The calculations:
Points were attributed against your 1 - 5 scale. Your first place console received 5 points, your fifth place console received 1, etc.
Summary:
In a neck and neck race, the Saturn and 360 were fighting for the higher votes: only the final result could declare them JOINT WINNERS! That's right, to the exact number, the points declared them absolute equals at 157. Wow! Worthy winners I say, a night of champagne and hookers for them to share.
Elsewhere, the Dreamcast accrued a shedload of low number votes, but enough to make it a surprise 2nd place champion! Lotta love for Sega's swan song out there. It's glory has never diminished.
Following up, the PS2's truckload of glorious shmups saw it edge out the PSX, leaving them in 3rd and 4th places respectively. About right when measured against each other, but a travesty when we consider NEC's shmup powerhouse, easily a console with one of the most eternally strong shmup catalogues of all time, has been relegated beneath them to 5th place. Blame yourselves shmups forum: EDUCATION.
Arguably correct in relation to the PCE, Sega's Megadrive is just one spot behind. The beautiful black beast with a stirring throng of arcade shmups ready to elevate the senses and arouse the genitals.
Nintendo's SFC, with a small shmup selection of note, edges out the Neo Geo, leaving them in 7th and 8th spots on the chart.
Rounding off, the PSP pushes through with Dariusburst and the eminent Sengoku Cannon, MSX is driving up behind it followed by the X68k, who probably should have seen Chorensha, Image Fight, Ajax and Cotton lift it a little higher.
Master System and finally Famicom share the bottom spot with just 1 vote a piece. Fair? You decided.
THE RESULTS
1: XBOX 360 & SEGA SATURN - JOINT WINNERS
2: Sega Dreamcast
3: PlayStation 2
4: PlayStation
5: PC-Engine
6: Mega Drive
7: Super Famicom
8: Neo Geo
9: PSP
10: MSX
11: X68000
12: Master System & Famicom - JOINT BOTTOM
Here's the score tally breakdown as it happened:
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Saturn: 5, 5, 2, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 2, 4, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 5, 5, 5, 4, 4, 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 2 (157)
Xbox 360: 3, 4, 5, 5, 2, 5, 3, 5, 4, 5, 4, 5, 5, 1, 5, 5, 4, 1, 5, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 3, 5, 3, 1, 2, 4, 4, 5, 5, 3, 4, 5, 2, 5, 4, 3, 5, 4 (157)
Dreamcast: 2, 3, 2, 3, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 4, 4, 2, 3, 4, 3, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 5, 1, 4, 2, 5, 3, 3, 1, 4, 2, 1, 5, 2, 4 (101)
PS2: 4, 3, 4, 4, 1, 5, 3, 2, 1, 3, 1, 2, 1, 4, 3, 4, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 5, 3, 3, 4, 2, 1, 2 (77)
PSX: 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 2, 2, 5, 2, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 4, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 5, 5, 2, 3, 3 (71)
PC-Engine: 4, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 4, 3, 2, 3, 4, 2, 5, 2, 5, 4, 4, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3 (69)
Mega Drive: 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 3, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1 (51)
Super Famicom: 2, 3, 2, 1, 5 (12)
Neo Geo: 5, 3, 3 (11)
PSP: 1, 4 (5)
MSX: 4 (4)
X68000 1, 1 (2)
Master System 1 (1)
Famicom 1 (1)You can now go and open threads complaining about the results, the unfairness, the rigging, the "artificial restrictions", and how Sony consoles deserve to always be number one because Sony, and the PS3 is amazing etc.
Enjoy.
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VOTING CLOSED - tallying now
Hi!
Thought I'd open a thread where we get to look back on all the consoles from past to present, and create a top 5 ranking list for order of awesomeness!
I'll create an overall aggregate for score in the end and leave it here. Voting ends 31st March.
Here are the rules:
5 spots per person. PCE and PCE-CD are counted as the same console. You can revise your list as often as you like until aggregation time, but edit your original post, don't create a new one.
No PC's. Why no PC's? Because PC's aren't consoles, and this is a thread about ranking shmups by console. An exception is made for the MSX, because it plays MSX games, nothing else. Thanks for playing, let's see what you got.
My Top 5 are:
1: Sega Saturn
2: PC Engine
3: Xbox 360
4: mega drive
5: PSX
