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What was your favorite 90s console?

What was your favorite 90s console?

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I'm voting for the Mega Drive purely for the nostalgia. When my brother gave me Mega Games 2 with Shinobi, Streets of Rage, and Golden Axe, I was absolutely over the moon
 
winjer said:
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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SNES. I went to secondary school between 91 and 96 so most of my playtime was done there with school friends, then I went to university from 97 which was around the time PS appeared around here in Argentina; by then I was no longer interested in gaming so I skipped all those other generations. But most of the people down here had Sega Genesis/Megadrive, so it was hard finding new games for SNES.
 
Choosing between SNES and PS1 (my favorite two consoles) is like choosing a favorite child, I'm going to bitch out and abstain from voting lol.
 
I never owned a SNES as a kid which is a damn shame. For me it was the N64, and PS1 following closely behind. Game Boy also ranked high on the list but missing from the options.
 
I played most on N64 due to the multiplayer factor (MK, MP, GoldenEye etc), but it's absolutely nowhere near as good as SNES and PSX.

SNES was incredible compared to N64. If you were to do a Top 25 games list composed of the two libraries, at least 20 of them would be SNES games.

Then you have PSX which had a comparable if not better library compared to SNES, especially factoring all the IP that started or became a thing here.
 
SNES was my first console and it'll always be my favorite.

I loved Dreamcast too, at launch it felt like having an arcade machine at home, it was so far ahead of everything else.
 
I see not much love for the 3DO, I guess its price point was a thorny issue, but as a system in of itself, it was more than capable of bringing true 32 bit gaming home.. certainly a lot better than the competition at the time - Atari Jaguar, 32x and CD32....and in the initial years of the PlayStation and Saturn could have held its own till the M2 arrived...
 
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Isn't the poll too dependent on which console your parents bought you back in the 90s?

I doubt most players had several consoles to choose from.
 
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revolutionary controller w/ analog and rumble, 4 person mp, no weeble wobble polygons, mario64 as the starting point

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playstation had some excellent titles but n64 was more exciting as a whole
 
My favourite one that I actually owned and played my favourite games on has gotta be the N64. I owned a physical copy of Ocarina of Time, Smash Bros, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Pokemon Stadium...

I've never owned a PS1 so I only played most of those games way later (one of the few exceptions is I got to play the intro to FF7 at a cousin's house, which was/is incredible, especially back then).

I owned a SNES, and I owned a bunch of physical copies of amazing games (Mario RPG, Mario Kart, Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, NHL 98...), but the thing is there were so many incredible games on there, and I only got to play stuff like FF3/6 later, same with Link to the Past, Harvest Moon, Dragon Quest V, Super Metroid and many more :pie_open_mouth:.

So yeah, if you don't count ports/emulation on other consoles and PC, it's gotta be N64, but if you do include all that it's gotta be the SNES. PS1 was incredible too of course, but I think SNES was even better.

Oh yeah, and of course Dreamcast had some of the greatest games of all time, but it didn't have that many games, and I never even knew it existed until after it was gone.
 
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Have to admit OP, this is probably the most difficult poll for me to answer in a long time, congrats on causing me conflict haha

From the list, I am torn between SNES, Mega Drive, and PS1 (a little shout out to the N64 for Goldeneye and the wrestling games especially). I have so many memories and happy times with these consoles it is so difficult to pick. As this isn't life and death (right?) I will go with the Mega Drive, then Ps1, then SNES.

Mega Drive had so many amazing games, but it was also unique in that I didn't just have to wait for my brother to finish his turn, my parents got real into some games too. My mum and dad were practically obsessed with a game called Wiz n Liz and even made pages and pages of hand written notes on it. My mum also LOVED Robocop vs Terminator and the Golden Axe series. Good times that are now some amazing memories.
 
I was debating between N64 and Playstation. I think initially I thought N64 was better. But then Sony had all the fighting games I liked other than Killer Instinct 2. So yea Playstation.
 
Playstation

Really changed the game, back than Nintendo was super arrogant and thought they would be number one forever but Sony coming in with a system that had a cheaper storage meduim with CDs and low cost for developers really destroyed Nintendo at the time. And those CDs had a lot more storage than carts at the time too. It was a no brainer especially when Square made a deal with Sony for console exclusivity when it came to Final Fantasy VII. Nintendo really screwed up that one time

The survival horror and slealth genre being invited with Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid. Yes those types of games were there before but it wasn't until those two IPs started on the Playstation where those genres started to become super popular

The use of prerendered graphics. Back in the day even being lower resolutions at the time, they wree super beautiful to look at and explore. Yes they had limitations due to how static they are and where you can't control the camera while exploring the enviroments but graphically really made the PS1 look way better than the N64 back than

Most of the fully 3D games weren't that great looking to begin with. But there are exceptions like Vagrant Story and Metal Gear Solid

The amount of games in each genre was massive

Especially the JRPGs, there were so many classics that to this day have aged well

It really was a legendary system and the only other system to come close to it's status in regards to games is the PS2 and Switch
 
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I'd go with Dreamcast for me, just because it felt like such a jump where 3d was coming into its own.

N64 during the 90s probably got the most actual usage, just because it had some great games, and I brought it over to my friend's place all the time. Never owned a Playstation 1, so I discovered most of that library with the PS2.
 
SNES and it's not even close. So many timeless classics on that system, and the pixel art has aged like a fine wine, even despite the loss of CRTs making the image look as intended.

My probably unpopular series of favorite consoles of all time goes like this: SNES > PS3 > 3DS > PS2 > Steam Deck > Dreamcast > Vita > Saturn > PS1 > GBA > Genesis > NES > the rest.
 
My first console was the SNES. Was a young casual gamer then, did not follows big releases, review scores , hype etc. When I got an N64, and had more disposable income, I could buy more games. The N64's games made me become a rabid Nintendo fanboy. Had a PlayStation too, but I worshipped Nintendo because of the N64 era games.
 
Nintendo 64 was the one I had more fun with it. SNES was the overall better system, though.
I don't get the hype for PS1 at all, very overrated system, IMO.
 
DownLikeBCPowder said:
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.
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I put Dreamcast but I didn't get one till 2003. More realistically I'd put Genesis because it was the first I had and all games felt fresh. Plus this was back when EA was making bangers. 16bit era EA was their best. They still were good on PS but they were starting to turn into Modern EA by the end. Genesis also had great Sega collabs.

64 was great too, I loved Mario 64. Every mainstream console was great back then!
 
Hard to choose between SNES and PS1. Squaresoft put out a ton of all-time JRPGs on both.

I had to give the edge to PS1 because of Resident Evil.
 
The N64, easily. Then again, the only systems we owned from that list were the 64 and my uncle's old Sega with a handful of games. If we'd had a PS1 or SNES my personal fav might have been very different.
 
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