/vr/ - Retro Games

[Anonymous No.7729036]

What would you all consider to be must have retro consoles? Which ones would you are are overrated to try and own?

[Anonymous No.7729053]

6th gen is not retro

[Anonymous No.7729067]

Famicom, Genesis, Game Boy

[Anonymous No.7729074]

6th gen is not retro

[Anonymous No.7729075]

>>7729067
Pretty much this
Must haves:
>Genesis
>Snes
>NES
>GB

[Anonymous No.7729091]

>>7729036
Out of what's in the pic?
>N64
>PS
>PS2
>Genesis
>SNES
>NES
Or if you're an adult with the mind of child
>Only Nintendo stuff

[Anonymous No.7729092]

Must-haves = Wii, PS2, PSP, hacked and ready to play emulators w/ component cables for each.
Add an N64 to this if you like the games on it.
All of these play the overwhelming majority of greatness in the /vr/ repertoire on a CRT at RGB quality, and without busting your wallet and living space. Clean, compact, versatile, cheap.

[Anonymous No.7729110]

A Macbook with retroarch.

[Anonymous No.7729117]

>>7729036
Obvious must haves:
>SNES
>Genesis
>Gameboy/Gameboy Color
>Playstation
>Xbox
If enough games in the library interest you:
>Saturn
>N64
>GBA
>Game Gear
>Dreamcast
Overrated to own:
>Neo Geo
>GameCube
>PS2

[Anonymous No.7729151]

>>7729117
Why is the Xbox a must have?

[Anonymous No.7729153]

>>7729091
>>7729075
What would you say a good price is on a Genesis and SNES?

[Anonymous No.7729154]

>>7729151
The best version of most multiplat titles from its generation and a strong lineup of exclusives.

[Anonymous No.7729159]

Absolute must haves are the Xbox (because it can emulate everything) and the PS2 (because it can play PS1 games too). Literally all you need.

[Anonymous No.7729165]

>>7729154
Ps2 had the better multiplayer versions and GameCube destroys that gen in terms of exclusives.
Microsoft mad a halo box

[Anonymous No.7729217]

>>7729092
>PSP
Stopped reading there. Fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.7729242]

>>7729217
Best portable Playstation 1. Cheap too.

[Anonymous No.7729442]

>>7729036
Top 3 (boring answer but essential):
NES/Famicom
SNES/SFC
PS1

If you need to skip some, skip:
Xbox
Master System
GBC
3DO
CD-i
Jaguar
Virtual Boy
Wonderswan
Neo Geo
NGP
Game Gear

>>7729151
It's not. Aside from Outrun 2, Shenmue 2, and Ninja Gaiden Black it's pretty pointless

[Anonymous No.7729543]

Must Have
Famicom/NES
Megadrive/Genesis
Dreamcast
PS2
XBOX

Nice To Have
SNES/SFC
Gamecube
N64
Saturn
GBA
Game Gear
PS1 [redundant if you have PS2]

[Anonymous No.7729553]

>>7729543
>Must Have
>XBOX

>Nice To Have
>SNES/SFC

Hell no. Saturn, N64, GC, and GBA are all more essential than Xbox too

[Anonymous No.7729569]

>>7729553
XBOX has some really good, but not well known exclusives as well as local 4 player without needing a multi-tap like the PS2. You can have XBOX LAN parties. SNES/SFC can be emulated really well and is thus less of a must have assuming OP meant physically having the hardware.

[Anonymous No.7729580]

>>7729036
Gotta catch em' all, poorfag

[Anonymous No.7729781]

NES, Vectrex, Game Boy Color (or advance who cares), PS1, N64, Atari 2600

[Anonymous No.7729786]

>>7729036
>NES
>SNES
>PS2

N64 is must have if you have people to play with, otherwise recommended but not needed.

[Anonymous No.7729810]

Since I'm strictly an emulatorfag I consider the most ownworthy consoles the ones with the spottiest emulation, mainly the N64 and Xbox.

If you're after comfortable homebrewing and large libraries your best bets are probably the Wii (for its backwards compatibility and emulators) and the backwards compatible PS2 Phat with a network adapter and HDD.

Mega CD has no copy protection for corretly formatted burned games, and the Mega Drive is an interesting system to own in general with its CD addon, Power Base Converter and potentially the 32X as well as weird games with four player controller ports on the cartridge. Not quite the same library as the SNES, but to me a more interesting system in itself as a collectable piece.

Weebs will probably see appeal in the PC Engine, Saturn and Dreamcast for their huge share of J only games.

Neo Geo would be cool for some accurate arcade ports and pretty much the best 2D graphics ever, but the library isn't actually all that big and prices have become FUCKING BIZARRE by now unfortunately.

GBA with backlit screen and flashcart is best handheld, don't even @ me (however a lot of GBA games are huge junk because they were trying to get crude 3D, photoscanned textures and recorded sounds onto the system instead of refining drawn 2D and bleeps to their utmost potential).

