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Going through Wii games makes me feel so nostalgic. What console makes you feel that?

Lulubop said:
Just a child when the Wii came out?


This thread just make me feel old
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This. I was already paying income tax when the Wii came out lol.


Arcade give me the best nostalgia. Owning an arcade machine gives me such a nice warm feeling. I still remember a day when I spent so many coins just to pull out Hadoken or beat Mr.Bison or beat a Shmup game. Now, all of those memories are inside my little arcade cabinet. Now I don't have to spend coins anymore. My kids don't have too. My grandkids won't as well.
 
NES/Master System/MegaDrive/Saturn and also Dreamcast.

Some games in particular of course, not all games. Those I have strong memories attached to it. Like Landstalker, Zelda II, Shining Force III, Dragon Force or Soul Calibur.
 
NES and SNES make me feel super nostalgic, as well as the OG GameBoy.
Luckily I have several of either systems, so I can get my daily dose of nostalgia any time I want to, and you can't stop me no matter what!
 
I wasn't a child when the Wii came out. SNES was my first console but Wii Sports and Mario Galaxy on Wii brings back alot of memories for me. Those 2 games make me feel nostalgic
 
Not console but PC games from the early 90s. Especially point and click adventures from Lucasarts and Sierra. The likes of Kings Quest's games, Space Quest's games, Sam and Max Hit the Road, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is super nostalgic for me.

But some SNES i played as a kid at a neighbours house is also very nostalgic for me like Super Mario World, Zelda A link to the past, Secret of Mana etc.
 
TriAceJP said:
Let's hit the bar and talk about the glory days of when SNES games could cost up to $100 at launch.
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My first home console was a SNES and by the time I stopped getting games for it I think I had a wopping 12. Most of them weren't even that good lol.

I didn't really start reading magazines and researching games until I was 12 and got a PS1.

Most of my exposure to a lot of SNES classics was through friends when I would visit their homes.

SNES games I never had include:

Super Fucking Mario World (I had All-Stars tho)
Street Fighter II series
Mortal Kombat Series
Legend of Zelda LttP
Super Metroid
Yoshi's Island
Star Fox
F-Zero
Kirby series
Contra III
TMNT Turtles in Time
Final Fight
Super Punch Out
NBA Jam
Etc.

And games I didn't even know existed include:

Final Fantasy series (VII was my first exposure)
Chrono Trigger
EarthBound
Super Mario RPG
Breath of Fire
... basically just had no idea about RPGs.

I mean, I grew up with one of the greatest systems ever and I didn't even have most of what made it good.

The best games I had were probably the DKC Trilogy, SMB All-Stars, NHL '94 and, like, Aladdin. Most of what my dumb ass got was total trash like Primal Rage, The Lion King and god-damned Cool Spot. My best friend's older brother had a bunch of the classics, though, and I was super jelly every time I came over.
 
Sega Master System. Specifically the II, as the one I had.

If we're not limited to consoles, then the BBC Micro really gets me in the feels.
 
Even though my first console was the NES, I only feel nostalgic for PS1, PS2, and SNES games. I still have my gamecube but it doesn't give me any nostalgia for some reason. I recently booted up my PS2 after 8+ years and got a sudden rush of nostalgia looking through my memory card, the interface and finally booting up a game and using the controller on a save file from several years ago still intact.
 
Well I'm considering buying Ultra Street Fighter 2. Which at that price is totally ridiculous, okay, totally ridiculous. But just at the thought of bringing the Switch with me when me and my kids go to my brothers place and have some Street Fighter 2 with him and his kids, like the good ole days.
So the answer is SNES.
I feel like Nintendo, Capcpom and others know this all too well with their Zelda's, Bombermans and Street Fighters.
 
When I think about it the most potent memories come from the transition between the NES and SNES era.

Waiting for new Nintendo Power issues to arrive in the mail, the thing I looked forward to the most each month, and pouring over them for any info on upcoming games. It's sorta neat to me that Nintendo Power was still around all those years later for OP to be doing the same.

Seeing Sega Genesis commercials on TV and straining to catch a brief glimpse of Super Mario World while they were trying to sell us on Sonic.
 
Most of the consoles I played as a child, a teenager or a early 20something...so from the NES to the Dreamcast I would say. I am 40 now.
 
Nostalgia has been a foreign sensation for me nearly a decade. With rereleases, emulation, and virtual console titles so common now, very few of my fondest titles are left in the past. It never feels like they belong to a different era. Nostalgia has cured itself by fueling accessibility.
 
