Weekend Hot Topic: Favourite retro console
Readers discuss the best consoles and computers of yesteryear, from the Amiga 500 to the Sega Dreamcast.
The subject for this week’s Hot Topic was suggested by reader Xane and assumed that retro means anything up to and including the Xbox 360 era. Any kind of gaming device counted, including consoles (both home and portable), home computers, and older PCs.
There were plenty of obvious suggestions but what was surprising is that the SNES was by far the most popular, with the Mega Drive barely being mentioned – which is the opposite of how UK sales went back in the day.
16-bit choice The SNES will probably always be my all-time favourite console. The first system I owned was Sega Master System and it was great, but I bought the gaming magazines at the time and read about the Super Famicom and saw the screenshots of Final Fight and I wanted it based on that.
I was about 12 years old and friends of mine had Mega Drives, another excellent console, but I couldn’t afford multiple consoles on my pocket money and paper round income, so held out and saved up my money and I never regretted it.
It was an amazing looking arcade port (compared to the 8-bit Double Dragon, etc.) that lured me in but SNES was my introduction to Mario, Zelda, F-Zero, Star Fox (Starwing), Pilotwings… all great first party games.
Third party support was also amazing, for me Konami and Capcom were absolutely superb and rarely put a foot wrong with any of their games but there were plenty of others. (THQ and Jaleco games were usually rubbish though.)
To me the SNES felt like having an arcade machine through my parents’ telly and it was wonderful.John
The special one PlayStation 2 for my favourite retro format. It’s for purely sentimental reasons, as it was when
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