Famicom World

~Please make a vote in the poll, and a comment explaining why~

My favorite gen. is the 6th gen. because of the PS2 and GCN. The GCN played a major role in my gaming life, because it was my first ever gaming console. My older brother, Sam, had a GCN, PS2 and Xbox, and when he got the PS2 and Xbox, he gave me his GCN. This later happened when he got an Xbox 360, and gave me his Wii. I played a little bit of PS2 before, and liked it a lot. I'm going to invest in some more PS2 games soon.
What do you guys think? :question: :redcart:

I'd have to say the 16-bit era.  To me that is the golden age of gaming.  Arcades were still around and the home console games were well into the stride of success following on from the 8-bit revolution.  That time was amazing.


Having said that, I looked at 6th Gen for a long time.  I have owned more 6th games than probaby anything else.  Another amazing period for me when I think about Kingdom Hearts, Gran Turismo 3, Tenchu 3, Zone of the Enders - so many really great cinematic games that were still to be played as video games - rather than how a lot of 7th gen games seem to be cutscenes with QTEs thrown in.


So I definitely go with the 16-bit era, which let's not forget also had an amazing period of handhelds thrown in for good measure.  To me, this was when games were at their best.  That might sound odd as Famicom is my main passion in games - but that's because in my opinion the NES and Famicom is where the stuff I love most was conceived, it's the start of so much and was a massive development from the home computing machines we had here in England.

I vote 16-bit era too. Let explains it very well. Only problem is that not as many people played games in my town in that era as the previous era so it was not as easy to borrow games. Most kids just got an NES but their parents didn't want to by a 16-bit console for them.

I still like all the eras but I have trouble keeping up with the last two ones.

8-Bit! I play more 8-Bit games then anything else. :)

I'm an NES guy, so I had to go with the third generation. It's kind of hard to explain it, but these games seem to have the most charm of any era. The 16-bit era was the apex of 2D gaming from a technical standpoint, but maybe the games were just more... formulaic by that point.

I was between 8bit and 16bit, but decided to go with 16bit because of SMD.

There's people that consider the 6th and 7th generations the best so that just goes to show they haven't played any true retro games, but rather shooters, sports, sandbox and whatever.

I'm not saying all shooters/sandbox games are bad, I love Wolfenstein, Doom and GTA V for example but without experiencing the early 2D/3D games there's no sense of what gaming was about.

Robocop Vs. Terminator for SMD is an awesome game and recommend it for everyone to play it (avoid the SNES as it's censored).

Heh, nice to know - I think SMD also made me choose 16-bit, when you combine what the SMD did with the strengths of Super Famicom and the other systems around at the time, I think it was anything but a tired formula - it was a golden formula!  NES era was the discovery of all these possibilities, but the 16-bit hardware allowed games to maximise on those possibilities.  8-bit has more soul, but 16-bit has all the juicy guts :D

16-bit by far. The quality of graphics and sound is at a level good enough to be timeless.

Also the "holy trinity" of Super Famicom, Megadrive and PC-Engine is pure magic.  ;D

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My favorite is the third generation.
It came when I was very young and had plenty of time and friends to play with.
It was the Famicom era. The epoch where legends were born!
There was no generation with so many improvements.
The technological jump was translated directly into new forms and concepts of playability.
From Pitfall to Super Mario Bros to Super Mario Bros 3. From River Raid to Star Force[FC] to Recca and Star Soldier [PCE]. From Adventure to The Legend of Zelda.
Just to name a few silly examples.
The fun I have playing 8-bits games is still unmatched, besides adoring specially the 16-bits era.
The golden years to me were the days between 1990~1995. It was filled with the top NES/Famicom games, the top Mega Drive/Genesis games, and the top SNES/SFC games. Not to mention PCE and portable games... This period was the best.

Awesome. The reason why I didn't pick the 3-4th gen is because I didn't grow up with it, and never played a game from those gens on a legit console. (Emulators, ports, Virtual Console, etc. is what I played on). Another reason is probably because the consoles from back then is technologically primitive compared to the GCN and Wii that I grew up with.
   128 bits, good 3D, (better than N64 graphics) motion control, (7th gen Wii) more buttons, and newer game engines were standard for me, and the jump backwards seems slightly difficult. But, I heard that the gameplay and addictive arcade-like games on the 3rd-4th gen consoles are excellent! Thanks for sharing!  :D

I had to go with the 3rd (8 bit) generation as well. There is just something magical about firing up the NES and playing Super Mario Bros. 3 and The Legend of Zelda for hours. I guess I am only saying this because I grew up on NES. It holds a special place in my heart  ;D

3rd and 4th Gen is tied

I went for 16-bit era

Played it the most

This is really hard this is like asking someone who has kids which one is their favourite IT'S UNFAIR DAMNIT!!!

