I really liked my GBA
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Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse….. those SNES games just hit hard.
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn't really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I'm too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.
Oh good. I'm now too old to be nostalgic.
But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?
PC engine, even though I never even saw one in person lol.
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
Gameboy gang rise!!
I can't believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I'm such an idiot.
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.
There's a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there's always emulation
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/dreamcast/flycast.html
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend...
Didn't know they were that versatile. I never had one but I'm into retro gaming so I've played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha
nes galaga at my dads house <3
ps2?
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
GBA SP here.
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.
PSP was my first ('98 here), the 360 my second, a 3DS my third. I probably spent thousand of hours on my PSP, so I'd go for PSP probably. Jailbroke my childhood PSP a year ago or so and enjoyed playing a bunch of games I couldn't get. Also jailbroke my 3DS and gave it to my partner as a birthday gift so she could play all the Layton games which she grew up with.
A couple years ago, my obsession was probably the GBA, though. Growing up, we couldn't really afford any consoles, so my only experiences with Pokemon and stuff was via emulators on my PC. Had a period of them where I'd buy old GBAs, shell-swap them, restore old games and their batteries and fun stuff like that. Haven't touched the couple I have for some time now, sadly
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.
Phillips CDi? Oh no!
Think that still beats out the Virtual Boy.
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.
I had SNES and pretty much all of the best games, but my friend had Sega Channel and I COVETED IT.
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.
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I kid, I kid... actually I am obsessed with konsole
Konsole sounds like the name KDE would use for a home gaming device, or their terminal emulator :3
Dreamcast was the best.
Ngage, what is this even?
Anyone got the original comic?
Here ya go
What war you will be obsessed with
the original is about wars i think
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.
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
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