Your favourite console, and why?

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amauriel:
Mine's the DS, by far. It's got a lot of really unique titles, a ton of exclusives, and a few great remakes of some of my favorite games for other systems (such as Chrono Trigger). For someone who loves the point 'n click and visual novel style, it's pretty perfect. It's also the only system I've ever really imported a fair number of games for.

gf78:
It would have to be the first PlayStation for me which I got at the end of '95 at the ripe old age of 21. I know implicitly how Nintendo single-handedly brought gaming back from the brink and have huge amounts of respect for them. But PlayStation brought it home for me. It was-aside from the wreckage that was Sega Saturn-the first fully-3D gaming system that ran on dedicated CD-ROMs instead of cartridges and a CD-ROM add-on. Game series that I enjoyed from the NES and SNES took on a completely new life with their PlayStation sequels. New series unlike anything that came before arrived like Tomb Raider and Resident Evil. I signed up for PlayStation Underground and instead of a monthly magazine, I received two-disc packages full of demos, interviews, previews, etc. Sony also sent me dozens upon dozens of demo discs like MediEvil, Legend of Legaia, Crash Team Racing and so many more.

My top 20 games? Here goes with a brief "why I loved it" and in no particular order.

1) Crash Bandicoot (series): The first non-Nintendo/Sega Platform series that made realize others can make great platformers.
2) Spyro (series): Another great platformer that made me question Nintendo's dominance in the genre
3) Resident Evil: What more can be said? The birth of the survival horror's dominance & the zombie sub-genre.
4) Silent Hill: While Resident Evil was gory horror, Silent Hill was true psychological horror.
5) Tomb Raider: Exploring 3D "tombs" was born here.
6) Metal Gear Solid: I loved the NES stealth and this game cemented the genre and this series place in history.
7) Final Fantasy VII: What more can be said? It is the most beloved Final Fantasy and the one JRPG that everyone has heard of.
8) Gran Turismo: The first true, console sim racer. Nothing like it existed before it and it is still relevant today.
9) Twisted Metal: Vehicular combat with a backstory about psychopaths.
10) Ape Escape: The first console game to make use of dual-analog controllers. It was a pretty good platformer too!
11) Soul Blade: The beginning of the single best weapons-based fighter in existence.
12) Tekken (series): On par with Street Fighter for fighting games. King of Iron Fist Tournament indeed!
13) Fear Effect 1 & 2: Truly creepy, adult-themed games with live-motion backgrounds. Still love these to this very day.
14) Rayman: One of the most vibrant, gorgeous platforming series was born here.
15) Lunar & Lunar 2 Eternal Blue: RPG's made even more perfect with the most awesome packaging & extras ever conceived.
16) Grand Theft Auto: Who knew this fun top-down game would spawn a juggernaut franchise?
17) Parappa the Rapper: Kick, punch! It's all in the mind! A fun game that Sony took one big gamble on.
18) Oddworld-Abe's Oddysee: With a funny but sad story, tight controls and a loveable character. A true classic.
19) Colony Wars: A fantastic space-shooter. May not be considered "AAA" but I loved it nonetheless.
20) Everything else Squaresoft and later, Square-Enix released was pure GOLD on the original PlayStation.

spluffen:
Does PC count? I'm torn between Super Famicom/SNES and PC. For both system there are a lot of japanese and western old school RPGs respectively. SNES era console RPGs are to me the peak of the genre, while cRPGs on PC were just as great in an entirely different way during the 90s and early 00s.

In the end I can't decide but I know I've spent by far the most time playing on PC since I didn't get my Super Famicom until early 2014.

retroone:
The Nintendo Gamecube. I am probably the only picking this one out of the bunch. I love the Gamecube. The console contains some of my first console gaming memories and some of my favorite games of all-time are on the console. I played a lot of GBA back in the day but never touched to much into to consoles. The first game I tried out was Sonic Adventure DX and was blown away. I may of only had the demo but I've played the Emerald Coast levels so many times that I could probably speed run it. It easily sits as one of my favorite games of all time without a doubt. Yea sure it was on the buggy side, but the intense gameplay and many broken controllers make it a gem in my eyes. Luckily since then I bought the full game on multiple platforms and always get that sense of joy I remember those many years ago. Not to say the system didn't have any other gems of its own. Super Smash Bros. Melee, Godzilla: Destroy All Monsters, Luigi's Mansion, Mario Kart Double Dash!!, Shrek SuperSlam, Crazy Taxi, Super Monkey Ball, and Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker just to name a few. I love the NES and SNES but the GameCube surpasses those by a long shot in my mind. It's a shame Nintendo wanted to scrap this quickly so they could work on the dreaded Wii.

bikingjahuty:
Sega Dreamcast

I got my first Dreamcast during the holiday season of 1999 and played, loved, and supported it all throughout its very short life. I remember the first time I played Sonic Adventure and being absolutely floored by the graphics and high speed gameplay. Being a huge fan of the arcade, it was pretty amazing that the Dreamcast really felt like the first console that had arcade perfect ports on it which was awesome to have that experience in your home. It was also an awesome system for fighting games which has always been a favorite genre of mine.

In addition to that, the Dreamcast has a strange charm to it that I've never experienced with another console.

And of course I have massive nostalgia for the system, with tons of memories of renting games, getting games for XMAS and birthdays, and just countless hours of fun with it.

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