definitely has to be the SNES

For me it would be a coin flip between the SNES with Super Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Link to the past, Streetfighter II, Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Counrty OR the N64 with Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, OoT, Mario 64, Conker and Banjo....... Tough choice.

The N64, due to the countless hours of multi-player fun. That machine was a multi-player specialist.

Xbox360
PSx

DreamCast

Genesis

NeoGeo

Saturn

Nes

I enjoyed my Sega Master System more than my Genesis.

By the way, I started with an Atari 2600.

Definitely the PS2. It has the best library of any console in existence. In my opinion, the technology and interface of the PS3 + the library of the PS2 = the perfect console.

ooh, i mentioned my top 3 in a thread not too different to this one a few weeks back, but hey, here goes again...........

1. Sega Dreamcast
2. Sega Megadrive
3. Microsoft Xbox 360

I say nay... I mean snes.

I don't think I can awnser this question.

I have had:

Atari (not sure which it was)
NES
SNES
N64
PS1
GBC
PS2
Xbox
GCN
PSP
360
PS3

Every single one of thouse consoles has given me memorys I will carry with me for the rest of my life.

NES - these were the first years I started playing gaming, watching my dad play, and begining to hone my skills.

SNES - This console brught the whole family into gaming. Ken Griffey Jr. baseball, Super Mario World, and HAL Golf were part of the weeknight entertainment, and some of the best times I have ever had with my family.

N64 - Like MM said, the N64 was just awsome due to the plaug and play mechanic. Games like Mario 64, Golden Eye, No Mecry, Crusin USA, San Francisco Rush, and VWBug racing were awsome experiances.

PS1 - This was the first console I ever really wanted. Before PS1 I never knew when the new systems were coming out or what games were cool. I basically always played what my dad bought for himself, and enjoyed that.

The first time I came in contact with a PS1 was after we had had the N64 for a while. I loved playing Crusin USA, Mario 64, and Golden Eye, and I had never heard of this Playstation thing before. My uncle has been a racecar driver for years, and he had GT1 in and that freaking blew my mind. I was used to thouse aracde racers on N64, and I had never even thought about being able to race real cars, INCLUDING my all-time favorite the Dodge Viper.

After a few hours of that at my cusins birthday I new I had to have a PS1. I begged and pledded with my family. This was all I wanted for christmas, just get together, and make this happen I said. So one day a few weeks I get a call from my grandpa, and this is the grandpa I usally never get a call from, and he says "hey is this Kevyn?". SO I respond "yeah". My grandfather "So you wnated one of those Playstation deals for christmas right?, not a Nintendo?". Me "yeah thats right". Grandpa "alright thats what your grandma got you", and then he hung up.

So of course I got my Playstation for christmas, and along with it Gran Turismo. This game along with WWE Warzone were easly my favorites on the system at the time. I even remember playing the Metal Gear Solid demo, and renting FFVII and thinking they both sucked. I know now I had not yet matured enough to see beyond the fun side of gaming.

Atari - I had the system for a breif period during the PS1/64 days after my Gma/Gpa found it in thier basement. They had pitfal, a racing game called nightsomething, pacman, and frogger. Even thought my time with each was brief as the system stopped working, I still have found memories of each.

GBC - I got this system for one reason, and one reason only. Pokemon. I had no interest in handhelds, but people were plaiying this at school and I loved it from the little playtime my friends had allowed me. This game buy itself was enough to make me love GBC just as much as every other system I have ever owned. Even though the PSP is better, I had a way better experiance with the GBC because I did not have a job, car, wife, house, ect. GBC was an awsome vacation device as I was a rider, and we travlerd a lot for long periods at a time back then.

PS2 - The PS2 ws just awsome. This was the first console I ever anticepated coming out. I still remember going into Toys'r'us and seeing the PS2 flyer. October 26, 2000. I wanted that preorder so bad, but it just didn't happen. I think part of my love for the Playstation brand comes from how I grew with each console. The first one I was a very little kid, and I had it handed to me, with PS2 I had to wait, and me and my brother worked together to make the money to buy it, now the PS3 is the first console I have bought with my own money.

I think the best thing about the PS2 was how my gaming interests changed. As I began to fall in love with Sony, I began following everything they did. I learned the awsomeness of exclusive games, and I made it a point to get all the exclusives for the PS2, and later the Gamecube, and Xbox. Thanks to this I started running into differant types of games. RPG's, FPS's, Action/Adventure, Sports, and more. I love the PS2 because it opened me up to gaming like never before, and I really started to learn the games can be fun, serious, educational, and life changing.

Xbox - I got this sytem late in its life, along with the Gamecube. The best part of the system was I got it for free. A friend of mine pissed of his dad, and he dropped it off at our house and siad steve can get a new one when he gets the money to buy it himself. My favorite Xbox experiances were Halo with my two best friends, and my brother the summer of 2004, and PGR2 with custom soundtracks. I still daydream about the late nights racing to my music, and just releaxing like never before.

Gamecube - This was the first Nintendo console my dad did not buy for the family. Had had some interest in it, but felt letdown when they never released a proper Mario game for it. He found new loves in Jak, and Ratchet, and he also became a huge Socom guy. So with his failure to supply the console I spent my hard earned B-day money on the system. Since I had got sucked into the MGS series on the PS2 MGSTW was my first game on the system. Then I hit the usual Mario franchise stuff. Other than that I got RE4 on it because I thought it was not coming to PS2. Out of the systems I have owned this has so far been the biggest disapointment.

PSP - This system is my best buddy. It is with me everywhere I go, and it has got more money from me than it deserves. Though its gaming momories are on the short side, the ones it has left are substansial. Daxter was an amazing experiance, and the opening scence with headphones on is the closest I have ever been to holding a console in my hands. The system has had other awsome games like MGSPO, Killzone Liberation, GoWCoO, and GTALCS. But the best part of the PSP is the mulimedia stuff. Music during work, catching up on TV at breaks, and browsing the web on the can. If not for all these extra activities I could not justify te purchase of a stand alone gaming handheld. I just don't have the time for something like that anymore.

360 - I got the my 360 shortly after launch, and it still works to this day. I love the fact that all games on this system have so many features built in. I paid for live the first year I had it, but once the PS3 came out I gave up gameing online on the 360. I have still had a blast witit though. PDZ wa very fun back when the system first launched, and PGR3 was a fun game that held me just as long as 2 did. I have played Forza 2, Halo, 2, Gears 1/2, Fable 2, and Mass Effect. The system is deffenetly something any game should have. The exclusives on the system can not be missed, and I know I will have good memories when I look back on the system in 10 years.

PS3 - Obviously as many of you know I love this system. I have an original 60GB that I have put a 500GB Samsung drive in, and I basically have every device you can buy for it (the same goes for the 360 as well). As I hav already stated it many times, I will just keep it simple. So far this generation I have had the best experiance on this console, and I think it one day could be looked at as my favorite of all time.

Wii - WHAT?! Ok, I don't own a Wii, but their is one at my house. My wife runs a daycare, and one of the parents was kind enough to donate one for the kids. I have given the system plenty of time but the love is just not there. For me Nintendo has just lost the magic. Nothing seems to ever change, and even though the games are still good, I just can't keep falling in love with the same game over, and over. It is not that the graphics are not amazing. Even if they blew the other systems out of the water it would not change anything. The biggest thing that could change that would be new experiances.

Sorry for the long post. My gaming career has been vast, and I just could not pick a favorite from the past or current generation.

Ok, now that I posted that, and looked back at it, I don't expect anyone to read all of that.