Whats your favorite console?

PetroRie

I was just wondering since there are so many retro gamers on this forum, what is your favorite console and why?

For me it's personally the SNES and PSX. I played many games on these systems when I was a kid. I loved all the Donkey Kong series on the SNES, these games still look good and the music is epic. PSX has some great games I played as a kid, Metal Gear Solid oh man that game was like a movie, it's still good as I remember it.

BenWlson

Original NES followed closely by SNES. I don't remember exactly what year, but I was maybe 8 years old when I got an NES and 12 or 13 when I got an SNES. Replaying all these games I used to rent at the family video store down the road has been great!

meleu

Definitely NES!!!
Oh man! All the Mega Man serie, Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden, River City Ransom, Castlevania, Contra, TMNT2, Felix The Cat...
Nowadays, with the RetroAchievements feature, I'm playing all these games with a renewed pleasure!

Addison

@meleu HI.

Do you have a link on how I can start using Retroachievements on my Pi 2?

meleu

@Addison said in Whats your favorite console?:

@meleu HI.

Do you have a link on how I can start using Retroachievements on my Pi 2?

The best place to get informations about RetroPie configs is the RetroPie wiki.

https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/RetroAchievements

BuZz

Not a console, but the Amiga is probably my favourite machine.

mediamogul

@BuZz said in Whats your favorite console?:

the Amiga is probab be my favourite machine

I didn't own an Amiga growing up, but it was the source of much confusion for me when it came to buying Commodore 64 and DOS games. It started when I bought 'Back to the Future II' for the Commodore 64 for under the price of a sandwich. I couldn't believe the graphics I was seeing on the back of the box. Well, when I got home it obviously looked much different on screen. Turns out that it was common practice to use Amiga screenshots for all multi-platform PC releases. I don't know how I thought it could possibly push the C64 to such limits and I always wondered where those screenshots originated from. It wasn't until I started emulating Amiga machines years ago that I got my answer. Since then, when emulating a multi-platform PC game of that era, I always go for the Amiga version.

To veer back on topic, my favorite console is the complete GameBoy line of portable consoles. The line was developed by Gunpei Yokoi who is a personal hero of mine. He started off at Nintendo as a maintenance man and ended up being one of their top developers, second only perhaps to his protege, Shigeru Miyamoto. He invented the phrase, "lateral thinking with withered technology", which I believe encapsulates the philosophy behind the GameBoy as well as a certain series of credit card-sized single-board computers that we all know and love.

mediamogul

@meleu said in Whats your favorite console?:

with the RetroAchievements feature, I'm playing all these games with a renewed pleasure!

My previous reply was running a bit long, but I wanted to ask if there was any particularly challenging RetroAchievement you're gunning for at the moment? I'm currently trying to beat Sunsoft's 'Batman: The Video Game' on one man. I can get to level three without even being hit and can make it to level five before having to continue, so I'm getting closer.

meleu

@mediamogul said in Whats your favorite console?:

@meleu said in Whats your favorite console?:
I wanted to ask if there was any particularly challenging RetroAchievement you're gunning for at the moment?

Sure. I'm struggling to beat the "Little Nemo - The Dream Master" NES game. I'm on the last stage but it's really tough! There is an unachievable achievement for this game "beat the game without loosing a life", but I don't even try it...

Another achievement that is driving me crazy: Mega Man 2 Boss Rush. We have to beat all those initial bosses at Dr. Willy castle using only mega-buster, without dying and without using E-Tank.

BTW: I was facing some problematic achievements. Some of them doesn't work on RetroArch, but work on RANES (the official emulator). The RetroArch developer demonstrated a will to fix it. I've created a thread talking about it. Look it, if you are interested: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/1799/call-for-volunteers-to-help-retroarch-full-compatibility-with-retroachievements

BTW 2: add me at RetroAchievements. My username is meleu. :-)

mediamogul

@meleu said in Whats your favorite console?:

Another achievement that is driving me crazy: Mega Man 2 Boss Rush. We have to beat all that initial bosses at Dr. Willy castle using only mega-buster, without dying and without using E-Tank.

That one is especially intense. I've been looking forward to revisiting the Mega Man series with RetroAchievements.

I was facing some problematic achievements.... The RetroArch developer demonstrated a will to fix it.

That's fantastic! It's a kick in the gut to work hard for an Achievement and it not get triggered. What bothers me even more is when achievements are triggered that I haven't earned. As I'm sure you're aware, some games launch and just start showering you with unearned achievements. It is nice they can be reset on the website, but since it'll just happen again, that feature will only come in handy after more stability is found in it's integration with RetroArch. I'm glad to see the issues being addressed.

add me at RetroAchievements. My username is meleu.

I will indeed and my name there is Pseudoscience.

ShootHere

For nostalgia's sake for me SNES but I love being able to explore many PS1 titles that eluded me over the years.

PetroRie

@ShootHere said in Whats your favorite console?:

For nostalgia's sake for me SNES but I love being able to explore many PS1 titles that eluded me over the years.

You really should try out Metal Gear Solid, in my opinion the BEST PSX ever made. Fear Effect 1 and Fear Effect 2 are good games, pretty underrated. Other games I can recommend are:

All the Resident Evil titles
Dino Crisis 1 and Dino Crisis 2
Silent Hill
Covert Ops Nuclear Dawn
Koudelka (it's a horror RPG)
Die Hard Trilogy

If you are into rare games I can recommend you the following two titles:

Shaolin, this game was also released in the USA under a different name which I forgot. But it's a RPG/fighting game. I owned this game back in the 90ties and I really loved it, it has a high replay value, so many things to unlock etc.

Crisis Beat; a Japanese beat 'm game this game has English menu's and subtitles I owned this one too, it's a fun game.

I really hope they will release a Raspberry in the future which will be able to run a PS2 and a Gamecube emulator. Man, that would be SO awesome!

Belowstupid

PS2. PSX has a lot of my favorite games of all time, and so does the PS2, and that can play PSX games so it's the best of both worlds.

PokeEngineer

NES for nostalgia reasons. I remember when I was 3 or 4 years old playing Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 3, and the original Super Mario Bros.!

(Nostalgia? More like NEStalgia!)

drake999

Genesis / Megadrive hands down. 8-bit games don't do much for me, with the exception of some serious classics like Super Mario Bros. or Castlevania.

ShootHere

@PetroRie Metal Gear Solid isn't my sort of game. I am a sucker for JRPGs. I recently started Wild Arms again, which got stolen waaayyyyy back in my teenage years. Rhapsody is currently on the todo-list as well but it seems like quite a tear jerker from what I gather but the voice acting/singing is just so TOP NOTCH!

EDIT: I did have a PS1, just so many titles I never got to try, so I am catching up!
Oh and just to replay Suikoden 1 and 2 again is worth a Raspberry Pi alone :D