You double posted this.

Anyways, personally i enjoyed both SNES and PSOne equally since they offered lots the RPG genre, i'm not a FF7 fanboy (thank god), i think my first RPG was Final Fantasy Mystic Quest, and then Final Fantasy 6, I had a N64 for a while which I enjoyed, but when I got a PSOne, when it was like a 100 bucks, i started enjoying all the RPG gems that it has.

To sum it up... SNES and PSOne

 Original Nintendo.

Aside from my computer, it's the only gaming system I've every had. My brother and I used to play together as a pretty good team. I remember beating all 99 levels of Bubble Bobble, and waiting an eternity to get Metroid. The power glove was supposed to awesome...I even remember it being featured in a movie...but really, it sucked...just like Rob the Robot.

This is like asking me to pick my favorite child...if i had any.

If I just had to pick 1, I couldn't. I loved my ps2, a 10 year libary of games makes for a badass system.

I loved my xbox...mostly after I had it's 8gb harddrive removed and replaced with one that had 250gb. I pirated every game I could for that system after that.

I enjoy my PSP like you wouldn't belive, I love that old games are being updated and released for all these handhelds, Final Fantasy Tactics has been in my PSP since the day I got it.

My PC isn't a hardcore gaming rig, but I do have the emulators for the classic consoles I had a as a child, the NES and SNES and GBA...yep I'm a pirate, or a theif, whatever. I also have a few current gen games on it, Crysis, Fallout 3, and Dragon Age to name a  few.

Also, my PS3. That system rocks. the only thing I wish the PS3 did, was play ps2 games, it's fucking retarded that it dosn't, the only thing stoping that was a chip sony left out og it for the option to do it with software, that they have a patent on, but won't release in a patch. fuck you sony.

I agree PSOne and PS2 are great systems. I don't have a PS3... and I don't think I will, I don't think its a bad system.. i just not as good as Ps1 or Ps2, they had an amazing library.

I still feel that the Super Nintendo was almost by itself the harbinger of the golden age of 2-D games.  I don't know if they can get better than that.  Plus, being such an RPG fan, the SNES was just amazing for that genre.  Add in classics like Link to the Past and Super Mario World...  yeah.  That's my pick.

However, the N64 had some really great games.  Yeah, a small library, but Super Mario 64, Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, Ocarina of Time, and Smash Brothers Brawl were all among the best games of that generation.  Honorable mention.

The PS2 is probably my second favorite platform.  It's just the gift that kept giving.  Almost 10 years of games will make sure that you have your share of classics.  Final Fantasy X was one of the best modern FF games, the GTA series opened up a whole new genre, and the Metal Gear series also reached its pinnacle at this point as well.

Umm. Roo, Brawl wasn't for the N64, it was just super smash bros.

Ooops, you're right.  I meant just Smash Bros.

Omg, I corrected the almighty Roo! Lolz.

The Gamecube.

I just love being able to play almost all the RE games on one console.

Plus, it has SSBM and Eternal darkness.

SNES and PSX.

I still play them, even though my 4 playstations are now dead while my 2 bricky SNES consoles still work!

(I figure out how to emulate all my favorite games on every single electronic I own :))

 Wii.

I'm sort of cheating when I say it's my favorite, because I mostly use it to play Nes/Snes/Gameboy/Genesis/N64 games via virtual console and homebrew emulators (for stuff like Earthbound). But I do enjoy Wii games more than 360/PS3 games.

It's shocking how the sole genre of first/third person shooters gets boring after awhile. 

Well I guess I'll go with 95% of yall and say SNES. N64 is a close second though. Although I did grow up with SNES, N64 is my real childhood.

I'd have to say SNES. I still bust it out for stuff like Secret of Evermore and Earthbound but the PS2 would be my second choice for it's ridiculously huge library.

And yeah, it does suck that the PS3 doesn't do backwards compatability anymore because it doesn't seem to have a noticeably better library that the Xbox 360 doesn't.

