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Which retro console do you feel had the most aethstically pleasing design to it?

I admit I've never owned one, but I've always felt the Genesis 1+Sega CD 1 combo always looked so robust and awesome.

>> No.3638759

Atari 2600. i love that wood grain finish.

>> No.3638774
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>>3638729

The Japanese PC-Engine. Compact and robust. The game format is also superior to SNES and Genesis giant plastic cartridges.

>> No.3638858

Genesis model 2 for me actually.

>> No.3638880

>>3638729
Agree. I should really display mine more prominently even though it has bad caps and I prefer to use my X'Eye anyway.

>> No.3638885

>>3638880
>>3638729
The Model 1 had a lot of superfluous features for a console at the time, like the headphone jack, cartridge lock and volume slider.

I find that both weird and awesome.

>> No.3638896

>>3638885
The headphone jack / line out was the only way to access the much trumpeted stereo sound.

So not really superfluous at all.

>> No.3638918

>>3638729
Hard to pick one:

Turbo Duo
Neo Geo AES
GameBoy Pocket/Color (the original is good but is a bit too chubby)
Super Famicom/PAL SNES
Atari 7800

Also agree with OP, Sega CD was the shit and looked amazing.

As for the least pleasing ones… I never liked what Sega did starting from Mega Drive 2 to Saturn, with 32X looking the worst to me. They combined both strict angular and irregular curvy shapes to a very weird, clashing effect… N64 was all curves, PS was all perfect angles and circles; but Sega was everything in between and they didn't pull it off well.

>> No.3638958
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>>3638885
cart lock? that was snes.
itt: sega

>> No.3638965

>>3638729
>Sega CD 1
>looked so robust
The irony

>>3638774
Probably my pick as well although I prefer to the II

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>>3638958
Model 1 Mega Drive had a cart lock too.

>> No.3639024
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3DO FZ-1

>> No.3639097

Atari 7800

Very sleek looking

>> No.3639106
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japanese psx dvr

to this day no other console has even come close

>> No.3639114

>>3639106
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>> No.3639181
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The Wonder Mega.

>> No.3639214

>>3639181
It's fucking expensive.
I saw it sold for 1000$ on Yahoo! auctions.

>> No.3639617

>>3638774
I have a Duo but I love how compact the PCE is.

>> No.3639648

I agree, OP, I love seeing chunky retro plastic like that meshed together so well. Something is so pleasing about that tactile feeling of latches locking and pins connecting, and the end result is always a beautiful mecha-keitai looking super-console.
Probably why my favorite things on non-retro consoles were the Game Boy Player and Xbox 360 HDD

>> No.3639659

>>3638774
This or the western system.

The Famicom and the disk system look really nice, and although it sucks, the Jaguar plus CD looks like the Black Bull from F-Zero.

>> No.3639684
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I love this sexy beast of a console

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>>3639024
3DO slim looks cooler.

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>> No.3641672

>>3641517
One controller port?

>> No.3641693

>>3641672
The controller itself has a port on it. You can daisy chain up to eight.

>> No.3641702
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>>3638729
the gba. the feeling, the weight. it's perfect

>> No.3641851

>>3639684
For the love of god and all that is holy, Get the fucking base extension.

>> No.3641863
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Always liked how the cdx looked. Really dope design. But everything pales in comparison to the original White pc engine. Console is fuckjng beautiful. It fits in your fucking hand!
Looks dope in suitcase form as well.
DESU all vr approved consoles look amazing.

>> No.3641904

>>3638774
>The game format is also superior to SNES and Genesis giant plastic cartridges.
>8 mbit limitation
lolno