The following is a slightly detailed list(in no particular order) of nine of my favorite video game systems.

9. Virtual Boy.

It was a big, clunky piece of shit that boasted "portable game-play" and "fully-rendered 3D graphics". As you can probably tell by the need for quotations, it delivered on none of those; but what it did deliver on was a damn good reason to make fun of a friend who had one. Honestly, that's way more satisfying.

8. Dreamcast.

SEGA's last hoorah in the console war contained some of the finest virtual entertainment of it's time—until six months later when the Playstation 2 came out. $300.00+ for a half-year's worth of fun? Thanks for the short-term memories, SEGA.

7. Playstation.

The original Playstation was a technological marvel like none other. It was pretty fucking sweet—until all of the Japanese developers took over and turned it into just another cog in the Japanese RPG machine. Final Fantasy 9 was just 8 Final Fantasies too many.

6. Nintendo 64.

Great controls, great graphics engine, and a 3D Mario game that doesn't involve water packs or freelance controller wands. Those were good times to be alive.

5. Atari.

The grandfather of all gaming systems. I will go on record as saying that it's a piece of shit now and it was a piece of shit back in 1982. The graphic sprites were unrecognizable outside of Pong. There was really nothing better for our parents to do than sit at home and play a watered-down version of Pac Man while listening to Nightranger mixtapes?

4. Game Boy.

The start of the portable gaming renaissance. Just one small problem: It was nearly impossible to see the fucking screen unless you were in the perfect light(which never happened). So many wasted extra-lives in Wario Land due to God-awful lighting.

3. X-Box 360.

The future in gaming potential. Flawless controls, online play, Halo 3. What more could you ask for? Besides free online play(ala PS3) and downloadable content that's somewhere in the price range of zilch. There's no reason why I should have to pay for a downloadable patch from X-Box Live to fix a problem with a game that should have been fixed before it was even shipped.

2. SEGA Genesis.

Sonic The Hedgehog, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, and Sonic & Knuckles. Period.

1. NES(Nintendo Entertainment System).

It was the most-perfect video game system ever created. Many a night has been wasted just sitting around in my room desperately trying to beat world 8-3 in Super Mario Bros. Always so close, yet so far. The only downside is that you had to keep blowing into the cartridge to get it to work; only for the game to crap out right when you were about to beat Ganon(in Legend of Zelda). Also, R.O.B. the Robot was pretty gay.