This was my favourite generation of consoles, the choice between the 3 consoles was so diverse, had I been older and had money I'd have bought all 3 at launch without any hesitation.

The mid 90s really were the most innovative and exciting years to be a gamer.

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Saturn - died before it's time but was arguably the best of the bunch and I think it could've easily outshone the PSOne graphically had it been pushed to it's full potential before it's death.

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i stand by resident evil 1 being the best on the saturn, its harder, has super hunters and imo looks nicer.

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I had all three.

1 - Saturn - Sega were in their pomp in the arcades and couldn't be touched. The Saturn received most these arcade games. On top of this you had the cream of Capcom's 2d fighting games, some legendary Treasure games, and lots of other stuff the public just ignored. Definitely the connoisseurs choice.

2 - PS had an amazing catalogue of games, Namco's finest, Wipeout series, Konami's best etc, etc, etc. All round it was probably better than the Saturn, but the Saturn had more games I loved.

3 - After the initial wow of Mario 64, the N64's poor 3rd party support became apparent. The N64 didn't have ANY decent fighting games, or conventional racing games. However, it was worth owning one just to play 4 player Goldeneye and Mario Kart. Zelda, for me was probably the last great game I played on the N64. People cite Perfect Dark, but I found that to be completely unplayable.

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I traded in the Saturn for a N64.

My favourite games for the Saturn: Virtua Cop and Guardian Heroes.

I was quite sad when it goes, but the N64 is a piece of amazing machine too.

Super Mario 64, GoldenEye 007, Banjo K, Donkey Kong 64, Mario Kart 64, OOT, Majoria's Mask, Perfect Dark, Super Smash Bros, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, Mario Party 1-3, ISS64.

It was the multiplayer console of choice during my college years.

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Was never really interested in PlayStation at the beginning, that Christmas 1996 line-up though

Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
WipEout 2097
Tekken 2
Formula 1
Crash Bandicoot

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Owned them all.

Saturn = quality
PS = quantity
N64 = multiplayer

Had to have them all really... though only certain standout titles on each.

It really was the first generation where owning all systems became valid for me.

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TO own them all in the previous generation could possibly have included the NeoGeo, which was (and probably still is!) ridiculously priced - £200 per ROM!

Toughest to choose. On one hand the Playstation gave so many good JRPGs it was ridiculous, and this is before you count Tomb Raider, Resi, WipEout, MGS etc. On the other hand the N64 gave Perfect Dark, Paper Mario and so many 10/10 games.

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3DO, Atari Jaguar and Amiga CD-32 say hello

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Those three games were multi-platform and also released on the Saturn.
Saturn.

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too true, and isn't Panzer Dragoon the third the biggest mutherfucker of JRPG's of that time?

Hydyle is the only other RPG i can think for the saturn, i won it, its gooseberry fool, it should never be played.

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Tomb raider was a 6 month exclusive on the saturn too

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Six weeks. October 06 on Saturn, November on PlayStation.

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It seemed longer at the time

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I remember the ads which had a wire frame tick figure running along and gradually over the course of the ad both Lara and the 'tomb' were fleshed out and textured and stuff. Good times.

Most people didn't even know Tomb Raider existed until it turned up on PlayStation.

This YT account has put the various PlayStation/Saturn ports side-by-side:

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i always thought the guy at the very beginning of tomb raider, the guy who dies by wolves, looked like Peter Andre.

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N64 was the first home console I bought due to being pretty much a PC-only gamer prior to that. Bafflingly the game that made me want to buy it was Pokemon Stadium What a pile of gooseberry fool that was. Still, so many other games made it so worthwhile - the likes of Mario 64, Ocarina of Time etc. blew me away and as much as anything offered something wildly different to what I could get on PC. Most of my school friends owned N64's too so I got to experience a lot of games by borrowing through them.

It remains one of my favourite systems of all time and still gets pulled out from time to time to play Goldeneye/Mario Kart 64, which despite both being horrendously slow now are still great fun in 4-player in my opinion.

Playstation was great but I never owned one, although I played FF7/8/MGS on my PC and they're all amongst my favourite games, not to mention I later went out and picked up some of the back-catalogue when I owned a PS2/3. Was a wonderful machine and there's a lot of games I missed out on due to not owning one.

Think I'm going to have to go for the N64 purely because I owned one and its exclusives were superb whereas many of the PS1's best games I managed to play superior versions of on my PC.