>17~ consoles, most of them with games that are incredibly similar to one another
gee I wonder why most people don't look back much on this gen
>17~ consoles, most of them with games that are incredibly similar to one another
>17~ consoles, most of them with games that are incredibly similar to one another
gee I wonder why most people don't look back much on this gen
I was born in 88 and grew up on NES but boy howdy do I love second gen systems. I hear a lot of people say there's no value in playing anything pre-NES unless you have direct nostalgia for it but if you like golden age arcade style games then there's plenty of fun to be had with any of these machines.
>if you like golden age arcade style games then there's plenty of fun to be had with any of these machines
If you like golden age arcade games, play those directly in MAME (or in an arcade if you can) instead of playing those ugly horrible ports with fist sized pixels and beep boops for sound. Arcades were much better than this at the time, there's no reason to play inferior versions
the "inferior" versions are endearing
allow yourself to have, dare i say it, FUN anon
gen 2 is a v based era
and very misunderstood by tendies
"i simbly wont play anything older than nes lol"
its like people live life with the blinders on,
they have these autistic mental blocks on their brains
sorry your garbage emulation setup couldn't properly replicate the feel of the old analog systems
>muh feel of old tech
Sure, for most people it really isn't about games, it's about playing around with old tech. Not everyone can be into games
it is unironically a thing though
>emulates (poorly oftentimes) gen 2 system on their moms laggy consumer flat panel
>deys gaems suck lel
>*makes shitpost thread*
for paddle games how the frick are you supposed to do ANYTHING if it jitterytearing and laggy as frick?
who could play breakout like that???
the irony is that the applesmartphone-ipad generation that is incapable of enjoying generation 2 shitposts from a device designed and championed by literally steve jobswozniac kek
>MAME
stopped reading
opinion discarded
PLENTY of the originals are good.
>most people
Translation: Zoomers like you
>ignore the YouTube thing
Zoom harder.
I look back on it, get mogged OP
Literally the ohnly generation that matters, get mogged even more zoomer OP
literally all the games of this generation are bad.
just turn this board into a nintendo board only already, frickers
sega*
2000s zoomer here. I love second gen (and even first gen) systems. There wasn't an established formula yet so you got unique titles and the ports are always fun to play because of how clever the devs were in order to make the games work. Were there bad games? Absolutely. Were there more bad games during this gen than most generations? Yes. But it's still a fun generation of gaming and to just consider it all bad or unplayable is ludicrous.
They actually ARE fun - but you can't look at it as playing x, y or z game for one of those consoles. It's not like later gens where you recommend specific titles; everything's so simple and compromised in vision that there's really no point in trying to curate it.
Instead, just dedicate a day to playing a bunch of just random picks for a specific console, and treat the set of them as a game in and of themselves; individually they're like 3/10 to 7/10 at best, but taken as a collective experience you can often find a lot more value in them. All the better if it's part of a themed release, actually; I had an absolute blast playing through 'Intellivision Lives' last year, even if the xbox controller finger gymnastics you have to do to emulate the keypad controller is lulworthy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFSvhhwxKYw
Is this what cope looks like?
No, it's what awaits your future looks like, anon.
Kneejerk hatred of the format can only last so long as you haven't given it a fair shake; I was in your camp myself, but lived experience trumps all.
Only recorded around a third of them too. Yeah there's lots of bad, but like... it's ten minutes of bad tops, before you get to move on. If nothing else, gen 2 respects your time.
True. I kneel.
Soulful list
>bally is the same as 5200
>bally is the same as vectrex
>bally is the same as literal pong shitmon
>bally is the same as the colecovisions or ody2
threads like this should be pruned immediately
there is no trolling outside of b
OP is a homosexual
imagine "liking" videogames yet clearly knowing nothing about them and being literally unable to learnplay for himself
autistic af
maybe consider checking out >>>Ganker or
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>2600
has good unique games
>clones and euroshit
not my problem
>astrocade
I don't know of any games that weren't worse version of arcade games, don't know much about it to defend this one
>intellivision
has good unique games but the controller gets uncomfortable fast
later gen and has more going on in with gameplay
>Studio II
can't defend
>cassette vision
barely a console, can't defend
>colecovision
has good unique games
way late in the gen
>Odyssey 2
may seem quite primitive, but believe it or not it has a few good unique games
>5200
basically a repackaged computer, don't care
>vectrex
awesome graphics distinct from everything except arcades, has a few good unique games but some pretty cool arcade ports too
People must be confused that even though they may have been sold as muh home arcade, that's not why most people people who still play these consoles like them. If all you do is compare the versions of asteroids, defender, and space invaders, then yeah there is nothing particularly special about any of them. Someone who never gave these consoles a chance probably can't imagine that some of the games are so unique it takes time just to learn what's going on, or that it might be fun to do so.
>Someone who never gave these consoles a chance probably can't imagine that some of the games are so unique it takes time just to learn what's going on, or that it might be fun to do so.
Name the games
Thunder Castle
AD&D Treasure of Tarmin
Tower of Doom
Sub Hunt
Dreadnaught Factor
Dark Tower
Cosmic Chasm
Secret Quest
Arguably even Pitfall is poorly understood by most people beyond a surface level
>Arguably even Pitfall is poorly understood by most people beyond a surface level
Explain me then
Though the game appears to be an endless linear platformer where you try to get a bunch of treasure for the high score, the goal is actually to get ALL the treasure spread throughout the hundreds of areas. The only way to feasibly do that is to use the underground areas, which are in fact shortcuts/warps and not the straight paths mirroring the aboveground which they appear to be. The game is enormous and you'd probably have to map it out to have any hope of getting even a decent score, let alone doing it in the time limit. Even once you have a full map and even a walkthrough cheatsheet like pic related, it's still a tough run to pull off.
What the heck
Also: Captcha = MOG
>bally
best controller
better graphics than 2600
controller is a paddle and a "stick"
there is a reason it is comically expensive
its not because muh memories & boomers
the library is actually pretty decent +it was expensive as frick at launch
like, comically expensive
my family only got into it bc my gramps was an employee for a computer company
he was able to get an astrocade on credit (at cost)
and even with the discount still got in big trouble with his wife kek
recs:
space fortress (best game over screen of all time)
renegade (snakesnafu)
astrobattle (space invaders)
cosmic raiders (defender)
incredible wizard (wizard of wor)
galactic invasion (galaga)
muncher (pacman)
grab the ulti-multi and recap a system
i made some controller adapters that let you use 2600 controllers instead of the crazy-expensive bally guns
I believe you about it being a high quality console, but all those recs being arcade ports is pretty rough
ColecoVision was the best of that lot anyway
How would you rank them?
Vectrex is unique.
Atari 5200 has amazing games far above the rest of what's pictured, but lacks the ability to play them competently because of faulty control design.
There were a lot of fun games when it was new and all we had at the time. When you're used to all the new tech today, naturally they all look simple and dull by comparison.