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0:00 Nintendo
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Being told the PS5 is already four years old was the worst part of this video.
the first 2 dont really count since no one could fuckin get one
And Sony is already saying the console is entering its end of life ahaha
@@carlosramone40 No, they said entering the latter half of it's life cycle. Which would mean an eight-year life cycle. And therefore the longest console generation in history.
@@anarfoxjust gonna add this here for when he responds
@@colehealey2925 love it 🤣🤣🤣
"Opinions adjusted for inflation" That is a nice metric to have
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The prices were different and the wages and economy was different during those times, its a pointless metric to have, you dont get anything out of it.
That's what she said.
@@avendurree He didn't mean literal inflation
Thats a great way to describe the nostalgia value
If Nintendo doesn't launch the Switch 2 with Mario Kart 9 they're missing out on 100 million units sold in 3 days lol
100 million in 3 days is impossible. The highest record in 3 days for a videogame is still the original GTA 5 release, at just 16.5 million. Remember, that is the second bestselling game of all time. Mario Kart 9 would have to be doing triple GTA 5's entire lifespan numbers in a single year, which ain't happening lol.
@@koolaid33 Dude, hyperbole.
I always thought "Mario Kart Switch" would be a godlike launch title if its a sequel to double dash. Its almost a no brainer.
@@koolaid33 🤓
I don't think it was meant to be taken literally😂@@koolaid33
Sega Genesis and PS1 were the most influential consoles in my life. PS1 had so so many amazing games.
sega genesis deserves an S tier imo. not only did it bring a lot of the more adult arcade titles to a home console, but sega channel was ground breaking. $20 (i think?) a month, a large rotating roster of changing games in the era where renting games was wildly popular. they basically invented game pass.
These two plus original Xbox.
What games did you play in the genesis? I haven’t had the pleasure of playing on the original hardware, but am playing a lot on the mini this year. Thunder force 3 seems to be the best game in its genre, but I haven’t played thunder force 4 yet. Since that is on the mini 2. Tempted to get that one as well. Shining force is another favorite.
Mega drive sounds better genesis sounds like some Jesus shit
Saturn was actually more powerfull, tha PSX. But it was marketing disaster and very hard to code with. Spelling it's doom. They also had shortages. Many stores didn't carry them. N64 was also more powerfull, ut is had limited storage, small libary and was almost double as expensive as the PSX. PSX games were 50-60 euro. N64 was closer to 100
This is literally one of the best console tier lists I've ever seen. I was not expecting that..
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make this the top comment
Did you just skip to the end Cus you commented this 4 minutes after the video uploaded 😭😭😭
An actual slew of research on objective flaws and perks while also factoring in the relative time these consoles released will do that.
It really is. It was done tastefully and with respect to ingenuity, performance and game libraries.
Kinda cool for some of my videos to be featured as clips on this here channel. Thank you for asking!
Crazy that no one commented under you.
@@pepper9 it's just been 30 mins and i wanna believe chat doesnt just manifest soon as binty types lol
oh hi melporp cool seeing you here
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wait vinny watches LTT?
I'm a beginner technician and have started purchasing and reselling old consoles to fix up and clean. I'm seeing the popularity reflected in the resale price and even the "broken as is" prices being put up on eBay. This video has been eye opening and will help steer me into which consoles will be worth fixing.
Fun fact - I knew chemists who bought a lot of N64s that they jury rigged into a mesh for doing molecular graphics (they used Silicon Graphics chips where standard systems used to go for 10k a piece). Navy bought a bunch of the PS3s to create a supercomputer using the cell processors.
Something similar happened to the PS2 right?
Still remember how blown away my family and i were when we started the PS2 on Christmas morning and played Ratchet and Clank for the first time.
It was Gran Turismo for my brother and I. Doing those license tests really took effort!
Love me some ratchet
Sly 2, god i played that game like no tomorrow
fr I remember playing Midnight Club 2 for the first time with my dad and my whole family came into the room to check it out, such good memories
it was the OG God of War, which has become one of my favorite games on any console.
the thing that saved the ps3 is the fact that multiplayer online video games were free to play with no subscriptions needed, all you had to do was provide your own internet
that was also the thing that made the wii u at least decent
@@gamecubeplayer agreed, those were honestly the best times, even if the console wasnt the best. being to play multiplayer games for free on line without having to pay for a silly subscription every month or a year was so much better.
@@user-ko8qg7tg4dI’d argue you got what you paid for in those two. Wii U online was really lackluster in features and in the ps3 you were a victim of a data leak and had a weaker online experience.
I still play battlefield 3 online often on my ps3. Also, it did end up outselling the xbox 360, and while most of the early cross platform games were superior on xbox, near the end of that generation the ps3 was the console that kept pushing the bounderies and providing more than was expected, battlefield 3 and 4 were superior on ps3 for example. I can honestly say I was far more impressed by the best games on ps3 than I was by the best games on my xbox. Also, I had 4 rrod's so maybe that soured the milk a little.
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My greatest gaming moments were 1) 1993 - Link to the Past - Defeating Agahnim only to realise there was a whole Dark World to overcome 2) Xmas Day 1998 - Ocarina of Time - Walking into Kokiri Forest for the 1st time 3) May 2002 - Firing up Star Wars Rogue Leader's opening level on the Gamecube = mind blown 😲
N64, Game Cube, PS1, PS2, Xbox, and Xbox 360 plus Nintendo's GameBoy and DS era are my favorite times.
You left out wii??! How dare you!!
That Sega comment about Sony wasn't made by Tom Kalinske, It was to Kalinske by the head of SEGA Japan when Tom was trying to make the Sony deal happen. Tom Kalinske even said that Sega of Japan turning Sony down was the dumbest decision in business history.
Great clarification and I just found out the other day Sega Of America were also in talks with Silicon Graphics after the failed deal with Sony during the development phase of the Saturn. Once again, when they did their proposal to Sega Of Japan they turned the deal down and went full steam ahead with their custom multi-processor architecture. This might be a stretch but it makes me wonder if Sega Of Japan were intentionally knee capping Sega Of America after their success with the Genesis in the west? They thumbs upped the 32X but shot down the Sega Silicon machine? lol
I think every phrase with this tone WILL end bad, for the one who say it. I thought in Enzo Ferrari telling to Lamborghini "What do you know about cars if you build tractors" kind
@@thedrunkmonkshow You are bang on the money with this. Tom even suggested that Silicon Graphics go to Nintendo with their chip. Honestly, Sega of Japan had absolutely no clue how or why they were successful.
