Nes

For now, Wii. For nostalgia, NES. NES games aren't as fun as they used to be, but I was an NES junkie. So it's really hard to judge... do I judge by today's experience or the experience at the time? In that case it'd probably something like:

NES
PC
Atari 2600
Wii
PS2
PS1

For today's experience it'd look more like:
Wii
PS2
Computer
PS1
NES
Atari 2600

i'm extremely confused why dreamcast is on the list over SNES?

SNES > All

Dreamcast
3DO

The Dreamcast gets my vote. I had kind of a magic to it that I haven't really seen since.

It's hard to say, there are so many factors, but I'd have to go with the GameCube for being my most played console ever (probably). Even though it's library was somewhat small, I had a few games that I really played the heck out of. Super Smash Bros. Melee sucked up over 500 hours of me and my friends' time. Probably another 100 hours combined between Super Monkey Ball, Timesplitter 2, Wario Ware, and Mario Kart Double Dash, and that's just the multiplayer.

The original, NES.

Snes

SNES

runner up: PS1 or PS2. Probably PS1.

My favorites (in order):

SNES
NES
GameCube
PlayStation 2

I would say that if we are talking all gaming hardware then the DS and GBA are easily my favorites over any console I have owned.

Where the fuck is Super Nintendo on that list?

That'd be my #1 pick, by a mile.

Sorry to all for not including the SNES. As I said before I did not own this system or play it much and I didn't want to include 4 Nintendo systems on a 10 option list. But so far the SNES is leading all other consoles with 15 votes by my count. The original NES is 2nd with 13.

The game I played most on SNES was SNK Baseball Stars which I thought was kinda crappy but all my friends loved it. I liked RBI Baseball much better at the time. Street Fighter was cool though.

On another note, I forgot to mention Donkey Kong 64 as another game I loved on the great N64.

No love for the PS3 huh? Is it that much teh suck?

Why would anyone pick the PS3 at this point? It's got, by far, the lowest amount of excellent exclusive games. I don't think that the lack of votes for the PS3 means it sucks, it just doesn't have anywhere near the amount of great games that would be required for people to call it a favorite console.

It's been out for a couple of months.. is that all it takes for an "all time" favorite now?

My fav was actually a computer (Commodore Amiga )
Then probably the PS1 (which isnt even in the list )

No kidding. I don't think the PS3, Wii or 360 should be in the poll.

You can't rank consoles among all time favorites until the end of their lifespan as they can start out great and then peter out or vice versa.

I guess by the time the Wii has a solid collection of VC games, it'd be the greatest console of all time, since it would basically be the Wii + GameCube + NES + SNES + Genesis + TurboG16 + NeoGeo

Well i see the 360 as really being a device to deliver me Live and i think it has really began focusing on what the original Xbox Live service started. Even ignoring games i would put the Microsoft consoles in my top ranks for the multiplayer experience alone.

Dreamcast i placed as my top for the games and the cool VMU stuff but even more than that was the addictive online component of a few of their titles.

That is my rationale for the top picks.

Or, if you never really played the older consoles a whole lot and just started picking them up again with this current generation, you can easily say the most recent is your all-time favorite.

Super NES.

Best group of RPGS ever.

ETA:No super nes on the poll? really?

Baseball Stars on SNES? I don't remember there being any Baseball Stars game for the SNES.

ColecoVision

Nope. It was on NES.