What is the best looking retro console or PC?

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• pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  the atari 2600 looks like it could take you back to the future with enough jigawatts

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• AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If we’re talking strictly design, my personal favorite is a generic fat PS2, probably tied with my model 1(?) Sega Genesis (none of the things like 32x or CD, which I desperately want to get some day).

  If we’re talking like PC with OS, the 90s Amiga lineup because I think the Amiga Workbench 3 line and the icons they used look absolutely beautiful. Definitely would love to get my hands on a 1200, but they’re expensive. So no getting into that hobby for me just yet.

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  • bufalo1973@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    About the A1200, I think there’s a niche for Raspberry Pi cases that look like vintage computers. Imagine having a case that looks like an A1200, another one that looks like a Falcon, the Sony HitBit, …

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  • bufalo1973@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Funny thing about the PS2 Fat design: it’s an Atari design. It was a project for the Falcon 040 that was never released.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  PS2 slim deserves a mention, I feel.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    PS2 slim is now retro

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s now older than the NES was when it was brought back on the Wii via Virtual Console.

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• yuki2501@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  NGL, that fine-wood version of the Atari looked so slick. Too bad I only got the cheap plastic one.

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• redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Does anyone here know the thought behind the wooden front trim fascia look?

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think they were trying to make it look like the stereo equipment of the day.

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    • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Faux-wood was just everywhere at the time indeed. It was a mix of the materials getting affordable and a certain commodification of the hippie aesthetic.

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• otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The 3DO FZ-10

  It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.

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• aiden@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I would choose the Super Famicom. It just looks so sleek. I don’t know why they changed it with the SNES, it looks ugly.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Dreamcast and the first Playstation.

  For pure old school retro it would be the old Compaq suitcase-sized laptop PCs.

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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  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.

  The keyboard pictured, while interesting looking, is a complete POS. Later PETs had a more usable keyboard with a better layout.

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• RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.

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• Slyke@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Hol’up.

  Atari’s only had 4, not 6, switches on them?

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  • stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nope, there were two different versions! The 6 switch is the original. (And in my opinion the better looking one!) The 4 switch came later, and still has 6 switches, they just moved the difficulty switches to the back. I believe it saved them some money and made production a little easier because everything was on one circuit board with that setup.

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    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There were several models including an all-black one that ditched the woodgrain.

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• BlueSquid0741@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Mega Drive 1 and 2, they both looked awesome

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  • vividspecter@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The headphone port on the Model 1 was so ahead of its time. Although I was stuck without an extension chord for my Koss Porta Pros (so couldn’t actually use it), it was my first taste of relatively high quality sound.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  PlayStation is one of my favourites but it also comes down to that shade of grey being my absolute favourite shade of grey. And the OG pre-dualshock/analog potentially being my favourite shape of controller too. I have a modded Bluetooth one but sadly there’s not too many modern games (outside of fighters) that don’t need both the dpad and analog.

  I also love the Gameboy color’s shape. As an adult it’s great for one handed gaming for rpgs.

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• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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.

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  Purple GameCubes are retro now, so I’ll go with that as my favorite.

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• SpiceDealer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Console: Sega Dreamcast

  PC: Any IBM beige box from the 90s

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• bufalo1973@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  The Atari Portfolio (the one John Connors uses in Terminator 2) or the ST Book.

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• Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.

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• Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Original sony playstation. I don’t know why, i just love it

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  • CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think I preferred the design of the ps2, personally.

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    • Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I love that one too

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