Games console manufacturers.
 

Current or dead, I don't really care. Do you have loyalty towards, or affection for, a particular manufacturer's products?

I'm a Nintendo man. The SNES was good, but the GameBoy and thre N64 are the pinnacles of gaming existence (Wave Race 64, eh? Eh?). The Game Cube's ace too.

Tell me, because I need to know.

I'm a PC gamer, but if I had to pick one, I'd go with Nintendo.

A lot of my friends prefer PC. But I like ganes that I can play for 10 - 20 minutes but still make progress on. And I love consoles.

Nintendo understand the concept of fun better than anyone else, in my opinion.

I was a Sega boy in my youth. In retrospect, I was somewhat misguided. However, I must stick by my original fidelities.

i cannot bring myself etc

lately nintendo has been sucking, but they came out with so many other classic systems that i voted for them

N64 probaly is the best ever

i play with my own joystick

We already had a poll for that.

Nintendo rules all.

oh. i thought it was roughly the same thing.

Good point.

Don't really have a preference.

the SNES is the pinnacle for me. I'll thrash any of you on Street Fighter II. Believe!

funny, we've been messaging about Atari 2600 over at a yahoo videogames group I belong to the last week or so. It's pretty dead there all the time. I picked Nintendo. Nintendo came in on the graces of designer Shigeru Miyamoto who is a legend & who created the original Donkey Kong & vs. Super Mario Bros. roms.

It may of be of interest to know:

Q: What does the Atari symbol represent?

A: The Atari symbol was designed by George Opperman in 1972. Pong was very big then, and the big letter A represented two opposing video game players with the center of the Pong court in the middle.
Q: What does the word "atari" mean?
A: The word atari comes from the game of Go, perhaps the world oldest board game. Several early 80's magazine references define atari as "you are about to be engulfed," but the rec.games.go FAQ denotes that word in this way:
atari : A group of stones is in atari if it has only one liberty left.

Of course the original company, Atari Games founded in 1972, was the pioneer in arcade games, home video consoles & even personal computers.

(of other interest (to me (at least)))
The History channel is airing what I expect to be a great documentary tonight at 9 pm est Einstein's Letter as part of their new "10 days that Unexpectedly Shaped America". In case you can't tear yourself away from 24 or something else just now, the show will replay at 1 am est & I''m sure at some point during the week.

I also spent my active gaming years with PC's. A few years before that I had a 8-bit NES though.
Around three and a half years ago I bought XBOX but then I ended up buying only two games for it, so that was a really fucking great purchase. and now it's on the shelf useless because I got rid of my tv and those vga -adapters are expensive.

And almost forgot to mention my Sega Saturn I got from my friend by the time you couldn't find any games anymore. Virtua Fighter 2 is a great beat 'em up though, perhaps even better than tekken 3.

Sega Genesis is great. The bundled game, Sonic the Hedgehog, is fast & fun & other cartridges like NBA Live & Jeopardy! are also classics that I still occasionally like to play. Raiden Trad and Burgertime are especially very decent remakes of the arcade games. Sega was also the first to have a color portable with the Nomad.


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Oh man, they are talking about Leo Szilard now; I gotta run...(commercial break)...oh wow, so not only was it Szilard that persuaded Einstein to get invloved with forming a message to FDR, he also actually wrote the letter (dictating it from a bathtub in a NYC hotel room, no less!) -= whoa! he signed it as Einstein with Albert's permission; this documentary is amazing.

sega is incredibly underrated!!! even thir 8-bit console was rad!!!

but i voted for nintendo. man!!! if you haven't played a couple of games on the nes and a couple on the snes, then you know shit about video games.

i don't know, but i do think that if we got together and played sfII, Toilet and Bowels would smoke the vast majority of us. i know he would trash me, stupid frustrating game!!! yet i couldn't separate myself from it

EDIT:: so let me get this straight, didn't atari vote for atari?! sus-pi-scious!!

I voted for Microsoft (as in what I like RIGHT NOW).
If I was 5 I'd say Nintendo and if I was say 9 or so I'd say Sega (Genesis).
Sony.....well I have never really liked Sony.

I really like sega. I think that sega should have been in xboxs' place on the seller list. Yet, sega made alot of mess ups in the past.

I picked Nintendo with Sega a close second.

The wiki listings for Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak doesn't go into the details of the fact that the first PC that was built in Jobs' garage by Wozniak using both parts that they pilfered & intellectual property that they stole during their mutual emplyoment with Atari. Wozniak also designed the Breakout game, one of Atari's classic titles.

It's become popular wisdom (via the Pirates of Silicon Valley TV movie, no doubt) that Bill Gates stole from Apple during his employment, but not many people know about the illegitimate way that Apple itself was formed.