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Let's have a chat. What's the most aesthetically pleasing console to you, if you had to pick just one?

After Drach posted this pic, I was reminded once again of the sheer beauty of the Wondermega. I think for me, this holds the no.1 spot. There's a PCE briefcase, a white Saturn and a SFC in the running somewhere, but if I had to pick just one... yeah, too sexy:

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car marty

plenty of consoles whose looks I like - I wouldn't call any of them particularly sexy looking. This LaCie hard drive enclosure? Well maybe, but it looks like it belongs alongside some rocks in a pool at your local backwater airport. The GameCube? Fiddly looking. N64? Cool looking controller but the console looks like its own headstone. Dreamcast? doesn't excite. At least it's not as embarrassingly dated as the Divers unit. PlayStation 2 models? Design of the time. (Re-editing because I mentioned the PSX - the home theater thing - in the early edit of this post).

sort-of choices from the home computer - there's some nice-looking MSX / MSX2 models out there, like the Sanyo MPC-10 Wavy (white model) and my own favorites (and the first is my own model), the Sony F1-XDJ or F1-XV.

yeah I will reinstate my vote for the car marty, the superior choice. It looks like something you use to input course data into a '70s era cruise missile, or a data recorder box.

The other nice-looking console is the Mark III Master System, at least judging from pictures. I have the Japanese Sega Master System, the traditional black plastic thing with triangles all over. Triangles! Never forget you will never see these sharp shapes in our games.
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Ah yes, forgot about the PSX. I had one once, and it is sexy, but enormous and very (very) heavy!

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yeah I wouldn't mind it if that dropped into my lap from a height of two inches...although it might be bad for the console. Also keep it away from the groin area please.
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Is it a console or is it a prop from Battlestar Galactica?

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:lol:

Seriously though there's something about a PCE briefcase set up that always grabs me. 8)
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I think the Nintendo Gamecube in pearl white is kinda' nice! I've also seen an off-white N64, very nice.

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White Saturn, hands down.
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I was going to say the Dreamcast, but nah. Just doesn't have that slickness to it.
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Maybe not "sexiest" but I've always liked the colour scheme and how the pads slot neatly onto the sides. The Famicom themed GBAs are really nice too.

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Man, how come all the super sexy console designs were Japan only :| Super Famicom lokks super awesome, and the SNES is a blocky monstrosity.

That being said, I think Wondermega is probably the sexiest console :D
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Skykid wrote:Let's have a chat. What's the most aesthetically pleasing console to you, if you had to pick just one?

After Drach posted this pic, I was reminded once again of the sheer beauty of the Wondermega. I think for me, this holds the no.1 spot. There's a PCE briefcase, a white Saturn and a SFC in the running somewhere, but if I had to pick just one... yeah, too sexy:

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trap15 wrote:Man, how come all the super sexy console designs were Japan only :| Super Famicom lokks super awesome, and the SNES is a blocky monstrosity.
That's a PAL SNES pictured BTW, only the US got the blocky model.
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trap15 wrote:Man, how come all the super sexy console designs were Japan only :| Super Famicom lokks super awesome, and the SNES is a blocky monstrosity.
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PS Vita is very sexy. Excluding portables, I like both Marty 2 and Duo-RX

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Gonna have to throw in my vote for the PSP. So sleek. So sexy.
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KennyMan666 wrote:Gonna have to throw in my vote for the PSP. So sleek. So sexy.
PSP was cool-looking for its time, but imo PSV out-sleeks it by a wide margin.
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There is a difference between "cool looking" and sexy that I think we are not taking into account.
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Adderall wrote:There is a difference between "cool looking" and sexy that I think we are not taking into account.
No point in trying to really search for some rules to discern those since the whole thread is biased as most of the answers it'll get will be old consoles: Everyone here is from the 80's 90's generations.

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Re: Wondermega

Looks like a Syd Mead design. Very cool.
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Pure on the looks I really liked this generations original PS3 .

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Glossy, stylish, overpriced and over specced with all those useless card readers :lol:
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The winner is .............. The champagne colored Sega Saturn
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May the gaming gods strike all of you down for not posting a black Japanese Dreamcast.
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Specineff wrote:May the gaming gods strike all of you down for not posting a black Japanese Dreamcast.
*speaks to a burning ash heap*

then do it yourself man :lol:
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got to be the FM Towns Marty

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Always thought the NGPC was a sexy little number. I had the camo blue one back in the day and converted at least two friends from Gameboy.

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And I've had one of these for years..

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