Favorite retro gaming system?

[metaphours]

Mine's definitely the N64.

I can barely recall the countless hours my sister and I spent mercilessly trying to beat each other at Mario Kart 64 or maybe trying to get past that one Fire/Volcano level on Super Mario 64. Fucking epic times. The N64 no doubt set what would become the standard for video games everywhere, and it's prowess is still influential to this day.

What's your favorite retro system?

 

[Moiety]

Retro as in not current gen?

Then Saturn. Just a special place in my heart with games like Panzer Dragoon, Burning Rangers, NiGHTS, Virtua Fighter etc as well as a slew of awesome third party titles.

 

[metaphours]

I never played the Saturn. It came out in North America like a year after I was born, lulz.

 

[EffEmDoubleyou]

Atari VCS/2600. Just awesome. The games are simple by today's standards, but IMO the action on the controller has yet to be topped.

 

[Nonsensical]

Does Gameboy count?

I had one of these when I was 5 or 6

 

[Athenian200]

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (aka SNES, Super NES, Super Nintendo)

Favorite games:

Final Fantasy 2 US (FFIV)

Final Fantasy 5 (via translated ROM, back when I was "bad," 5p33K1ng l337 and involved in that kind of thing)

Final Fantasy 3 US (FFVI)

Chrono Trigger

Super Mario RPG

Tales of Phantasia (another translated ROM)

Mario's Time Machine

Mario is Missing

Super Mario All-Stars

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

Lufia

Secret of Mana

Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen

Bubsy II

SimEarth

SimCity 2000

 

[kyuuei]

NES, PS1.

 

[Nonsensical]

I remember the first time I ever saw a PS1.

I was at a friend's house and they asked me if I wanted to play PlayStation.

Stupid me thought they said PoliceStation, so I sat there asking them for almost a minute what they meant by it until I realized he was saying PlayStation.

 

[BlackCat]

SNES hands down. I love that system, I still play games on it.

 

[Falcarius]

Commodore 64.

 

[INTP]

sega megadrive(genesis in usa). Nhl 96 is the best game for it, even tho i dont like hockey at all

 

[The_Liquid_Laser]

As much as I loved the PS1, my favorite system (that was current for it's time) was the NES. Not only were a lot of the great franchises started in those days (Mario Bros., Zelda, Final Fantasy, etc...), but there was a lot more variety in games than there is now. Game developers used to try all sorts of things. Like I remember a game called "Blaster Master" where the concept is your frog one day suddenly turns into a tank. Sure the story was lame, but the game was really fun to play. I'm also the only person I know who liked Gyromite and actually used the robot the way it was intended.

Although I'd have to say if I had to play the old games today I'd prefer the PS1 games over the NES ones.

 

[kelric]

Commodore 64.

I've got to agree with the Falcarius. Large range of fun games (and, more importantly, I suspect, peaked in popularity when I was in Jr. high school).

Although... a year or so ago I went to Seattle to visit my best friend from my growing-up days, and we downloaded a C64 emulator to revisit the old times. Let's just say some of those games have *really* lost their luster over the years .

Still, gotta go with the C64!

 

[MacGuffin]

Xbox.

Just beat Grand Theft Auto: Vice City this weekend.

 

[Eric B]

!!!

All the old arcade classics exactly as they were in the machines!
Though years ago, they cracked down on the rom sites.

 

[Laurie]

I liked the atari but my fav was colecovision. We played it an awful lot. Pitfall rocked though.

 

[NewEra]

Super Nintendo. It was my first system (got it for my 6th birthday), has awesome games, love it.

 

[wolfy]

PS1. We still play Gran Turismo, Tekken and a Japanese game called Boku no natsu yasumi at my house. Super Fami com (English?) Gets a bit of use still too. Bomberman, tetris and space invaders.

 

[Athenian200]

Super Fami com (English?) Gets a bit of use still too. Bomberman, tetris and space invaders.

The Super Famicom was the Japanese name for the Super Nintendo. They're actually the same system, just called different things.

 

[wolfy]

The Super Famicom was the Japanese name for the Super Nintendo. They're actually the same system, just called different things.

That's right. They called it Super Nintendo in the States because you didn't have a culture of game playing as a family. So Discovery said anyway.