PlayStation 2,PlayStation Portable,and Atari 2600

I've reviewed quite a few consoles since I started this blog practically all of them by SEGA most of Nintendo's, all of Microsoft's and few in between. The few that I have played but haven't reviewed are slowly being put on the list.

And since the last 2 Sony systems and the first real successful console are up now,well here I go.

I always hated the Sony brand,they've made the market for closed-minded hardcore gamers obsessed with blood and guns and they've always seemed corporately arrogant. Alright onto the review

PlayStation 2

Games: 9/20 (There are a lot of games for this system,by now they're should be enough to fill a garden shed and that's just with 1 of each,with all the copies sold you could fill a mansion,but the main drawback is most of these games are crap like Disney:Sing It)

Graphics: 12/20 (Impressive graphics but primitive compared to the likes of GameCube and Xbox,early games look comparable to the Nintendo 64 [Dead or Alive 2]

Design:0/20 (Looks like an ugly skyscraper,too heavy,and prone to breakage plus it can't read discs half the time)

Technology: 20/20 (In a day when DVD's were rare and expensive,$300 was a bargain not to mention backward compatibility which was all but forgotten)

Final:10/20 (Terrible system but no one can deny the technological aspects of the PS2)

After dominating the console industry,Sony went handheld with the unoriginal name of...............

PlayStation Portable

Games: 2/20 (Not a lot,and not a lot of good in fact like the Lynx I can only name 4 good games Grand Theft Auto:Liberty City Stories,Grand Theft Auto:Vice City Stories,Daxter,and Monster Hunter)

Graphics:19/20 (Graphical marvel the PSP is,it's like putting the Ps2 into a handheld,PS2 wasn't great for it's time but considering the fact most handhelds were still 2D and the DS had N64 based graphics,this is a perfect but 2D wise PSP is no match for DS)

Design: 16/20 (I liked the design on this one,compact and well placed buttons but the thumbstick leaves something to be desired and it could have better battery life)

Technology: 20/20 (The first handheld to use discs instead of cartridges,plus web browser and photos and MP3's this handheld is the perfect multimedia center)

Final:14/20 (The only SONY system I actually can respect in any way,but no match for DS)

Onto the first cartridge based system that mattered,the first 30 million seller,the first system with real 3rd party support it is........

Atari 2600

Games: 12/20 (Don't get me wrong this system has a lot of games and a lot of good games like Pitfall!,Adventure,Night Driver,Space Invaders,Tennis,Kaboom!,Tanks,but it also is loaded with garbage like Pac-Man,E.T. the Extraterrestrial,Karate,Custer's Revenge,and Raiders of the Lost Ark)

Graphics: 9/20 (Atari 2600 was never known for having attractive graphics,earlier games look more like pixilated puke but hey some look pretty good[ex:Ms. Pac-Man])

Design:18/20 (I loved the design,the faux wood style gives me a "right-at-home" feeling but it was too big and heavy)

Technology:20/20 (First system with dettachable controllers,first that could support many add-ons and so much more,easily a perfect)

Final:15/20(Good system,best-of-the-best before 1985 but with a huge storm of inexperienced 3rd party developers making games and throwing em' out into the market,no one could tell the good from the bad which of course helped cause the Crash of 1984)

Favorite Games

PlayStation 2: Final Fantasy X
PlayStation Portable: Monster Hunter
Atari 2600: Adventure

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Consoles:Sega Master System and Turbo Grafx-16

Genesis and Nintendo 64

It's been a while since I did consoles my last being a review of the first Nintendo's and PlayStation.I used this order because these consoles had at least 3 things in common

1.All had full support of Squaresoft[now Square Enix](Therefore these were the consoles to come to for RPG's)
2. All sold at least 50 million consoles
3.The other competitors had to mimic with 1st party do o lack of real 3rd party support

However as for SNES and PSX those 2 had bitter rivals that could've come to the top.Because NES was the clear winner with no real competition I shall not compare any of the consoles that attempted to compete but instead the 2 consoles that did.

