NES and SNES over PS1?

[Z(ombie)fan]

I think it depends which generation of gaming you grew up in. You're always going to prefer the games you remember playing in your youth.

I disagree.

I never like a single game for long, and once I beat it I usally forget it really quickly and refuse to play it again.

OT: the console the game is on is irrelevent. I go for games with a reputation for being great/sounds like something I'll like, and if I can get my hands on it in the first place.

 

[AwesomeExpress]

I'd rarely played any PS1 games, even more rarely for PS2, and it wasn't until my friend got a PS3 when I finally played any Playstation games on a regular basis, and the one I play the most is Warhawk. I also play Peggle from time to time, but there are better games like it.

I'm a Nintendo fan all the way, ever since I first held a NES controller. I just can't get enough of Mario, Link, Samus, or Bomberman. Too many good games on the NES and SNES for me to even begin..

 

[demoman_chaos]

3D games don't age well.

 

[dfcrackhead]

You're making me choose betwixt the two loves of my gaming adolescence, Mario and Crash Bandicoot... You're a sick man for making me choose which half of my childhood I prefer... I guess I'd take the NES, just because I sunk so much time into making weird ass levels in Excitebike and shooting ducks.

 

[icyneesan]

Personally I think both the SNES and PS1 games are much more better then anything we've had come out recently. If I had to pick I guess the PS1 because it had more games from Japan in English then the SNES. But if I could add those translations then I'd pick the SNES.

Or ya'know, you could be nice and give me both?

 

[AvsJoe]

SNES games are holding up better but in my heart the kingdom of the PS1 is greater. That's where I discovered you could have your cake (story) and eat it too (graphics). Though sprites have their own special place in my heart as well. God, those were the days, weren't they?

How could you choose?!?!?! It'd be like "you can have sex with Kate Beckinsale or Anne Hathaway, but ONLY one". I mean, whichever you choose is gonna be awesome, but deep inside your mind you'll always know you let the other one go.

Anne Hathaway.

 

[Chewster]

I think the NES/SNES. The PS1 had some amazing games, but, while the PS1 was amazing at the time, the blocky graphics don't do it for me anymore. I've been spoiled by new gen graphics sure, but I think that the NES and SNES games, while seriously low-fi relatively speaking, had better, more gameplay intense games. It's hard to describe, but I feel the PS1 was a transitional period, for the most part (2D to 3D sprites/graphics) and as such, it shows its age a lot more then the generation before it.

Both are good though and both have their classics.

 

[blankedboy]

PSX. Spyro, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken and FF7. No contest.

 

[irequirefood]

It has to be PS1. While I did go nuts with the SNES games such as Yoshi's Island and the Donkey Kong Country games, nothing will beat my love of Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Ape Escape, Digimon World and Tekken. I don't care if the graphics look dated, I can still play them easier than 75% of newer games.

 

[Sougo]

PS1. It was the genuinely great gameplay and storylines that made Ps1 titles stand out. Graphics were always just a bonus for me.

 

[Space Spoons]

I have a lot of love for the PS1. The NES/SNES/N64 were big parts of my life, but the PS1 was just huge. There's very little I don't love about it.

Logically, I think the SNES holds up better. When you get down to brass-tacks, the SNES represents a console at the peak of its chosen visual technology, which happens to be pixels. A well-made SNES game can be a joy to look at, almost like controlling a cartoon. A well-made PS1 game, on the other hand, might have been technically impressive at the time, but today will just resemble an ugly jumble of polygons over washed out, pre-rendered backgrounds.

In my personal opinion, though, the PS1 wins every time. There were a lot of great, unique games being made because it was a console that, by the very nature of its existence, was a huge risk, and thus drew in developers more willing to take chances. That, and I just love everything about the PS1's culture. The demo disks, that classic start-up theme, the memory cards, even the constant loading screens.

 

[Wing Dairu]

Did you know that the PS1 wouldn't exist if it weren't for the SNES? Sony was working with Nintendo to make a CD-based addon to the SNES, but it fell through. The PS1 exists for the same exact reason the Philips CD-i exists.

 

[Mr. Omega]

It's all about opinion. Both are absolute gems, and personally, I prefer SNES, but that's not saying PS1 is bad.

That being said, the NES/SNES games have certianly aged better. As good as PS1 was, it's almost universally agreed PS2 blew it out of the water. On the Nintendo side, some people still consider SNES the greatest console ever made.

 

[Space Spoons]

Did you know that the PS1 wouldn't exist if it weren't for the SNES? Sony was working with Nintendo to make a CD-based addon to the SNES, but it fell through. The PS1 exists for the same exact reason the Philips CD-i exists.

I believe this is the same reason the Final Fantasy franchise jumped ship. I guess they'd been banking on that CD addon because they knew cartridges wouldn't cut it for FFVII.

Man, if they'd taken their chances with the CD-i instead of the PS1, the phenomenal success of FFVII might well have saved the console. That, or the spectacular financial failure of FFVII, due to either the CD-i's awful controls or the simple fact that very few people owned one, would have sunk Square all over again.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Its hard to decide... But I guess, the SNES... NES was before my time...

Without the SNES, I wouldn't have gotten into gaming, and made the eventual jump to my second choice, the Playstation...

SNES games still hold up and the system was great from launch, whereas the PS was just starting out and didn't become great until a little bit later...

 

[Thaius]

For me I think I'd rather play a classic Mario, Contra or Castlevania over a classic PS1 game such as Tony Hawk, Gran Turismo, or Driver.

Well if those are your "classic PS1 games," I can see why.

I'd maybe take the SNES over the PS1. Maybe. But the PS1 has three Final Fantasy games, as well as some older remakes (supplying me with many of the best SNES titles, like Final Fantasy VI and Chrono Trigger), as well as some classics like Crash Bandicoot, Spyro the Dragon, Metal Gear Solid, and great RPGs like Legend of Dragoon and Vagrant Story. I freaking love the SNES, but I'd have to take the PS1.

 

[Audio]

Ps1 games look dirty now-er days where as Snes gets away with its pixles. However NES gets away with fun gameplay

 

[Miumaru]

Only games from PS1 I really got into was Twisted Metal 2. As great as it is, Mario Bros alone kinda trumps it for me, and Gauntlet since its the first game I can recall playing.

 

[Deleted]

With computers these days, there's no reason not to play all 3!

I never had the PS1 as a kid so I'm visiting the console now with emulation. So many gems I missed, ;_; its like I'm a kid again.

Edit: will I get suspended/banned for talking about emulation on this forum?