Who plays videogames?

[nfl2k2]

I've played videogames since NES when I was 7 (was to young to get an atari 2600, I was 2 when it came out). Anyways, yes I still play them and have a Dreamcast, SNES, N64 and Ps2. It's a shame that Dreamcast went away so quickly because it was a great console. SNES is definetly the best console ever and will never be beaten by another, N64 has my favorite games of all time - Zelda Ocarina of Time, and Ps2 got off to a slow start, but with tony 3, grand theft auto 3, and metal gear solid 2 it will be right up there with my favorite consoles of all time.

anyone else play games?

[nfl2k2]

might I add- The gamecube was looking great... until they made the greatest game series (zelda) into a friggin cartoon. I lost all faith in gamecube the day I saw the screenshots. and I hope Xbox sucks and microsoft looses millions

[tinycorkscrew]

Yep, I love console games, too. Besides my Pioneer 333 (for playing VCDs), I have a SNES, a JVC X'Eye (plays Genesis and Sega CD games), a Sega Saturn, a Playstation, a Nintendo 64, and a Dreamcast. They're all hooked up to my TV right now. Thank goodness for A/V boxes.

I've held off on getting a PS2. I usually buy my consoles used, and now that Gamecube and X-Box are coming out, teenagers will be selling PS2s to raise funds for purchasing the new systems.

[Bullworth]

Only console I ever owned was the Sega Genesis. 'Til this day I still think it was cool to play on. With a computer and my interest going strongly towards 3D and video I really don't want to get a console but I have to admit I am impressed by what they can do. Tons of their games look so cool but I just don't feel the urge to go buy one.

[gambit32]

I play my Dreamcast. I also own a PSone. I haven't bought the PS2 because I haven't found a reason too yet. I think the PS2 is still too expensive right now. Plus I have tons of games for my DC and I kinda enjoy looking for them...wink wink.
I forgot to add that I like playing old NES and SNES roms on my DC. I spend too much time playing Dr. Mario.

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[Psycho_Dad_Rules]

Hi all,

SNES is indeed THE console. Games like that just aren't made anymore. I own 2 SNES consoles of which 1 with a copybox

Greetz,

pSyChO dAd

[vivisimonvi]

RPG fanatic for over a decade (NES, SNES, PS). I was amazed to see online just how big the fanbase was (due to Squaresoft's success with FF7). I doubt many of them were around during Dragon Warrior, Ultima, or the first Final Fantasy was out.

Anyone remember all the oldschool NES titles??? Lifeforce, Solomon's Key, Zanac, or Jackal, just to name a few. They were all kick-ass in it's time!

[nfl2k2]

my fav NES games are - Friday the 13th, masterblaster, Zelda, Mario 3 and Excitebike

[d4n13l]

32/64 bit consoles suck ass!
First console was a NES: Punch Out, Zelda, Mario 1,2,3, Exitebike, Cobra Triangle, Golf, Castlevania, Chipmunks, Tinytoons, Kid Icarus, Duck Hunt, Bart Vs The Space Mutants, Turtles, Megaman, Bomberman, Skate or Die, California Games, Nintendo World Cup and MANY more still rule.
Gameboy Golf is the best game ever made - WWF and Tetris are close behind.
I still have a SNES, they shat upon the lame ass Megadrive (altered beast and road rage were good though). Street Fighter 2 is one of the best games ever.
I sold my NES years ago (worst decision of my life) but I now use BioNES Emulater and have about 200 NES games to play with on my PC.
Playstation has many classics to its name - GT2, Teken series, Medal of Honour, Vandal Hearts, FF IIV, GTA, Metal Gear Solid - and I hope they continue doing what they do best with the PS2. N64 was a let down on the games front for me - too cartoony, but Goldeneye is one of my all time favorites - I love killing people from distance with a sniper rifle.
I still have a Spectrum +2 which unfortunately is f.ucked and wont work. I had so many games like Dizzy and Double Dragon that gave me hours of fun as a kiddie, I also learnt how to program using the +2 in BASIC.
I hope that the X-Box falls on its face and does a Neo-Geo.
Oh PC games - Red Alert, Digger (80's PC game), Space Invaders (Original) and Microcrap(!) Hearts, Minesweeper and Solitaire. Win 3.1 sucked but at least we had the Games folder.

Oh yeah... Tony Hawk 2 is THE best game, ever. Being an ex-skater myself, it did bring back memories.

