1990-1998 is the height of Nintendo's power.

They've never had a stretch since where they've been that good

Super Mario Bros.3, Mario World, Earthbound, Super Metroid, Zelda: A Link to the Past, Super Mario 64, GoldenEye, Donkey Kong Country, Star Fox, F-Zero, culminating with Zelda: OoT in November 1998.

That was the greatest time to be a Nintendo fan. If you missed out, I feel bad for you, but that was the Golden Age.

Wii U is my favourite console of all time! So Wii U :P

N64. Which is also the best console of all time. It just has too many great games to ignore, and moreover even some of the best games ever.

N64 > NES >= SNES >> Wii >> GC.

WiiU isn't mature enough yet to be included, but for now it's at the lower end of the spectrum. With Zelda U, it'll probably cement itself in front of the GC though to me.

Don't if you're going make a handheld thread, but that a tougher question. I know which one I think is my least favorite, but the best is a tight race. 3DS really suited me. Taking the GameBoy and GameBoy Color as a single console, I'd say:

GB(C) = 3DS > DS > GBA

Agreed.

I'd even take it further and say that was the Golden Age of gaming in general. For PC, for SEGA, even for PlayStation. It's no coincidence most of the games in my list in Smeags's Top 50 thread hail from that era.

N64 or gamecube

N64; awesome controller, world class games and four player coop gaming with four ports for controllers for endless split-screen fun! It is my 3rd fav console of all time and my fav Nintendo console by a mile.

The only console I had for its own games was the GameCube.

Therefore, I am inclined to vote GameCube if it wasn't for the Wii and its backwards-compatibility.

Gamecube for me. My most fond gaming memories were with the gamecube/dreamcast. Maybe because I was a teen with no worries other than homework, but there were so many amazing games. Some of my favourite games of all time are on there, including F-Zero GX, Phantasy Star Online 3 C.A.R.D Revolution and Animal Crossing. I also have such fond memories of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles (I was probably the only guy who loved that game and thought it was so much better than FF10)

PS: Glad to see the Wii is last ... lol. It's funny, GameCube was my favourite console of all time, and the Wii my most hated console of all time. WiiU is awesome though.

The 90's were indeed the golden era for gaming. Sometimes I am saddened by the state of the gaming industry today; both by the developers and publishers and the audience themselves and what they put up with. I don't think I'll ever love games and gaming as much as did during the 90's.

For me, it is also about the fact that gaming was something elusive and difficult at the time, in practical terms, I had no money and every gaming experience was almost sacred. Today; I have a backlog of several hundred games and can get a dozen greatest hits for ten euros and basically buy all the games I want; it's just not the same.

The O.G., N.E.S. My 2nd fav would be the N64.