Lets have a 90's console war....

Agree about Saturn. After much fun with my SNES went into the local computer shop armed with cash for a Saturn. Walked out with a PlayStation...

Took the owner about 30 mins to talk me into a Sony PlayStation. Wipeout did it for me. I did later on get a n64 but by then the psx had pretty much overtook and the n64 went to my sister and that was that. Shame, but I had my fun at the time..
 
Ryan-3 said:
PlayStation. Paved the way IMO and was followed well by the Playstaion 2. Started to lose its way after that for me.
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Yeah, went from ps2 to ps3 and it was only the exclusive titles that IMO saved the ps3 IMO. Ps4 however has reclaimed much of the great things that Sony built with the early PlayStation era...
 
What about the Dreamcast?! It was truly great and a testament to gamer's lack of tastes that it died so early. For ages it had a far better library than any other current console of that time. A damn shame.
 
N64

Golden eye and smash bros

nuff said

Warbie said:
What about the Dreamcast?! It was truly great and a testament to gamer's lack of tastes that it died so early. For ages it had a far better library than any other current console of that time. A damn shame.
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I would class the dream cast as the naughties. release date:September 9, 1999
with most getting it around christmas time :D
 
heh fair enough. Still a crying shame! It took the PS2 AGES to catch up in terms of decent titles. Infact, The Dreamcast had been dead for a while before the PS2 caught up. The Playstation generation make me weep.
 
TripleT said:
Definitely Playstation, games were amazing and you could chip them too!
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I didn't know anyone who didn't get their Playstation chipped. Games cost a fiver, it was great. I remember my dad taking me to some dude he found in the local paper who did the chipping, it took him about 20 mins to do, I was just sat there watching him do it in his garden shed :D

Right little operation he had going, he did he chipping while he had another guy on the same street do the games. They communicated via walkie talkies, he took my order of games so the other guy could burn them while he was chipping the console. :D

The PSX had so many great games.

GT
Tekken
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Destruction Derby
Crash Bandicoot
TOCA
Grand Theft Auto
Abe's Oddysee
Tony Hawks Pro Skater
 
Goldeneye
Perfect Dark
Conkers 64
Banjo-Kazooie
Banjo-Tooie
Zelda OOT
Zelda MM
WCW vs NWO Revenge
WWF Wrestlemania
WWF No Mercy
Mario 64
Mario Kart 64
Lylat Wars

Some classic games there

I went to Heart of Gaming in North Acton a few weekends back and me and about 9 other mates were huddled around 2 CRTs smashing out Goldeneye and Mario Kart.

Was a great afternoon playing old classic games.
 
byeo said:
I didn't know anyone who didn't get their Playstation chipped. Games cost a fiver, it was great. I remember my dad taking me to some dude he found in the local paper who did the chipping, it took him about 20 mins to do, I was just sat there watching him do it in his garden shed :D

Right little operation he had going, he did he chipping while he had another guy on the same street do the games. They communicated via walkie talkies, he took my order of games so the other guy could burn them while he was chipping the console. :D

The PSX had so many great games.

GT
Tekken
Resident Evil
Tomb Raider
Destruction Derby
Crash Bandicoot
TOCA
Grand Theft Auto
Abe's Oddysee
Tony Hawks Pro Skater
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Didn't get mine chipped. So basically could only afford one game at a time, only then after trading which ever game is finished.

I think you benefit more from not playing pirate games. It makes you consider your purchases very hard. Reading reviews and playing demos first meant every game I bought was great and that I finished it.

Especially when PlayStation games were so expensive. The first game I bought was Tekken, which was a traded in used copy, cost me £45. Both the first Resident Evil and F1 games cost me £50 new. I remember going on to the local
shop and buying the F1 game and a Madcatz steering wheel and handing over nearly a weeks wages.
 
I had most of the main stream ones over the years.

Started with a mega drive. Then on to Playstation. Got it chipped but only to play imports (didn't actually pirate anything)!
I also got hold of a Saturn and bought a nes (I had never owned one).
Then onto the N64.
Dreamcast (which is probably my favorite console of all time).
ps2
ps3
Xbox
Wii
Xbone
Ps4

Had most of the handhelds though.

