Dreamcast

[Rez09]

I've owned a few Dreamcasts, actually. The system has a lot of great fighting titles on it, Tech Romancer and The Last Blade II in particular standing out to me, and controllers were suuuuuper cheap once the PS2 hit and everyone abandoned the DC. It was great.

Unfortunately, the controller is also pretty terrible for fighting games, which was, maybe, not so great. T_T

It's also notable that the console didn't require modification to play burned games, something that really hurt it once people picked apart how to make selfbooting copies. This was, however, particularly nice if one wanted to play Japanese games that never were released here, like Street Fighter II X and that awesome Darkstalkers game. You lost out on the netplay, of course, but that wasn't such a big loss considering the dial-up modem packaged with the console.