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I'd have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I'm a sucker for 70's designed electronics.
I like the woodgrain look, but I don't think the Atari 2600 is a very good example of it. Lots of audio equipment from the time does it better. Especially when combined with brushed aluminum or stainless steel.
Purple GameCubes are retro now, so I'll go with that as my favorite.
Technically neither a console nor a PC (in the IBM-compatible sense), but the Commodore PET has a certain kind of 70s futurism about it.
Note the integrated tape deck for all your storage needs.
The keyboard pictured, while interesting looking, is a complete POS. Later PETs had a more usable keyboard with a better layout.
Edit: I don't think that red button at the bottom right is stock. It's almost certainly a hardware reset button, which on the Commodore machines is typically done by shorting a couple pins on a user expansion port.
Console: Sega Dreamcast
PC: Any IBM beige box from the 90s
The Atari Portfolio (the one John Connors uses in Terminator 2) or the ST Book.
One more vote with OP. That Atari is a nice looking machine.
It just looks so sleek. For me, it was the future of gaming.
while not necessarily the prettiest console by any means but i always thought the Og xbox home menu went way harder than it needed to, now that's presentation!
They said retro, the Xbox can't be retro, its only been around for- oh. Oh no.
Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
The Mega Drive is the best looking retro console, I mean look at it
This one looks a little naked. Needs more "High Definition Graphics" or whatever it says
Best looking and best name.
Original sony playstation. I don't know why, i just love it
I think I preferred the design of the ps2, personally.
I love that one too
Vectrex, hands-down.
I'm a fan of how ENIAC really used the space
If we're also talking old computers then it's hard to beat the Cray-1
Also had the advantage of fooling your house guests into thinking it's a weird, modernist couch that makes conversation really hard.
The 2600 depicted in the article thumbnail, was absolutely a beauty in its native environment of the late 1970's:
I would choose the Super Famicom. It just looks so sleek. I don't know why they changed it with the SNES, it looks ugly.