Another vote for Nintendo here. I loved my 64 and my SNES and I'm still pretty nostalgic about that era. I do have many fond Playstation memories as well though. I believe it is also fitting that the little system that couldn't, the Sega Dreamcast, get an honorable mention. I loved that thing
I honestly think the SNES and Genesis tied in my mind. I owned both and had a lot of fun with both. I still play games for both on emulators. SNES for that 90s platformer goodness and games like Zelda 3, Genesis for sports games and weird stuff that kicks ass like Gunstar Heroes and Comix Zone. Seriously, if you haven't played Treasure's Gunstar Heroes, you're doing yourself a disservice, it might be the best action game of the 16 bit era and measures up visually with almost anything ever made for the SNES. Yes, better than the Contras. It's available on PSN and XBLA. I'll take PSX over N64. The 64 had some good platformers and a few fun multi-player games, but all in all I think it was mediocre. It also had the worst (and most poorly built) console controller of all time. The sheer magnitude of games available on the PSX simply put the 64 to shame. Dreamcast probably had the best quality:shit software ratio of any console ever made. It's like the opposite of the Wii. It was pure gold, and it's a shame people tossed it aside the second they could buy a $600 PS2 to play Tekken Tag.
Oh fuck, we're starting this? I thought we had enough pedantic arguments with politics and canon to keep us content. Out of curiosity, which three? Since I have more than three I can think of off the top of my head, I'm having trouble figuring out which ones you're talking about.
Here's something I never understood. For the "classic" Sony Playstation, what does the "x" stand for in "PSX"?
I was a Nintendo kid, so my vote goes there. FF3 on the SNES was simply excellent (along with 2, Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana, but I didn't actually own those until a few years ago). And lots of memories with Goldeneye on the 64. Me and my friends would gather around a (rather small) TV for 4 player all the time. Awesome game.
Apparently, it got the name well before the PS2 was released. By that logic, PSX is as good as any other name (it's not like they were anticipating a new version, so PS1 would be odd).
I was a Sega girl growing up. Fucking loved the Mega Drive. I played one again with some friends over the summer, and it was still way more fun than a console that old has any right to be. That said, I think the SNES wins out in terms of immersive games. Have a SNES emulator, and the massive Nintendo RPGs are still fantastic time-killers.
You make a good point, but I always remember it just being called the "PS" or "SPS" (Sony Playstation) before the PS2 came out.
I remember it being called PSX back in the late '90s, before the PS2 had even been announced, but I can't remember the exact reason why. Maybe whoever came up with it didn't like the abbreviation "PS" and added an X on there to make it look/sound better.
One of my happiest childhood memories is waking up early Christmas morning with my brother to see what Santa had left under the tree. We had an annual tradition of waking up around 3am, sneaking into the living room, unwrapping one small present each, and then staying up with frantic anticipation until our parents finally woke up and we would open gifts as a family. Well, one year there were two really big, heavy boxes under the tree. We didn't know what they were. There was one box for each of us. Imagine our delight and surprise to discover that we'd each gotten a new game console. My brother received the Sega Genesis and I received the Super Nintendo. Talk about dying and going to heaven! The Super Nintendo was amazing then, and it's still a classic now. Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Super Castlevania, Starfox, F-Zero, TNMT: Turtles in Time.... Ahhh, those were the days. I rarely ever touched my brother's Genesis. Sonic was cool, but most of his other games were sports games and I was never really into them.
Mega Drive and PS I loved in the 90's and I spent so much time on them. However I did have a sweet spot for the SEGA Saturn due to Virtual Cop 2 with the flash guns and the N64 because of the hours of 007 Goldeneye with my school mates that would turn into Perfect Dark sessions in the decade after.
Genesis vs. SNES I'm not an RPG fan, so the fantastic RPGS on the SNES do little for me. Chrono Trigger? Super Mario RPG? Final Fantasy VI? Earthound? Bah. Both systems are about tied for quality platformers (my favourite genre), so it's the large shmup (my second favourite genre) library on the Genesis that wins out. Thunder Force III and IV are godly. Winner: Genesis N64 vs. PSX (Poor forgotten Saturn) Again, the RPGs on the PSX did nothing for me, so there really wasn't a lot on the system for me besides the fantastic Spyro series and Crash Bandicoot. Final Fantasy Tactics remains one of my favourite games of all time, but it just isn't enough. The N64, although it had few good games, had a half dozen games that were absolutely phenomenal. Not to mention a few hidden gems such as Body Harvest and Mischief Makers. Winner: N64
I finally decideed to look it up. This is from Footnote #9 on the Sony Playstation Wikipedia article.
The only one of the bunch I haven't owned is a Genesis. I have played quite a bit of it from friends who owned them, though. That said, the SNES is not just the best of this lot. It's really the best console ever made. I could go on for a long time listing all of the absolute classic games that came out on this system. These games are games that still hold up today, and that I can revisit often. No other console has ever come close to such a fine catalog.
No love for any of these? And the biggest rip-off piece of console equipment that my brother and I were burned on: The N64 had a massive library of crappy games and was a big reason Nintendo was knocked off its pedestal, but my friends and I played a few games to death on that thing, like GoldenEye, Mario Kart and some of the pro wrestling games.
See, I love Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger, and Secret of Mana. They're awesome -- but they're also for the SNES, which is why it beats the Genesis for me. VII, Xenogears, FFT and FFIX are for the PSX, which makes that console the natural successor for me. Don't get me wrong, there were some great games on the 64.
I'm voting Saturn all the way baby. I don't know why it gets so much hate. I've been gaming since the NES and I really would prefer a Saturn over N64 and PSX. To me just none of the games on those systems aged really well. Early 3D was rough for developers to get right. I've played all three consoles recently and the N64 makes me nauseous with those 4kb textures, and the PSX was really sold on game like FF7(which is the only game I ever fell asleep while playing, not a JRPG fan here) I rank them SNES>Genesis (I really love all 16 bgit consoles though,cant go wrong Genesis, Snes, Neo geo, or TG16) Saurn>N64>PSX
It happened with increased regularity especially after the release of the PSOne, the smaller variation.