Top 25 Greatest Game Consoles of All Time by The Guardian

Before leaving Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X authoritative british edition The guardian decided to make her list of the greatest consoles of all time. It consists of 25 stationary gaming platforms, including those related to the current generation. Portable systems were not considered in the ranking. The editors tried to take into account the degree of influence of each home console on the industry.

  • 25. 3DO (1993)
  • 24. Atari jaguar (1993)
  • 23. Sega master system (1985)
  • 22. Intellivision (1979)
  • 21. Pc engine (1987)
  • 20. Sega saturn (1994)
  • nineteen. Colecovision (1982)
  • 18. Magnavox odyssey (1972)
  • 17. SNK Neo Geo (1990)
  • sixteen. Atari VCS / 2600 (1977)
  • 15. Nintendo GameCube (2001)
  • fourteen. Playstation 3 (2006)
  • 13. Nintendo 64 (1996)
  • 12. Xbox one (2013)
  • eleven. Xbox (2001)
  • ten. Nintendo wii (2006)
  • nine. Sega dreamcast (1998)
  • 8. Nintendo switch (2017)
  • 7. Playstation (1994)
  • 6. Famicom / Nintendo Entertainment System (1983)
  • five. Playstation 4 (2013)
  • 4. Sega Mega Drive / Genesis (1988)
  • 3. Xbox 360 (2005)
  • 2. Playstation 2 (2000)

  • 1. Super Famicom / Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990)

“For days spent sitting in the living room with friends for Street Fighter 2, with snacks and Coke. All nights passed for The Legend of Zelda: a Link to the Past, Super Metroid and Secret of Mana. Game sessions at Yoshi’s Island and Harvest Moon shared with a younger sister, breaking through Super Star Wars games and discovering Donkey Kong Country.

Millions of us have these memories. SNES appeared in an industry that Mega Drive had already influenced, but Nintendo adhered to what it did best — reliable technology and amazing, fruitful creativity. The console produced beautiful, colorful visual effects and voluminous sampled sounds, and at the same time had the flexibility to use advanced cartridges at a later stage in its life cycle. But in fact, the significant influence was exerted precisely by the games, of which more than 1700 came out, and what impressions they gave. This is the whole point, “- says the description of the first place.

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