I already graded the SEGA Saturn(17/20), Dreamcast(19/20) and Game Gear(16/20)

The story of this console began when their 8-bit Master System lost to NES,knowing they had to make a console to take down this monstrosity,becuase NES was 8-bit,they had to make something that was 16-bit[Mattel's Intellivision was 16-bit but you gotta' wonder why no company could make ne like that] but nonetheless they suceeded and called it the MEGA DRIVE but NEC was already marketing the Turbo Grafx 16.In order to take the top SEGA copied Nintendo's policy and made games with celebrity names which ate out TG-16,then to combat the familiar franchises Nintendo and the upcoming SNES they made Sonic the Hedgehog who in America is considered star of...........

Genesis

Games: 20/20 (So much like SNES is has practically the same amount of games and with games like Sonic the Hedgehog,Sonic CD,Phantasy Star 2,Shining Force,Vectorman,Knuckles Chaotix and Golden Axe it was hard to find fault with it)

Graphics:10/20 (This system did not have good graphics,Sonic was alright but really,overall it was mediocre at best)

Design:14/20 (No matter how many revisions,how many sizes, and who knows what, it always looked ugly. However by itself it's also quite durable which is a huge plus)

Technology: 17/20 (Not the best technology,but it was faster at processing games than SNES which is a plus and it was the top man for 2 years,but then SNES came out)

Final:15/20(The system was above average,technologically it was the king for 2 whole years before SNES came out,the system was loaded with some of the coolest games out there,and hey the system was on the market for quite some time,and since there was a flood of system trying to look better,it looked too old within 3 years)

This console is great,so great I named my blog after it most of my favorite games come from it,practically half my top 10 list comes from this system.No console is perfect but this comes pretty damn close to being perfect.This console could've easily won but Nintendo made a few mistakes

1.Cartridges
2.Delayed for too long
3.No real RPG developers were courted

This console was waaay better than anything today and only 3 consoles could even remotely get close to it(Dreamcast,SNES and Nintendo DS)

Nintendo 64

Games: 20/20 (Not a lot of games[especially RPG's] but to make up for it,you've got quality,incredible amount of quality.Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of Time,Ogre Battle 64,Banjo Kazooie,Star Fox 64,Mario Kart 64,Super Mario 64,Diddy Kong Racing,Turok,Perfect Dark,Quake 64,it goes on)

Graphics:20/20(That system had groundbreaking graphics the later games were comparable to early PS2 titles.Super Mario 64 told you about the system capabilities from day 1.Unlike Jaguar this really was 64-bit.)

Design:20/20 (Durable,most beautiful looking,compact,and attractive console,but it always looked like it needed dusting,though the later colors were great,I for one like the Pikachu N64 even though the game that came with it was donkey crap)

Technology: 19.5/20 (I'd love to give it a perfect score,but Nintendo didn't use CDs because of this the games tended to look albeit blurry and they were expensive to produce.However the N64 controller invented the thumbstick and camera made buttons from day 1,and not to far after to advantage of the hole in the bottom by inventing things like the rumble pack,the controller pack[VMU probably came from this].Internally there was the expansion pack which enhanced the N64's power and graphics even farther(Games like Donkey Kong 64 and Legend of Zelda:Majora's Mask to advantage of this))

Final:20/20(Best system ever and will probably never be trumped but hey there's hope that Xbox 720 or Wii 2 or PlayStation 4 could be on the way to being even more outstanding,but only time will tell)

Favorite Games:

Genesis: Vectorman (20/20)
Nintendo 64: Banjo Kazooie(20/20)

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Chronologically: Legend of Zeldas (Video Games)
Consoles: PlayStation 2,PlayStation Portable,and Atari 2600

NES,SNES, and PlayStation

Yes,yes Uber Psycho Tom here I'm back.No I'm not on some vacation or anything like that. I had a good week so far.However on this blog I am in critique, not personal mode as such I must have something to critique. Thankfully I do have something. It's been awhile since I done anything in the consoles sections so here it goes. The first Nintendo's and The first PlayStation

This console came into the market at a time when homebound video games weren't trusted. All the companies went bankrupt,got sold,divided and so on,if you wanted to play video games you would have to rush off to the arcade. The makers of Donkey Kong were experiencing in Japan a rise in video games. Naturally they decided to expand their market,so they went to once legendary Atari and said " Hey can you help us market our system in America?". However they came at the wrong time; Atari was in shambles,it was a video game crash in America. Finding this out the hard way,Nintendo decide to sell the system themselves. They went to a toy company and made a fantastic deal. Soon enough the system was test launched in New York as a toy an entertainment system(hence Nintendo Entertainment System), no one thought it would work but soon enough it was a success and by Christmas,it was all over. This console is almost always,ALWAYS! put as #1 on best system lists.

