Old Consoles You Can't Help But Revisit

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No, this thread isn't about your favorite old console specifically (although it may be), but your most revisited console. Years or decades after the fact, which console do you find yourself playing the most, if any? What games do you still play?

Anything from the PS2 era and back is fair game (including handhelds, DOS and other pre-modern PC gaming platforms). I would ask that if the PS2 is your most played that you list a second (if applicable) considering it is still such a popular console.

Despite the SNES being my favorite all-time console, I think I may play the N64 more. The console's library honestly hasn't aged that well, but it's still one of the best party consoles ever made--if not the best ever. I don't know many people who didn't have access to one in college, and that was only four years ago. I'll still play a few single player favorites now and then (mostly Mario 64), but I think I've spent far more time playing games like: Mario Kart 64, Mario Tennis, Golden Eye, and many other party games.
 

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I still play my old Genesis games every so often, whether it's Ristar, Dynamite Headdy, and the original Sonic trilogy on the Wii Virtual Console, a Genesis emulator with games I never managed to track down as an adult (or ever had the chance to, like the Japanese Streets of Rage 3), or simply pulling my Sega Genesis out from retirement to play some more Jurassic Park: Rampage Edition.
 

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Yup, Genesis for me for quite a few years until my mom went and just...GAVE it away to someone! Well god knows where it is now.

Otherwise, yeah I'll fire up my fav games on the emulators, mostly Genesis classics, Neo Geo fighting games, and a few arcade MAMEs. Best thing ever, have a friend around and smash through Warriors of Fate (I heard that it's the precursor to the Dynasty Warriors games?), D&Ds, and Alien vs Predator.

This doesn't count, but I freaking LOVE playing the fan made Streets of Rage remake, best community-made thing I've ever seen in my entire gaming life.
 

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JohnnyDelRay said:
This doesn't count, but I freaking LOVE playing the fan made Streets of Rage remake, best community-made thing I've ever seen in my entire gaming life.
Wait, what?! How have I not heard of this? Streets of Rage 2 was one of my favorite Genesis games!
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The other day I was playing with my Dreamcast which is a very nostalgic console for me. I don't think that console had that many great games that aged well but some are really fun to revisit like Shenmue, NFL 2k1 (You would be surprised how awesome that game is), Ready to Rumble, the Street Fighter 3 series.
My Dreamcast games went missing when I moved to my new place. I know they are here somewhere, but I am going to have to turn my house upside down in order to find them. Been craving Chu Chu Rocket lately >.>
 

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Fappy said:
JohnnyDelRay said:
This doesn't count, but I freaking LOVE playing the fan made Streets of Rage remake, best community-made thing I've ever seen in my entire gaming life.
Wait, what?! How have I not heard of this? Streets of Rage 2 was one of my favorite Genesis games!
Well then you need to open up another tab and download it, STAT. Encompasses levels, characters enemies, music and remixes from ALL 3 games. With various paths to take through which mixes up everything. Even two new characters, and you can even play as Mr. X. It's such a complete work, with so much attention to detail (even letting you choose combo and jump system from any game), and a level/character editor to boot.

Craziest nostalgia burn ever, and it's free! (They couldn't get the license or backing from Sega apparently, so just did it of their own accord).
 

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JohnnyDelRay said:
Fappy said:
JohnnyDelRay said:
This doesn't count, but I freaking LOVE playing the fan made Streets of Rage remake, best community-made thing I've ever seen in my entire gaming life.
Wait, what?! How have I not heard of this? Streets of Rage 2 was one of my favorite Genesis games!
Well then you need to open up another tab and download it, STAT. Encompasses levels, characters enemies, music and remixes from ALL 3 games. With various paths to take through which mixes up everything. Even two new characters, and you can even play as Mr. X. It's such a complete work, with so much attention to detail (even letting you choose combo and jump system from any game), and a level/character editor to boot.

Craziest nostalgia burn ever, and it's free! (They couldn't get the license or backing from Sega apparently, so just did it of their own accord).
Sounds fucking awesome! I will have to check it out! Does it have controller support?

Also, you ever wonder why Mr. X does more damage when he hits you with the butt of his gun rather than when he shoots you? Could he be the real Master Chief?
 

