Of all the systems you have owned, which one were you MOST hyped for?

It's hard to out-excite the mind of a child, so for me it's a toss up between the Master System and Amiga 500.
Every console after from the Megadrive and forward was paid with the fruits of my own labor.

The console which excited me most with an adult analytical mind is 100% the PS2. After the PS1 curbed the competition everyone expected them to do it again, and they did.
 
First PC with CD rom.

Coming off Atari ST, Amiga, SNES:

Bernard Cribbins GIF by Fede Cook
 
Gamecube and PS3, (For the PS3 it was my first ever Playstation and the only reason I brought it was because of Metal Gear 4...) Gamecube was a whole new level, especially when you saw the Star Wars games on there....
 
Probably the PSX. I was ready for the 3D leap. This wasn't just an improved SNES/GEN experience, it was completely different and games are being played like this to this very day, albeit much more detailed and bigger.

Dreamcast too. It stole the PS2's thunder as it showed off 6th gen graphics a year before. It was a huge leap over the 5th.
 
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Dreamcast by a mile. Sega was BACK baby! Pity they were dead two years later.....

N64 hype was huge for me too, I was utterly entranced by Mario 64. When I got it I hated it thanks to the worst controller in gaming history.

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Probably the first PSX as the change from Genesis and SNES was huge.

That said I did have a PC already by the time so that hype wasn't as big as it would have been otherwise.
 
Have to go with


Once u got ur ps2 and started it up for the first time back in 2000 it fellt like u owning piece of alien spaceship technology :messenger_ok:

Bonus jaws commercial :
 
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For me it was the Xbox 360. Having just gotten back into console gaming when Halo 2 launched, I had to have the next Xbox. Oddly enough, when I finally landed a 360 it was faulty out of the box. My heart sank.
 
My first own gaming PC. Specifically bought to be able to run games well, and it was my own machine.

Tied with the hype for the PS2. The hype was unreal. After the PS1, my expectations were through the roof. (I'm always hyped for new hardware, though.)

I might have picked my Game Boy, but I got it as a Christmas gift, and I never thought that I would get one. Love(d) to bits.
 
Most excited = original PlayStation. Playing that demo disc of FF7 (did that come withy EGM?) was a real jaw dropping moment. Once it came out I remember staying up all weekend with my friends at one of their houses playing Battle Arena Toshinden and Ridge Racer. I didn't have the money to get one at launch and had to wait a few months. It was genuinely upsetting that I didn't have one myself at first. I had to do a lot of odd jobs and lawn work to get enough money together. I got mine right before Christmas of '95.

The PS2, original Xbox, and the gaming PC I built in 2011 wound up being almost as satisfying as the original PlayStation, but not quite to that level.
 
PlayStation 2. I had a PlayStatiuon 1 when it came out too but it was my school friend that even convinced me to ask my parents to get me one.
Then after playing that for years I was excited for the PS2 so much that I'd re-read magazines constantly on the lead up to its release.

Still have my original console from launch too.
 
PS3. With all the hype sony built from the bullshit cg trailers and CELL CELL CELL they kept touting. That was also the reason I joined neoGAF I believe.
 
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For me it was either N64 and the up coming Shadows of the Empire or PS2. The only console I ever lined up for in freezing cold weather was the PS2. I actually don't recall ever having an issue getting a console at relealse other than the PS2 and N64, both were difficult to get.
 
Well I'd rather talk about the whole 6th console gen. By the end of the 90s, I had a decent PC for the time so PS1/N64 were already ugly to me, but not as good as even the dreamcast. So when I saw games like Crazy Taxi and Soul Calibur, I had one of these "games will never look better than this" moment. Then at a friends house, years later I saw Grand Turismo 3 and Jak and Daxter on PS2, it blew my mind again. Finally I bought the Gamecube with Rogue Leader, and it blew my mind again. Nearly flawless 60 FPS on that trench run with these "pixar level" (that's what I believed) lighting effects on the walls when you shoot your lasers... PS360 and other gens after this never impressed me like this, not even 4K60+ FPS games on PC can.
 
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PS3 - first I bought with my own money. Half cash half credit.

PSVR - was hyped after trying it at Best Buy, went and picked it up from UPS. Wouldn't even wait for them to bring it.

PS5 - I bought 3 at launch and thought I was a pimp. Gave 1 as a gift. Got retail price for one just so a friend would have one for their kids Christmas. Kept the 3rd.
 
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N64 easily

I was the kid screaming my head off Christmas morning when unwrapped that puppy. And it did not disappoint. Being able to play Mario 64 as much as I wanted was pure joy and maybe a once in a lifetime experience.
 
PS4

I was dying to play a proper version of Battlefield 4, the Grand Theft Auto V remaster, DriveClub once they dropped the rain update, the Silent Hills playable teaser, Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare which I had already added to my library when they gave it away during PSX 2014 and, of course, the upcoming 2015 lineup of games which included The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Star Wars Battlefront, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Batman: Arkham Knight, Until Dawn and (the later delayed) Uncharted 4: A Thief's End.

Insane hype.
 
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SNES. I only had a famicom clone but started buying some Club Nintendo magazine (Nintendo Power version in Latin America) and I remember reading about A Link to the Past and watching the graphics and being completely blown away. I started saving for that (literally the only console I actually saved for) and my father brought it as a surprise after a trip he did to visit his relatives alone. Never been so pumped about a console I didn't have to actually save for it.
 
Probably SNES. Because I was a kid and it was my second generational leap. A close second could be the PSP just because it was so sexy (it still is).
 
Probably the Wii.
After Sunshine let me down, Mario Galaxy looked like a dream come true, and the pointer was such a great addition, as someone who always found aiming with an analogue stick kinda meh.
 
At the time, Virtual Boy. Never really panned out, but as a kid I was pure hype about it.

Otherwise, PS3, which ended up being one of my favorite consoles and favorite generations of gaming.
 
I never had consoles at launch as a kid. My first true 'launch day' hardware was PS4. Pretty exciting at the time since the 360/PS# era felt like it dragged on for so long

But OG Switch was probably my most hype, first midnight console launch and first Nintendo home console since N64. The form factor was new and innovative, I had a ton to catch up on, and return to traditional/dual analog controls.
 
Amstrad CPC to Commodore Amiga in 1990. My games went from having 27 colors to 4096 colors and the audio went from single channel bleep-bloop to sampled 90s techno in 4 channel stereo.

Hearing Xenon 2 Megablast for the first time was truly mindblowing back then.

 
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