which was the better console?

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Ive still got my Saturn in the other room, and a jaguar at my parents'. Cool

The saturn was an awesome 2D sprite shifter, the game 'Radiant Silvergun' still sells for big money on ebay, regarded by many (including me) as the finest shooter ever. Thats how it was designed, as a 2D beast. Then Sony put out their specs for the Playstation (showing its impressive 3D capabilities) and Sega got worried. So they added in another SH2 processor to try and make up the 3D power. The saturn is a therefore dual processor machine and was notoriously difficult to program.

Also got a fairly large collection of Atari Lynx gear Smile

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

haha yeah..

thats right chris with the paper scissors stone thing

used to be able to punch everything

jump cars etc.

ahh the fun

it was all about sonic tho

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silver gun! I mind that now, it was great!

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

Megadrive!

i was a sonic the hedgehog addict, knew all the secret levels and power ups lol.

never owned a snes or a megadrive, but the girls 2 doors down did and of course it was a perfect excuse to always be round thiers Smile

i had an amiga 500 then the amiga 1200 at the time megadrives were popular and the games on the amiga were far superior like Alien Breed, top game that

Forum Moderator Joined: 18 Feb 2004 Posts: 7432

Ah yes, Amiga, now youre talking. I had the Amiga 500 (not the plus, the original 500)

Remember?:

Project X
Moonstone
Frontier: Elite 2

Wasted youth eh?

FCS Event Manager Joined: 04 Jan 2005 Posts: 3680

yep yep, indeed, also used to love Buggy Boy on the amiga 500 lol

Frontier : Elite 2 was a fav but they made it slightly easier by giving u the docking computer as standard, when i played it on the BBC B and Spectrum (Elite 1) you had to trade and make money before you could get a docking computer lol.

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was all about "Hard Driving" on te mega drive..

top game!

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Bloody Hell, I remember Buggy Boy & Thundercats! & Shadow Of The Beast!!

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Yeah Shadow of the beast, ive got that on the Lynx, Shadow of the Beast 2 on amiga was excellent too, i actually completed that bloody game.

Stunt Car Racer was ace as well.

Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:27 pm

Buggy Boy, I loved that game,

Ikari Warriors on the C64 was good too

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Now youre really going back some! Ikari Warriors was damn good.

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jet pac, jet set willy, manic miner and Horace goes Skiing on the 48k Zx Spectrum rubber keyboard dead skin crawly horrible peek poke to get anything resembling a sprite out of it machine lol

my first computer was a 16k ZX Spectrum back in Dec 1981, got it for christmas lol, then got it upgraded to the Max 48k ram 3 months later for my birthday hahahaha

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I always remember the arguments we had at school about what was better....the Amiga or the Atari ST, no competition!

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Amiga 500 was better than the STfm, but when the STe came out, that was technically better, and slightly faster. Course, the amiga still had the best games!

Remember the Dizzy series Neo?

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LOL Some of those puzzles in the Dizzy games drove me nigh on mad!

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

micro machines!!

what a game as well.

i broke my mega drive cos of that game..

cos so pissed off i throw the controller at it.

Retroholic Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 5685

Sega man here. I had a megadrive, mega cd and 32x. I'm full sure i had the largest console in ireland! Night trap on mega cd was way cool at the time! Virtua racing on the 32x was also v good.

Bought a saturn on the day of its relaese with daytona and virtua fighter. Got me name in one of the uk sega mags for fastest lap on the first track of daytona lol

Dreamcast is also floating around, sega rally is still a top game on it but i think it was better on the saturn. I have sega bass fishing and the rod floating around somewhere...

Lack of games meant a change to the PS2 and tbh i haven't looked back but i'll admit to buying a gamecube and playing it once before proclaiming how shit it was and giving it to the brother ditto the xbox

Mario cart is BY FAR the best multiplayer game EVER! "WHO GOT THE STAR?!" "WAS THAT YOUR RED SHELL?!" etc etc those were the days

Site Subscriber Joined: 13 Oct 2004 Posts: 4722

gamecube =

resident evil series..

OMFG wow

im the biggest resident evil fan alive i think.

from nuber 1 on the playstation setting new standards in gaming to the remake on the gamecube

they all rock!

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I have a 500 with the 1megabyte upgrade! ohhh!

Ahh flashback now there was a ground breaking game along with prince of persia etc! Lotus esprit challenge etc!

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Chet i have Sega bass fishing and the rod as well LOL

Gamecube has some ace games. Zelda, Metroid Prime, Res Evil series. Not shit at all.

Supercars 2 on the amiga was another fave...

Mr Quoter-vator Joined: 16 Feb 2004 Posts: 7405

mario kart - the best one was either the ghost and u get to nick opponents item and go invisible! or the thing that made everyone else turn into little player and u cud run them over!

class game.

get to the point where u were racing a mate and if u so much as clipped one corner....start > quit....cos u knew u would nevr catch up u had got it so perfect.