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

PS2 by far, it was such a huge leap forward and the games looked unreal at the time.
SSX and Armored Core were my jam
 
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PS3 and I felt like a clown because of it. Even bought a flat screen tv to game on but ended up playing PS2 and Wii on a CRT instead before the year was through.
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Game Boy Advance by far. The idea back in 2001 of having a handheld SNES was insanity. The screen was ass, but eventually we got IPS replacement kits and all was fixed. It lived up to the hype too when it comes to the library, which is a bonus.
 
That'd be the N64. I was more hyped for the Dreamcast but then never got one which I regret to this day. I always had a PC and saw that as a given even as a kid which of course kills all hype potential, even though I always spent the most time there.
 
Has to be the 360 for me. It was the only console I waited outside all night for on launch night and it was amazing. CoD2 was amazing for a few months until my first RROD.
 
Honestly, maybe the Wii. The hype for that console was absolutely insane.

And to this day, I still think it's an insanely good console.

But it's probably the N64 overall. Seeing the Mario 64 demo in Toys R Us was a religious experience.
 
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the Amiga 500

As a poor kid I couldn't afford the 1000 when it came out as it was around £1599 and marketed as a business machine.

i had, however, seen defender of the crown running on it at one of the Novotel computer shows at launch.

how I lusted after it and the disappointment of that price was a hard cross to bear.

luckily savvy heads prevailed and the A500 launch In 1987 provided me with the opportunity to purchase this halo computer.

Taken for granted now, but that bouncing ball multitasking demo still blew me away when I played it.

oh and ray tracing.... who remembers the juggler demo
 
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PS2 and PS3. I was a young man during that era and my hype gauge was much higher than it is now. Wasn't hyped for 360 but when I got it, became a goto for 3rd party games. PS3 was a massive disappointment initially (games wise) , but came back towards the 2nd part of its life , with ND games and KZ2.
 
Thebonehead said:
the Amiga 500

As a poor kid I couldn't afford the 1000 when it came out as it was around £1599 and marketed as a business machine.

i had, however, seen defender of the crown running on it at one of the Novotel computer shows at launch.

how I lusted after it and the disappointment of that price was a hard cross to bear.

luckily savvy heads prevailed and the A500 launch In 1987 provided me with the opportunity to purchase this halo computer.

Taken for granted now, but that bouncing ball multitasking demo still blew me away when I played it.

oh and ray tracing.... who remembers the juggler demo
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I don't know how I forgot to include AMIGA in my list. Remember not being able to sleep at night from the excitement. My late dad got me AMIGA500 , 1080S monitor, 2nd floppy drive and 512 MB ram expansion. This was late 1988 and I was "floating on the water" for months. Cinemaware games, Sword Of Sodom graphics blew my 15 yr ol mind. Best times ever.
 
Yeah the Amiga 500 as a kid was just so much more than a machine to play games.

You could tinker around till your hearts content. Use music software even though you didn't have a clue what you're doing. Play 100's of demos and mess around, use deluxe paint to draw and animate. Pirate all the games and pick up games for 50p a disk at carboot sales. I loved it.

2nd place is the N64 and Mario 64 on release day. I was 14 and oh my, was that a special feeling playing that. It was so polished.
 
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PS1,2,3. Couldn't tell actually which one is better but with expectations being met, the PS1&2, PS3 on a distanced 2nd. The original Wii also has a special place, it's the last trad console with hitter titles.
 
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PS3. I just got all previous hardware as gifts and was more interested playing outside with friends back then.

Now when they released the FF7 demo, holy shit it was over.
 
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The N64. I was 11 or 12 when I first saw pictures of Mario 64 in NMS. Back then I was locked into the Nintendo eco-system and anything beyond the SNES wasn't on my radar.

I had my Mega Drive II but things like the 32X, Sega-CD, and Saturn I wasn't paying any attention to. I don't think I even knew what a playstation was circa '96.

So going from Donkey Kong Country 3 and Yoshis Island to fully realized new dimensions blew my mind about what games COULD be in the future. Turok was my first FPS too on launch. So yeah, goes without saying the N64 is easily my most hyped console ever.
 
The Dreamcast 100%, being able to play online for the first time on a console was mindblowing, Phantasy Star Online :messenger_heart:
Too bad so many of the games ended up stuck in Japan only, but at least today everything is playable through emulator.
 
Nothing will ever beat the excitement and dread that I felt when I was seventeen (in the 90's, pre-internet) and spent the whole night putting together my first PC (took a looong time to save up for all the parts). The fact that it worked was a freaking miracle.

but console? I don't know, I don't really remember, but probably XSX - the first console I ever bought day 1.
 
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OG Xbox I was really hyped for this, Halo and DOA3 and a console with a proper online service which turned out to be fantastic.

When I was younger the hype for PS1 was seriously through the roof seeing Tekken and Ridge Racer I was the same with the Dreamcast when I seen screens of Shenmue and Soul Calibur.

Wish I felt like that over hardware and games still, Everything was so much fun before I got old and started yelling at clouds!!!
 
The Wii.

I got into gaming in the early 90s because my family had a SNES and my dad played A Link to the Past. I learned how to play it at a real young age and became a huge Zelda fan because of it. The Wii launching with Twilight Princess was peak gaming for me.
 
It's hard to say whether I was more excited for N64 or Dreamcast. N64 was just pure child-like "have to have it" like the second coming was arriving. The switch to 3D, seeing it running in the store for the first time. It was just completely mind-blowing. N64 was exciting because it was totally new, and I didn't know what I was getting.

