I’d have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I’m a sucker for 70’s designed electronics.
The 2600 depicted in the article thumbnail, was absolutely a beauty in its native environment of the late 1970’s:
while not necessarily the prettiest console by any means but i always thought the Og xbox home menu went way harder than it needed to, now that’s presentation!
They said retro, the Xbox can’t be retro, its only been around for- oh. Oh no.
The Mega Drive is the best looking retro console, I mean look at it
This one looks a little naked. Needs more “High Definition Graphics” or whatever it says
Best looking and best name.
Vectrex, hands-down.
I’m a fan of how ENIAC really used the space
If we’re also talking old computers then it’s hard to beat the Cray-1
Also had the advantage of fooling your house guests into thinking it’s a weird, modernist couch that makes conversation really hard.
Technically neither a console nor a PC (in the IBM-compatible sense), but the Commodore PET has a certain kind of 70s futurism about it.
Note the integrated tape deck for all your storage needs.
The keyboard pictured, while interesting looking, is a complete POS. Later PETs had a more usable keyboard with a better layout.
Edit: I don’t think that red button at the bottom right is stock. It’s almost certainly a hardware reset button, which on the Commodore machines is typically done by shorting a couple pins on a user expansion port.
It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.
I like the woodgrain look, but I don’t think the Atari 2600 is a very good example of it. Lots of audio equipment from the time does it better. Especially when combined with brushed aluminum or stainless steel.
Purple GameCubes are retro now, so I’ll go with that as my favorite.
Console: Sega Dreamcast
PC: Any IBM beige box from the 90s
One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.
I would choose the Super Famicom. It just looks so sleek. I don’t know why they changed it with the SNES, it looks ugly.
The Atari Portfolio (the one John Connors uses in Terminator 2) or the ST Book.
Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
Original sony playstation. I don’t know why, i just love it
I think I preferred the design of the ps2, personally.
I love that one too
I’m very partial to the IMSAI 8080!
Incredible. This might be my new favorite.
I built a replica one that a dude in Australia designed. Its really fun to mess with. I played Zork on it the day I finished it.
That’s awesome. Very 1960s Star Trek, in a good way.
gorgeous, had never heard of this.
You can build a replica from this dude!
That’s so cool!
This scratches an itch I didn’t know I had.