@@nicoacha88 My favourite car story ever! Ferari`s biggest competitor made out of spite, Mirrors the Nintendo/Sony story quite a lot.
Kalinske lost A LOT of credibility after the 32X fiasco. The fight and disagreements between Sega of America and Sega of Japan around 1993-1995 killed the company
Someone's gonna be irritated about that GameCube controller comment.
I get where he's coming from, but for someone like me, having as large hands as I do, the GC controller feels so much better than those of Sony.
@@shinigamimiroku3723 for years that controller was the only one that felt confortable to me
It's still the controller to beat in my mind. It's so incredibly comfortable compared to anything else that I use it any time I get a chance to.
i am one of those someone’s
I personally think the analog stick on the GameCube controller is the best ever if you want precision movement. Scrap the rest of the controller but the analog stick is amazing
GameCube controller is one of the best ever made. The updated versions that make the C-Stick a full sized control stick are S tier. The fact that they're still making them and have made them for every Nintendo console since the GameCube shows how timeless and practical the design is. You can not like it, but to say it's garbage or sucks is just incorrect.
Sorry but it does suck. No clickies, controller layout means you have no access to half the buttons half the time. Tiny vestigial d-pad. One crappy bumper. Triggers are amazing and the one thing it does right but that doesn't obviate the fact that objectively its a piece of crap.
Not even top 5.
@@totalvoid6234 Updated versions do have clickable sticks, two bumpers, and a better D-Pad. At the time it came out these were not necessary but they've been modernized for newer games. Not sure what you mean by "inaccessible" buttons due to layout - if you have two hands all buttons should be available to you.
One of the worst controllers. Sorry the layout is not logical. N64 controllers were also pretty bad. If the n64 didn't have some of the best titles ever it probably wouldn't even be a console I remember.
First of all, good list overall. I own pretty much every single videogame console from third generation on, so I am quite qualified to speak on this. My rankings would go like this: S Tier- SNES, Genesis, Dreamcast, 360, Neo Geo, PS1, PS2 A Tier- NES, N64, GCN, Switch, Saturn, Xbox, PC Engine, PS4 B Tier- Wii, Master System , Series X, PS3 C Tier- Atari 2600, Xbox One, 3DO D Tier- Wii U, SG1000, 7800, PC-FX F Tier- 5200, Jaguar, CDi Never Tried- Nintendo Color TV, Intellivision, Colecovision, Odyssey, 1 + 2 Fairchild Channel F, PS5 Maybe I'll need to make a video with my own tier list and actually speak a bit more in depth on each console and their strengths and weaknesses.
I like the list. Xbox One should be lower since it severely and permanently damaged the brand. Series X should be lower since it's as pathetic as the PS5. Barely any games, terrible name and uninspired design. Love the 360 so much but the RROD fiasco deems it unworthy of S Tier
@@CrispyHulk1 Yeah, so my criteria was more about the actual games and how much fun I personally had with the console and less about how much each console sold vs its competitors. 360 is S-Tier because I probably put more hours into that console than any other, and had an absolute blast with it. Also last gen before things got really bad with microtransactions and other predatory practices by publishers. Series X I actually have been really enjoying, and it's currently my go-to console. Spec-wise it's pretty identical to the PS5, and I think it has the best controller for 3D games ever. And PS5 doesn't really have that many exclusives over it. Xbox One is definitely the worst of the Xbox consoles, but it still had some great games and was the last console I enjoyed playing online. Battlefield 1 on that console was so much fun, as were exclusives like FH2-FH4, Halo MCC, etc. PS4 was definitely better, hence why I placed it 2 ranks higher. But no way it can be placed into D-Tier with the library it possesses.
The part where the video itself played inside the CRT Monitor was really cool and a great touch. Love to see such great effort being put into such a relatively small segment!
Holy shit, I just saw the editing for the PlayStation. Incredible
Lazlo
Another thing to add for the PS2, is that it was easy to crack and play pirate games, making so that here in Brazil, people would buy it without fear because it was the easier option to simply play games. To this day, Bomba Patch is a indie football game that is regurlarly updated for the PS2 and people still buy the console when available.
Most old consoles had been relatively easy to crack, still remember sitting at a friends house playing coop on his XBox, he'd just rent games for a day, copy the games over and had pretty much every game available on a HDD put into it. There was no one else to go to for a good old time or to try out a game before buying it, especially for anyone who had parents that paid attention that you don't crack your console yourself while you still lived with them.
Here in nigeria too. We still have Pes 2023 for ps2 so many patches and all. It's the go to for people in trenches 😊
@@Unknown_Genius I've never heard of parents caring that their kid cracked their console. Its such a non issue I doubt they'd even care. When I told my mom about how I cracked my PSP, she thought it was awesome actually. You must've had some weird parents.
@@lexecomplexe4083 There's a ton of parents that do. Same as there's a ton of parents that don't let their children play anything that's restricted above their age. Also depends on where you live. Where I live e.g. bypassing security measures on either games, consoles, movies or music files (especially back then) usually could (if you're caught for whatever reason) result in longer prison sentences than actual sexual assault (Ironically enough the same goes for just downloading pirated copies). And with the parents being responsible for their childs doing (until they're ~14 years old) you can take your bet that most parents did care that nothing like it happened in their house. I still remember the meme adverts about pirating and the sentences for it vividly, mainly because they played like twice every ad break on tv.
@@Unknown_Genius first time in my life that i heard that ANY parent gave a fuck about cracking. most people i know learned how to crack FROM their parents. because most of them just thought that the prices for games were ridiculus. same prison sentences btw. nobody cared. maybe you come from a REALLY rich neighborhood or something. parents even thaught each other here (and they were no gamers, it was purly for the kids) XDXD
I gave up smoking around the same time the Dreamcast got remaindered. I told myself that if I could go three months without cigs, I'd buy one of the remaindered bundles. So I played a bunch of Code Veronica and Sonic Adventure.
13:02 dude, hearing you use British slang "couldn't be arsed" in your accent sounded so wrong and funny at the same time 🤣 the phrase sounded "beneath" you if that makes sense, I'm from Grimsby, UK, basically "the pits"
Yeah I caught that too. As a fellow Canadian speaking to Linus, you can't go around using another culture's slang terms. You should be using 'eh' like the rest of us CADs.
