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Best Retro Console?
AJgamer:
Wow so many replies! Thanks for voting guys, I myself will go with the majority and say the SNES. I may even purchase the re-released version so my kids can experience it ;D
Vigo:
--- Quote from: AJgamer on March 31, 2021, 11:29:35 am ---Wow so many replies! Thanks for voting guys, I myself will go with the majority and say the SNES. I may even purchase the re-released version so my kids can experience it ;D
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Can't go wrong with the SNES. They are easy to hack too, in case you want to add more games. You can also get wireless pads for them pretty easily.
--- Quote from: pbj on March 30, 2021, 11:14:01 pm ---I had a Ti 99/4a I bought at a garage sale. What a weird system. Enjoyed picking up cartridges and peripherals at swap meets for practically nothing. Didn’t do a hell of a lot with it, but enjoyed making the speech module cuss.
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Never owned one, but I always liked the look, speech module is really cool. No Flashrom99?
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 30, 2021, 10:52:35 pm ---my gaming progression:
pong
atari 2600
Ti-99/4a (silver case) was my first PC.
i typed A LOT of programs out on that then saved them to tape.
I still have it somewhere and found a few cartridges in the dig site I call my basement.
A-mazing and micro surgeon.
after that I went to the C-128 then amiga 500.
I should still have both the 128 and amiga somewhere.
however my mom found a c64 in her basement and i have zero idea where it came from. LOL!
I didn't buy a PC until commodore went out of business.
I will say I have min versions of the NES, SNES, and i've really only explored the genesis.
i just let my brother borrow it so i'll be looking at the NES for a bit.
I just wasn't a console person.
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Nice! You went a pretty hard computer route. I had a Vic 20 and a C64 as a kid, but didn't touch computers much until the Power Mac 5200. Would have loved an Amiga, just a very cool gen of computer games where the games didn't have to be large scale to be great, but they could be. Hey, if you have no emotional attachment to that c64, I might make you an offer. ;D
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: Vigo on March 31, 2021, 12:25:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: AJgamer on March 31, 2021, 11:29:35 am ---Wow so many replies! Thanks for voting guys, I myself will go with the majority and say the SNES. I may even purchase the re-released version so my kids can experience it ;D
--- End quote ---
Can't go wrong with the SNES. They are easy to hack too, in case you want to add more games. You can also get wireless pads for them pretty easily.
--- Quote from: pbj on March 30, 2021, 11:14:01 pm ---I had a Ti 99/4a I bought at a garage sale. What a weird system. Enjoyed picking up cartridges and peripherals at swap meets for practically nothing. Didn’t do a hell of a lot with it, but enjoyed making the speech module cuss.
--- End quote ---
Never owned one, but I always liked the look, speech module is really cool. No Flashrom99?
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on March 30, 2021, 10:52:35 pm ---my gaming progression:
pong
atari 2600
Ti-99/4a (silver case) was my first PC.
i typed A LOT of programs out on that then saved them to tape.
I still have it somewhere and found a few cartridges in the dig site I call my basement.
A-mazing and micro surgeon.
after that I went to the C-128 then amiga 500.
I should still have both the 128 and amiga somewhere.
however my mom found a c64 in her basement and i have zero idea where it came from. LOL!
I didn't buy a PC until commodore went out of business.
I will say I have min versions of the NES, SNES, and i've really only explored the genesis.
i just let my brother borrow it so i'll be looking at the NES for a bit.
I just wasn't a console person.
--- End quote ---
Nice! You went a pretty hard computer route. I had a Vic 20 and a C64 as a kid, but didn't touch computers much until the Power Mac 5200. Would have loved an Amiga, just a very cool gen of computer games where the games didn't have to be large scale to be great, but they could be. Hey, if you have no emotional attachment to that c64, I might make you an offer. ;D
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My parents only bought the Ti because brand names had them on clearance.
I didn't even know what a Vic was then and my school just had the apple 2 which they couldn't afford.
I have to make sure my commodore 128 still exists.
Vigo:
Yeah, I think these were doing a lot of computer clearance sales at the time. Between that and the common stretch of a sales pitch that the machines were good for both gaming and to help mom and dad do their finances, that how most computer companies they sold their machines. I never knew anyone with an Apple II, but it seems everyone knew them from school.
Definitely hope your C128 does indeed exist and is sitting somewhere safely for you. No pressure on the C64 offer, but let me know if you do want to let go of it, I have been passively been looking for a C64 for the last few months, so I have to ask. :)
nipsmg:
--- Quote from: KenToad on March 27, 2021, 05:21:54 pm --- Even so, the graphics, sound, and especially play control of the NES were a huge leap above the C64 and other home computers of the day.
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Woah woah woah. SOUND?! You’re dead wrong on sound. The C64’s SID chip was far superior to the NES’s sound capabilities. It’s one of the reasons why some games I enjoyed MORE on the C64 than the NES. More simultaneous sounds, awesome synth capabilities, speech synthesis, etc.
NES for the W ongraphics? Absolutely , no question.. but C64 has the edge on sound.
https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=430442
Go listen to paperboy or commando’s soundtrack on c64, they were dope.
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