Yeah, anything related to the original Wii and DS is pretty nostalgic for me.
I was in middle school when those consoles were first released in the USA.
However, I didn't realize how nostalgic I was for the era until I popped Galaxy 2 into my WiiU and switched to Wii mode.
Dat Mii channel music hits me right in the feels.

When it comes to consoles before that generation, I have a lot of nostalgia for the N64 (Mario 64, Banjo, and OoT were my jams) and NGC (played a lot of Melee with my cousins. Plus, Paper Mario:TYD coninues to be a huge inspiration/influence on me as a storyteller).

The PlayStation 1 & 2 are especially nostalgic for me (god I miss when Spyro, Crash, and Jak were great franchises T.T), and what really helps is that they remind me of my dad; he bought those systems for me and I only ever played them at his house for the 12 or so years I got to experience his presence on the earth.

I've also got nostalgia for the Genesis and Dreamcast despite my somewhat limited exposure to them; I miss SEGA as a 1st party entity, and I still remember the first time I played the beach level from SA1 at the mall. ^u^
 
Certainly not the Wii - that's tainted with feelings of disappointment. My first console was the Master System, tho true love came about with the SNES.
 
For me it would probably be the Dreamcast and the Atari Jaguar. I remember seeing Aliens Vs. Predator for the first time and being totally hyped. Whenever I look through my Jag collection, I have to pop in my copy of Tempest 2K and play a few levels. Lots of good memories of those days.

Same for the Dreamcast. Playing Alien Front Online for the first time was crazy as hell. First time I saw Sonic Adventure I was stoked. I own a ton of DC games and I don't regret buying any of them. 9/9/99 guys! Never forget.
 
Raise your hand if the music starts playing in your head.

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Now you are playing with power

Get N, or get out

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Genesis does what nintendont

EGM / Sushi-X

Ah, the good old days when you'd play an arcade game for the first time and had to guess at movesets
 
NES and Genesis equally. For the time, so many great games. And when the Genesis was around my life was about two things: video games and basketball. If I wasn't up to one, I was probably up to the other.
 
Stuff I grew up with - gameboy, genesis, n64, ps1/2, dreamcast

Been replaying the galaxy games recently through Dolphin. So much fun. Perfect game to play while you watch a stream.
 
The Commodore Amiga. I grew up envious of my cousin's C64 but I was a tad young until my pop surprised me with an Amiga 2000. it's how I starting learning pretty much everything I know about coding and networking. Those were early days, but in hindsight the Amiga was way ahead of its time. I remember going to Amiga club meetings once a month with my dad where people would set up all their gear, talk nerdese for a couple hours, show off home-brew graphics demos, play the latest games (it's how I fell in love with Dungeon Master). Most all was pretty incredible stuff when u consider that PCs were still barely removed from monochrome screens at the time. And, then, of course there were the games. Oh, the games. The Amiga was a truly magical device in its time. So much so that I recently picked up a cherry A1200 (a newer model I always wanted) and decked it out with a 68040 accelerator, big ol hard drive, etc.... Haven't had much time to play around with it, but it's fun playing games on it not having to swap 3.5" discs. Killer little piece of PC/gaming history.
 
SNES, MD, PC Engine, Neo Geo, N64, Saturn, PS1, DC.
Basically anything from the '90s.

Smokey said:
A child at Wii launch?

I guess this thread successfully made me feel old.
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Think about it.
There is a good chance a sizeable chunk of 20 year old gaffers have never played a Sega console ;-)
 
The Wii is the only console to do that to me as well, which is weird as I'm 38 yes old.


I really miss the Wii weather channel. I would play around with that and relax. The music was god tier.
 
Phediuk said:
Sega Genesis.
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I was gonna add Atari 2600, NES, SNES and Master System to this but:

ckaneo said:
Every console ever
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I kinda agree with every console ever. But for me the younger I was when it came out the more nostalgia I feel. So for me the nostalgia factor starts wearing off at the N64, PS1.

Maybe PS2 since thats around that time I got my first apt.

I just realized I do have some fond memories with the Wii.

My daughter beating me in boxing regularly, (she was 7 at the time) and me constantly beating her in hula hoops..lol. But thats basically it for me and the Wii. The other systems I mentioned I have more specific, special memories associated with them.
 
The N64, a lot of find memories from that system, specifically from games like Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, Super Mario 64, Star Fox 64 and GoldenEye....as soon as I hear the title theme from any of those games, it immediately take me back to the second half of the 90's.
 
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