What Are Your Top Five All-Time Game Consoles?

[Ichinisan]

Your picture says "Super Nintendo Entertainment System."

 

[CZroe]

Your picture says "Super Nintendo Entertainment System."

Yep. "Super NES."

 

[cmdrdredd]

Even still there is GameCube, Wii, etc.

Well still better than Nintendo, Nintendo 2, Nintendo 3, Nintendo 4, etc. like is done now days.

I always loved the anticipation of the reveal of a new system's official name.

Today?

You know it's always going to be Playstation X and Xbox Y now until the end of time.

BORRRRRRRRIIINNNNNGGGG.

I mean Xbox? Wtf? Console isn't even shaped like an X anymore.

Just like nVidia will never make another GPU that isn't some number GeForce even though the name is over a decade beyond it's cleverness (Geometry processing is standard fare now). Seriously, how many people new to PCs in the last decade knew that GeForce was originally the very awesome and original name of the first GPU with hardware geometry processing back in oh.. 1999? Now it's just a boring empty household generic worn out name. GPUs were also more exciting when there was Rendition Verrite, Riva TNT, 3DFX Voodoo, NEC PVR, ATI Rage, etc. etc

Geforce 93,615 1/2
Radeon 93,625 5/8ths

Yeah, boring.

:awe:

Brand recognition dude. But I think PS3 and PS4 sound better than SNES when you shorten the name. Xbox got its name as a short version of DirectX Box, since it was based on that API.

 

[exdeath]

Your picture says "Super Nintendo Entertainment System."

Yep. "Super NES."

Conveniently ignore that "SUPER NINTENDO" is center stage while "entertainment system" is almost missable subscript if youre just walking by and it catches your eye on the shelf. Sure.

Its clear as day what they wanted it to be known by.

 

[CZroe]

Conveniently ignore that "SUPER NINTENDO" is center stage while "entertainment system" is almost missable subscript if youre just walking by and it catches your eye on the shelf. Sure.

Its clear as day what they wanted it to be known by.

Conveniently ignore that Nintendo, their commercials, and Nintendo Power has NEVER referred to it as "Super Nintendo?"

Always Super NES, SNES, or Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

You're right: It's clear as day what they wanted it to be known by, only you somehow missed it anyway.

 

[JujuFish]

Conveniently ignore that Nintendo, their commercials, and Nintendo Power has NEVER referred to it as "Super Nintendo?"

Always Super NES, SNES, or Super Nintendo Entertainment System.

You're right: It's clear as day what they wanted it to be known by, only you somehow missed it anyway.

You're wrong.

 

[Sonikku]

SNES
Dreamcast
PSX
NES
Genesis

in that order.

 

[exdeath]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrI-A94aLfo

 

[SaurusX]

SNES (Always called it a "Super Nintendo" as a kid)
NES (Just "Nintendo")
PS2
X360
Genesis

 

[CZroe]

SNES (Always called it a "Super Nintendo" as a kid)
NES (Just "Nintendo")

So did I, but that doesn't make it correct. The conversation wasn't about what we called it, it was about the actual names and how interesting/uninteresting they were. I always knew the correct names even if I took shortcuts.

That said, it blew my mind when I got older and found out that many kids called them "Nes," Es-Nes," and "Snes" instead of "Nintendo," "Super Nintendo," "N.E.S," "Super N.E.S," and "S.N.E.S." I never knew that the "Nester" character in Nintendo Power was a nod to that pronunciation. Their commercials never called it "Nes" and it never occurred to me to call it that. I think my first time hearing it was when Adam Sessler called the SNES "S.Nes" while talking about the Playstation on some ZDTV predecessor to X-Play (Gamespot TV or something before even that).

Another news flash: Nintendo wanted to distance themselves as far as possible from the videogame market crash Atari had taken the industry into and refused to refer to the games as "cartridges." They only called them "Game Paks."

 

[CZroe]

You're wrong.

Just watch a bunch of commercial compilations on YouTube and you'll shut up really quick on that one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrI-A94aLfo

OMG! They slipped up once?! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

 

[JujuFish]

Just watch a bunch of commercial compilations on YouTube and you'll shut up really quick on that one.


OMG! They slipped up once?! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Sit down and chill out. It's OK to be wrong, just man up to it.

 

[exdeath]

Just watch a bunch of commercial compilations on YouTube and you'll shut up really quick on that one.


OMG! They slipped up once?! THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Just linked the first one I found on YouTube, I didn't try at all.

It was called all sorts of things by all sides at one point or another.

But it was unveiled and introduced to the world and initially marketed as Super Nintendo by Nintendo. It was formally Super Nintendo Entertainment System as far as logos go but the emphasis was on "Super Nintendo".

 

[CZroe]

Sit down and chill out. It's OK to be wrong, just man up to it.

