BlackDS wrote:I think the five best looking consoles are (in no order)
Model 1 Master system
N64
Pal SNES
PC Engine Shuttle
CDX
five ugliest
Playstation 1 fat
Playstation 2 fat
Model 1 SNES
Atari Jaguar
OG Gameboy (even if it is a handheld)
How can you think the PC Engine Shuttle is one of the best, while the Jaguar is one of the worst? They look mostly the same!
Anyway, here's my list:
Most Beautiful:
1. Gamecube: Simple, compact, elegant, and still runs as quiet as a churchmouse. Everything the aesthetics of a game console should be.
2. Wonderswan Crystal: Smooth, yet bold in its appearance, the Swancrystal combines form and function to make a handheld that really
looks sturdy and reliable.
3. Virtual Boy: A bit of an odd choice, but I believe that the Virtual Boy's design is so outlandish and radical, that it is charming in its own way. I like to leave it out on the coffee table as a conversation piece.
4. Playstation 3 Slim: Sleek and classy; a very formal-looking machine. As such, it seems to fit in very well, especially in a fancily-decorated room, something other consoles have a hard time pulling off.
5. PC-Engine: The height of engineering efficiency, the PC Engine is an extremely compact and elegantly-designed system. Its small size and powerful form are enough to make it a real attention-grabber.
Ugliest:
1. CDi 910: This thing is barely a game console. At best, it is a gargantuan CD player that just happens to have more interactive menus than normal. Th console is far and away bigger than it needs to be, and doesn't even look good for the space it takes up.
2. Turbografx-16/CD: The console may look pretty good alone, but once you know that NEC made the console bigger for American audiences, with no beneficial purpose, it really makes the thing seem ugly compared to the PC Engine. And the CD unit just looks completely tacked-on.
3. Model 1 Lynx: Bulky, heavy, and has a tiny screen. It may be packing some impressive hardware, but I really think that Atari could have done a much better job at making this system more portable. As it stands, it just looks like a brick.
4. Playstation 2: What is going on here? Obviously, absolutely no symmetry or design thought went into making this. There is no other way to say it, this thing was ugly. It is probably just a prototype unit that no one remembered to change before release.
5. Atari XEGS: It looks like a computer, plays like a computer, types like a computer, acts like a computer, and for the most part, it is a computer. Atari just put a new shell over it, bundled it with a joystick, and called it a console.