The Prettiest Looking Game System Ever!

[The_Laird]

I have to agree that the Gamecube was one seriously ugly system

[+RangerG]

Atari 5200 - top honors

Intellivision - love the dark woodgrain Tandy version

Turbo Express - nice looking handheld

PSP - I like the adult look of this modern handheld

[BassGuitari]

Neo Geo AES, period. It's like the Lamborghini Countach of game consoles.

 

So it's a machine for people with too much money and too little taste?

 

(Unless you mean specifically the original LP400. Then I'd be inclined to agree.)

 

My favorites, in no real order:

Atari 5200

Atari VCS/2600 (any)

Intellivision II

INTV System III

DINA

Odyssey²

Odyssey 100-500

Nintendo 64 (especially the colored ones)

 

Honorable Mention:

Atari Super Pong Pro-Am Ten

APF TV Fun

3DO FZ-10

Channel F II

Astrocade

Atari 7800

[128Kgames]

So it has no rear visibility hence making it impossible to park anywhere?

 

Park a Lamborghini? Isn't that what those guys with the red jackets are for?

[128Kgames]

So it's a machine for people with too much money and too little taste?

 

Ouch! Hey, I didn't buy my first one (Neo Geo), it was bought for me! But if it's any consolation I worked real hard for at least another year to keep the girl that did real happy!

 

Honorable Mention:

Astrocade

 

I'll second that, but would probably have to favor the white Bally Professional Arcade "Montgomery Ward" version over an actual Astrocade branded console.

[BassGuitari]

So it's a machine for people with too much money and too little taste?

 

Ouch! Hey, I didn't buy my first one (Neo Geo), it was bought for me! But if it's any consolation I worked real hard for at least another year to keep the girl that did real happy!

 

 

Ha, sorry, that wasn't supposed to be a shot at you or the Neo-Geo AES...just the Countach.

 

Perhaps a more appropriately analogous car to the Neo-Geo AES would be a Porsche 959, Plymouth Prowler, or Jaguar XJ220? Earlier I mentioned the original LP400 Countach; it is hella-sweet and tastefully badass. It's when Lambourghini started going crazy with the angular lines and gaudy spoilers that the car became a parody of itself. (Opinion, of course.)

[StoneAgeGamer]

I always thought the Sega CDX and Neo-Geo AES looked nice.

[doubleminor]

I always thought both Model 1 Genesis and Sega CD looked pretty cool together.

 

The new Xbox 360 looks good too. Had to get me one last week.

[kevincal]

This is the prettiest system I've ever owned. Rarest by far too.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310233265122

[The_Laird]

Yuck a PS2 could never look attractive

 

Mind you I think you knew that and that post was just another shameless way to plug your auction after the other thread got locked

[kevincal]

HAHAHA and the hating continues. Matter of fact it's not because i just care about plugging my auction. I truly feel this is a beautiful system, and the photos are on my auction. SO WHAT? Lots of people have sticks up their butt these days... Just glad I'm not one of them LOL.

 

"Look at all these haters, surrounding me every day..."

 

[CGQuarterly]

Mind you I think you knew that and that post was just another shameless way to plug your auction after the other thread got locked

 

Seconded. This is starting to get ridiculous.

 

Chris

[kevincal]

Indeed, the hating is getting ridiculous.

 

This topic is about pretty game systems. I post a link to a pretty game system and get hated on. HAHA. It's funny to me that I get under certain people's skin SO badly. It's sad when people have nothing better to do than be negative towards someone for no reason.

 

Let's review. I post a link to a pretty system. Totally harmless, I don't bash anyone. Then comes the haters. So who is at fault here, who is trying to instigate what here? So so funny. You 2 guys should learn from this. Take a step back and look at what you are doing. You are wasting your time, please go spend your time doing something constructive. Ok?

[jetset]

So your post was in no way, shape, or form just a shameless way to plug your auction?

...and before you overreact, it's just an honest question, not "hating".

[+atari2600land]

Um, I like the Saturn. I think it's pretty, but I don't play it very much.

[kevincal]

So your post was in no way, shape, or form just a shameless way to plug your auction?

...and before you overreact, it's just an honest question, not "hating".

 

exactly, it was not my intention to shamelessly plug a system that i know nobody will buy from Atari Age because it is a hardcore Playstation fan collectors piece. If you read my auction you will see how I mention how beautiful the system is to me. I made this auction well before I was aware of this "pretty system" thread... So I see the pretty system thread and I immediately think of my beautiful blue PS2. But oh my god, since im such the bad guy I must have evil intentions... This PS2 is not beautiful for its architecture, its beautiful for the coating of paint it has.

 

Think of it like and average looking girl who gets a professional makeover with perfect makeup etc. She goes from a 6 to a 9. That is this PS2 in a nutshell.

[The_Laird]

You could have quite easily just posted a picture of it

 

The PS2 is ugly, always has been and always will be. Painting it blue dosn't suddenly make it pretty in my eyes just like posting your own auctions but trying to disguise them as a legitimate post dosn't stop you from being a e-whore.

[jetset]

...If only auction advertisements were censored and/or hidden like political discussions. They create far more tension and waste far more space.

...If only.

[jmetal88]

I think the best looking console is the Sega Master System.

 

EDIT: I mean the first version with the black and red and slopes and angles.

Edited July 18, 2010 by jmetal88

[Tr3vor]

This is the prettiest system I've ever owned. Rarest by far too.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310233265122

 

 

Not be be rude, but why don't you put that in the auctions section, instead of posting it in every thread you go to?

 

also, if its the most good looking system you own, then why are you selling it?

Edited July 18, 2010 by Tr3vor

[jetset]

This is the prettiest system I've ever owned. Rarest by far too.

 

eBay Auction -- Item Number: 310233265122

 

 

 

also, if its the most good looking system you own, then why are you selling it?

 

Ok, that deserves a +1 !!!

[4Ks]

Bump.

 

I forgot one. I've always though Turbografx-16 looked kinda cool.

[ovalbugmann]

For me, the best looking systems are:

Jaguar + CD (aesthetically pleasing)

 

The Jaguar.

 

 

Atari Jaguar

 

 

Jaguar (minus the CD attachment)

 

 

a pretty system JagCD.

 

Yup, Atari Jaguar -Roger Fucking That!!, Muh Bruthas! - ya'll know wus up HUH!

Edited July 22, 2010 by ovalbugmann

[ledzep]

Hmm, it's a tie for me. Favorite is the Vectrex because it looks like a tiny arcade cabinet especially when there's a game overlay on it (so it has colors and some of that cool arcade game screen instructions look) and, if you can find a set, the cool vinyl case wrap. But I can see where that's cheating a bit because almost no other game system has its own built-in screen. So for just a console I'd say the Atari 5200, that looked like Darth Vader's game console when it first came out (the old-school original trilogy fearsome Darth Vader, not the prequel crying about his wife version - "Nnnnnnnooooooooo!").

[Shephda]

In no order:

6 switch 2600

Original Genesis\CD\X32 setup

Dreamcast

Black Wii. Reminds me of the monolith in 2001.

Original X-Box. Beefy!