Let's be honest, if you could only pick one home console per generation you would choose this as it is the objectively best line up, all sega console fail in one way or another compared to their peers with a serious lack of games and while the N64 may be appealing to Nintendo hardcore fans it's not worth losing 10000 ps1 games just for 10 excellent 1st party titles, meanwhile the GameCube doesn't even has good Nintendo games besides Melee.
Mega Drive
>>12426834Uh no I'd pick a N64 in the PS1 generation, because if you rightly pick a PS2 in the next generation you also get PS1 support.
nessnesn64ps2
>>12426834I'm glad then I wasn't poor and got to have multiple consoles per generation. Was the Master System as good as the NES? No, but I still had a lot of fond memories of owning one. I would take the Genesis over the SNES but both were great consoles and I would miss owning either one. The TurboGrafx also had many good games in this generation and was worth having The PS1 and N64 were both good. I would choose the PS1 here but the N64 and Saturn still had great libraries I'd consider owning a PS2, GameCube and Xbox to all be essential and you were seriously missing out if you didn't own all 3
>>12426834Nope. I'd pick the Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn and Sega Dreamcast. If forced to buy the competition(which happened in 1998), I'd buy a Playstation 1 and then later and original Xbox.
>>12426834NESGenesisPS1PS2If we allow the ps2 to play ps1 games in this scenario then:NES GenesisSaturnPS2
>>12426834>if you could only pick one home console per generationThankfully I was segatendo idort during the 4th gen and segatendostation tridort during 5th gen.
>>12426834gamecomshvcultra64ps-x
I keep saying this mentality to try and bring everything down to "a single thing", a single console, a single game per genre. Like all these posters attempting to spit on the Saturn, and the ones that say things like "Why should I play game Y when game X exists????"....... and the only way I can explain it is that you're all a bunch of trend chasing pretender. You don't actually enjoy old video games, you're just trying to belong in a group and want to be 'in' because you had a PS2 and 2 games a year when you were 10; and saying people actually enjoying more than 1 console per generation and more than 1 game per genre reminds you that you are in a fact a bunch of poseurs, so you try and dimiss that too. Well guess what, you're not fooling anyone. Find another hobby.
>>12426834Master System (we had one) Mega drivePS1 Xbox I’m not sure what tendie oestrogen pills you’re taking but the Mega drive had no shortage of games, that’s just revisionist narrow view, the Saturn I agree with but the rest had excellent libraries even the Dreamcast in its short run had a very diverse selection
>>12426850>t.
>>12426834oh nooooo not the 10000 ps1 shovelware games! however will I cope!!
>>12426834>nintendo enjoyers: >snoy thirdies: uhmm actually you HAVE to admit the playstation was the best, its the only valid choice, I will make 20 different threads shitting up the catalog to make sure everyone agrees with me, I am a fully grown balding retard and I MUST assert sony's dominance!!
>>12426954playstation won
>>12426968Have you seen the current state of play? No they fucking didn't
>>12426973Better than anyone else.
>>12426834My xbox. the original.
>3 gen The nes wins for quantity, but the master system was surprisingly close.>4 genThe mega drive wins if we count CD and 32X, if not the Snes, either way is extremely close, the pc engine is not that far away but it lacks a lot in some genres to win.>5 genPsx no doubt, then the saturn and n64 at last. >6 genPs2 wins for quantity, really close are the dreamcast, xbox and gamecube.
>>12426834- NES- Genesis- 5th gen is a disgrace, best to forget it ever existed- Not retro
>>12427010>master system was surprisingly closelmao no it wasnt>the rest of your retarded postoh I see, mental illness.
>NES>SNES>N64>Gamecube
>>124269683rd world poors couldn't pirate n64 games
>>12427128Anons, We're talking about electric toys, no need to trigger
>>12427160PS1 has destroyed the N64 in japan,Europe and north America too
>>12427160There are no n64 games worth pirating
>>12427167>PS1 has destroyedlol, you are clearly ESL and poor
playstation better because bigger sales number. same reason avatar is the greatest movie ever made and taylor swift is the greatest artist of all time. I am indeed a man of high culture and taste.
