Best dorm room console?

[harper]

Get N or get out.

This.

[Luke]

For gaming, for parties, to attract some bouncy bouncy?

If you're not worried about theft in a dorm setting, you're still not smart enough to be in college.

Never lived in a dorm, so I don't feel qualified to give advice. But if Luke was going to college today, he'd bring a PS2. Cheap. Easily replaceable. Plays DVDs. Also has a library of a zillion games including party games girls love.

But again, bring whatever console you think is best for you. College was when my new gaming ended (lack of money) and I really learned to appreciate older games (which probably is the ps2 era for you).

My advice from my heart would be to bring a handheld for the first few years. Even college gamers hate college recluse gamers. Take advantage of all the events our college has and put gaming on the back burner (unless you are studying a career in gaming). Not to be crass, but don't miss the parties, the pussy, bar crawls, serious drug use, brushes with the law, frantic calls to your parents explaining why you used the emergency credit card at 3am in the morning at a place called "The Cellar", and most of all meeting people and learning.

Sorry to "go parent" on you, but college life > video games, by like a thousand times over (usually). In short, bring a console or handheld that you shouldn't be surprised if someone borrowed it, who lent it to someone else, who let someone else borrow it

And always wear flip flops to the shared bathroom.

[cookie monster]

I say go game cube games are small and easy to store and if it breaks your out 5-10 buck for another one. Also works well as a door stop /weapon.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I say go game cube games are small and easy to store and if it breaks your out 5-10 buck for another one. Also works well as a door stop /weapon.

It has a neat handle too!

[scarper]

At a first year at college, you really don't want to distract yourself too much or have things people want to steal, especially if you don't know what kind of roomate you might end up with. Having a TV also means people will want to come to your room for entertainment. This can be good and bad. Honestly I wouldn't take much when you first head off. See how things go, both people and schedule wise, then maybe take more later.

I'm also entering my first year in college. The only things I'll be using for video games are my laptop (emulators/Steam), my hacked PSP, and a 3DS. Keeping things portable, since I do not need a TV distracting me from college-like collegeyness.

But my roommate says that he is bringing a tv. And he is begging me to bring my N64/Everdrive Cart. Against my better judgement, I'll be bringing it, even though I will rarely use it. On the brighter side, I get to be that one kid who has a hacked Nintendo 64. My age group has quite a lot of nostalgia for that console.

EDIT: By the way Goose, your package showed up the other day.

[fastbilly1]

A portable, a pc, and possibly a softmodded Wii. No matter what people say about it, the Wii will let you play Mario Kart 64 easily, and has several good Bomberman titles on it.

[irixith]

If you're not worried about theft in a dorm setting, you're still not smart enough to be in college.

Never lived in a dorm, so I don't feel qualified to give advice.

I lived in a dorm from 1999-2001.

I brought my super amazing PC (Pentium III, whoooo!), and I was the only person in the whole building with a super speedy 4x CD burner. I brought my SNES, N64, Genesis, NES, all my backup units, as many controllers I could muster and a bangin' sound system.

We always left our doors unlocked, and I'd come back to my room from class to find people playing N64 quite frequently. Nothing bonds people together like classic games -- we used to put the speakers in the window and blast video games to the outside world.

I spent the vast majority of my time holding down de_dust in Counter-Strike, and every so often there were exams and stuff.

Now I miss school.

(I was not rich, I simply funnelled the money I had earned heavily into my video game/computer hobby. Totally worth it. :p)

[Gooseberrysoda]

Right; so from what I'm hearing, if I'm going to bring a console, it should be something classic (seeing how the PS3 already has the extra features I'm looking for) with multiplayer options.

I'm tempted to bring the gamecube, the Gen/32X, or the N64. Maybe I'll just keep one under my bed.

Any one of those is good enough to attract potential mates :0 (or friends)
And NMU has pretty low theft rates in its halls, from what I understand. That's not a huge concern.

[sevin0seven]

We always left our doors unlocked, and I'd come back to my room from class to find people playing N64 quite frequently. Nothing bonds people together like classic games..

..and that is why the N64 is called the fun machine.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Personally, I'd go modded to SHIT OXbox and extra controllers. DVD player, access to multiple generations of games, etc. I'm not old enough for college, but I'm personally avoiding dorms at all costs. I hope to get into one of the closer colleges so I can say I live at home and grab an apartment or something.

On the modded stuff, I've seen some pretty awesome stuff on the OXbox. I once remember seeing Counter Strike on it, but I don't remember how...