I'm not saying eliminate gamepad support, obviously alot of people like it, I'm just saying keyboard/mouse as an alternative would be nice.
I don't understand your first point, in re4 wii they increased the number of enemies, not decreased.
Your points on re:4 headshot edition and old games not meriting the updating are valid, but like I said, I'm cool with a little nerf if its made controllable for me, and the lack of backward compatibility, eh, oh well.
As far as competive gaming, ban keyboard/mouse controls from tournies? But to be honest, I don't really care if some Halo pro complains that a old school pc fps shooter is headshotting them instantly and they can't turn around in time because of their controller, if tournaments encourage anything, its adapt or die.
When I was young I hated Sega. Although their brand of very arcadey games didn't appeal to me, I didn't have anything against them at first. What made me disliked Sega was the image they established for themselves. Their commercials were all about trashing the competition as opposed to singing the real praises of their own system. I knew Nintendo was awesome, so Sega looked stupid when they went on and on with "Genesis does what Nintendon't." It felt like they were so intimidated by Nintendo that they had no choice but to trash talk. My negative feelings about them only increased when they released bullshit like the Sega CD and 32X. What a joke! Screaming "SEGA!" in my face isn't going to make me like you Sega, having really good games and being classy about it is enough. Around the time Dreamcast rolled around I was starting to put the fanboyism behind me, but I already knew Sega was fucked.
When I was young I hated Sega. Although their brand of very arcadey games didn't appeal to me, I didn't have anything against them at first. What made me disliked Sega was the image they established for themselves. Their commercials were all about trashing the competition as opposed to singing the real praises of their own system. I knew Nintendo was awesome, so Sega looked stupid when they went on and on with "Genesis does what Nintendon't." It felt like they were so intimidated by Nintendo that they had no choice but to trash talk. My negative feelings about them only increased when they released bullshit like the Sega CD and 32X. What a joke! Screaming "SEGA!" in my face isn't going to make me like you Sega, having really good games and being classy about it is enough. Around the time Dreamcast rolled around I was starting to put the fanboyism behind me, but I already knew Sega was fucked.
I was about to post something with the exact sentiment.
I came around and picked up a dreamcast when the released the black sports bundle, but the end was in sight at that point.
Now between the sonic/genesis collections and the VC, I can play all the games I missed anyway.
Actually on topic, I received a gameboy a few months after launch and loved playing mario land 2 and 3, as well as the tmnt games. I was impressed by sonic the hedgehog 2 however, and received the genesis plus sonic 2 bundle for christmas, and the snes 2 years after that. I never really owned many games, only sonic 2/3/knuckles and toe jam and earl 1 and 2 for the genesis, and megamanx 1/2, super empire strikes back, mario kart, and secret of mana for the snes. I mostly rented my games, but sega ultimately won the war, and a permanent place in my heart with one peripheral more than a decade ahead of its time, sega channel.
I played so many classic on sega channel, theme park from bullfrog, sid meiers pirates gold, shinging force 1 and 2, gunstar heros, and lesser, but still great titles like ristar. I actually played the original megaman for the first time on my genesis in the japanese wily wars game not released in america, and I liked golden axe 3, the panther was boss!
I'm amused by the success of the virtual console on the wii, because I can't help but think, man, I did this shit years ago! As it stands, my vc list is pretty much a straight sega channel homage, gunstar heros, shining force, and beyond oasis.
The first console I owned myself (not my brothers) was an N64. I loved it. I was about 11 years old at the time. A friend of mine had a Playstation. I loved it also, for it had Metal Gear Solid and many other great games. I was sad that I could not afford a Playstation also. That's about it, I was never a 'fanboi' so I guess I'm pretty awesome.
The N64 was the start of my fanboyism I think. That was the first generation of consoles where I only had one console and also the console after I had started using the internet. I liked playing the Playstation at my friends' houses, but as the N64 library grew so completely divergent from the PSX and Saturn libraries I guess I went with what I had and grew less interested in the PSX.
