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Best Retro Console?
Ond:
Interesting topic. I don't have a nostalgic angle on consoles, I mostly ignored them after Atari died and up until Sony PlayStation when I was ordered by my boss to learn everything about PlayStation in order to sell them in our computer shop. Boss "take one home and any games you want, this is our new business".
Recently I built myself a little unit that's a dedicated (Nintendo only) console player matched with a couple of wireless Nintendo style game-pads. It does just one thing - allows me to play NES, SNES or N64. Of the three platforms I'd have to say SNES is my favorite for the same reasons mentioned.
KenToad:
The SNES is the best. I debated this one for a while because I've been playing so much Genesis lately, but really the SNES was the first retro console I picked up in the early 2000's and the only one I wanted for several years. Regarding games, it does have the best of all worlds, especially as a stock console, as opt2not mentioned. When I play Genesis, I use an 6-button pad that I never had back in the day. And I often play Sega CD, which also was beyond my means back then. MSU-1 games are the closest thing to a Super Nintendo CD and they are cool, but I actually prefer the stock sound in most cases. Nintendo never fell for the FMV trap and it really says something about their game design priorities and hardware understanding, even if they did use draconian tactics and it ended up backfiring on them in the next two generations.
Back in the day, I got the Sonic bundled Genesis for my birthday, but later traded that for an SNES right before SFII came out. I never regretted it.
pbj:
Well, I ended up in some rich kid house and he had hundreds of NES games and a Genesis at launch with every game I could think of. Maybe we all laugh at it now but I don’t think there was ever a leap like there was from NES to Genesis. Music, voice, number of sprites, parallax scrolling. I feel like everything since has been an incremental update.
KenToad:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 25, 2021, 10:08:37 pm ---Well, I ended up in some rich kid house and he had hundreds of NES games and a Genesis at launch with every game I could think of. Maybe we all laugh at it now but I don’t think there was ever a leap like there was from NES to Genesis. Music, voice, number of sprites, parallax scrolling. I feel like everything since has been an incremental update.
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For me, the biggest leap is from the Atari and other US consoles to the NES. No more keypad style controllers or mushy arcade sticks, the NES had crisp graphics, smooth scrolling, and responsive controls, not to mention actual good music, which was virtually nonexistent in home consoles before then.
My friends got an NES before Super Mario was released and we played so much that we got bruised thumbs. Even then, Kung Fu and Duck Hunt blew our minds. From that point onward, I considered Atari and the other older consoles worthless.
dmckean:
--- Quote from: KenToad on March 26, 2021, 02:50:01 pm ---For me, the biggest leap is from the Atari and other US consoles to the NES. No more keypad style controllers or mushy arcade sticks, the NES had crisp graphics, smooth scrolling, and responsive controls, not to mention actual good music, which was virtually nonexistent in home consoles before then.
My friends got an NES before Super Mario was released and we played so much that we got bruised thumbs. Even then, Kung Fu and Duck Hunt blew our minds. From that point onward, I considered Atari and the other older consoles worthless.
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The US game companies just pumped out ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- too. The ColecoVision and Sega SG-1000 hardware is nearly identical but the SG-1000 games look SO much more advanced. NES and Sega taking over and totally dominating the US market for a decade is the best thing that every happened for gaming in general.
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