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Ngage, what is this even?
Does the Offspring come to mind when thinking of the Dreamcast? I can’t get it out of my head now.
I need to know more about this.
The song “All I Want” was prominently featured in the game Crazy Taxi, I believe.
Does the Offspring come to mind when thinking of the Dreamcast?
Ya ya ya ya ya
Crazy Taxi had them on the soundtrack and it was a Dreamcast game… 🤔
Yep and a damn fine game at that! Atleast that I can remember.
It’s one of the few racing type games I will spend money on at an arcade if I see the machine even though I own a Dreamcast and a copy of the game at home.
Fuuuuck I rented that game so much back then. If it wasn’t available every other weekend at my local video store it was 100% my fault.
Ya ya ya ya yaaaaa! Day after day…
I can’t not hear “SON OF WAR” instead of “It’s all I want” in that song 🤣
Haha like a war cry while ploughing through pedestrians. Son of waaar
I’m obsessed with the OG xbox and 360, oh how the mighty have fallen.
The 360 was so good
red ring of death
Yeah if you never got the red ring of death it was the best console.
Its DRM was more flexible than we have ever or will ever see on a console again.
- The licensing worked similar to xbox one but you could transfer all licenses at once instead of just when you downloaded a game.
- You could install any disc or digital game to internal or external drives and could transfer it between any pc/console. The discs then functioned as physical licenses to play disc-based games.
The avatar system was the gaming metaverse we all wanted and it got abandoned before it could reach its full potential.
- Avatar awards as skins you could show off in multiple games!? Amazing.
- indie devs could take advantage of the avatar system to enhance their games
The library was the peak that xbox ever had to offer. Uniqueness and passion still showed through in AAA games of this era, and 360 had the majority of quality AAA games. PS3 still managed, but nostalgia for the 360 days is what is still keeping the xbox brand alive today.
The online multiplayer in games of this era still celebrated and enabled community/random encounters with voice chat. This doesnt happen in modern games, nobody is in the game chat anymore. I am not a fan of paid multiplayer so i dont pay anymore, but back in the day, it was worth it for the shenanigans and connections we made.
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.
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.
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.
I had a Sega Megadrive that I loved but still thought SNES was better.
Mega Drive was awesome
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. 😌
ps2?
Anyone got the original comic?
What war you will be obsessed with
Here ya go
I guess mine’s a PC from the 90s or 00s
Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn’t really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later
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.
This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.
For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.
In some places, the ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64 war was epic. Likewise for Amiga vs Atari ST. Magazines for one fanbase would regularly mock the other. And I don’t know what the TRS-80 was going up against, but I’ve seen it called the “Trash-80” more than a couple of times.
What can help proof someone against this excessive dedication to one platform isn’t which platform you start them on; it’s starting them on multiple platforms as soon as possible. Getting them interested in the individual games rather than the fan club nonsense.
As human beings we naturally oversimplify things. So when our entire experience has been A, and the people around us frame the world as a choice between A and B, we’re naturally going to defend A with our life. That’s because without really thinking about it, we’ve bought into the idea that A is either right or wrong, with no middle-ground, and we hate to be wrong.
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.
Granted I was pretty young, but I friggin loved the ColecoVision. It had a respectable game library and Zaxxon in particular was the stuff. I remember my mom playing Ladybug (Pacman clone) frequently.
Welp. Guess I’m spending the rest of my evening looking for an emulator.
Intellivision 👾
PolyStation. I’m from center Europe, so Famiclones were a big thing in the 90s.
Atari 400 ✋
I had an 800. Had the cassette tape media drive and some game for it, but could never get it working.
Also had that awful ET game.
I recall writing a screensaver in basic and letting it run overnight.
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.
