If you could have the hardware and full library of one system, which system would you pick?

3DO because Way of the Warrior.

I haven't played anything but the SNES, PS2, PSP, PC, GameBoy (Emulator) and NeoGeo (Emulator)... So I have only one option.. which is the NeoGeo.. But I would rather play it using an emulator.. so I pick nothing =x

I think N-Gage is the closest to a modern device here :P

Nokia N-gage, because I still own an N95 8GB anyway. :P

edit: holy hell, jatan beat me to it. :S

LaserActive!

Pretty sure it's the only LaserDisc game console released, and pretty sure it's not emulated anywhere.
Was insanely expensive when new. Over $900 for the LaserActive, and $600 for each of the Pacs xD

1: LaserDisc
2: Sega Pac (play any Sega Genesis/MegaDrive and Sega CD/MegaCD games) + Sega Mega LD
3: Nec Pac (play any Turbografx 16/PC Engine (card + cd) games) + NEC LD2

The Sega and Nec pacs don't count as emulation because they house the required circuitry inside. There were also some Sega Mega LD games and Nec LD2 games only for LaserActive that required the Pacs!

Playdia

MAME system is allowed or not? ;D

Way back in MCMLXXX (yes, I'm old) I spent many long hours typing in pokes and peeks on my Commodore VIC-20 with its whopping 3.5 kB usable (total 5 kB) RAM, 22 column display, an Atari 2600 joystick, and a Datasette recorder (which was sooooo slow) to save and load software from - many times copying long lines of code and commands from the pages of Compute! magazine. Eventually I was able to cough up the bucks for a 300 baud acoustic modem from Radio Shack, a 16kB memory expansion cartridge, and a 1540 disc drive which constantly gave me errors and got very hot to the touch but was much faster than the Datasette drive when it worked properly. It was the first computer that I learned to program on and many of the things I learned while using it are still valid today. My main reason for wanting this system back is because I never got around to finishing Lode Runner and Robotron: 2084 and there were still a few programs (mostly games) that I got from Compute! magazine that never worked even after spending several hours copying and proofreading. I would spend months waiting for them to issue corrections, then re-enter the new info and pray - usually without a positive result. Sometimes the same program would have corrections in several different issues for months on end and a few never did work! I know damned good and well that I could figure out how to get some of those programs running correctly today! I have more patience now too so I think Loderunner wouldn't stand a chance compared to back then when I was around only about a dozen years young. It was also an awesome unit to compose music on as back then Commodore was using one of the best and most versatile sound chips available - so good they also used the same one in the Commodore 64 and later an upgraded version in the Amiga.

Of course the day came where those 8-bit graphics became too boring, typing in all of those commands caused too much grief, my best friend got an Intellivision, I got a TurboGrafx-16, then a IBM PCjr, but that's another story for another time...

Maybe Atari 2600?

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NeoGeo because of KoF series and others

I can't think of a single other console that I've played other than from the companies you listed so... I don't know.

Atari Jaguar. Because it has a stupid telephone on it so I could order a real good console and a good pc with all the games which we are unable to pick in this thread.

I'm gonna have to go with nothing then.

I played and emulated a lot of systems, but they were all from Sony, Sega, Nintendo or Microsoft. Excluding that i have an android phone

Alternatively i could take the most expensive one and sell it, but that feels wrong in this particular instance. Maybe if i have to choose one i'd go with Pong, for the lolz

If you could have the hardware and full library?
I actually still have a functioning c64 and an amiga 600, including lots of games.
When I'm sick I like to start one up and play games like: ultima 4,skate or die, decathlon (carefully so my old joystick won't break) lemmings, cannon fodder, dune, ufo series, giant sisters, summer games and so much more to choose from.......

Runs of to get c64 and start up the last ninja ;)

TurboGrafx 16 because I'm curious about it and have never played one. Probably not the best reason, but I'll go with it and take a gamble on it being good.

Fuck your rules. Super Nintendo.

TurboGrafx 16 there's some stuff like Ys and Castlevania: Rondo of Blood. And because Johnny Turbo is the most radical superhero ever.

I had some Sega russian knock-off with yellow cassettes. Gonna choose that

That weird fruit catching and car racing gaming device thingy that European airline distributed to me.

Probably NeoGeo. Atari is the only other ancient system I've tried. I love NeoGeo though. Quarters and arcades were so ray.

I'm going to go with the Phantom (assuming there was ever a working prototype and some games in development). I remember hearing about this thing so many times and there being SO much hype, but for some reason almost no solid information about what it was supposed to be. Even back then I was eager and ready for a direct download gaming platform without physical media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_(game_system)#The_Phantom_console

"discontinued consoles" --> Dreamcast

Neo-Geo or Dreamcast.