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Which is the most important console ever?

Atari 2600 119 6.86%
 
NES 806 46.48%
 
SNES 109 6.29%
 
Sega Genesis 25 1.44%
 
N64 54 3.11%
 
PSX 303 17.47%
 
XBox 14 0.81%
 
PS2 225 12.98%
 
XB360 20 1.15%
 
Other - please explain 59 3.40%
 
Total:1,734
Chris Hu said:
Aeolus451 said:

They didn't have a ton of games like that. Most of their games were made for kids. There's nothing wrong with that, though. Gaming was considered a kid's hobby for a very long time and video game companies didn't realize the potential places the market could head to. Think what you want about what I posted. I don't really care what you in particular think.

Yes they did.  2D fighting games first became popular during the 4th generation those wheren't meant for kids.  Also the Genesis popularised sports games on consoles those wheren't meant for kids.  Also during the 4h generation you saw the introduction of the Videogame Rating Council which would have been completely unecessary if all the games during that period where kid friendly and aimed at kids.  Plus the the two attachments for the Genesis the Sega CD and 32X wheren't aimed at kids.

No they didn't. i was there. Kid games galore. It's what they were focused on. They were following ninty's lead. A handful of fighting games didn't change shit on the overall game libraries. Those type of games exploded on playstation and it was their focus. 



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Ganoncrotch said:
Aeolus451 said:

I thought of it as playstation until PS2 came out then I started to think of it as PS1.

In Europe at least it was always called the Playstation, the first time numbers came into it was with the PSone and PS2 on the horizon but the original system was always just referred to as Playstation, where does the X even come from in this abbreviation?

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Righto after some reading about the X comes from Playstation Experiment a pre release name given to the system and used by some magazines after the consoles launch... Jesus I'm glad gaming magazines are for the most part dead, or we'd still have people talking about the NX and Xenon today as their favourite consoles of all times....

I don't really remember where the x came from but it does makes sense that it came from magazines. They were just a big marketing tool that were run by non-gamers for the most part. It's still that way. 



Aeolus451 said:
Ganoncrotch said:

In Europe at least it was always called the Playstation, the first time numbers came into it was with the PSone and PS2 on the horizon but the original system was always just referred to as Playstation, where does the X even come from in this abbreviation?

.....

Righto after some reading about the X comes from Playstation Experiment a pre release name given to the system and used by some magazines after the consoles launch... Jesus I'm glad gaming magazines are for the most part dead, or we'd still have people talking about the NX and Xenon today as their favourite consoles of all times....

I don't really remember where the x came from but it does makes sense that it came from magazines. They were just a big marketing tool that were run by non-gamers for the most part. It's still that way. 

Yeah I checked it out, the codename for the system was Playstation eXperiment and some pre launch promo stuff had it marketed as PSX alright, I guess by the time it got to Europe it was already out and had the correct name so we didn't have the confusion with the name here, like I said it was Sony Playstation or just Playstation. (in my tiny pocket of the world at least :) )



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Aeolus451 said:
Chris Hu said:

Yes they did.  2D fighting games first became popular during the 4th generation those wheren't meant for kids.  Also the Genesis popularised sports games on consoles those wheren't meant for kids.  Also during the 4h generation you saw the introduction of the Videogame Rating Council which would have been completely unecessary if all the games during that period where kid friendly and aimed at kids.  Plus the the two attachments for the Genesis the Sega CD and 32X wheren't aimed at kids.

No they didn't. i was there. Kid games galore. It's what they were focused on. They were following ninty's lead. A handful of fighting games didn't change shit on the overall game libraries. Those type of games exploded on playstation and it was their focus. 

I'm older then you so I was there also.  And the only title on the Genesis that was mainly aimed and advertised towards kids was Sonic The Hedgehog.  Also the PS1 didn't cause the explosion of any type of genere it just made 3D gaming popular.



Hands down the Atari 2600, it was the trailblazer without which many others would probably not exist.



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Nuvendil said:
Ka-pi96 said:

Kinda surprised you're putting Xbox ahead of Xbox 360 there. Sure Xbox had online gaming before 360 (as did other consoles), but 360 is the one that made it really take off.

The 360 was the mkre successful one, but it was Halo 2 and the CoDs on Xbox that started it, with pro tournaments showing up and such.  I mean, despite losing the console war by a huge margin, it took a novelty idea in console gaming and made it into a standard come Gen 7.  

You must know that the dreamcast shipped with a modem installed from day 1? The Xbox was not the first platform to start online play.



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VAMatt said:
monocle_layton said:
NES

any other console wouldn't even exist if it didn't save the gaming industry.

I agree with this statement.  However, the same logic could be applied to Atari - "Any other console wouldn't even exist, if Atari 2600 didn't create (prove the significance of?) the industry"

It existed before Atari already. Credits should go to Ralph Baer and his Brown Box, which is the very first Console, at least in concept. It then became the Magnavox Odyssey, which is the first commercially released console, and console gaming started to take off from there.

So Magnavox Odyssey, as it basically created the market, followed by the NES, which revived the North american market after it crashed.

The Fairchild Channel F comes in third, being the first console to have programmable cartridges, meaning it could do more than just the variations of Pong that the first gen consoles like the Odyssey where capable of. However, Ralph Baer already had this concept in mind with the Brown Box and thus was just a matter of time before this would happen, hence why it only get's the third spot on this list.



The first Pong machines because that's the start of consoles.



Chris Hu said:
Aeolus451 said:

No they didn't. i was there. Kid games galore. It's what they were focused on. They were following ninty's lead. A handful of fighting games didn't change shit on the overall game libraries. Those type of games exploded on playstation and it was their focus. 

I'm older then you so I was there also.  And the only title on the Genesis that was mainly aimed and advertised towards kids was Sonic The Hedgehog.  Also the PS1 didn't cause the explosion of any type of genere it just made 3D gaming popular.

You're either lying or don't know what you're talking about. Pick whichever one I don't care. 

I'll just list some games that had on genesis to debunk what you said. 

Aero The Acro-bat 1 & 2.

Barbie: Super Model

Bugs Bunny in double trouble

Captain Planet

Daffy Duck in hollywood

I could on and on.