Which generation of videogames do you prefers ?

I love the range of views topics like this generate but damn it makes me feel old when i guiltily admit my favourite gaming generation. .. The 2nd

More specifically .. Frostbite on the Atari 2600.

Because even though the game had a single playing screen and the joystick only had a single button, some of the happiest gaming moments were the ones i shared with my dad.

He aint dead yet btw, but im sure it wouldn't do him any good if i tried to sit him down and make him play something like COD

 

MrSporty, I really like that post

I have a very fond moment playing Pac Man and then some kind of Space Invaders type game on my BBC computer (which we still have!) back in 1995, after my father sold his house boat to get the computer.

That, and all the co-op games with my brother whilst growing up.

 

This, oh so much of this.

I played so many awesome games and watched so much great anime and cinema in these times! The future was still promising, and gaming was at its peak, at its purest form. The music of games was better, the feeling of innovation was supreme, and the whole alienness and exotic nature of import gaming was so alluring...

And the games, the games were fucking amazing.

The Snes had so many jewels - it was such a huge leap forward from the NES, and with so much innovation. And then we got those machines with CD-Rom, like the early PSX and Saturn, and all those magazines from the time were so fun to read!

... it was a magical time (if you pardon the overuse cliché). So many awesome things were new. I loved it and I wish I could live it again. The best games of my life were had on the Snes and PSX (and some on Dreamcast and PS2).

Maybe I'm being overly nostalgic, but to me there's nothing like those times. I could buy whatever awesome game of today a million times, and it doesn't give me that feeling of discovery and novelty and technology and surprise - you know, like being surprised and impressed with rotation and scaling, or then with recorded voices and MIDI quality and high-res anime portraits - and don't get me started on the cinemas!

 

Replace all the "SNES" and "Saturn" and so on in that last post with modern technology and you're reading what will be posted on internet forums in a decade's time

 

If further generations make gamers feel nostalgic for today's (mostly) shitty games, then gaming is dead.


Though, maybe, 50 year old Xerdo (if I make it that far) will be nostalgic for some Blazblue and Mario Galaxy and Dead Space and Fallout 3.

I still like the music of the 16 and 32 bit generation much more than today's, though.

 

Does that not seem to you like an incredibly patronising thing to say?

Either way, like it or not, the kids of today will look back on the games they grew up with and have have exactly the same kind of nostalgia that you mention having for the SNES era. I mean, even games that I still consider comparatively "modern", like Halo - there are people in their 20s now who weren't even teenagers when that came out, and they tend to have the same rose-tinted view of it that I have for Sonic games. Calling that the "death of gaming" or whatever is a bit much, to be honest.

 

PS1/N64/Saturn

FASHO

And accompanying portables. GBP/GBC & Pokemon Red/Blue, etc.

 

Me too. I bloody love 16 and 32bit music.

 

Same here. TEH AWSUMS. Sonic 1-3, FF, (etc...) music beats any VGM I've heard in today's games (IMO).

 

Hello everyone,

I would have to say I don't have a favorite generation of systems. That is because I like games from all different generations.

I really liked Chrono Trigger that is one of my all time favorite games even to this day. I really like Final Fantasy 7 and 8 but I also enjoyed Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2.

If all the previous generations hadn't come from before we wouldn't have the systems or games we have today. So all the systems in my opinion are great.

Bye.

:cur_sonic: :luigi:

 

1. 5th gen consoles all the way.
2. 6th gen (the golden era of console gaming) is a very close 2nd.
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n+1. 7th gen... ah, yes... the retarded generation of gaming... too sad.