Best All Time Game Platform


What was/is the best gaming system?  

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  1. 1. What was/is the best gaming system?

    • Nintendo Entertainment System
      81
    • Super Nintendo
      182
    • Xbox
      75
    • PC
      181
    • Nintendo64
      28
    • Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance
      6
    • Nintendo Gamecube
      17
    • Playstation
      19
    • Playstation 2
      77
    • Other (Please Specify)
      107


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Playstation 2.

I may have chosen Dreamcast, but I'm starting to really fall for my PS2 again... The next-gen FF's are just amazing...

Another abscure system I woulda voted for would be Phillips CDi... Only problem is, they made 8 games. Man ... playing Hotel Mario was awesome :)

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Another abscure system I woulda voted for would be Phillips CDi... Only problem is, they made 8 games. Man ... playing Hotel Mario was awesome :)

I actually had a chance to play one of those silly things. Hotel Mario was actually quite good. And weren't there also a few Legend of Zelda's on it, even though they weren't made by Nintendo or something? I came across information on them once, they looked interesting. In one I think you could actually play as Zelda because Link got captured for once.

Super Nintendo, with PSX (that's PSOne today) as a close second.

Reasons: Final Fantasy. Breath of Fire. Secret of Mana. Chrono Trigger. The list goes on.

Need I say more? :D

And in every respect, the PSX was the heir to SNES, with all of those series having been continued on the PSX (not sure about Secret of Mana though). In fact, as many of you doubtlessly know, PSX was originally designed as an expansion to the SNES, but Nintendo and Sony went separate ways before the original PSX could be launched.

And some more reasons for SNES' greatness: Super Punch-Out. Yoshi's Island. Zelda 3. Zombies ate my neighbors. Super Mario Kart... :wacko:

PS2 - already had the PS1 games as a starting backbone when it first came out, enabling both who already had the PS1, and those who wanted to invest in the future with the PS2 to instantly have some fun :)

....PSX was originally designed as an expansion to the SNES, but Nintendo and Sony went separate ways before the original PSX could be launched.

So if I understand and remember correctly, the SNES did have a CD-ROM expansion, but only in Japan, and it later turned into the Playstation?

So if I understand and remember correctly, the SNES did have a CD-ROM expansion, but only in Japan, and it later turned into the Playstation?

I looked up some info about it in a recent retrogaming magazine. No CD-ROM expansion for the SNES was ever released, in Japan or elsewhere. If it were, it would likely be emulated by now and public word of it be out on the emulation forums.

What I could find in that magazine was a picture of the original concept unit (clearly labelled "Nintendo PlayStation") and the following information: Sony was contracted to develop the audio chip for the SNES. When that went well, they were contracted to develop a CD-ROM add-on for the SNES, to be called "PlayStation". Something went afoul between the big N and Sony, N turned to Philips but never got anything out of them, and Sony took their unfinished product, boosted it and turned it into a standalone unit.

i voted other

and i liked the Intellivision, i would of spent 5+ hours a day playing that thing as a kid! and i still have mine in working order too! and i got about 40 games!

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