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If you could bring back ONE console maker back from the dead, who would it be?

A sexual reanimation ritual involving both SNK & Sega to create an affordable arcade-quality 2D & 3D powerhouse.

If it's only one, then SNK over Sega. SNK is boss. SNK is forever.
 
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Sinclair.The ZX spectrum was a console of epic proportions. Manic Miner, Hard Cheese and Kenny Dalgleish player/manager along with the loading screen that literally took 5 minutes to bring the game up so long as the cassette tape wasnt chewed up. Happy memories.

OT hello gaf first post, long time lurker here, decided to become more active.
 
DocSeuss said:
Sega came back to life as Microsoft, so they don't count.

Atari. We need more Western consoles.
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Microsoft only wishes they could produce the type of first party games Sega did.

I think I'll go with SNK

The neo-geo had flare man. Was an amazing system. As long as you didn't mind owning 2 games a year maybe lol
 
Sega. They always were doing insane things and I miss that wildcard element. Is anyone ever going to make something as ridiculous as Seaman again?
 
Besides the obvious?

Console: NEC. They were opposite of Nintendo - in a good way. First console capable of playing CDs (in the 1980s, no less, compare that to the N64 cartridge in 1996). A unified home console and portable (accomplished in 1990... Nintendo is still considering this possibility but is tentative). I think they were good for the industry.

Portable: Bandai. Wonderswan!

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I want a six-way clusterfuck where there are three company rivalries: Nintendo-Sega, Apple-Amazon, and Microsoft-Sony.

It'd be amazing times.
 
Will also blow the Sega trumpet, so to speak.

I'd prefer them with a partnership with a hardware company though. Alas, I think the Sega of today is a distant echo of the company I nostalgically think back on.

Are there really that many other options? Atari, nah. Amstrad, lol.
 
weekev said:
Sinclair.The ZX spectrum was a console of epic proportions. Manic Miner, Hard Cheese and Kenny Dalgleish player/manager along with the loading screen that literally took 5 minutes to bring the game up so long as the cassette tape wasnt chewed up. Happy memories.

OT hello gaf first post, long time lurker here, decided to become more active.
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Yeah I would like Clive Sinclair to get back in the game, there's not enough foam buttons this generation.
 
SEGA is the only answer here. MIss their sexy consoles, their first-party exclusives, their marketing. SEGA!!

But maybe I can call the Xbox brand the "new" Sega?
 
Outside of Sega...I guess Hudson and SNK as many mentioned already.
I can't say much about Atari since I never played any of their consoles, but Commodore is one I actually did always find sort of fascinating, so maybe them as well although technically their products were more akin to PCs than consoles.
 
None of them. I'd kill Sega all over again. They were terrible, and their last console, the Dreamcast, was the worst one. Ahead of its time, my backside. Not remotely. It had every problem the Gamecube was knocked for, but worse, and some of its own. Not enough buttons. Only one stick. Tiny disc capacity. Tiny memory card capacity. No component support. No DVD support. Ridiculous gimmicky nonsense (VM units).

Wow, it had a modem...2 years after I'd thrown my last one away.

The only really nice thing about the Dreamcast was its excellent graphics output - not just the power, but the image quality. Very slick.

The rest of the candidates are even worse, of course. How about we lose one instead?
 
Sega,without hesitation. They're presence is badly missed. If they had a console Phantasy Star Online 2, Valkyria Chronicles 3, Yakuza 5 would all actually have Western releases, and maybe there would be a new Sega GT, maybe a new Jet Set, maybe a new Crazy Taxi. They've got that similar quirky and nostalgic presence that Nintendo has but with a stronger action/arcade rep.

Edit: Other than Sega? Yeah I guess SNK, but that'd be pretty niche. They're much better off as a publisher.
 
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