Aesthetically Displeased - Shitty looking / feeling consoles.
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I love this system like a mother loves an ugly baby but...
Atari 2600
Wood paneling... The thing looks like Skyler's station wagon now. Did not age well (and I wonder if it ever looked cool back in it's day)
Yeah, the 2600 didn't look too good.
El Maricon Loco
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The wood grain definitely didn't age well, but during it's era the 2600 fit in fine with A/V stuff. My old man had a whole cabinet of hi-fi audio shit (record player, cassette player, and amp/head unit with 8-track) that had the wood grain and even some big toggles.
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PCFX has two controller ports on the front
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May have put this console in the 'aesthetically pleasing' thread...
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My only regret is that I have... Boneitis!
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Ahh yes yes yes, thanks for jogging my memory. I remember when my dad pulled his record equipment out when we switched houses as a kid, that thing does fit the equipment of the day.
Needs more Pioneer feet though.
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It only looks good if you have the high-end 90's entertainment system to go with it.
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And just to give handhelds some love, while continuing to shit on Atari...
nothin' like putting the buttons as far away as possible to speed up input and a speaker for thumb sweat capturing.
Agreed, it's easy to forget how big this motherfucker was too, it was like holding a skateboard. The lynx 2 was spot on though.
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Magnavox Odyssey 2 was horrible.
The Odyssey 2 games were horrible beyond belief but I kinda liked the giant-calculator-with-membrane-keys look back in the day.
They were trying to sell this thing as a machine that could do more than just playing games in order to make the parents open their wallets. Some did and their kids hated them for it.
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Never seen one in person always looked like it only had one. It is ugly as hell though.
El Maricon Loco
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Oh those shitty ass plastic overlay keyboards, dodgy, hit or miss input at it's finest; from the Speak N' Spell to the Atari 800. Slower than a touch screen and just as little tactile feedback. lol
First time I picked up a Lynx, I was impressed with how light and cheap it feels when it doesn't have batteries in it.
Here's a fresh one to wet your whistles. "Let's stretch one side of the N64 out, so that we can put a giant pikachu on that bitch, with his foot as the reset switch!"
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it's rough looking at the us snes when the super famicom is one of the most aesthetically pleasing systems ever.
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And just to give handhelds some love, while continuing to shit on Atari...
nothin' like putting the buttons as far away as possible to speed up input and a speaker for thumb sweat capturing.
You could paddle someones arse nicely with that thing.
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The 32x looks fine on a model 2 Genny, but it's a fucking tumor on the original.
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You forgot to mention your games playing in 50Hz.
But I do have to thank everyone in Europe for giving me Terranigma in English:
El Maricon Loco
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Late, I didn't see the newest model for a while, then they released that red LE version, I thought whoa - pretty cool, then I saw that plastic drive bay open up and I LOL'd. A couple weeks after it was released I saw a used one at a game exchange and it just looks cheap as shit.
