What retro system do you just not understand the appeal of?

[fastbilly1]

And, as I mentioned earlier, a side effect of moving to LCD displays, particularly ones that don't de-interlace well, is that those drab, low-contrast games look even more low contrast. I'd very much recommend playing on a good CRT or a TV that scales well for PS2 gaming. (Or use a Framemeister, although I don't have one of those.)

Or emulate. That's totally viable these days if you're not rocking a six-year-old laptop like I am.

Wait... PS2 emulation is a thing??? How did I not know that?

You mean I can play Burnout 3 Takedown again?

PS3 emulation is a thing.

[Tanooki]

Now that I wasn't even aware of PS3 emulation. Kind of curious what kind of a beast would be needed to run stuff right though. I question even what I have being too happy.

i74710 2.5ghz(turbos to 3 in use), 16GB ram, nvidia 980 w/8GB of ram on that.

[fastbilly1]

I wouldnt even try PS3 emulation right now, its a solid 3-5 years away from being usable by general enthusiast. John Godgames rig is a modern i7, 32gigs of ddr4, and a 1080, and it runs retail games chunky.

I do love me the Virtual Boy. The controller is a mess, but it has some really interesting titles. Though I bet most of my enjoyment of it is from how forbidden the console was when it came out. Sadly, the Mario Kart port never made it to retail:

[isiolia]

Might depend on the PS3 game. They're showing Demon's Souls getting 30fps at times on a high end rig...which to be fair, is all it ever does on a PS3 either. If they can manage to get a steady 30fps out of it, it might become preferable to real hardware (unless weapon wear is tied to framerate like it was in Dark Souls II when SoTFS hit...).

[retrosportsgamer]

I like to think I have a good sense of consumerism and can make a case for why most systems made it to market. If we're talking the appeal of something like the Lynx in 1990, I can see how that would stick out in the Sears holiday catalog (barely) because of being in color, and fancy Atari box art and all.

In 2017, I would not understand the appeal of going back to play a Lynx. It's actually one of the few systems I purchased during a retro gaming rebirth in 2011 that I think I tested once and then donated in the Racketboy Charity auction. So the Lynx makes the list.

Being a PC CD-Rom 1x kid in the mid 90s, I don't know how your 3DO and CDi 's did it at those price points. They didn't appeal to me then, and really only the Sega CD did when it was downright cheap and I was a late adopter. Today I get the appeal and still have a Sega CD, but the 3DO was something I sold off in 2014.

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This is a hard one because I cut my teeth on the Commodore 64 using this joystick and in turn this was my first console experience at my grandparents. But it's hard for me in 2017 to find the appeal in hooking back up the 2600.

Don't get me wrong, even only a couple years ago I played Combat against my brother and with his kids, and I'm a Breakout guy, but I don't know, I get excited by the thought of Atari collections, but not at the idea of actually playing them.

[Michi]

I suppose I must concur with a lot of you in choosing the CDi, and that's coming from someone who owns it. I mean, I love it for the sake of being a bit of a historical oddity, and I do understand the idea they had with it, making a multimedia system for the television and all. But as a gaming system it doesn't hold up and staggering price when it was new probably shot it in the foot and put it out of the range of most people it might have appealed to.

I suppose if you're a hardcore Zelda fanatic there's just not going to be any stopping you, but I can completely understand why most people steer clear of it.

[Segata]

For anyone who said Dreamcast or ANY SEGA system. You have made worst enemy today! All your nostalgia are belong to me!



As for the topic that I am bumping to have vets of this forum scream at the newbie bumping a thread.

Tiger Handhelds. The things were a piece of shit to me then and even worse now. I never owned one but I played a few back then. I thought they sucked. Was even worse when I knew someone with a R-Zone and from what I hear he went completely blind from too much R-Zone.

[fastbilly1]

from what I hear he went completely blind from too much R-Zone.

Unless he had a a crazy condition, this is not possible. You had more of a chance going blind playing on a CRT than the low res screen of the R-zone

[Jmustang1968]

Loved the Genesis, liked the Saturn, then Sega lost me at the treatment of the Saturn and with the Dreamcast.

Similarly with Nintendo consoles. Loved the NES and SNES, so naturally I requested an N64 as my console for the next gen. Despite some fun multiplayer games and a couple of zeldas, I had regretted it, and wished I had a PS1 for most of its cycle. I finally got a PS1 late, and then a PS2 and never looked back. I didn't get a GameCube for years.

[Segata]

from what I hear he went completely blind from too much R-Zone.

Unless he had a a crazy condition, this is not possible. You had more of a chance going blind playing on a CRT than the low res screen of the R-zone

He didn't go blind but the thing did hurt your eyes. Twas a joke.