<p>My neighbor has a super nintendo that had some kind of a metal thing at the end of a cord, and her dad had to use a screwdriver to hook it up for us. That was strange. Mine is just like any other system.</p>
<p>I’m not sure.</p>
<p>I grew up with N64 and still have my GameBoy Pocket.</p>
<p>I don’t think the quality of games has gone down, really. There are more bad games, sure, but the good games are just as good or way better – longer, better graphics, more immersing experiences, etc. Twilight Princess? The new Final Fantasies? Metroid Prime? (I’m a Nintendo fanboy, so…)</p>
<p>Pokemon Stadium
Pokemon Stadium 2
Pokemon Snap
Pokemon Puzzle League
Hey You Pikachu</p>
<p>I used to be more of a Nintendo fanboy mixed with a Sony fanboy after I learned about Digimon World 1 which for it’s time was just… so great. As the first PS game I bought I loved that game, PS got me into final fantasy with FFIX (thought I was gonna say 7 didn’t you? XP No, I didn’t get 7 until much much later). I adored Twilight Princess though (although the memory is tinged with pain because the two-three weeks it took me to beat it were also the weeks my TMJ started flaring up with a compulsion to pop my jaw so… every 30 seconds I’d be whimpering from pain).</p>
<p>Now when Metroid Prime came out for GCN… pretty much destoyed the ratings of any other good game for 2002/03, for a game like that it had INSANE graphics and was terribly addictive. MP2 was also great but I rented it and didn’t have time to finish but I got 2/3rds of the way through, right up to Chaos element. PS2 brought Kingdom Hearts 2 with a compelling storyline that, while slightly childish, still rocks… and addicted me to GTA games, which is why I bought the Xbox360, namely to play GTAIV (after p!ssing $40 for the PC version and realizing that… UNLIKE Fable, my system not quite being up to spec was going to be a game-ender for this). But I ramble…</p>
<p>Tetris is a timeless classic.</p>
<p>I have mixed feelings about recent sports games. On one hand, I like the fact that they’re becoming more and more realistic, but on the other hand, I don’t like the fact that, as a result, they’re becoming a little overwhelming. I kinda miss the days of Eddie George Madden 01, when I could just snap the ball and not have to go through a whole pre-snap process/evaluation.</p>
<p>I’ve played most of the GTA games but I have to say that GTA: Vice City for the PS2 was my favorite. I used to stand on top of a car and as it drove around I would just chuck grenades all over the city.</p>
<p>Wayne Gretzky’s 3D Hockey for the N64 was a classic.</p>
<p>I think the extent of my ability for sports games is to occasionally win at NHL 99. I think I have Madden 2005 or something around there, too, which I have kind of figured out. Those games are definitely a lot more complicated than they used to be.</p>
<p>You’ll probably like FIFA. The controls are really easy compared to other sports games that I’ve played.</p>
<p>I was playing the original Super Smash Bros. on my computer, and this eight year old kid I was with wouldn’t realize that it wasn’t the Wii version. I don’t know…it just made me realize that there’s a new generation that has no clue about the N64 and the games before it. Then I saw that the game was made before he was born. Made me feel kind of old lol.</p>
<p>The demographics have changed. Gamers used to be an eclectic mix of children under 12 and adult male social outcasts with high IQs and and eye for quality gameplay. Since the PS1/Dreamcast generation, a new market has been carved out that includes older children and borderline social in-casts. The Xbox really did it when it appealed to PC gamer ‘types’ by bringing PC-style gaming to a console. This market has expanded precipitously and now the majority of non-Wii games are made with them in mind. This portion of the market has an eye for violence, “badass” cutscenes, and some of them feel pathetically loyal to their gaming platform of choice. I’d say that the IQs and GPAs of gamers as a whole have dropped and risen, respectively. Gaming is now a much more “respectable” “hobby” as a result.</p>
<p>There was a time when you couldn’t discuss nor be seen playing a video game by any girl or popularity-conscious person without being ridiculed. Now, playing video games when girls are present is a sign of dominance and belligerence, like texting amid an IRL conversation.</p>
<p>You can download the nintendo 64 classics onto the wii. </p>
<p>“Gamers used to be an eclectic mix of children under 12 and adult male social outcasts with high IQs and and eye for quality gameplay.”</p>
<p>Hey! What about me? I didn’t fit any of those demographics!</p>
<p>Best Games Ever from my childhood:
Super Mario RPG - Legend of the Seven Stars
Legend of Zelda - Ocarina of Time
Legend of Zelda - Majora’s Mask
Star Fox 64
Perfect Dark</p>
<p>Fantastic games. </p>
<p>I guess if you really wanted old school,</p>
<p>Contra III: The Alien Wars.</p>
<p>I think there might have been an actual plot to that, not that you really cared about it considering the nature of the game. The game starts you with a machine gun with infinite ammo and an invincible shield for about 15 seconds, giving you enough time to get used to the controls without being sucker-killed by the AI. Pure ownage.</p>
<p>EDIT: Can’t forget Megaman. Man, this makes me want to play some more SNES/N64.</p>
<p>The LEgend of Zelda was fantastic…
And I used to love Arcade games (though they were on the way out in my time).
I also Loved Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter!</p>
<p>super smash bros- the original on N64.</p>
<p>Get 3 other friends and just SMASH IT UPP!!</p>