Why the NES can't be considered to be the best videogame console ever.

[Hawk]

BTFeather55 said:

Hawk said:

BTFeather55 said:

     And how many of you didn't start seriously playing video games until well after the Crash of '84?  'Nuff Said. 

 

I played well before the crash myself.  Though, somehow I don't think that makes my opinions Absolute.

 

      Well, you would have been 9 during the crash which means you probably didn't play them that much before the crash occurred.  There is the chance that the NES just made a bigger impression on you with its better graphics, etc.I was 12 in 1984, and I received my 2600 when I was eight, and I read most of the big game magazines of the day, so the games I wanted were generally the most critically appreciated of the time.

     I think you would get the following results if you conducted a poll of video game players to get their opinion on what was the greatest video gme system ever made.

36 and older with experience playing most of the games from the Golden Age of Videogames (1979 to 1983) Atari 2600

35 to 30 Atari 2600 or NES

30 and below one of Nintendo's or Sony's systems with the xbox getting a lot of votes as well.

 

Yeah, I received my Atari 2600 when I was 7 and was 10 in 1984.  Ok.

     Dude, you say blanket statements and then put a lot of conditions on them.  If what you really mean to say is "Atari 2600 is the best video game console ever to people of my generation, and when not comparing it's games to games that came out 8 years or more later."  Then just say that in the beginning.