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

adam cool dude · 3 Jan 2024 at 08:48

GMFan84 said:
All I'm saying is those born from 84-89 were too young for the early 90s gaming. Sega Vs Nintendo from 90-95, you can say whatever makes you feel happy.

How I played Sonic 1, California games and Ghouls and Ghosts to death on the bandit in my dads local pub? I was born in 86 but can remember it all very clearly like it was yesterday.

My son is 4 years old and has a Snes Mini in his bedroom. He is getting there slowly but I am sure by the time he is 6 it will be easily playable for him.

GMFan84 · 3 Jan 2024 at 17:03

When the SNES days ended in 95 you guys were 11-6 :cry:

Gunni Parker · 3 Jan 2024 at 17:54

The 4th Gen but with the added addition of the Amiga 1200.

GMFan84 · 4 Jan 2024 at 00:16

adam cool dude said:
How I played Sonic 1, California games and Ghouls and Ghosts to death on the bandit in my dads local pub? I was born in 86 but can remember it all very clearly like it was yesterday.

My son is 4 years old and has a Snes Mini in his bedroom. He is getting there slowly but I am sure by the time he is 6 it will be easily playable for him.

Born in 86, mate you were only 9 when the SNES days were done in 95.

You missed it, it's okay

m4cc45 · 4 Jan 2024 at 10:53

It would be a toss up between the 8bit and 16bit generations for me but rather than SNES I'd aim at the Amiga. Just the variety and innovation going on those platforms was amazing. So many different genres of games and pretty much everything you could imagine. The C64, for the time, was mind blowing. The Amiga made it prettier and gave us some fantastic games. But yeah I'd be more towards the computers than the consoles

M.

SamuearlJackson · 4 Jan 2024 at 11:02

Another vote for late 80s/early 90s Amiga.

Kyle009 · 5 Jan 2024 at 14:26

GMFan84 said:
I was in my 20s then, old enough and saw it all first hand. You were barely around in the early 90s

If you want to gatekeep technically the SNES and Mega Drive weren't aimed at you if you were in the 20s. So you shouldn't have been playing them. It's a bit of a bizarre argument you're having in this thread.

As others have said I was born in 86 and can remember playing on my friends Mega Drive (help me, I'm poor). We played World Cup Italia 90 for ages and then one weekend he rented Fifa 95 and we just couldn't go back. It was a massive leap for us.

Bubo · 5 Jan 2024 at 14:46

For context my gaming life started with a B&W TV console with pong etc, and I have gone through the usual 8bit(Atari 2600/BBC B/Electron), 16bit(Atari ST/Amiga), 32bit (PC/PS1) and 64+bit (PC/PS2-3-4-5).

If I had to choose one period it would be when the addition of the mouse opened up a vastly expanded range of the types of games I could get in to. So for me it is the Amiga/ST period. It's not just the increase in graphical power compared to the preceding generation, it really is the mouse that opened it all out from then onwards.

LewisRaz · 5 Jan 2024 at 16:26

Megadrive has my heart but I think if I really had to pick one it would be N64 as it had so many greats.

GMFan84 · 5 Jan 2024 at 20:23

Kyle009 said:
If you want to gatekeep technically the SNES and Mega Drive weren't aimed at you if you were in the 20s. So you shouldn't have been playing them. It's a bit of a bizarre argument you're having in this thread.

As others have said I was born in 86 and can remember playing on my friends Mega Drive (help me, I'm poor). We played World Cup Italia 90 for ages and then one weekend he rented Fifa 95 and we just couldn't go back. It was a massive leap for us.

Mate, you had a lot of youths back then who were in their early to mid 20s playing games in general, the arcades were filled with them too.