@@koolaid33 I just meant it sounded funny as hell, not like offensive, more, Linus was meant for greater things than British slang 😅 his accent sounds too sophisticated for our gutteral phrases :P
Slight correction. You quoted Tom Kalinske for calling the partnership with sony stupid, but it was actually him quoting Sega of Japans CEO. Kalinske was on board with the partnership with Sony.
Thank you, I was about to say the same thing after watching this.
Kalinske was also on board in working with Scilicon Graphics who first came to them to get into video games (but Japan CEO said no), so they ushered them to Nintendo and became the N64. If not for Sega's infamous CEO in Japan, there would be: - No Sony PlayStation. Since Sony would have been busy making the CD add-ons - No 64-bit Nintendo. Since the chip was from SGI who originally wanted to work with Sega (and I can guarantee you Sega would not have wimped out the RAM like Nintendo did) - No Saturn. Since it didn't make sense to Kalinske why they would NOT capitalize on the already massive installed base of the Genesis (which is why 32-X came out in the first place) Instead it would have been Atari Jaguar vs 3DO vs Nintendo solo-effort vs Sega Genesis with a 64-bit add-on (basically 64-X instead of the 32-X) for the Sega Genesis, with CD peripherals by Sony. It would have been a slaughter.
PlayStation start-up sound is a memory trigger for me. Just ran thru a flashback of my childhood from that one sound.
I legitimately got Goosebumps from it. I'm not a Sony fanboy, but I've played more PS1 than probably any other console.
I had an Atari 2600 and and later a sega genesis while my friends had a SNES but later I was the first to have a N64 and PS2 so it evens out.
Dito 😊 So much fond memories
When you would cross your fingers for that second half shimmer sound and then get all excited like YES IT READ THE DISC THE GAME IS STARTING!!!!
@@Astromanaughtsame
N64 not getting an A is a crime against our childhoods and 3D gaming as a whole.
S tier in my book.
Preach brother
@@desamster Totally. As Mr. Tech Tips was getting to the ranking, I thought "for me, this is an S, but it sounds like Linus et. al are probably going to give it an A.... WHAT!?"
Naw, couldnt put the N64 on the same tier as NES. That was the first gen I had all 3 main consoles. N64 had great games...just not a lot of games period.
@@foyo5497 N64 didn't need a lot of games, because the games it did have were instant, timeless classics that you could play for years and years without getting bored.
Quality of this vid is off the charts, great editing and production!
That PS1 boot nose gave me chills of nostalgia when it played. That's an S tier startup sound.
GOAT sounds.
I have it as my ringtone for important people in my life
The Saturn startup also gives me goosebumps.
@@kruks as much as I love both in their own way, sometimes I think the only reason I still own my Saturn is to hear the boot-up sequence
Only bettered by PS2 in my opinion
No Soulja Boy Console smh
We need a proper ranking for the KFConsole, too
And Stadia
soulja who? is that some sort of software?
@@q3aki Googling it would have taken less effort than your comment.
Soulja boy console is a F tier
Xbox 360 "reliability issues aside" I went through 4 controllers, 5 battery pack cases, 3 headphone wires (the 2.5mm cables were so damn fragile), 2 red ringed systems that had to be sent in, with the end result having to leave the entire case open
Yea I love the 360 but the RROD is unforgivable. Consoles were frying a few years after purchase. The rechargeable battery packs were offensively bad
Great format for the video. Makes it something more special than just a tier list video.
Whoever had the idea for 13:45 is my new favorite writer
Take me a moment to understand why the barn 😂 didn't watch the movie
I like "dusting off" being said right after as well.
It sounds like the sniper shot from Xcom Enemy Within
Closing the front of an NES without depressing the cartridge makes my skin crawl like a nail on a chalkboard.
glad i wasnt the only one
Ironically, it's depressing.
Never had a region converter, action replay or game genie then? It felt weird at first, but you get so used to it you can forget,
Most of the replacement cartridge connectors I've dealt with recommend not pushing the cart down. The bending of those pins when depressed is sometimes what made the OEM connector stop working in the first place.
Super jarring at the time. The rest of the video made up for it
Calling the Gamecube's controller bad is outrageous
The button layout was horrendous but it was one of the best for ergonomics
They did say “horrible for games that weren’t expressly designed for it”
an amazing console. Gamers at the time were coming of age and didnt want Family Nintendo anymore.BUT, out of PS2 xbox. Gamecube is still being played today.
Quote profile picture!! I love it! Also I agree, lol. I was baffled when he called it bad.
Its very comfortable, but the button layout sucks big time. It took me a few weeks to adjust and most games not nintendo are a headache to play on
The Genesis was an S-tier system IMO. Yeah, the SEGA-CD and the 32X were a bit weird (the 32X more so), but the Genesis shouldn't get a knock from its peripherals that didn't match up to it. Even when the SNES took the No.1 slot a while later during the 16-bit era, the Genesis still had many killer games coming out for it. It was SEGA's best system, and offered up a lot of fantastic games and franchises during its life. The SEGA Master System would be a B-tier for me, as while Nintendo was doing all it could to suffocate it via licensing shenanigans, the SMS still got a good number of fantastic games (including some unexpectedly good 16-bit ports from the Genesis). Plus, the Genesis could play basically all of the Master System games with the Power Base Converter (including the 3D ones), which was a nice bonus. Also, can't let the 8-bit line of computers from Atari go without a mention. The 400/800 computers were basically consoles with some extra capabilities, as they had cart slots to plug in games with. And those carts carried some pretty damn good ports of various arcade games at the time, including some Nintendo IPs. They also had a pretty wide selection of original titles for the carts. The Atari XEGS basically continued the line, with its own line up of carts that featured arcade ports and original titles, and it had backward compatibility with a lot of the 400/800 carts. This made for a pretty big library of stuff to enjoy with the XEGS... including a fantastic port of Mario Bros. But, that's just my take on it all.
I could not agree more!!!
The dude's clearly played around 5 games from each system. He' clueless.
Agreed
The gunshot/sonic rings behind the barn was excellent
I was just expecting the visual of being taken behind the bar, but the gunshot and rings sound got a laugh out of me 😂
Dreamcast will always be S tier in my heart. The memories of going to a gas station and buying video games out of the trunk of a car is still the highlight of my gaming experiences.