NES

Games: 20/20 (If you wnat a system with quality games,and lots of it,this is your system whether it be Castlevania,Metroid,Legend of Zelda,or Super Mario Bros. you're sure to find something you like)

Graphics: 17/20 (Some games look so sloppy and atrocious while others are top-notch Super Mario bros. had very unfavorable graphics in my opinion but Kirby's Adventure looks like almost 16-bit,this coming from an 8-bit)

Design: 5/20 (Ugly,heavy,and though durable on the outside,it often can't fit the cartridges inside and sometimes it kills the cartridge, the cleaning kit is practically useless,get 10 systems if you can)

Technology: 20/20 (Good technology for ime like the lock-out chip that prevents illicit copies)

Final:16/20 (Great system,most influential system in the whole industry but it wasn't very reliable and graphics weren't always pushed,probably because most developers preferred Atari 2600 with it's jurassic graphics)


Eventually Atari came back and Sega and NEC joined the fray trying to take on NES. Atari didn't even try to get 3rd party support,Nintendo made a now illegal rule to make so if they published for Nintendo they could only publish for Nintendo.However that rule only was only applied in America,in Europe NES actually lost to SEGA but Nintendo still won overall. NEC then jumped in making a "16-bit" system(it was actually 8-bit but had graphics that were 16-bit),SEGA then made a successor which took NEC's limelight but failed tyo overthrow aging NES. Eventually NES got to old and out of date so Nintendo released a system technollogically superior to SEGA's Genesis. So eventually Sega couldn't say "Genesis does what Nintendon't" but Genesis had a lead and right before Super Mario World, SEGA came out with...... SONIC the HEDGEHOG which was the perfect defense.To this day there are guys who still remember the schoolyard fights of Genesis vs....

SNES

(Not me sadly,I was born just months after Super Mario Kart and was 3 years old when N64 replaced the SNES)

Games: 20/20 (It's hard to find a Nintendo without this score few exceptions being GameCube,Wii, and Virtual Boy,I mean every Nintendo has quantity and quality.SNES was the place for any kind of game my personal favorites being Super Mario Kart,Super Mario World,Star Fox,and Donkey Kong Country,oh and who can forget F-Zero)

Graphics: 20/20(One word:Deadly! I bet ya' the healthiest guy could have a heart attack looking at the magnificence of it all,Star Fox looks like it's 3D,Bubsy has the best 2D graphics possible[terrible game though] and Donkey Kong Country well,.... you could write a book describing the graphics of it[it would still be better than Twilight])

Design: 16/20 (Durable, lightweight, and reliable but the guys deciding on the color must've been color blind because it's dull gray and sharp tan with purple to top it off,not to mention it's so boxy)

Technology: 20/20 (Mode 7 was supreme,look what it did to early games like F-Zero, F-Zero and early 2-D Jaguar games are graphically similar and the FX chip made Star Fox the first "3D" game without vector graphics)

Final:19/20(This was one of the only systems that lived up to it's hype had the best graphics and best games[the winning systems usually don't have the best graphics and the losing systems often think they can win with graphics])


Ok I don't hate SONY but I hate what they've done to the video game industry. Before SONY video gaming was for kids that enjoyed that played games based on the playability and fun[which is what any gamer would agree with] but then they killed SEGA[when SEGA became a 3rd party publisher,their games went down in quality including our beloved hedgehog] put Nintendo on their knees and then they influenced Microsoft to enter. Also they encouraged adults that only care about graphics to play. To this day it's hard to find real games instead you get a graphics war.This started because SONY was gonna' help Nintendo beat SEGA but SONY ripped them off. Nintendo betrayed the company and eventually SONY worked on the unfinished project and turned it into the PlayStation just as Nintendo marketed NES themselves when Atari failed to help.Nintendo lost support when they decided to keep with cartridges rather than CD's like PlayStation. Square supported all the other systems of Nintendo but left them in favor of PlayStation.

