BydoEmpire

FWIW, I own and have played all four of these on my original PS2 (bought maybe 6 months after launch). Can't speak for different models.

Interesting, I'll have to give it a shot. For whatever reason, I always thought the Saturn version was the best-playing as well.

Hah, when I came into this thread, I was going to post that I had a heck of a time getting through some of the cave & ghost house levels in Super Mario World when I picked it up for Wii VC a few years back. Much harder than I remember. I just don't play many games anymore, so it's not too surprising my "skills" - to the extent they existed at all - have deteriorated.

Two of my favorites not listed: NES Advantage (favorite of all time, though obviously not a pack-in) Gamecube (favorite "modern" controller, it's so comfortable it melts into my hands like warm butter) Of what's there... I picked SNES... followed closely by 2600. The SNES controller is a comfortable size. The dpad is a perfect size, and it's nice and tight and accurate. The button layout is ergonomic for pretty much any type of game.

I agree - I was surprised how light it was, and fairly comfortable.

I love that this thread is alive and well! I'm really surprised I didn't post back in 2004, though... oh well. Take the order with a grain of salt. The top 5 is more or less set for me, but I could shuffle around or have a totally different 10-6 tomorrow... 10. Donkey Kong (arcade, NES) 9. Frenzy (arcade) 8. Resident Evil 2 (PS1) 7. Demon Attack (2600) 6. Super Mario World (SNES) 5. D&D Cloudy Mountain (Inty) 4. Civilization (PC) 3. Ms. Pac Man (arcade, most ports) 2. Morrowind (PC) 1. Phantasy Star Online (Dreamcast) Shame to not have R-Type on there, given my user name, but so be it. Had to stick to 10. Lots of runner ups: Resident Evil 4, Final Fantasy 3, Pool of Radiance, Temple of Apshai, Dungeon Master, Phantasy Star, Empire, Street Fighter 2, Paper Mario, CastleVania, Metroid, SMB, Ultima Underworld, X-Com...

Sorry, I do not. I've never been a big portable gamer...

I'm in Orlando, FL. Let me know if you want to make an offer, I can take pics.

Ditto!

I picked up Phantom Dust years ago cheap, and left it sealed hoping it would be one of those rare games that spikes... hasn't happened. One of the very few times I bought a game purely hoping it would pay off. It hasn't. so far...

That's fantastic - thanks for sharing. They do!

Nicely done, I thought it was pretty funny. Of course, in my book, anything Phantasy Star-related is awesome.

I actually really like mine. I don't play it a lot, and there aren't tons of games I play on it, but the games I do enjoy are a lot of fun.

Maybe I'm misunderstanding the OP, but that's not what's being asked. I think the question asked here is could they legally force a company to say Game X can ONLY come out on XB1, not X360, while other publishers are still putting out 360 games. Of course they could pay to do that (exclusivity deal). They can also stop approving titles for the 360 any time they want (like every console maker does eventually for old systems). Whether or not they can tell one publisher that one specific title won't be approved seems more of a non-obvious question. I don't think it'd ever realistically come up. It'd kill the relationship with that publisher, and if they're allowing other 3rd party titles on the system I'm not sure what they'd gain. Seems more likely they'd pay for exclusivity.

You bought your 7800 in 1983?

If you're going to rank consoles something has to come in last, so I can understand why those consoles are generally listed. That doesn't make them bad, though, and whether or not you think they're a bad console doesn't mean someone else doesn't love it. The Intellivision and 5200 are two of my very favorite consoles, and others think they're the worst... so there you go. Diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks.

This for me as well - I usually only buy games I want to play, but if there's a ridiculous deal somewhere I'll snag it. I wouldn't call that an investment by any means. Finding a game worth more than a couple hundred bucks is the lotto.

Do you get to keep the games, or are they unplayable when you stop subscribing?

I have no idea what game this is, but I like the thread!

This for me as well. Randomness is what makes it fun and worth playing over and over. That said, I still enjoy Pac Man because I never really learned the patterns so for all intensive purposes, it's still "random" to me. As far as the powerups go, it depends what they do and how influential they are. If you have a boss that's ridiculously hard most of the time, but a breeze with one specific powerup, maybe you don't want to allow that one in some cases (or rebalance). That said, everyone has the same odds of getting that powerup so it is fair.

NES version looks better and plays better imho. The CV version was amazing in its day, but I never play it now. I do still play the NES version (well, DK Classic).