Which console generation would you like to go back to?

[AnonymousCookieMonster]

It really does, there's way too much good stuff across the board to narrow it down to just one.

Well you could limit it... But there's criteria.

1) Kick ass music
2) Sprite based graphics/gameplay.
3) Heavy classic Capcom, Konami, and RPG games.

Early 3D graphics really didn't do it much justice, so PS1 & N64 i could do without.

Once you get PS2/Gamecube/Xbox it works for a lot of stuff. But so much stuff looks great as sprites.

 

[RanmyakuIchi's icon RanmyakuIchi RanmyakuIchi]

This needs multiple choice. I'd have chosen 4th-6th gen... Though a bit less on 5th gen.

It really does, there's way too much good stuff across the board to narrow it down to just one.

Well you could limit it... But there's criteria.

1) Kick ass music
2) Sprite based graphics/gameplay.
3) Heavy classic Capcom, Konami, and RPG games.

Early 3D graphics really didn't do it much justice, so PS1 & N64 i could do without.

Once you get PS2/Gamecube/Xbox it works for a lot of stuff. But so much stuff looks great as sprites.

Definitely agree on your 3 points, though I do like early 3D as I find it has it's own jank charm. You right that detailed sprite art is unmatched though.

 

[Zooey]

Wish i could go back to the N64 (5th gen). The games were great, and the graphics were just good enough that you could use your imagination. Turok had terrible fog, but back then it wasnt a big deal, if anything it made the game feel more immersive.

I know people meme about the controller, but i didnt mind it. My problem was those terrible MadCatz controllers that you had to buy because they were cheap and you needed 4 controllers for Goldeneye and Perfect Dark. I think my rabbit also disapproved of MadCatz because he would only chew on the official N64 controller cables. Maybe they just taste alot better than the MadCatz. The accessories were also really cool. The Transfer Pak, the Controller Pak, the Rumble Pak, printing off stickers at Blockbuster, and of course the Expansion Pak.

Here's what i dont want to go back to: the original DMG Gameboy. The game library was terrible with Tetris being the only great thing keeping it afloat for many years until Pokemon came along and rescued this handheld. Of course i can list off some decent games for it, but nothing comes even close to Tetris or Pokemon. The only saving grace was that it didnt chug batteries like the GameGear or the Lynx (both of which i never saw as a kid)

 

[χKai]

Here's what i dont want to go back to: the original DMG Gameboy. The game library was terrible with Tetris being the only great thing keeping it afloat for many years until Pokemon came along and rescued this handheld. Of course i can list off some decent games for it, but nothing comes even close to Tetris or Pokemon. The only saving grace was that it didnt chug batteries like the GameGear or the Lynx (both of which i never saw as a kid)

Look, I'm no hater; but I'm with you 100% on the original Gameboy. With such a color scheme, I'm amazed anyone even wanted to play one of these things, and it comes as no surprise that many non-gamers would consider it on the level of the Tiger handheld electronic games; without an experience to differentiate what makes it unlike the Tiger games one can only notice the fact the Gameboy has multiple cartridges while Tiger games are much cheaper.

It is my personal experience that leads me to wonder how anyone wanted to play any handheld games back then, instead of just saving for a console or waiting until they came out with color screens in games. It's not like after the introduction of color TVs didn't make it obvious it was bound to happen.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

Sixth

 

[RageBurner]

Anything from Generation 3 and beyond would be a net positive. I caught the tail end of the Atari 2600 and have exactly zero nostalgia for it.

 

[Turbo Kid]

4th. It was a magical time in gaming, a golden age both on console and in arcades. Also, I'd love to re-experience the 5th gen again and the beginnings of the 6th with the Dreamcast. The 90s as a whole where awesome with many big technological leaps forward in gaming and innovation. Also 80s and 90s culture were so much more fun than the 2000s, the 2010s, and the awful decade we're in now.

 

[ZEGA ZONIC]

No 7th gen? I did enjoy playing games on my PS3 when it wasn't broken.

 

[thanonyx thanonyx]

No 7th gen? I did enjoy playing games on my PS3 when it wasn't broken.

I wanted to stick to before DLC, microtransactions, and constant internet access were commonplace.

 

[Bomberman]

Fifth for the creativity and lush prerendered BGs

 

[KenShjIN]

I fuckin love my Nintendo 64 so yea you got me here

 

[Tetronomicon]

Maybe it was because of when I grew up, but I'd have to say the fourth generation. Mostly because even to this day, I believe it is still the height of 2D graphics (and the culmination of twentyish years of developing it up to that point).

While I loved the sort of "growing pains" era of 3D during fifth generation, you gotta admit it still had some issues when it came to figuring out what the hell they were doing with this new frontier of gaming. To the point that SEGA arguably exited the market as a result of never fully hitting the landing. At least on the hardware side of things (the Saturn being the obvious example).

It wasn't until the sixth generation that the devs (both hardware and software) were finally able to basically figure it out with 3D. Which like many here is my (next) favorite generation.

 

[sockesocke]

6th gen, gaming was better back then.

 

[poppy_]

i wanna go back to xbox 360 cause it was the first console i played online!

 

[FrootyLoopsSamurai]

I want to go back to the N64 era because I had friends I could play games with in person. :(

 

[TinRattler]

None

I only play 3rd,4th,5th and 6th gen games now

 

[Nelson2001 Nelson2001]

To the 6th generation because it was a generation that I met thanks to the GameCube and I had a good childhood and hours of entertainment together with my sister and my cousins back then.

And so also the PS2 that we played in hours of Entertainment and Fun also together with my sister.

 

[Bakuma1997]

The SNES and Genesis era, i am a total sucker for Pixel art and IMHO the Genesis Vs SNES wars were far more used in ads creatively than the more mild shots from PSX and N64

 

[ThatOneLum ThatOneLum]

1st gen all the way.

If I'm gonna get a chance to go back and see what it was like at its height, then I wanna see what the first version of these things felt like back when they were new.

 

[Xeno]

But I'd rather stay here and emulate it all. We have it so good right now!

I miss the gaming magazines, gaming websites, message boards(Gamefaqs used to be so active and so many others like the official PlayStation forums!), X-Play and discussions with friends.

 

[aquova]

It's definitely the GC/PS2/DC/Xbox era. To me, that's still what video games look like in my head. I still think of PS3/Xbox 360 as the "Next Gen" systems.

 

[Danieru-Emanyueru]

The Playstation 2 is the best!

 

[yungmysterymane]

6th was the peak. We had backwards compatibility, there was still some experimental shit going on in the AAA industry, the AA industry of weird wacky games that weren't quite indie was at it's zenith, and stuff wasn't too expensive yet. Hell, I remember PS1 games being like 10 bucks across the board once the PS2 dropped. Golden Age shit.

 

[DjQuick2008]

4th because i got to live it in that time period and would do it all over again.

 

[Agent Otaku]

PS1/Saturn is peak "retro"
PS2 (and early PS3, though mainly PS2) is peak "modern".
Things were much more amazing back then.