Which Generation had the best games?

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

In the poll above, pick your favorite generation of Video games.

EDIT: There are alot of people asking which Console was which Gen, so here you go:

Gen 1: Magnavox Odyssey and early Pong consoles.

Gen 2: Atari 2600 and Atari 5200

Gen 3: Nintendo Entertainment System, Sega Mark III/Master System, Atari 7800

Gen 4: Super Nintendo, TurboGrafx-16, Sega Genesis

Gen 5: Playstation, Nintendo 64, Sega Saturn

Gen 6: Dreamcast, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Xbox

Gen 7: Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3

[CyberCubed]

Whatever the Super Nintendo/Sega Genesis generation was.

Honorable mention to the PS2/GameCube/Xbox gen.

[Peanut]

I hate how we've suddenly started numbering generations. It's stupid. Stop doing it.

[Michelangelo]

Would you please make it clear what consoles/systems are included in each generation?
How far are we going back here, to the very first games ever made many decades ago?

[LeonardosBane]

Dreamcast

/thread

[chrisdude]

Which generation does the Game Boy fall in? That one.

[Whatswiththeheadbands?]

Updated the first post.

[Aaronardo]

Originally Posted by Peanut

I hate how we've suddenly started numbering generations. It's stupid. Stop doing it.

Dude, that's how it's ALWAYS been done.

Anyway, fourth generation for me. The SNES and Genesis were simply fanomanal! Honorable Mention goes to seventh generation with the Wii for games such as Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Kirby's Epic Yarn, Epic Mickey, LOZ: Skyward Soward, and much more. That's probably Nintendo's best recent generation.

[joefsas]

5th for me. Although was close to going with 6th. So many awsome memorys of playing the playstation and then the xbox years later.

[pannoni1]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

Which generation does the Game Boy fall in? That one.

Technically the fourth generation since it was released after the Genesis/Mega Drive, and basically remained unchanged until 1998 with Game Boy Color. Most of its games were released until 1995 when Game Boy Pocket came out. And it competed with Game Gear (also 4th generation) during its heyday along with the Atari Lynx. And I feel that the fourth generation is my favorite; the ESRB began late in this generation, you had Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, Donkey Kong Country series, Super Metroid, experimental 3D with Star Fox, Super R-Type, Wing Commander, Turtles In Time, Super Mario Kart, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, classic Kirby games, the Sonic series, Doom, great Disney games (though they had some good ones for the most part during the 3rd gen), sports games made lots of advancements with EA Sports' rise, and so much more. It also witnessed the birth of classic gaming when the earliest systems (Pong consoles, Atari 2600, Colecovision, and Intellivison) began their nostalgia. Now that the classic "20 year nostalgia" rule has come to fruition in this generation, I'm enjoying the pleasures of the simpler time gaming was, yet understanding how far it came from the first three generations at the time. Platforming was still popular, not quite as ubiquitous as it was in the third generation but there was more diversity in terms of genres. It was also the last generation in which cartridges were the primary format (save for Sega CD).

[Prowler]

16-bit and DC/PS2/Xbox/GCN era.

[RaphAndDonnie]

Tough choice between the 5th, 6th and 7th gens for me. I grew up with the Nintendo 64, Playstation 2, Gamecube and Xbox 360. In the end though, I have to pick the 6th gen.

[shuriken]

by best do you mean best gameplay, most fun, best mix of both, graphics?
My fave is the Genesis era. PS3 and Nintendo era come a close second.

[CyberCubed]

The SNES/Genesis and PS2/Gamecube/Xbox generation were by far the best generations for games, and had a huge amount of classics. Add in handhelds like GBA and it was even better.

The N64/PS1 gen has obviously aged the worst of any gen due to it being the first 3D games, but the very best games (Mario 64, Ocarina, Banjo Kazooie, MGS1, etc) still hold up.

[billbot85]

I guess for me it would have to be the 4th Gen according to this poll, SNES had some of the best games out at the time (Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country 1 and 2, Star Fox, LoZ: LttP, Turtles in Time, too many to name. Back then it was all out war between the Genesis and SNES, and we got a lot of great games as a result of it.

Still have my SNES and games, one of the best systems I've ever owned.

[Nameless]

had to go with 5th gen and 4th being the close second.

5th allowed many games to break out of the 2d world and really shine. mario kart and zelda being 2 big ones. also it really took the entire platform games genre to the next level.

[Redeemer]

Damn it is hard to pick.
I loved the Original Nintendo games such as Mario and beat-um ups such as TMNT.
But The xbox 360 hosted my favorite game series of all-time.(Look at my title)
Gameboy brought Pokemon and I beat those games over and over again and again. My mom didn't complain about the time I spent, but the cost of batteries we quickly went to re-chargeables.
Its just so damn tough to chose.

[Mzx10484]

SNES Street Fighter II Turbo was such a great game, as well as TMNT Tournament Fighters. So I vote for that "generation" ... probably it is my generation and the games I grew up with !

[Longview01]

16 or 32 bit era's ftw

But the 8 bit era will always hold a special place in my heart