My fondest memories are with the ps1, n64 and dreamcast. That was the peak of console gaming for me, so many new and original games.
 
I had the Master System & N64 as a kid. I still have my N64, with a tatty Ocarina of time sticker i got from N64 Magazine.

My cousin had a SNES, then N64, then Dreamcast.

It was great when we were little as we would swap cartridges and beat bits that the other couldnt. Think we almost got all the medals in Lylat Wars & Stars in SM64. And we would swap cartidges when we were finished with them so it was like having twice the games for the same amount of cash.

I spent hours in Top Gear Rally making custom paint jobs & saving them to memory cards.

I liked the Dreamcast though i thought it was too noisy.
 
To close to call for me I would give them both No.1 Playstaion had bigger library of games that i enjoyed, but the N64 had the best multiplayer games which game some of the best gaming experiences.

 
ak22 said:
To close to call for me I would give them both No.1 Playstaion had bigger library of games that i enjoyed, but the N64 had the best multiplayer games which game some of the best gaming experiences.
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N64 for sure had some good multiplayers, probably better for the ones it had. I remember the hassle of playing Wipeout 2097 link up on multiplayer, taking a spare tv and console to friends houses really was a nightmare as a teenager, but well worth the effort.
 
What a brilliant time for gaming, the Playstation was amazing the amount of time I put into Ridge Racer on release and then Resident evil evil etc.

I liked the Saturn though it was worth it just for Sega Rally.

I'm not the biggest fan of Nintendo but the N64 was very good, probably my favourite Nintendo console.

Luckily I stil have all of these consoles and games boxed up, may have to do a retro night one day :)
 
Countless hours on the snes. Ps1 I didn't enjoy that much until I got gt/gta. N64 was bags of fun on goldeneye.
 
~Divine~Wind~ said:
Saturn, PSX and N64 oh the joys :)

I must admit I only got a Saturn many years later and thoroughly enjoyed it.
PSX and N64 a very tight battle imho with PSX coming out just on top due to the amount of AAA titles that were released and the controller, really didnt get on with the N64 pad.

You did miss out the jaguar, but at the time I dont remember it being as mainstream as any of the other systems. I greatly enjoyed Theme Park and AvP on the Jag tho, by far one of the best alien games to date imho.

You seem against cartridges, I see it as a plus point for the N64 really, load times :) /QUOTE]

Cartridges still had slight load times, no where near the PlayStation levels. Yeah the Jaguar was left out along with the Amiga CD-Rom console and the Panasonic 3DO plus the Philips CDI!

mid_gen said:
PSX and Dreamcast (just 90s) here.

Phantasy Star Online was so ahead of it's time on Dreamcast, ran up many a phone bill on it. Crazy Taxi et al were awecome, shame it was Sega's hardware swansong.
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Yeah, I was only focusing on the mid 90's. Dreamcast was a grout console!

mahius said:
"Let's start a ... console war"...? While it's fine to go back in time and enjoy some nostalgia, being this childish (which is what console wars are) is perhaps taking it a bit too far.
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It was meant to be tongue in cheek :)

Nobody is really going to argue over mid 90's consoles are they :eek:

Cool Breeze said:
Can't believe no ones mentioned the Sega 32x, great for the arcade hits of the time Star Wars , Virtua Racing and Virtua Fighter. Dog of a system though.

Had all others too saturn, mega drive, PSX my brother had the Snes, N64 etc.

Good times
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Mega CD and the 32X were not strictly consoles are such. There was a reason Nintendo papped that idea and in turn giving birth to the PlayStation!

barmyllama said:
Having owned previous Sega consoles I had my eye on the Saturn before it came out. But after talking to the owner of the local game shop, he persuaded me to get the PlayStation.
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I originally went for the Sega Saturn, once FF7 came out I swapped my Saturn along with 3 control pads and 20 games for a PlayStation and FF7....
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N64 all the way ... had some of my favourite games of all time.

Mario 64, Goldeneye, Zelda Ocarina of time and of course Superman 64.

I think the only console I didn't have from the 90s was the Saturn.
 
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