ok, I figured, I don't wanna mess with the emulators online
Nintendo greatest System Ever Made = Thoughts.........
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ok, I figured, I don't wanna mess with the emulators online
Yeah I don't do that either, the VC has pretty much all the 1st party greats from Nintendo for NES-N64 and a lot of the 3rd party games as well.
do you think if i just wanted it for that the Wii would suffice? I wouldn't mind the Wii U for the HD part, but does it make a big difference or do you know?
No I like the Wii Us VC because you can play the games on the tablet as well, but performance wise they are the same. Just make sure you get an older wii system that can go online, and if theres any GC games you want to play the older wiis can play those as well. And if you do decide to get a Wii U later you can transfer all purchases over to your new system.
Same. Though I'll give the edge to the SNES simply because it had a much more diverse software library. And it had at least 50 games from any genre you care to name.
Blasphemy!!!
Maybe I'm part of an older crowd of gamers, but Mike Tyson in that era is #1 and something about Lil Mac was flawless, both of those things lost in the SNES version.
What Made SNES and GENESIS the best for me was I could finally have Arcade Games in my home with unlimited quarters and save progression, something the NES didn't have. If you wanted to beat an NES game you had to do it in one sitting or leave the system on and hope the power adapter didn't catch on fire when you got back, all at the same time hiding this from your parents.
Around that same time in the mid/late 80s Skating was very popular and there were some of the BEST skating game released at the time.
T&C Surf Designs and Skate Or Die
You know what i just thought of that's kinda crazy to think of? How many 5-10 year old kids of today will say the Wii or Wii U was the greatest gaming console they ever played 15-20 years from now? To me it's all about timing. There's really nothing like your first experience.
Its true my daughters 3 and shes having a ball playing Mario 3D World with me and shes getting Disney Infinity for Christmas.
I have to go with the DS, if we consider that it played the entire GBA library.
People often look back on the SNES era longingly and say "that's when gameplay was king", but the GBA & DS are like if the SNES just kept going adding new ideas and innovations.
People often look back on the SNES era longingly and say "that's when gameplay was king", but the GBA & DS are like if the SNES just kept going adding new ideas and innovations.
Great post, maybe I was younger with No Stress and just enjoyed life. Really playing NES up all night (on weekends) and whenever I could. The worlds created their brought me peace and happiness.
In College I played the first Xbox , it was My escape from the stress. Man that was really difficult thinking back now. I honestly liked the first Xbox a lot, maybe even a "Fanboy". What made it special was playing online for the first time with other gamers, that s*** was like Amazing......
Fast Forward to 10 years later (I'm 34) and finishing another degree in College and while I do agree that games have advanced and possibly better, they just don't give me the same feeling. Maybe it's being Grown up with Daily life, work school, family, kids, stress.... Don't know.
For the younger people on here (I'm still young, I feel young) in their teens or less I say enjoy these moments as they are special. When being the Head of the Family and still trying to reach Goals it's not that easy to just sit back and feel rewarded that you can Game and be happy. I feel like if I'm playing it's honestly wasting Time as I can be studying or working on something new.....
Sorry for the Rant, had to get that out
peace
Gamecube for me hands down ... Resident evil 4 was the first game back then that felt like Next-gen before the 360 and PS3. I loved the shape and the minidisks. What was that Metroid game on it called?! pff (nostalgia) pls close this thread haha brings back soooo much memories
Tell me this didn't give you a next-gen feel already
Tell me this didn't give you a next-gen feel already
Dude lots of NES games had codes and battery backups to save your progress, including Punchout. Still like Super Punchout better, an I'm from that "older" crowd of gamers too
Dude lots of NES games had codes and battery backups to save your progress, including Punchout. Still like Super Punchout better, an I'm from that "older" crowd of gamers too
From what I remember it didn't and Nintendo had two versions + NO WAY in the world Punchout for the SNES was better, when it didn't have Mike Tyson in it...... You're not from my era (I'm 34)
Also it must be someone from IGN who borrowed my thread topic as they now have something very similar on their website "Console Wars"
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/12/11/what-is-the-greatest-video-game-console-of-all-time
Why how could I forget my second favorite system of all time the "Sega Dreamcast"
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Dude it did have codes, it did also have two versions. The second was just Punchout, Nintendo dropped Tyson from the game after his fall from grace. I still like Super Punchout better.
BTW your from my era (I'm 35)
Dude it did have codes, it did also have two versions. The second was just Punchout, Nintendo dropped Tyson from the game after his fall from grace. I still like Super Punchout better.
