What era of games do you get nostalgic for?

[bluestarultor]

Personally, I grew up in the EGA and VGA era, so my gaming experience had a lot of 16- and 256-color games in it growing up.

It's actually led me to do most of my games in the default EGA palette. My most "advanced" retro game uses a custom palette which, instead of using 3 levels each of RGB like EGA, uses a 3-level RGBI setup designed to similarly keep compatibility with CGA colors (which produces some doubled values). EGA produces truer pure tones, but the RGBI setup gives me access to more hues and especially more grays, which the particular game relies on pretty heavily.

Basically, my "retro" is PC gaming in the early 90s.


What about you all? NES? Atari? Oscilloscope? Game Boy?

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by bluestarultor

What about you all? NES? Atari? Oscilloscope? Game Boy?

NES, SNES, PSOne, PSTwo, and Game Cube. Not really N64, though technically that was the era. I only owned the first Zelda, Mario, and Quest 64 for it, and, while those were fun games, they didn't outweigh the awesome of all my other systems (which I still have, save for the NES, which, after my fourth one died, I just kind of gave up).

I also enjoyed my Genesis*, but didn't have as much fun with it as the other things.

I played Atari a bit, and actually saw a NeoGeo once. Gameboy was kind of cool, I guess, until mine was stolen. Same thing with whatever hand-held system Sega came out with. That said, none of those gripped me as the first list did. So the NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, and GC. I'm currently enjoying my Wii, however* (not like that).

It's a little weird thinking of PS2 as "retro", but I guess it really is, now, so it's on the list. Guess I know where I "peaked", eh?

*man, I love pawn shops, and used games! We'd otherwise never have been able to afford all this stuff. Five-dollar game systems! How I miss them! Oh, snap, that means I'm a pirate, now!**
**I'm sorry, I couldn't resist. Much.

[Seil]

Way back when, my brother got hit by a car, and the owner of said car felt so bad that he lent his video games to my brother. We sat around the warm glow of the TV, playing SNES games all day.

Though that's not why I like the SNES - most of my vidjyagame experiences come from my older brothers, and when my oldest brother showed me how to download some emulators and junk, I got big into SNES games that way. A Link To The Past holds a special place in my heart because that was the first game my brothers and I played, and then the first game I had on the first game system I bought myself. (GBS SP) It was the first game I owned.

[Flarecobra]

Atari 2600 games were quite enjoyable.

[Julford Hajime]

SNES, mostly. I go back and play NES games every now and then, but there's no magic there, aside from the a few "Timeless" platformers (Super Mario Bros. 1 and 3, mostly). Same goes for the Genesis and Gameboy - The occasional game gets played but my heart goes out to the SNES.

PSOne still gets a lot of love from me, too, but I have a hard time considering it nostalgia; there were a LOT of really good games for the PSOne and I still haven't played a good chunk of them. With the SNES I can play just about anything no matter how terrible it is, but with the PSOne if it's bad I won't touch it >.>

[Nique]

I had my PS1 goin' on but I didn't play a lot of games as a kid. Not like you NERDS. But yeah playing Sqauresoft games on my PS1 was pretty special for me. And I mean, the PlayStation demo discs? Awesome. I was also probably one of the few kids willing to sit through the tedium of MTV Music Generator.

I'm collecting old Nintendo stuff now - the N64 just has a solid library, even the bad games on the SNES are fun. But PS1 was my first system that was really MINE.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

Genesis/Mega Drive, to this day I still love Target Earth. And I'll never get bored of Sonic (my one regret is not owning the original Sonic 3 & knuckles Cartridge). I also love the Sega Saturn and Dreamcast to death. I practically hate my self for choosing to buy Power Ranger toys over getting a Sega Saturn for Christmas when I was a kid. Thank god I wised up and got the Dreamcast back in 2001. And it still brings a tear to my eye that it and the Dreamcast died such horrible deaths they never truly deserved in the first place (least they did well in Japan though). And you could never pay me enough to sell my N64 or any of my old consoles. They're all just too special to me.

[Osterbaum]

Mega Drive was my first and only game console. But at the same time a friend had NES an another friend had SNES. Then slightly later, another friend had Playstation. But I'm far less nostalgic for Playstation.

e: Most nostalgic game? Sonic 2.

[Flarecobra]

I just remembered something... I had a computer with Win95 on it... it had a bumper-car capture-the-flag game with it... I remember sinking many hours into it...

[phil_]

The Genesis/SNES era. Not because of the games I played, but because that was when Game Players was at its peak of juvenile humor and editors-be-damned strangeness. Man, that rag shaped my sense of humor. Probably for the worse, but whatever.

Also, I thought I'd take a picture of my Sonic 3 cart inserted into my Sonic and Knuckles cart, but it just seemed too cruel. So this is me bragging with my words, Kyanbu.