My experience with those systems is somewhat limited, but I do know that I prefer the Super Nintendo BY FAR. The graphics, compared to those others (with certain Genesis games being an excpetion) are far better. The sound quality is terrific. There are so many great games that hail from the SNES. I don't have much experience with the Genesis, but the majority of the experience I do have is of mediocre games. The NES is also a great system, but the Super Nintendo took full advantage of the power increase between in and its predecessor. The SNES is certainly the best system listed, and very much in the running for best system of all time.
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Posts: 253 | Location: Kansas | Registered: 20 June 2004
In my opinion the best of the Old systems out there is the SNES. It was the first console i ever played and i had alot of fun with my friends playing it. It is home to some of the most timeless games out there Mario, Contra, Donkey Kong and others. Other than that I'm still a fan of my old N64. Nintendo's first true 3D console. Games like Super Smash Bros. and Goldeneye keep me coming back. Not to mention the controller which I think is one of the best of all time. The N64 has always been a darkhorse of sorts often taking the back seat at the hands of some of the more stylish games of the PSone, but I still enjoy the great gameplay that the the older Nintendo systems have always offered.
Posts: 7 | Location: The O. | Registered: 01 August 2006
First system I owned was an Atari 2600, got it when I was six or seven years old for Christmas, best xmas ever... Favorite system of all time was the TG-16. I know it died pretty quickly because NEC didn't do much in North America but most of the games that they released were great. Military Madness and Blazing Lazers I still play regularly.
Spectrum 48k. Legendary little black box replete with springy rubber keyboard, 16 clashing on-screen colours, and a single channel sound-chip. The creativity and invention that programmers had to employ to get playable games out of it still amazes me. Elecric Dreams version of R-Type on the Speccy still my favourite ever coin-op conversion.
Posts: 13 | Location: Ireland | Registered: 18 May 2007
Easily SNES, most of my fondest gaming memories were on the SNES, I remember when I first got it, a friend of mine down the road had one, and I had already played a whole bunch of awesome games like Rock N’Roll Racing, Super Mario World, and I BEGGED my parents for months and months until I finally got one on Christmas day in the Mario All-Stars box set with two controllers. I spent the rest of my Christmas holidays with friends playing heaps of the classics like LOZ Link to the Past, Street Fighter, Megaman X and all the previous games mentioned above.
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Posts: 546 | Location: Lots of different places | Registered: 12 October 2007
I'm gonna have to go with the Atari 7800. It wasn't my first system,(Atari 2600), but it was compatable with it. I didn't get the Nintendo until it was nearing its end, so the 7800 kept me satisfied until then. Sega Genesis would have to come in second.
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Posts: 7 | Location: Minnesota | Registered: 01 January 2008
The coolest and most awesomestest ever! Ok, well it was rather revolutionary, for couple of straight lines and a blip.
Seriously, I would have to say the Atari was the coolest. I had a 2600, and it was awesome. I now have the 2600, 5200, 7800, as well as NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Game Boy, GBA, GBASP, DS, Sega Dreamcast (Superb), Pong System from telegames (Sears), PS2, and just recently got an Xbox. Time and money permitting, I'll get the 360 and a Wii. PS3 is not looking good to me. I'll wait for the PS4 to come out, and get a PS3. Games will be cheaper then too.
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Posts: 3 | Location: Pluto is still a Planet! | Registered: 13 April 2008
The NES is my favorite, but I still miss my old Intellivision now and then - fun system, but never has a controller been built that was more brutal to the thumbs!
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