NES IS NOT CLASSIC!!!!

[Nateo]

I'm sorry, but I cannot call NES classic. I may have grown up during that era, but that doesn't mean I'm going to call it a classic. I find the NES to be the ancient equivelant of the PlayStation. It had a few classics, but as a whole, it wasn't that great.

[Lemmi]

Well the NES is over 15 years old so in my mind its classic

[StanJr]

Can we call it neo-classic then, Nateo, boy genius?

 

And I'm over 15 years old, does that make me classic also?

[Lemmi]

Well Stan if you are over 25 years old you are considered an Antique

[Atari Master]

It's a classic system. So it's classic!

[kyle]

If its not classic and its not modern the what the hell is it? lol

[moycon]

Its Neo State of the art retro classic.

 

And damit, it had more than a FEW classic games on it too....Jeeze!

[AtariKen64]

what nes and playstation, alongside 2600 are the big three systems of all time, each representing a new era and dominating during it. if you say the nes only a few games that were good, take a look at some of the pitiful stuff the 2600 also endured that sunk it in the end. when i system reaches a level of popularity you have to expect some junky titles to be churned out, but as time fades those become forgotten and the great games come in to play once again

 

 

id call the playstation classic almost, it still has shelf space in most stores and thats my determing factor in claiming classic status not graphical ability of even great games

 

you can call a record a classic by how many times you wear the vynal out,

 

a car can be called classic if it harks back to a certain time

 

but what about games? still too early to tell,, but sorry i think the majority would call NES classic gaming

 

 

also "classic" and "classics" seems to have 2 diffenrt meaning,, hmm

[KAZ]

I'd unfortunately have to agree the NES isn't what I think of when it comes to "classic systems".

 

 

Pong, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex, Commodore 64, Atari 5200 are all classic systems to me.

 

 

 

 

Atari 7800, Sega Master System, NES, Atari Jaguar, and the rest upwards are NOT classic systems

 

 

I have drawn the line in the sand thus, do you not see?

[NE146]

Who the hell knows what the heck is "classic" anyway.

 

in the 2600 years I liked my 2600

in the Nes years I liked my Nes, and yes my 2600

In the psx years I liked my psx, my nes, and my 2600

In the gamecube years i liked my gamecube, psx, nes, and 2600

 

Of course that's the simplified version as it left out all the other obvious participants such as the Colecovision, 5200, Genesis, TG-16, Genesis, psx2, and Xbox amongst many obvious others.

 

It's all just friggin videogames to me. I just like to play what's fun and let me tell ya lots of games for the Nintendo Entertainment System / Famicom ARE.

[Eduardo]

NE146 wrote:

in the 2600 years I liked my 2600  

in the Nes years I liked my Nes, and yes my 2600  

In the psx years I liked my psx, my nes, and my 2600  

In the gamecube years i liked my gamecube, psx, nes, and 2600

 

Yes, I agree with you on most of your list.

 

I guess that the Top 5 systems that had more impact in their own time are:

 

*Pong (mid 70s)

*Atari 2600 (early 80s)

*NES (mid 80s)

*SNES (early90s)

*PlayStation (mid 90s)

[ubersaurus]

The mid 80s consoles (NES, A78, SMS) are so classic nowadays. They have the age, they have the following, and they have the quality titles.

[Nateo]

"Classic" does not mean that it's old. To me, a classic system should be called classic when it has two or more of these qualities:

-The system has to have something revolutionary (i.e. ColecoVision having the "perfect" arcade conversion of Donkey Kong)

-The system should have a interesting history, good or bad (i.e. MicroVision being the first handheld system, Atari 2600 and the biggest videogame bomb - ET)

-The system must have many different, original games (the NES was full of rehashes and sequels that sold suprisingly well)

I could think of some other points, but this was all I could think of for now.

[King Atari]

Here's how I see it:

 

Anything up to and including NES is classic.

 

Anything after NES (16 bit stuff) is not quite classic yet.

 

Anything 32 bit on up is pretty much modern.

[ubersaurus]

"Classic" does not mean that it's old.  To me, a classic system should be called classic when it has two or more of these qualities:

-The system has to have something revolutionary (i.e. ColecoVision  having the "perfect" arcade conversion of Donkey Kong)

-The system should have a interesting history, good or bad (i.e. MicroVision being the first handheld system, Atari 2600 and the biggest videogame bomb - ET)

-The system must have many different, original games (the NES was full of rehashes and sequels that sold suprisingly well)

I could think of some other points, but this was all I could think of for now.

