*EVERY* system has at least one good game

That's hardly the definitive version. The new upscaled/filtered rendering engine is ugly as hell, and they didn't include the original renderer. I haven't played Marathon on the Pippin but I'd give it a much greater chance at being "definitive" given that it's the original version running on Mac-derived hardware. Besides, if you're going to say that Wolf3D is best on PC, you've basically got to say that Marathon is best on Mac.

Anyone had a go on a Casio Loopy? I've never even seen one but the premise doesn't look good.

 

Nice attempt at the article, but they shouldn't have said EVERY system and left loads out!!

I thought the Lynx had some decent games. Whilst I didn't play that many, I remember loving Blue Lightning, and Chip's Challenge was awesome!

Thanks for proving my theory that people will slate systems without, I doubt, having played all of the games on it, though. Which games have you played on GX4000, Parris?

As I said before, it is essentially a CPC in console form - the games ran on a CPC Plus machine also.

Take a look at these:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orIiTwUDOh0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gUXC6CYUdo

What's so bad about them? They're perfectly playable. It wasn't a bad little system, it was just kinda pricey for what it was.

 

I just played through my Virtual Boy library and although there are only 22 titles there is a good percentage of solid games.

Vertical Force
Red Alarm
Mario Tennis
Panic Bomber
3D Tetris
Mario Clash
Wario Land

Golf and Teleroboxer are also decent games.

 

OH OH

intertron 4000
g7000
Microvison
HMG 2650
spectrum

*evil laugh*

Encyclopedia of Game machines FTW

 

I don't put much faith in that article.

When talking about the 3DO, the reason they chose Need For Speed was because it spawned to maybe sequels. By that logic, Madden is the greatest game of all time.


Anyhow, the N-Gage anyone? Tomb Raider was actually very nicely done on this platform.

 

Microvision is a hoot. Yay for paddle games.

Spectrum....really? Do you even know what a spectrum is? It's a computer for one...not as much of a console really...and uh...I imagine some Europeans are going to come along and gut you for even suggesting it has no good games. Theres a shitton of good speccy games.

We're not just tossing out random names here.

Edit: Slight research.

HMG 2650 -- That's an Arcadia. Lots of classic clones, plenty of games of merit there.

G7000, I was confused for a second and then found out its the same as an odyssey2. Pick Axe Pete, KC Munchkin, and the cool board games. Enough said.

More Searching Intertron 4000 is ANOTHER Arcadia system.

 

I dunno about the lynx version, but this game absolutely RULED when I first played in on my grandpa's old sony vaio.

 

Voyeur was ass, dont' bother. An "adult" title with nothing you couldn't see on network TV. Gameplay consists of clicking buttons. Lame.

A good game on CDI, how about Escape from Cyber city? It's actually pretty well done (if not incredibly difficult.)

Still actually haven't come across a "good" game on the Arcadia, everything tends to be clones of games done much better on other systems of the time. Plus the sound tends to consist of "SQUAAAK!" and "BZZZZZOINK!" and other random noises.

 

Next time you have the urge to copy and paste something you know nothing about without doing even the most basic research... just fucking don't. There are hundreds and hundreds of games for the Spectrum, it's one of the most famous computer platforms ever. You should have at least of heard of it if you know anything about retro games.

 

The Philips Videopac G7000 is the Odyssey2 to you, fool! I'm glad you didn't say Odyssey! If the first console had no good games, how would the video game console industry have taken off? ;-)

OMFG! The Hanimex HMG-2650 is a clone of the Emerson Arcadia 2001! You ARE American, right?! Quit naming clones of American machines!

There were bloody hundreds of good Spectrum games. Considering it wasn't even sold over there, you'd know it as a Timex. And they're home micros, not consoles.

Intertron 4000? What? Ohhhh, you must mean this:



Notice how it says Interton VC 4000, not Interton 4000? Incidentally, it was probably the first of a group of consoles that were compatible... other manufacturers included Acetronic, Prinztronic (Dixons), Radofin, Grandstand and Hanimex.

If you're going to be a smart arse and look up consoles you know nothing about just to try and stump people, GET THE NAME RIGHT!

Microvision was the first handheld console and was fairly successful. Jay Smith went on to design the Vectrex, too, so it was obviously popular at the time!

 

Tomb Raider was pretty good, as was Pathway to glory.