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>>12426834Literally my console line up growing up. Had family with an n64, gamecube, Xbox, genesis and I agree OP. We did however also have a dreamcast.
>>12426834I think I'd pick the Mega Drive just because of Streets of Rage. SNes has better RPGs and I used to play then a lot when I was younger but not anymore.
>>12427168I feel sorry for you not having played the pokemon stadiums with your actual GB cartridge teams (and getting 2x and 3x fastfoward), or putting your mario golf/tennis characters in the N64 gamesYou never got to play F-Zero X, or any of the Mario PartiesYou never had 3 bros over to play Smash Bros with pokeballs only in the item switch, or Goldeneye, or Mario Kart, or Wave Race, or Diddy Kong racing?Damn bro, you never played Paper Mario? Or Majoras mask? Or the Turrok Games?
>>12426947Kek
>>12427010>CD and 32XOne has like 4 good games, the other has not even a single good game
>>12426834nah sonygger
>>12427189I feel sorry that the n64s library is so barren you have to hype up literal handheld game accessories for one of the most boring and forced fads of the 90s. You have never played a good game in your life.
>>12427195Everyone has a pc though
>>12427172Playstation better because it has a big library just like the nes, snes and ps2That's it, that's the big secret that makes a console great
>>12426834Close, but Genesis instead. You are wrong it in itself has no failures or short comings. If you wanna count CD or 32X as a failure then I disagree, they are add-ons, and the Genesis without them is a complete package.Having said that, Genesis and SNES is probably the hardest choice, all other generations are easy, but the SNES thrives mostly on RPGs, and frankly the PSX has more and better RPGs to offer.
>>12427193It has after burner II, it's one of my all time favourites
>>12427246I would rather have more rpgs than more generic space shooters you can already play a million of those on any console
>>12427189>played the pokemon stadiums with your actual GB cartridge teamsHey kids!! You can pay 60 dollars to only play the pokemon battles but in 3D
>>12427265>a challenging post game BAD
>>12427189dont bother anon these are the same people who think GTA and turn based anime jarpig are the height of gaming.
>>12426841>>12426850Yeah, these. This is what I literally went with in my life and it was awesome. I didn't miss out on anything, which I would have if I didn't have an N64 to play with my friends and cousins.
>>12427258Genesis has a lot more variety than just space shooters, if you haven't spent much time with the library then you're in for a real treat. Psx also had a ton of great snes RPGs ported to it. All the FF games, other square soft games, almost all the SMT games, and some others.
tendies are so mad right now haha
>>12426834Micro Genius or GB > NES.GBA> SNES.
>>12427010>pc engine is not that far away but it lacks a lot in some genres to win.nonsense. PC-E had more waifu games than SNES and Genesis.
>>12426834PS2Not only fully backwards compatible, but also has many compilations of 2, 4, 8 and 16 bit for both the PS1 and PS2 to fill the urge to play those games
>>12427172>>12427205Bill Gates DOS had the most games AND biz software. what did it win?WinXP had even more than any consoles combined. maybe.
>>12427448None were good though
>>12426834Uhhhhh....SNESSaturnPS2
>>12427448blue screens, crashes, driver issues and bad ports
>>12427451but muh numbers go up!also Blizzard games, Ultimas, Wizardries, all the stuff which actually influenced japanese RPGs till this day.if none of the iconical classic DOS and Win games were good, then none of the classic japanese RPG games were good.
>>12427456but numbers are high means good rite????
The only good DOS game is daggerfall
>>12427448>what did it win? Nothing because no one cares for most of those games. Fallout, Quake, Doom & HL are the only PC games people care about before 2000.
>>12427483Oh and Elder Scrolls.
