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Best Retro Console?
javeryh:
I’m partial to Hot Shots Golf 3 for the PS2
nitrogen_widget:
Mario gold on gamecube is fun also.
wii sports resort golf is fun with the kids.
especially after few beers.
bobbyb13:
Not sure what would happen in my household if I let the kids drink beer
;D
ChurchOfSolipsism:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 25, 2021, 02:28:05 am ---I would also point out that while state of the art then, [the Neo Geo] is just another 16 bit console now. Yeah let's play those all time classic neogeo titles like.... ummm.... and don't forget..... uhhh.... Oh but there's King of Fighters and Metal Slug so I guess two franchises make it the best??
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Come on man, it can't hold a candle to the SNES obviously, but it had one really nice (Last Resort) and one awesome shooter (Pulstar), both of which were made by Irem folks (who also did Neo Turf Masters, which got very high ratings on release) and which more than hold up today. (While I don't share that opinion, many people also hold Blazing Star in high regard.) The Samurai Shodown games were excellent and are still being played competitively today, just like many of the King of Fighters games. The Metal Slug games aren't the only good run'n gun games on the system, there's also Shock Troopers I and II, Puzzle Bobble is a great puzzler, and there are still so many Windjammers-fans around that a sequel was produced for it, which was released last month. It's library wasn't that big and the games were after all arcade games, but it's still a solid console.
MrThunderwing:
Sega Megadrive is probably the greatest retro console for me I reckon. I had a Sega Master System before that and a ZX Spectrum 128k before that. The Speccy had a very limited, near monochrome colour pallet and very basic sound (although some clever people managed to get some incredible music out of it back in the day) and most (not all though) of the game ran super slowly. Most of the arcade ports were about as stripped back from the originals as you could get (although, again, there were some clever coders who managed absolute miracles with decent ports of stuff like R-Type, Chase HQ and Bubble Bobble).
I had to save up my pocket money to put towards half the cost of the Master System for one of my birthdays and it was a massive step up from the Spectrum with it's full colour games and considerably faster looking graphics, but still nowhere close to the arcade games they were based on.
Then I got a Megadrive for Christmas when they first launched here in the UK. I once again had to save up my pocket money to put towards half of it and sell the Master System to one of my mates (although in the end, my Dad very kindly paid for well over half, so I could spend the money on some games). One of the very first games I got on the Megadrive was Revenge of Shinobi, and holy shitballs if that game didn't just absolutely blow my teenage mind away when that awesome animated intro kicked in for the first time along with the equally awesome Yuzo Koshiro soundtrack. In game, it looked incredible too, with all it's layers of parallax scrolling and huge (compared to the SMS and Spectrum at any rate) game sprites. It finally felt like I was playing something of the same graphical and audio quality from the arcade at home. I was similarly blown away by other early MD stuff like Super Hang-On, Golden Axe and Truxton. Later stuff like Streets of Rage 2, Streetfighter 2: Special Championship Edition and Thunderforce 3 and 4 just added further to the sense of wonderment. Plus the console itself looked sexy. It was an ergonomic delight with a bonus 3.5mm headphone jack, so you could plug the console intro your Hi-Fi if you had a stereo Y cable and really drive your parents mental. Ahhh, good times. For these reasons, that sense of finally capturing something that felt so close to the arcade in my bedroom, I think the Megadrive will always be my favourite retro system.
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