What is your favorite "Classic Era" game console?

To me, “Classic Era” would be the systems from the 80s and 90s… but I included some of the early “Modern Consoles” in there too… just cuz I know somebody in here probably grew up with a PS2 or an Xbox and never even touched a Regular or a Super Nintendo, lol…

the super nintendo was what I remember most from my childhood!!!!!!! tho I wasn’t born yet I had older brothers so its what was around :3

the ps1! i grew up with a few ps1 games, but what makes the ps1 my favorite is looking back on all the cool games i missed or good games that fell under the radar. stuff like tail concerto and klonoa are major inspirations for kemono! i’d even argue that tail concerto defined the kemono style/fanbase the most out of any piece of media. and there’s a lot of experimental titles like LSD: dream emulator or moon: remix RPG adventure that i love

I played the demo’s of PS1 and N64 when those systems were brand new (gawd I’m friggin’ old).

Played the demo of N64 at Wal-Mart (the games in the kiosk back then were Mario 64 and Zelda: Ocarina of Time)

Played the demo of PS1 at a K-Mart (the games in the kiosk were – hehe, Tail Concerto and Klonoa)

And there was another time I played a PS1 demo at a Sears that had “Sled Storm” and the thing I remember most about that game is that it had REAL SONGS as the soundtrack, so it had this one specific remix of Rob Zombie’s “DRAGULA” song.

This one ^.

And I played demo of the “Virtual Boy” in that same Sears when the VB was a brand new thing, and yes, the rumors were true, playing it gave you intense migraines… lol…

ah cool! i forgot about game kiosks, i don’t even really acknowledge their existence anymore even though they’re still around lol

having tail concerto and klonoa paired up at one of them is amazing lmao
gateway kemono drugz…
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also games with licensed music are always cool! i didn’t have much ps1 games with licensed music from what i remember though, maybe twisted metal did

and the virtual boy…. pffhhH
way too ahead of its time, though its crazy that we have actual passable VR now!

Xbox… But hear me out! It was the first gaming console I chose and bought for myself at age 16 I think and it was the first console with built-in Ethernet so when Xbox Live came out, only people with broadband could play. This was my first time being able to play games online without it being a horrible experience.

It also was the easiest console to mod and upgrade the hard drive. You could copy game discs directly to the hard drive too. I remember websites that would tell you trailer and logo files you could remove from the game files to keep the installs thin.

I also made it into a media center to play music and movies.

So yeah… My favorite but not really due to games but due to the versatility of the hardware.

A friend of mine way way back had somehow hacked his oldskool generation 1 Xbox to be able to play NES, SNES and Genesis emulators… albeit, not fantastically… but still….

SNES made me furry with its DKC1.

This is blatant Master System erasure, but Genesis/Mega did have Rocket Knight Adventures (and Tails so it wins by default)

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I had Stepmania on mine and connected DDR pads to it, lol.

Rocket Knight / Sparkster is fantastic, but I gotta say that the Genesis version is far superior to the SNES version, and I do not say that often when a game is ported onto two competing systems!

As mych as I should say Super Nintendo, I may have to say PlayStation 1.

While I was fortunate enough to play many of the smash hits, a few did manage to be rereleased onto the condole with a few additional features, like animated cutscenes. This tiny bit of mixed media set my imagination ablaze, and was when I looked towards games to tell more fantastic stories than all the books I was reading at the time.

Summer camp, creepy adults, ruined vacations and occasional wizards…? That’s nice, but there’s this game with a talking dragon, a time traveling swordsman, dimension hopping teenagers, zombie apocalypses…