However, I still wanted a Saturn because I'm a sucker for Daytona and Virtua Fighter. I loved both of them in the arcade and wanted to play them at home. Also, I never saw a Saturn in person (aside from one playing the launch version of Virtua Fighter in a store) until 1999.
That artwork's from Danger Girl, right? I seem to remember it from somewhere, but I can't quite place it now.
Anyhow, yeah, I desperately lusted after the Neo Geo when I was a young'in, but since it was so expensive I never saw an AES in person until just about a year ago. Hard to have a fanyboy interest in something you'd never even seen in person.
Anyhow, yeah, I desperately lusted after the Neo Geo when I was a young'in, but since it was so expensive I never saw an AES in person until just about a year ago. Hard to have a fanyboy interest in something you'd never even seen in person.
I've STILL yet to really see one in person. I've seen one of the joysticks, though. Sturdy enough to crack a coconut on it.
Considering trading some game promo's/demo's/early builds that I have stored to some kids at the collectors boards. Maybe I can get a battered AES.
Speaking of the old school video game wars, I love this video.
That was terrible. Saying "fuck your mouth from your asshole" does not make one funny. Nor does repeating the same tired 32X and Sega CD criticisms.
I might be biased tho. I had a Genesis and have never regretted it. So many great games and I desperately wanted the 32X and Sega CD, but never got them. For the best, probably. SNES had Super Mario World (which was too similar to SM3. I'd much preferred something like SM2) and everything else just seemed so kiddy (to my pre-teen self)
Speaking of the old school video game wars, I love this video.
That was terrible. Saying "fuck your mouth from your asshole" does not make one funny. Nor does repeating the same tired 32X and Sega CD criticisms.
I might be biased tho. I had a Genesis and have never regretted it. So many great games and I desperately wanted the 32X and Sega CD, but never got them. For the best, probably. SNES had Super Mario World (which was too similar to SM3. I'd much preferred something like SM2) and everything else just seemed so kiddy (to my pre-teen self)
The guy has his moments. "You're not 64 bit, get the fuck out," was pretty funny, for the Jaguar. I thought.
The first console I owned myself (not my brothers) was an N64. I loved it. I was about 11 years old at the time. A friend of mine had a Playstation. I loved it also, for it had Metal Gear Solid and many other great games. I was sad that I could not afford a Playstation also. That's about it, I was never a 'fanboi' so I guess I'm pretty awesome.
The N64 was the start of my fanboyism I think. That was the first generation of consoles where I only had one console and also the console after I had started using the internet. I liked playing the Playstation at my friends' houses, but as the N64 library grew so completely divergent from the PSX and Saturn libraries I guess I went with what I had and grew less interested in the PSX.
However, I still wanted a Saturn because I'm a sucker for Daytona and Virtua Fighter. I loved both of them in the arcade and wanted to play them at home. Also, I never saw a Saturn in person (aside from one playing the launch version of Virtua Fighter in a store) until 1999.
That artwork's from Danger Girl, right? I seem to remember it from somewhere, but I can't quite place it now.
Anyhow, yeah, I desperately lusted after the Neo Geo when I was a young'in, but since it was so expensive I never saw an AES in person until just about a year ago. Hard to have a fanyboy interest in something you'd never even seen in person.
I think that was actually a cover of Spyboy.
I went the NES -> SNES route too, only games I ever envied from sega were sonic (which you have to admit, was pretty amazing when it came out) X-Men (so much better than spiderman and the x-men in arcades revenge) and Jurassic Park (What? You get to play as a raptor??)
SNES really drew me in with the cleaner music and look to things than the genesis. I knew a couple people with segas, but whenever they would try and get me into it, it was 10 minutes of "look at this game! ok now look at this one! now look at this one! theyre all so awesome!" and then we would play our gameboys.
Sega's advertising I always thought was kind of stupid, but I appreciated it in a friendly rivalry sort of way. I wanted a nomad, but you could never find one. I had a gamegear, shining force was one of my favorite games.. and then I got ogre battle for the SNES.
