I’d have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I’m a sucker for 70’s designed electronics.
while not necessarily the prettiest console by any means but i always thought the Og xbox home menu went way harder than it needed to, now that’s presentation!
They said retro, the Xbox can’t be retro, its only been around for- oh. Oh no.
Technically neither a console nor a PC (in the IBM-compatible sense), but the Commodore PET has a certain kind of 70s futurism about it.
Note the integrated tape deck for all your storage needs.
The keyboard pictured, while interesting looking, is a complete POS. Later PETs had a more usable keyboard with a better layout.
Edit: I don’t think that red button at the bottom right is stock. It’s almost certainly a hardware reset button, which on the Commodore machines is typically done by shorting a couple pins on a user expansion port.
It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.
I like the woodgrain look, but I don’t think the Atari 2600 is a very good example of it. Lots of audio equipment from the time does it better. Especially when combined with brushed aluminum or stainless steel.
Purple GameCubes are retro now, so I’ll go with that as my favorite.
Console: Sega Dreamcast
PC: Any IBM beige box from the 90s
One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.
The Atari Portfolio (the one John Connors uses in Terminator 2) or the ST Book.
Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
I’m very partial to the IMSAI 8080!
Incredible. This might be my new favorite.
I built a replica one that a dude in Australia designed. Its really fun to mess with. I played Zork on it the day I finished it.
That’s awesome. Very 1960s Star Trek, in a good way.
This scratches an itch I didn’t know I had.
gorgeous, had never heard of this.
You can build a replica from this dude!
That’s so cool!
Game Boy Advance. Actually all 3 variants (GBA, SP & Micro) are beautiful consoles.
I love how the SP looks. The original feels better in the hand but the clamshell looks so good and it feels great to open and close.
I’m tempted to get a foldable as my next phone because I miss that design.
I’m partial to the translucent version of the OG GBA.
Completely forgot I had this until seeing this image. Brain skipped straight to the SP.
I went from Glacier OG to Silver SP. Never got a Micro.
God damn marketing! That picture makes it look like it had OLED before it was invented. Of course, these days you can make it actually look like that but it’s ~$60 and you install it yourself.
It’s a worthwhile mod. I prefer this form factor over the clamshell, but it needs a screen that you can see without 1000W of halogen bulbs around you.
Oh yeah right… the Gameboy advance can legally be considered as a retro console…
Good pick!
Nintendo’s GameCube. It’s cubical. Cubical!
It came with a beat carry handle and drug-hiding compartments!
This but the mark III with the FM sound adapter
I never understood the choice to put a flowchart on the front of this one. 😆
Very sciencey, not a toy. Hilariously, Nintendo fought hard to get their competing “Entertainment System” recognized as a toy and not a computer, for import tax purposes.
Needs a Sonic 3 cartridge plugged into a Sonic & Knuckles cartridge plugged into the 32X plugged into the Genesis to get the full Sega experience.
Ask and you shall receive fellow lover of lock on technology ™️
Unfortunately I don’t have a genesis Game Genie or Action Replay to really spice it up
I can never decide on if the Tower of Power is amazing or a cancerous growth.
It can be two things
If I could reach through my phone screen, I’d definitely let you borrow my game genie just to complete that lock on power tower.
And the pièce de résistance, a Game Genie.
I never liked the side-by-side Mega CD.
The stacked one looked better. Like an old hifi system.
Intelligang represent!
Intellevision may not have the best controller design out there, but the versatility with the different card inserts made playing games easier when I was a kid. Basically a guide in the palm of your hands for each game you owned. Losing them did blow however.
BAM THERE IT IS !!!
We had both this one and the 2nd gen gray one! Plus the voice synthesizer addon. My dad would replace the touch pad inserts so we didn’t have to buy new controllers.
Amazing console way ahead of it’s time.
The 2600 depicted in the article thumbnail, was absolutely a beauty in its native environment of the late 1970’s:
