uhhh, I had my atari, my nintendo, and my sega genesis all hooked up and played whatever I felt like

>>12186297
I was always a generation behind as a kid until the Wii came out when I was a teenager, so in a way I was always playing older games.

But actually getting one console and going back to play a different one, I did that somewhat regularly all my life. I remember getting an SNES and having games I liked for it, but there would be weekends I'd hook up my NES and play Mario 3 or Final Fantasy instead of Super Mario World or Link to the Past. It wasn't because I didn't like Super Mario World or any of the other games for the SNES, it's just that I considered the old games to be just as great in their own way despite their more primitive technology.

I did it less when I got a Playstation because the PSX had such a massive library, plus I had demo discs of a million different games. On top of that, games like FF7 were much longer than older ones, so I'd devote more time to getting lost in their worlds. PS2 was sort of the same in that regard, there were a crapton of games for it, plus Gamestop was selling used ones for cheap.

The Wii/PS3/Xbox360 era though, that was kind of the line I drew and decided newer consoles weren't for me. I got a Wii, but a lot of the purchase was because I didn't have a Gamecube and it could play those games and Wii games. I barely played anything Wii related, but I had a blast going back to play Metroid Prime and FF Crystal Chronicles. Almost all my gaming in that era was either retro consoles or PC games.

Yeah I was almost always a gen behind, except during the PSX days.
Though even then in the late 90's when I got Nesticle I spent a lot of time emulating NES games, I had it set up on an old 486 in the basement (half underground with only a small window next to the ceiling giving light) with a fake SNES pad replica, it was super comfy since noone bothered me there and I wasn't bothering anyone since we also had a more recent computer on the first floor.

first thing I did with my dreamcast was burn a nes emulator

>>12186625
Based, though as I remember these console emulators back then were really bad

>>12187178
you will play your nintendo games in 480i and you will like it

>>12186297
The only console in my house was the NES for an entire decade, you tell me.

>>12186297
Me and my brother found our old gameboy colors in 2005 or so and decided to play through our copies of red/yellow.
There was also a fat mexican "friend" who would steal from us with his copy of blue

Even when I had the PS1, I still used my Mega Drive from time to time

>>12187405
What did you play on your mega during 5th gen times?

>>12186297
Probably when I played snes in college trying to beat lost levels and being very high

>>12187469
Based, in front of people? How did it go?
Skilled SMB plays usually wow people, anyone can play Mario but not many can play fast and effectively

>>12187453
Games I already had. I liked to go back to the SoR games for some reason, I guess I missed good Beat 'em ups during the 5th gen

>>12186297
>As a kid I had an Xbox and PC
Same. My PC was a complete toaster so I played Half Life Uplink like crazy.

>>12186297
>the first time you remember actively playing an older game
I was born in '86, and there was just no distinction during most of my childhood. A game was a game. I had both an NES and Commodore 64 in the house growing up, and they both just felt like "video games" to me. Even after the SNES came out, and I went over my older friend's house and played her Atari 2600, even though I knew the technology was older, they still felt, functionally, the same as many NES and C64 games I had played. I think the presence of the Game Boy/GBC also helped keep games from feeling "old" based on graphics alone.

I don't think I made the distinction of a game being "old" until sometime after the turn of the century, when I started buying used NES/SNES games from resellers and flea markets for pennies, and I started to notice my older consoles becoming less reliable and needing a good cleaning, lol.

>>12186297
>actively playing
You mean as opposed to beating a game by watching a youtube of it? Literally every pre-zoomer generation did this.
>playing an older game instead of a new one
This was very common in the early decades of video games. Most places that had arcade machines kept stuff around for several years and many people would regularly play older games. The concept of "old graphics bad" is also very much a zoomer thing. I distinctly remember playing on a Submarine cabinet that was right across from a Battlezone cabinet.

>>12187707
>The concept of "old graphics bad" is also very much a zoomer thing
Sadly this isn't entirely true as on the 5th gen days people would think of 2D as just... not "bad", but like old news. Unlike today, when we appreciate 2D and the spritework art and all, back then we didn't get much 3D at all and 2D was all we had for most of our lives, so even though sure, people still got wowed by newer 2D games like Marvel vs Capcom, it was still not seen as impressive as a 3D game.
That mentality shortly vanished around mid/late 00s, when the market was flooded with same-y brown 3D slop and people started being like hey, where are all the 2D games?

>>12187714
>on the 5th gen days people would think of 2D as just... not "bad", but like old news
I definitely knew a lot of people who immediately thought any game that wasn't 3D automatically had "BAD GRAPHICS". It was a fairly common opinion among plebs, which have always made up the majority of any consumer base, as much as we like to pretend the opposite.

>around mid/late 00s, when the market was flooded with same-y brown 3D slop
God this era of gaming made me feel like I was taking crazy pills. It seemed like every developer was just turning games brown. Even fucking Zelda did it. Shit was nuts.

>>12187726
>plebs, which have always made up the majority of any consumer base
my wake-up call to this was reading that stupid fanfic "biography" about Tom Kalinske. The story regularly cited actual best-selling games for the month in question, and it was always licensed shovelware and sports games. Oh god, all the fucking sports games.