I eventually went with the N64, suffered the drought of games, 60-70 dollars for filth like quest 64 and automobili lamborghini, enjoyed masterpieces like goldeneye, banjo kazooie, and san fransisco rush. Banjo was the last rare game that I enjoyed though, after briefly trying donkey kong 64, I went to the playstation, got my parappa, FFT, and SOTN on.
The ps1 was great for when I was by myself, but anytime friends were around we popped in bomberman or killer instinct gold in the n64, or that 3d fighter where you could play as ned the janitor (mace the dark age?).
Theres a few things the non-nintendo camps do that I enjoy, I bought an xbox for halo and a ps2 for disgaea, but the systems never held my lasting attention and I would always trade them in/sell them. I can get the same types of experience on the pc/gba/ds.
I really liked the "mascot war" thing that went on with mario/crash/sonic, I could only imagine how great it would have been if each company had done a mario vs sonic kind of thing at the time on each system, each version catering to the systems strengths.
Anyway, fanboying within reason seems to me to be good, its like trash talking about sports teams and such, until you start with the assinine comments "Ken Kutaragi is completely sane!" or "M$ doesnt care about black people" etc.
One day we'll all play on the same system (DS2 maybe?), until then, competition and discussion is good.
I was quite a youngin' still during the days of the SNES and Genesis. My parents were into gaming back then too, so we had both.
When I was 7 I got an N64. When I was about 10 I got a Playstation, though I didn't care about it that much. That's mostly my fault; I was never super-into-it, so I never actually read up on games coming out for it like I did my beloved N64.
Now that I think about it, pretty much every gen I've had a Nintendo system and their biggest competitor, with the Nintendo one getting more attention despite the other one having arguably better games. I still haven't gotten around to buying a 360, but that'll eventually be true of this gen, too.
Man, there were heated fights that happened in my neighborhood. The kid across the street had the Genesis, I had the SNES. It was fucking ON.
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
Man, there were heated fights that happened in my neighborhood. The kid across the street had the Genesis, I had the SNES. It was fucking ON.
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
Yeah, I'd never heard of the Master System until, sheesh, like a couple years ago when I started becoming more of a gaming enthusiast. For me SEGA started with the Genesis.
Man, there were heated fights that happened in my neighborhood. The kid across the street had the Genesis, I had the SNES. It was fucking ON.
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
He'd probably be too busy enjoying the Genesis's superior library to care. :P
Man, there were heated fights that happened in my neighborhood. The kid across the street had the Genesis, I had the SNES. It was fucking ON.
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
He'd probably be too busy enjoying the Genesis's superior library to care. :P
In that case, he'd be too concerned with the magical fairy land he's suddenly living in to care about gaming at all.
Man, there were heated fights that happened in my neighborhood. The kid across the street had the Genesis, I had the SNES. It was fucking ON.
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
He'd probably be too busy enjoying the Genesis's superior library to care. :P
In that case, he'd be too concerned with the magical fairy land he's suddenly living in to care about gaming at all.
citizen059hello my name is citizenI'm from the InternetRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
I guess I should also add that I did stick up for my 2600 to my friends, even if I secretly cried at night because everyone else had better systems.
But unlike Atari and their silly comic strips in the short lived "Atarian" magazine, I never pretended that the 2600 was superior to the NES in any way. I was way too realistic for that.
much thanks ... that was gonna drive me nuts otherwise. Like a song stuck in your head ... except visual.
mausmalone on
0
Andy JoeWe claim the land for the highlord!The AdirondacksRegistered Userregular
edited August 2007
I didn't really pay attention to any of that stuff. I only ever had Nintendo systems, but that never stopped me from liking any of the Sonic cartoons on TV back then.
My gaming start was with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum home computer. 48K version, circa 1982. By '86 I had the 128K +2 version (with the built-in tape deck), and was becoming aware of the other options available. And in the UK in those days, those options weren't consoles, they were the Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64, also home computers.
Let's just say the mudslinging between Speccy and C64 folks was vicious. The CPC was, at best, a competent also-ran and was largely ignored in those system wars.
