What is Your Retro Range?

[Thierry Henry]

Retro range as in collecting:
No set limits. I pretty much find all gaming generations hold at least some collectors value for me.

Retro range as a gamer:
SMS and onward. Anything older I find I can't sit down and enjoy for any extended period of time.
If you had to pin me down I'd probably opt for the Genesis/SNES era.

[Opa Opa]

I love the 2600 and Intellivision. Not a big NES/SMS fan but I like everything SNES/GEN/TG-16 and up.

[G-Darius]

My first system not including hand held led and vacuum tube displays was the Atari VCS (2600) but I am interested in anything earlier too so I would say from the early beginnings in the 70`s upto and including the Sega Dreamcast and GBA.
..no further.

[marurun]

Oh, definitely the GBA. I feel like the GBA is the most neglected and underrated popular system among retro gamers.

Old computers are pretty cool, too. The Apple II was the place to be. More selection than almost anything else, at least for US-developed titles.

[BogusMeatFactory]

Oh, definitely the GBA. I feel like the GBA is the most neglected and underrated popular system among retro gamers.

Old computers are pretty cool, too. The Apple II was the place to be. More selection than almost anything else, at least for US-developed titles.

Oh absolutely! The GBA was a golden era of handheld gaming. It gave you such greats like Golden Sun, Minish Cap, Final Fantasy Tactics Advanced, The Metroids, the Castlevanias. I think that people do disregard it, but man, what a phenomenal handheld. Still have my SP for those occasions....and for those moments when people are like, "Hey let's play Crystal Chronicles!"

And as for the Apple II, you are spot on. Such a phenomenal computer. I had the IIGS as a kid and the games on it were simply astounding. Hell, the computer even had Space Ace on it, albeit on like 15 freaking disks! Still have the games and the computer, even if it is just for decoration now.

[Tanooki]

Shhh don't expose the GBA, I like the prices and availability as they are. It blows me away it doesn't have the abusers the SNES does which would be comparable display wise hardware on a home level. I went to GBA and Famicom after the US stuff got wrecked.


Here's something to consider for a retro range I haven't seen brought up yet. Late 70s through the 1980s LED and LCD handheld games. I'm talking Tiger electronics, Mattel Sports(Hockey, Baseball, etc), Wildfire LED pinball, Dungeons & Dragons, etc. Some of them as basic a they are really are fantastic. I tend to buy them at flea markets when I find them as they usually go real cheap.

[casterofdreams]

The oldest thing I have currently is the GBA and as a matter of fact, I am playing Golden Sun. So that is my range. I have games for newer systems that fist appeared earlier than the GBA (via Virtual Console).

My real interests start with 6th generation solely because I was about 11 or 12 when it originally dropped and thus had my fondest memories of gaming throughout highschool. I've owned an SNES and an N64 prior but would gravitate towards a GameCube and an Xbox 9 out 10 times.

[Hobie-wan]

Old computers are pretty cool, too. The Apple II was the place to be. More selection than almost anything else, at least for US-developed titles.

I dunno. Granted I'm biased toward C64 as it's what I had, but I remember far more C64 games than Apple II in the stores when I was younger. I also knew far more other people with Commodores and games than Apples.

[marlowe221]

Old computers are pretty cool, too. The Apple II was the place to be. More selection than almost anything else, at least for US-developed titles.

I dunno. Granted I'm biased toward C64 as it's what I had, but I remember far more C64 games than Apple II in the stores when I was younger. I also knew far more other people with Commodores and games than Apples.

I missed out on the 8-bit home computer thing. We didn't have a computer at home until I was in high school in 1996-97 or so.

I have actually been doing some reading about the Atari 400/800 and C64 lately. They look like cool systems.

[irixith]

My retro range is pretty much NES, GB[X,C,A] and SNES. It's not that I haven't or don't play other systems, it's just that those are the ones I gravitate to on a regular basis and have the most fun with. Grew up with Nintendo instead of Sega, which affects my preferences pretty significantly. Plus, there are already enough titles for those systems to last the rest of my life...to say nothing of more modern gaming.