Whats the oldest system u still play

[Gabanuka]

By newly Ebayd NES. Still need to get around to buying some more games. I think I'm gonna get Contra next.

 

[Feste the Jester]

N64 and Dreamcast. Whichever came out first, not really sure.

 

[Erana]

They put a Sinclair ZX Spectrum emulator on the iTouch, if that counts.
Still, I play my 'ol gameboy every now and then.
My father took our Win 3.1, though.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I have an old 386 PC with Windows 3.11 because Microsoft hates backwards compatibility and just because a game is old doesn't make it bad. I also have an old Pentium Pro PC with Windows 95 for exactly the same reason.

 

[Rosm101]

Mega drive, Sonic is tops!

 

[TPiddy]

The old-school XBox 360! Came out way back in 2005.

 

[Asdalan08]

I only go back to the Sega Genesis

 

[Aphex Demon]

My Gameboy, Pokemon Yellow <3

 

[irishdude]

ps1 because i have to play ff8 and finish it once a year, i know weird ha

 

[EightGaugeHippo]

My PC is 6 years old and I play Morrowind on it. My brother took all of the old consoles when he moved out.

 

[Woodsey]

I have an old 386 PC with Windows 3.11 because Microsoft hates backwards compatibility and just because a game is old doesn't make it bad. I also have an old Pentium Pro PC with Windows 95 for exactly the same reason.

Aren't there fixes on the net? Granted, I've only ever gone back to games from around XP's release, but I've never had one that I couldn't get working.

Mind you, I doubt either of those 2 systems are particularly costly so it's probably not worth the effort.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I have an old 386 PC with Windows 3.11 because Microsoft hates backwards compatibility and just because a game is old doesn't make it bad. I also have an old Pentium Pro PC with Windows 95 for exactly the same reason.

Aren't there fixes on the net? Granted, I've only ever gone back to games from around XP's release, but I've never had one that I couldn't get working.

Mind you, I doubt either of those 2 systems are particularly costly so it's probably not worth the effort.

Quite a lot of games from back in the day didn't have frame limiters because no-one thought they'd ever be needed - you try running some early 90's games on a modern PC and even with the help of something like DOSBox they're just uncontrollable. I tried playing Blade of Destiny (the RPG, not the Wolfenstein add on) on my new PC a while back, and just the act of walking down the high street of Thorwal took three weeks as the in-game clock just went at warp speed. Not good, especially when Blade of Destiny has an inbuilt time limit of two years.

And no, they won't be worth much nowadays. Their value is far more sentimental than monetary.

 

[danintexas]

Woodstyle Atari 2600 is hooked to my 52" in the living room. Guest bathroom has a Vectrex system hooked up. Darth Vader style Atari 2600 is on the TV in the guest room next to a Sega Master System.

I also have hooked to the 52" in the living room the following:

360
PS3
SNES
NES
Genesis
Game Cube
Dreamcast

 

[zfactor]

Still have a lot of old consoles set up permanently for quick access. The oldest one in continual use is my Commodore 64, owned it since 1985 (that's 25 years!), closely followed by a NES (although I only got it a couple of years ago)

You sound like the angry video games nerd (his website is cinemassacre.com, he reviews really old games angrily and has probably every systems invented all connected to one TV).

Well the first console I got was the NES, yet I now have heard of many others (like the Commodore 64, Atari 2600, etc).

 

[Woodsey]

I have an old 386 PC with Windows 3.11 because Microsoft hates backwards compatibility and just because a game is old doesn't make it bad. I also have an old Pentium Pro PC with Windows 95 for exactly the same reason.

Aren't there fixes on the net? Granted, I've only ever gone back to games from around XP's release, but I've never had one that I couldn't get working.

Mind you, I doubt either of those 2 systems are particularly costly so it's probably not worth the effort.

Quite a lot of games from back in the day didn't have frame limiters because no-one thought they'd ever be needed - you try running some early 90's games on a modern PC and even with the help of something like DOSBox they're just uncontrollable. I tried playing Blade of Destiny (the RPG, not the Wolfenstein add on) on my new PC a while back, and just the act of walking down the high street of Thorwal took three weeks as the in-game clock just went at warp speed. Not good, especially when Blade of Destiny has an inbuilt time limit of two years.

And no, they won't be worth much nowadays. Their value is far more sentimental than monetary.

I guess that makes sense, although I'd have thought you'd be able to edit something in the config files; can't say I've ever messed around with games that old though.

 

[Macgyvercas]

When mine inevitably dies, I will go out of my way to replace it.

Same here. Only those things are very hard to kill because Nintendo built them like fucking tanks.

 

[AngelSword]

I still regularly play NES and SNES games, and have for the past twenty years. But my Dogbone NES [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Entertainment_System_%28Model_NES-101%29], purchased a few years ago, is the only one I play on the actual hardware.

 

[Nifty]

Technically the Mega Drive (well, Ultimate Mega Drive Collection for the 360). I'm going through a big Streets of Rage phase at the minute. I will complete it on Hardest if it kills me. And it most likely will.

I do occasionally crack out older consoles from time to time, usually on a rainy day. I've got a NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube and PS2 for when the mood takes me. I've got a Mega CD but the respective Mega Drive died some time ago and I can't get a replacement for toffee. A shop in town sells them second hand but every time I go there, they say that they're at home. FFFFFFFFF-

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

>snipsnip<

Quite a lot of games from back in the day didn't have frame limiters because no-one thought they'd ever be needed - you try running some early 90's games on a modern PC and even with the help of something like DOSBox they're just uncontrollable. I tried playing Blade of Destiny (the RPG, not the Wolfenstein add on) on my new PC a while back, and just the act of walking down the high street of Thorwal took three weeks as the in-game clock just went at warp speed. Not good, especially when Blade of Destiny has an inbuilt time limit of two years.

And no, they won't be worth much nowadays. Their value is far more sentimental than monetary.

I guess that makes sense, although I'd have thought you'd be able to edit something in the config files; can't say I've ever messed around with games that old though.

Quite possibly, but I'm more comfortable tinkering with hardware than software. At the end of the day I'd rather have a couple of old machines knocking about than start messing around with program files. Personal preference I suppose.