SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 With all this talk of game consoles what are your favourite game consoles. it can go back to as far as you want, and just because its got 50 core, bio cell, nuclear power CPU doesn't make it the best. Give reasons why you think that the console is in that place. Here are my thoughts. 1. Sega Mega Drive. Brought arcade quality gaming to the masses, and the best selling console of the 90s and had thousands of games. 2. Nintendo Entertainment System. Really introduced the idea of that every home could have a games console, also the first time I encountered a Joypad not a JoyStick 3. Nintendo Game Boy. Who knew so much fun could be had with a little hand held machine with 4 shades of grey screen. Yes the Game Gear was more powerful and colour screen, but Nintendo made it affordable an compact and sold about 40million units. 4. Atari 2600 I think most of us have played Pong on one of these. The first console to have changeable game cartridges. 5. PS2 I think its performance is highly over rated, but I must admit it did bring consoles up a notch after being stagnant for too long. 6. Xbox 360. Brought consoles in to the High Definition age, a year old and apparently programmers have not got to its full potential. 7. Xbox Responsible for bringing online gaming to the console world. Why did it take so long? 8. Snes The other major console of the early 90s. Its 6 button controller and it really tried to get 3D in to the home console, with its built in texture scaling (used in Mario Kart) and FX (3D) chip (Used in Star Fox) 9. Nintendo Wii Nintendo again, breaks the mould new controllers and user interaction. Again creating games which other platform alternatives can not touch. 10. N64 Often overlooked as it still had cartridge when most moved to CD. The strangest looking controller ever made but probably one of the easiest to use. Again, Nintendo created MUST HAVE games which was only available for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlFo Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Good list that and I definately agree with all of the choices but not necesarily the order. I would say the snes should be a lot higher simply because it had a perfect streetfighter 2 and super mario world and kart as well as other amazing games. I always preferred the snes to the mega drive. The mega drive was great as it had so many of those games from the arcades, but many of those games were actually not that great. The PS2 also maybe should be higher as it gave sega and nintendo a kick up the arse as the first proper next gen console. And Tekken was pretty amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigDaveZX Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The Atari Lynx was far and away the best of the early handheld units! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bantambunny Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 I think you've got it pretty spot on there matey :D I have to say though the N64 was only really worth having for Mario 64 (still an awesome game) and Goldeneye (Still the best drunk post pub game to play with your kebab) :bow: :bow: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest deve8uk Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Its not a console. but to head my list would be a PC. It is and always will be the daddy of gaming for thoes who are serious about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Very tricky this.. think it would be easier to have a top ten list of games... I would say.. 1. Snes: Super Mario World, Mario Kart, F-zero, Super Ghouls & Ghosts etc. 2. N64: three of the greatest games of all time: Zelda Ocarina of time, Mario 64 & Goldeneye. 3. Sega Saturn: Nights, Street Fighter Aplha 2 (the best one IMO), Panzar Dragoon, Gaurdian Heroes. (If anyone knows of an emulator, PLEASE let me know, been looking for years) 4. Megadrive: Sonic, thunderforce, hellfire, etc. 5. Nintendo DS: Advance Wars DS, Metroid, brain training. 6. Xbox: Halo, Halo 2 and XBMC (yeah i know that's not a game). 7. Gameboy: Tetris! 8. Gamecube: Zelda Wind waker, Metroid, Super Mario Sunshine etc. 9. PC Engine: Metal Slug, Gradius, R-Type etc. 10. Sega Master System: The one that started it all off for me! Amazing to think how far games have progressed in the last 15 years or so... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Its not a console. but to head my list would be a PC. It is and always will be the daddy of gaming for thoes who are serious about it. Yeah but PC is not a console. And its only been in the past 10 year or so that the PC has been a good gaming machine. I had a PC for over 20 years and the games in the early years where poor even compaired to the C64 games, and couldn't even come close to Atari ST and Commodore Amiga games. AlFo, look at what is above the PS2 it. There are some MAJOR contributions to the world of console gaming, including the God Father of gaming consoles (Atari), the best selling console EVER (game gear), the first mass production home console (NES) and the first sucessfull 16bit console (MD) I can understand if the MD is else where on other lists. I could only put the PS2 1 place up at the most. Good, classic, but not as important as its forerunners. BigDaveZX, I agree, the Lynx was was amazing, better than anything out there and has only been bettered by the PSP (IMO), but for some reason it didnt take off, so didnt influence the gaming world that much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indian_zx Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 any body remember commodore 64? msx spectrum amstrad? and games like ikari warriors and outrun and street fighter? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Very tricky this.. think it would be easier to have a top ten list of games... I would say.. 1. Snes: Super Mario World, Mario Kart, F-zero, Super Ghouls & Ghosts etc. 2. N64: three of the greatest games of all time: Zelda Ocarina of time, Mario 64 & Goldeneye. 3. Sega Saturn: Nights, Street Fighter Aplha 2 (the best one IMO), Panzar Dragoon, Gaurdian Heroes. (If anyone knows of an emulator, PLEASE let me know, been looking for years) 4. Megadrive: Sonic, thunderforce, hellfire, etc. 5. Nintendo DS: Advance Wars DS, Metroid, brain training. 6. Xbox: Halo, Halo 2 and XBMC (yeah i know that's not a game). 7. Gameboy: Tetris! 8. Gamecube: Zelda Wind waker, Metroid, Super Mario Sunshine etc. 9. PC Engine: Metal Slug, Gradius, R-Type etc. 10. Sega Master System: The one that started it all off for me! Amazing to think how far games have progressed in the last 15 years or so... Good list. THe Saturn was another machine which was better than the competitors but didnt take off for some reason, along with the Jaguar64 and NeoGeo. http://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/saturn/ Emulators are at the bottom. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uno Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 any body remember commodore 64? msx spectrum amstrad? and games like ikari warriors and outrun and street fighter? christ i remember having a binatone and my cousin's had an intellivision.....then Atari came along and runied it all ;) not been into gaming since i discovered girls @1986 :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 any body remember commodore 64? msx spectrum amstrad? and games like ikari warriors and outrun and street fighter? I use VICE commodore emulator. It has network play which allows another player over the net to join. Me and my sister spend many hours playing games like Summer Games I and II, California Games, Boulder Dash, Pitstop II, Bozo, Blue Max, Ghostbusters........ I could go on forever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Cheers for the Saturn emulator link! Now i just need one for the xbox (as in a Saturn emulator for the Xbox) a lot easier to play then... snx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 Cheers for the Saturn emulator link! Now i just need one for the xbox (as in a Saturn emulator for the Xbox) a lot easier to play then... snx There are hacks for the Xbox, which basically means you can just run PC programs on it. It needs to be chipped and have some microsoft development tool installed on it. I am sure after that PC stuff is just runable. It will stop you going on XBox live though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bird Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 i think i still have my commodpr 64 and million 2.99 games for it :tongue: Quote Membership No 0780 INSURANCE GOOFA Datascan, Conzult, ECUTalk and a few others I have all the rare bits you can't find :tongue::tongue: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveMac Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 Atari 2600, plenty of simple but addictive games. Now fetching good money on e-bay. An interesting read here:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRRAE Posted November 21, 2006 Author Share Posted November 21, 2006 i think i still have my commodpr 64 and million 2.99 games for it :tongue: I love this video, just shows how far games have come and (even though we deny it) how bad some C64 games where. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indian_zx Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 california games was great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebrew Posted November 21, 2006 Share Posted November 21, 2006 The Mega Drive for me as its the only console I have ever owned. I used to be a C64 and Amiga man for years though. Now though its got to be the PC for the highest quality gaming experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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