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Post by 1983parrothead on Aug 22, 2015 16:59:14 GMT -5
What is your favorite moment in video game history? Here are some examples:
Golden Age of Arcades (early '80s)
The NES (mid to late '80s)
Fighting game boom ('90s)
In my opinion, the arcade era of the '90s, including the fighting game boom.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Aug 22, 2015 18:45:28 GMT -5
Copy pasting my answer to the thread "Let's rank the Video Game Generations!" at racketboy because it wasn't that long ago:
"Something like this (tried to rank the different formats as well but it's really tough);
1. Gen 4 (SNES, MD & MCD, PC DOS/Win, GB, PCE & PCE CD, Amiga, Arcade, GG, NG & NGCD, SX68K, LaserActive)
2. Gen 5 (PC Win, PS1, Saturn, N64, Arcade, GBC, FMT)
3. Gen 3 (NES & FDS, SMS, Arcade, Amiga, MSX, C64, PC DOS, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum)
4. Gen 6 (PC Win, PS2, GBA, DC, GC, XB, WSC, NGPC, Arcade)
5. Gen 7 (PS3, Wii, DS, PC Win, iOS, XB360, PSP)
6. Gen 2 (Arcade, A2600, AII, Intellivision, Colecovision)
Barely played any of the second gen stuff. There are some interesting action adventures in there but it's generally not polished or complex enough for my liking."
Edit:
"What is your favorite moment in video game history?"
That's hard but perhaps when I first saw two guys playing PC games on a network back in the mid 90s, I think it was Warcraft II.
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Post by shelverton on Aug 22, 2015 19:07:43 GMT -5
When I discovered JRPGs. It's basically 1992-1994 and includes stufff like Final Fantasy 6, Shining Force 1&2, Secret of Mana, Phantasy Star and also more action oriented stuff like A Link to the Past and Landstalker. I kinda locked myself up in my room and didn't care about anything else. Those games pretty much changed my life. Other games that blew me away during those days were Super Metroid and a couple of point'n'click adventures from Sierra and LucasArts.
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Post by Elvin Atombender on Aug 23, 2015 5:07:37 GMT -5
The mid to late 90s, when I used to spend days playing graphic adventures. My favorite memory from that period was writing down the lines from the final dialogue of Indiana Jones and The Fate Of Atlantis so I could figure out what I had to say to the nazis.
I am also very fond of the seventh gen, in no small part thanks to the aforementioned adventure genre seeing a resurgence but also thanks to the NDS, which is funny because when it was first announced I thought it was just a piece of gimmicked garbage. I have to say that I've never been so happy to be proven wrong!
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Post by X-pert74 on Aug 23, 2015 5:42:27 GMT -5
The 4th generation is probably my favorite, because I loved and still love the Super NES, and several games on other platforms during that time, like the X-COM games, id Software's work, and Contra: Hard Corps were excellent.
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Post by 90sgamer92 on Aug 23, 2015 8:39:32 GMT -5
1. Gen 4 (SNES, MD & MCD, PC DOS/Win, GB, PCE & PCE CD, Amiga, Arcade, GG, NG & NGCD, SX68K, LaserActive) 2. Gen 5 (PC Win, PS1, Saturn, N64, Arcade, GBC, FMT) 3. Gen 3 (NES & FDS, SMS, Arcade, Amiga, MSX, C64, PC DOS, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum) 4. Gen 6 (PC Win, PS2, GBA, DC, GC, XB, WSC, NGPC, Arcade) 5. Gen 7 (PS3, Wii, DS, PC Win, iOS, XB360, PSP) 6. Gen 2 (Arcade, A2600, AII, Intellivision, Colecovision) Gen 5>Gen 4&Gen6>Gen3&7>Gen 2 for me. Even though it's a 6th gen console, I mentally consider Dreamcast a part of the 5th console generation. Even with out it or N64, Gen 5 is number 1 for me for PC gaming, PS1&Sega Saturn and some good arcade games as well. As for years, I think that 1992-1994 and 1997-2001 are the best years for game releases (2002 and 2004 being great years as well) |
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Post by elektrolurch on Aug 23, 2015 9:04:21 GMT -5
Good question. I think for my it would be what is labelled here as the "NES era", but not because of the NES, but because of the diversity in playstyles and systems with unique games, visuals and stuff. I mean all home cpmputer systems of the time feel totally different from each other and are good for different things. That I love.
But I also love anything "older than the NES". I always realize, around here, I am pretty much alone with my opinion, but: I love the Atari 2600, as well as early RPGs and text adventures!!