[TIbrO]

When I was five I played my first video game ever... Duckhunt. It was at my cousin's house. My oldest brother who was 17 at the time saw how much I loved this amazing device that hooked up to the TV, so he bought me one for Christmas. I had so many games I cannot remember any of them. But I can remember my favorite, which was Mario 3. After that, when I was 7, my dad bought me a Genesis, and I gave away my NES to my other brother, then moved it to his room. I loved my SEGA Genesis way more than I did my NES, but not really... it is hard looking back now, but when I had just gotten the Genesis, it was no contest. Sonic the Hedgehog 1 got beaten within two days, bought Sonic 2 on release day, and same with 3, all beaten over and over because they were so fun! Let's not forget Streets Of Rage and Streets of Rage 2. Maximum Carnage was also a very awesome game. My favorite game for Genesis though... Eternal Champions. Let's see... I have an original Gameboy still, in a drawer somewhere. Didn't bother with Game Gear because I had a Gameboy already. After Genesis, I got a Super Nintendo, and that was by far THE BEST system of all. But only because Squaresoft was there to make it so. Playstation came out, and no one would buy me one, cause I was 11 by then. So I saved up... and I bought a SEGA Saturn instead, because you could play online with the NetLink modem peripheral. You could also use email and browse the net. It was awesome. After I was bitten by the internet and went on IRC with my Saturn, I stopped playing the games, and chatting more. So I built my first PC next... Ever since then all my consoles have disappeared to who knows where, and my PCs have become my one and only gaming and entertainment systems period. Except for when SEGA announced that they were making a system that came with a modem right off the bat. So I bought the Dreamcast ofcourse. And thanks to IRC, I was never without a fun game to play for my Dreamcast. Even though the DC was pretty nice and games were free, my PC always had my highest priority, and the DC was abandoned just like all the others. I wasted so much money on it. But then recently, a friend of mine told me about a game called Dance Dance Revolution from KONAMI of Japan, and it's really fun and addicting. We just imported a machine at our local arcade, and we play there. That got expensive, so I figured I would import the DC games and put my good old boot CD to some more use since burned games became self-bootable quickly. And I bought the dance pads and everything. Now I play videogames again... thanks to DDR and the Dreamcast. Too bad that the games are made for PSX and the DC only got two of them. There are 6 discs in the series, and the DC 2. They should port the rest of themixes over to DC plaotform. Well, enough rambling on and on about this. Way too long of a post. Also, when I was about 9 or 10, and we moved to our new house, we found an Atari 2600 in the basement in a box with 50 games in it. That system was real fun, too. So far only the Atari 2600 and the SEGA Dreamcast with DDR in it have made me sweat during the playing of a game.

[nfl2k2]

d4n13l, 32/64 bit consoles were great. the Saturn would have been so much better if Sega didn't give up on it. Playstation is the console that defined gaming as we know it today with all the mature games that 90% of gamers like. and N64 was cool with all it's extra hardware accessories and tons of multiplayer games.

[d4n13l]

Amen to that.
I was only joking about the 16/32 bit consoles sucking ass - I was being nostalgic about the NES. hehe
I have a PS and SNES and wouldnt give them up for anything. I liked the N64 but I was never really sold on it, I had a Playstation and liked the games better, thats all. Mind you the N64 did have the best multiplayer games that I can remember.

[turbo92]

whoa... i feel old... my first system was a bally astrocade back in the late 70s... i was like 4 or 5 and it was the coolest thing. pistol style controllers...

it played off of cassettes like audio tapes.

then the atari, colecovision, (missed intellevision), then a long drought unitl i got the playstation, the ps2 and now waiting for xbox....

fred

[House de Kris]

I can only imagine the many joyful hours of playing video games as a kid. Alas, I was an adult when I got my first video game, an Atari Video Pinball machine. This was before consoles that accepted games via cartidges or CDs. Back then if you wanted a different game you got a whole new piece of hardware. At any rate, as soon as the Atari 2600 came out I got one of those as well. Also got a Super Expander for it which allowed the use of cassette tapes for distribution of games (and allowed multi-load games for extra depth).

Many years passed and I was without video games until I got an Atari Lynx for handheld color games while on business trips. This sufficed for a long time until I got a Sega Saturn. I went a little crazy and bought all sorts of games for the Saturn. Later I got a Sony Playstation and only bought driving games because I finally figured out this genre had the highest replay value for me.

