Found my "era" of nostalgia.

[Erik_Twice]

My nostalgia is the 486 era. Best computer games I have played until this day. In fact, I'm not very nostalgic about it because I have played most of those games quite a lot. Does anyone feel the same about their "nostalgic era"?

[Golgo 14]

My era for gaming nostalgia stretches from the Atari 2600 to the NES and maybe even the SNES somewhat. Also arcades.

Same here, though I'd definitely include the great SNES. 1981-1994.

[arion]

My era is late 80's and early 90's and the first console i ever used was the Mega Drive and i didn even know what nintendo was outside of the game and watch things. And as such never considered that as a serious console since i already started in 16-bits. Until much later that is. My most nostalgic games for the mega drive are Altered Beast, Fantasia and Sonic.

Then came the amiga and i have very fond memory of that. Ranging from awesome shooters like Apidya and turn based rpg's like the Champions of Krynn the years when the amiga was still around were awesome indeed. And ofcourse lets not forget the awesome music the amiga was capable of producing. Still to this day i refuse to play a pc verison of a game i played first on the amiga the soundtrack is just nowhere near the same.

So at last the 486 pc came along and i've pretty much been a pc gamer ever since.

[Dakinggamer87]

My era for gaming nostalgia stretches from the Atari 2600 to the Dreamcast also including arcades.

[Anayo]

Bearing in mind I was born in 1990...

I am really attracted to the look and feel of Sega Genesis games. They're colorful and simple.

I also have some kind of thing for Build Engine first person shooters. Specifically Duke Nukem 3D and Shadow Warrior. I played them at a very impressionable age and it left me fascinated with them.

Also, here's a provocative question: has anyone felt nostalgic for a system or generation you completely missed out on? For example, I had a Nintendo 64 from 1998-2003, but I've always been enamored with the Sega Saturn. I especially like the graphic design-y-ness of the Saturn logo, with the blue planet with rings.

[Alpinex2]

I'm 30 So my most nostalgic era is from like 87 - 93

[Ack]

Honestly, my "nostalgia era" really runs from the NES to the Dreamcast...1985-2000 I'd say. Why so large? I played games the entire time, be it Gremlins or Duck Tales on the NES, Final Fantasy VI on the SNES, Resident Evil on the PS1, Mario Kart 64 on the N64, or even kicking back with day-long Soul Calibur tournaments on the DC. And then there's the long current of PC gaming, really starting for me in 1992, when I waited 36 hours for the shareware version of DOOM to download on our dial-up.

Gaming has been good to me.

[xxstatic]

Did you buy that rug and the console at the same time?

Fortunately the rug and the picture is not mine, I just Google image searched for a photo of it...now I'm going to go look for one to buy...gotta get back to my roots...

[Gamerforlife]

Apologies for not reading every post, but here's my two cents

For pure nostalgia, nothing beats cartridges. I mean nothing really takes me back in time more than holding an NES, SNES or Genesis game. That doesn't mean that any one of those consoles are my favorite of all time, but truly nothing brings the nostalgia for me more than shoving a cart into an old console. I got a similar feeling when I first used my Nintendo DS and popped Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia into it.

I really feel like the 16-bit era(along with all the great arcade games of the time)was the golden era of gaming and it will NEVER be that good again. 2-d games had reached perfection in control and visuals(something modern games STILL have not done), the arcade experience wasn't dead and cartridges were just plain better than optical media in every way(sturdy, tough and NO damn load times)

The Dreamcast is probably my favorite post cartridge system though and maybe my fave of all time. However, much of that love is due to what could have been had it lasted longer. I loved what the system was capable of and where Sega was heading with it...before Sony put it down that is

[SpaceBooger]

Honestly, my "nostalgia era" really runs from the NES to the Dreamcast...1985-2000 I'd say. Why so large? I played games the entire time, be it Gremlins or Duck Tales on the NES, Final Fantasy VI on the SNES, Resident Evil on the PS1, Mario Kart 64 on the N64, or even kicking back with day-long Soul Calibur tournaments on the DC. And then there's the long current of PC gaming, really starting for me in 1992, when I waited 36 hours for the shareware version of DOOM to download on our dial-up.

Gaming has been good to me.

I could mirror this post almost 100%... except I don't know how long it took to download DOOM.
I know that I had to leave my 2400bps modem overnight and while I was at school to get one Commander Keen game.

My first system was the 2600, but I played my NES the most. In college the Babages in the mall had a 30 day return policy for games (opened or unopened). So I would get almost every Genesis or SNES game that came out and if I beat it in 30 days I returned it, if not it must have been worth the price and I keep it.
The Dreamcast was the first and last system I purchased the day of release and that is my last of my "hardcore gaming" days.