 

The NES had Super Mario Bros, Metroid, Legend of Zelda, Dragon Warrior, arcade translations of many games that were very good, as well. Rehashes and sequels are bad? Just about everything on the atari is a shooter, which could all be considered rehashes of Spacewar, or a paddle pong game, with a few revolutionary games as well, that are well remembered. That goes for most consoles, including the NES. First real scrolling platformer with a good length to it and several secrets (Pitfall isn't nothing to that, this game is a large leap on that one), first battery saves, etc. and it has a very neat history as well. Who could forget the packaging of ROB the robot so that stores would allow a video game console to be sold there?

 

If I recall, even the Genesis is considered classic (Not the SNES yet though) so arguing the NES is a bit behind the times. I grew up on the thing too, but its a 15 year old console that did alot of amazing things, and changed the industry (regulated 3rd parties for example, so there are less crap games, though they are there), and is fondly remembered with nostalgia by many people, and it deserves it's classic title.

[lhfreak]

I consider everything up to the crash classic. So NES to me, is not in the same group. Yes, I know it's an older system and has it's collectors, but it's all a matter of opinion. This was the first system that I just didnt like.....and that really is what turned me off to everything since. I have a PS1 because my brother got the PS2, so he gave it to me....and all I play on IT is arcade classics. And the MAIN thing that turned me off (besides the controllers) for most of these systems that came out since the crash, is that the games had pretty much lost all originality. To this day most of the games out there for all systems come down to 3 or 4 types. Another fight game.....gee.........NFL 96....97....98.....99.....ho hum.....

 

Yep...The games up to the crash are and always will be the seniors, with NES and such, the permenent juniors and sophmores

 

 

just my 2 cents

[King Atari]

To me when the 16 bit era began, it was the start of a new age. The NES was 8 bit just like the 2600 (but not the same ), they were somewhat in the same family. NES classic? I think so. Just because it got people back into games is enough to make it classic.

 

I still the remember the days when an advertisement on the back of a comic showed shots of all the different home versions: NES, SNES, GB, GG, Genesis. Ahhh, those were the days.

[Mindfield]

"Classic" I think is in the eye of the beholder. What constitutes a classic is largely based upon what you grew up with/around, what tickled your fancy more than others.

 

I never owned an NES, but I remember first reading about them in Games Magazine in late 1984. I still had my 6-switch at the time. But I wanted the NES. I thought it looked cool and what I read intrigued me. I remember when it first showed up in Toys 'R' Us -- I was making my weekly sojourn to pick up a new 2600 game when, down the aisle that held all the technology, locked in enormous glass cabinets, was the NES, complete with light gun and R.O.B sitting quietly beside it, and a select row of launch games hanging on pegs above. I spent about 10 minutes drooling over it before I made my way over to aisle two and spent the next hour deliberating over which game would be next to be added to my 2600 collection.

 

That still ranks it as a classic in my opinion. It was there, along side the 2600. It was immensely popular. It had Nintendo's key character of the day: Mario. It earned its place in history, as far as I'm concerned.

[BLIX]

Um, Its a classic.

[Skywalker]

Yeah I also agree........The NES is a Classic

 

I just got a NES Top Loader today and it is Awesome!!!!!!!!!

 

Mega Man and Double Dragon kick ass......... This toploader works better than any other NES system I have owned.

 

Nintendo was always cool in my book

[Rockin' Kat]

The NES was my first game console. I say it is a classic and if you dissagree..well... I'll twist your arm untill you take it back! So there!

[lonesome_pa]

I would call the NES a classic. It was the system that many people believe singlehandingly brought back home video games after the crash. If that's not classic, I'm not sure what is.

[Chai Tsung Tai]

NES IS NOT CLASSIC!

 

 

Amen to that.

[Adrian M]

I must disagree. The NES is indeed a classic system...it was released in Japan in 1983!! In 1983, many of us were still playing our 2600's!

 

The 7800 didn't come out until 1984 (supposedly) and much later in other areas and that system is given "classic" status. Why, because it was killed off before the NES? Given the fact that the NES was officially released in the states in 1986, it certainly does deserve classic status...I think the fact that it was supported until mid-1995 is what's causing people to consider it a "modern" system, but you have to look beyond that and realize that this thing originally came out just before the first video game crash (in Japan) and enjoyed an unusually healthy life span.

 

I am also considering calling the NEO GEO a classic system because its absolutely remarkable and mind boggling that this 1989-era hardware can continue to run games that rival even the best that today's systems offer.

[Nateo]

Now that I've thought about it some, I've actually come to the strange conclusion that it's a hybrid. It has an importaint history, I'll give it that. But even still, It's got more rehashes than even the 2600 (in my opinion) that sold well. Look at all the Double Dragon clones and the endless non original sequels (with the exception of Mario) that were released.