I was starting to read magazines which weren't exclusively Spectrum at that point (although Your Sinclair and Crash were awesome for what they were), and noticed the slowly emerging console market. being a fan of arcade and arcadey games, I managed to snag a Sega Master System one Christmas, although I only ever got about four games for it because of the comparatively prohibitive prices of console games compared to computer games (£20-30 for a full-price Sega game, compared to £8-10 for a full price Spectrum game, and let us not forget how many good £2-3 budget games the Spectrum saw).
Eventually, the Spectrum made way for the Atari ST, which again meant I was faced off against Commodore (this time with the Amiga). Both these 16-bit computers had minor advantages over each other, but really they were so close that the bickering was totally pointless. Didn't stop it, though. It's worth noting that the ST slowly died off a few years later except as a recording studio tool, but the tenacity of Amiga owners kept them remarkably viable until well past what should've been their sell-by date.
The next console was a Mega Drive (aka Genesis). It was a logical continuation from the SMS, and as the SNES was still a couple of years out from an official release, not to mention horrifically expensive on import, an easy choice too. It still played second fiddle to the computers, but at least I ended up with a decent number of games for it. But my interest had already waned by the time the Mega CD (Sega CD) and 32X came around.
I got a Game Boy and a Lynx. No fanboy wars there, both of them were great and excelled at different types of game thanks to their wildly different technologies. The Game Gear was a waste of time, though... it was obviously underpowered next to the Lynx, had the same shortcomings (huge, battery guzzler, etc) and no noteworthy games to entice me in. The PC Engine GT, on the other hand, did, and I got one on import by ultimately trading in my Lynx. I always wanted a PC Engine Duo, as well, but that was just too much money.
The ST made way for a 486 PC, and this time there was no competition to look down on. The Mac wasn't viable in the UK at the time for anything besides desktop publishing. I became an avid PC gamer for a good few years.
Then everyone I knew started getting PlayStations. Most of the line-up then was stuff my PC could do as well, but I enjoyed playing with my friends. One friend got an N64 when they came along, and showed me Goldeneye. I soon had my own N64, the first and only time I've bought a new console for one game. I did get a couple more, but the N64 was always, first and foremost, a Goldeneye adapter.
I added a Saturn to the stable eventually, not because of overriding Sega loyalty, but for something different from the omnipresent PlayStations, and because it was obviously dying on its feet and getting one for cheap with a pile of like 5 or 6 games was now an option. The Saturn was terrific.
I traded in the N64 for a PlayStation when Gran Turismo finally convinced me to buy one. That was a good call. I traded in the Saturn for Gran Turismo 2. That wasn't.
The PC got replaced by a 200MHz Pentium, and soon after, my first modem was added to it and the Internet opened up to me. The UK was somewhat behind in comms, and being as it was pay-by-the-minute, my online time was severely restricted.
Finally for my UK-era, I got a Neo Geo Pocket Color. What a terrific machine. Great hardware, spectacular battery life (40+ hours from 2 AAs!), and awesome games. Despite its short life it charmed me like the Game Boy Color never did.
The turn of the millennium came, and I moved to the USA. I got a new PC, a 600MHz Celeron, and got a job at a Software Etc store (now Gamestop). I got a bit of experience with the PS2, but nothing really sold me on it. I and a couple of colleagues got to go to E3 in 2001, where the Xbox and Gamecube were being showed off. We all liked both, and the forthcoming PS2 games, but the Xbox (despite its historically bad showing) impressed us all the most. Later that year, the Xbox became the first console I got on launch day.
It also turned me from a primarily computer gamer into a console gamer. PC-style gaming on a console finally became reality, to some degree, and I couldn't have been happier. LANs, genuinely good FPSes (Halo, at least), Western-style RPGs, in-depth racers, finely-crafted action-adventures... from then up until now, I've amassed an enormous collection of 105 Xbox games. I loved that console and still do.
