Oldest system you stil play

[Febel]

Nintendo 64.

Reality. The game is very hardcore. Everyone who plays it dies no matter what. There is no saving, loading or restarting. Well some gamers believe there is restarting as a different character later in the timeline but then you have amnesia when you begin again (how cliche amnesia) so it really doesn't make a difference. The game is gorgeous and looks very realistic. It is extremely complex. It even contains all the other systems that ever come out. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife Nobody really knows the ending when you die. Some believe you get rewarded or punished based on your actions. Some believe your game ceases to exist completely.

Yeah, but it has a nine month loading time once you press start and the lag is just horrible in most places...

Actually no, the brain of the character is actually loading at a much faster pace in that time frame than the character later on. Just that that there is so much lag in the intelligence later they have a hard time even noticing how fast paced the early lives of the various players in these games are. =D Just look up a neuroscience or psychological studies of how much the brain grows in a baby and toddler especially when compared to being older. They learn so much more so quickly than we now do. Thus it is our brains suffering from lag and this lag makes it even difficult to realize we are the ones with bad loading times!

Yeah but it's really feckin' hard and apparently the designers were to hoity-toity to give us a damn tutorial at the start

Well, it is odd, some of the stuff comes across much easier than it would if we were just pure blank slates such as eating and walking so in a sense there is a bit of an unconscious tutorial in an odd way . We are also too weak to survive compared to other animals for a while thus in a sense we have a much longer tutorial than other creatures. Especially in first world countries today, some spend decades before heading out on their own. Our tutorials are huge. But at the same time our brain does all this growing before then to prepare for it.

From the start it is like having super duper mental powers with some subconscious/unconscious guidance for like the first few years that sets the system up for the tutorial that can last anywhere from like I guess five years to decades after we are a bit mentally weaker. We keep getting weaker and weaker but there is more structure then to make up for the weaker ability. Once some basic structure begins the tutorial begins.

Like I said real life is complicated. It makes any PC game look simple.

I just meant like, an instruction manual. "To find well paying job do X, Y, Z in that order"
"While in bed, hit her weak spot for massive orgasm, etc."

How many people would read an instruction manual in the first place? I mean even those that believe that there is a guide by the creator itself/himself/herself actually bother to read them? But I guess those manuals are so confusingespecially with how things change in reality over time that they make any manual that came out for all the other games seem easy to understand anyway.

Fair enough. But I will say this: We are in desperate need of some very large patches. And I've been waiting for that "Outer space" expansion pack for what, 45 years or so?

Space is probably available just that humanity hasn't leveled up its skills and knowledge enough in order to get there. It is like the upside down castle in Castlevania Symphony of the night. Once we know how to get there in a cost effective way then it will open up much more but it doesn't mean that we can't get there or that it isn't there. We are at the stage now that we know there is an upside down castle but we don't know how to get there without using tons of resources and how to get that far within that upside down castle. I mean the difficulty leap of travelling in space or the upside down castle is fairly large.

There may be no need of patches if Liebnez is right that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
best of all possible worlds
best of all possible
best

If that's the case than I've a handgun to fellate.

 

[J-Alfred]

I like to dust off my GBC for a little pokemon action now and then.

 

[flaviok79]

Actual machines, (not counting the PC, because I doubt anyone of those still use the same PC as in the 90's)I only got my old original XBOX besides my 360. So that I play weekly. Using emulators, however, Sega CD is my constant companion.

 

[Telumektar]

My NES is in its box, waiting until I have the money for buying some replacement parts. The oldest games I've played in a while have been Pokémon Crystal for Gameboy Color and Fallout and Grim Fandango (on Win XP, the later worked really bad).

 

[ReaperGrimm]

The original PlayStation

 

[ilspooner]

Our N64. For some reason we have two. Oh well, they rock, especially with Goldeneye.

 

[Snotnarok]

Sega Genesis, I'd say NES is the oldest but because they made it out of such garbage parts, I had to fix it 3 times before it finally died. There's emulators sure but I have actual carts here so it's still frustrating.

 

[Kiltguy]

LOL! XD

Oh jezz, I love this thread.

When the piece-of-crap works, my old NES still can still run a few hours. It's like me in a sense...

Funny thing... Here I sit, with my new high-rez-, HD-, 40", flat-screen TV, and what am I playing? 8-bit graphic games! :O

That just cracks me up.

 

[Mistermixmaster]

The ol' NES is the oldest console I play every once in a while. May convince my mom to join in on Super Mario Bros 3 as well, just for nostalgia's sake when I do feel like playing it. We used to play that a lot together when I was around 4-5 years old and finally grasped how you could use both the warp whistles to get you straight to world 8 (a.k.a. The Dark World) after arriving in world 2.

 

[FalloutJack]

I will go back to NES gems for the ones I never played if I have to, and others around that generation. I have a working Atari 2600 too.

 

[thepyrethatburns]

Computerwise: A Pentium 120
Consolewise: An Intellivision II

 

[Pat8u]

Im currently playing an old old game on the pc That game is arena Im playing all the elderscrolls main storys while waiting for skyrim

 

[Joleo]

for me its a gameboy colour and pokemon yellow, i cant afford a DS/PSP, so its how i roll

 

[Titan Buttons]

Nintendo 64, But my cousion still has a working Super Nintendo and I play that sometimes I'm over her place

 

[bulldogftw]

PS2 is just so good

 

[Mithol]

Nintendo 64. Nintendo has made me sad with its recent additions to the brand, if you could call them additions, but the 64 will always have a special place in my heart.

 

[Nouw]

Doom II, fuck yeah!

It's aged really well, even to this day.

 

[Cerebral Force]

Super Nintendo is my current oldest console. The oldest I ever possessed was an Atari from the time era before the NES. That and my NES are now gone and I am left with my SNES.

 

[shiaramoon]

If my older sister hadn't take them when she moved out I'd probably occasionally game on a Nintendo Entertainment System (yes, the first one) and a Super Nintendo.

 

[shiaramoon]

PC

Wow... I think you win the thread for oldest gaming system... give him ten internets and a digital cookie of his choosing, I say!