Gametrailers took a stab at defining the top 10 videogame systems of all time. Loot Ninja has the Gametrailers video (anybody have an original link to Gametrailers? I looked around the Gametrailers site and couldn’t find it. Also tried their YouTube videos — subscribed! — and didn’t see). Here’s the Gametrailers list:

10. Sega Dreamcast
9. Atari 2600 - video quote: “although the pixels may be as big as tumors” LOL!
8. Nintendo Gameboy
7. Nintendo 64
6. Sega Genesis
5. Gameboy Advanced
4. Sony Playstation 2
3. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
2. Super Nintendo (SNES)
1. Sony Playstation

As someone who has been buying game systems (yes, even the bad ones) and games since the Atari 2600 — many of the more recent game systems on launch days when available — there’s no way any top 10 list is valid without putting Xbox 360 in there. In our home alone we’ve got three Xbox Live subscriptions and three Xbox 360s, including the new Xbox 360 Elite. The Xbox Live Arcade is easily the best online gaming system out there today or ever and has become the world’s arcade.

My Top 10 game system list
Here is how rank my top 10 game system of all time list and I didn’t include handhelds in the list (tthat should be a separate list):

10. Nintendo Wii - maybe the Wii is new but the fact that it’s a) fun for the whole family to play and b) over six months after launch and still difficult to find in stores says the Wii is destined for great things. Gametrailers gave Legend of Zelda the game of year 2006 in another video.
9. NEO-GEO (SNK) - yeah, the games were expensive as hell, but they were the ones you found in the arcade. If you like fighting games you’d be in heaven with the NEO-GEO.
8. Atari 2600 - outstanding games like Pitfall from Activision make this system immortal
7. Nintendo 64
6. Sega Genesis - go Sonic, go!
5. Sony Playstation
4. Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) - without this system it’s possible many of the other systems in this list might never have come
3. Super NES - probably logged more hours playing the SNES than any other system to date. My wife even plays the SNES and still likes to play
2. Sony Playstation 2 - I could live with the PS2 being #1 of all time on other folk’s list, so simmer down Sony fanboys. If only Sony had done a better job with online gameplay, they would be my #1. I had hight hopes for games like Everquest Online Adventures but that MMORPG didn’t do a good job making the crossover from PC to console.
1. Xbox 360 - love or hate the parent company (and the many hardware problems) but this was the first company to fulfill my childhood dream of being able to play arcade-quality games with and/or against people all over the world without leaving my living room. The PS3 and Wii still haven’t quite figured out what makes Xbox Live shine and I long for the day when they do.

Agree/disagree? What are your top 10 console game systems of all time?

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