I don't think you understand who is wrong here: It's the exception that proves the rule, which is not a phrase I made up and rarely more appropriate. You have no idea how many videos he watched to find that one. I myself sat through 35 minutes of compiled commercials and didn't come across it. If I find a commercial where Sega calls the Genesis or Megadrive "Sega," does it mean that "Sega" was the accepted name for their 16-bit console? And don't go throwing my needlessly absolute terminology in my face as if I was specifically saying that they "never" Made a mistake. There were a lot of ad agencies and a lot of publishers made their own commercials. One thing is for sure: it was amazingly consistent. Is that non-absolute enough?

 

[JujuFish]

I don't think you understand who is wrong here: It's the exception that proves the rule, which is not a phrase I made up and rarely more appropriate. You have no idea how many videos he watched to find that one. I myself sat through 35 minutes of compiled commercials and didn't come across it. If I find a commercial where Sega calls the Genesis or Megadrive "Sega," does it mean that "Sega" was the accepted name for their 16-bit console? And don't go throwing my needlessly absolute terminology in my face as if I was specifically saying that they "never" Made a mistake. There were a lot of ad agencies and a lot of publishers made their own commercials. One thing is for sure: it was amazingly consistent. Is that non-absolute enough?

Ad for the system itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVmFq4sc4k
First party game (Super Mario Kart): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yyohCdepg
First party game (Super Mario World): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpSVs0e6qM
First party addon (Super scope): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJQzWRuQ-o

It just took me just a couple minutes to find those videos. So, yes, I reiterate, you were wrong.

 

[Ichinisan]

Brother was wrong about the TV commercials. Yeah, they called it "Super Nintendo" almost as often as they called it "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" or "Super N.E.S."

I've never been able to get this one out of my head:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9KmeQYrDM8

 

[Ichinisan]

Sega Genesis vs Super NES:

Part 1
Part 2​

I love this

 

[CZroe]

Ad for the system itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mVmFq4sc4k
First party game (Super Mario Kart): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yyohCdepg
First party game (Super Mario World): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azpSVs0e6qM
First party addon (Super scope): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxJQzWRuQ-o

It just took me just a couple minutes to find those videos. So, yes, I reiterate, you were wrong.

OK, fine. It looks like there was a short time around the SNES launch when their ad agency was calling the SNES "Super Nintendo." It looks like most of those said the full name "Super Nintendo Entertainment System" before shortening it. It's just natural. Like Sega would just call the Sega Genesis "Genesis" once they've already said "Sega."

I should point out that the second one isn't even the US version. Just because the SNES was called Super Famicom in Japan and the Genesis was called Megadrive elsewhere doesn't mean they weren't called Super NES and Genesis here.

 

[boomhower]

SNES (Donky Kong Country still one of my favorite all time games)
NES (oh, Zelda!)
PS2 (killed several and rebought)
PS3/360 (tie for me, free online for the PS3 but 360 has the superior Forza)
Xbone (For me Forza and Titanfall make it the easy next gen winner. Again for ME.)

 

[Sonikku]

SNES (Always called it a "Super Nintendo" as a kid)
NES (Just "Nintendo")
PS2
X360
Genesis

Back in the golden olden days everyone called having a Genesis "having a Sega" too. I had the full blown sega cd/32x/game gear etc. I was Sega's bitch back then. :'(

 

[KeithTalent]

Sega Genesis vs Super NES:

Part 1
Part 2​

I love this

Damn you, made me late for work this morning. I enjoyed that, even though I do not necessarily agree with everything he said (was a Sega kid growing up).

KT

 

[poofyhairguy]

Back in the golden olden days everyone called having a Genesis "having a Sega" too. I had the full blown sega cd/32x/game gear etc. I was Sega's bitch back then. :'(

Nintendo did its fair share of milking too. As a team Nintendo kid I had a Power Glove, a Virtual Boy, a Super Scope (so cool hardware), and EVERY freaking Gameboy (the OG, the small one, the color one, the first Advance, the clamshell Advance, the DS, the DS lite).

 

[BoberFett]

Not necessarily in this order:

360
Genesis
SNES
NES
PS1

They were all so different it would be hard to rank them objectively. For what they were at the time they were released, they were all awesome.

 

[exdeath]

I've decided that NES/SMS takes one of the three remaining slots after SNES and PS1 (possibly whichever came out first or simply credit to NES since SMS was unsuccessful)

Primary reason is NES or 8 bit in general marked the first time games had a definitive start and end, as in literally "the end", a conclusive goal and victory. You could actually finish the game and get an ending instead of just looping your high score over and over again aka Pac Man, Centipede, Pole Position, Moon Patrol, Galaxian, Pitfall, Mario Bros, etc.

That's HUGE. Imagine playing Halo and after finishing, the palette just got a shade darker, enemies got faster, and you just started over at level 1 indefinitely?

 

[BoberFett]

The SMS just didn't have the library to support it. Phantasy Star was phenomenal, but other than that, I can't think of anything else that wowed me. The NES on the other hand had one of the most amazing libraries on any system ever.