On personal history, big nostalgia for Odyssey 2/Philips Videopac.

Based on emulation experiences, WonderSwan (Color).

PC Engine by a country mile. First system to use CDs. Runs a ton of NES era Shmups at perfect arcade quality that blows the NES versions out of the water. Got a ram expansion card late in its life cycle so it still had cutting edge games like Saphire in 1995.



Jackie Chan's Action Kung Fu
Air Zonk
Alein Crush
Blazing Lasers
Bloody Wolf
Bonk's Adventure
Bonk 2
Bonk 3
Dragon Spirit
Ninja Spirit
Samurai Ghost
Silent Debuggers
Tiger Road
Cyber Core
Raiden
Dungeon Explorer
Shockman
Neutopia
Neutopia II
Prince of Persia
Cosmic Fantasy 2
YS Book I and II (Chrono Trigger levels of good here.)
Dungeon Explorer II
Salamander
R-Type
R-Type II
Violent Soldier
1943 Kai
Image Fight
Soldier Blade
Super Star Soldier
Metal Stoker
Heavy Unit
Cotton
Super Air Zonk

1. Avenger

2. Dracula X

3. Dragonslayer Legend of Heroes

4. Exile

5. Fantasy Soldier 2

6. FX Unit Yuki

7. Gate of Thunde

8. Image Fight II

9. Kaiso Chojin 3 Shubibinman 3

10. Last Alert

11. Faucette Armo

12. Pop n' Magi

13. Seirei Shsnshi Spriggan

14. Star Parioder

15. Super Raiden

16. Winds of Thunder

Same here and MSX was also the reason I got into programming, making my own games and a catalog program to keep track of all my VHS dupes, which also operated my wake up alarm. (My high school had different times in the morning during the week so was very useful, program my whole semester in lol, home made external alarm bell connected to the printer port)

Best of MSX were Lazy Jones, Jet Set Willy 2, King's Valley, Hyper Rally, Rollerball, Boulder Dash, River Raid.

C64 and Amiga 500 were awesome as well. I never owned those but went to a friend's house multiple times a week after school to play on those.

Atari 2600. I keep it plugged into my CRT at all times, and there is nothing better for a quick, mindless, half hour of fun gaming with friends. It's the ultimate plug-and-play console.

When I was a little boy, my family briefly had an Odyssey 2. It was a second-hand console with a handful of games, and while I do remember at least one of them being fun to play, I mostly spent my time punching in cuss words on the keyboard, and giggling until I cried. That speech game was the real deal haha.

The Atari 8-bit. It’s technically a computer, but it’s one of those consolized computers of the early 80s that was geared more towards gaming than actual PCs of that time were. It was basically the 5200 without the design flaws of the 5200 and had some amazing games.

Another console I would like to give a shout out to is the Bally Professional Arcade/Astrocade. Its home port of Wizard of Wor was one of the most arcade perfect ports ever seen at that time.

Tons of sweet memories with the MSX. Out of the games you mentioned, I had River Raid and King's Valley. Probably played well over a 100 games on it (had a bunch of floppy fisks, each holding several games + many cartridges. And we game shared with friends and relatives).

Some of my favorites include King's Valley 2, Knightmare, Maze of Galious, Metal Gear 2, Penguin Adventure, the Goonies, Nemesis 2 and 3, and Salamander, Castle Excellent, and Zanac. Yes, I was obsessed about Konami!

Also Thexder! I have an old photo of myself and my brother playing Thexder together as 6 and 8~ year old kids lol.

Couldn't do any programming though! A couple of older relatives were into this side of it, and one of them eventually majored in programming.

From my personal experience Amstrad CPC 6128, This beast had hundreds of games like Golden Axe, Double Dragon, Arkanoid e.t.c.
Maby it was a computer but at that time they were used only for gaming.

FM Towns Marty

It had Puyo Puyo