I'd have to go with the wood grain Atari 2600, I'm a sucker for 70's designed electronics.
Hol'up.
Atari's only had 4, not 6, switches on them?
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Mega Drive 1 and 2, they both looked awesome
The headphone port on the Model 1 was so ahead of its time. Although I was stuck without an extension chord for my Koss Porta Pros (so couldn't actually use it), it was my first taste of relatively high quality sound.
PlayStation is one of my favourites but it also comes down to that shade of grey being my absolute favourite shade of grey. And the OG pre-dualshock/analog potentially being my favourite shape of controller too. I have a modded Bluetooth one but sadly there's not too many modern games (outside of fighters) that don't need both the dpad and analog.
I also love the Gameboy color's shape. As an adult it's great for one handed gaming for rpgs.
Damn, wood. Or wood-looking material at least.
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.
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.