Topic: Video game generations: best to worst

BEST

1. (SNES/Genesis/TG16) - The best! Nothing else is even remotely in the vicinity of being close.
2. (Atari/ColecoVision/Intellivision) - This is when games were simple, but fun as hell.
3. (NES/Sega Master System) - The rebirth of gaming after the crash in 1984. Great times during my high school years.
4. (N64/Playstation/Saturn) - The rise of 3D polygon gaming and some fantastic games.
5. (PS3/360/Wii) - HD gaming hits and really some extremely solid consoles. Still going strong too.
6. (GameCube/PS2/Xbox) - Not my favorite, but still a good generation. Played it a bit too safe, I think.
7. (Odyssey/Pong) - Good times back in the day, but not something I got back to very often anymore.

WORST

Best
1. Atari and Colecovision will always be the best for me because that was the gateway to what i still like doing today.
2. NES because me and my friends use to have contests (which usualy lead to some of em actualy fighting out in the front yard afterwards, no less) playing Punchout, Contra, Pro Wrestling and plenty of others.
3.SuperNES and Gamboy/advance was decent i guess. Nothing really stands out though. Edit: Oops, i forgot to add the N64, Mario 64.Mario Kart 64, Zeldas OoT, and Majora Mask and Some of the wrestling games where great. I ended up giving the system away (along with 30 to 40 some games, no less) to my cousin during a spring cleaning session in 2006. lol Still miss some of those wrestling games.
4. Wii and DS (lite and i) and Xbox360 has some of the better games lately. Still love playing the original Mario Bros on the DS, love RDR, GTA 4, Gears of War 1 and 2 , Dirt 2, SSBB ,Smackdown vs Raw 2009 for the Wii and Super Mario Galaxy. Looking forward to getting several new Wii titles like SMG2, Metroid: Other M and the new Zelda when i get my blasted Wii fixed. For some reason, it won`t read the disks.

Worst
1. PS, XBox,Gamecube. Alot of non related drama took place during this time. Guess you could call it guilt by association. lol I did like LOZ Twilight Princess, Fable and Luigis Mansion along with a few others, though.

1) 4th
2) 7th
3) 3rd
4) 5th
5) 2nd
6) 6th
7) 1st

Best: Mega Drive/Super Nintendo.
Playstation 2/Xbox/Gamecube/Dreamcast.
This current one.
Playstation/Saturn/Ninetendo 64.
Master System/Nintendo Entertainment System.
WorstL The ones before those.

Best to Worst:
16-bit Gen- Even though companies threw out shovelware still, it was a time thriving with great games like Super Metroid, Yoshi's Island, and Sonic the Hedgehog, plus the insane popularity of Game Boy.

8-bit Gen- After the VG Crash of '83, Nintendo pulled out of the rubble and defined most of what games are today.

128-bit Gen- This was a generation of underrated gems. While more licensed games started to come out, all three consoles had genuine hits like Super Smash Bros. Melee, Jack and Daxter, and Halo.

This current Gen- While there are a few great games out there, the market is becoming obsessed in "Family Fun Games", so they throw garbage onto the Wii and DS, and people are stereotyping it just because of that.

64-bit Gen- Besides the great games like Super Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Final Fantasy 7, nothing else really stood out.

But during all these generations, we can agree on that the more popular the system was, the more shovelware was thrown on it.

Might as well specify my consoles and such:
1. (TurboGrafx-16, SNES, Genesis) Floods of ideas due to bigger graphical limitations. This was the generation that allowed adventure games, RPG's, and platformers take the real shape developers wanted.
2. (GCN, Xbox, PS2) The year that games were selling like hotcakes. Developers took advantage of the situation and brewed up some of the best games of all time.
3. (N64, PS1, Saturn) The time when 3D was blossoming. Developers would make use of the 3D and create games making full use of it, forming many of the classics that are still enjoyable today.

I switched up my choices a bit after some real thought. P:

I don't know much about the first 2 generations, so I'll leave them out.
16 bit > current > 32/64 bit > 8 bit > Cube/X-Box/PS2/Dreamcast

For me basically N64 > Wii = NES > GCN (I played SNES and Genesis a combined total of like 6 or so times)

Every gen had it's ups and downs, and every gen had a TON of games worth playing, and a TON of games worth burning and burying it in Mexico. I loved every generation.

However, if I had to choose I would say
1st is the PSWII60 gen. I know a lot of people seem to think the current gen is over all pretty bad, and that putting it #1 is moronic, but the technology allows for things beyond imagination, and MANY of the games are just amazing fun. You also get more bang for your buck. Nowadays you can play a game for YEARS and still not collect everything, wheras a lot of older games had just the story, and then you were done. Further more, this gen allows many newcomers to play the games of old, via the likes of Virtual Console or XBLA, basically combining all generations into just this one. Also, with online being very prominent now, you can play a game of, say, Castle Crashers with a friend on the other side of the world, meaning just because a friend moves away, doesn't mean game night has to stop.

Apart from that, my list is about the same as Fox.