I'm a little sad he didn't even mention the VMU... Having a little screen on the controller was pretty neat, plus the handful of mini games. I thought it was so cool when I was a kid.
I was probably 15 or 16, I dialled into the online chat for my "Bigpond" ISP on the console. I had a mouse and keyboard with the Dreamcast so it was basically the first "computer" I had ever owned (at the time I probably figured anything with a web browser was a computer). Anyway I met someone randomly and we made a deal that I'd buy games from them for about $10 a pop and have them mailed to me. I recall being able to use a "boot cd" to launch games.. A was a very loyal customer and one day I asked them how on earth they get these games!? And they gave me a clue.. "ISO". I had no idea what that was so I just moved on and figured it's probably something the people with fancy, fast computers would know about. I remember the first time I saw sonic... Unbelievable. It's a shame we'll never see such massive leaps again. I went from Atari 2600 > Sega Master System 2 > PlayStation > Dreamcast > PC > PS3. I just have a PC these days.
Ahead of it's time and it should've gotten S tier or A tier.
Though I don't know much about the console itself or how it functioned, I've definitely enjoyed many of the first-party games that originated on that platform, like the Sonic Adventure series, Nights, Jet Set Radio, etc. that were later ported to all sorts of other consoles.
@@Kelthor85 was it DC Chat??? I'm a child of one of the active users, others were family friends. Grew up with people I only knew of by their screen names, and would tag along with mum to pick up a bunch of burnt discs
Best video I've seen in weeks. Its so cool to see YT creators putting this kind of work in the script writing, editing and voice work. Well done guys. The only other creator I could say puts this much work in them is the AVGN.
My Dreamcast and my Sega Saturn are still in my TV cabinet today. Marvel vs Capcom 2 and X-Men Children of the Atom can never be shelved.
Never is a long time. What happens after you are gone?
If all the talk of Sega made you curious what in the world happened, the Console Wars book is actually a pretty good read. It tends to focus more on Nintendo and Sega, but there are so many interesting bits in there that'll make you say, "Huh... really?" For example, Sega of America wanted to work with Silicon Graphics (SGI) to make the graphics processor in the Genesis successor; however, Sega of Japan balked at the idea. In what would arguably be considered an act of spite, Sega of America called up Nintendo and gave them SGI's information instead, which is likely the reason why the Nintendo 64 uses SGI hardware. I believe the two folks in question were Tom Kalinksy (Sega) and Howard Lincoln (Nintendo), but I may be misremembering the players involved.
Not a very good book sadly, it's full of erroneous data, biased interpretations and conjetures, and most of the time if I remember correctly, only taking into account one side of the story instead of checking and comparing all of it Sites with interview translations and cross-checking like shmuplations are a good source of material
@@MagickPistacho can confirm, coincidentally i just finished reading this book today. Kalinsky is known to revise history and point the finger at other people for his mistakes. The book itself is very one sided when it comes to segas pov. basically amounts to Kalinsky did nothing wrong and tried to keep the ship afloat for as long as possible, which is laughable. He pushed for the 32X because he believed the genesis was still only half way through it's life cycle and didn't warrant a successor just yet, But it just wasn't a good product to begin with.
Honestly though, Sega partnered with SGI would have been an absolute powerhouse
@@JonTheJoestar You can't pin everything on Kalinske, Hayao Nakayama was worried about the Atari Jaguar taking market share before the Saturn showed up in the West. The form factor of the 32X was ultimately on Sega of America, but Sega of Japan had final say on everything. Truthfully both sides of the company contributed to the eventual demise.
Sega was it's own worst enemy at times, with the infighting between the US and JP divisions...
it's weird how proud I feel that I got to see this whole industry grow from Ataris, NES and 3DOs all the way to modern consoles. being an early 90s kid with an 80s brother really allowed me to experience it all, and we both really owe it to our dad and his curiosity. good times
i was the same, my son who is 16 is very envious of me and my generation, he is a retro gaming nut and has collected all the old consoles.
Ya, my dad brought home some wild things as well. It was a different time but glad to experience it.
Damn you really just slid past the red ring of death with a minor mention, that alone should knock the 360 off of S-tier xD
You must have missed the news of the 360 hardware iterations that pretty much got rid of it.
There was a LOT of selective bias from that kid.
Really liked the documentary-style portions of the video. And the paper cutouts were pretty funny too XD
Need another of these with hand held consoles and stuff. From knock offs with tetris to game boy, ds, psp, etc
Yeah, odd they werent included
Yeah I agree
As a pc player, I'd say my 2ds XL is probably the best purchase in terms of gaming I've made so far.
@@franklinnartz1381 good choice
@@flyingpanhandle they aren't consoles.
The wii u was actually a ton of fun. Im one of the 10 people that has one and we had a ton of fun game nights with nintendo land, mario kart 8, and smash bros. I also grew up in a big family and so being able to play on just the tablet was really appreciated. I think the system just had really bad marketing and never lived up to its full potential because of it.
It was a good system, however Nintendo tried too hard to force-feed players with the tablet-controller. To the point you're unable to initialize the console without it. I'd say it was as bad mistake as Microsoft forcing Kinect on the XBone.
@@sovo1212 I have the exact opposite opinion. It was a pretty bad system, saved from complete oblivion by several excellent games.
It had and still have terrible os issues having the vwii as separate from the wii u ecosystem is awfull controller also is pretty messi and loading times are awfull. The saving grace is that most of it's issues can be solved with a good mod and i'm sure it will continue improving. It's also a very strong system with 3 generation runing natively and an insane vc all of that with hdmi it's a must have once modded these days
Literally 3 games lol
Wii U deserves S tier, I was in the same boat as a kid
You did the Gamecube controller dirty... it's one of the all-time best!
Yeah, but man was that joystick garbage. I swear it was mounted with rubber bands and frayed underwear elastic.
Just resubscribed after your x56 gaming video... you sly bastard is this two fantastic videos in a row? without your face on the Honey commercial interspersed in your own program? I am so in for this actual return to Linus content. THIS IS FANTASTIC CONTENT
Gen-Xer here that started gaming on the humble Atari 2600, and lived through the brutal 8-bit and 16-bit console wars. I'm legit surprised how much I agreed with this list. Good job!
Same, Gen X er here. We are too outnumbered before and after us.
Same here!
