Keep, give away, delete from history - gaming marry/shag/kill. - The Bear and Badger

Blue Swirl

Inspired by a random geezer off them Twitters, I thought this could be fun.

Which system would you keep, which would you give to a friend, and which would you delete from history?

Dreamcast
Super Nintendo
ColecoVision

Personally, I'd keep the Dreamcast (natch), give the SNES to a friend (who lives nearby), and delete the Coleco. Nothing against the latter, but I have no experience of it, so I have no feelings towards the machine.

Diluted Dante

Same.

Paul the sparky

Keep the SNES

One of you lot can have the Dreamcast

I've not even heard of a ColecoVision so deleting it from history will cause me not harm whatsoever

FranticPea

Kill Sparky, shag Dante and marry Swirl.

Vela

Sticking to systems Ive owned personally only:

Keep Switch for Zelda and streets of rage 4.
Give away a Neo Geo Pocket Colour because it's guaranteed to be something they won't have played but is still amazing quality
Delete 360. The reliability issues and having to deal with returns for customers with uncooperative Microsoft policies with launch hw were unforgivable.

RedDave2

Keep dreamcast
Give away she's
Delete the Coleco

I feel this would work better with 3 strong choices. The Coleco feels an easy delete.

Blue Swirl

FranticPea wrote:

...marry Swirl.

Especially if you agree with..

Vela wrote:

Give away a Neo Geo Pocket Colour because it's guaranteed to be something they won't have played but is still amazing quality

Syph79

I’d keep the Switch, because it’s an everything machine. Give away the PS5 (so I could pop round and use it), and delete the Game Gear, which I never really clicked with.

Moot_Geeza

Keep the ColecoVision obviously. Next question.

Moot_Geeza

I just can't imagine living in a world without my Apple Bandai Pippin.

ZMM

Keep N64. Some of the greatest games of all time. I have great memories of 4 player smash bros with friends. But also Perfect Dark, MK64, Goldeneye, etc.

Give away PS5, to a friend who can sell it. It's too big and looks shit, especially the disc drive version, was a clear afterthought. No games, hardware being so hard to get has wrecked it. Scalpers have ruined everyone's fun, needs to be addressed in future console releases. Controller has features that a lot of devs already don't take advantage of. The fan noise is really loud compared to series S/X. Also mine makes a weird mechanical rattling noise which is not fan-related but something to do with internal components.

Delete Gamecube. I feel like Nintendo tried to make their version of a PS2 rather than do their own thing, lots of really average games like Mario Sunshine which was average/borderline garbage, and Waverace Blue Storm or whatever it was called. I feel like the console could have easily finished Nintendo but the DS saved them. After the N64 it was a real disappointment.

RamSteelwood

I'd keep a million quid, shag Kelly Brook, and get rid of the Tory government.

or if we're paying attention to the OP then I'd keep SNES, give away dreamcast and delete colecovision

hylian_elf

Keep: XBox 360. Quite possibly the best console ever.
Give: SNES. To a friend who never tasted the delights.
Delete: erm... Virtual Boy? It was pretty much pointless, right?

mk64

delete the 3DO

b0r1s

Keep: PC, cos you can play everything anyway (pretty much)
Give: Switch (it would be gathering dust, but it's in a case)
Delete: PS3 (of all the consoles I've owned it had to be the worst)

davyK

This is an impossible task.

The PS2 is possibly the greatest workhorse ever. Something for everyone. That would likely be my keeper (this week). Ask me next week and it would be the 360 - the PS2's successor.

Give. Saturn. But only to someone I really like and would visit regularly.

Bin. Those Megadrive addon monstrosities. They played a major part on Sega's downfall. Fuck them.

Dark Soldier

Keep 360, give away PS3, kill the fucking Wii

Paul the sparky

FranticPea wrote:

Kill Sparky, shag Dante and marry Swirl.

Wat

Vela

Dark Soldier wrote:

Keep 360, give away PS3, kill the fucking Wii

I changed my answer.

Give DS a ouya

RamSteelwood

you all (with a few exceptions) deserve to be binned for ignoring the specific consoles Swirl wanted to play the game with.

Vela

Oh it's only those 3?

Vela

In that case keep the SNES, delete the Dreamcast and give the Colecovision to someone annoying.

LivDiv

Delete all of them.

hylian_elf

Keep Coleco
Give SNES
Delete Dreamcast

Am I doing it right?

Moot_Geeza

RamSteelwood

well it's closer than playing shag/marry/kill and just picking any three you want!

Blue Swirl

hylian_elf wrote:

Am I doing it right?

Yup.

Though we seem to have two games going on. The first uses the choices in the OP, while lots of other people seem to be picking their own machines for each category. Which is fun, too.

Also, I need a best man, and Sparky needs to go into hiding.

LivDiv

Game 1: Delete all of them

Game 2: Delete all of them except the Gamecube, delete all games except Warioware.

Blue Swirl

Keep give delete, Nintendo flop edition:

N64DD
Wii U
Virtual Boy

Keep the Wii U, because it had a few genuinely excellent titles. Give the N64DD because, while a flop, it was at least an interesting idea. Delete the Virtual Boy. Rushed to market and made to a price point, it probably never should have seen the light of day. And I'm still not convinced I want a console jammed on my face/strapped to my head anyway.

RamSteelwood

Keep Virtual Boy, cos i never played it and it would be an interesting curiosity
give the Wii U cos it would prob be fun for someone
delete the N64DD as i never had any need of it (I'm also assuming deleting this doesn't delete the actual N64)

davyK

I'd find it very hard to ditch any console I own I have to be honest - even though most of them don't get much play time any more. The games sit on the shelves of shame, mocking me, much like some big fat unread books I have sitting on the bookshelf.

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