Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
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Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse….. those SNES games just hit hard.
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
I can't believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I'm such an idiot.
There's a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there's always emulation
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/dreamcast/flycast.html
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend...
Didn't know they were that versatile. I never had one but I'm into retro gaming so I've played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha
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Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear... on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.
I grew up in the SNES vs Genesis war and I only knew one person with a Genesis and even they thought the SNES was better.
Genesis owner in the 90s here. Yes. My dad did not know video games. I said I like Mario. I wanted to play RPGs and Super Mario.
My dad went to the store, asked what I assume is some 19 year old Sega fanboy which console was the best, and got told to buy the Genesis.
On a positive note, the Genesis Sonic games were pretty cool, and so was Jurassic Park. So, it's not like Genesis sucked. It's just......MARIO!!!!! I WANT MARIO!!!!
Eventually I got an SNES, but by then it was 1996. I immediately got Mario Paint, Super Mario Allstars + Super Mario World (in one cart), Legend Of Zelda Link to the Past, and Mario Kart.
Eventually I'd get Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG, Batman Forever, and some Star Wars game.
Flea markets in the 90s were the best.
But... but... Sega does what Nintendon't!
To which my response was "Well... Nintendo doesn't suck." They clearly didn't test that slogan amongst children. 😌
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For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
Oh good. I'm now too old to be nostalgic.
But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?
Sega Mega Drive for me. We had knock off NES consoles in my country with 100 in 1 cartridges but we just called those "TV games". Nintendo never bothered with any non first world country back then, so pirates picked up the slack. I don't think I even knew of the 'Nintendo' brand when I was a little kid until I started using the internet and collecting magazines.
But Sega wasn't quite as stiff upper lip and exclusive as Nintendo and had no problem with lowering themselves and selling their goods to us plebs in the 3rd world. So Sega was the premium brand here and "TV games" were just cheap shit in comparison in my eyes.
We had a knock off NES when I was a little kid (called a Pegasus) but my first actual legit name brand console was the Sega Mega Drive.
Wish I still had it. When I was about 13, I went through a really dumb phase for about 1 month total where I decided I was too grown up for this stuff and I sold my Mega Drive and comics for enough money to buy one CD, probably of a band that I don't even listen to anymore. Regret it to this day.
Brazil wasn't much different in regards to being ignored by Nintendo and Sega picking up the slack and money, first with their Master System then with the Mega Drive.
The thing with the infinite amounts of famiclones was that the original Famicom was fully made of off-the-shelf parts, that is, if you know how to solder stuff, you can make one by yourself if you buy the components. When Nintendo started considering the Brazilian market, they realized they were too late: our local famiclones were better machines, with some of them having slots for both western and Japanese cartridges.
Dreamcast was the best.
I kid, I kid... actually I am obsessed with konsole
Konsole sounds like the name KDE would use for a home gaming device, or their terminal emulator :3
Honestly got to hand it to my PS4. I've had it since the early days of dating my wife, and she gifted it to me when I was a broke uni student. It's still serving Armored Core VI, indie games, and movie nights to this day. I've pulled it open several times over the years to dust it out and it's got an external fan add-on to help with cooling. I won't know what to do with myself when it gives out someday.
Base PS4 or Pro? If the former, a Pro could be a pretty good upgrade. Also not super expensive compared to the base model.
A PS5 is, of course, also nice if your budget allows it. Been happy with mine since its release. Feels like a real step-up compared to the entire PS4 line, even if you're only interested in PS4 games.
Also, check the firmware of your PS4 in case you haven't updated it recently. You could potentially jailbreak it and unlock heaps more potential. Emulation and stuff, for example.
It's a base model. I'm going to keep using it as long as I can as-is, I don't really have the spare mental bandwidth to tinker (nor the budget to rectify any mistakes), but it's cool that they can be jailbroken.
Whenever I'm finally done with it, it'll probably be time for a Steam Deck (probably some time after the release of the SD2, knowing me).
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PC engine, even though I never even saw one in person lol.
To me, that'll be the Amiga 500 computer then. I don't think it ever existed in Brazilian soil, but damn, talk about the best consumer hardware you could get in the mid-late 80s. Like many good things, (mis)management fucked it up. Ars Technica has a series of articles that explain its history very well
Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.
I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these
Does the Offspring come to mind when thinking of the Dreamcast? I can't get it out of my head now.
Crazy Taxi had them on the soundtrack and it was a Dreamcast game... 🤔
Yep and a damn fine game at that! Atleast that I can remember.
It's one of the few racing type games I will spend money on at an arcade if I see the machine even though I own a Dreamcast and a copy of the game at home.
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I'm obsessed with the OG xbox and 360, oh how the mighty have fallen.
The 360 was so good
Yeah if you never got the red ring of death it was the best console.
Its DRM was more flexible than we have ever or will ever see on a console again.
- The licensing worked similar to xbox one but you could transfer all licenses at once instead of just when you downloaded a game.
- You could install any disc or digital game to internal or external drives and could transfer it between any pc/console. The discs then functioned as physical licenses to play disc-based games.
The avatar system was the gaming metaverse we all wanted and it got abandoned before it could reach its full potential.
- Avatar awards as skins you could show off in multiple games!? Amazing.
- indie devs could take advantage of the avatar system to enhance their games
The library was the peak that xbox ever had to offer. Uniqueness and passion still showed through in AAA games of this era, and 360 had the majority of quality AAA games. PS3 still managed, but nostalgia for the 360 days is what is still keeping the xbox brand alive today.
The online multiplayer in games of this era still celebrated and enabled community/random encounters with voice chat. This doesnt happen in modern games, nobody is in the game chat anymore. I am not a fan of paid multiplayer so i dont pay anymore, but back in the day, it was worth it for the shenanigans and connections we made.
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My first console was an Atari 2600. Well that was my family’s first.
My own fist was the original NES. Saved up my paper route money to buy it.
My first was the 5200 and my favorite game was Joust. Killing the pterodactyl was the highlight too.
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ps2?
I guess mine's a PC from the 90s or 00s
Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn't really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later
It was not my first (this would have been the Atari 2600), but the console that still has a very special place in my heart is the Atari Jaguar
Intellivision 👾
PolyStation. I'm from center Europe, so Famiclones were a big thing in the 90s.
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nes galaga at my dads house <3
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