The ps3 will play ps1 games, and some ps3's will play ps2 games. The current thought on BC for the playstation is that you will be able to buy games from the PSN. There isn't any word on it yet, but BC will be emulated on the ps3 instead of hardware like the ps2.

Yet, who would want to pay 5.99 or 9.99 to re-download a game they already own?

If I recall correctly from looking at my PSP's PSN store, you can only download the game 3 times after purchase as well (or some other number), the limitations of space and the slow download of large games makes redownloading something you already own a chore; financially too.

@Kurara: Well one reason I can think of is to convince the people who made the game to pay more attention to the series. I mean, I totally would of bought FFII (IV) on the Virtual Console to convince Square to bring V & VI over despite having FFII and III on cart already.

@Kurara

For the same reason you wouldn't go to the store and buy the same game twice?

It's not there for those that have played, but those those that haven't. Not to mention all the people that would buy it anyway because they enjoyed the hell out that game on the other console.

About  "buying a game that you already own" is not about just spending more money on the same game... some people like in my case... i'm tired of cases...dvds... etc, I rather use Digital Distribution like Steam, for consoles a good excuse for not allowing Backwards Compability is to sell more... i think,,,

Well, if you consider that the xbox 360 arcade dosen't play xbox games, and that after you consider the cost of a 360,  a harddrive, and a year of live, you could get a ps3 and ps2.

xbox 369 price breakdown:
-xbox360 $199
-120gb HDD $129
-12 month gold membership to xbox live $49
Total = $377 (not including tax)

Playstation Price Breakdown
-PS3 slim with 120GB HDD $299
-PS2 bundle w/ lego batman $99
Total = $398 (not including tax)

I'm not pointing this out to argue which is better the 360 or ps3, but bc on both consles costs you about the same.

btw, I'm sure people on here would skip the live card, but this is to show what you would have to spend to get the exact same thing from both in regards to what they offer.

EDIT: I mentioned the batman game for the ps2, the 360 arcade bundle has kung fu panda, and some racing game.

Hey everybody, my birthday was today, and I got a console that is a combonation of a SNES and a NES. I can't remeber the exact name, but it's pretty cool

Happy birthday Cycopather. I guess maybe I should make a topic for it since you did one for Roo I think. Anyways, I've been looking into getting a combination NES and Genesis recently or a  portable SNES or Genesis. I actually almost bought a Genesis with  Sonic 2 and Sonic & Knuckles  today.

I had a game for my Gamecube, I think it was called.... "Sonic the Hedgehog, Mega Collection" or something of that nature. It had a ton of old Sonic games such as; Sonic the Hedgehog (1,2 and 3) Sonic and Knuckles, Dr. Robotniks Mean Bean machine, and some other good stuff.

Happy Birthday, Cycopather. :)

To refer to my original point, backwards compatibility should be incorporated for those who already own the game. Of course I realize that there are people who are new to the game, but they shouldn't gimp the system if it already set a precedent upon release (See PS3).

@cycopather: yeah it was sonic mega collection (good times)

anyways, my favorite system was probably GBA becuz it had game remakes like the mario advanced games and it had some other good games too (Minish cap FTW)

I used to have Mega Collection, but now I have no idea where it is. I still have Gems Collection though, but the only game worth playing on it is Sonic CD. I do wonder why Sega makes all these collections of Sonic 1, 2, 3 & Knuckles, but no Sonic CD .-.

GameCube - The games are great, but are hard to find a decent selection of them. (The N64 has the same problem.) The other thing about the GameCube is the GameBoy Player, I do not need to play on a small screen (actually I didn't buy handheld games because of that.) So yea I can play Gameboy Colour/Advance and GameCube games all on one console.

NES since it is the only console that I can play Final Fantasy (NES) on, and also has a large selection of games.

FF I is on a GBA cart that you could play on the the GCGBP.

Though the graphics are updated (own the cart, haven't played it yet.)

That is Final Fantasy I not Final Fantasy (NES).

