My Pentium 120 MhZ playing Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo, Red Alert. All my friends had 133 MhZ so was the underdog at LAN meetups ๐
Patient Gamers
A gaming community free from the hype and oversaturation of current releases, catering to gamers who wait at least 12 months after release to play a game. Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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Probably NES. I had Atari, Sega Genesis, and PC, then later Sega Game Great, GB Advance, and XBox, but NES was the most fun imo. I mostly only played Street Fighter on Genesis.
For my kids, it'll probably be PC. They love Minecraft, and haven't played on our Switch a ton.
Eaaaaasily the Dreamcast, even though I think I was the only person I knew that had one. I think I had:
- Shenmue
- Power Stone
- Soulcalibur
- Quake III Arena
- Skies of Arcadia
- Capcom vs SNK
- Timestalkers
- Sonic Adventure
- Phantasy Star Online
Stellar lineup. I also loved my PlayStation.
Oh yeah the Dreamcast! Never saw a console with such a quirky lineup. My favorites were
- Rez
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Cosmic Smash
- Crazy Taxi
- House of the Dead
- Space Channel 5 (right left chu chu chu!)
N64. Apart from the usual suspects (Mario 64, Wave Race, Pilot Wings, Golden Eye, Dark Project), Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon still feels like I fever dreamed that crazy ass game up. It also had the only wrestling game I ever liked, but forgot the name.
Master System because I'm special
PC was all I had. Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original, not 2 or 3D) were my go-to games for a long while.
MSDOS
I remember being like 5 years old and my grandfather (who built the PC for us and would later take me to computer shows) made a "cheat sheet" for me telling me how to "cd" etc in order to find and run my games
I had a copy of DOS for Dummies. super helpful, the official manual for MSDOS 5.0 was really dry/uninteresting
Commodore 64, as was style at the time. I have 4 different versions in my collection, and I still use them few times a week.
OG Xbox. Fuck playing Halo in Split screen was fun.
And of course PC. Settlers 3, Counter Strike 1.6. amazing games all around
PS2... even though, during its last days, I had to stack half a set of encyclopedias on top to get it to run a game ๐ญ