Whats the best system in your opinion that has ever been produced for the games industry.

I would say the SNES.

No one can match both quality and quantity with the Super Nintendo. I'd venture to say that video gamedom hit its peak at the time when SNES was neck-and-neck with the Genesis (another great system), and has steadily declined since then. Give me old school or give me death.

Genny all the way!

Sega Genesis kicked SNes's ass all over the place.

Besides, all my favorite games are Genny games.

the good ol' Atari 2600. If it wasn't for the success of this, video games wouldn't be the same today.

3.Intellivision
2.SNES
1.NES (biotch!)

Like I said, Sega hit its own personal high point with the Genesis, before falling (Sega CD) .... and falling (32 .... and hitting rock bottom (Saturn). Dreamcast was a good system, but too little too late. Getting back to the Genesis, it and the Super Nintendo brought in what I'd consider the 2nd golden age of video gaming. But Genesis could not match power with the SNES, nor could it match 3rd party support. The only area where Sega truly killed Nintendo were sports games. The Genesis is up there, but there are more great games for Super.

The NES is the greatest system of all time as far as longevity and nostalgia. I'd like to give that nostalgia distinction to Atari, but many more people today will remember a lot more about the NES. Although many games pale even by SNES standards, as I detail on my site, they had a certain specialness and flat out screwiness that can never be duplicated.

Regarding Atari, that's where I started. I was learning to play Super Breakout as I was learning to walk. But in giving life to the video game industry, it would have single-handedly killed it if not for Nintendo. But still, nothing beats Atari as far as simplistic yet quality fun is concerned.

Intellivision? You liked those phone dial gamepads?

Still, however, I give it to the SNES. That system encompassed both the franchises and great ideas of the systems before it, and also paved the way for everything we have today.

NES powa!!!

1.SNES
2.Dreamcast
3.Saturn, dont have alot of games for mine, but there are ALOT of GREAT games i need

I signed a petition to bring the Shining Force games back or to make a sequel.

Yeah, SNES was an estonishing and ground breaking system with an impressive library... but c'mon... Playstation has the best overall library, they were the first next-gen system (taking us out of that 8 and 16 bit garbage), and it's still making games after five years for Christ's sake!!! The Playstation conquers all ten times over.

All the systems mentioned above, other than the Sega ones that weren't Genesis, had games produced for them 5 years after coming out. Granted, not many, but PS2 is now the main focus as well. Best library? The PS had about a 1:50 ratio of good games. They polluted the gaming industry with shitty FPS', games that took 3 hours to complete, gorefests that satisfied angst-ridden 15 year olds, and graphical masterpieces that doubled as gameplay nightmares. We can only hope that Nintendo revives the gaming industry like they did 15 years ago. Sony encouraging developers to focus on graphics over gameplay, and these developers in turn going multi-platform/Nintendo exclusive, is a nice start.

PS- God bless the Game Boy Advance - it's like a portable Super Nintendo, right down to the style of games.

Where is this petition? I would sign it...

A PSV and SF 4 on Dreamcast...

Sounds good to me.


Incidentally, anyone else hear that Phantasy Star 1 may be coming out on Game Boy Advance?

the PSX is DEFINATELY not the best system, and if we are going on the influence of systems, it is the worst influence a system has ever had on the industry