EGM's Top Ten Consoles of All Time
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Duck of Death
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Hmmmm.
I wouldn't argue too much with that list to be honest.
Fair reflection.
All though Xbox owners can sit back smug in the knowledge they can safely emulate over half the consoles on that list.
Although it's lucky it's just consoles. Otherwise the C64 would have leapt through the air like a billion agent smiths....dragged the NES's beaten down in a billion man burly brawl corpse, stuck it's head under the water and laughed manically as the American machine triumphed to no.1 leaving the bloated corpse of the NES floating in a pool of megaman sequels.
I wouldn't argue too much with that list to be honest.
Fair reflection.
All though Xbox owners can sit back smug in the knowledge they can safely emulate over half the consoles on that list.
Although it's lucky it's just consoles. Otherwise the C64 would have leapt through the air like a billion agent smiths....dragged the NES's beaten down in a billion man burly brawl corpse, stuck it's head under the water and laughed manically as the American machine triumphed to no.1 leaving the bloated corpse of the NES floating in a pool of megaman sequels.
Screaming_Gremlin
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Screaming_Gremlin said:
bitwise said:
Come on GAF, don't let me down.
captmcblack
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WHERE IS THE 2600?
MILLIONS WILL DIE.
MILLIONS WILL DIE.
Mama Smurf
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While the GC is probably the better system when you look at the third party support etc., I personally found the best games on the N64 better than the best on the GC. Guess it depends how you look at it.
Shikamaru Ninja
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The Dreamcast has nowhere as many commercial games as GC. I mean seriously.. Dreamcast was a great system, but it really was unchallenged in its time, making its library seem much better than it actually is.
The Faceless Master
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no saturn?
no 2600?
no gameboy color?
what the fuck?
no 2600?
no gameboy color?
what the fuck?
Shikamaru Ninja
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The N64 below Dreamcast should be debated too. Super Mario 64, Goldeneye 007, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time >>> Sonic and all the 2D fighters on DC to everyone but g33ks.
SantaCruZer said:
Road Rash for 3DO was prime stuff. Twisted was rather unique. Slam 'N Jam was as close as you could get to playing Konami's Run 'N Gun without owning the coin-op. John Madden Football looked amazing at the time. Wing Commander III looked pretty awesome, too.
The 3DO didn't get a lot of support, but it had the backing of a few key publishers.
Mama Smurf
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Yeah, but you're still taking the piss abotu it being ahead of the GC, right?
If not...well...I don't know what to say. That would be ridiculous.
EDIT: Was the NES really better than the SNES? Not to my mind.
If not...well...I don't know what to say. That would be ridiculous.
EDIT: Was the NES really better than the SNES? Not to my mind.
Shikamaru Ninja said:
N64 had some classics. Games that people still hold as the best above most, but the Dreamcast, in some eyes, is a classic in itself. Where the Saturn has the stench of failure, the Dreamcast felt like Sega was going down in a blaze of glory. I think that's what attracted so many "g33ks" to it in the first place, and why they still place it heads and shoulders above others.
Hellraizah
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The fact that the Neo Geo isn't there proves that the list is innacurate.
Mama Smurf
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I'm trying to think of a single genre where the best NES game is better than the best SNES one and failing miserably.
Except, perhaps, for SMB3 over SMW in some people's mind. But you get an enhanced version on the SNES too, so that kinda kills that one.
Except, perhaps, for SMB3 over SMW in some people's mind. But you get an enhanced version on the SNES too, so that kinda kills that one.
Did EGM give the criteria they used to compile the list? Is it based on historical significance, sales, game library, what? I agree that NES and Playstation should be in the top 3 (I even agree with the ordering NES > Playstation), but where the fuck are any systems prior to the NES? In particular, the Atari 2600 should be in the top 3, certainly somewhere in that list of 10 (how can you include systems like Xbox and Gamecube and not the 2600?).
Mama Smurf said:
I still hold the NES in very high regard to this day. It's certainly one of the most influential consoles in history, bringing console gaming back from ashes and all that jazz. The games (mostly) didn't require instructions, and the controller (though uncomfortable at times) was simple enough that gamers from 4-84 could play without having to constantly worry about what button does what.
You can argue that the SNES did things better than the NES did, but (in my mind) you can't argue the importance of the NES to the industry... even today.
Doom_Bringer
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nice list!