Petran79

Samurai Pizza Cats was a very good platformer with minimal text

Amiga and atarist were both popular. Probably you are right about the seconds popularity.Amiga had more highend models. Eg i played games on an expensive amiga 2000 (2000 dm the cost back then). Pc shops sold games and accessories for both platforms anyway. I mean that in the end, users are rather conservative and resistant to change. My parents used a win 3.1 486 pc till early 2000. Due to word compatibility and lack of web they had to upgrade in the end.for the vast majority who type, chat, watch video etc all these new gadgets like smartphones are redundant, yet in a few years they'll have to adapt to them

The fall of Berlin Wall. I was in Germany back then, where the Amiga was queen at that time. Good that you mention all those facts. Unfortunately back then, especially with no internet, we were clueless. Really all those companies claim they are there for the end user. But had they listened to us and not made changes behind our backs we would be years back. Changes just happens and we accept them even if we dont take them for granted.

Thanks to all the posters for their well thought and detailed replies, especially kitty89. Amiga is not dead though. There is also project natami, plus you can run linux apps on an amiga too. But those are for expert users. I was an amiga and nes fan but as a teen i had to move to pc in the mid-90s. Most pc game developers now develop for consoles, leaving pcs open to indie devs. The amiga had a rich pd game database too. Just as we were surprised by the events of 89, i never expected amiga and atari to be replaced by microsoft and fps and 3d to dominate games. I do not think i'll ever upgrade the pc again. I'll keep it for this gen and emulation (it even runs ps2 games emulated fine). With so much anti-2d sentiment i think those were the best years of gaming.

We need more james pond and less james bond

Make a vf vs sc vs doa vs tekken, with 60 or so fighters and leave 2d fighters to their own

I must have been 4-5 years old when i saw the first space invaders arcade. I thought it was something amazing back then. I loved playing all the arcade classics of the mid-80s. I felt as if i could control a tv cartoon. Atari 2600 games were creepier and more claustrophobic than their arcade counterparts. They were the best and most surreal. They had great covers too. Nes and master system games were great too. Unfortunately i had experienced some amiga games with amazing music and haunting graphics in the late 80s so i knew there was something better at that time. Even the worse amiga games made more impression than the best nes games (atari was forgotten). I felt in love with the amiga music and graphics of bubble bobble, shinobi, duck tales,wonder boy in monster land, new zealand story, something the arcades lacked and nes music could not reach. Also was enchanted with indiana jones adventure, without having seen the film. Horror games were something unheard of, so i was terrified with the fun elvira rpg game and music. Also strategy and simulation games were not the nes strong points. Unfortunately never owned an amiga. Would have made me a better and more patient gamer. When cdrom games appeared a few years later gaming reached the next stage, but something was lost along the way. We watched in awe a demo of Lost Eden. Then i never looked back till i found nes emulation.

I remember when my friends brother upgraded from a monochrome xt to a 486/dx2 66 mhz. Some older games (eg Savage, Golden Axe) became unplayable due to high speed It had a turbo button for that case but it did not always work. Later when cdrom was upgraded from a 2x speed, some video sequences would skip 1-2 second in the start due to faster cache. When later dos games were also directx compatible i prefered the windows version that supported also hardware acceleration (eg dungeon keeper and flying corps had direct 3d patches). But games were smoother on windows too and supported higher refresh rates. I prefer dosbox because it has also nice filters, not possible with the original dos. Dos games were the best but configuring them (especially the ems and high conventional memory ones) was a torture. What a relief windows 95 had. Though later other problems arose which even surpassed dos in difficulty.

If you create an online profile and register, cant you play later offline with all features, just without online play? I think the game is locked if you create an offline profile, though there will be trainers (not hacks) to unlock all features.

16-bit video games actually appeared two years earlier in 1987 with the amiga. But they were overall expensive in comparison to consoles but they were regarded back then and perhaps even more just like todays high end pcs with quad sli or crossfire. This is why though i enjoyed the nes, i wasnt impressed with graphics and sound at all, till the genesis came to cover that gap in graphics.

Actually that type of console/computer lasted till the mid-90s. I remember still in 1992 playing games such as altered beast, north and south, shinobi etc at a friend on a disc swapping system. But those were the last machines since production had ceased. Still, they were cheaper than a pc.

Not only is it silly, the whole discussion is really pointless. Even within the "generations" I have seen listed so far there are such a difference in performance and graphics among the various systems, that classifying them together is basically a joke. Just collect systems and games and don't worry about the "generation" argument. That is why we are fortunate today in terms of classification. Only 3, almost identical, console systems, 1 pc system for games, 2 handheld systems and a lot of similar cross platform games. The same trend will continue for years probably. From this point it is safer to pile all in a new generation. Till there remains only one...

The second trend, adventure and role playing,was already dominating pc games from the start of the 80s. Though regarding consoles that gap was covered by japanese developers later on, while pc game developers continued from the older games.

Also introduction of motion controls is not new either. It has to do rather with a specific time frame rather than hardware capabilities, varying by system, making things confusing (eg 1st generation of apple, atari, amiga etc) Because back then technology differences were much greater than today. Eg an amiga would blew an nes to dust, while now a ps3 and a wii do not have that great difference, neither a ps2 and a gamecube. I would not compare a snes with a nintendo 64 though or a saturn and a dreamcast, due to the 2d=/3d graphics approach.

Actually in Europe they are still popular. Where i live tv shows some guys dressed as smurfs dancing kids songs. An abomination really.parents and tv broadcasters must be deranged to show this to their kids. Series still runs on tv with new dubs. The 80s dubs were the best though. But they are hugely popular here.

I'd like to see a Crusader: no regret/no remorse remake, in first or third person view. Though i think a third game could have been released as well 15 years ago with the action shifting to earth and Silencer taking the evil US president. We were dissapointed that the series was cancelled. It was one of the best third person shooters

Gargoyle's quest is better on gb too than the nes version (snes is very different from both and i did not like it at all)

I stayed till 5 in the morning and finished bioshock 2 on the pc. Bought the dvd new and cheap. I think this is a better game than 1. 1 was too long for that matter. Too bad that after you finish it you wont replay it for months.amazing story though.

Actually a supposed console today would have the name of sammy-sega one (segammy would be best)

I would but i 've been in a mario detoxification programm for over 16 years.

I 'll post my own. 1. I never played online console games, even with a dreamcast 2. Handheld console: none. Good games exist but the whole concept is tiresome. 3. 8bit: from the design i prefered the master system too. 4. 32,64bit: dreamcast 5. 80s game console: atari2600 6. Retro pc: amiga 2000 7. Vaporware: neo geo 8. Last gen: ps2 (after 2003) 9. 16-bit: mega drive 10. Mascot: the 4 characters from bubble symphony Regarding modern questions i'll answer only about duke 3d. I'll play it but will buy it when it is cheap

I had bought a scart connector but it is defective (menu is barely visible since everything is black)

President Evil

If your ears were used to minimalistic chiptune music and then you switched to an amiga or something similar it was a huge difference. Same with the SNES. If you had an expensive wavetable soundcard things were even better. By the time games used cd audio quality music there was nothing exciting anymore regarding technology. You can even hire an orchestra to compose the music for you. Interest shifted to the actual music quality. Regarding music games reached perfection. But despite this some Amiga tunes are eerie and haunting even though no game company would use those except in an uptodate remake or remix

They also published the sequel of Jet Set Radio on Xbox, though i read that the Dreamcast original was better. Same with Conker's sequel on Xbox. I never played the sequels though so you might try them out.