Turbografx 16 or PC Engine. It had some really great gems on there, especially the Y's games. The first 4 games are on it and they're stunning. It has some nice platformers, a ton of shoot em ups, and a handful of JRPGs. I just love everything about it.

Perhaps the Dreamcast? Sega finally made another awesome system, but it was too late for the console and Sega ;_; it died too young...

FM Towns Marty, because that is the best name for a console ever.

The FM Towns version of Street Fighter II also has awesome music!!

I've never played one but I feel like I should since the 16-bit era is my favourite generation.

I had a TurboGrafx-16 marathon before at my uncle's house, I actually had a lot of fun doing that.

You're really missing out on all the 16 bit era has to offer if you skip the PC Engine. A youtube channel I like just did a nice compilation of some decent games on the system yesterday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oaRXlpCLxg

I highly recommend the Y's titles, Bonk Series, Legend of Valkyrie, New Adventure Island, Son Son 2, Legendary Axe, Bomberman, tons of arcade ports, I could go on and on. Its library isn't as robust as the SNES or Genesis but it's no slouch either. I don't care if you emulate it, give it a try!

Yeah, most people don't know that in theory the Saturn was more powerful than the PS1. Developers just didn't know how to effectively use the 2 CPUs. Rendering quads at that time was very interesing and kind of unheard of for any game console as PS1 could only render tris. It had a lot of potential but was cut short by Sega's incompetence and messy marketing strategies. The Saturn itself doesn't have many US games and even worse not many of them are any good. Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon were kickass games though.

Pick any of the sega systems.

Magnavox Odyssey2, or as I knew it, the Philips Videopac G7000. While it apparently (I wasn't alive back then) did decently here, because of the Philips branding, being a 2nd Gen system it is far overshadowed by the Atari 2600 and even by things as the Intellivision and Colecovision in the modern eye.

Most of it's games are Atari clones as well, but it does have a couple of interesting contraptions of it's own, like a dungeon & dragons-style game that's half a board game, or a chess computer add-on. One of it's games in particular has a large nostaligic value to me. It's a competitive shooting game which I played as a kid on my mother's system, which she had since her own childhood.

The best thing about it though are the controllers. Downside is they're hard-wired, but the control sticks are fluent and accurate, feel like it's like a more modern analogue-stick instead of the digital stick the Atari had. It's just objectively better. They also have just one button, and are therefore not as needlessly complicated as some other 2nd Gen controllers.

So yeah, the Odyssey2/G7000.