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[JF9TP2]

Megadrive by far... and the best games were all the sonics, the adams family, and my personal favorite the lion king i still play mine all the time

[JJ 10 Easy Wishes]

lion king. good shout.

[Bodast]

Dreamcast. Controversial, I know, but hey, I'm no gamer so I decide purely on the happy feelings each console gives me. The controllers are the perfect size for my hands (original Xbox controllers were a bit of a problem), it looks beautiful (mixture between innocent playfulness in its size, colour and swirl; and futurism with the USS Enterprise-like design), and it played host to three of my top games ever: Crazy Taxi (BD JOE! We're gon' have some fun!), Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure.

SNES is so close behind it's almost joint first, though.

[The Kernel Loaf]

Originally Posted by Bodast

Dreamcast. Controversial, I know, but hey, I'm no gamer so I decide purely on the happy feelings each console gives me. The controllers are the perfect size for my hands (original Xbox controllers were a bit of a problem), it looks beautiful (mixture between innocent playfulness in its size, colour and swirl; and futurism with the USS Enterprise-like design), and it played host to three of my top games ever: Crazy Taxi (BD JOE! We're gon' have some fun!), Soul Calibur and Sonic Adventure.

SNES is so close behind it's almost joint first, though.

Dreamcast is a very underrated and innovative console. It was the first to have full-scale online gaming, aswell as the first console to support both 50Hz and 60Hz output in PAL territories and feature a VGA cable add-on to allow you to connect it to a monitor for higher resolution. Also, the fishing rod controller was fully motion sensitive, which you could apparently use with a tennis game similar to the Wii remote.

I just picked one up a few days ago, but the bundled games weren't so good. Could anyone recommend some decent titles to pick up? I was looking into Street Fighter III Third Strike but it is damn expensive.

[Skull Commander]

Good dreamcast games that won't bankrupt you:

Crazy Taxi
Virtua Tennis
MSR (the first 'project gotham racing')
Capcom vs Snk
Typing of the Dead (never released in the uk)
Dynamite Cop
House of the Dead 2 (best with a lightgun)
Zombie Revenge
Powerstone 2
Jet Set Radio
Soul Calibur
Space Channel 5

None of the above should cost you much more than a tenner tops, with most being around £5. I would reccomend getting yourself a boot disc to play import games, as often you can get them pretty cheap of ebay.
The dreamcast as a true classic machine and some of the best sega arcade conversions are available on it. Enjoy it!

[Jake Wifebeater]

Spectrum 48K for me. My old man was given one by his workplace back in 1982 as a free gift, and that was me hook, line and sinker! Entire Sundays spent trying and failing to get out of Division 4 on novice level on "Football Manager" were a childhood staple. I still have one in working order and you can pick up games for it on Ebay for as little as 25p. As much as I love all the Nintendo consoles and my Megadrive (Playstation and Xbox do not exist), the computerised beermat will never leave me. I remember my mum exhorting me in vain to go out and play in the summer holidays, but I was too busy sitting there, curtains closed on a hot day, trying to beat my high scores on Super Stuntman and Pro Ski Simulator. And as for Horace Goes Skiing...

Actually, I've been doing that most of the weekend. The more things change...

[Captain America]

Dreamcast had Shenmue. Which was an awesome game.

[Chris#2]

Atari 5200, NES, SNES, N64, PS2, in that order. Curiously, that's also the order in which I owned them... Diminishing returns?

[Teabags]

Originally Posted by Jake Spike

I was too busy sitting there, curtains closed on a hot day, trying to beat my high scores on Super Stuntman and Pro Ski Simulator.

This explains SO much

[KimyReizeger]

N64 - Zelda and Goldeneye. Body Harvest also - it's probably very bad in the grand scheme, clunky and full of glitches, but pretty scary in a morbid, depressing sort of way when you're twelve. It got to the point where I'd screwed the game up relatively early on and then just kept going back to the last point I got to, finding the plane and bombing the shit out of aliens.. I have serious ambitions of going back and playing it properly.