Infact I loved pathway to glory...it was just a bit too difficult.

 

Man, I called that one.

On a side note, I've realized that I have a PAL capable TV. Maybe I'll find me Speccy.

 

There are actually quite a few good Ngage games.

 

I don't think the Timex Sinclairs are all that common now. There are a couple of TS1000s on eBay, but they're basically ZX81s which you don't want. You want a proper Spectrum - the easiest would probably be a +2. I probably have some spare, but they're buried in amongst a LOT of stuff in storage. And, of course, postage would be quite a bit. Plus there's getting games.

As a lot of games have been made public domain, why not get an emulator? ;-)

 

Yep! I have at least a few dozen N-Gage games kicking around somewhere in a box. EB Games had a $2 blow-up at one point, bought all they had online and rounded out the collection with a few cheap eBay auctions.

There were also a crapload of terrible, terrible ones. I remember not even playing MotoGP on the N-Gage because of the screenshots on the back of the box. The screenshots were of game menus. Boxart fail.

I liked the port of Sonic Advance (Sonic N), grew to enjoy the Elder Scrolls Travels, I even played wireless Puzzle Bobble Vs.! (kay.. I own two N-Gages and two copies of the game and convinced a friend through a dare to play it with me.). Oh, and Pandemonium, while also a port, was pretty faithful to the original (read: awesome).

I think Pathway to Glory had a sequel too, didn't it?

 

The whole point of this thread was to stop people saying that console / computer was a pile of shite and has no good games on it, I think the broad census is that most consoles / computers do have good games on them. Consoles like the Virtual Boy, Lynx, Pokemon Mini are normally picked up by people who have never played them outside an emulator and can't appreciate the games so say that they are generally shite.

The Acetronic / Prinztronic / Radofin was my first games console but I still love playing the Grand Prix game on it as it has all the types of 70s arcade racing games on there. The Interton Electronic VC 4000 was semi compatable but a used a different cartridge port to the Acetronic / Prinztronic, etc.

 

Me likee hardware. I forgot about software though...makes for a big pain probably...tape games mostly.

I imagine one could hook a dubbing cable form a PC to it though and play back game files on a pc...and load them that way.

This is my biggest gaming dilemna lately. I like the older computers and their games (amiga, c64, atari 8 bit, spectrum and the like) but I hate the media. Floppies and tapes are so unpleasant to look at and so unreliable.

For Atari 8 bit, there's a ton of cartridge games, so I'm just ignoring floppies for now.

I really want an Amiga, but don't really want to have to have floppies...or hook it to a computer in some way. I'm thining of going for a CD 32 and er...uhm...grabbing some compilation CDs of disk games off the internet...and then buying the actual games I want for CD32 (which is a surprising amount)

C64 though...poses an issue for me...not much on cart...

Summation: I like orignal hardware and media, but I hate floppies (espcially 5/14) and tapes. They just don't seem to fit into my collection. Perhaps it's because I didn't really use them as a kid, I dunno.

On topic:

I think Jamtex has proved his point that it's pretty much impossible to say that a console has no games of merit. I have yet to find a console that has nothing worthwhile on it. Sure, there's a lot of systems that have few games worth merit and aren't really worth the buy in to play them...but there still a few good games out there for everything.

 

Get an Amiga with a hard drive and install all the games from floppies (or CD, if you prefer) - that way, you only need to deal with them once. You will need about 1 MiB of extra RAM (assuming an A1200), though.

The down-side is that not all games support HD installation; at least not by default. I've heard that you can get third-party HD installers for most Amiga games these days, but that could be wrong (I've not tried - I still run my Amiga games from disks and CDs).

EDIT: Look around for SD/CF card drives/readers for the old systems. I've seen them for the Amiga, some old Atari (no idea which one - one of their 8 bit systems) and BBC (much to my surprise), but you can probably get them for other systems. I'd love to get one for my Spectrum, since waiting for tapes to loads is really annoying.

 

lol..it seems, some people do not know much :lol:

 

I know it's possible on the Atari ST (found mention of it when I was looking into the platform recently). I'm not entirely surprised to hear that the BBC has one, people have been coming up with some crazy stuff for it quite recently, including an ARM7 CPU@74MHz, and 16MB of SDRAM. The secondary CPU port on the beeb was pretty forwards thinking...