In general though I have to admit, such statements are hard to make. I mean, late 80ies to mid 90ies also has its charmes....
And now is a great time for Indie games as well....humm.....
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Post by lamerstill on Aug 23, 2015 13:36:06 GMT -5
The snes and nes era so many fun and easy to play games I still go back to to this day.
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Post by moran on Aug 23, 2015 14:51:30 GMT -5
The snes and nes era so many fun and easy to play games I still go back to to this day. Same here. |
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Post by cambertian on Aug 23, 2015 15:20:05 GMT -5
I personally never liked the NES that much. There are a few stand-out titles that are still fun: Pipe Dream, Super Mario Bros. 2 and so on, but they still feel too primal and difficult for me. Even Mega Man and its sequels have their share of deal-breakers.
Gaming entered its golden-age in the late-SNES/early-Playstation era IMO, at least for 2D. Both the graphics and the gameplay peaked around that time. Heck, I'll even play the archaic 3D ones of that era. Early 3D has aged better than early 2D for me.
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Post by Bobinator on Aug 23, 2015 17:44:30 GMT -5
I'm gonna basically agree with what Cambertian said, except I can think of more NES games I like. It just feels like the standards for what made a good, fair game weren't really solidified until the 90's, really.
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Post by Cash Master on Aug 23, 2015 18:25:22 GMT -5
Late 3rd gen to Mid 4th gen. If I had to specify, I'd say '87 to '94. A multitude of quality, original games on PC, console, arcade - in eastern and western markets, at that. Everything about the games made in that era just felt right. I think we lost a little charm in the transition to polygonal graphics.
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Post by ommadawnyawn2 on Aug 23, 2015 18:54:06 GMT -5
...but they still feel too primal and difficult for me. Even Mega Man and its sequels have their share of deal-breakers. Would be interested in hearing what some of the deal breakers are, just in general. Not exactly disagreeing though, as I often use save states and codes to either practice parts of (if I like the game enough) or get through games from that era. At the same time I tend to get more excited about and impressed by creative but rough around the edges games from the NES era than their successors, and I also tend to prefer the aesthetics compared to SNES games. I would say mid 90s/early 3D is roughly equivalent to ~mid 80s 2D games when it comes to the overall evolution and polish of games in each concept/perspective, for the most part anyway. The mid 90s 3D games are just generally more forgiving about retries, checkpoints and saving, and have more focus on story and cinematics which can help carry an otherwise mediocre game. |
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Post by alphex on Aug 23, 2015 19:35:42 GMT -5
1. Gen 4 (SNES, MD & MCD, PC DOS/Win, GB, PCE & PCE CD, Amiga, Arcade, GG, NG & NGCD, SX68K, LaserActive) 2. Gen 5 (PC Win, PS1, Saturn, N64, Arcade, GBC, FMT) 3. Gen 3 (NES & FDS, SMS, Arcade, Amiga, MSX, C64, PC DOS, Atari ST, ZX Spectrum) 4. Gen 6 (PC Win, PS2, GBA, DC, GC, XB, WSC, NGPC, Arcade) 5. Gen 7 (PS3, Wii, DS, PC Win, iOS, XB360, PSP) 6. Gen 2 (Arcade, A2600, AII, Intellivision, Colecovision) I guess I agree with this one. However: Late 80s to early 90s for computers is a very curious era for me. You had a wide array of themes (Sierra especially did a couple of rather atypically set games, and even converted some Japanese titles), and games still had a rather arbitrary feel to them at times - it wasn't quite as easy to see through them straight away. The games are playable and all, but while console titles of that era are pretty much perfectly analysed by now, I don't think the same applies to computer games. They feel a bit more daring and all. Hard to put into words. A lot of games also tried stuff that wasn't technically feasible, but y'know, fascinating nonetheless. While it isn't my favourite era, it is definitely one of the most curious ones. As for my favourite "era", I'd like to cheat and pick '92 - '98. Arcade-style gameplay that was great to pick up and play at any given time was perfected, and so were epic 2D JRPGs. SOR2 and FF3 were released. Versus fighters peaked. Point & click adventures saw the release of Indiana Jones & The Fate Of Atlantis, Monkey Island 2 and Quest For Glory 4. No Super Mario World, I guess, since that came before, but otherwise, all the classic entries of my fav genres were released during that time. |
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Post by GamerL on Aug 23, 2015 20:49:07 GMT -5
If I had to pick a personal favorite time for video games I guess it would be a 5 year period from 2001 to 2006, basically from when the 6th gen heated up to when it died down.
What can I say? I liked the 6th gen.
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