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Best Overall Retro Console

  • 19-04-2011 3:47pm
    #1
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭


    Ok, so which is the best retro system overall?

    I'm hoping people will only vote for a system they have and love and not one the wish they had.

    This poll is to see what retro system you think is the best, it doesn't have to have the best games or be the best looking, just the one you like the most, for whatever reason.

    I've included as many systems as I can but the limit for polls on boards is 25.
    I'm sure I've left out someone's favourite so sorry, stick it in the comments.

    I've included systems from the 1st to the 6th generations of consoles, so the cut off was 2004.


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    Best Overall Retro Console 47 votes

    Atari 2600
    0% 0 votes
    Vectrex
    2% 1 vote
    Game Boy
    0% 0 votes
    Sega Game Gear
    4% 2 votes
    Sega Master System
    0% 0 votes
    NES
    0% 0 votes
    Sega Mega Drive
    0% 0 votes
    Atari Lynx
    17% 8 votes
    Neo-Geo
    0% 0 votes
    Neo-Geo CD
    2% 1 vote
    SNES
    0% 0 votes
    Philips CD-i
    38% 18 votes
    Sega Nomad
    2% 1 vote
    Virtual Boy
    0% 0 votes
    Atari Jaguar
    0% 0 votes
    PlayStation
    0% 0 votes
    Sega Saturn
    6% 3 votes
    3DO
    0% 0 votes
    Amiga CD32
    4% 2 votes
    Nintendo 64
    0% 0 votes
    Dreamcast
    10% 5 votes
    Game Boy Advance
    4% 2 votes
    Nintendo GameCube
    0% 0 votes
    PlayStation 2
    4% 2 votes
    Xbox
    4% 2 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,890 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    SNES. You can close the thread now.
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  • #3
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    SNES. You can close the thread now.

    Hmm, lets see what the others say first :)

    The SNES was/is a great system no doubt and I'm sure a lot of people will pick that. But maybe they will pick something else, maybe they will realise they like another system that has bad games and looks rubbish, but they love it just the same.

    I cant be the only one :o


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  • #4
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I know at least one is going to vote for the Jag!

    Me, I'm torn between the MD and the Snes, maybe a hint of the Gameboy...
    Probably jump for the Megadrive.


  • #5
    Optimus Prime
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 5,391 Mod ✭✭✭✭Optimus Prime


    SNES for me, great games, great memorys, the control pad was better than the megadrive one i think personally.


  • #6
    ghostchant
    Registered Users Posts: 1,750 ✭✭✭ghostchant


    Went with gameboy, but was leaning towards GBA/SNES. Ask me next week and I could say something completely different though


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  • #7
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Don't think the PS2 or the Xbox should be in there at all, not retro, heck you can still buy PS2 games in regular shops!
    Some pruning is needed.


  • #8
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Don't think the PS2 or the Xbox should be in there at all, not retro, heck you can still buy PS2 games in regular shops!
    Some pruning is needed.

    yeah, I think ur prob right.


  • #9
    Steve X2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,886 ✭✭✭Steve X2


    I don't have edit options for the poll, can an admin kill the PS2 and Xbox options. They really shouldn't be there.

    .


  • #10
    Funkfield
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,602 ✭✭✭Funkfield


    I clicked Atari Jaguar before I realised this poll might actually be for real.


  • #11
    appleidog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 384 ✭✭appleidog


    N64 Cause Mario 64 is the best game ever.

    And how come there is the megadrive and the nomad, but no PC engine :(


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  • #12
    martineatworld
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭martineatworld


    Cube ftw...!

    Actually, I think I should've voted Playstation.

    Or SNES.

    Or Gameboy.

    Or Dreamcast.

    Ahhhh!


  • #13
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    GAMEBOY......................................................


  • #14
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    I've said it before, but I'll say it again..

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vX2nHBploM


  • #15
    K.O.Kiki
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,733 ✭✭✭✭K.O.Kiki


    PS2.

    2 decades of developers' experience coming together with low costs/pricing & high market share gaves us some of the best games ever created.


  • #16
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    K.O.Kiki wrote: »
    PS2.

    2 decades of developers' experience coming together with low costs/pricing & high market share gaves us some of the best games ever created.

    Yeah, a great and essential console without a doubt, but as long as Tescos are still selling games for it for 29.99 (WCW 2008, saw it there this evening!) then the machine cannot be retro.
    Could be 5/8 years before the PS2 could be even considered retro, in any way!
    It was so mainstream that it can't even go for the pre-retro "cult" status.
    Hard to be cult when everyone has one!

    The GC has a better chance of being cult than the PS2!
    Even the Xbox was marginally more, well, less vanilla anyways, not to cast aspersions on the games on the Xbox, a machine killed off before it's time, but it is no where near retro status either.

    The PS/Saturn/N64 are not long over the crest of the hill, into the valley of retro-hood, and it took some convincing to get the committee to admit the PS, believe me!


  • #17
    Nuri Sahin
    Site Banned Posts: 26,456 ✭✭✭✭Nuri Sahin


    Torn between the N64 and SNES but... I voted for N64, probably because it's more fresh in the memory after playing a couple of weekends ago for the first time in ages :)


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