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What gaming system did you look most forward to?

Wii hype was insane. It definitely didn't deliver though, lol.

Gamecube hype was almost as high, and it met if not surpassed the hype in the end.
 
Dreamcast and also recently psvr although not sure that qualifies as a system.

Always got consoles day one and these 2 pieces of kit had me more excited than anything

Was about 20 when dreamcast released and 39 with psvr and both times I was like a kid at Christmas lol
 
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The SEGA Saturn was a BIG deal for me.

I had grown up on the NES and the SNES, and the grass always seemed greener on the SEGA side. Add to that the weekends that I started spending at the roller skating rink around '95 playing Virtua Fighter 2 (arcade) and it was a done fucking deal. I absolutely loved the Saturn, it was a huge part of my childhood, and even though I got the Dreamcast at launch a few years later it didn't even come close to me.
 
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The SEGA Saturn was a BIG deal for me.

I had grown up on the NES and the SNES, and the grass always seemed greener on the SEGA side. Add to that the weekends that I started spending at the roller skating rink around '95 playing Virtua Fighter 2 (arcade) and it was a done fucking deal. I absolutely loved the Saturn, it was a huge part of my childhood, and even though I got the Dreamcast at launch a few years later it didn't even come close to me.
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Same for me. The possibilty of Having vf2 and sega rally at home was mind blowing. The 90s man.....
 
Probably the PS2. Was in my first apartment, it was the first time purchasing a system on launch day and I was really excited for Gran Turismo 3.
 
Game boy color. Saw people playing Pokemon Yellow in school so I begged for one. That's the only game I played.

When I started working, I got hyped for the PS4. Turns out it was wiser waiting until there's more exclusive PS games...
 
PS3. After the PS2, with all the new stuff, backwards compatibility, blu-ray, other OS, media capabilities, it was shaping up to be my perfect system.

It took a while to get rolling with the inferior 3rd party game performance and small library for the first few years, but it ended up easily my 3rd favorite system of all time, just behind SNES and PS2.
 
GameCube

It was the first console where I actually had internet access beforehand and therefore had access to videos/trailers for its upcoming games. When the N64 came out, I didn't know about it until I saw it in person at retail stores. But I knew about the GameCube long before it launched, and I was hyped as FUCK. Smash Bros Melee looked mind-blowing. Every game for the console looked like a huge step up from the N64. It felt like the future was nearly here.
 
Gamecube.

I was still quite young so I was a lot more excitable, I was a huge Nintendo fan, and one of the release titles was going to have my absolute favourite video game character in the position of the main protagonist for the first time ever as far as I knew. I later learnt about Mario is Missing, of course, but that's just an edutainment game, so I'm sure I'd been just as hyped about Luigi's Mansion, even if I had known about it back then.
 
Tough.

I can't say the NES, as that was a surprise back in 1990 for Christmas. The Gameboy was also a surprise the following year. I'd be going for the Gamecube as the system i most looked forward to. Also, was my first console i bought with my own money instead of getting from my parents, so that makes it more special.

First launch-day console was the PS4.
 
After living the golden years with NES and then straight heaven with SNES, the N64 was my most sought after console by a wide-margin. I'm pretty sure everyone pulled the 'N64 Kid" that year.
 
Possibly the Nintendo 3DS. I saw more potential in the 3D effect than most people did at the time. In fact I saw more potential in the 3D than the Wii U Gamepad. While there were some cool uses of it, it wathe big selling point Nintendo had hoped for. Fortunately, VR seems to be a more developed version of the concept.
 
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Playstation. I watched this baby grow for over a year in the pages of EDGE while my excitement grew towards the western release and pre-ordered day one from a Sony centre.

PS2 was exciting too (and I got one day one, which wasn't easy), but the mad, pre-internet build-up for the OG PS was most exciting.
 
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I remember being 7-8 years old and talking with my older brother about how crazy the N64 was, that it was this futuristic "64 bit" compared to the SNES, and we're in 3D now. It blew me the hell away as a kid and I remember playing Super Mario 64 in K-Mart obsessively.

Nothing's come close since then. I played SM64 nonstop when our dad finally got us the system. Good times, good times.
 
I guess it was the N64. All because of Super Mario 64. I did up a little homemade advent calendar whereby every day when I got out of bed I went over and ripped off a page. Best of times.
 
Maybe not a console. But the Amiga 500.. I loved my commodore 64, but seeing how bad the arcade versions looked on the C64, man that was painfull. Double Dragon was my most wanted game, and damn it sucked..
But then I read about the Amiga 500, a home computer with almost arcade like graphics, the prospect alone blew my mind back then.. I was so hyped for this gaming powerhouse. And when I finally got my own, it lived up to all my dreams and more. It was an amazing machine.. Moonstone, secret of monkey Island, the Indiana Jones games, I could go on.. and then living in a time where every body just bought empty floppy discs and copied the games from friends, it was the best of times and the worst of times.

But yes the Amiga 500 was the machine that hyped me the most ever.
 
Easily the PS2, I was a huge sony fanboy during the PS1 days (my high school years) and was beyond hyped for it with all the info I would glaze over from PSM and OPM. Funnily enough, I didn't get it day one since there were about 9 units for the 40 or some people waiting in line to get one lol.
 
I would have to say the PS2. Not being allowed a console and spending my younger years playing age of empires and on my gameboy, receiving this as Christmas present aged 10 years old was the best thing ever.
 
PS4 since it was the first time I was old enough to actually understand all the hype for it, and since I could actually buy it myself.
 
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