SydLexia.com - The Forums :: View topic

Posted: Aug 29 2009 11:56 pm

So, we have establish the 5th as kinda a huge letdown from everyone not named Sony or Nintendo.

Which generation would you consider the best? Which do YOU believe to be the Golden Generation?

Here are the choices:

1st Generation (1972 - 1977)
APF TV Fun · Color TV Game · Coleco Telstar · Magnavox Odyssey · Magnavox Odyssey 200 · Pong · Video Pinball

2nd Generation (1977 - 1984)
Arcadia 2001 · Atari 2600 · Atari 5200 · Bally Astrocade · ColecoVision · Fairchild Channel F · Interton VC 4000 · Intellivision · Odyssey² · RCA Studio II · SG-1000 · Vectrex

3rd Generation (1983 - 1992)
Action Max · Amstrad GX4000 · Atari 7800 · Atari XE Games System · Commodore 64 Games System · Nintendo Entertainment System · Sega Master System

4th Generation (1987 - 1996)
CD-i · Commodore CDTV · Neo Geo · Sega Genesis/Mega Drive · Super A'Can · Super Nintendo Entertainment System · TurboGrafx-16

5th Generation (1993 - 2002)
3DO · Amiga CD32 · Apple Bandai Pippin · Atari Jaguar · Casio Loopy · FM Towns Marty · Nintendo 64 · NEC PC-FX · Playdia · PlayStation · Sega Saturn

6th Generation (1998 - 2005)
Dreamcast · Nintendo GameCube · Nuon · Panasonic Q · PlayStation 2 · Xbox

7th Generation (2005 - Current)
PlayStation 3 · Wii · Xbox 360 · Zeebo

Posted: Aug 30 2009 12:35 am

Wow, that's tough. On the one hand, the SNES is my favorite console. On the other, C64 and NES....

Posted: Aug 30 2009 12:48 am

Yea it was very close for me, had to go with 3rd, but really wanted to pick 4th.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 01:25 am

I went with 5th...even with that whole topic discussing how bad it was. On one hand, the NES is my favorite console, so I almost with with 3rd Generation. But I had to go with 5th just because I remember renting the 3DO, PSX, N64 and Saturn all on different occasions and enjoying them all (yes, even the 3DO) so much that I didn't know which one to ask for for Christmas, except the 3DO because I knew my parents would never spend that kind of cash for it. Plus, Looking back on it now, the Playstation, Saturn and N64 all were solid systems so that's why I voted 5th.

EDIT: Plus, no jump from one generation to the next has ever wowed me as much as the jump from the 4th to the 5th, even looking back at it now...the difference in graphics and gameplay from the SNES/Genesis to the N64/Saturn/PSX is pretty amazing.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Aug 30 2009 01:58 am

The Console Wars really brought out the best (and in some cases the worst) in gaming. It was definitely the most exciting.

Back then, it mattered what you owned. Nowadays, it really doesn't.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 02:54 am

I voted 6th. In a cheating way, it had a lot of the great games from earlier generations. Okay, so thats no good. Still, Gamecube had some real winners like RE4, Eternal Darkness, Metroid Prime, and arguably the best version of SSB. PS2 as a system could play its predecessors, and had a gigantic library filled with excellent titles. Xbox had its FPS fans, and brought live to the table, for communal console justice. I never played the dreamcast, but from what I hear it had some real winners too.

Its ratio is real good, if you had to own one set you would never be disappointed with set 6.

#4 is good, with the best system ever in the form of the SNES, its Vegeta in the Sega Genesis, and the Neo Geo, which is a great cabinet(disregard if your not talking about the interchangable arcade cabinet).

The NES is good, buts its alone in a sea of left behind and plain shite.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 03:00 am

UsaSatsui wrote:

Back then, it mattered what you owned. Nowadays, it really doesn't.

Should it?

Posted: Aug 30 2009 03:00 am

6th, easily. GameCube might have been laughed at, but if I had had the money, the Zelda compilation alone would have made it worth it. Not to mention a couple other real gems Robo already noted. And PS2...is the fucking PS2. Best system there is, was or ever will be for my money.

UsaSatsui's Youtube Channel · Posted: Aug 30 2009 03:26 am

Jack Slater wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote:

Back then, it mattered what you owned. Nowadays, it really doesn't.