PlayStation

Games: 10/20 (I'll admit I liked Frogger,Iron Soldier 3,Gran Turismo, Final Fantasies,and Spyro,but the others either were mediocre,sucked or had ports that were better on other systems[ex:Tomb Raider on Saturn,Quake II on N64,Rayman on Jaguar,etc.],however there was quantity)

Graphics: 12/20 (Downright ugly graphics,some games were comparable to 64 but they were often washed up and grainy,64 may have been blurry but there's more grainiess in one part of a PSX game than their is blur to an entire N64 game. In 2D N64 still beat PSX and of course Saturn was king of 2D graphics)

Design: 11/20 (Boxy,ugly,looks like a porta-potty bench,unreliable but compact and lightweight[Saturn was a lug])

Technology:0/20 (There was no innovative technology,CD media started in 1992 with Turbo Duo, thubsticks and rumble came out on N64 first,anything multimedia like started on 3DO, and yeah SONY copied everything with no inventing whatsoever)

Final:8/20(PS3 only got a 14 because no one can deny it's technological and graphical proweress but PlayStation the original had none of those edges,it didn't even invent what it had)

Favorite Games:

NES: Super Mario Bros. 2
SNES: Super Mario Kart
PlayStation: Final Fantasy VII

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The Current Generation: Xbox 360 vs PlayStation 3 vs Wii

For any of you who actually read this blog and play video games,I bet you were wondering when I was going to review and compare Wii ,Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.We'll here they are.I'm probably bash PlayStation to the bone because it is among the worst console franchises ever and only saw the light of day because SEGA saturn was too expensive and because N64 games were too expensive.Seriously who in there right minds would spend $400 on a games console or $70 on game.Oh wait dim-witted SONY and Microsoft fanboys,currently PS3 is $400 and Xbox 360 well,it's gone down yes but at launch it was $400,alright,alright I'll get to the actual review

I think I'll go by launch order

Xbox 360

I usually in my Nintega fanboy crazed state award this console names like ExBox 360 because it usually overheats,sometimes melts and then it was a box but is no more or Xbox Please Fix Me because of it's red ring of death which is notorious on that system.I've taken to Wii's World names to like Xbroke 360.But now I must try to be unbiased

Games:14/20 (This system actually has some pretty good games.Some well received ones are BioShock, Halo 3,Call of Duty 4,and I could go on but no I shall move on after all it'd probably take a good week to finish up the games,stil lit's hard to find any RPGS or kid games it's actually kind of facing the problem most people thought N64 had,as an N64 purist I can't agree.I'm looking most forward to the new Banjo-Kazooie.)

Graphics:18/20 (Great graphics sometimes it looks too real,an idiot might forget it's not real all.Burnout Paradise looked so detailed it looked a bit too mcuh like an actual race.Midnight Club Los Angeles failed,why because LA is smoggy the cars looked great but if really want LA's graphics you might as well put the game on an Atari Jaguar)

Design:4/20(Terrible design worse than it's predessecor,first of all it's off white in color then it often overheats and destroys games and the red ring of death which happens too often.I fear even putting in game into the system)

Technology:14/20 (Mediocre at best,it has Xbox Live which is currently the best online service,it had an HD-DVD add-on but it didn't sell and now it has no playback,the media it uses is simply just dual-layer disc it currently has a detchable hard-drive which I like but that's it)

Final:13/20(You'd think Xbox 360 would actually be better than Xbox,well...it still has a genre problem like Xbox add that with design problems and uh there ya' go)

I might make a fool of myself and I might be ignorant but I try to keep up.I still hate the franchise for killing SEGA and making N64 look bad.But of course it's still a console I've played so I must here we go

PlayStation 3

I still can't believe I'm reviewing this terrible console,the franchise sucks it has no real 1st party and it has more crap than good and the good isn't so good that crap doesn't matter as seen with N64 or Dreamcast