Oh yeah, after the Saturn, I bought an Atari Jaguar with CD drive. Never bought any games for it, I bought the Jaguar for the Virtual Light Machine that was built in. By far one of the coolest (and easiest to use) video generators around. Lots of info on the web for editing your own patterns. If you ever find a Jag with CD for sale, get it for the VLM.

[vivisimonvi]

This has bothered me for YEARS. Anyone know how in the world Duckhunt worked or any of those Zapper shoot-em-ups? How can the NES know where the gun's pointing if the TV's only an input device?

Anyways, anyone ever had the Power Glove? There was so much hype over it I HAD to check it out... it totally SUCKED! I thought I would be badass as the guy I saw on The Wizard. Talk about false advertising

[nfl2k2]

I wondered that also.. I have no idea how the old NES gun for duck hunt worked like it did. It actually flashed a orange/yellow flash where you aimed the gun, amazing. Not only did that NES glove suck, but so did that tred mil where you run and the person on the track game runs as fast as you stomp your feet like an idiot on the ground.

[House de Kris]

The gun has a very narrow angle light sensor in it and sends back a signal of if light is hitting it or not to the console. The console knows exactly which pixel on the screen it is creating at the moment. Since the persistance of the phosphor of most TVs is less than the field rate, the console just looks for a dark to light transition from the gun and then knows exactly (well, within a certain area) where you are pointing the gun.

This, by the way, is oversimplified.

[vivisimonvi]

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Not only did that NES glove suck, but so did that tred mil where you run and the person on the track game runs as fast as you stomp your feet like an idiot on the ground.
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Yeah that hybrid videogame/exercise machine was terrible! There wasn't even more than 2 or 3 games made for it. It was Nintendo's poorest approach yet to counteract the idea that all game players just sat on their ass. The fact is, it's just the way we like to play!

[kay2500]

SONIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I grew up on Sonic the Hedgehog, ya know, for Sega. And Im kinda sad that Sega is going out and there wont be any more SONIC! games for Sega made consoles =(
I also got HOOKED on Zelda once I got Ocarina of Time, but it also pisses me off that theyre making it a cartoony game for the Gamecube......bleh.......

[nfl2k2]

kay2500, Sega is making games for the ps2, and I'm sure sonic would be part of that. You should invest in one because I'm positive there will be sonic games for it later.

[gambit32]

They still make Sonic games..I just downloaded a copy of Sonic Adventure 2 and Sonic Shuffle for my DC (of course I own the originals because it would be against the law otherwise and we're all law abiding citizens, right? =tongue firmly planted in cheek=). By the way, anyone remember Tecmo Bowl for NES? Great game that Tecmo Bowl.

[kay2500]

Yes of course I know that there are new Sonic games..... I have Sonic Adventure 2 and all that (though Sonic Shuffle seemed to be a bad Mario Parrty rip-off, though I never liked Mario Party anyway......)
Anywayz I was just saying that its too bad that there wont be any more Sonic games on Sega consoles.

[klay51]

Yeah i love videogames..the 2 best systems ever are Dreamcast,NES then SNES. I love playin NES roms on dreamcast..uper Mario 3 River City Ransom and Galaga are some of my fav. games. Anyone who dosen have an NES emu for DC should get one..its alot of fun and brings bac good memories. Man i wish games were still like they used to be in the 16 bit days..just simple but fun!

[nfl2k2]

How do you play NES/SNES roms on a Dreamcast? I've got 100+ of both and would like to try it.

[Hollywood004738]

try http://www.emulation64.com

They have links to different Snes/nes Emulators for dreamcast

[TIbrO]

You can play Playstation one games and NES and SNES games on your dreamcast. At least this is what I have heard and read about, but I don't know the exact procedures and methods, so I haven't done it yet.

[Hollywood004738]

For Playstation games you need a Bleem Pak, A disc which loads data for a patricular ps1 game to run/enhance the game.

[TIbrO]

So a Bleem Pak is like the UTOPiA CD Loader, but for PSX discs?

[kay2500]

Ya know, I heard that Bleemcast, a PSX emulator for DC, was supposed to be released in July. Wonder what happened to that?

[Mrhide]

i actually own 5 original Arcade Videogames and one Pinball .. .. Console sucks!!

-Bubble bobble
-Arkanoid
-The New Zealand Story
-Arbalester
-ChaseHQ

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