I have Dawn of Souls and I bought it for Final Fantasy II but had problems with that game so I played Final Fantasy I. My issues with Final Fantasy I is it's no challenge, no ineffective, four Black Mages all level up at the same time, the Black Mages's weapons do more damage than their magic, 3 types of healing potions (which I only use the regular ones),  airship music I hate it I turn the sound off before using the airship and I keep calling them Mages even after class change.

Graphic wise I prefer the NES blackness in the battles, Crescent Lake on the other hand I have always liked it, in the GBA version it's even more lovely.

EDIT: 03-28-2011

Forgot MP and how it's all pooled together meaning you can overuse some spells unlike the NES where you can use only a certain level so many time and that is for all three spells in that magic level.

The Nintendo 64

It was my first console as a kid and i played the hell out of it, so many good memories where made on that console. It was such a huge part of what makes me what I am today

The SNES is still the greatest console of all time.

And MWM, getting rid of the "ineffective" was one of the greatest innovations in early RPGs.

I recently rediscovered my Sega Saturn.... man are those nostalgia goggles thick.

Been playing Nights lately. It's that game or id4, which was loads better on the Saturn then it was on the ps1. I think the Saturn had more video memory, so some objects don't just suddenly appear right in front of you, they pop up a little further away (was one of AVGN's big complaints with the game).

Mr. K: I wish more game had at least an option to have an "Ineffective" since it added more strategy to the game. Thinking of it most people don't like a challenge, they just want to play the game as easy as possible.

getting rid of the "ineffective" was one of the greatest innovations in early RPGs

Wait, what?Were there other RPGs that had it?  Final Fantasy NES is the only game I played that has it.

On the topic of the SNES most people put it at the number one spot for greatest console ever, myself beside the excellent graphics of some games I find that the NES I can find a random game that I like, SNES I can not think of a random game I picked up that I liked.

@MWM, hey go tell that to these guys

http://boards.4chan.org/v/

Arkus I was going to ask what about but read the 4chan page and see that the X-Box fans post there.

Regarding the 'PS3 has no games' why is it that I have a list of over a dozen games I want while the X-Box/X-Box 360 I only had three games but that got knock down to one since one is a remark and the other was ported to the PS3.

I wouldn't take memes so seriously. "PS3 has no games" was started when the console came out when it a really shitty list of launch titles.

The first person to argue that the gundum game or that that one Japaneses sword fighting game was good, do yourself the favor and drill holes in your head until the evil spirits come out.

Except Resistance, that game was awesome.

Favorit console? Hmmm... I grow up with a NES and then SNES/SEGA but never actually owned anyone... I think? Memory is alittle foggy sometimes. I did own a N64 but I sold it for a Playstation, and thats when I really got into to gaming. I was a FF7 fan boi, but it past... I found out that several other games out there had more epicness then FF7, not saying its a bad game, its a really damn good game. But there are games that I liked more on the Playstation then FF7, like... Suikoden 1&2! So to answear the question... The Ps2, it could play all the games from playstation and playstation 2. I would have said PS3 but that block cant play any other games then ps3 ones... Sucks when they could easily have had  an emulator inside to play the old games. 

1) PS2- had quality and quantity. Extremely diverse library as well.

2a) SNES- nintendo first party was at its peak here, not a super diverse library is its only weakness (mostly jrpgs and adventure games....two of my favorite genres though).

2b) PS1 - PS1 was really similar to the SNES. Lot of jrpgs and adventure games. The only difference is that the SNES had a bit more on the high quality, above average quantity. The PS1's top games were usually a tier below the top SNES games, but the PS1 had a lot more above average/one tier below perfect games.

4) N64- Nintendo first party was still solid here. Who can forget walking into hyrule field for the first time? Rare was an great developer for the N64 as well. Great multiplayer system. Only weakness while the top games is a diverse list, its also a small list

5) Maybe a odd choice but the Game Boy Advance. Solid portable that squeaks into the top 5. A bit too heavy on the ports, but at least they were good ports. Lotta decent JRPGs, adventure games, and even a few good faster paced action types.

if i had to round it out to a top 10, it would probably include: NES, PSP, DS, Saturn, and the Dreamcast in some order.