favorite console color variants

Karasu

My first NGPC was that colour too but it broke, and I got a replacement in crystal white just as it was being heavily discounted in the States.

I hate to admit it, but I’ve never owned a vanilla NGP, although I may have to get one so I can try the Yosaku remake! That’s hilarious that the video gets it wrong about the cassette vision version being first!

I was about to post about how my skeleton Saturn is the best colour but then I remembered that the first Japanese run version is strangely compelling!

exodus

My favorite saturn color, despite the “this is cool” nature of the smoke/skeleton one, is the round button V-saturn. the colors are tops!

While searching for a good picture of the above saturn (surprisingly difficult), I came upon this atrocity:

robinhoodie

From my personal collection

cera

i love the pop tart 3DS!!!

also, i’m usually a fan of any clear/transparent console variants but the Wonderswan has some really nice colors that also have nice accent colors as well. i love this creamsicle looking one.

kory

cera this is so slick

I love translucent electronics and orange is my favorite color, so this is basically perfect! A few years ago I bought a brand new Japanese Chu Chu Rocket Dreamcast controller of eBay as an objet d’art, complete with a stand from rose colored gaming

◉◉maru

Mine sadly died a few months ago (unless you can direct me to an easy DIY repair solution for the laser drive) but I love the slim PS2 redesign and I love even more the flashy bright bubblegum pink slim PS2.

Regarding the Saturn, my favorite one is the Navi. I understand does not really count as just a « color » variation, but those brownish grey and mauveish grey undertones would be my favorite color tone combination even if the design was just a regular Saturn. It feels like playing games on a S-class Mercedes Benz from the Nineties. Hitachi released my favorite controller tones as well.

(Sorry for the poor image quality.)

exodus

◉◉maru someone can fix that PS2 for sure! don’t get rid of it!

billy

◉◉maru It’s super easy to run PS2 games from USB or ethernet these days, no modchip required, with one of them there FMCB memory cards. You can even make them yourself with almost no effort with the new DVD exploit (although I now realise you can’t do that if your laser is busted).

As for favourite console colour variant:

robinhoodie

That is an amazing looking PS2

Official_Danimalz

I’ve always LOVED the Famicom SP, and the box is PEAK gamboy-era nintendo

vf10a

Not great pictures but this one looks nice in real life

hellomrkearns

vf10a only Gran Turismo could get a console variant for a demo disc!

The Atari Lynx Marlboro Console is pretty cool

So many nice Game Gear colours

White

Coca-Cola

Gold & Diamonds

The Samsung Super 32X! Hot-pink text on black plastic is pretty sweet.

and of course, the Durstcast

Blrb

The spice orange gc is obs the best gamecube.

All the different dev unit colours are nice too.

tombo

gotta go with this one

somebody made a very pretty Switch version

esper

tombo i actually like the slightly less frosted switch version of this a little more, but gosh darn if that gameboy doesn’t conjure memories of playing Pokemon Blue with the little curly-cue Nyko light plugged in the side.

wickedcestus

tombo that Switch is so beautiful! I used to own that Gameboy Colour as well! (I just had the idle wonder of whether they actually changed the spelling for the Canadian/UK release, but sadly it seems that they did not). I always wondered if there was a reason companies did not do the semi-transparency thing anymore, like maybe the insides of tech doesn’t look as cool anymore. Turns out, nope, it still looks cool! Guess it just went out of style.

antillese

I really liked that anniversary PS4:
I was able to grab one of the gray controllers when they were released and settled for it, because I didn’t need another console, that was more expensive than the one I already had! That thing had a large price premium attached to it!

donrumata

I have been very partial to the Char’s Zaku versions of the gamecube and wonderswan:

Blrb

Also thought of the zaku one, but I don’t like having the logo, and don’t like that the port bit is black. Reminded me that there was that stripey Henshin Tigers one though, which I also like apart from the logo.

Would consider collecting stripey consoles.

donrumata

Blrb
I thought you were confusing the Hanshin Tigers Neo Geo Pocket for a Hanshin Tigers Wonderswan but nope, turns out there’s a Hanshin Tigers Gamecube I didn’t know about. Although now that I think about it their NGP also looks pretty good.

exodus
That one has the added bonus of being a Swancrystal and actually having a usable screen, which is a big plus.

Also, on a semi-related note: turns out retromodding is making Neo Geo Pocket Color shells and buttons now. Pretty sweet considering mine’s been in terrible shape since I got it and they’ve gotten real expensive since.

exodus

I like the zaku wonderswan more than the gamecube!!

But I think my favorite wonderswan is the mama mitte light blue one: