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I'd have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I'm a sucker for 70's designed electronics.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

PC Engine. Not only does it look like a prop from the set of TNG, but it is delightfully tiny. The cartridges are little cards that you slot in the front. There is literally nothing bad about a PC Engine. (Except for maybe that it's only got one controller port)

NEC-PC-Engine-Console-FL

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

+1.

Also it can be turned into a coolest spaceship, with its CDRom attachment, a very first in 1988!

Also the HuCard format for its games is unbeatable!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 22 hours ago

Speaking of spaceships...

Pc-Engine-Shuttle

Not the most practical PC engine model, because it lacked the extra oomph of the SuperGrafx and you couldn't attach a CD-ROM² - but just look at it

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

The PC Engine/Turbagragix 16 also had a handheld (PC Engine GT/TurboExpress) that was way ahead of its time. It had the same power as the home console, was color, had a backlit display, and even had a TV tuner attachment. And it was released in 1990. The Sega Nomad basically copied these features in 1995, and Nintendo didn't have a colored, backlit handheld until 1998.

I loved mine.