On the other hand, I was a Sonic kid so when Sega came back I basically exploded. Being used to 64 games I recognized how much there was to gain with more power to escape the blurriness, fog and aliasing. Dreamcast was exciting because I knew exactly what I was getting.

I was pretty excited for GC but I think that was more hype for Rogue Squadron and Melee. The system itself to access the games was becoming a boring cycle by that point. I guess Nintendo agreed, since my hype for Wii was highest when it was code named Revolution and they had misleading reveal trailers.
 
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The Dreamcast 100%, being able to play online for the first time on a console was mindblowing, Phantasy Star Online :messenger_heart:
Too bad so many of the games ended up stuck in Japan only, but at least today everything is playable through emulator.
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The Sonic Adventure 2 Demo included was a nice surprise cuz i didnt even know the game was coming.

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N64 because I imported it to play it day 7 or so. There was so much hype about the transition to 3D. And it largely paid off, except it took even longer for the light launch line up to release in the US. I got WaveRace first. That game was really cool back then with the waves.
 
Hype wise for me, it was probably the dreamcast.
But clearly remember enjoying the snes probably the most out of any console.
I was very VERY excited for both ps2 and gamecube equally.
 
SNES, because it was my first console and nothing can beat that sense of excitement you get as a child. I played then round my friend's houses and was promised one if I did well in an exam. I did and was duly rewarded, and can still vividly remember the excitement of the build up and going to the store with my Dad to collect it. The system was a couple of years old at that point, but that didn't matter at all.

PS1 runs it a close second, that jump in graphics was vast, and things like FMV and voice acting on a console felt like space age technology.
 
Hard to pick one, but it was either the first Xbox, PS2 or GC. That was the peak console period for me.
 
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N64 mostly because it took me ages to convince my parents to get me one (already had PSX/SATURN early on)

June 1999 N64 was mine!

Runner up would be PS2
PS2 came out the day after my 13th birthday the feeling of playing SSX in late 2000 ....
hype isn't the word I was very calm I just remember feeling like I had reached the top a sense of completeness
 
Gamecube for me and here's why:

Rare were going to continue their epic streak from the N64 starting with Star Fox Adventures which looked excellent. After that Perfect Dark Zero, Kameo and Donkey Kong Racing were all confirmed as in-development Cube exclusives. We all know how that ended and we are still feeling the damage today. People get more hyped about Rare games on Switch N64 online than they do an actual new Rare game.

Star Wars Rogue Squadron II looked like absolute witchcraft. Best console graphics ever. Actually this one was pretty good in the end. RIP Factor 5.

Luigi's Mansion seemed like such a cool idea and it ended up being great. There was also the prospect of Mario 128, the sequel to 64 with its weird spherical demo thing and 128 Marios running around. Insane.

Realistic Zelda in the style of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask? We didn't have a clue what was actually being cooked up though. But just the thought of a new Zelda coming was hype enough.

Wave Race Blue Storm. Most realistic water effects and physics ever at the time. Could've been a better game though.

Metroid is back and in 3D?! This looked like trash initially with bad memories of Body Harvest and Turok for me, both games which I didn't like, but it actually ended up being a work of genius.

New game and IP dreamt up called Pikmin by none other than Shigeru Miyamoto the greatest game designer in the world?! And it's about gardening?! Count me in.

Smash Bros Melee. Smash Bros 64 was a cool party game but I don't think anyone expected to Melee to expand on it in the way that it did. I thought it looked awesome especially the graphics and animation were such a step up. We didn't even know about all the amazing hidden characters and bonus content at the time.

Oh shit. Square are back on Nintendo and making an exclusive Final Fantasy game?!

Fucking Sega too?

I also liked the overall console design and funky controller with four ports out the box. It was priced really reasonably too. Plus the prospect of being able to expand it with the ports underneath. That didn't really pan out though.

I think the Gamecube blew its load in the first three years or so and then it was a struggle from there on out when the limitations of the system and low user base became clear. But the first few years were really phenomenal when devs and publishers still backed the system. There were a couple highlights after that though.
 
I get excited every console gen even though I main PC now. Its a glimpse into the next 5-7 years of gaming.

My fav console to this day is the Gears Xbox One S:

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Had one, sold it and regret it. Now im hunting for one to re-add to my collection.
 
Probably Gamecube?
N64, Gameboy, and late 90s PC games got me really into gaming.
Like literally all I wanted to do was play videogames.

So I got super hyped for Gamecube, and knowing it would have a new Smash Bros, and that Resident Evil games would be exclusive to it, I was crazy excited.
It definitely delivered. First few years of Gamecube were amazing.
 
GameCube. I was a huge Nintendo fanboy back in the day and loved the N64, expecting it could follow the same level of ambition and generation defining titles for different genres and tastes. But, 2002 happened, Satoru Iwata took the office, completely changing Nintendo's market philosophy and game design. It was the time I started to feel Nintendo wasn't my cup of tea anymore.
 
SNES. It released very late in Italy, like a full year or so compared to the rest of western Europe. There was simply no alternative in gaming in my mind. They could have literally gifted me the most powerful PC on the market plus every console under the sun all together, and I'd still only want a SNES.
Starting with gen 5 I've always had at least two different consoles in each gen, so I never got that hyped for new hardware again because I always had another system to get my gaming fix anyway. But the SNES, man.
 
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