TheNeutralGamer555
Member
32 bit era
Which is your favorite Video Game Era?
- Thread starter GEO9875
- Start date
DCR
New member
Wow, how'd I miss this thread?
16-bit for sure. I still play my Genesis/CD (original hardware too) on a regular basis. I even got an RGB SCART cable for it and a SCART to YUV converter just so I could play it without the image looking like ass on my LCD. Also got a new flash cart recently that runs ROMs off an SD card. I ****ing love my Genesis.
16-bit for sure. I still play my Genesis/CD (original hardware too) on a regular basis. I even got an RGB SCART cable for it and a SCART to YUV converter just so I could play it without the image looking like ass on my LCD. Also got a new flash cart recently that runs ROMs off an SD card. I ****ing love my Genesis.
Man, this is super tough!!!!
8-bit was great, but back then, there just wasn't as much hype surrounding video games. Remembe going to Toys R Us and having to flip up the little laminated box artwork to look at the back and pick a game based on the 2 or 3 screenshots and description? Man, you ended up with some losers, but the Kid Icarus and Metroids made it all worth it.
16-bit had great games, but I made the mistake of getting a Genesis because I couldn't wait for the SNES. I always regretted my decision. I mean, MK is a perfect example. Sure, it had blood, but the Genesis version of MK was just abysmal with it's muffled "Fight!" and terrible sound effects and music (no fatality sound effect, crappy graphics, and just over all terribleness of the port). SNES got the censored fatalities, but at least it looked and sounded like the arcade version.
I think I had the most fun with the 32 bit era. The N64 had a limited library, but there were tons of games with a significant amount of hype, and that's when home technology pretty much caught up to arcade tech. I thought the PSX library was weaker, but man, it was HUGE! I still have some great PSX memories and it was the first video game system that kind of had a cool factor associated with it. I had also just started working, so even though I was just starting and not making a ton of money, it was the first time I could pretty much buy whatever I wanted without having to beg my parents.
You know what, though? I think my absolute favorite time for gaming was late 80s coin-ops. I still remember going to the arcade at the mall and dropping endless amounts of money into R-Type, Golden Axe, Operation Wolf, and Afterburner. For a kid who didn't really play sports or engage in a lot of clubs and organizations, it was a pretty good social outlet to go hang around my peers and share a common interest.
My favorite may also be when MK2 hit arcades. I remember seeing an early version of the game on Thanksgiving break when I was visiting my parents from college and I would stay out until like 2am playing it at the local Putt Putt. A couple of weeks later, it came to my college town and I basically blew off fall semester finals to go play it every day. I was one of the few people who knew about the Internet at the time, so I would geek out and go to the campus computer lab everyday to check Usenet. That was back when pretty much every day a new fatality was being discovered. I would write down the move, memorize it, then go perform it at the arcade to the amazement of everybody there who had never seen it before. I remember when friendships were first discovered and completely flooring everybody by doing one. Back then, the few people on the internet knew everything before everybody else. That was back when every new version of the game was tested at Diversions in Chicago before being shipped and people from there posted updates every day on what was new. I'm amazed that I somehow kept up my GPA that term. The game couldn't have come out at a worse time, right during finals!
8-bit was great, but back then, there just wasn't as much hype surrounding video games. Remembe going to Toys R Us and having to flip up the little laminated box artwork to look at the back and pick a game based on the 2 or 3 screenshots and description? Man, you ended up with some losers, but the Kid Icarus and Metroids made it all worth it.
16-bit had great games, but I made the mistake of getting a Genesis because I couldn't wait for the SNES. I always regretted my decision. I mean, MK is a perfect example. Sure, it had blood, but the Genesis version of MK was just abysmal with it's muffled "Fight!" and terrible sound effects and music (no fatality sound effect, crappy graphics, and just over all terribleness of the port). SNES got the censored fatalities, but at least it looked and sounded like the arcade version.
I think I had the most fun with the 32 bit era. The N64 had a limited library, but there were tons of games with a significant amount of hype, and that's when home technology pretty much caught up to arcade tech. I thought the PSX library was weaker, but man, it was HUGE! I still have some great PSX memories and it was the first video game system that kind of had a cool factor associated with it. I had also just started working, so even though I was just starting and not making a ton of money, it was the first time I could pretty much buy whatever I wanted without having to beg my parents.
You know what, though? I think my absolute favorite time for gaming was late 80s coin-ops. I still remember going to the arcade at the mall and dropping endless amounts of money into R-Type, Golden Axe, Operation Wolf, and Afterburner. For a kid who didn't really play sports or engage in a lot of clubs and organizations, it was a pretty good social outlet to go hang around my peers and share a common interest.
My favorite may also be when MK2 hit arcades. I remember seeing an early version of the game on Thanksgiving break when I was visiting my parents from college and I would stay out until like 2am playing it at the local Putt Putt. A couple of weeks later, it came to my college town and I basically blew off fall semester finals to go play it every day. I was one of the few people who knew about the Internet at the time, so I would geek out and go to the campus computer lab everyday to check Usenet. That was back when pretty much every day a new fatality was being discovered. I would write down the move, memorize it, then go perform it at the arcade to the amazement of everybody there who had never seen it before. I remember when friendships were first discovered and completely flooring everybody by doing one. Back then, the few people on the internet knew everything before everybody else. That was back when every new version of the game was tested at Diversions in Chicago before being shipped and people from there posted updates every day on what was new. I'm amazed that I somehow kept up my GPA that term. The game couldn't have come out at a worse time, right during finals!