I’d have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I’m a sucker for 70’s designed electronics.
Game Boy Advance. Actually all 3 variants (GBA, SP & Micro) are beautiful consoles.
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.
I’m partial to the translucent version of the OG GBA.
Completely forgot I had this until seeing this image. Brain skipped straight to the SP.
I went from Glacier OG to Silver SP. Never got a Micro.
God damn marketing! That picture makes it look like it had OLED before it was invented. Of course, these days you can make it actually look like that but it’s ~$60 and you install it yourself.
It’s a worthwhile mod. I prefer this form factor over the clamshell, but it needs a screen that you can see without 1000W of halogen bulbs around you.
Oh yeah right… the Gameboy advance can legally be considered as a retro console…
Good pick!
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.
Remember having one of these at school in the late '70s / early '80s
OH MY GOD! I had one of those! I haven’t seen a picture of one since.
The keyboard was so awful. I don’t remember getting it as a birthday or other gift so it must have been a hand me down from a family friend or something.
Membrane keyboards are really the worst. I completely understand wanting to cost-cut to get units into schools and into the hands of kids, but that’s too much. It’s like someone saw a speak-and-spell and said “that’s the ticket.”
One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.
The Atari Portfolio (the one John Connors uses in Terminator 2) or the ST Book.
the atari 2600 looks like it could take you back to the future with enough jigawatts
NGL, that fine-wood version of the Atari looked so slick. Too bad I only got the cheap plastic one.
while not necessarily the prettiest console by any means but i always thought the Og xbox home menu went way harder than it needed to, now that’s presentation!
They said retro, the Xbox can’t be retro, its only been around for- oh. Oh no.
The Mega Drive is the best looking retro console, I mean look at it
Best looking and best name.
This one looks a little naked. Needs more “High Definition Graphics” or whatever it says
Six switch woody can’t be beat
Original C64 is a close second
Six Switch Woody is the name I’ve given my next bdsm orgy party.
it’s can’t be beat though …
Oh, Woodys can be beat by switches. It’s kinda painful though.
Classic C64 is a work of art, inside and out.
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Then it’s “classic C64 and VIC-20”.
PS2 slim deserves a mention, I feel.
PS2 slim is now retro
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It’s now older than the NES was when it was brought back on the Wii via Virtual Console.
Stop it she already turned to dust!
I had this one many moons ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Telstar_Arcade#/media/File:Coleco-Telstar-Arcade-Pongside-L.jpg
Wood grain, triangular, and it had a gun.
I’m a fan of how ENIAC really used the space
If we’re also talking old computers then it’s hard to beat the Cray-1
Also had the advantage of fooling your house guests into thinking it’s a weird, modernist couch that makes conversation really hard.
I’m very partial to the IMSAI 8080!
Incredible. This might be my new favorite.
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.
That’s awesome. Very 1960s Star Trek, in a good way.
gorgeous, had never heard of this.
You can build a replica from this dude!
That’s so cool!
This scratches an itch I didn’t know I had.
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.
Purple GameCubes are retro now, so I’ll go with that as my favorite.