BTW your from my era (I'm 35)
yes it had codes, but you said the battery for memory which I did not remember it having.
Some games did have a battery in the cartridge for saving Zelda, Zelda 2 among others, most had passwords though.
The FIRST Game to have batteries was Zelda, prior to that 99% of game you were rout of luck and many after didm;t get that feature. Also very few had codes and more games did not. That's not the point of this thread but do we have to actually pull up facts and see how many games had batteries vs codes vs nothing....
Super Mario Bros 1 you were s*** out of luck....... + Many many others
I remember clearly leaving my NES On for days.
I remember playing Jurassic Park on SNES with my dad but I don't remember if it had saves. I do remember when we were at the end of the game we had to leave the console on over night and I beat it in the morning before he left for work.
Yep that's it. My dad and I played through the game together and even created our own strategy guide as we played through it, including drawing out the maps for outdoors and indoor areas, location of pickups, eggs, etc. Still have it somewhere I think. Easily the most fun I've ever had gaming. After that my dad didn't play as much.
The Nintendo love fest was creeping me out
Gamecube.... but I did love Actraiser when I finally got to play it
I would say NES.
Even though I am a Master System "Warrior", that whole generation just was more inspiring. It seemed more experimental. The same goes for the home computer systems like the C64, ZX Spectrum and MSX. It felt more like a raw way of bringing you games, trying to push very limited technology to do what you would like. I mean, Elite for instance is a game that already pushes Polygons on a NES and a Procedurally Generated Universe. I have to go to Work now, I'll try to find some better evidence of why I feel that Generation, and the consoles of that generation are just beyond anything else.
Back from work:
In any matter the 8 bit generation required programmers to be far more creative with the limited hardware that they had. Of course there where a ton of bad games out there, but there still was a certain feeling of mystique behind the hardware and the creation of the software, even so there where many hobbyists programming for various Platforms. In fact if you see what was possible on a C64 in it's autumn years, you'd be nothing short but speechless.
Yet still even when there are so many people programming, the mystique behind it stayed and the cynicism was nothing more than a few school kids ragging on each other. Both would be just as happy having both consoles, but that would be nigh impossible. With each new generation, development got harder and gamers more acidic. They would call it "our media is growing up", when really it seems it is doing the opposite. It is also very hard to "WOW" a gamer these days, yet when you saw the improvement between Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros 3 it was almost a generational leap and people treated it as such. To be dumbstruck by the colours of Alex Kidd: In Miracle world as I was, is hard to imagine in these days. Especially when a game I really enjoy, Wonderful 101, is constantly being ragged on for being colourful and not sporting a 1080P resolution.
In general there was more feeling to the whole thing of gaming, it was a hobby not just for kids, as my Father played the games just as much as I did. Until he had a stroke, but than he could finally play some games again with Kinect, which was a good thing in my book. But I digress. People got angry if they lost a live, but they wouldn't run toward a forum about a nerf for the oponent's team (World of warcraft) or about a dungeon not being able to be done in 15 minutes.
Gamers took all of the fun out of MMO's and removed the RPG just so they could call it an "esport". When all it is, is a very addictive collection of 15 minute dungeons, where nobody talks and everybody just uses a tool to find each other. RTS games are measured in balance rather than fun, if it there is only a hint about a unit that might be slightly to powerful, you'll find a s*** ton of "gamers" climbing in their writing utensils to whine about it. None of these people will ever come close to being an Athlete in their hobby, but they took the asinine attitude with them.
Basically I feel the creativity and entertainment is sucked out of my hobby, the same way it was sucked out of Football (Both European and American), by a group of people trying far to hard and taking it far too serious. Where before a title as epic as "Elite" on the NES, C64 and ZX spectrum.. would blow people away.. even if it was filled with glitches. Now we would whine about the Glitches and find something wrong with it.
There is a certain atmosphere missing and replaced by some overzealous competitiveness that reaches far beyond the games itself. It goes into what platform you choose, what character you use, if you behave as expected.. where the only fun to be expected.. is winning. Not having fun playing, the creativity of designing a game is replaced with the mathematical formulae to design balance. A game like Double Dragon 2 or RC Racer would not be made any more in these days, as the price would be too high to make it entertaining, there would be balancing issues and nobody would buy it.
Publishers know this and don't dare to take any risk any more. So for the creativity of the level designs, al be it sometimes buggy, of so many games on C64, MSX, NES, SEGA Master system, PC Engine (as I consider it a part of that generation, as it has that same feel to it)... that is why I like that generation best. After that the 16 bit Generation... but the 32bit was the begining of the end for me. With a slight revival with the Dreamcast (which I got like 5 years after my Master system and was the first system I bought with my own money, man we where behind on things in my family and town).
