I still can't look at Wildebeests without quietly cursing .

Honest answer is a tie between NES/SNES. My childhood was split between the end of the NES and start of the SNES. To me they are inseparable.

I've seen worse.

Stop electing Republicans

Getting funders to pay for basic boring things that make the popular things possible is like trying to find a unicorn under a stack of leprechauns. It is a problem across the patronage based world