What is your favorite gaming console besides the Genesis?

[megabomberman]

The psone was a godly console to have at the age of 12, The whole demos thing was a beautiful touch, buying magazines every week I must have had around 70 demo disks all with around 6 games to try out each, sure a collection of them alone would have been decent...

Couple that with the fantastic platinum series which sold games at an excellent price and the tonnes and tonnes of great titles and franchises and you find yourself with a console that is above all the rest, although pitiful far behind one, the megadrive of course

[Demonic Weasel]

PlayStation and PlayStation 2. The PS comes before the Mega Drive for me.

What comes before the Megadrive doesn't count in this thread. So nyaa. But, since we haven't yet started arguing the relativity of the Playstation's excellence as compared to the Saturn, I can take a rare moment to agree with you that the Playstation does have some serious merits.

[Mecha Pon]

PS1 = cd player
PS2 = DVD player

[spiggysparks]

This will be popular...

I have the most good memories with my Nintendo 64... by far

Note: I was too young to enjoy the 16 bit generation to its fullest. I only recently acquired a SNES and Genesis. Those two receive the most playtime now (I feel awful that it took me this long to play NHL 94).

[Myrkwood]

I'm not sure I like my dreamcast but also my xbox 360. But anyhoo on the subject of FF7... I love that game soooooo so much.

[Mr Smith]

I would like to take a moment just to share my love for my PS2 with everybody. I currently see no need to post anymore pictures of how awesome my PS2 is.

[Mel]

Tie between PS1 and Dreamcast. They serve different parts of my tastes. Ps1 primarily for RPG's and dreamcast for my action and arcade play. I have more sentiment for the dreamcast b/c sony has pissed me off significantly since the ps1 days.

[ThunderForce]

Don't have a personal favorite.

Saturn and Dreamcast because they were the greatest arcade port systems ever made. PSX was good as well (come on, better ports of DoDonPachi, Raiden shmups, my god). If you love fighters and shmups the Saturn and Dreamcast are your best friends.

I also love the Neo-Geo (planning to get a consolize MVS after I sold my NGCD collection, loading times suck), and the TurboDuo.

If you really love arcade games like I do, the perfect setup (for me) is:

Supergun for PCBs.
Maybe a few arcade cabs.
PC Engine Duo-R.
Consolize Neo-Geo MVS.
Genesis/Sega CD.
Saturn.
Dreamcast.
PSX.

And I should be in heaven with this set up. PS2 did have good arcade ports, but I can get just the PCBs.

[playgen]

Master System is my favorite, more so than megadrive. I'm also very fond of Dreamcast, Neo Geo, Amiga, and others but I don't really play them very often.

[Damon Plus]

A year ago I would've said the DC withouth thinking twice, but now, I don't know what to say. My top 5 list would probably be like this, but the top 3 could change anytime:

1-Dreamcast
2-Genesis
3-Nes
4-GBA
5-Snes

6-NDS
7-Lynx
8-Gamegear
9-Sega Master System
10-Atari 2600

[Mel]

I find the dreamcast settles my need for neogeo games. it has a few great ports. rpg's i'd love to see more of on dc. unfortunately its a bit too much to undertake in indie dev.

[Genesis Knight]

DC can run SNES, Genesis, GameGear, Master System, Game Boy/Game Boy Color, NeoGeo, NES, and MAME. Those are just the mainstream ones. There are defunct emus for everything from Atari to Commodore.

[Vehemont]

I have always wanted to buy a DC but I have only seen one at the store I go to and I did not want to spend the money I had at that time on it. What is a reasonable price for the system, cables, controller, and VMU?

[Genesis Knight]

I can't speak for hauls in the wild, but on eBay you should be able to find a system + plus two controllers + a VMU + hookups for about $20 or $30 on BIN plus shipping. I would buy it without games, to be honest, as they drive up auction bundles more than they should. (They're dirt cheap individually, and DCs run 'backups' out of the box, if you're into that.)

Just save a search on eBay and snap up the choice BIN when it comes along. That's what I did.

[B - Mark]

My favorite console besides the Genesis is the Super NES because the Nintendo Franchises likes Super Mario and F Zero and the several RPGs.