Yeah. I think since you basically have to be our gen to have played all of these and thus accurately rank them, it's no surprise the list matches our experience.
@@kierasher1 A lot of older Millennials like me also started on Atari. The NES was already out by the time I was 5 but only rich kids had it and I didn't get one until many years later, but my friend down the road did have an Atari a couple of years before anyone I knew had an NES.
@@charliericker274 Older millenial with an even older brother that was on the line between millenial and X so I think i lucked into a broad view of the early console market by starting with an Atari (7800, had more 2600 than 7800 games though) rather than an NES. I also agree with the majority of this. Even where I'd put a system in a different spot than Linus did, his reasoning largely justified the position. Perfect example, he put the 3do in a C tier and I think its actually not a bad system at all and had a lot of solid games that I ended up playing on PSX but they started as 3do games. But the justification was that nobody bought 3do because it was too expensive. And he's not wrong. Price matters, and you can't be "Kind of a playstation-lite" at double the cost just because you hit the market before the market was ready for it. Playstation sold as much as it did because it was reasonably priced for its specs right out of the gate, as illustrated by the 299 mic drop.
My parents got us a PS2 for Christmas in 2000. I was 8 years old and our PS1 had been my best friend for the 4 years prior. I remember being so blown away by it. Fast forward to today, I still have it, and every few years I pull it out, dust it off and play some old favorites.
I had grown up on NES/N64 and was 12 when the PS2 came out. My dad got us one for Christmas and I've been on the Sony train since. I don't own my original PS2 but I still have the slim and it gets taken out a few times a year as well. Mainly for Tekken Tag with the lads when we're all together.
Guys, you forgot the Commodore Amiga CDTV, predecessor of the Amiga 32. The CDTV was a Amiga 500 Plus (2mb Graphics Ram) with a CD-Drive, Wireless Keyboard, CDI Video capability . The CD32 was a Amiga 1200 with CD-Drive, Special Chip for Video Playback, backwards Compatible with A500 Games.
A handheld console tierlist in this format would be awesome!
The Dreamcast being B should be a crime against humanity.
True, but no one can do the Dreamcast dirtier than what Sega did, aborting it in under 2 and a half years. (They did put the Dreamcast as B though)
@@David-qi1ys blame Sony. Not Sega.
Dreamcast on tier B is already a sacrilege
Phantasy Star Online was absolutely incredible for it's time.
@@Rodrigo-Digao You can't blame a competitor for doing it better, thats a fault of Sega not Sony. Should Sony have put out an inferior console just to keep Sega alive?
I think we missed some of the influental hand-held consoles (GameBoy and all its Versions, DS, DS Second Gen, DSi, 3DS, PSVita and the many more) and maybe a "console for scale" - so e.g. "Where does a modern SteamDeck rank in this, if it were one of the big players?" But I can see these all left out, at least the SteamDeck, with how fast the current landscape changes and how uninfluental things like the Neo´s, Claws and more are currently aside from being basically a movable PC in a complete formfactor. They´re less consoles than PCs, but GameBoy and Co I´d definetly have included.
proly holding out for another video
They would definitely need a separate video for all the different handhelds
Also apples console with firewire
maybe that will be another video later down the line
Yeah, kinda weird that they listed the wii U and switch but didn't even acknowledge the ds' existence.
Now that I think about it, if there would be a tier list for portable game consoles is the switch and other steamdeck like handhelds would be there 🤔🤔 ?
My S-Tier is SNES, PSX, Wii, DS Lite, and Switch My A-Tier: NES, PS2, Gameboy, Mega Drive, 3DS My B-Tier: PS3, Dreamcast, PSP, Vita, Gameboy Advance, N64 My C-tier: Gamecube, Wii U, Saturn My D-Tier: Game Gear, Mastersystem, C64, Vic 20 Just from what I've played.
For me at the time, the game changing feature of the OG Xbox was a built in HDD for storing game saves, as well as the ability to rip audio files from CDs and play that music thru the Xbox while you were gaming.
That made me fall in love with the Xbox, lol. Playing Forza while bumping NFS soundtracks I ripped onto a CD was epic, lmao.
Exactly. Racing on PGR while listening to your own music was amazing, it's such an overlooked feature as is the HDD in general.
Another big benefit of the hard drive was that large sections of games could be cached onto it, then smaller bits quick-loaded from it. The decision to make the 360's hard drive optional meant games could no longer be designed around caching, and in-game custom soundtracks became less common too.
And modders took advantage of that. Nowadays you can install hard drives of 2 or 3 terabytes that let you install the entire game library of the Xbox. I have one with 2TB but I only have like 430 games to avoid the shovelware and repetitive sports games. 99% of the library also supports 480p. One of the best systems one can go after right now.
The fact you could have San Andreas radio stations for YOUR OWN MUSIC stored on the Xbox made me very envious as a PS2 owner. In hindsight though I’m glad it forced me to listen to all those dope-ass radio stations
My only gripe about this video is that every time it showed a cartridge being put into an NES they did NOT push the tray down before they closed the lid!
Don't need to.
Glad I’m not the only one!
@@NCISCherno What are you on about. My NES definitely needed to be pressed down. Still have one, still does.
@@AB-80X I still have mine, never did and still doesnt.
@@DL180sx I also still have an original NES. What are you smoking? You absolutely have to push the cart down, for it to run.
The editing in this was top tier. Some great gags
One thing missing is the power of pack-in and launch games. It was a huge success for the Atari VCS, ColecoVision, NES, Genesis, SNES, N64, and Wii
Former technician for chuck e cheese here, can confirm an F is the deserved ranking. Don't let your kids touch anything that isn't meant to be handled while playing the games. The amount of half assed repairs, botched jury rigs or just flat out ignored safety concerns is completely inexcusable bordering on down right malicious. Seeing as how corporate wants 100 hours of work done in 45 hours per week, its not completely the fault of the techs, unless they do the previously mentioned half assed botch work. I had another tech come to my store for the day to help me out, and when they left, the last game they worked on was literally smoking. Didn't say a word to me, I had to follow my nose to figure out what was burning. On a different note, if you substitute the marinara sauce for the garlic butter, the pizza actually come out pretty damn good.
Imagine that, someone crying about his job and he's watching a tier list video.
@@DeathScyther006 What a weird comment.
