Golden Age of Gaming

[Lordcledus]

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I'm saying NES era. The gaming craze hit a huge slump in the Atari phase, and pretty much died. The NES is what really made console gaming popular again.

[fistofrage]

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Ahhh yeah!!! C64 did have a great Library of games. My faves were California Games and Pirates. Lots of fun with those two.

Forgot about Pirates. It was an amazing game.

I also forgot about the SSI war games. Fields of Fire, Ambush, I loved those games. And the Micropose Commanders series. Epic Wargame.

I also left Archon off the list. Basically it was Battle Chess, when two pieces met on the same same square a battle ensued.

Super Bowl Sunday.

And then pretty much every arcade game of the time was ported over. Good stuff.

[JBH3]

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The list is missing some also, The Odyssey2, Colecovision, Intellivision (possibly The Bally Astrocade, CoCo2, Atari 5200/800 & Vectrex)

Showing our age are we?

I was 4 when the NES came out (1985). I had an original Atari, and remember joust and a racing game...but my GI Joe's and He-Man's were more fun than that Atari, and it's joystick w/ one red button .

Man the NES was the most I had until the PS1 came out.

Can anyone say Tenchu. That game was awesome.

[GSW]

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I'm the one Nintendo vote so far...

It was between either that or SEGA Genesis.

I went w/ Nintendo because of the vast library of games I had, and how much I remember my NES games being more fun than most of my Genesis games.

IMO today's games are not the golden age AT ALL...Sure there are great games that come out, and are highly advanced. BUT for every one of those there are 10 games w/ just as much hype which fell completely on its figurative face.

When we were kids never was their disappointment in games, or the vast amount of critique and game-killing flaws.

We would just pop in Mike Tyson's punch out, Double Dragon, Zelda, Super Mario Bros I, II, & III and play for hours until our parents physically had to come upstairs and snatch the controllers out of our hands.

With the Genesis I had almost the same experience, but I always remember putting down Toejam and Earl or Kid Chameleon and popping in Paperboy, Mega Man, or Metroid and playing my NES over my SEGA Genesis.

I played the hell out of Mega Man and Paperboy

I like ducktales on Sega genesis though

and Bill and teds excellent adventure was this hit to on NES

[jeffy777]

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I'm the one Nintendo vote so far...

It was between either that or SEGA Genesis.

Same here. Games back then just had sort of a magical feel to them because they were doing ground breaking things, and since we didn't have the internet to criticize screenshots, gameplay vides, etc, the developers put a lot more emphasis on gameplay over graphics.

It was an amazing time for video gaming.

I was 4 when the NES came out (1985).

Again, same here

[fistofrage]

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Remember back in the day when you went to Toys R US or maybe an EB store and looked around on the shelf to see if anything new had come out? No internet, you might have been lucky enough to see a list of upcoming games in a magazine, but it was far from complete.

Then you'd take the gamble, usually solely based on the graphics on the back of the box.

People bash EA now, but for the Commodore, they were the best game in town and their packaging was sweet.

I still remember getting "The Bard's Tale" game with the Red Dragon shown on the back of the fold out packaging breathing fire. I had to borrow the extra money off my friends and then we sat in amazement as we constructed our party of adventurers. Played that game about 30 hours straight. Parents were calling looking for my friends, we were glued. Good times.

[Maxattax3]

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I went with SNES. I grew up on NES and Atari...(Karate Contra Mario Bros Punchout and RBI Baseball FTW) but when SNES came out It was crazy!!!! I remember seeing Starfox for the first time....with that FX chip or whatever haha. OMG I almost crapped my pants when I fired that game up. (remember at the beginning when that frog or whatever would talk "Doo Doo Doo Da Dup" haha)

Then when Donkey Kong Country came out my dad got it and popped it in my SNES for me...when I got home from school that day I saw the graphics of that game and my jaw hit the floor.

I never did get a N64....I think i went from SNES to Playstation...

[jeffy777]

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I grew up on NES and Atari...(Karate Contra Mario Bros Punchout and RBI Baseball FTW)I never did get a N64....I think i went from SNES to Playstation...