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Fappy said:
Sounds fucking awesome! I will have to check it out! Does it have controller support?

Also, you ever wonder why Mr. X does more damage when he hits you with the butt of his gun rather than when he shoots you? Could he be the real Master Chief?
Should do, I played it on the HTPC before I got the wireless XBOX controller but used a PS4 controller with some software and a hell old Sidewinder, so I imagine it would.

Mr. X is just a troll boss really, if his bullets did more damage you'd never beat him coz you get shot a million times just trying to get close enough to slug him!

OT: Neo Geo had some great fighters too, Fatal Fury and Last Blade series being my favorites, even pre-KOF days. Metal Slugs, tho fun as hell, always make me feel like a meathead for simply dying so often.

A friend of mine likes to dust off the PS1 every now and then just to kick all our asses in Street Fighter EX
 

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That would be the NES and the SNES.

I'm currently playing Link's Awakening on the SNES via Super GameBoy.
Great fun, and a really underappreciated Zelda game.
 

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I play em all back to the oldest one I still have which is the SNES occasionally but the one that gets the most playtime by far is the PS2 im still buying new games for it. Quite often I will be playing more on PS2 than I will on my new consoles or PC its just got such a diverse catalogue of amazing games. If I play SNES its usually Mario or an old RPG I missed and Dreamcast is almost exclusively Soul Calibur but then that was the only reason I bought one and I dont regret it.
 

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Gonna have to give that honor to my Dreamcast... Sure, I [still] lack the memory device to save any game files on top of only having three games to go along with it (Super Runabout: San Francisco Edition; Ready 2 Rumble Boxing; Crazy Taxi), but that doesn't stop me from replaying the save unsaved shit again and again and again and-wait... It can play CDs? No wonder I keep using this system during study sessions... (Sorry, PS2... You're still the contingency plan thought, remember?)

Other than that, honorable mentions to my GameCube and Gameboy Advance respectively due to the formal being nostalgic and the latter being used to keep a single battle between Mario and Donkey Kong going for over 8 years and counting... (Seriously, I think I broke the game's AI in Game & Watch Gallery 4 if I haven't been close to loosing in over 6 years...)
 

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The N64 and the Gamecube.

In typical Nintendo fashion, they couldn't get third parties onto either to save their lives, but quietly made some of the best games of all time themselves. Also I have an odd soft spot for Starfox Adventures.
 

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Super Nintendo is one of my all time favorites. A very good console, with amazing games, sometimes i just have to dust off that thing to play Star Fox, A Link to The Past, Final Fantasy VI (that translation is just the best), Chrono Trigger, Final Fight 3 and a lot more games, really, it's just...Nostalgia, i guess, but good nostalgia! Even the controller of that thing feels good to hold.

I also play a lot of Ps1 games from time to time, but it's in the PS3, i have the backwards compatible version, and my Ps1 stopped working some years back, sometimes i have to use emulators to play some games as well, but mostly when i'm too lazy to set up the PS3 :p

My N64, that it's the original one that i had is the third, usually to play some classics, replay some games, i still like to play some games on there, even if there is a PC version, like Rogue Squadron and Star Wars: Racer.
 

LauriAJ

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I would like to visit the glory days of PS2 again. And play Gamecube as well on the side..
 

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Platformers are my favorite genre, and SNES was the undisputed king (we don't talk about that other 16-bit console in this house).

I still get excited when I find some unknown game at a flea market or garage sale. Granted, 70% of those games are crap, but finding the 30% that's good is lots of fun.
 

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In terms of actual games, I'd say it's an even split between Snes and N64...
Arguably you could throw in a couple of Mega Drive games, but since I never owned one at the time...

But, that's games, and is largely things like virtual console stuff.

In terms of time spent with it, and frequency of returning to it, my N64 gaming far exceeds any other console. (if you mean games played on the original, physical console).

This of course might be influenced by the fact that my SNES was stolen. So was my original N64 actually, but I replaced it not too long after, so... I do in fact still own a working one.
I even used it often enough to justify replacing the worn out thumbsticks.

(my own original controllers that were stolen had thumbsticks that were in good condition, but the replacements all had varying degrees of wear to them. Not anymore though.
Replacement thumbsticks are awesome.)