A GBA, Dreamcast and Gamecube soon found their way into the stable, and while I never really fell for the 'Cube, the Dreamcast's charm was instantly apparent and lasted a long time. If ever a machine was too far ahead of its time, it was that one. So, so awesome, but sadly it wasn't too surprising when Sega pulled the plug. The GBA never grabbed me the way I'd hoped, honestly, which was a shame as it was the only viable handheld at the time since the NGPC died.
I changed jobs a couple of times (but still in games retail) and soon accumulated a PS2, and ultimately a good collection of games. It had taken years for the PS2 to sell itself to me, but ultimately it did in style. Then, of course, came the DS (which, inversely to most people, I saw great potential in and never saw it realised. Most folks didn't care at first and later fell in love with it. I guess I'm just weird), and the PSP (my preferred handheld of the two). I did get a GBA SP in the meantime, too, and that reinvigorated my GBA interest... briefly.
During that time I worked for a couple of years in an indie game store. While I was there, I managed to get hold of virtually every noteworthy machine I'd missed; for example, I finally scored a SNES and got to see what the fuss was about there. It's great, no question, but I still think I made the right call all those years ago getting a Mega Drive and not waiting.
That brings us to now. Having given up on PC gaming almost entirely, I got a new PC (Athlon 64 3500+) with everything but gaming in mind as the Cellie was choking on the simplest new apps. But before even that, of course, was the Xbox 360. It's still the only console of this generation I own, although I know I'll get a PS3 and Wii in time; and I'll probably follow the pattern of the last gen, with most of my games on the 360, a good chunk on the PS3 and a handful of exceptional titles on the Wii. The systems' line-ups of games pretty much dictate that already. Finally, last year, I got one of the missing Holy Grails I'd always wanted, a Turbo Duo (remember the PC Engine Duo lust from earlier). And it was all I'd hoped it would be.
In conclusion, the only real time where I've felt like I took a side was in the Spectrum vs C64 war, and I more or less got forced into taking a side in the ST vs Amiga war which was (at the time) perhaps the dumbest of them all. My tastes in games don't exactly rate as 'normal', at least in the American market, so my general apathy towards Nintendo franchises, sports games and JRPGs, to name but three, often confuses and sometimes irritates people. So be it. I happily joined in last year's Sony hate-fest, but that wasn't because of their machine or games, it was the company and its behaviour. Nintendo and Microsoft have stumbled in my eyes too; none of them are perfect. But ultimately they're the lynchpin companies in giving us games and hardware to play 'em on...
My friends and I really only had NES until PS1 came out, then some friends got the PS1 and we played it at their houses. I was never interested in SNES or Genesis really, Tecmo Super Bowl was there for me 24/7.
Yeah I had a Speccy and used to argue with my Amstrad and C64 owning friends that the good old Speccy was better, despite the inferior graphics, because it had the better games. 20 years later I'm still right.
Posts
You'd end up with the equivalent of RE4: Headshot edition on everything.
For most older games that no longer bring a profit at retail, its unlikely that anyone would want to put the work in thats necessary.
It would also suck for their current install base because they wouldnt be able to be competitive anymore.
I don't understand your first point, in re4 wii they increased the number of enemies, not decreased.
Your points on re:4 headshot edition and old games not meriting the updating are valid, but like I said, I'm cool with a little nerf if its made controllable for me, and the lack of backward compatibility, eh, oh well.
As far as competive gaming, ban keyboard/mouse controls from tournies? But to be honest, I don't really care if some Halo pro complains that a old school pc fps shooter is headshotting them instantly and they can't turn around in time because of their controller, if tournaments encourage anything, its adapt or die.
I was about to post something with the exact sentiment.
I came around and picked up a dreamcast when the released the black sports bundle, but the end was in sight at that point.
Now between the sonic/genesis collections and the VC, I can play all the games I missed anyway.
I played so many classic on sega channel, theme park from bullfrog, sid meiers pirates gold, shinging force 1 and 2, gunstar heros, and lesser, but still great titles like ristar. I actually played the original megaman for the first time on my genesis in the japanese wily wars game not released in america, and I liked golden axe 3, the panther was boss!