>>12426834>N64 may be appealing to Nintendo hardcore fans it's not worth losing 10000 ps1 games just for 10 excellent 1st party titles, meanwhile the GameCube doesn't even has good Nintendo games besides Melee.There's not a single Nintendo fan who was disappointed by N64 or Gamecube.
>>12427483>no one cared about diablo, warcraft, starcraft, baldur's gate, command and conquer, age of empires, civ, simcity, rollercoaster tycoon, mystwhy do children come on this board and LARP like they know anything about gaming?
>>12427517N64? Obviously it's full of masterpiecesGameCube? Hell no, they shat the bed
>>12427303That post starts with a turn based anime jarpig
>>12427303>>12427869stop replying to yourself so obviously, mr "jar pig".
>NESCorrect.>SNESNah I'd go with the Genesis. I got along fine without the SNES for much of my life.>PlaystationNah but it's a toss-up between N64 or Saturn.>PS2Never owned one, barely played any games for it. I'd probably go Xbox or Dreamcast.
>>12426834>picks the best selling console of every generationHot take alert
>>12426834I would pick Genesis over SNES. Just better
>>12426834NESSNES SaturnPS2>360
>>12426834No, I'd pick the N64 over the PS1. Everything else is correct though.
>>12426834I think you should go Sega then Nintendo or viscera to prevent it from feeling repetitive. Master System was popular here and a lot of people got a Snes as their next system to try stuff like Mario.The feeling is Oh look its Space Harrier and Hang On again or Oh look its Zelda and Mario again.
nesgenesisps1don't care, not gunna play it anyways for this gen
>>12427517Yeah that's what a fan is, a fanatic they don't care about quality they just want brand slop. Congrats at figuring that one out.
>>12428616Never understood this stupid logic, I obviously want to play sequels that are the games I like bigger and better instead of some other game I have no reason to give a fuck about
>>12426841
>>12426834PS1 and PS2 are easy wins indeed... NES also won with relative comfort, but Master System was pretty good and could win depending on personal preference or just my mood when choosing. I'd say my main disageement here is SNES, I simply find the Mega Drive's library, and overall style in looks and sound, more SOVL and more appealing to my tastes, so I prefer that.
>>12426834Don't tell me how to live my life nigger.>1st GenPretty much only pong consoles so I'll go with the Atari C-100 pong>2nd GenAtari 2600 for its abundance of games. Yeah they're not perfect, but they're still fun. If 2600 counts as 1st Gen (it doesn't but someone's going to argue) Then I'll pick Vectrex and then 2600 for 1st Gen.>3rd GenNES for similar reasons to the 2600. It has an abundance of fun games.>4th Gen Genesis because I think I like the Sonic games on it just a tiny bit more than F-Zero.>5th GenSaturn because I like fighting games.>6th GenPS2 because it has some unique gamesShitty thread, shitty explanation for your picks. Do better next time.
I'll always pick the Genesis.
>>12426908I literally did this, bar the Master System (I was an Amiga owner). Terrorist fist bump. When Dreamcast went end of life, I sold it and never bought a console again.
>>124271266th gen turns 25 this year
>>12426840My nigga Dave!>Mega DriveYep
>>12426927This guy gets it. So much of this board has become posers and speculators trying to make rankings of things they never played. I personally far preferred my genesis to snes, but that's not to say there weren't games I thought were great or that I'd only want one or the other.
>>12426947Devin was a real prick.
>>12426927I agree... somewhat. I'd say in part it's just that people on /vr/ like to discuss about what they like and this is an easy way to bring in discussion.
>>12426840>nothing but arcadeslopNo thanks
>>12427880newfag self report
>>12426834SEGA's consoles have infinitely more soul then fagstation slop
>>12426834Swap the SNES for a Genesis and PSX for N64
>>12427880Either this is shitty bait or you don't actually know jarpig gets used around here a lot. kek
