Current Events > Do you miss there being more consoles, like in the 90s?

(+) Yeah! (+)

https://www.gamesradar.com/consoles-of-the-90s/
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Holy shit, they actually listed the WonderSwan
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Some of these I never heard of, but at least there was variety
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Miss just putting the game in the console, no update needed, no other bullshit, it boots right up into the game, and there you go.
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No, but I wish there were maybe 5 consoles instead of 3.
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I didn't know most of them existed until well after the fact, so nothing really changed for me.
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

https://www.gamesradar.com/consoles-of-the-90s/

Fuck yes.

- Games were sorted in the actual games, not in your console. If you have 90 games you can play 90 games, you dont depend on your consoles storage, you basically play only one game at a time.

- no firmware updates: it looks like I have to spend 20 minutes updating my system every time I want to play a game, fuck this

- no micro transactions

It clearly was only 2 choices. Nobody I know owned a tg16, a jaguar, a 3do or a neo geo.

I could see somebody with a tg16 those had some quality games, but a neo geo was SUPER expensive for the day and even today. I never saw one in person but I saw them in gaming magazines. Console was 500-600 dollars and each game was like 100 bucks.
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Not really. Hate to miss out on a good game because I don't own the hardware and don't care enough to buy a whole system to just play one game.
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Yeah, the 80's and 90's were like the Wild West when it came to game consoles.

Things have pretty much settled down to the three we have now.
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I loved the console wars of the 16 bit era, Nintendo and segs really tried hard to have exclusive killer apps and cross platform games were great for comparing consoles

When I was a kid the Game Gear and Saturn may as well have not existed. I probably had heard of them but I never understood what they were. I had a friend that had a Sega CD. That's about as niche as it got for me.

So basically PlayStation replaced Sega, then Sega tried to come back in a big way for a Dreamcast only to crash and burn and then Microsoft stepped in and it has been the same since.

I suppose Nintendo just having one platform now is pretty different.
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Darmik posted...

When I was a kid the Game Gear and Saturn may as well have not existed. I probably had heard of them but I never understood what they were. I had a friend that had a Sega CD. That's about as niche as it got for me.

So basically PlayStation replaced Sega, then Sega tried to come back in a big way for a Dreamcast only to crash and burn and then Microsoft stepped in and it has been the same since.

I suppose Nintendo just having one platform now is pretty different.

I remember a girl in Kindergarten bringing in a Game Gear with Sonic on it. It kind of weirded me out, because she never struck me as the type to be into games (especially with her being Arabic, not that that matters, but still).

Up until the end of the third grade, she was also my spelling bee rival. >_>
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Too many cooks in the kitchen is always a bad thing.
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EliteC posted...

I loved the console wars of the 16 bit era, Nintendo and segs really tried hard to have exclusive killer apps and cross platform games were great for comparing consoles

Good times
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Sega fooled me twice with Sega CD and 32X
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Zodd3224 posted...

Sega fooled me twice with Sega CD and 32X

Did you get those?
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Nope. I like that theres just a few to choose from. Also I grew up in the 90s and I dont even know what some of those are. I remember the PS1, N64, Sega Dreamcast, and Gameboy. Maybe some kids with older siblings had a Super Nintendo. But stuff like the 3do and Neo Geo, the first I heard of them was probably in a gaming magazine in the 00s talking about obsolete consoles, and even now, I only know the names. Ive never actually seen what they look like.

Nah. I had a sega cd and 32x (only when I managed to get one off clearance at a roses) back in the day, along with the standard snes and genesis setup.....sega cd was pretty cool with popful mail, eternal champions cd, sonic sd, lunar 1 and 2, and this one game I owned where the dialogue and voice acting was beyond dumb so my older brother and I just used to bug out playing it (game called willy beamish), but that 32x plus the random games I had like paws of fury was a waste of 20 dollars that I will never get back, lol.

I had a cousin that came from money with a 3DO plus a good deal of the good stuff like samurai showdown, metal slug, shock troopers etc. I was crazy jealous back then, but I guess with all the neogeo collections and re-releases we have nowadays, I am kind of glad my parents never dropped that kind of money to get one, since they ain't really had it like that to be buying neo geo games anyway.

Battery issues aside, the gamegear was pretty cool. Loved playing it whenever someone I knew brought theirs over. Same goes with the saturn. (I had friends with the saturn, I only ever had a playstation and a n64 during that time).
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Willy Beamish! AVGN showed that in his Sega CD review.
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Zodd3224 posted...

Sega fooled me twice with Sega CD and 32X

Did you get those?

Yup. Truly awful.

Sonic CD, Snatcher, Doom, Virtua Racing were the only games I enjoyed between the two systems
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Willy Beamish! AVGN showed that in his Sega CD review.

Me n' my bro will forever this one scene where you are running from some biker dudes, you go talk to some random asian tourist family to help you out, said asians turn out to be ninjas, they wreck them in a fight, and then after its all said and done you go with them to their house to eat sushi with the most stereotypical bugs bunny cartoon asian music playing in the background.

The whole thing is so random that its like, I can never forget it, lmao. We like to bring up random willy beamish qoutes from time to time just to make each other laugh, and get everyone else to wonder wtf we are laughing at. Game was truly asscheeks...I think my brother spent 10 dollars on it back in the day from somewhere or another.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb2crDaukfI" data-time="&start=8482 (2:21:32)
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