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Post by Ex on Jun 28, 2023 13:49:37 GMT -5
The theme for July and August is "Fifth Generation Games". We are playing video games released during the fifth generation of the video game medium. The "fifth generation" is roughly defined as occurring from 1994 through 1999.
Fifth generation gaming platforms (according to GameFAQs):
3DO Amiga CD32 Bandai Pippin Casio Loopy CPS Changer FM Towns Game Boy Color Game.com Jaguar Jaguar CD Nintendo 64 Nintendo 64DD Palm OS Classic PasoGo PC-FX Playdia PlayStation Saturn Virtual Boy WonderSwan
If you want genre or platform recommendations, just let us know.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 28, 2023 14:41:59 GMT -5
This should be an interesting couple of months - this was a wildly creative time in gaming, both for good and ill.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Jun 28, 2023 14:49:21 GMT -5
Own: 3DO Amiga CD32 Game Boy Color Game.com Jaguar Nintendo 64 PC-FX PlayStation Saturn Virtual Boy WonderSwan
This is the era where I start to get "picky" about games and mostly just play JRPGs, whatever 2D platformers are out there, and some random sports games.
I'm pretty busy these next couple months (it is summer) and just started a long ass VN... so I doubt I'll be in here much. Will be a fun thread to follow though.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 28, 2023 15:09:24 GMT -5
Somehow I am not surprised bonesnapdeez owns all these! For my own collection: 3DO Nintendo 64 PlayStation Saturn Virtual Boy And I did briefly own a Game.com. One of the nice things is that I'm not going to have to lean heavily on emulation still - I have an ODE for the Saturn, a flash cart for the N64 (and GBC), and the 3DO has no copy protection. And I own a lot of games I still haven't beaten on PSX, and finally have a system that seems to handle burned games better than my ailing systems thanks to Ex . (And there's a really solid MiSTer core, and DuckStation is also a fantastic emulator.) Weirdly enough, I've never actually owned a GBC. I just have several GBA systems.
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Post by toei on Jun 28, 2023 15:47:31 GMT -5
I love that generation. I've played more big PSX games in recent years than 16-bit games, as I'd already exhausted a lot of genres in that generation. Now it's getting to the point where I don't have a ton of 32-bit candidates left to play. These are the games on my Games to Play list:
Tiers 1 & 2 (ie games I know I want to play through, right now or eventually): Battle Circuit (Arcade) Brave Prove (PSX) Chaos Break (PSX) Linkle River Story (Saturn) Moon RPG Remix (PSX/Steam) Shiren the Wanderer 2 (N64) Tenchu 2 (PSX)
Tier 3 (games I know I want to try): Ecsaform (PSX) Mega Man Legends (PSX) (second chance) Metal Gear Solid (PSX) Mizzurna Falls (PSX) OverBlood 2 (PSX) Return of the Ninja (GBC)
So we have some nice variety there. Battle Circuit was Capcom's last 2D beat-'em-up, from 1997; Chaos Break is kind of a survival horror, but it's really short and action-oriented; and Return of the Ninja looks like a old-schoolish ninja side-scroller. Everything else is on the longer side - RPGs, adventure and action-adventure games. If I can play through one short and one long game (I'm leaning towards Tenchu 2, but that may change), I'll be happy.
Oh, oh, let me add one:
Samurai Shodown RPG (Neo Geo CD)*
If this translation gets done within the next two months, I'm all over it.
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Post by Xeogred on Jun 28, 2023 16:37:09 GMT -5
Interesting stuff toei. I'll be curious how some of those turn out. I'm pretty partial to the PSX and tend to think it's my second favorite console after the SNES thesedays. Feels like I'm still hitting up A tier games all these years later. So my notes for this theme kind of boiled down to "more PSX" again lol, still plenty I've been planning to check out sometime. - More PSX - Silent Bomber - Nightmare Creatures - Tomb Raider III - The Granstream Saga - Planet Laika - Tobal 2 - Legend of Legaia
Wish others could understand how excited I am for TR3, hah. It is possibly the hardest TR which is crazy to hear, because TR1-2 were 100x more hardcore than I ever could have predicted. I freaking love these games... so far.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 28, 2023 16:49:37 GMT -5
I'm tempted to play a little fast and loose with the generations again. The Neo Geo Pocket Color didn't come out very much after the Game Boy Color, and was a direct competitor... for a little bit, anyway.
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Post by Xeogred on Jun 28, 2023 16:55:34 GMT -5
Sonic NGPC is surprisingly awesome.
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Post by toei on Jun 28, 2023 17:10:21 GMT -5
I'm tempted to play a little fast and loose with the generations again. The Neo Geo Pocket Color didn't come out very much after the Game Boy Color, and was a direct competitor... for a little bit, anyway. The NGPC had a partnership with the Dreamcast, though, and came out even later than the Dreamcast did. The GBC came out a month before the Dreamcast in Japan, so I'm inclined to use the Dreamcast as the cut-off, since it was the first of its generation. Honestly handhelds have their own timeline and don't really fit within the console generations. You have the GB vs Game Gear vs Lynx generation, then GBC vs NGP/NGPC vs WonderSwan and whatever, GBA vs nothing serious, DS vs PSP, 3DS vs Vita... But if we keep it simple, I have to go with the Dreamcast kicking off the new gen because that's the only way for this list of systems to make sense to me.
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Post by Sarge on Jun 28, 2023 17:46:19 GMT -5
It's tricky - you're right, only a month separation in Japan. If we go by Western release dates, the NGPC found release before the Dreamcast. And yeah, as you say, handhelds rarely slot in neatly - they're almost a parallel track. I just know I wouldn't balk at someone deciding to play an NGPC game for this generation as opposed to the next, just based on the primary competitor system (GBC).
And yeah, GBA really was unopposed for a while. But Nintendo definitely needed the DS as something of a response to the PSP, even if it was running at a serious power deficit. Remarkable how well that system sold.
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