The funny part about the N64s cartridges is all of mine still work and I'm super comfortable with my 4 year old handling and changing out games by himself without fear of them getting scratched or broken It really did have its advantages
yeah CDs are so fragile
No load times
The feeling of pressing them into place had its own satisfaction.
@@mtoad for real. The kids these days, they just don't know
Tried to fire up my PS2 to show my kids some games. Over an hour of not being able to read any disc before I put it back in the box. N64 still works like a dream.
great video, not just a basic tier list but a fun little history lesson as well.
20:46 Colecovision finished saying it was a "technical juggernaut" then sticking it on the same tier below the 2600 has me seriously scratching my head.
Okay the gunshot and sonic ring sounds at 13:46 were a nice touch lol
I guess Vectrex was left off because the rankings only went up to S-tier.
TRUEEEEEEEEEEE
Also missing was the intellivision
@@justincurcio6710 Intellivision was mentioned at 20:36.
Ayyyyooooooohhhhhh ❤. Long live Hyperchase!!!
Also the neo geo CD and sega nomad. Could almost be considered a hybrid console, its like a reverse super gameboy.
Here in the UK the Sega story was a bit different. I don't remember the 32x being marketed, but I do remember the Saturn being heavily marketed against the Playstation.
The sonic and knuckles toward the top sent me. I loved that cartridge a perfectly normal amount.
The PS1 and PS2 were the golden age of gaming for me growing up. I had an N64 at the time and I was jealous. When the PS2 came out I bought it with so many PS2/PS1 titles. Now there are very few game that takes risks on new IPs.
Whatever anyone grows up with is the golden age of anything more or less. That's just being a child
thats bc AAA companies dont take risks, and during the ps1-ps2 eras there were almost 0 real AAA games outside of EA and maybe rockstar, but even them 2 didnt become real AAA until the end of ps2 era.
Started with NES, then Sega genesis blew it out of the water.. I was an NFL nerd kid, and the 'end of life' genesis games were super nice, polished... even compared even to the 3d N64 NFL games, minus just a few. Genesis at the end of the 2d Era was better than the 'begginings of 3D' nfl games for a bit.
@@thumblessgod That is totally not true! You can thank Squaresoft with FFVII for the first AAA title on the PS1! Even Sony said at one point that that game alone was driving sales of the system!
@@phased3941 Idk ps1 and ps2 were actually legendary, the library of games for those 2 consoles alone puts every generation after it to shame. These days you're lucky to get a bookshelf worth of decent games per console gen. Back in the day you'd take a chance with 10 random games AAA to indie and 7-8 would be awesome, nowadays you'd have to get a bank loan to buy 9-10 games at the same time and 9-10 will be utterly unplayable garbage
Linus... u know we are gonna need a controller ranking follow up
We all know where the N64’s central joystick, GameCube’s whacky controller, and Microsoft’s Duke are gonna be.
and handhelds
@@PG-20 S, of course.
@@PG-20 Duke is F, N64 is C, Gamecube is S.
@@Beefnhammer no way that central joystick abomination is a C
The reason for the XBox Original "Duke" controller being so big is quite a story. They made a deal with a chip manufacturer that they'd use their chips in their controllers, but when the chips showed up, they were massive. But they were contractually obligated to use them, so they developed this behemoth controller that they knew wouldn't do well, but just enough to honor the contract, then immediately made an improved, smaller version.
I’ve mainly been a PC and Nintendo gamer my whole life, but I remember growing up in middle school and into early high school looking at all the cool Xbox 360 gen games that my parents wouldn’t allow me to play. Eventually by junior year, I had cobbled a PC together by literally dumpster diving in e-waste bins at a recycling yard with my friends. I learned how to sail the seas and started catching up. Now, I own a PS5 and none of my games are 9th gen. I have GTA V, Mass Effect LE, Heavy Rain, Beyond Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, and Jedi: Fallen Order. That’s like 6 X360 games and 2 PS4. My next purchase will probably be TLoU, which is PS3, again. I’ll get around to Spider-Man and God of War at some point, but I think it’s finally time to jump into New Vegas for my first trip through the Mojave.
Gotta do handheld tier list next!
This video looks and feels so different to any other one on the LTT channel. I for one absolutely love this style of video and hope we see more of them soon. Good stuff guys!
Thats probably the result of moving Linus from the 'business' part of the business... to the 'host/entertainer' part of LTT
Great list, great video. Very well done. Been watching for years but this is tops!
Can't believe you highlighted both Dark Cloud 2 and Pupitier. 2 games that I love, and feel like most people haven't heard of. 😀
Should rank handhelds next considering how it's basically been revived and thriving now cause of the switch & steam deck
Revived??? It never went away, so it certainly never needed to be revived...
This is one thing i like about Nintendo. They try and do something different with their consoles instead of just putting a bigger graphics card in a box. Plus you don't have pay to use the internet that you're already paying for.
@Subvaries yes you do. You need nintendo online to play paid multi-player titles. Keep in mind that games like spatoon don't even necessarily have "servers" because the game is P2P meaning nintendo's online service is 100% a scam.
I'd say they should have been in this list seeing as they are consoles too lol, they should have called this a tier list of the home consoles.
Steam Deck 😂 That thing hasn't sold over 5m yet despite being plastered all over the steam store's front page.
I find it surprising you didn't mention the Dragon Quest series when talking about the Famicom and NES especially since the series is as important to RPGs as Super Mario Bros. was to platforming games. The success to Dragon Quest on the Famicom is the reason so many "Dragon Quest clones" released on the console afterwards. Anywho shoutouts to Gimmick! for being one of the best games on the console and Lagrange Point for sounding like something from a 16-bit machine.
without DQ no FF
@@undertakernumberone1or Pokemon
Neither was Pokemon, "real gamers" dont gaf about slow burn grindy JRPGs.
Dreamcast was one of those consoles that was ahead of its time in so many ways, shame it didn't have a bigger catalog. Could've been A tier...
The Dreamcast felt like a console that was transported from a better timeline. In its original world it would've been even more successful than the PS2.
Your next video should be "how to clean up and restore a collection of abused game consoles from thrift shops"
As an old gamer whos been around since Atari, I would love to see a series like this. Hope LTT or someone is reading this.
You're too late. When Macklemore's hit song thrift shop came out that was the end of the days of the easy console pickup. Before then only a certain kind of game are new about yard sales and thrift stores. When people were trying to get some old clothes they saw old video games and the thrift store was never the same ever since.
