If there's 1 generation of gaming you could play forever, which one would it be?

This is an interesting question, because I think you might have to erase future generations from your mind for it to work.
As a kid I could happily play every waking hour on my C64, but would I still be as enthralled when compared to what can be done now?

A specific example comes to mind too. I loved Frontier: Elite 2. Put huge amounts of hours into it.

When Frontier: First Encounters came out it was a buggy mess, and it required a lot of patches to make it do anything like what it was supposed to (and those patches had to be received by post on a floppy!). So Frontier 2 was still the superior game for a long time. And I loved that game, so i could carry on playing it, right?

Wrong. The existence of First Encounters, and the mechanics and concepts that it introduced, meant that I couldn't bring myself to go back to Frontier 2, even though the later game wasn't really playable still.

So I'd love to go back to games say 20 years ago. But I'd have to go back to me 20 years ago too for it to work I think.
 
3rd!!!! The 8-bit home console gen (Sega Master System, NES, Gameboy, Game Gear, 2600, PC Engine) along with the 8 bit computers like C64, Z80 etc.

I still play on the my sega master system now, and it's the generation that most modern "retro" games are based.
Apart from the open world standbox and first person shooters, most games genres was defined in this generations.
 
Either 4th Gen Amiga/game boy era....

Thinking a Link to the Past and Links Awakening mostly. I played those games so much.


Or the era that's kinda on the options but not given a PC option..... that mid late 2000's PC era. 2006-7... Fallout3, Oblivion, Bioshock, S.t.a.l.k.e.r, mass effect, crisis, portal, The Witcher, TF2....

Actually.... forget the 4th gen. 2006-7 PC gaming now I look at that list was amazing. Never been bettered!
 
ZX Spectrum/Amiga for me. Both have those woah gaming moments that I've not had since.

Ok maybe the Playstation/Dreamcast had a few of those moments too.

Yep, Amiga. Would definitely be happy playing that gen forever!
 
Very tough every generation has had some standout moments for me at least, just a few off the top of head….

Speccy128k +2 - was my first real computer and having access to hundreds of games/arcade conversions for a reasonable price was quite something.

Megadrive - Sonic, Streets of Rage, Revenge of Shinobi and the countless SHMUP’s

SNES - Super Mario World (my first Mario true love). Also Zelda, MarioKart, Castlevania, Metroid to name but a few.

N64 - Mario 64, both Zelda’s and Goldeneye!

PS1 - Final Fantasy VII, ploughed 100’s of hours into this!

GameCube - Mario Sunshine, Zelda and RE4.

For now though I will go with 4th gen.
 
I loved my Amiga, but I'd have to go 5th Gen if I'm honest with myself.

I'd just started secondary school when the PS1 was released, that common gaming ground forged friendships that last to this day.

Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy
Tekken
Wipeout 2097
Crash
Metal Gear
Resi
GT
Tony Hawks
Dave Mirra BMX
Light gun games!

So much variety on offer.
 
ZG002 said:
I loved my Amiga, but I'd have to go 5th Gen if I'm honest with myself.

I'd just started secondary school when the PS1 was released, that common gaming ground forged friendships that last to this day.

Tomb Raider
Final Fantasy
Tekken
Wipeout 2097
Crash
Metal Gear
Resi
GT
Tony Hawks
Dave Mirra BMX
Light gun games!

So much variety on offer.
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Same, loved my Amiga but mid-late 90s there was so much progress with games which primarily came from small teams wirking on Amiga titles initially (early-mid 90s)
 
I'm surprised many here are saying the SNES era when most millennials (born 84 onwards) were too young to have experienced it first hand from 90-95
 
I was born 84, and I distinctly remember and loved the SNES/Megadrive era. Parents got me a used NES when I was 6, but got a megadrive when 8. It was a great time in gaming, friends all had either a SNES or megadrive. So many great games played. Never got in to the RPGs when young, but the attachment is there where I am happy to play this style of game nowadays.

I guess for me, it would have to be 6th generation consoles if I was picking one generation only. So many good titles released over this generation, and still modern enough for me, without the doom of current-era gaming. Just give me a Dreamcast and I'll be OK.
 
Can I choose 2?

5th & 6th gen, 5th gen started 3d, 6th gen polished up what happened with 5th gen

Gaming peaked at 6th gen, since then games have become largely boring with few new ideas and boundaries pushing games were fun then now it's all a bit too serious and aimed more at adults with pots of cash with a ponchant for realism
 
Anyways, to answer the OPs question. 4th generation gaming for me having to be born in the 70s I was actually of the age to grasp the full experience of the early 90s SNES Vs Mega drive period from 90-95... The whole Atari, NES, SNES era was definitely the peak of GenX culture for people of my age range

So it's the 4th gen but it was tough because I wanted to say the NES era too... Also unpopular opinion 6th gen is massively overrated!
 
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Emlyn_Dewar said:
I'll have one of whatever you've been drinking. :D
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The DC was good... But I feel it gets rated way too highly because a lot of Sega fans who grew up in the 90s miss and I get it, yes the system was ahead of its time but it produced way too many bad games and unfortunately it didn't last too long.

GameCube... Meh console but to be honest I lost interest after the SNES era of the early 90s.

GBA... Great console... I should edit my previous comment (the one you quoted).

OG Xbox... Awful, only good for Halo CE - 2.


I understand why many who are now 30-27 age range rate this gen because it was their childhood throughout the 2000s, but the nostalgia...
 
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