[Anonymous No.7729812]

>>7729036
Must have:
PC

[Anonymous No.7730059]

>>7729036
Out of the mainstream ones, must have

atari 2600
nes
snes
sms/genesis
pc engine cd
sega saturn
ps1
n64
gameboy
gamegear
atari lynx

You don't need xbox, ps2, gamecube and dreamcast, just pick one and you won't really miss out on much and the graphic presentation is almost the same. You could skip gba since a lot of games are snes ports.

c64, spectrum, amstrad and amiga had a lot of games ported so its not essential but they have upto and over 5000 games each.

Neogeo had good ports on saturn so its not essential. 3do and cdi are annoying because the consoles are easy to find but the controllers are really expensive.

[Anonymous No.7730072]

PS2 and PS1.
You are literally set for a whole life of video game entertainment with those two systems alone and also will experience the peak days of gaming.
If you want to play previous generation games, there are various collection of those on both platforms (like Atari Anthology or Capcom Classics, SEGA Classics, Arcade classics... etc).

[Anonymous No.7730087]

>>7729110
This. Fuck consoles and fuck the losers who buy rotting plastic and justify it with a rotting everdrive

[Anonymous No.7730110]

I sold every one of those except the saturn. Emulation for most retro consoles is at the point where accuracy is only an issue for literal autists.

[Anonymous No.7730165]

SNES and PS2 would do it for me, throwing a backlit GBA there too of you also want a portable one.

[Anonymous No.7730173]

>>7729036
NES, SNES and PS2 are THE must haves, IMO.

[Anonymous No.7730418]

NES
Genesis
Playstation
PC

[Anonymous No.7730454]

>>7729036
All of them, dumbass.

[Anonymous No.7730469]

>>7729036
Just the psx, when all gaems get bored I would watch TV with it or record it

[Anonymous No.7730492]

>>7729036
All you need is PS2 and Xbox. PS2 because it has both the PS2 and faster/crisper PS1 library, and Xbox because you can mod it to play all other older consoles minus DC and GC.

[Anonymous No.7730506]

I only own the ones that can't be emulated to a high standard easily.

So I own a Saturn, N64, and all later consoles.

[Anonymous No.7730546]

>>7729036
If it wasn't so expensive to buy games for, I'd say NES is the only true "must have".

[Anonymous No.7730860]

>>7729036
Saturn and PS2. Everything else can be emulated fine, or isn't worth bothering with (e.g. N64, Xbox).

[Anonymous No.7730904]

For anything earlier than 2000

Must haves:
>NES
>SNES
>Genesis
>PS1
>N64
>Turbo CD

Nice to haves
>Dreamcast
>Gameboy Color
>Gameboy
>Saturn
>TG16 (no CD addon)

Garbo
>Game Gear
>Genesis add-ons
>all the other dumb shit like 3DO, Jaguar, etc.

[Anonymous No.7730971]

Whichever you grew up with and have lots of nostalgia for

[Anonymous No.7730986]

>>7730904
reasonable list, though I would move gameboy (color?) (one of them) to must have. Of all the retro handhelds this is probably the most important one, I would put advance and beyond on the nice to have list, but I feel like everybody should experience the OG library.

[Anonymous No.7730990]

>>7730986
>advance and beyond
anon he said "earlier than 2000", GBA was 2001

[Anonymous No.7731095]

>>7729036
>essentials
NES
SNES
N64
PSX
PS2
Genesis/Mega Drive
Dreamcast
GameBoy
GameBoy Advance

>also nice
Xbox
Gamecube
Master System
Saturn
Atari 2600
Sega CD
Turbografx-16/PC-Engine
Neo Geo
GameBoy Color
Neo Geo Pocket Color
Game Gear (redundant if you have a Master System though)

>pointless/crap
all other Atari consoles
Panasonic 3DO
CD-i
32X
not retro consoles

[Anonymous No.7731393]

>>7729036
I've probably spent the most time playing SNES games as a retro owner of most these consoles. Especially since you can get custom carts and romhacks now it's pretty damn unbeatable.
NES is too archaeic and boomer for my tastes
N64 is ideal but they're also too fucking expensive because of nostalgiafags

[Anonymous No.7732074]

Playstation 2 and Wii. Use Wii emulators on CRT. Maybe MiSTer if you are a little obsessive with the accuracy of Wii emulation.

Depending on how much of a fan you are of certain genres like shmups, Sega Saturn is worth it also.

[Anonymous No.7732115]

>>7730469
>analog japanese tuner
lmao

[Anonymous No.7732213]

>>7731095
Only N64, Genesis, and Dreamcast to complete the essentials

[Anonymous No.7733281]

>>7729812
>tranny
fuck

[Anonymous No.7733542]

>>7729036
this thread is retarded
the lists will be subjective
as most people target systems they have nostalgia towards..


here we go anyways:

underrated = pc engine, saturn, segaCD, 3DO
normie tier = any nintendo system/genesis
overrated = ps2 , xbox, gamecube, gba

in terms of emulation it is inversely proportional to actual desirability-
the systems the MiSTer / retroarch can replace are the ones you actually want to own & the shortcomings of emulation are on systems that you're less likely to buy sans emotional motivation (xbox, n64, dreamcast, etc)


basically gaming is retarded/expensive
just buy what you want
life is short & strange