RBI was epic. I also like Bases Loaded 2. It had a cool season mode, but you had to put in a code to continue every time you turned off the NES since it couldn't actually save your game

[JBH3]

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I played the hell out of Mega Man and Paperboy

I like ducktales on Sega genesis though

and Bill and teds excellent adventure was this hit to on NES

Same here. Games back then just had sort of a magical feel to them because they were doing ground breaking things, and since we didn't have the internet to criticize screenshots, gameplay vides, etc, the developers put a lot more emphasis on gameplay over graphics.

It was an amazing time for video gaming.

Again, same here

Ducktales was awesome...I loved that game too, and racked up HUGE late fees on it at the local (now defunct "Movie Time Video") - that got me grounded .

Remember Castlevania...

I remember playing it w/ the lights off, and at 7 yrs old it would sometimes scare the crap out of me.

There was a GI Joe game for Nintendo too...I only played it a handful of times. Till this day it's probably better than anything EA could produce now :wink:.

[JBH3]

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Remember back in the day when you went to Toys R US or maybe an EB store and looked around on the shelf to see if anything new had come out? No internet, you might have been lucky enough to see a list of upcoming games in a magazine, but it was far from complete.

Then you'd take the gamble, usually solely based on the graphics on the back of the box.

Toy R Us was good, but the best for NES games were flea markets. You could get games dirt cheap there...My dad would set up a table to sell baseball cards, and I'd scour the flea market for NES games w/ my grass cutting money.

The back of the box was CRUCIAL for deciding on a game.

[LingeringRegime]

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The back of the box was CRUCIAL for deciding on a game.

I remember my parents taking me to Toys R Us. It was about an hour away from where I lived at that time and, I didn't know anything about what games were good and so forth. But, I looked at the front and the back of the Castlevania box. I decided that was the game I wanted. I read the manual like 3 times on the way back home. That game was so awesome, the music is in my head even now.

[fistofrage]

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I remember my parents taking me to Toys R Us. It was about an hour away from where I lived at that time and, I didn't know anything about what games were good and so forth. But, I looked at the front and the back of the Castlevania box. I decided that was the game I wanted. I read the manual like 3 times on the way back home. That game was so awesome, the music is in my head even now.

The nearest place that even sold games was 30 miles from my house growing up. You better make sure you picked a good game because it was 3 months miminum before you'd get a chance to get back there. My parents wouldn't drive me there just for that, wasn't even worth trying.

[matt8204]

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Remember back in the day when you went to Toys R US or maybe an EB store and looked around on the shelf to see if anything new had come out? No internet, you might have been lucky enough to see a list of upcoming games in a magazine, but it was far from complete.

Then you'd take the gamble, usually solely based on the graphics on the back of the box.

People bash EA now, but for the Commodore, they were the best game in town and their packaging was sweet.

I still remember getting "The Bard's Tale" game with the Red Dragon shown on the back of the fold out packaging breathing fire. I had to borrow the extra money off my friends and then we sat in amazement as we constructed our party of adventurers. Played that game about 30 hours straight. Parents were calling looking for my friends, we were glued. Good times.

Oh, yes. I remember harassing the Toys 'R Us and EB Games staff on an almost daily basis in the mid-90's, calling to ask them when the new NHL and Madden games were coming out.

[Misfit]

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For me the 32 bit era just barely edges out the 16 bit one. For me, the 16 bit era was dominated by the fighters and beat 'em ups (as well as Final Fantasy) while the 32 bit era by RPG's and 3D action/adventure titles. I enjoyed both immensely, but look back on the 32 bit era a bit more fondly. Plus I still go back to it every now and again. The PS2 had a nice run too, but like this generation, innovation kind of drifted away and we entered the era of the sequel.

[ThaGenecyst]

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SNES/Genesis days for me


I had a PLETHORA of games for those systems.. from Altered Beast to Forgotten Worlds to Adventure Island to Final Fight, etc


Shoot, I remember when Toys R Us games were in the back... u had to take the ticket, pay it off @ the cashier, then bring it back to the lil warehouse thingie towards the exit so they could bring it out to you lol.. I remember praying to GOD that there was a ticket left for Donkey Kong Country.

THE GOOD OLE DAYS