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love love love the idea of this coming back, still bummed about no PC/arcade games tbh. as a kid i was playing all three, maybe with a vague sense of them going with different moods, moods, or styles of play. (for that matter i was still playing atari games in 1990 if the mood struck me, but that's neither here nor there.) during the "third generation" i probably divided my time pretty evenly between NES, commodore and PC games, plus hitting up the arcade any time i was at the mall.
i get that "generations" get hazy but maybe you could just use the console generations as a basis for *years* and then extend the years to other systems? like, the famicom was released 1983, the super famicom 1990. so you could say, in this "third generation" poll, include all games released for the famicom and master system, period, plus all games released for anything else from 1983 to 1990. that may be hard to get used to, since a PC game from 1994 wouldn't appear on the same countdown as an NES game from 1994. but it kinda makes sense IMO - the PC and arcade games of 1994 have a lot more in common (genre, graphics, aspirations) with super nintendo games. like, street fighter II as an arcade game obviously belongs with genesis/SNES, generationally. and obviously the console hardware is locked in, so a "late" NES game sort of isn't on the same playing field as another game from 1994... not that i think anyone would vote for wario's woods. maybe kirby. i guess this sort of goes against my "what you might have been playing around the same time" logic. but in any case i still think it'd be less weird-feeling than not including them at all.
just my two cents though!
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 8 August 2015 20:13 (eight years ago) link
I remember kind of being frustrated that PC would never get a Mario game, and the side scrollers were close approximations but I kind of remember controller lag being a big problem for a long time. Maybe I am mis-remembering but now that they have emulators and know all about frame lag and stuff it makes a lot of sense. You were just never going to get that SMOOTH scrolling, that instantaneous controller feedback, etc. Going back and playing console games on the original equipment, the smoothness of everything is very apparent.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 8 August 2015 22:15 (eight years ago) link
ha, wow, we had ABUSE and I'm sure I played it a lot but that longplay video is triggering no moments of memory, no familiar music or sound effects or anything. you see one minute and you've basically got it. i remember it being ... playable? sooooo gray and ugly-looking.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 9 August 2015 04:28 (eight years ago) link
What about speccy/commodore/st/amiga games, do they count as 'pc games'? That's my only chance of input pre gen 5.
― ledge, Sunday, 9 August 2015 12:25 (eight years ago) link