Maybe these are "hot takes" but they actually get into the real details of it, unlike a lot of console tier lists!
I have a real hot take I think the PS2 is a little overrated tbh. The PS2 was actually my first console and it's got great games but most are not my thing. The PS2 was the first console to take gaming mainstream and a lot of the loved gams reflect that. It's best selling game is GTA San Andres and I am not a fan of San Andres or any GTA game for that matter. They are as wide as an open but as deep as a puddle with like a billion mechanics and minigames with most of them being shallow. You spend so much time traveling. Fable has this problem the worst. I am not big on the gamecube either. I can elaborate more if anyone cares. I feel as if the PS2 get's undeserved praise from band wagoning and people just saying it's good with no one questioning why. Notice how Linus didn't even mention any games by name ?
@@doomdimensiondweller5627It's definitely overrated! Just because it was priced well against DVD players, and had some good games. I was a PS1 and Gamecube die-hard personally Edit I forgot PS2 had PS1 compatibility too. So it's definitely not overrated
@@doomdimensiondweller5627 I think it has the largest video game library of any console and full backwards compatibility with the PS1. The PS2 didn't specialise in any one genre of video games as it was the one-stop-shop for video games in general. No matter what your preferred genre, you could find it on the PS2. Like, I get that might not be satisfying unlike PS3 vs Xbox 360 where PS3 was the console for RPGs while the Xbox 360 was the console for shooters, but the PS2 had everything. If perfection is having no flaws, then the PS2 is perfect. If perfection is having the best game library, then the PS2 is perfect by breadth and variety. I don't see how one can criticise the PS2 for what it didn't do, since it did everything, and I don't see how one can criticise the PS2 for what it did do because what it did was have everything. Even if you hate 90% of the PS2's library, that's just because you hate 90% of all games, which is fine, but that's not the PS2's fault.
@@teapouter6109The original xbox could run Doom 3/ Halo CE and 2/ Project Gotham and was great for LAN parties and had a proper networking system (with the ability to speak to other players). Not to mention, a hard drive, having owned a PS2 when I was much younger I cannot tell you how frustrating it was to have no way of saving my game state simply because my parents didn't understand or bother to purchase a memory card (this was in the early 2010s mind you). As well as the simply inferior development support compared to Microsoft. Realistically speaking, there were not nearly as many or barely as many people hotsing LAN parties on that console, were there? The Dreamcast had been built with Windows PC developers in mind as well, they had a great catalogue of games. Along with good peripheral support (i.e. keyboards/mice) and interesting (although weird) features such as the ability to run an internet browser. Coupled with the fact that you were given Seganet, a free online games service and I'm still suprised to see that it failed. The Xbox had the same launch price of $299 or £299 as the PS2. Both featured a DVD drive The Dreamcast had released earlier by about a year for £200 or $200 and was significantly reduced in price. The Dreamcast seemed like such a great product, especially in its first year, is it not possible that it was the PS2's inclusion of DVD support that made the console so popular? Compared to the Xbox it also sold more despite supporting DVD, you might counter, however, the PS2 took a very conservative design choice compared to the Xbox, I wouldn't be suprised if many bought the PS2, mainly due to how it blended in with the furniture as a regular DVD player. Correct me if i'm wrong but, many in the era viewed middle-aged or adult gamers negatively(connotations that they were lazy and/or immature), and that a lot of people simply wanted the cheapest DVD drive. I think that was probably the PS2's very important success point in that regard and why so many games were built for it. Especially since there was no other practical way for mainstream gaming to be targetted at a general during the era, without consoles (smartphones were non-existent). Just my take, though, maybe if I still had my PS2, I would look at it more fondly, maybe I'm ranting due to how hard I found that 1 level in Sonic Heroes.
@@doomdimensiondweller5627Kingdom Hearts 1/2, Final Fantasy X, God of War, Shadow of the Colossus/Ico, Jak & Daxter, Okami, Devil May Cry, Silent Hill 2/3, Ratchet and Clank, Crash Bandicoot, Ape Escape, etc. All of these games are popular for a reason imo, some of the best games/franchises were on the PS2. Not invalidating your opinion just listing some bomb ass games lol
Perfect list. Now, do a hand held one!
Nintendo DS, GameBoy deserves an S, Nintendo 3DS, GBA deserves an A. Pretty on point but I would change Genesis to S tier, PS3 B tier and Dreamcast and Gamecube one tier higher. The control of GB is one of the most beloved controllers ever.
To clarify, Nintendo wasn't a trading card company. They were a playing card company. They made hanafuda cards, which are traditional Japanese playing cards prized as much for their art as their utility
Brutal that the Amiga CD32 got F. With the SX-1 extension it was an equivalent to an Amiga 1200. I believe it was also one of the first 32 bit consoles, and also one of the first to make use of CDs for games. It tanked very much due to Commodore's financial woes.
I grew up with an A1200 and still have it. It's a fun computer but a really mediocre gaming machine. At the time, SNES/Megadrive had way better games in general. Most of the arcade ports were atrocious, one button controller, etc... CD32 was just an A1200 with a CD-drive and a lot of rehashed A1200 games.
Honestly as a CD32 owner (which I have had since one long before the insane price jumps) I'd probably give it a D rank. It didn't really bring anything new in terms of hardware over an Amiga 1200 and in terms of software it basically just played existing Amiga games adding nothing new to experience. I love my Commodore machines but yeah it really didn't acomplish much as a video games console.
The Amiga shares a lot of titles with the Mega Drive,/genesis with a ton of direct ports from the Amiga to the MD, but yeah didn't expect the CD32 to get evaluated well, tanked because commodore was corrupt internally and failed overall as a company because of that, and that North America never really got into the home computers like Europe did, so they just don't know or care, you can see any list of best games of the 80s, where it was made, NA will be dominated by Nintendo games, hats of to Nintendo to win that one. CD32 had a ton of potential...
FM Towns Marty wasn't listed and I always see that as the general Japanese equivalent of the CD32. Both were big ideas that either didn't take or weren't implemented well. I'd rate them both higher than a PC-FX though, and I own all three.
I know I'm late, but this video is genuinely really damn well written. David should be very proud of this one honestly.
will you do handheld tierlist?
Oh yea, I'm that one guy in the world who used the TV feature on the Xbox One with a cable decoder! Watching TV through the Xbox was actually pretty good, I have watched free TV for a LONG time and still do!
