• ouRKaoS@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.

        Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…

        • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          1 month ago

          Didn’t know they were that versatile. I never had one but I’m into retro gaming so I’ve played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha

          • fishy@lemmy.todayEnglish
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            1 month ago

            At this point nearly any device with a screen can emulate SNES games and the consoles that came before it. I have a cheap Chinese retro game handheld from Ali Express and it’s honestly so refreshing to play games that aren’t begging me to spend extra money.

            Also, playing fan translations of games that weren’t released in the west like mother 3 and dragon quest monsters is so cool. 10 year old me would be so jealous.

      • k1ck455kc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Yeah if you never got the red ring of death it was the best console.

        Its DRM was more flexible than we have ever or will ever see on a console again.

        • The licensing worked similar to xbox one but you could transfer all licenses at once instead of just when you downloaded a game.
        • You could install any disc or digital game to internal or external drives and could transfer it between any pc/console. The discs then functioned as physical licenses to play disc-based games.

        The avatar system was the gaming metaverse we all wanted and it got abandoned before it could reach its full potential.

        • Avatar awards as skins you could show off in multiple games!? Amazing.
        • indie devs could take advantage of the avatar system to enhance their games

        The library was the peak that xbox ever had to offer. Uniqueness and passion still showed through in AAA games of this era, and 360 had the majority of quality AAA games. PS3 still managed, but nostalgia for the 360 days is what is still keeping the xbox brand alive today.

        The online multiplayer in games of this era still celebrated and enabled community/random encounters with voice chat. This doesnt happen in modern games, nobody is in the game chat anymore. I am not a fan of paid multiplayer so i dont pay anymore, but back in the day, it was worth it for the shenanigans and connections we made.

  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    20 days ago

    does PC count? because i never gave a fuck about consoles beyond “oh shit the 3ds can do 3d? that’s the coolest thing i have ever seen”

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.

    For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.

  • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I guess mine’s a PC from the 90s or 00s

    Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn’t really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later