>>12187707
>The concept of "old graphics bad" is also very much a zoomer thing. I distinctly remember playing on a Submarine cabinet that was right across from a Battlezone cabinet.
Two arcade cabinets of different eras co-existing isn't really proof of anything. Once 3D graphics became the standard for home consoles, the popular opinion was that sprite-based graphics were old and busted.

>>12187646
>when I started buying used NES/SNES games from resellers and flea markets for pennies,
what a fucking time to be alive. The era of affordable retro vidya was REALLY narrow, now that you look back on it. I remember buying Link to the Past and Star Fox CISB from a guy at a flea market for 10 bucks each around 2001. You could walk into a Funco Land or Babbage's with a 20 dollar bill and walk out with more 8/16-bit classics than you could carry, and a pocketful of change.

>>12187737
Yeah the SoA shillism was insufferable.
It made me sad because even friends of mine whom I appreciate bought it, they still believe it today.

>>12187758
Yeah first half of the 00s was the best era to collect retro, also the time resellers got their stock.

>>12187835
wtf are you talking about? You sound retarded.

>>12187885
Maybe read the post he was replying to, retard.

I'm 47 so there really wasn't a time like that

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>>12186297
>parents divorce, move in with dad after two years of living with mom
>he gets me a boxy magnavox crt with built in dvd player, put in my room and hook N64 up to it
>few months later, he gets a new tv and entertainmnet center for the living room, gives me old tv+entertainment center+xbox
>says im old enough to play Halo and he doesn't play it much anymore
>asks how I'm gonna fit two tvs in my room
>watch this dad
>take wheels off one of the entertainment center, stack it on top of the other
>little magnavox fits in the middle with shelf removed, bigger tv goes on top and is perfectly at eye level for laying or sitting in bed
>watch Predator on magnavox while playing Halo
>OR
>watch Robin Hood on Xbox while playing Banjo Kazooie
Sometimes I just wanted to play with the Bear and Bird, newer games coming out didn't change that

>>12186297
this happened all the time for me. i grew up with 2600/nes at the same time. my grandparents also had a colecovision. i played the nes 95% of the time at home but i enjoyed playing colecovision with my grandma. new-to-me games were rare, and they were probably usually used. i dont even know how i got most of my nes games. i would not have cared about a box anyway, im sure it wouldve went straight into the trash.

>>12187726
>people who immediately thought any game that wasn't 3D automatically had "BAD GRAPHICS"
yeah...pretty much everyone thought that. developers/publishers thought that. even (You) thought that. stop pretending like you were some enlightened individual that went against the grain back then just to win 4chan based boy points. people obsessing about graphics are as old as video games themselves.

>>12188792
The post he replied to was talking about how sports games were always the bestsellers back in the day. wtf does that have to do with "and they still believe it today"? I feel like this is schizo nonsense.

>>12189515
>more zoomer revisionism
Look, I know you're salty you missed out on the best era of gaming and you're trying to comfort yourself by insisting that nobody back then really appreciated any of it or had any insight or opinions outside of what you have personally consumed via youtube video essays on the matter, but the act is geting OLD, junior.

>>12186297
Back in the late 90s when we were already well into the 5th generation I was more interested in emulating SNES games because even as a 10 year old I could tell that 2D graphics were a lot more aesthetically pleasing than 3D graphics.

>>12187714
I missed the whole brown slop era because by that point I had already written off new video games. I think it was all the Counter Strike and Unreal Tournament I played in the early 2000s and realizing that every new game was just a variation of the same thing that made completely bored of modern gaming. I remember buying an NES bundled with SMB 1-3 and Zelda on eBay for like $50 back in 2005 and being more excited to play those games than any of the new shit that was coming out then.

>>12186297
I've used doom on the xbox and pc as a pallet cleanser ever since the mid 90s.

>>12189686
7th gen was good, possibly peak and the last physical media that had QA before release and before buggy fix it later digital releases, the prevelance of brown was due to the GWOT being based in the sandbox and the impact 911 11 had on the average US consumers burning desire to kill arabs for a decade

>>12189659
>gets BTFO
>trots out the same tired zoomer/youtube buzzword-laden screed because he knows he has no response
you reek of such immense insecurity that you feel the need to impress anonymous people on this website by acting like you were some ebin contrarian calling all your friends "plebs" for thinking new consoles aren't impressive. i'm honestly embarrassed for you kiddo.

people have always been excited for the next big thing. companies knew that and would exploit it to the max. there's heaps upon heaps of old BBS (you probably don't know what those are, think of them like pre-Internet forums) posts where people were beyond elated for 3D home consoles. i know because i was lucky enough to have a dad who worked at a university that was able to procure an old (for the time) 2400 baud modem (something else i know you don't know about, google it) for home use. again, i guarantee (You) were no different. i'm also older than you. now please stop acting out like this before i'm forced to contact your mom about your behavior and deposit another load into her as punishment

>>12189834
Too long. Did not read. Stay mad.

>>12186297
Im from a poor family so you might say I've always been a retro gamer although I had an original Xbox and a ps2 when they were still the current thing