Personal Computer (80-90s)
Doom 2 - Spent my childhood on dial up playing other friends over the modem. Up all hours of the night using chainsaws and rockets. Late 90s when Duke Nukem came out, It was the first game I drove immediately to the store and purchased. Back in the day when you bought the box and had to take it home and install it. Thought it was leading edge and funny as hell. To be fair it was at the time. Today that information is tracked. I’d like to know how many thousands of hours I spent on this game. But it was hilarious and late fun filled nights.
Today I buy 2-3 games per decade. But still game for a majority of my entertainment. One of the benefits of being an old gamer is that if you build a new system today it can play everything from the 70s to 2023 at a minimal. Toss in Emulation for other consoles in there you really have a plethora of choices, 4 decades worth to be specific. All of which contain no tracking, no always online, no micro-transactions. As gaming was intended! Really hard to find something that checks those boxes, about 2-3 titles per decade worth purchasing.
N64. Apart from the usual suspects (Mario 64, Wave Race, Pilot Wings, Golden Eye, Dark Project), Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon still feels like I fever dreamed that crazy ass game up. It also had the only wrestling game I ever liked, but forgot the name.
Mine was the PS2. Ratchet and Clank, Ace Combat and Metal Gear Solid were my favorites
Eaaaaasily the Dreamcast, even though I think I was the only person I knew that had one. I think I had:
- Shenmue
- Power Stone
- Soulcalibur
- Quake III Arena
- Skies of Arcadia
- Capcom vs SNK
- Timestalkers
- Sonic Adventure
- Phantasy Star Online
Stellar lineup. I also loved my PlayStation.
Oh yeah the Dreamcast! Never saw a console with such a quirky lineup. My favorites were
- Rez
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Cosmic Smash
- Crazy Taxi
- House of the Dead
- Space Channel 5 (right left chu chu chu!)
I’m really happy most of these games are available on Steam. Rez in VR is amazing (and Tetris Effect, made by the same team I think).
I would love to see a modern Power Stone game made
God, me too. I don’t understand why ‘arena fighters’ in that style just seemed to fall off the face of the earth.
PC was all I had. Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original, not 2 or 3D) were my go-to games for a long while.
Nintendo DS, actually I think it still is, I was just playing Jump Ultimate Stars through Wiimmfi with a folk lol.
Master System because I’m special
My Pentium 120 MhZ playing Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo, Red Alert. All my friends had 133 MhZ so was the underdog at LAN meetups 🙂
I only got to truly experience Red Alert recently with the remake. My first taste of it was on PS1, and I remember it being pretty clunky. Come to think of it that was the first RTS I ever played
OG Xbox. Fuck playing Halo in Split screen was fun.
And of course PC. Settlers 3, Counter Strike 1.6. amazing games all around
PC. Still my favorite now.
Commodore 64, as was style at the time. I have 4 different versions in my collection, and I still use them few times a week.
SNES, then PS2. PS2 was really something else.
SNES followed by the PS2.
Definitely Game Boy. Made the 16 hour car ride to my dad’s house way better
Probably NES. I had Atari, Sega Genesis, and PC, then later Sega Game Great, GB Advance, and XBox, but NES was the most fun imo. I mostly only played Street Fighter on Genesis.
For my kids, it’ll probably be PC. They love Minecraft, and haven’t played on our Switch a ton.
