Nintendo Consoles

[melons]

But if it was for Non nintendo systems then i would say Ps2!

[Graedius]

Grah, what a dilemma this is.

I'd have to say the SNES above all, it just held a lot of my childhood memories with excellent games, ones that will forever mean so much to me. I'd spend hours playing this wondrous console... I remember when we first bought it, Super Mario World was like the coolest most advanced game ever, while I can now pinpoint why, the advanced color depth, resolution, frame rate, sound channels, hehe... it was just the hottest thing since sliced bread, hehe... So many games, so many games... the SNES is a huge peice of me, a huge part of my past.

But I'll never forget the NES, either... my first foray into gaming whatsoever, and I played all the old classics on that lovely, Grey-and-Black Box, with it's 16 colors and 4 sounds channels consisting entirely of Square and Triangle waves. The simple, the strong. Many of my memories are also attributed to hours of playing the many games I owned for this console, the Marios, Zelda, Kirby, so much old pixellated fun... my first experience where a fantasy could be conjured up in auch a way that you got to directly control it.

The very original Gameboy was also a real item when we first got it, heh. Green and darker-green pixels with again, 4 sound channels... but it was amazing, you could play Nintendo anywhere! I have a few memories attached to a few good games for the Gameboy, but in it's signifigance t ome it would pronbably fall short of the DS and GBA, but only because I probably didn't play it as much as I could have, having not gone anywhere often enough to warrant using it. The Gameboy Color seemed to be a huge advent on it's own, even though Game quality wasn't all too much better than the Gameboy could muster, any of it's games backwards compatible -- it was still quite astounding. Colored Nintendo on the go!

However out of the mboth I think the DS and GBA have them beat out, primarily I guess because of their ability to interpret and play classic sidescroller-type games. Particularily with the GBA, where many more SNES-esque sidescrollers were made, as well as some of my very favorite games.. . Iguess it stood t ome as the most modern peice of technology where 2D sidescrollers could still be made and still have a strong reception in today's highly 3D-omg-graphics oriented market. The DS in some cases just takes it to a new level, being as what I see the last stand, the final link between the modern 3D age and the 2D goodness of old, heh. I mean, look at Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow -- it's a beautiful sidescroller, with the capacity of the DS the sprites could have such fluid motions and meticulous detail with animations, coupled with many nice 3D effects and backgrounds. These two handhelds fall just shot of the SNES and NES For me.

The GameCube means a lot to me now, becaus I guess it's become the center of friend-attention -- when we all get together, it's what we play, it's what we share, I guess -- I see it as probably the most prominent memory I'll have of us al togethr, as we're all aging and shall all soon depart our merry ways in life. I'll look back on the GameCube as, I suppose, our meeting point, if you would.

Sadly, I had fairly little contact with the N64, so it falls short of reverything else not for it's abilities, but merely because I never got to be with it enough. By no means is it inadequate, for what I have played of it is excellent.