics.
MD is nice too, I should play more sega
Xbox 360, it was my first console and I had a jailbreaked version so I could play anything and it introduced me to achievements haha
PS2 for sure. So many great games that made my childhood and its easy to mod and repair.
SNES is close second. Was lucky enough that I got one growing up (it was 10 year old console at that point) and the 16 bit graphics and the music always take me back.
Portable: my black Gameboy Advance SP, playing my original Gameboy games on it (Donkey Kong Country and pokemon Blue)
TV: this is gonna sound weird, but I absolutely love my PS5, it’s just so sleek and I love the controller haptics and finally having most games running at 60 fps. Again I mostly play older games on it, but a lot of them got PS5 updates like Death Stranding, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon, Spider Man, Days Gone…
This is a really hard question for me to answer. So I’m going to go with a bit of a catch-all.
I really like the GBA. But the DS can play DS and GBA titles. But the 3DS is great too and can play all 3 and then some.
I guess the 3DS. There’s just so much that can be packed into it. I haven’t played mine in a while. I wish it was easier to install a capture card in them. There was something special about the games from the GBA to 3DS. The limitations of the hardware had developers experimenting, and we ended up with so many interesting titles. If you factor in the couple n64 games ported over to the 3DS, it’s just so much nostalgia in one handheld.
If I had to go with a runner-up, I think it would be my series X. Being able to play so many backward compatible games is also super nice.
If I truly had to pick single consoles only, with only the games designed for that specific console. I would probably go with the 3ds and the xbox 360. The 3DO or Dreamcast would come after as they had so many unique titles.
I never got to play the ps1, ps2, or psp and vita. So I’ve been curious what I’ve been missing out on over the years.
You could always emualtr them. Psp is a good system
Playstation and psp emulation is not something I’ve looked into much. I’ll have to do some digging!
Ppsspp is good,
Vimm.net has most of the ROMs. For PSP tekken dr is a very good game. Especially with resolution upscale
SNES does have a lot of the better games in lots of great series. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy etc etc etc.
Though the cheat answer is probably PC since its been around for decades can just evolve with whatever is going on.
It’s obviously pc for me because that’s pretty much all i use for 30 years. But i always liked the nes because it’s pretty satisfying to put in a cartridge and pushing it down.
PSP, followed by Gameboy Color, followed by Advance SP.
I recently got a Retroid4, and took an amazing trip down memory lane with Mana Khemia, MG:AC!D, FF Tactics Advanced/A2, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite, and a bunch of pkmn ROM hacks. All of them easily held up today.
Unless SteamDeck counts, in which case it wins hands-down.
I has the 4 pro. PSP is a good system
To me, Atari Lynx and Sega Dreamcast.
Never played lynx, always found Atari stuff kinda bad, that or the 2600 is a pos.
Any lynx recommendations?
The VCS is an old console, not a POS. When it was new it was state-of-the-art. About the Lynx, the catalog is not long. You can get all the games (76 in total and the max size is 2 MB) and try some. I’d say California Games, Klax, Batman Returns, Toki, just to name a few.
Yea, good point.
I’ll get into lynx
It was the NDS (and 3DS), Now It’s the switch (hopefully a successor is on the way…)
I like all consoles in general and have had most modern ones up til Xbox One S and PS4.
Only own a PC and Switch now.
I like the portable form factor, I don’t feel the need for a Deck as I can play everything I want on my current devices.
Dreamcast.
The challenge with this question is that not everyone has played in every console, so like, for me, I can only comment on the Atari 2600, the Wii and the XBOX 360.
From that small sample, the wii wins hands down. I loved the motion controllers a lot.
Never played Wii but it always looked cool to me :3
I think because it was so different from what came right before it: Gamecube, PS3, Xbox.
Waving that Wiimote around was a blast for everyone, gamers and non-gamers alike. Tons of hours of play in this Sports Resort, for instance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWo6zYZx2rM
I get what @berttheduck said about long games / serious gamers but can you imagine your grandma trying to play most Switch or PS5 or other new console games now?
The Wii brought gaming to the general public in a way nothing else had. Like most modern Nintendo consoles it was under powered and gimmicky but the gimmick worked so well for people new to gaming, point at the TV or wiggle the controller as you would to do the thing in real life was a huge step to making an abstract concept make sense to people. For longer gaming sessions or more “serious” games the Wii controls were generally lacking but damn if Wii sports wasn’t good fun.
SNES Aerobiz: Supersonic. Greatest game of my life.
If I had to pick all time? 3DS! It has sooo many games with supporting the DS and 3DS library, DSiWare, and of course homebrew.
If I’m picking my current favorite I’ve got to go with the Playdate. It’s portable and has a lot of fun small-scale games.
(yes I like handholds why do you ask)
The 3ds is a damn good system. I just hate the n3ds cstick
I never had a n3ds! Couldn’t bear parting with my animal crossing poptart edition
Likely the PS2. Simply for the breadth of stuff it can play.
assuming “PC” doesn’t count… i’ll be a basic bitch and say nintendo switch. it’s the one i’ve played the most games on.
I’m not the OP, but if you had the most fun on PC, it’s for me the only correct answer.
