Older systems (Dreamcast and before)

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which do you like and why? DETAILS please!

Ah, NES... you have a special place in my heart. <3

Aha, a thread right up my alley.

Well, I liked the NES & SNES, but primarily because they were my only options at the time. It wasn't until the fifth gen that I got to choose for myself, and that's when I really started to think about games, so that's where I'll focus.

PSX - I loved this system for the RPGs. It had some great games elsewhere (Spyro, Medievil, the RE series), but most of my memories are of FFVII-IX, Chrono Cross, FFT, Suikoden... but towering above all of them is MGS. That game blew my freakin' mind when it came out. I still get misty when I hear the theme. Other than that? The CD format was the new thing. It allowed stuff never seen before in video games. The problem there was that I had to take a memory card to my friends' places along with the game. The thing I didn't like about it? All the game's stories seemed seriously cracked out. It was like the commissioned a bunch of lunatics to write them. Including my beloved MGS.

N64 - This was my favorite fifth gen. Why'd I like it so much? Well, the obvious answer is Ocarina of Time. For me though, while I LOVED OOT... Rareware. Oh, MAN, Rareware. They were on an absolute roll here. DK64, Conker, Perfect Dark, Goldeneye, Blast Corps? Has a single development house had such a perfect run ever since? Beyond that, there was an incredible variety of games, excepting JRPGs, of course, and Paper Mario was better than most. This was THE multiplayer console of it's day, and the cartridge format made it pretty portable. On top of that, there was the controller. I know it gets a lot of flak, but I loved that thing, and it gave us the analog stick, the rumble pack, and trigger buttons for the first time in gaming history. The N64 was awesomesauce.

Dreamcast - As much as I loved my N64, there has been no system I loved more than my DC. I pretty much worship that thing. The damn thing was pure innovation! From the VMU, to Online play, to the peripherals, even to the controller, which was (I am firmly convinced) streamlined and slightly downsized into the original XBOX controller. On top of that, the pure insanity of the games... I still wonder how some of the were pitched. Shenmue, Seaman, Space Channel 5, Phantasy Star Online (STILL my favorite online RPG), Chu Chu Rocket, Crazy Taxi, Virtua Cop, Samba de Amigo, Grandia II, Bangai-O, Jet Grind Radio, Power Stone, Soul Calibur, Skies of freakin' Arcadia? On top of that, you could play Japanese and PAL releases with an easily burned boot disc, and that opened up huge, huge numbers of even more crazy releases. Most of these games invented their own genre, many of which have vanished. You got the most unbelievably awesome selection of fighting games ever to grace a console, some of the best JRPGs ever, Shenmue, excellent platformers, and the best graphics we had ever seen at the time? Oh yeah. I am not ashamed to admit I cried when Sega pulled the plug. Cowards. Oh, and releases STILL trickle in from time to time.

NES- my first real console ( though I did play a friend's Atari 2600 and my grandparents' Colecovision ), and it introduced Super Mario Bros, Zelda, Metroid, StarTropics and Kid icarus

SNES- RPGs, man. EarthBound, Final Fantasy VI ( originally localized as III ), Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, Robo Trek, Secret Of Mana, Secret Of Evermore.... Also, Super Metroid, Zelda: A Link To The Past ( my personal favorite Zelda game ), Kirby Super Star, DKC, mega Man X.... The SNES was classic after classic!

N64- Super Smash Bros, Mario Kart 64, Goldeneye, Star Fox 64, Ocarina Of Time, Majora's Mask, Mario 64, Harvest Moon 64, Jet Force Gemini, Perfect Dark....need I go on?

Dreamcast- the definitive version of Crazy Taxi got me to get one....to this day I only have that & JGR...

PS1- FF7, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Tales of Destiny & Eternia, Suikoden 1 & 2, the last 2 GOOD breath of Fire games...the only system to rival SNES in the classic RPG department

Game Boy & GBC- Pokemon. 'Nuff said.

and I still own working SNES, N64 & Dreamcast

All right to start when I was young (I'd say about 9 in 2001) I did play on the Master System, about 5 on the Genesis, 6 on the N64, 10 GBA, and I did play the Dream Cast at a friends house(not sure what year that was).
I never did own an SNES/NES, but I believe that I did play on both systems at my old baby sitters house(1995 about 3 years old).

I spent a bunch of time playing Dave Mirra's BMX, Crazy Taxi, and NCAA football on Dreamcast. I believe at the time Dreamcast was being sold in most game stores, the Dreamcast had the best graphics of all consoles out. Dreamcast was truly an amazing console for it's time, it had great graphics and they were ahead of the line in what games could do. I might be wrong but wasn't DC the first console to have online access and the first console to ever have an MMORPG title, that game being Phantasy Star Online? It's sad it didn't become a massively popular system. I remember only a year after it's release, I saw it in liquidation stores for $30-$50, all working just fine. If you wanted you could resell them for $100 though.

PS1/PSX. Such a huge range and number of games, lots of it was garbage, but there was plenty of good stuff. Plus it was mechanically reliable and had easy region bypassing. Small wonder the competition took a beating.