My whole point is that people born between 84-89 were just too young. By the time the SNES era ended you guys would have been 11-6. A short lived era before the 5th gen started in 95

ImMrChris · 5 Jan 2024 at 22:15

oh god Amiga / Megadrive days were the best with the Snes too for me by far

Personality+ · 5 Jan 2024 at 22:45

can't beat going from a PS1 (I got it in 2000) to a Dreamcast 2001 to a PS2 and Xbox (2002) to a PSP in 2004 and an Xbox 360 in 2005.

Easily the peak period of gaming in my life, basically got a new system for a birthday or xmas near enough every year for 5 years straight.

So 6th gen gets my vote.

The graphical progress in those 5 years was insane for me... I imagined games like FIFA would imitate real life at this point, man how wrong was I.

Drizmod · 5 Jan 2024 at 22:47

6th Gen. The Dreamcast was awesome. I was blown away by the graphics of Soul Calibur, the gameplay of Jet Set Radio and the RPGness of Shenmue

GMFan84 · 5 Jan 2024 at 23:03

If we're being honest. PS2 had the greatest run throughout video game history. Everything from 2001-2007 was classic after classic during its time on top

GMFan84 · 5 Jan 2024 at 23:08

Personality+ said:
can't beat going from a PS1 (I got it in 2000) to a Dreamcast 2001 to a PS2 and Xbox (2002) to a PSP in 2004 and an Xbox 360 in 2005.

Easily the peak period of gaming in my life, basically got a new system for a birthday or xmas near enough every year for 5 years straight.

So 6th gen gets my vote.

The graphical progress in those 5 years was insane for me... I imagined games like FIFA would imitate real life at this point, man how wrong was I.

Who was even playing an Xbox 360 in 2005? The PS2 and GameCube was still huge

I don't recall it being big until Halo 3 came out, the true beginning of the 360 era

adam cool dude · 6 Jan 2024 at 04:30

GMFan84 said:
Born in 86, mate you were only 9 when the SNES days were done in 95.

You missed it, it's okay

What made you think it was done by 95? Maybe you struggled with games at that age but it was no problem for me. I completed Fantastic Dizzy at that age. I used a guide to help me but I still did it. I had the magazines and everything at the time. I got my Megadrive in Christmas 1992 and played it straight for 5 years with my friends.

Most of my friends didn't get N64 till Christmas 97 so we were still playing Megadrive till then. We all clear as day didn't want the Playstation and pestered our parents for N64 but I was too young to remember.......

Emlyn_Dewar · 6 Jan 2024 at 04:34

I think he's one to ignore really. Has to be someone's alt account, or a troll effort.

ristac · 6 Jan 2024 at 07:21

adam cool dude said:
How I played Sonic 1, California games and Ghouls and Ghosts to death on the bandit in my dads local pub? I was born in 86 but can remember it all very clearly like it was yesterday.

My son is 4 years old and has a Snes Mini in his bedroom. He is getting there slowly but I am sure by the time he is 6 it will be easily playable for him.

Hacky Sack, the hours practicing that

GMFan84 · 6 Jan 2024 at 12:39

adam cool dude said:
What made you think it was done by 95? Maybe you struggled with games at that age but it was no problem for me. I completed Fantastic Dizzy at that age. I used a guide to help me but I still did it. I had the magazines and everything at the time. I got my Megadrive in Christmas 1992 and played it straight for 5 years with my friends.

Most of my friends didn't get N64 till Christmas 97 so we were still playing Megadrive till then. We all clear as day didn't want the Playstation and pestered our parents for N64 but I was too young to remember.......

Because the 5th gen started that year, ps1

Personality+ · 6 Jan 2024 at 13:59

GMFan84 said:
Who was even playing an Xbox 360 in 2005? The PS2 and GameCube was still huge

I don't recall it being big until Halo 3 came out, the true beginning of the 360 era

I wanted it at launch and luckily got one at launch also, but that's true it did take a year or two to build real momentum.

I had Project Gotham Racing 3, Condemned: Criminal Origins, FIFA 06: Road to FIFA World Cup and Need for Speed: Most Wanted as launch games.

games used to have 100-1000 players online back then.