I'd have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I'm a sucker for 70's designed electronics.
NGL, that fine-wood version of the Atari looked so slick. Too bad I only got the cheap plastic one.
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Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
Does anyone here know the thought behind the wooden front trim fascia look?
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Mega Drive 1 and 2, they both looked awesome
The headphone port on the Model 1 was so ahead of its time. Although I was stuck without an extension chord for my Koss Porta Pros (so couldn't actually use it), it was my first taste of relatively high quality sound.
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.
Dreamcast and the first Playstation.
For pure old school retro it would be the old Compaq suitcase-sized laptop PC.
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