Games:8/20 (Bigger selection than Jaguar yes,but still it faces the same problem plagued by bad games.I can name all the good games now.Assain's Creed,Heavenly Sword,Call of Duty 4,Uncharted:Drake's Fortune,Motorstorm, and Ratchet and Clank Future:Tools of Destruction ok that it the rest sucks)

Graphics:20/20 (Sony actually made this machine have the best garphics after it's best sellers had terrible graphics,but a better game selection,only die0hard Son-ists will actually want sucj a system,other dissatisfied with Wii will get a 360,graphically it makes 360 look like last gen,a real idiot might look outside and think it's a game after looking at such graphics)

Desgin: 9/20 (Much better than 360,it tends to have lens problem and sometimes might have hard ware drive problems,still it's too big I think it could rival Xbox in size and it's ugl looking and carrying it is a nightmare)

Technology:20/20 (Currently has better technology than most computers it's amazing actually,it's cell processor CPU,120 GB Hard Drive I could go on I hate to admit BS3 actually has anything good,not to mention Blu-ray)

Final:14/20(I really don't want to give it such a high score,if technology didn't matter I'd give it a 5/20 like the garbage it really is stupid Piece of Sh#t 3 you got lucky,had Xbox 360 had a better design this crap wouldn't have seen it look better)

Finally onto the one I call best console of genration and staunchly defend against fanboys

Wii

After finally getting through those jokers I can move onto Nintendo's entry.Rather than being a technology beat it's game beast.After seeing it's last to consoles not make despite having better graphics than Sony and more real worth it decided to just steal Sony's idea of having mostly crap and no graphics which apparently wins console wars.Only there's a twist the controller idea is changed and it has real 1st party

Games: 16/20(It faces a serious crap problem,analysts think Wii might hurt Nintendo because of it's lack of real 3rd Party,but hey look at Sony which only had Konami and Rockstar and still only has those 2,Wii has real goodies unlike BS3 I mean lets see Mario Party 8,Super Mario Galaxy,Mario Kart Wii,Resident Evil 4,Legend of Zelda:Twilight Princess,Metroid Prime 3,Manhunt 2,No More Heroes,Fatal Frame IV it goes on,I can't give it a full 20 because once again it has embarrasments like Anibus 2,The Golden Compass, and High School Musical)

Graphics:14/20 (It looks more like late Xbox gmaes graphics wise,developers aren't really pushing it though,most games look to cartoony it's kind of depressing)

Design:17/20 (It's small,lightweight and quite reliable,a famous Nintendo feature that's quite lovable,but it's too damn white,sorta dorky to)

Technology: 17/20(The motion sensing controller was a great idea as was the Wii Wheel and Brawl is dual-layer,Need I say more?)

Final:17/20(A step up from GameCube but nowhere near N64 or SNES or NES,but unlike GameCube it's original)

Favorite Games

Xbox 360: Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon:Advanced Warfighter

PlayStation 3: Ratchet and Clank Future:Tools of Destruction

Wii: Super Smash Bros. Brawl

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Chronologically: Mario and Luigi:Partner's in Time and Mario Hoops 3-on-3(Video Games)
Consoles: NES, SNES,and PSX

Silver Post Complete

The first PlayStation,A grill, and an Ambidextrous"handheld"

If you thought Jaguar was the only failed console in video game history you was completely wrong,in this post you will find reviews of 2 failed consoles and 1 moderatley succesful console.

PlayStation is thought t be the first CD console,not add-on,console,in truth there were at least 2 first.The Saturn by SEGA which I already reviewed(17/20) and 3DO another failed console trying to gain market as a do-it-all machine.It had 3D graphics,it could do everything practically,it was PERFECT yet it failed here is why


3DO

Games:2/20(People will often say it had better games than Jaguar,yes bu it also had a lot more,about 160 games actually but about 16 were actually good where  as Jaguar's ratio was 5:6,3DO's was about 1:10,oh sure Jaguar had White Men Can' Jump,but 3DO had games like NIght Trap,Revolution X,Virtuoso,and those Make My Video games)

Graphics: 18/20 (It couldn't quite do what Jaguar did in terms of 2D,but it didn't quite look like bogus in 3D either,just look at Need for Speed or Wolfenstein 3D,as for 2D Gex,Return Fire, and Samurai Showdown did the job quite well,excellent graphics in a time when 3D was just emrging)

