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strongarm, do gaming w Interactive Loading Screens - High Hell

There was an old Spectrum Game that actually loaded up Pacman first before the main game.

Kissaki,

What’s a Spectrum game? Is that a game series?

Blackmist,

The ZX Spectrum was a home computer popular in the UK back in the 1980s.

Games loaded from audio tapes, and would frequently take 5-10 minutes to get into a state where you could actually play them.

Now get off my lawn!

Blackmist,

One of them had Space Invaders. I can’t remember for the life of me which one. It was apparently used on the C64 quite a lot, under the name Invade-a-Load.

strongarm,

Yeah I can’t remember my game either, it might have been something like Joe Blade 3?

grrgyle, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

It’s no Gameboy, that’s for sure. I use it resting on a pillow on my lap, so I don’t actually have to hold it up. Works very well that way actually

Megaman_EXE, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

This is a really hard question for me to answer. So I’m going to go with a bit of a catch-all.

I really like the GBA. But the DS can play DS and GBA titles. But the 3DS is great too and can play all 3 and then some.

I guess the 3DS. There’s just so much that can be packed into it. I haven’t played mine in a while. I wish it was easier to install a capture card in them. There was something special about the games from the GBA to 3DS. The limitations of the hardware had developers experimenting, and we ended up with so many interesting titles. If you factor in the couple n64 games ported over to the 3DS, it’s just so much nostalgia in one handheld.

If I had to go with a runner-up, I think it would be my series X. Being able to play so many backward compatible games is also super nice.

If I truly had to pick single consoles only, with only the games designed for that specific console. I would probably go with the 3ds and the xbox 360. The 3DO or Dreamcast would come after as they had so many unique titles.

I never got to play the ps1, ps2, or psp and vita. So I’ve been curious what I’ve been missing out on over the years.

sleepybisexual,

You could always emualtr them. Psp is a good system

Megaman_EXE,

Playstation and psp emulation is not something I’ve looked into much. I’ll have to do some digging!

sleepybisexual,

Ppsspp is good,

Vimm.net has most of the ROMs. For PSP tekken dr is a very good game. Especially with resolution upscale

bonegakrejg, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

SNES does have a lot of the better games in lots of great series. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, Castlevania, Final Fantasy etc etc etc.

Though the cheat answer is probably PC since its been around for decades can just evolve with whatever is going on.

BruceTwarzen,

It's obviously pc for me because that's pretty much all i use for 30 years. But i always liked the nes because it's pretty satisfying to put in a cartridge and pushing it down.

ethd, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

You and I would have been enemies in the 16-bit era, but I adore the Sega Genesis. (However, I’m also a sleepy bisexual, so I’m gonna say we’re probably nowhere close to enemies.)

It was an arcade monster and got a ton of amazing games from the arcades and purpose-built for the machine — many the SNES also got, but some exclusives that really took advantage of what the Genesis could do well. I’d argue that the gritty FM sound chip was better for certain types of game music as well, though that’s not to say that the SNES wasn’t largely superior on that front.

At the end of the day… yeah 16 bit stuff looks amazing

sleepybisexual,

I should get into the genesis, any recommendations?

Megaman_EXE,

I have no idea if they hold up today, but I really enjoyed Zombies ate my neighbors, Mickey Mania, World of Illusion (another mickey mouse game), and Taz Mania.

SternburgExport, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

PS2 for sure. So many great games that made my childhood and its easy to mod and repair.

SNES is close second. Was lucky enough that I got one growing up (it was 10 year old console at that point) and the 16 bit graphics and the music always take me back.

infinitevalence, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
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Bazz,
tigeruppercut,

There was someone in reddit awhile back that started a community review site because there were so many bad games to sort through. I’ve found some good ones through there

minireview.io

noob_dragon, do gaming w What is your favourite game console?

Not counting PC since that is easy mode, I would probably say the Wii for me personally. I have had: n64, gc, gameboy (pocket, color, and advance), DS, and ps2 besides the Wii. But I think I put more hours on the Wii than any of those. Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime Trilogy, Zelda Twilight Princess, smash bros, and mario kart wii. Very solid catalogue. Plus it had the virtual console and was what allowed me to play some old classics like Super Metroid and Donkey Kong Country 2. I never had a snes growing up so that was pretty huge to me. I even cut my teeth on some FPS games like call of duty, world at war and conduit lol.

The Wii might be cheating a bit too since a lot of my fondness for it does come from its backwards compatibility with the Gamecube, and gamecube games were still very relavent during that time. Metroid Prime 1 and 2, part of the Trilogy of course. Smash bros melee. I even had the Zelda collectors edition disc which had GC ports of zelda OOT and MM.

So yeah Wii was definitely kind of cheating since in some ways in my nostalgia I mix it up with basically every Nintendo system that came before it heh. But even on its own it had a solid lineup IMO.

stardust, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?

Best mobile games are Nintendo DS games that are completely touch based, which end up feeling like native experiences such as Kirby Mass Attack.

quenpwn, do gaming w Why do mobile games suck nowadays?
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Gacha games

callouscomic, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

Everything Nintendo sucks.

rbits, do gaming w Maybe hot take: as a handheld, the regular switch is an awful handheld

I agree I always get cramps whenever I play mario kart in handheld. That’s why I buy as many of my games as I can on the Steam Deck instead.

RightHandOfIkaros, do gaming w Gacha gamers: which is your favourite disappointment simulator and why?

I enjoy Super Mecha Champions. It is a gacha game, but its gameplay is actually pretty good. Its a battle royale where you can summon mecha mid-battle. Not a whole lot of players these days, but TDM is bussin around 2pm PST and every week has two pinnacle games where players compete for a special title that expires each week.

Kit, do games w I just learned an interesting piece of gaming history that most people might not know about. (Xbox Live Arcade on original Xbox)

I had Xbox Live on the original Xbox but never knew Arcade was a thing on it. This is a pretty neat discovery and I hope some folks can share stories.

VerseAndVermin, do games w I just learned an interesting piece of gaming history that most people might not know about. (Xbox Live Arcade on original Xbox)

This is neat. I would have loved to have played some of these alongside what I did on the 360. Feels similar. Marble Blast Ultra, Geometry Wars, etc. I had no idea either.

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