/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.1919346]

What's your favorite console design?

I really love the NES 2 or Top Loader. This thing is comfy and saves quite a bit of space.

[Anonymous No.1919350]

>>1919346
AV Famicom

[Anonymous No.1919376]

>>1919346
that is also my fav. i love the top loader design and lack of extra moving parts. i also like the new crisp color scheme and the fact that the plastic didn't turn orange after time. i still have the same one i got from toys r us the very first day they hit the stores. haven't played it in a while, but now i want to play some faxanadu

[Anonymous No.1919394]

Wondermega

[Anonymous No.1919396]

>>1919346
NES 2 just plain looks cool

[Anonymous No.1919412]

SNES mostly based on my own biased nostalgia of it being the first thing I associated with "fun" as a kid.

It just makes me happy looking at them.

[Anonymous No.1919416]

I'd say it's a tossup between the Dreamcast and the PlayStation

[Anonymous No.1919421]

The SNS-001 and the Net Yaroze. Both have great colors. I've actually not seen the Net Yaroze in person, but I'm assuming it's pretty close to my "black" PlayStation controller (which is actually closer to a graphite color). I hate the deeper/polished blacks in newer consoles. I guess it's supposed to look like lacquer, but with plastic it just looks cheap.

As for the worst design, that would have to go to the Genesis Model 2. What an ugly console. All those obnoxious details in the plastic collect a fine patina of dust over time, and the power/reset buttons feel cheap and flimsy (much like the mushy buttons on the controller).

[Anonymous No.1919427]

Systems that I've actually owned..

Sega Genesis Model 1.
Playstation 1.
Playstation 2.

I like blocky. Hate curvy.

[Anonymous No.1919435]

[Anonymous No.1919493]

>>1919394
That motherfucker looks taken stright out from a 90s mecha/cyberpunk anmime.

I don't know what I would say, I love the dreamcast but as the SNES guy I may be biased. Still it's compact and gently wavey it really looks like a dream machine.

NEC consoles were also nice too.

[Anonymous No.1919524]

I like the second generation Genesis and the SNES as well, but the original Playstation design is my most favorite.

[Anonymous No.1919538]

>>1919435
I love how the Famicom/Super Famicom looks outright. I don't know why the NES was an ugly grey block in comparison. If the NES was sold alongside R.O.B as a "toy", wouldn't the Famicom's design look more toy-like then the NES VCR grey? IMO even the American SNES looked ugly compared to the European SNES/ Super Famicom.

For me, my favorite looking console would be the PSOne, I know it arguably isn't "retro" enough for this board since it came out in 2000, but god damn look how adorable it looks.

[Anonymous No.1919548]

Wondermega >>1919394
Megadrive I with Mega-CD and Karaoke attachments
Satun Hi-Navi

I also kinda like the N64 look, but that might be pure nostalgia bias

[Anonymous No.1919553]

>>1919548
Japanese computers were fucking rad too.

[Anonymous No.1919554]

>>1919553
I can't believe we were stuck with beige boxes at that time

[Anonymous No.1919558]

>>1919554

[Anonymous No.1919560]

>>1919558

[Anonymous No.1919561]

I just love sticking things together

[Anonymous No.1919563]

PSOne for sure

[Anonymous No.1919597]

>>1919548
There's another add on to the Sega Genesis?

Good grief. I actually want it. The 32x + Sega CD was already cool on its own right.

[Anonymous No.1919618]

safe. smart. sexy.

[Anonymous No.1919691]

>>1919538
I recall reading about the NES having to look like a video recorder to appeal to the masses cause gaming wasn't very popular in not-Japan.

[Anonymous No.1919695]

[Anonymous No.1919697]

>>1919691
It resulted in people placing liquid food on top of it and ruining the machine by spilling said liquids.
Hence why Nintendo redesigned the SFC to reduce the amount of liquid placement.

[Anonymous No.1919701]

>>1919695
>no FM unit

[Anonymous No.1919850]

>>1919548
Sega Ultra Mega Drive Zord

[Anonymous No.1919857]

>>1919618
>wooden panels

[Anonymous No.1919858]

>>1919548
She can do it too.
Welcome to the future anons

[Anonymous No.1919864]

>>1919858
Also the zip drive+broadband adapter
If only...

[Anonymous No.1919871]

>>1919346

Are we talking mechanical or aesthetic?

If we're talking mechanical, I'm going with the SNES. Very intuitive. Simple eject button. The fuckers never break.

Aesthetically I'm going with pic related. I don't know why but I've always thought the Master System looked sexy as fuck.

[Anonymous No.1919896]

japanese saturn for sure

[Anonymous No.1919907]

>>1919871
dem prisms

[Anonymous No.1919918]

I've always been a fan of Sharp's Twin Famicom.

[Anonymous No.1920256]

>>1919918
This here is a nice looking piece of hardware. It looks even better in person.

I'm a fan of the PS4's design, too.

[Anonymous No.1920292]

I honestly prefer the original NES. For some reason I just like the box look, especially if you get it painted, umf.

Aesthetically it looks better with the original controllers too (the dogbone controllers honestly aren't that great, they fucked up the button placement) and is easier and less expensive to mod than the toploader. Everyone talks about the toploader being more reliable, which it is, but after replacing the pins and disabling the lockout chip I've never had a problem with my toaster.

[Anonymous No.1921103]

>>1919493
You can tell from any game system with 4 game ports on the front that it means business

[Anonymous No.1921110]

>>1919346
Tie between Sega Genesis model 1 and Neo Geo AES