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Joined: May 24 2010 Location: Detroit, Michigan Posts: 91

First Generation - Magnavox Odyssey, Magnavox Odyssey 200, Atari/Sears Telegames Pong, Nintendo Color TV Game

Second Generation - Fairchild Channel F, Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey 2, Intellivision, Atari 5200, Vectrex, Emerson Arcadia 2001, ColecoVision, Bally Astrocade, Sega SG-1000

Third Generation - NES/Famicom, Casio PV-1000, Epoch Cassette Vision, Supergame VG 3000, Sega Master System, Atari 7800

Fourth Generation - TurboGrafx-16/PC-Engine, Sega Mega Drive/Genesis, Neo Geo, Super Nintendo Entertainment System/Super Famicom, Amiga CDTV, Philips CD-i

Fifth Generation - 3DO Interactive Multiplayer, Atari Jaguar, Amiga CD32, Sega Saturn, Sony PlayStation, Nintendo 64, Apple Bandai Pippin, Casio Loopy, Neo Geo CD, PC-FX, Virtual Boy, Bandai Playdia

Sixth Generation - Dreamcast, PlayStation 2, Nintendo GameCube, Xbox

Seventh Generation - Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii

Joined: May 24 2010 Location: Detroit, Michigan Posts: 91

Sixth for me cause it's probably the largest console war ever and contains my personal favorite system of all-time, the Dreamcast.

Joined: May 29 2010 Posts: 168

Fifth because my best memories of gaming were spent with this one.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 07:01 pm

didnt knyte already have this poll?

Joined: Dec 20 2009 Location: CA Posts: 152

6th gen was the most well rounded imo. All the crap is finally filtered out and the remaining consoles were all worth owning, each with a quality library of games.

That being said, many of my more memorable gaming experiences reside within 4th and 5th gen.

Joined: May 24 2010 Location: Detroit, Michigan Posts: 91

username wrote:

didnt knyte already have this poll?

I wouldn't know I've only been here a few days.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 07:31 pm

eatpork wrote:

username wrote:

didnt knyte already have this poll?

I wouldn't know I've only been here a few days.

not an attack against you. just saying is all...

Posted: Jun 03 2010 08:13 pm

username wrote:

eatpork wrote:

username wrote:

didnt knyte already have this poll?

I wouldn't know I've only been here a few days.

not an attack against you. just saying is all...

Cool it, username. I'm watching you.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 09:43 pm

ah shit, if klim is watching me.... i better just quit the whole forums.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 10:32 pm

Fourth generation.

You want to talk about console wars? Nothing was ever as vicious as the SNES/Genesis war.

Fifth generation was hands-down the worst.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

Fourth...honestly, I don't think anything was as intense as Sega vs. Nintendo...even with PS2 vs. Xbox, you already had made your allegience.

Joined: Oct 12 2007 Posts: 821

I am a fifth generation fan boy, though I am sure that is mostly because it is what got me into gaming in the first place. I never got into the NES, SNES, or any Sega system like I did with the N64. I like the Wii, Gamecube, PS2, and PS3, but nostalgia keeps me coming back to the N64... and Pokemon Snap... don't judge me.

Still, I was and still am more of a handheld gamer than a console gamer.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 11:36 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

Fourth generation.

You want to talk about console wars? Nothing was ever as vicious as the SNES/Genesis war.

Fifth generation was hands-down the worst.

Seconded!

Personally, SNES and Genesis/Mega Drive are my two favorite consoles. They represent a good piece of my childhood.

Posted: Jun 03 2010 11:58 pm

nihilisticglee wrote:

I am a fifth generation fan boy, though I am sure that is mostly because it is what got me into gaming in the first place. I never got into the NES, SNES, or any Sega system like I did with the N64. I like the Wii, Gamecube, PS2, and PS3, but nostalgia keeps me coming back to the N64... and Pokemon Snap... don't judge me.

Still, I was and still am more of a handheld gamer than a console gamer.

The fifth generation should almost be two generations. I love the N64, and the PSX became one of the most popular console ever after a rough start, but fifth generation almost killed the industry. Expensive consoles with underwhelming libraries like the Saturn, 3D0, and Atari Jaguar, as well as late 4th generation entries such as Sega CD (yes, I know it's not technically a console) and the CD-i, made parents wary of buying new consoles. After all, what was the point of buying expensive hardware if the games would dry up after a year or two and mainstream retailers stopped carrying them? The N64 and the PSX would eventually offer stablity, but it really was a wasteland there for awhile.

Posted: Jun 04 2010 05:11 am

I grew up playing the fifth generation and reading about the sixth. I think the first modern console I played was the Playstation - and the first game was (I think) Quake II, which had an excellent port.

Posted: Jun 04 2010 06:36 am

This is really weird. I feel like the exact same thread was posted a few months ago with the same exact replies. Forum deja vu!

In my opinion, the fourth generation was best because that took place right in the heyday of my childhood and that whole era had a special feeling about it. All of my fondest gaming memories take place during that generation.

Posted: Jun 04 2010 01:55 pm

I have to say third, because I spent hours in quiet isolation playing NES and loving every moment of it. SNES was great, don't get me wrong, but it's kind of like the second person you ever have sex with. You know what you're doing now so you're getting it on a lot more, but the moment's not as special as the first.

Posted: Jun 04 2010 11:44 pm

eatpork wrote:

username wrote:

didnt knyte already have this poll?

I wouldn't know I've only been here a few days.

You mean this one?
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10331

Posted: Jun 05 2010 12:10 am

Knyte wrote:

eatpork wrote:

username wrote:

didnt knyte already have this poll?

I wouldn't know I've only been here a few days.

You mean this one?
http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=10331

Precisely, the results so far are pretty similar.

Joined: Oct 01 2009 Posts: 5316

You can basically poll anywhere on the internet besides IGN and get the same results. I'd still say that 4th generation gamers are the ones who popularized the market as much as it is.