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Best Looking Console Of All Time
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14-08-2024 8:34am#1
Your opportunity to rank your top 10 best looking consoles of all time!
(Games not labelled but manually added in are as follows; Atari XEGS, Sega SG-1000, Commadore Amiga CD32, Amstrad GX4000, Famicom, SNES (EU), Turbografx16-PC, Sega MegaDrive (EU), Apple Pippin)
Requirements:
Rank your top 10 over the next week or so. You can choose a console that's not on the list above, so long as it's a proper console in line with the others (ie. not primarily considered a handheld or a streaming box/dongle).
You can either use the list function on Boards with your number 1 as 1 and so on, where your No.1 will get 10 points, No.2 gets 9 points… Or you can write out your top 10 saying "XXXXX - 10 points, YYYYY - 9 points" etc. Doesn't matter which format you use so long as you make it clear which is your top pick. I'll compile all the points at the end.
Also, this is ranking the appearance of the consoles only (I took out the handhelds). So it's not about games or which was your favourite to play, but solely on the appearance of the physical console itself. How well designed is it, does it look inviting to play, how do the colours work together, how well did it incorporate some of its features etc. Peripherals shouldn't really be considered a factor unless they're a major component of the console itself (so the Joycons of the Switch are a factor because they form part of the console, but the WiiMote for the Wii wouldn't be a factor). I also took out the likes of Stadia and Ouya etc where the 'console' is just little more than a dongle & controller.
There are multiples of some consoles in the list based on different versions of the same console, but as this is ranking based on appearance and it's the console appearance that changed, they'll be listed and ranked separately, so make clear which version of the console you're choosing based on the list above. If it's felt by the end that it's skewing the figures too much compared to consoles which only had one version, we can combine the scores.
Unless there's anything major missing or that you'd suggest we change, fire ahead!
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Turbografx 16 should be replaced with the japanese PC engine as that's one of the smallest and best looking consoles ever while the tg16 might be the biggest crime America has ever committed.
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1. PS1 - gorgeous piece of design that gave an air of being a high quality futuristic piece of kit (even if the CD drive was anything but high quality). Sony had some top of the line industrial design during this era.
2. GameCube - it was cute and had an air of play about it. Wonderfully compact design and even had a handle to let you carry it to your mates.
3. PSP - might be the sexiest console ever made. The black colour scheme, massive screen and transparent shoulder buttons just screamed that this was the future.
4. PC Engine - the smallest console ever made. It had a tiny form factor despite being a very capable piece of kit but was no less stylish. Love the credit card size game cards.
5. Gameboy light - the original Gameboy would be here if the light version wasn't the exact same thing but in a smaller package. The Gameboy always looked great.
6. Super Nintendo (Japanese/EU) - far better looking than the travesty they got in the US. Lovely sleek rounded design and the use of colour was much better than the ugly grey and purple of the US.
7. 3DS - the DS lite might be here but the 3DS has more of that PSP style sexiness. The ultimate form of the clamshell design which is still the perfect handheld console form factor and a damn shame the switch took it from us.
8. Megadrive - a console with looks that fell right in line with Sega's targeting of an older teenage demographic. Sleek, dark and emphasising the teenage angst or the grunge era. The perfect console for that time period.
9. NES - despite the cartridge mechanism ruining the cartridge connector with a few weeks it did feel great inserting a cartridge and pressing it down. Has a great form factor and love how the ridges are carried over to the cartridges.
10. PS Vita - the slightly more rounded and less sexy PSP. The rounded look makes it seem more accessible. Still a great looking piece of kit that stinks of sleek.
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It's pretty much the same design of the GameCube. All the components place around a central fan channel. Just the GameCube does it with style. It's the same reason I don't rate the PS4. It's just a black parallelogram that plays games. I mean the PS2 is an ugly console but it has personality at least.
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1.PS1 - gorgeous piece of design that gave an air of being a high quality futuristic piece of kit (even if the CD drive was anything but high quality). Sony had some top of the line industrial design during this era.
2. GameCube - it was cute and had an air of play about it. Wonderfully compact design and even had a handle to let you carry it to your mates.
3. PC Engine - the smallest console ever made. It had a tiny form factor despite being a very capable piece of kit but was no less stylish. Love the credit card size game cards.
4. Super Nintendo (Japanese/EU) - far better looking than the travesty they got in the US. Lovely sleek rounded design and the use of colour was much better than the ugly grey and purple of the US.
5. Megadrive - a console with looks that fell right in line with Sega's targeting of an older teenage demographic. Sleek, dark and emphasising the teenage angst or the grunge era. The perfect console for that time period.
6. NES - despite the cartridge mechanism ruining the cartridge connector with a few weeks it did feel great inserting a cartridge and pressing it down. Has a great form factor and love how the ridges are carried over to the cartridges.
7. Atari 2600 - faux wood effect screams the 1970s.8. Dreamcast - it's like a lesser SNES but still looks great.
9. Nintendo 64 - always liked the contours on the top. It did exude it's potential power over the 32bit competitors.
10. PlayStation 2 - ok I'll eat my own words here. I don't like the design but it's certainly unique and that a lot better than the boring designs of everything else in that picture.
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There have been no more votes, so the results are in.
10th Place - HS Turbografx (PC) - 15pts
9th Place - NES & SNK Neo Geo - 16pts each
8th Place - Nintendo Wii - 17pts
7th Place - Nintendo Wii Mini - 18pts
6th Place - Atari 2600 - 19pts
5th Place - Sega MegaDrive 2 - 39pts
4th Place - SNES (EU/JPN) - 41pts
drumroll
3rd Place - Sega Dreamcast - 50pts
2nd Place - Nintendo Gamecube - 55pts
And the winner is…..
1st Place - Playstation 1 - 58pts
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