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Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse…… those SNES games just hit hard.
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
There’s a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there’s always emulation
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/dreamcast/flycast.html
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…
Didn’t know they were that versatile. I never had one but I’m into retro gaming so I’ve played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha
At this point nearly any device with a screen can emulate SNES games and the consoles that came before it. I have a cheap Chinese retro game handheld from Ali Express and it’s honestly so refreshing to play games that aren’t begging me to spend extra money.
Also, playing fan translations of games that weren’t released in the west like mother 3 and dragon quest monsters is so cool. 10 year old me would be so jealous.
Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear… on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic.
But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?
PC engine, even though I never even saw one in person lol.
To me, that’ll be the Amiga 500 computer then. I don’t think it ever existed in Brazilian soil, but damn, talk about the best consumer hardware you could get in the mid-late 80s. Like many good things, (mis)management fucked it up. Ars Technica has a series of articles that explain its history very well
Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.
I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these
Gameboy gang rise!!
In all it’s shades of green 💚
I grew up in the SNES vs Genesis war and I only knew one person with a Genesis and even they thought the SNES was better.
Genesis owner in the 90s here. Yes. My dad did not know video games. I said I like Mario. I wanted to play RPGs and Super Mario.
My dad went to the store, asked what I assume is some 19 year old Sega fanboy which console was the best, and got told to buy the Genesis.
On a positive note, the Genesis Sonic games were pretty cool, and so was Jurassic Park. So, it’s not like Genesis sucked. It’s just…MARIO!!! I WANT MARIO!!!
Eventually I got an SNES, but by then it was 1996. I immediately got Mario Paint, Super Mario Allstars + Super Mario World (in one cart), Legend Of Zelda Link to the Past, and Mario Kart.
Eventually I’d get Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Donkey Kong Country, Super Mario RPG, Batman Forever, and some Star Wars game.
Flea markets in the 90s were the best.
But… but… Sega does what Nintendon’t!
To which my response was “Well… Nintendo doesn’t suck.” They clearly didn’t test that slogan amongst children. 😌
Mega Drive was awesome
I had SNES and pretty much all of the best games, but my friend had Sega Channel and I COVETED IT.
I had a Sega Megadrive that I loved but still thought SNES was better.
Growing up I had a Genesis because I wanted to play Sonic 2. I remember 3 of my friends also having a Genesis, only 1 that I remember had a SNES and he was also one of the 3 with a Genesis. There were 2 that I remember stuck with NES, 1 played on his family’s PC (ooh fancy), and 1 I don’t think had any video game systems. The first real Nintendo fanboy I met was my college roommate, but that wasn’t until the mid-00’s.
SNES probably was better, but I had more exposure to the Genesis so that’s what I wanted.
Sega Mega Drive for me. We had knock off NES consoles in my country with 100 in 1 cartridges but we just called those “TV games”. Nintendo never bothered with any non first world country back then, so pirates picked up the slack. I don’t think I even knew of the ‘Nintendo’ brand when I was a little kid until I started using the internet and collecting magazines.
But Sega wasn’t quite as stiff upper lip and exclusive as Nintendo and had no problem with lowering themselves and selling their goods to us plebs in the 3rd world. So Sega was the premium brand here and “TV games” were just cheap shit in comparison in my eyes.
We had a knock off NES when I was a little kid (called a Pegasus) but my first actual legit name brand console was the Sega Mega Drive.
Wish I still had it. When I was about 13, I went through a really dumb phase for about 1 month total where I decided I was too grown up for this stuff and I sold my Mega Drive and comics for enough money to buy one CD, probably of a band that I don’t even listen to anymore. Regret it to this day.
Brazil wasn’t much different in regards to being ignored by Nintendo and Sega picking up the slack and money, first with their Master System then with the Mega Drive.
The thing with the infinite amounts of famiclones was that the original Famicom was fully made of off-the-shelf parts, that is, if you know how to solder stuff, you can make one by yourself if you buy the components. When Nintendo started considering the Brazilian market, they realized they were too late: our local famiclones were better machines, with some of them having slots for both western and Japanese cartridges.
Honestly got to hand it to my PS4. I’ve had it since the early days of dating my wife, and she gifted it to me when I was a broke uni student. It’s still serving Armored Core VI, indie games, and movie nights to this day. I’ve pulled it open several times over the years to dust it out and it’s got an external fan add-on to help with cooling. I won’t know what to do with myself when it gives out someday.
Base PS4 or Pro? If the former, a Pro could be a pretty good upgrade. Also not super expensive compared to the base model.
A PS5 is, of course, also nice if your budget allows it. Been happy with mine since its release. Feels like a real step-up compared to the entire PS4 line, even if you’re only interested in PS4 games.
Also, check the firmware of your PS4 in case you haven’t updated it recently. You could potentially jailbreak it and unlock heaps more potential. Emulation and stuff, for example.
It’s a base model. I’m going to keep using it as long as I can as-is, I don’t really have the spare mental bandwidth to tinker (nor the budget to rectify any mistakes), but it’s cool that they can be jailbroken.
Whenever I’m finally done with it, it’ll probably be time for a Steam Deck (probably some time after the release of the SD2, knowing me).
I hear you. Took me some time get it working myself, but there’s also a plug-and-play solution as well. Got it for like 20€ off AliExpress for convenience’s sake, so I don’t have to connect a PC to run the jailbreak every time.
Ooh, cool! I see the appeal, but apart from my teen years, I haven’t been much of a PC gamer. Or rather I never bought any games on Steam which I could run on a SD. You probably have a big enough library? And will you be getting the dock too?
I don’t know if mine counts as a big library, I’m fairly patient and choosy with my games but it’s ended up being a couple dozen over the years. I prefer to appreciate games as art but I also do it to bond with my kid. Trying to get him more into emulators and retro stuff.
Dreamcast was the best.
I kid, I kid… actually I am obsessed with konsole
Konsole sounds like the name KDE would use for a home gaming device, or their terminal emulator :3
Thats the joke :3
I was obsessed with the N64 when I was a kid, but I never owned one. Honorable mention to the GBC, but I did get one shortly after the GBA came out.
ps2?
I really liked my GBA