Sorry for my rant. I hope I'm not too boring.
Even though I am a Master System "Warrior", that whole generation just was more inspiring. It seemed more experimental. The same goes for the home computer systems like the C64, ZX Spectrum and MSX. It felt more like a raw way of bringing you games, trying to push very limited technology to do what you would like. I mean, Elite for instance is a game that already pushes Polygons on a NES and a Procedurally Generated Universe. I have to go to Work now, I'll try to find some better evidence of why I feel that Generation, and the consoles of that generation are just beyond anything else.
Back from work:
In any matter the 8 bit generation required programmers to be far more creative with the limited hardware that they had. Of course there where a ton of bad games out there, but there still was a certain feeling of mystique behind the hardware and the creation of the software, even so there where many hobbyists programming for various Platforms. In fact if you see what was possible on a C64 in it's autumn years, you'd be nothing short but speechless.
Yet still even when there are so many people programming, the mystique behind it stayed and the cynicism was nothing more than a few school kids ragging on each other. Both would be just as happy having both consoles, but that would be nigh impossible. With each new generation, development got harder and gamers more acidic. They would call it "our media is growing up", when really it seems it is doing the opposite. It is also very hard to "WOW" a gamer these days, yet when you saw the improvement between Super Mario Bros. and Super Mario Bros 3 it was almost a generational leap and people treated it as such. To be dumbstruck by the colours of Alex Kidd: In Miracle world as I was, is hard to imagine in these days. Especially when a game I really enjoy, Wonderful 101, is constantly being ragged on for being colourful and not sporting a 1080P resolution.
In general there was more feeling to the whole thing of gaming, it was a hobby not just for kids, as my Father played the games just as much as I did. Until he had a stroke, but than he could finally play some games again with Kinect, which was a good thing in my book. But I digress. People got angry if they lost a live, but they wouldn't run toward a forum about a nerf for the oponent's team (World of warcraft) or about a dungeon not being able to be done in 15 minutes.
Gamers took all of the fun out of MMO's and removed the RPG just so they could call it an "esport". When all it is, is a very addictive collection of 15 minute dungeons, where nobody talks and everybody just uses a tool to find each other. RTS games are measured in balance rather than fun, if it there is only a hint about a unit that might be slightly to powerful, you'll find a s*** ton of "gamers" climbing in their writing utensils to whine about it. None of these people will ever come close to being an Athlete in their hobby, but they took the asinine attitude with them.
Basically I feel the creativity and entertainment is sucked out of my hobby, the same way it was sucked out of Football (Both European and American
), by a group of people trying far to hard and taking it far too serious. Where before a title as epic as "Elite" on the NES, C64 and ZX spectrum.. would blow people away.. even if it was filled with glitches. Now we would whine about the Glitches and find something wrong with it.There is a certain atmosphere missing and replaced by some overzealous competitiveness that reaches far beyond the games itself. It goes into what platform you choose, what character you use, if you behave as expected.. where the only fun to be expected.. is winning. Not having fun playing, the creativity of designing a game is replaced with the mathematical formulae to design balance. A game like Double Dragon 2 or RC Racer would not be made any more in these days, as the price would be too high to make it entertaining, there would be balancing issues and nobody would buy it.
Publishers know this and don't dare to take any risk any more. So for the creativity of the level designs, al be it sometimes buggy, of so many games on C64, MSX, NES, SEGA Master system, PC Engine (as I consider it a part of that generation, as it has that same feel to it)... that is why I like that generation best. After that the 16 bit Generation... but the 32bit was the begining of the end for me. With a slight revival with the Dreamcast (which I got like 5 years after my Master system and was the first system I bought with my own money, man we where behind on things in my family and town
).Sorry for my rant
. I hope I'm not too boring.
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you mentioned the use of poly's on these old machines and I instantly thought of Sapphire for the PC Engine. Drop dead graphics considering the hardware but alas beauty is only skin deep as the game is not that great.
my apologies for going off topic. As a young lad never had the Nintendo consoles of yore but did own a few C64's and still own a Amiga 500 with the kickstarter discs and old COBAL, Assembly books. Memories
my apologies for going off topic. As a young lad never had the Nintendo consoles of yore but did own a few C64's and still own a Amiga 500 with the kickstarter discs and old COBAL, Assembly books. Memories