I did too! I loved it, one of my favorite features actually. And the kinect, I've learned I'm definitely in the minority.
I personally loved the media features. When they killed the snap or sidebar or whatever it was called, I thought that was really unfortunate... I loved things like having madden up while watching a game I was only mildly interested in off to the side... or watching a game but then having my fantasy team stats or redzone off to the side. Then the cable interface itself was typically better than the cable company DVRs and the media remote was downright nice to use and comfortable... and the fact that it could bounce the IR signal from Kinect and give you control over all the peripherals using one tiny remote was fantastic in a pre-widespread CEC envrionment. Had they not stumbled with the DRM stuff and/or just changed the talking points from media first to 'hey this is a kick-ass gaming console and as a bonus you get all this really cool stuff so you can enhance your gaming experience.' it would rank a lot higher. It was really ahead of its time in a lot of ways.
I used this feature as well! And Kinect worked so much better than the wii motion controller, at least for me.
I heard that it was strugle to get working in some european countrys, could had also just been sony fanboys, which back then i was too.
@@pelaajajm5698 -- Wouldn't shock me if it had some overseas challenges - different electical grid, broadcast standards etc... with all the intial backlash they got they did start backpedaling and de-emhasising the media features pretty quickly. So bug fixing was likely not a priority with the focus instead going into revamping it to its current iteration.
10:00 LTT's video production is awesome. Great shot, guys.
Sega Mega Drive, PS 1 and Xbox 360 were the most impactful consoles that left the most nostalgic memories for me
Shenmue on Dream cast was my first awe inspiring game. It was so ahead of its time. And 2K football had physics they still don use.
25:40 that little Spittle had been waiting its whole life for that moment... I heard a weeee as I watched that! I will name him Clark. Go Forth Clark of Linus! make us proud
Was just about to ask if anyone else saw it.
I know everyone and their grandma likes to make tier list videos. But LTT Nailed it by providing specs of the consoles and their history. for once, I actually feel entertained by a tier list video.
Here's a good marketing case study. When the NES, Sega Master System, SNES and Genesis came out, I was in Grade 2 to 4 at the time and our entire class loved Nintendo because of the better graphics. It wasn't about anything else other than graphics. We could knitpick on all the other details, but I think this was the driving factor to their success from an elementary school perspective.
The Dreamcast behind the barn scene got me. 😂.
7:13 Glad you specified an *unmodded* Wii U. A modded Wii U is probably the best way to play all pre-2012 Nintendo consoles.
this is one of those gems where the ltt writers scripters and editors really outdone theirselves.
no they didn't. They talked about like 4 brands. This was not "Every" console. It's a shit video.
@@Dolsey1 Pretty sure you could do a better video... right?
@@jeanoltt One probably always has to draw a line on what is a console in this gray area riddled environment... Switch made the list, but DS was only mentioned. GameBoy didn't make it - despite being a cartridge based system in itself. Magnavox Odyssey made it despite being basically a computer mouse - capable of displaying a square on the screen that you can move - for most part and using overlays to make up the rest of the game while Tiger Electronics even had some tripple A titles "ported" to their hardware "game and watch" style - didn't. NES had it's fair share of extensions and expansions as well. Commodore 64 had a cartridge based system which was basically a C64 minus the keyboard. Do mini editions of the old consoles count? Is Atari VCS one of those "mini" versions. What about OUYA - is it just not feasible because then one would have to include a mobile phone as a separate console as well? But then some of the VR headsets are also Android devices. Nintendo did have a Virtual Boy (and Linus did even play with it with Luke in a separate video). But then Chuck-E-Cheese made the list so where does a console start and another console end?
@@CobraFat2000 You're taking it too seriously lol. The handheld consoles didn't make it, both Switch and WiiU are able to be connected to a tv, so they are hybrid, not handheld. Also, they were sold as home-consoles and the main console in their respective Nintendo generations. The VR are headsets, not consoles. The other old ones I don't know, they were mentioned for filler probably, since most people never played the Magnavox. The Chuck one was a JOKE, it's incredible that I have to explain this lol It's just a video and it's amazing. There's no need to be picky about it.
@@CobraFat2000 When I think of "Consoles", as seen in the title, I don't think of "Portable Consoles" like the DS or Gameboy. I think those deserve their own tier list, as they can be easily categorized differently as "Gaming Systems that don't display on your TV, and don't have separable controllers per unit".
Let's not forget that the PS1 introduced most of what we know as the playstation controller today with dual thumb sticks and vibration, I think years before anyone else. It was such a good design that it's ergonomics and layout aren't so different all these years later. I remember getting a dual stick controller as a kid and a lot of games weren't compatible though lol. It was weird that they brought out a new controller mid-way into the consoles cycle, but it was awesome
I actually remember playing the Turbo Grafx 16 at a neighbor's house when I was a kid. Literally no one knew what I was talking about when I mentioned it, lol.
"Five hundred and ninety nine US Dollars". I'll never forget that. Also the iconic "Giant Enemy Crab".
I still remember the Terminator 2 Arnold memes (about him trying to learn to smile) about showing off all the goodness of the PS3...and then when it shows the price, his face just drops.
attack its weakpoint for massive damage
ironic that people tend to forget it started at $499
Honestly, I'd pay for one even for that price if they re-released it without the overheating (YLOD) issues. Full PS1, PS2, PS3, CD, Super CD, DVD, Bluray, SD card compatibility. I don't think people understood at the time just what an amazing piece of hardware the PS3 was at launch.
@@Hezkezl classic
Saturn is super underrated like you said. Just get a Action Replay Cart to remove the region locking and start exploring the Japanese library.
'23 and '24 have been great years for it too, with fan translations. I never owned one but I play it more than my other retro systems.
That's what I did. Kind of. Before the Action Replay was a thing, I had some other cart that would get around the region locking, and to play something like X-Men vs Street fighter (it used the 4mb cart), I would have to load the one cart to get around the region lock, then quickly swap it out for the 4mb cart before the game actually started (during the Capcom logo). Later on the carts that had 4mb that also got around the lock were released and I grabbed one of those.
saturn would have been better if they translated more japanese games for the us market.
Old guy here, I feel you really underrated the Colecovision. I had one way back in the dawn of history and it was so much better than any of it's competitors that it deserves an A.
this is honestly a perfect tier list. nothing to add, bravo!