I'm amused by the success of the virtual console on the wii, because I can't help but think, man, I did this shit years ago! As it stands, my vc list is pretty much a straight sega channel homage, gunstar heros, shining force, and beyond oasis.
Anybody remember seein this as a kid?
Omigosh boobs.
The N64 was the start of my fanboyism I think. That was the first generation of consoles where I only had one console and also the console after I had started using the internet. I liked playing the Playstation at my friends' houses, but as the N64 library grew so completely divergent from the PSX and Saturn libraries I guess I went with what I had and grew less interested in the PSX.
However, I still wanted a Saturn because I'm a sucker for Daytona and Virtua Fighter. I loved both of them in the arcade and wanted to play them at home. Also, I never saw a Saturn in person (aside from one playing the launch version of Virtua Fighter in a store) until 1999.
That artwork's from Danger Girl, right? I seem to remember it from somewhere, but I can't quite place it now.
Anyhow, yeah, I desperately lusted after the Neo Geo when I was a young'in, but since it was so expensive I never saw an AES in person until just about a year ago. Hard to have a fanyboy interest in something you'd never even seen in person.
I've STILL yet to really see one in person. I've seen one of the joysticks, though. Sturdy enough to crack a coconut on it.
Considering trading some game promo's/demo's/early builds that I have stored to some kids at the collectors boards. Maybe I can get a battered AES.
That was terrible. Saying "fuck your mouth from your asshole" does not make one funny. Nor does repeating the same tired 32X and Sega CD criticisms.
I might be biased tho. I had a Genesis and have never regretted it. So many great games and I desperately wanted the 32X and Sega CD, but never got them. For the best, probably. SNES had Super Mario World (which was too similar to SM3. I'd much preferred something like SM2) and everything else just seemed so kiddy (to my pre-teen self)
Steam BoardGameGeek Twitter
I think that was actually a cover of Spyboy.
I went the NES -> SNES route too, only games I ever envied from sega were sonic (which you have to admit, was pretty amazing when it came out) X-Men (so much better than spiderman and the x-men in arcades revenge) and Jurassic Park (What? You get to play as a raptor??)
SNES really drew me in with the cleaner music and look to things than the genesis. I knew a couple people with segas, but whenever they would try and get me into it, it was 10 minutes of "look at this game! ok now look at this one! now look at this one! theyre all so awesome!" and then we would play our gameboys.
Sega's advertising I always thought was kind of stupid, but I appreciated it in a friendly rivalry sort of way. I wanted a nomad, but you could never find one. I had a gamegear, shining force was one of my favorite games.. and then I got ogre battle for the SNES.
I eventually went with the N64, suffered the drought of games, 60-70 dollars for filth like quest 64 and automobili lamborghini, enjoyed masterpieces like goldeneye, banjo kazooie, and san fransisco rush. Banjo was the last rare game that I enjoyed though, after briefly trying donkey kong 64, I went to the playstation, got my parappa, FFT, and SOTN on.
The ps1 was great for when I was by myself, but anytime friends were around we popped in bomberman or killer instinct gold in the n64, or that 3d fighter where you could play as ned the janitor (mace the dark age?).
Theres a few things the non-nintendo camps do that I enjoy, I bought an xbox for halo and a ps2 for disgaea, but the systems never held my lasting attention and I would always trade them in/sell them. I can get the same types of experience on the pc/gba/ds.
I really liked the "mascot war" thing that went on with mario/crash/sonic, I could only imagine how great it would have been if each company had done a mario vs sonic kind of thing at the time on each system, each version catering to the systems strengths.
Anyway, fanboying within reason seems to me to be good, its like trash talking about sports teams and such, until you start with the assinine comments "Ken Kutaragi is completely sane!" or "M$ doesnt care about black people" etc.
One day we'll all play on the same system (DS2 maybe?), until then, competition and discussion is good.
Hee hee. I love how the they totally ignore the Jaguar.
