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What was your favorite 90s console?

What was your favorite 90s console?

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I'm personally partial to the 64 myself, but I am curious what you all are thinking too.

And I know some of these were released in the late 80s, but a bulk of their games were made in the 90s.
 
64 has the best memories due to multiplayer for me. Genesis is probably a more sentimental favorite. PSX is really up there too, but I got it late and vast majority of hours on that were in 99/2000 onwards. Awesome times, awesome consoles all around.
 
For me it's between the Mega Drive and the Playstation.
But the Playstation would be my top pick.
Gran Turismo, Tekken 2 and 3, Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid, Spyro the dragon, Wipeout 2097, Resident Evil, and many more.
 
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Some SNES games but on PC

PlayStation and some of them on PC

Dreamcast, I was 10 when this console released but I thought it'd be better to wait for the PS2, I actually have great memories playing sega consoles with my cousins, it's not like I know nothing about the platform, same thing with Nintendo.

PC, many great games, already my perfect platform since I was 8.
 
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Based on how much time I spent on them, it would be SNES, Playstation, Megadrive. In that order.
Trying to weigh them against each other turns into an impossible calculus, I might have spent most of the time on the SNES, but I really enjoyed my time with Buck Rodgers, Warriors of the Eternal Sun & Starflight on the Megadrive and the Playstation's library was mostly 3D slop which aged horribly. Does Symphony of the Night alone carry it?
 
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Ps1 without a doubt, legendary games library full of really weird & inventive games. The birthplace of the rhythm game genre.

One of the console libraries I'll never sell, I still regularly play them. Even 30 years later I'm still finding hidden Japanese games I had no knowledge of. Interesting that some obscure stuff is been re-released in modern systems. Never in a million years thought miranos part time job collection & 70s robot anime geppy x would see re-releases.
 
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Loved snes/megadrive/psx/saturn/n64 and dreamcast but clear winner was playstation here, for the simple reason of unprecented amount of high quality exclusive games, including but not only one of my fav genres- jrpgs :)
 
I would have said Game Boy, because you also included the Virtua Boy (clearly a handheld, not a console). Though as it was released in 1989, I'll go with the SNES.
I replay games from that console on a regular basis.
 
Close race between N64 and PSX with the SNES being a not too distant 3rd.

Which one wins pretty much depends on my mood. PSX had the far bigger library but some of the N64 games were just so groundbreakingly awesome that it made up for it. And it was not like i could afford more than a handful of games a year as a kid anyway.
 
I switched from the Amiga to the PlayStation because it really blew me away in an electronics store! Ridge Racer ran on it, and that totally blew me away!

But I also really liked the SNES and the Saturn!
 
N64 but honestly If I had a choice between everything listed here Vs everything that came after I'd choose the 90s consoles no question.
 
PS1 was my first console so the choice was easy. I'd been playing on Amiga and PC before then. A friend had a PC Engine and a Neo Geo with a lot of games and those games were VERY impressive back then, but I could never afford those. (And I always wondered how that guy was able to afford those ...)
 
Voted Saturn but MegaDrive is also up there, but it is a 80s console after all.

The thing is that Saturn is the console that largely introduced 3D games to me and close to arcade, when not perfect, 2D ports (right the 32X, I have to admit). And that was totally insane back then. We suddenly had access to such a large variety of games, genres and perspectives thanks to 3D, that everything seemed possible. I couldn't believe that I was playing Night Warriors and X-Men COTA at home and that it was so good. I felt like I didn't deserve this lol.

Still the MegaDrive remains the best 2D system in my opinion and many series and genres have their best iterations on this console.
 
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Most exciting for me was the SNES by far ... but the PlayStation is an easy second.

My ranking would probably look like this.

1. SNES
2. PlayStation 1
3. Genesis
4. Dreamcast
5. Saturn
 
Back then: Mega Drive

Now and in hindsight: toss up between SNES and Mega Drive. Two amazing, timeless consoles. Nothing has ever come close after them for me. I always hated the N64 for example..
 
I was going to say Playstation, but SNES is having many votes and my little me is getting angry. So I voted for Megadrive.


(Both are great, best console war ever)
 
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Favorite 90s Consoles:
SNES & PlayStation

Favorite 90s Games:
1. Super Metroid
2. Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
3. Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
4. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
5. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
6. Metal Gear Solid
7. Super Mario World
8. Super Mario 64
 
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It's weird. I don't really remember playing the snes that much during the 90s. I know I did, but the memory is just fuzzy on it. I mostly just remember nes and the playstation consoles.
 
N64 for sure. Just incredible exclusives.
PS1 had it beat for quantity, but not quality.
SNES had it beat for RPG's, but the jump to 3D was just incredible.
There will never be another Mario 64 / Ocarina of Time moment again in gaming.

Also, PC gaming from the mid 90's onward was amazing. Easily beats most of the consoles on the list.
 
Sega Genesis/CD was the only Console I had in the 90's Anything else was a Gameboy,
I had a Turbo Graphix portable with a TV attachment for a short time.
The battery destroyer.

I was fully into PC gaming in the 90's. Took the PS2 super slim to get me to really look at Consoles. 2004? Even then, mostly using PC with World of Warcraft.
 
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PSX(1) was/is my fav of the era.
N64 i probably have the best memories thanks to multiplayer. (Goldeneye, WWF, Starfox)
Genesis 3rd. My first console, so naturally love it.

Original Gameboy is my first gaming equipment. Great memories with tetris pack-in, Home alone, Ninja Turtles, eventually Pokemon Red in blk/white. lol
 
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