Design:9/20(This is the average of allthe designs,most look like ugly dull black boxes(not Saturn shiny) with not much else,they tended to be very durable though)

Technology:12/20(Quite good technology actually,unlike Atari which had technology so good they didn't even know how to harness it,the 3DO makers had technology that was a breeze to use not quite Genesis easy but close,it wasn't cutting edge though at all)

Final:10/20(About the same as Jaguar but Jaguar had better games despite having fewer and that's what really counts)

Next off we have the newbie franchise which entered the foray mainly because Dreamcast failed to overshadow PlayStation,they feared if SONY kept winning they console industry would overshadow and leapfrog PC's altogether.Nintendo was in it,SEGA died,SONY is the antagonist,only one company relies this much on PC's it must be..........MICROSOFT and their.......

XBOX

Games:12/20 (It had many good games,the crap ratio is low but lets face it there weren't any kid games which lived on fun,Xbox was the console for shooters and M-rated games.After Halo,Oddworld,Halo 2,Project Gotham Racing,Doom 3, Dead or Alive 3,and Fuzion Frenzy I can't think of any significant game)

Graphics:20/20(Best graphics for it's time,it made GameCube's graphics look like shit,and PS2's look like PONG graphics)

Design: 9/20 (It's too big,ugly green and looks more like a grill than a console,not to mention it overheats and breaks a lot more than it's competition,well except for Piece of Shit 2)

Technology:20/20 (I only gave it this much because of the hardware drive and a good online service,no offense to Dreamcast but it used Dial-Up)

Final:15/20(Certainly a worthwile console to own......for Microsoft it certainly was ahead of it's time,but lets face it too big,and lack variety in titles can really put a damper on things)


Now onto GameBoy's first competitor,long before SEGA released the GameGear

Atari Lynx

Games:2/20 (Not many good games at all mcuh like 3DO,however 3DO had 160 games,Lynx had about maybe 40,that means only 4 games might've actually meant a thing.I can name my tops right now and I will.California Games,Raiden,Battlewheels, and Road Blasters)

Graphics:20/20(This console had the best graphics for it's time,i looked a bit like Neo-Geo gone handheld actually,left GameGear in the dust on the best color graphics race)

Design:4/20(I like the idea of the cartridge load on the side but lets face it the screen was miniscule,the buttons were far,it lacked real battery life, and it was HUGE,but the flip the console upside down if your left handed was cool)

Technology:20/20(Excellent technology,you could hook up like 16 Lynxs to one,backlit,loud speakers, and tiny cartridges)

Final:12/20(The console wasn't actually that bad,it was quite innovative unlike Game Boy or Game Gear,still no self-respecting Handheld Gamer would call that portable.Fares much better than Jaguar or 7800)

Favorite Games

3DO:Need for Speed
Xbox: Oddworld:Munch's Oddysey
Lynx:Road Blasters

Game Boy,a Dream,and a 64-bit toilet seat

Console-wise I have done GameCube(16/20),Saturn(17/20), Nintendo DS(19/20), and Sega Game Gear(16/20) reviews. I want tom ention my favorites for each sustem

GameCube: Super Mario Sunshine(19.5/20)
Saturn: NiGHTS into Dreams(19.5/20)
Nintendo DS: Yoshi's Island DS (20/20)
Sega Game Gear: Sonic the Hedgehog 2(20/20)

Now I'd like the review the following Dreamcast,Game Boy, and Jaguar

Now the cream of the crop here is clearly Dreamcast but well let's just see how the other 2 compare


Game Boy

Games:20/20(Like all Nintendo systems[except Virtual Boy and GameCube) just any game you can think of,is there Poof! just like that)

Graphics:15/20(Like Saturn this one is hard to tell Saturn's problem depended on 2D-3D,whereas this handheld grapples with Black and White vs Color for Black and White it has graphics that can excell to SNES but with color the competitors clealry win on this one)

Design:14/20 (Game Gear had a black design that looked like a trapezoid,Game Boy looked like a gray brick with a green screen but a little lighter than Game Gear and and an ok button design)