So I had some serious NES envy.
Good thing I had a couple of friends who got everything they ever wanted.
When I was 7 I got an N64. When I was about 10 I got a Playstation, though I didn't care about it that much. That's mostly my fault; I was never super-into-it, so I never actually read up on games coming out for it like I did my beloved N64.
Now that I think about it, pretty much every gen I've had a Nintendo system and their biggest competitor, with the Nintendo one getting more attention despite the other one having arguably better games. I still haven't gotten around to buying a 360, but that'll eventually be true of this gen, too.
http://www.audioentropy.com/
I should look him up in a phone book so I can just yell 'I guess we know who was right, now, don't we?' and then hang up.
I don't remember a hulabaloo in the NES days, the Master System wasn't very popular where I lived. It was mostly Atari/Nintendo, but there wasn't much of a fight to have, there. Just those who upgraded to the NES lording it over the Atari folks.
Steam BoardGameGeek Twitter
He'd probably be too busy enjoying the Genesis's superior library to care. :P
In that case, he'd be too concerned with the magical fairy land he's suddenly living in to care about gaming at all.
Steam BoardGameGeek Twitter
But unlike Atari and their silly comic strips in the short lived "Atarian" magazine, I never pretended that the 2600 was superior to the NES in any way. I was way too realistic for that.
much thanks ... that was gonna drive me nuts otherwise. Like a song stuck in your head ... except visual.
Let's just say the mudslinging between Speccy and C64 folks was vicious. The CPC was, at best, a competent also-ran and was largely ignored in those system wars.
I was starting to read magazines which weren't exclusively Spectrum at that point (although Your Sinclair and Crash were awesome for what they were), and noticed the slowly emerging console market. being a fan of arcade and arcadey games, I managed to snag a Sega Master System one Christmas, although I only ever got about four games for it because of the comparatively prohibitive prices of console games compared to computer games (£20-30 for a full-price Sega game, compared to £8-10 for a full price Spectrum game, and let us not forget how many good £2-3 budget games the Spectrum saw).
Eventually, the Spectrum made way for the Atari ST, which again meant I was faced off against Commodore (this time with the Amiga). Both these 16-bit computers had minor advantages over each other, but really they were so close that the bickering was totally pointless. Didn't stop it, though. It's worth noting that the ST slowly died off a few years later except as a recording studio tool, but the tenacity of Amiga owners kept them remarkably viable until well past what should've been their sell-by date.
The next console was a Mega Drive (aka Genesis). It was a logical continuation from the SMS, and as the SNES was still a couple of years out from an official release, not to mention horrifically expensive on import, an easy choice too. It still played second fiddle to the computers, but at least I ended up with a decent number of games for it. But my interest had already waned by the time the Mega CD (Sega CD) and 32X came around.
I got a Game Boy and a Lynx. No fanboy wars there, both of them were great and excelled at different types of game thanks to their wildly different technologies. The Game Gear was a waste of time, though... it was obviously underpowered next to the Lynx, had the same shortcomings (huge, battery guzzler, etc) and no noteworthy games to entice me in. The PC Engine GT, on the other hand, did, and I got one on import by ultimately trading in my Lynx. I always wanted a PC Engine Duo, as well, but that was just too much money.
The ST made way for a 486 PC, and this time there was no competition to look down on. The Mac wasn't viable in the UK at the time for anything besides desktop publishing. I became an avid PC gamer for a good few years.
Then everyone I knew started getting PlayStations. Most of the line-up then was stuff my PC could do as well, but I enjoyed playing with my friends. One friend got an N64 when they came along, and showed me Goldeneye. I soon had my own N64, the first and only time I've bought a new console for one game. I did get a couple more, but the N64 was always, first and foremost, a Goldeneye adapter.
I added a Saturn to the stable eventually, not because of overriding Sega loyalty, but for something different from the omnipresent PlayStations, and because it was obviously dying on its feet and getting one for cheap with a pile of like 5 or 6 games was now an option. The Saturn was terrific.