Should it?

Probably not.

But it sure as hell did then.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

My vote is for where the NES landed.

The gaming landscape changed. Then, as well as after.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 04:23 am

Valdronius wrote:

Wow, that's tough. On the one hand, the SNES is my favorite console. On the other, C64 and NES....

The Commodore refered to is the Commodore 64 GS, not to be confused with the computer:

It was basically a C=64, that had it keyboard removed, and no access to a disk drive, which meant all you could play on it was the games that came in cartridge form. I personally only recall only ever having 3 cartridges for my C=64: Pitstop, Congo Bongo, and Epyx's Fast Load. Guess which one saw the most use?

Posted: Aug 30 2009 06:37 am

I had to go with 4th gen. I finally got a SNES in 1994 for my 14th birthday and played the hell out of it. I still have it too. One big factor is was that it was a gift. Back then I was only 14 and couldn't buy a console on my allowance, so it was a big deal to get one.

Now I can afford my gaming habit. Back in 1994 no way in hell could I afford a console on my allowance. Even games were out of reach, so when I got one I played the hell out of it.

These days I have the money to buy more games, yet the connection has been lost since I can turn around and afford another game in a heartbeat. I guess you could say I was more intimate with my games in the 4th generation than I am now.

There were games I wanted that sucked but I played the hell out of them anyway.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 07:46 am

According to Tom Brokaw, the 1940s.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 01:29 pm

4th Gen = 5th Gen > 3rd Gen > 6th Gen > Current > 2nd Gen > 1st Gen

To add-on, I've never played a C64 game in my life, and probably won't ever due to my massive exposure to the NES and more graphically updated games/systems making me not gain any love for it.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 02:08 pm

I have to go with the NES (3rd gen) regardless of the strength of any other generation as a whole.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 03:55 pm

The one with Super Nintendo, obviously. Revolutionary as the one with the NES? Possibly not, but the games were best!

NOTE: I'm a big Nintendo nerd.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 04:21 pm

I went with the fourth Generation. Let's face it, this generation had done almost everything right. A large amount of the games were fantastic, the console war was two sided and it was well defined; none of the whole "Oh I like my X-box for shooters and my PS2 for RPGS" either you were a nintendo or sega player.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 04:46 pm

well, w/out the NES, there is no SNES. so i went w/the NES, since it also got me addicted to games

Posted: Aug 30 2009 05:12 pm

I'm gonna go ahead and say 6th. SoldierHawk was right, the PS2 was the best console ever imho. I have more games for it than any other console and I PLAYED THE EVER LOVING SHIT out of it. Also Wind Waker.

2011 SNES Champ Joined: Dec 04 2006 Posts: 1929

I don't care if almost everything else in the 5th sucked, the PlayStation and Nintendo 64 are by far the consoles I've spent the most time playing.

Well, I've played the PS2 a lot too, but that's mostly because of it's backwards compatibility. For me, PS1 games > PS2 games by quite a bit.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 07:04 pm

Gotta go with 4th.

SNES/Genesis/T16 = EPIC WIN.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 08:03 pm

While I own basically every good NES game ever made that isn't Magician or Nightshade (can't find cheap copies), I'm gonna have to go with 6th generation. With PS2, you're definitely getting the most bang for your buck of any console.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 08:33 pm

now that i think about it, this current generation lets you download all those old games, so its like having all generations in one

Posted: Aug 30 2009 08:37 pm

username wrote:

now that i think about it, this current generation lets you download all those old games, so its like having all generations in one

But is it as good as using the original controllers? I say not!

I love Mega Man X, but I can't stand playing that on a SNES emulator. I'm too biased in favor of the SNES controller, I guess.

Posted: Aug 30 2009 08:45 pm

Dii Infer wrote:

username wrote:

now that i think about it, this current generation lets you download all those old games, so its like having all generations in one

But is it as good as using the original controllers? I say not!

I love Mega Man X, but I can't stand playing that on a SNES emulator. I'm too biased in favor of the SNES controller, I guess.

i can respect that opinion. its fucking hard to play smash bros w/the classic controller. so i understand what you mean.

anyone seen the new japanese classic controller? http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175389