Technology: 19/20 (At the time only the Lynx had better technology,Game Gear came out after Game Boy anyway it had graphics like NES sometimes SNES but in black and white,it had the best battery life and yeah)

Final:17/20(If it was in color,it coulda' gained a perfect but nothing could match Lynx in technology)

Favorite Game: Super Mario Land 2:6 Golden Coins

Now onto SEGA's final attempt to gain market lead from SONY and most technologically juiced up for the time maybe it really is a DREAMcast

Dreamcast

Games:19/20(Though it only had about 200 games like N64 the games had such quality it almost trumped quantity but it just didn't quite have Game Boy's,NES,DS',Genesis', or Xbox's quality with quantity)

Graphics:20/20(Like N64,SNES,Master System, and PlayStation 3 graphics were top-notch I mean some games looked better than even current PS2 games games like Dead or Alive 2 or Jet Grind Radio,those graphics were a stunning leap from former graphics master Nintendo 64)

Design:20/20 (Like N64 or Atari 7800 this console is one of the most cosmectically atrractive console in existence,it's so pearly white it really is like a piece of heaven[not to be sac-religious] when it opens it looks soo nice mmm)

Technology:18/20(While it had online access and a Game Boy like memory crad it also had outdated media that couldn't hold much,not to mention it had slow loading because of crappy CD and sometimes it was all useless[and you thought PS2 was bad)

Final:19/20(This is by far SEGA's best system beating out Genesis by 1 score and Saturn by 2 it had everything it needed to make the perfect souflet,SEGA just didn't put the ingredients in at the right time nor cook it for the right time)

Favorite Game: Samba de Amigo

Now finally last and this time certainly by far least "64-bit", cartridge using,crappy game plagued........

Atari Jaguar

Games:5/20(Though there are a few killers out there like Rayman,Iron Soldier,SkyHammer,Alien vs Predator,Raiden, and Worms about 5/6 of them were crap that's roughly 50/60 that's right JUST SIXTY GAMES so basically I named all the good ones might I add Fight for Life is the 5th worst game ever,still better than 3D0's average at 2)

Graphics: 15/20(Things look much better for Jaguar here,for 2D graphics this console might be the best after of course Saturn,for 3D except for SkyHammer and Alien vs Predator few games even remotly looked good still Rayman,Raiden,Cannon Fodder, and Bubsy had some good 2D graphics but it was supposed to have 64-bit,3D graphics none of that is there)


Design:12/20(While very creative and not that bad it looks a bit like a toilet seat,I  do like the courve though still the middle button and terrble cartridge slot killed it)

Technology: 8/20(Like Saturn,not even the maker itself couldharness such power,oh no it took 10 years for the real stuff to come,it was supposed to be 64-bit but even Sky Hammer didn't look 64-bit oh yes certainly about Crash Bandicoot graphics but still)

Final:10/20(Most people would bash this system down to the bone,I wouldn't put it that far down can't say it's my favorite either still better than 7800,it's graphics could be very good,and the design is ok,but I guess it's games that count and since 5/6 suck well you know)

Favorite Game: Rayman

Up next 3Do,Lynx,and Xbox on consoles

Sega Game Gear Handheld Console Review

Nintendo is world renown for its hanhelds but, like Genesis vs SNES even the legendary Game Boy had rivals.Only 2 made it to mainstream, they were Sega Game Gear and Atari Lynx.While Lynx was the technology beast,Game Gear was fun.

Games: 14/20 (While here were far and few,most were innovative and fun,but not spectacular like Tetris or Pokemon.While GameBoy had Super Mario Land,Tetris,Pokemon, and Mortal Kombat;GameGear had hits like Ecco the Dolphin,Sonic the Hedgehog 2[one of the 10 perfects],Battletoads,California Games, and Sonic Spinball)

Graphics:18/20 (Unlike Game Boy,Game Gear had color graphics and it had graphics superior to even NES,but it couldn't do what Lynx could graphically)

Design: 12/20 (Pretty basic design,black casing looked like a trapezoid good button lay out though)

Technology: 19/20(Excellent technology,good audio,it was a huge leap from Game Boy,it simply didn't have the marketing might or the games like Super Mario Land or Pokemon, but it wasn't quite like Atari Lynx)

Final:16/20(Heavily underrated,lacking games but ceraintly worth playing and it has excellent games,Tolstoy Kafka Evsky nailed the review just right)

Sega Saturn Console Review

 What is Saturn? Most people would say. Those that do know would most likely say something like"Oh yeah that console that was too expensive,had no real games,had terrible 3D graphics, and no 3rd party".

