What is the best looking retro console or PC?

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• didnt1able@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I never liked the side-by-side Mega CD.

    The stacked one looked better. Like an old hifi system.

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  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Needs a Sonic 3 cartridge plugged into a Sonic & Knuckles cartridge plugged into the 32X plugged into the Genesis to get the full Sega experience.

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    • NoDignity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ask and you shall receive fellow lover of lock on technology ™️

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      Unfortunately I don’t have a genesis Game Genie or Action Replay to really spice it up

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And the pièce de résistance, a Game Genie.

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• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The Atari XL seriea computers cut a nice space between retro and futuristic.

  They’re much sleeker looking than their 400/800 predecessors, as well as the Apple II and the breadbin VIC 20/64/C16. Only the 64C and Plus/4 really look similarly minaturized and not-in-need-of-a-big-wristrest-for-comfortable-typing.

  The use of metal and smoked plastic trim gives it a premium appearance. The 1200XL even hides the cartridge slot on the side to avoid anyone nistaking it for a mere console…

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• RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  While I definitely agree the overall best design goes to the Atari 2600, this comes in close second for me:

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  This bad boy (or girl, rather) is the Casio Loopy. Yes, Casio, the company primarily known for making wristwatches. This console was only released in Japan, and when it launched it had a target demographic of girls and young women. The console came with a built-in sticker printer, and the games were woman-targeted games in genres like romance, fashion, and life simulation (like Animal Crossing). Only 10 games were ever made for the Loopy, by the way. Its biggest failure and reason for not selling well was being a console that had games that looked like the SNES but having to directly compete with the PS1 and N64, as well as the replaceable sticker cartridges being very expensive.

  Now, I am a man, and I am clearly not a part of the target demographic of this console. The games are entirely uninteresting to me, except maybe the Animal Crossing-like game “I Want A Room In Loopy Town.” But something about the curved shape of the console and its cool purple hue speak to me. The black cover for the sticker ejection port has me imagining a newer version playing an animated logo on that part if a small screen was behind it. The absurdly massive Eject button just looks like it gives the most satisfying “kerchunk” when you press it to eject a cartridge.

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  • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    iMac G3?

    More like… eMachine eOne!

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• fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Something about the Power Macintosh 6100, and the chin that does it for me. Plus the name, POWER Macintosh does it for me.

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  Also that prowler on the screen. I wonder if they had some sort of deal with Chrysler.

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That display had some cool features that were underutilized — like an s-video port for video camera capture. Also some of the best sounds to come out of an Apple monitor.

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d love to get one of these displays for that very reason. But I ain’t shipping something like that, and I’m sure people want too much money for it online anyways.

      The post is best console or PC.

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• B0NK3RS@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  Game Boy Advance. Actually all 3 variants (GBA, SP & Micro) are beautiful consoles.

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  • 7arakun@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love how the SP looks. The original feels better in the hand but the clamshell looks so good and it feels great to open and close.

    I’m tempted to get a foldable as my next phone because I miss that design.

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  • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    GBA Glacier

    I’m partial to the translucent version of the OG GBA.

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    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      God damn marketing! That picture makes it look like it had OLED. Of course, these days you can make it actually look like that but it’s ~$60 and you install it yourself.

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    • cevn@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Completely forgot I had this until seeing this image. Brain skipped straight to the SP.

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  • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yeah right… the Gameboy advance can legally be considered as a retro console…

    Good pick!

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• stargazingpenguin@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve got to go with the 2600 as well. Mostly because of the wood grain!

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Best ever is the pic OP posted along with the game!

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• redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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    • redbrick@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dude don’t remind me. When I saw those I always thought they were contradictions of modern tech which was embodied in the whole advance HIFI shit. I mean how could you look at pulsing meters and blinking lights and not thing star wars, but clothed in wood grain…huh?

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    • folkrav@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  I’m very partial to the IMSAI 8080!

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  • Gerudo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This scratches an itch I didn’t know I had.

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Incredible. This might be my new favorite.

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    • Atomicbunnies@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I built a replica one that a dude in Australia designed. Its really fun to mess with. I played Zork on it the day I finished it.

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      thehighnibble.com/imsai8080/

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  PS2 slim deserves a mention, I feel.

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  • queermunist@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    PS2 slim is now retro

    👵 ➡ 💀

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    • can@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• maxprime@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Zachariah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Fillicia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This but the mark III with the FM sound adapter

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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I never understood the choice to put a flowchart on the front of this one. 😆

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    • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Very sciencey, not a toy. Hilariously, Nintendo fought hard to get their competing “Entertainment System” recognized as a toy and not a computer, for import tax purposes.

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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• Evil_incarnate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I had this one many moons ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar_Arcade#/me…

  Wood grain, triangular, and it had a gun.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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• ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Japan had some killer PC designs in the 80’s and 90’s. But I’d say my favorite is a toss up between the X68000 and the Sony MSX 2

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  • caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The MSX design space was such an exciting place.
    For anyone curious about the above, it’s like this:

    Imagine Nintendo said “instead of manufacturing the Switch 2, we released the specs and invited everyone else to build their own. You’re welcome to buy the Xbox Switch 2, the Sony PlaySwitch 2, the Philips Switch 2-i, the Sega Switch 2 & Knuckles, or the TRSwitch80 2. They’re all guaranteed to be compatible with our software lineup.” and then like, that actually happened.

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    • otp@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Sounds similar to the 3DO’s situation!

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That MSX2 is sick.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m a fan of the Dreamcast and GameCube. Or the PS2 mini. I appreciate that early y2k aesthetic.

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  • Coldmoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Happy cake day!

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• Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Although the wood-grain Atari 2600 was also my first thought upon reading the title, I think the Wii’s minimal footprint is impressive considering that—in the case of the original model—it’s also a GameCube.

  Wii Mini, Wii, and Wii U

  In contrast to the Wii’s 2006 release, the Wii Mini is arguably not yet ‘retro’ with its 2012 release, but definitely looks a lot sleeker, albeit not worth the loss of GameCube functionality for its minimal size savings.

  Compared to both, the Wii U is super bulky, and lacks much use beyond improved emulation capabilities now that nearly all of its exclusives have been re-released for the Switch.

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  • f4f4f4f4f4f4f4f4@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Even before the Wii Mini, “regular” Wiis were being made without all the GameCube ports and functionality… then the Wii Mini cut costs even further and did not even have Wi-Fi!

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Might be biased, but the Commodore 64 is just iconic and good looking (what is not to love about a breadbox?)

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  • Noerttipertti@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Personally prefer sx-64, but breadbin is a close second.

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    • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Oh, that is cool.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      sx-64

      damn, I’ve never know that there was a luggable variant of the 64 :D

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  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well that was my second choice. Classic.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      very nice :)

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