Your Favorite Console Generation?

[Sage Truthbearer]

8-bit era
NES, Sega Master System, Atari 7800, etc.

16-bit era
SNES, Sega Genesis, TurboGrafx-16, etc.

32/64-bit era
N64, PS1, Sega Saturn, etc.

128-bit era
GameCube, PS2, Xbox, Dreamcast, etc.

Network era
Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, etc.

Current era
WiiU, PS4, Xbox One, etc.

[Baler]

PC master race

[Lojik]

3do

[chadtwoke]

George W. Bush did 9/11.

[Swish]

8bit / 16bit for pure playability

[Cecily]

PS2 will always be my favorite. Great graphics and a giant library of quality games.

[Izmael]

8bit / 16bit for pure playability

[AzzarTheGod]

SNES and current era are best era. The N64 was so revolutionary its hard not to have the feels for it but I choose SNES in hindsight

Also - Bush did 9/11

grew up on SNES as well same as u pal

N64 def was an event in life. the buzz was so huge and the games were revolutionary as u said. id probably choose to relive that time over any other system.

PS2 is def in the mix...but by that time im guessing we were both "grown up" a bit and you cant really hit those nostalgia feels if you are past that quasi teen santa clause age.

[AzzarTheGod]

never gave a rats fuck about SEGA but I liked to see people play sonic hedgehog thats about it. nobody in my neighborhood gave a fuck about SEGA. you were considered a poor black person if you bought a SEGA.

[AzzarTheGod]

Where is the Neo Geo system and the 3DO system u disrespectful fathead.

3DO at the time was publishing some of the best games and some games for 3DO had very mature themes as a selling point. Like GTA before GTA, with more sexual allegory on the box cover and themes inside the game. Still frames of real babes. Snow job.

[Jimjam]

I really like the games on the SNES (note tense :P).

Coupled with the wide online play, 'non-traditional-gaming' friendliness of the system and back catalogue of 'classic' games I have to pick the Wii / Network era.

I feel the other eras were more incremental changes than really innovative. But I don't know what I'm talking about, just my perspective ;).

[katrik]

SNES.. cuz I'm old.

[Ahldagor]

never gave a rats fuck about SEGA but I liked to see people play sonic hedgehog thats about it. nobody in my neighborhood gave a fuck about SEGA. you were considered a poor black person if you bought a SEGA.

You should research the SEGA Channel. You might be surprised at the precurser to contemporary digital cable user interface.

32/64 bit era. N64 then PS2, but PC master race.

[Barkingturtle]

NES is the only console I've played in the past five years, probably. Got them old Zeldas, Final Fantasy, Dragon Warrior, weird ass Super Mario 2, Maniac Mansion, Castlevanias, Metroid, Ninja fucking Gaidens, Contra, Boys with their Blobs, etc etc. Like comfort food but for the fingers. New consoles, with all their modern technology, glitz and polish, sound and fury, just make my eyes go crossed. I'm almost forty years old.

[Naethyn]

SNES

[Kaeru]

SNES and N64... God whatever happened to nintendo.

[Lifebar]

PC master race. Also SNES.

[dafier]

Always wanted a Neo Geo but they were a small fortune to buy in England, on import :(

Amiga ... not sure if that was a thing in the US or not.

NeoGeo was $600 for JUST the console and 1 controller (at one point of time) and the games carts were $200 a pop. No...my family wasn't rich and the only person I knew that owned one was a 30 year old dude that ran a rental store. I was able to play it a few times. It was fun.

Amiga, omg Amiga. Best computer ever made during it's time. I owned a 500 (with an addon CPU 68020 14Mhz with FPU and the back up 68000 sat on top of that. That little board also had max memory installed 4MBs), 1000, 2000, 1500 and 3000.

I used to run Trinity BBS on 2 floppys, then upgraded to CNET when I got a 40MB HDD. I assisted with passing messages through FIDOnet. The gaming was awesome. Shadow of the Beast, It came from the Desert, Lemmings and the list goes on.

Back to topic:

8bit, 16bit and 32bit

Sonic CD, Doom on PS1 (friend and I would set up 2 TVs, 2 PS1s and multiplayer Doom) and the rest is all the RPG greats from 8bit and 16 bit days. I still have FF7 and Castlevania Symphony of the Night cases + Discs

[Izmael]

Amiga, omg Amiga. Best computer ever made during it's time. I owned a 500 (with an addon CPU 68020 14Mhz with FPU and the back up 68000 sat on top of that. That little board also had max memory installed 4MBs), 1000, 2000, 1500 and 3000.

I used to run Trinity BBS on 2 floppys, then upgraded to CNET when I got a 40MB HDD. I assisted with passing messages through FIDOnet. The gaming was awesome. Shadow of the Beast, It came from the Desert, Lemmings and the list goes on.


Amiga was a great comp. Atari ST was better, of course, but Amiga was all the way up there as a real close runner-up. Although I must say Altered Beast simply looked pimp on Amiga. On Atari it looked washed down and not sexy at all (that was before they found a way to display 4096 colors on the screen instead of the regular 16).

BBS, Fidonet... I haven't seen these words in many years. Fellow sysop here - ran a BBS on a 286 then on a 386 for quite a few years. Fidonet and Sparknet node, UUCP relay, and God knows how many group *HQ's. Good times indeed.

[AzzarTheGod]

3do

This is why you read the thread closely first.

I wouldn't have went jeckyl n hyde if I had seen this as reply #2

I'll buy this guy whatever he wants for this post.

[AzzarTheGod]

Its quite startling




whew * wipes sweat form forehead* definitely some eerie timestamps there spyder im just as concerned as you are.

u said the right stuff about SEGA. yeah I get SEGA channel was big innovation but really N64 smashed on the paradigm of what a game could be that SEGA channel didn't come back into relevance as far as contribution until years later when other systems capitalized on the concept.