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Title: Favourite video game console menu
Post by: LauriJ on September 11, 2015, 01:31:32 PM
Mine's the one for Gamecube even though I didn't own that console back then. What about you?
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Post by: Weegee on September 11, 2015, 03:20:25 PM
Anything before Wii.
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Post by: BP on September 11, 2015, 06:47:42 PM
SNES
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Post by: LauriJ on September 12, 2015, 04:14:39 AM
SNES

SNES didn't have a 'proper' menu if I remember right...
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Post by: BriGuy92 on September 12, 2015, 11:18:03 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/utzTCyo.png)
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Post by: CrossEyed7 on September 12, 2015, 09:55:18 PM
Unless you count The Story of the Town Whose Name Has Been Stolen (http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg90-satellaview.htm), which looks like a pretty cool system menu from the handful of videos and screenshots you can find of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYR4FqRk760
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Post by: The Chef on September 13, 2015, 09:52:49 AM
Unless BP had a Satellaview as a kid, I don't think he would. :P

Wait... are add-ons considered separate systems?
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Post by: Themetaknight on September 22, 2015, 06:06:37 AM
I would have to say the Wii.
*takes out popcorn*
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Post by: TheMightyThor on September 22, 2015, 09:59:58 PM
Last gen's consoles really dropped the ball on this. The Wii was pretty good at this, mainly cause you could use a Classic Controller (Or Guitar Hero guitar!) to just maneuver through it with a control stick. The PS3's, though, is kind of obtuse. The Xbox 360's isn't as obtuse, but it's still a little difficult to find some options I think.

The 3DS probably has my favorite menu. All those themes, being able to make silly little folders...
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Post by: BP on September 23, 2015, 02:41:54 AM
Real answer: PC, since everything in it actually has a reason to be there. I fully customized mine's desktop with large, semitransparent, easy-to-identify icons of programs I use often with no names underneath, a little box in the corner that displays connected storage drives with capacity meters and speeds of data going in or out in bits per second, and 243 pokémon backgrounds I got for free, even though I don't have any pokémon games for PC. In the middle of a game I can hit alt+tab to minimize the game and do any of loads of things, and every active game or program shows up as a little tab at the bottom of the screen, as well as a clock that displays the date. The bottom of the screen also has permanent tabs for a program I can use to make a screenshot of any area of my screen and instantly upload it to the Internet.

All of my PC games are in a list in a program I can navigate with a controller or mouse. The store is in the same program, but if I feel like I can probably get a better deal, I can tell that store to suck it, and open a different store in this almost magical do-it-all program represented by a fox burning the earth. I can make folders, folders within folders, and arrange them and files visually or in a list, have them auto-arrange by countless criteria I will never care about, and so much more WOW
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Post by: WarpRattler on September 23, 2015, 04:46:21 AM
Yeah, my answer is definitely PC, with my phone coming in second. Funny how much better the system UI is on devices where you're going to see the system UI 90% of the time!
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Post by: Sqrt2 on October 10, 2015, 02:32:06 PM
The Wii U's one.
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Post by: CrossEyed7 on October 10, 2015, 11:34:33 PM
The 3DS one is my favorite now because there's a Genesis theme that says Sega every time you open a game.
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Post by: Toad on October 18, 2015, 10:20:01 PM
The 3DS one is my favorite, if only for the customizable menu. I've settled on the classic blue scheme for now, since I can't decide which other ones to get at the moment (and also because the SMB3 Hammer Bros theme is tied to.. a Goomba..)
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Post by: Tavros on October 21, 2015, 05:02:46 PM
To be honest, the PS2. It was good to have everything I'd need to use in one little browser thing, even if you couldn't use the control stick.