MacArrowny posted...
SNES and Genesis are pretty silly entries, but I guess that's the power of nostalgia.
I put the Genesis on mine because it was the first system after the NES came out that really made Nintendo flinch a little bit. It was the first home console that actually made them look somewhat vulnerable and incentivized more competition in the industry, and there was the famous console wars thing that can still be felt to some degree even today (albeit with Sega not part of them obviously). It's hard for me to not think the thing didn't have at least a little influence on Sony joining the console game later.
There's also things like it being a
huge
leap in tech from the NES (remember the SNES would not release for another 2-3 years, and though the TG-16/PC Engine was also a huge leap from the NES it wasn't even a truly 16-bit system and flopped outside Japan) but that's mostly why I picked it. And yeah I love the thing I'll admit that.
a brief N64 thing: it's a solid system, but it's also more than somewhat an American thing. the thing got outsold in Japan by the
Saturn
,
and got decimated in Europe by the PS1 way harder than it did in the US.
My rushmore just for game quality would probably be SNES/PS1/PS2/idk lots of systems can go in the last spot in my opinion. god knows the
games
(by today's standards anyway) are not why I put the 2600 up there.