I traded in the N64 for a PlayStation when Gran Turismo finally convinced me to buy one. That was a good call. I traded in the Saturn for Gran Turismo 2. That wasn't.
The PC got replaced by a 200MHz Pentium, and soon after, my first modem was added to it and the Internet opened up to me. The UK was somewhat behind in comms, and being as it was pay-by-the-minute, my online time was severely restricted.
Finally for my UK-era, I got a Neo Geo Pocket Color. What a terrific machine. Great hardware, spectacular battery life (40+ hours from 2 AAs!), and awesome games. Despite its short life it charmed me like the Game Boy Color never did.
The turn of the millennium came, and I moved to the USA. I got a new PC, a 600MHz Celeron, and got a job at a Software Etc store (now Gamestop). I got a bit of experience with the PS2, but nothing really sold me on it. I and a couple of colleagues got to go to E3 in 2001, where the Xbox and Gamecube were being showed off. We all liked both, and the forthcoming PS2 games, but the Xbox (despite its historically bad showing) impressed us all the most. Later that year, the Xbox became the first console I got on launch day.
It also turned me from a primarily computer gamer into a console gamer. PC-style gaming on a console finally became reality, to some degree, and I couldn't have been happier. LANs, genuinely good FPSes (Halo, at least), Western-style RPGs, in-depth racers, finely-crafted action-adventures... from then up until now, I've amassed an enormous collection of 105 Xbox games. I loved that console and still do.
A GBA, Dreamcast and Gamecube soon found their way into the stable, and while I never really fell for the 'Cube, the Dreamcast's charm was instantly apparent and lasted a long time. If ever a machine was too far ahead of its time, it was that one. So, so awesome, but sadly it wasn't too surprising when Sega pulled the plug. The GBA never grabbed me the way I'd hoped, honestly, which was a shame as it was the only viable handheld at the time since the NGPC died.
I changed jobs a couple of times (but still in games retail) and soon accumulated a PS2, and ultimately a good collection of games. It had taken years for the PS2 to sell itself to me, but ultimately it did in style. Then, of course, came the DS (which, inversely to most people, I saw great potential in and never saw it realised. Most folks didn't care at first and later fell in love with it. I guess I'm just weird), and the PSP (my preferred handheld of the two). I did get a GBA SP in the meantime, too, and that reinvigorated my GBA interest... briefly.
During that time I worked for a couple of years in an indie game store. While I was there, I managed to get hold of virtually every noteworthy machine I'd missed; for example, I finally scored a SNES and got to see what the fuss was about there. It's great, no question, but I still think I made the right call all those years ago getting a Mega Drive and not waiting.
That brings us to now. Having given up on PC gaming almost entirely, I got a new PC (Athlon 64 3500+) with everything but gaming in mind as the Cellie was choking on the simplest new apps. But before even that, of course, was the Xbox 360. It's still the only console of this generation I own, although I know I'll get a PS3 and Wii in time; and I'll probably follow the pattern of the last gen, with most of my games on the 360, a good chunk on the PS3 and a handful of exceptional titles on the Wii. The systems' line-ups of games pretty much dictate that already. Finally, last year, I got one of the missing Holy Grails I'd always wanted, a Turbo Duo (remember the PC Engine Duo lust from earlier). And it was all I'd hoped it would be.
In conclusion, the only real time where I've felt like I took a side was in the Spectrum vs C64 war, and I more or less got forced into taking a side in the ST vs Amiga war which was (at the time) perhaps the dumbest of them all. My tastes in games don't exactly rate as 'normal', at least in the American market, so my general apathy towards Nintendo franchises, sports games and JRPGs, to name but three, often confuses and sometimes irritates people. So be it. I happily joined in last year's Sony hate-fest, but that wasn't because of their machine or games, it was the company and its behaviour. Nintendo and Microsoft have stumbled in my eyes too; none of them are perfect. But ultimately they're the lynchpin companies in giving us games and hardware to play 'em on...
Steam | XBL
And yes, I do still feel like an asshole