Truly the system didn't deserve such bad press I mean come on the games.You know what I'll star with the games and go on

Games:16/20 (In the first-party realm games were  nothing shor of eye-popping,games like NiGHTS into Dreams,Clockwork Knight,Astal,Panzer Dragoon,Virtua Cop,Last Bronx,Sega Rally,the list goes on. After N64 this console was the console to go to for reliable,delicious first-party games. Sadly not so with 3rd party in fact the only 3rd party games of quality I can think of are Rayman,Tomb Raider,Resident Evil,D,Magic Knight Rayearth, and Shining Force III)

Graphics:14/20(This one was hard because it depends on 2D or 3D. with 2D Saturn has the best around along with Jaguar,Neo-Geo,and SNES.But with 3D it looks terrible the system rendered rectangles instead of triangles like it's rivals plus no one could harness it's power not even SEGA themselves so everything looked mottled and grainy.NiGHTS and Panzer Dragoon Saga looked at least like PSX quality)

Design:19/20(Like the DS not entirely attractive like N64,Dreamcast,or Neo-Geo Pocket Color but though the color is plain black it has that cartridge slot in the back and the buttons look cute when he power turns it glows green and the cartidge in that slot looks niccce)

Technology: 20/20(This console was the most advanced console for it's time,it had 2 processors,internal memory,a modem adapter, and a cartridges that could save 100 games on it,plus CD for cut-scenes, if harnessed right it could compare with N64 wih CD)

Final:17/20 (The Saturn is one of my favorites,I've played it once and have always desired to have it as my second,but the graphics really pushed the console down a few scores)

Nintendo DS Hanheld Console Review

1 down 1 to go,onto reviewing Bi-Screened,Touch Screen,64-bit............

Nintendo DS

Games:20/20 (like many people would say about PS2 any game you need is there from remakes like Super Mario 64 DS to casual ones like Nintendogs,from creative games like Advance Wars:Days of Ruin to M games like Mortal Kombat)

Graphics: 16/20 (Many first-party games look like N64 games or better,some 3rd party ones tend to look really,really blocky,2D graphics look the best though like Yoshi's Island DS or that icky Spongebob game)

Design:19/20 (I like how it looks,it's not all attraction like Dreamcast or N64 but it works,everythong is well laid out and the color pwns)

Technology:20/20 (Good technology,touch screen,2 screens,responsive mirophone,the cards are perfect and it's juiced it can even browse the web)

Final:19/20(Great console,but thegraphics need some work)

Nintendo Gamecube Console Review

I own 2 consoles:GameCube and Nintendo DS,but my knowledge extends far beyond what I own

I intend to review the consoles I own first,as the title suggests I'll start with GameCube


Games:17/20(Every console has it's glut of crap,but the ratio for this one is low,unfortunatley I have some of the crap let's see we have........Sonic Riders,Lost Kingdoms, and Tony Hawk's Underground and of course Aquaman:Battle for Atlantis,but the majority are class hits like Tales of Symphonia,Resident Evil Collection,Super Mario Sunshine,Sonic Adventures 1&2,Soul Calibur II,Beyond Good and Evil, SSX Tricky, and Super Smash Bros. Melee to name a few)

Graphics for Time:19/20(Resident Evil 4 and Eternal Darkness have some of the best graphics seen on a 6th gen console ever,Xbox quality no doubt,but few games are like that most are inbetween PS2 and Xbox,unlike N64 where programming and graphics were hard too completely push,Gamecube was a breeze)

Design:14/20 (It doesn't look terrible,the shape was ok, the color......not-so-much)

Technology:14/20(It's not juiced up with technology like it's SEGA and Microsoft counterparts,but the cards are  excellent and I'm a dinosaur)

Final:16/20(GameCube is lacking somehing the other Big N consoles have,answer originality)