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

Tempted to say 4th (or is it 3rd?) for my Mastersystem. My first console I owner rather than shared. Operation wolf, Sonic, Alex Kid, Wonder Boy etc. The nostalgia is strong, but most games havn't fared too well.

But gotta be 5th. PS1 was everything. I traded my SNES and oodles of games for one, couldn't afford any games so just played the demo disk for days (destruction derby / Jumping flash / ESPN etreme sports etc). Could afford Tekken 2 weeks later after paper round money :D
 
I was born in 1995 and have very fond memories of playing the SNES.

Consoles didn't stop existing when they were replaced with newer models... :p

My first computer ran Windows 95. My current car was made in 1990.

What a weird hill to die on... Just apply a modicum of common sense.

People don't always have the newest things.
 
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Born in 85, loved the SNES era, weird trolls don't change reality, goodnight :)

However. PSX was the era I probably most enjoyed console wise until my friend introduced me to PC gaming in about 1998.
 
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Acme said:
I was born in 1995 and have very fond memories of playing the SNES.

Consoles didn't stop existing when they were replaced with newer models... :p

My first computer ran Windows 95. My current car was made in 1990.

What a weird hill to die on... Just apply a modicum of common sense.

People don't always have the newest things.
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Exactly I can quite fondly remember the Nes and Master System too. Plenty of my friends had them passed down from older brothers etc.

Just because an "era" ended from sale so to speak doesn't mean culturally it didn't still continue.

Plenty of friends were playing Pokémon Blue and Red in 98 on old black and white Gameboys even though the colour and pocket had both been released.
 
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I went to boarding school (not the kind for posh kids, the kind for mental and evil kids) and we had NES and SNES consoles, and possibly a Jaguar?
Then we upgraded to PS1 and Dreamcast.

When I was living back with my folks again I asked for a PS1 for Christmas, because to me it was the latest and greatest in technology, and I was confused when I got a PS2 instead.

I didn't know they existed, and I was blown away all over again!
 
adam cool dude said:
Exactly I can quite fondly remember the Nes and Master System too. Plenty of my friends had them passed down from older brothers etc.

Just because an "era" ended from sale so to speak doesn't mean culturally it didn't still continue.

Plenty of friends were playing Pokémon Blue and Red in 98 on old black and white Gameboys even though the colour and pocket had both been released.
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Culturally speaking the SNES era was done when the PS1 was out in 1995. It was a new era.

Those born from 84-89 were too young to have experienced the SNES days of the early 90s
 
I must admit I thought the two guys going at it over the SNES were a couple of real life mates having a strange banter in this thread. :confused:
 
The point being continuously repeated. There's no way it's a real account.
We might just be imaging this though, just as we imagined our days playing consoles we're too young to have ever even heard about.
 
Wait til he hears that I've played games on my 1978 Apple ][ EuroPlus that I own and is in my cupboard right now, despite the fact that it was obsolete decades before I was born. :p
 
damn it, all 3 have a place

if I had to pick one, i'd go with 4th Gen, i spent most the time gaming in that era

.. spent a lot of time on the psx too though
 
I think it boils down to the age you were and that golden age seems to me IMO around maybe 7-15 or so. For me this was MD SNES - N64 era. I pick SNES but I have found memrories of my youngest years and loving the ZX Spectrum. I liked waiting for the tape to load, it built excitement.

One thing that did bother me was when my mum said I could play for half an hour on my Spectrum she didn't not factor in the 29 min loading times.
 
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One thing that did bother me was when my mum said I could play for half an hour on my Spectrum she didn't not factor in the 29 min loading times.
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Haha this is still an issue today. My wife says I can have an hour on the Xbox but it takes 45 minutes to download and reinstall the latest updates :D
 
My gaming moments were...(and can split into 3 chunks)

Playing Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros (3rd one) on the NES with my Cousins in their bedroom.
Playing Bomberman with same cousin but on the TV in the living room.
Playing Bubble Bobble with the neighbour's kid on the NES.
Playing Columns on the Game Gear at another cousin's and killing a lot of batteries.
Playing the Gameboy on the flight over to the UK.

Playing Revenge of Shinobi, Sonic, Golden Axe, and notably a game like Advance Wars that I don't know the name of, on the Japanese Mega Drive. 2 Years before European release, and when I came over, my friends were playing Spectrum, paper boy, and Master System and they were "showing them off" to me. My English wasn't great and I had no idea what I had at the time which would have blown their socks off.
Getting a SNES from my dad with Super Mario World.
Playing Link to the Past to death, getting all the hearts, know it inside out and can do dungeons out of order so I can get the best gear early.
Playing Secret of the Mystical Ninja & Soul Blazer with my sister.
Ordering a US copy of Secret of Mana before it had a PAL release, and remember calling one of the character Susan for some reason.

Playing FIFA 98 at uni with friends.
Playing Gran Turismo for like 18hrs straight on the day I got it.
Playing FFVII all summer...and then thinking...why did I waste a whole summer playing this? I can't show it off lol

My favourite era would be the Mega Drive/SNES era, I played games without a hint of guilt of wasting time and not being productive, I treasured every game, they were harder to come by, I had much fewer of them, I had no sense of what is good or bad except the art on the box.
 
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