N64: Mario 64 blew my mind, bought Goldeneye on launch day and nobody could understand why....it took a few minutes playing to figure that out, playing Ocarina of Time for the first time and realizing that it was even better than my wildest expectations playing Castlevania: Legacy of Darkness and thoroughly enjoying it when everyone else hated it playing Majora's Mask and realizing my N64 was still useful even though I had moved on to Dreamcast
PSX: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night blew my mind, I loved that game from start to finish playing Street Fighter Alpha 3 on the PSX until buying the vastly superior Dreamcast version playing Silent Hill and thinking it is possible to be creeped out by a video game playing Revelations: Persona and thinking that if it wasn't for the load times, it might even be better than the overrated Final Fantasy VII
I still play through Orcarina of Time and Symphony of the Night once every year or two. Obviously, the best of the best.
I bought this 17 years ago when it was called Super Mario All Stars for the Super NES. The GBA versions of each game are superior to this, so I think I'll be sticking with those. Don't waste your money on this.
Ha! Gobots! There's a blast from the past. Gobots were pretty gay, but the Rock Lords were even gayer. If you know what I'm talking about, you may also be gay. (Gay as in annoyingly niave and happy, not homosexual, just to make that clear.)
Can't miss this Thursday Night Throwdown. Even if the game sucks, the conversation about the game will be worth listening to.
The Dreamcast was easily the best system I ever owned. I recieved one from my brother Xmas '99, which was an awesome gift, I think he felt bad about totalling my car earlier that year, but in all honesty, the Dreamcast was worth more than the car. At any rate, that system just blew me and all my friends away. The first year of the Dreamcast we saw more triple AAA landmark games released on that system than the Playstation and N64 saw in their entire lifetime. The Dreamcast had this "everything you need as a gamer all in one box" thing going on with it's 56K modem and VMU memery card unit, which was almost like a portable system itself. By the time Sega announced that they were throwing in the towel sometime in 2000, we had already seen a slew of quality games. No other system has released the much quantity of quality in so little time. It was amazing. Nothing, no game, no system will ever capture the magic of playing Phantasy Star Online in 2000 for the first few weeks of it's release. No hackers. Everyone was friendly. Everyone was stoked to be playing. It doesn't seem like ten years ago. Why? Because Dreamcast games are still totally playable, and stack up to modern games in terms of gameplay. It had the shortest lifespan of any console in recent history, but it made one of the biggest impacts.
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