You never forget your first
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NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Konsole sounds like the name KDE would use for a home gaming device, or their terminal emulator :3
peteyestee@feddit.org 1 month ago
Dreamcast was the best.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Does the Offspring come to mind when thinking of the Dreamcast? I can’t get it out of my head now.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
Crazy Taxi had them on the soundtrack and it was a Dreamcast game… Maybe that?
folkrav@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
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.
ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yep and a damn fine game at that! Atleast that I can remember.
WYLD_STALLYNS@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Does the Offspring come to mind when thinking of the Dreamcast?
Ya ya ya ya ya
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I need to know more about this.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The song “All I Want” was prominently featured in the game Crazy Taxi, I believe.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
There’s a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there’s always emulation
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 1 month ago
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m obsessed with the OG xbox and 360, oh how the mighty have fallen.
Wahots@pawb.social 1 month ago
The 360 was so good
k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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.
naught@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
red ring of death
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse…… those SNES games just hit hard.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 1 month ago
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
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 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.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
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.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My first console was an Atari 2600. Well that was my family’s first.
My own fist was the original NES. Saved up my paper route money to buy it.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 1 month ago
My first was the 5200 and my favorite game was Joust. Killing the pterodactyl was the highlight too.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The 5200’s was the best home version of Joust.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The real question, did you play paperboy on it?
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oddly enough, I did not.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
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.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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).
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 1 month ago
Where’s my ps2 heads at
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 1 month ago
Yes!! Still never been beat.
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Phillips CDi? Oh no!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Think that still beats out the Virtual Boy.
Eggscellent@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Intellivision 👾
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic
arararagi@ani.social 1 month ago
PC engine, even though I never even saw one in person lol.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
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
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
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
the_wiz@feddit.org 1 month ago
It was not my first (this would have been the Atari 2600), but the console that still has a very special place in my heart is the Atari Jaguar
hOrni@lemmy.world 1 month ago
PolyStation. I’m from center Europe, so Famiclones were a big thing in the 90s.
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 month ago
I hated those things because of how easy it was to scam unaware parents. “Your kid asked for a playstation? Oh, sure, it’s this polystation, they must’ve said the name wrong, it’s this one, for sure!”
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Gameboy gang rise!!
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 month ago
In all it’s shades on green 💚
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Atari 400 ✋
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
ccunning@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The 800 was the better machine but god damn the 400 is so sexy 🥵
The idea of writing anything on its awful keyboard is inconceivable though 😅
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hey, do you want like 400,000 more copies of E.T? They’re just sitting there. In some landfill.
GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
9point6@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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
sundray@lemmus.org 1 month ago
Ouya!
No? Okay, Game Boy!
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 1 month ago
The revolution will be televised!
I still play towerfall, and occasionally the amazing frog?
Gonzako@lemmy.world 1 month ago
ps2?
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 1 month ago
Anyone got the original comic?
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
What war you will be obsessed with
lime@feddit.nu 1 month ago
the original is about wars i think
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Ha it’s me. Wow.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Atari Jaguar. No one I knew had one and the only place to play one was a single game store in a mall that you had to pay to play. I paid twice to play and was in love.
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
nes galaga at my dads house <3
whelk@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
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.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 month ago
But… but… Sega does what Nintendon’t!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
To which my response was “Well… Nintendo doesn’t suck.” They clearly didn’t test that slogan amongst children. 😌
edgemaster72@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Gnugit@aussie.zone 1 month ago
I had a Sega Megadrive that I loved but still thought SNES was better.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Mega Drive was awesome
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I had SNES and pretty much all of the best games, but my friend had Sega Channel and I COVETED IT.