I`m torn between 2nd and 3rd.  Mainly because my childhood straddled both of them so I have fond memories of each.  And of my current collection, my Atari 2800 and Intellivision are on almost equal footing with my Famicom in terms of how much I like them!

My best gaming generations are 3rd, 4th and 5th, can't decide only one...
i' spent the most time on 8 bit video games (that was most popular when i was kid), but somehow i enjoy the most when i got my first PC (old Pentium 133Mhz, 16MB RAM...)
these are the unforgettable moments !  :)

Quote from: security16 on April 26, 2014, 05:34:09 pm
This is really hard this is like asking someone who has kids which one is their favourite IT'S UNFAIR DAMNIT!!!

Soooo true!!! I can not vote.. damnit!! :mario:

While I have played games from most of the generations, the 3rd generation has to be my favorite, followed by the 5th generation.  My first childhood memory is playing the original Super Mario Bros. at age 3 while visiting at my aunt and uncle's house; I was hooked since then, and that probably contributes to why my eyesight is so poor by now.

My brother and I played NES / Famicom all the time, and when we are together, we still play those two machines even now.  With this machine there are just so many great and interesting games, and many of the games that aren't great are still average, imo.  With the amount of software on that machine, I don't think I would ever run out of choices, and there is honestly something for everyone.

I also have some fond memories playing Super Mario 64 and Mario Kart 64, and I remember really wanting a Playstation when it first came out, though I would get it years later (and honestly never played it much, once I did have it).  So in terms of nostalgia and memories, this would easily be my second favorite generation.

For some reason, I just never got into the 4th generation of games, and it was only recently that I realized this.  I had a Super Nintendo when I was younger, but besides a few games, there just isn't much that has wowed me.  My feelings towards the Sega Mega Drive are even more lackluster, and I honestly have little to no desire to play either of those machines.  They just don't appeal to me as a whole.  I would say that the RPGs from the SNES era were king of the genre, but otherwise, you really can't get me to play anything from the 4th generation. To me it honestly felt as if they took the best stuff from the third generation, and threw in some souped up graphics.  But somehow, the magic was lost and the final product became an inadequate cousin to similar games on the NES.

Quote from: fcgamer on April 28, 2014, 08:58:49 pm
To me it honestly felt as if they took the best stuff from the third generation, and threw in some souped up graphics.  But somehow, the magic was lost and the final product became an inadequate cousin to similar games on the NES.

Man, this is very uneasy to admit, but you have gone to the bone.
I hardly have exposed my deepest feeling about 4th generation with such straighforwardness as you did, but I think it's undeniable: there are tons of direct or "spiritual" sequels (or even "original" games) specially on the SNES that fits in.  :blinky:

I have to say that I disagree. I think most genres was mostly improved upon as part of a natural development. For example the RPG genre had become more mature. The tedious parts of earlier RPGs was toned down and the fun parts was more developed. Same things can be said about similar genres like SRPGs. Generally games was more well programmed and smoother to play. One problem I always had with the 8-bit era since I was a kid was the lack of colours (except maybe for PCEngine games). Sure limitations maybe forces developers to work harder to make something good but there's only so much you can do with 4 colours per tile and 4 colour groups per 4x4 tile group like for the Famicom.

Of course most of these improvements were made because the genres became more mature and not because the technical limitations decreased, as much of this applies to many late 8-bit games as well. But there are also games like Yoshis Island and Star Fox which atmosphere and gameplay (in the case of Star Fox) that would hardly be possible on technically inferior systems.

Quote from: P on April 29, 2014, 01:45:04 pm
I have to say that I disagree. I think most genres was mostly improved upon as part of a natural development. For example the RPG genre had become more mature. The tedious parts of earlier RPGs was toned down and the fun parts was more developed. Same things can be said about similar genres like SRPGs. Generally games was more well programmed and smoother to play.

I agree, games matured during the 16bit era. It wasn't just more colours and better audio fidelity, they polished the overall gameplay as well.

Quote from: P on April 29, 2014, 01:45:04 pm
... 4 colour groups per 4x4 tile group like for the Famicom.

You mean per 2x2. ;)

Ah yes per 2x2 tile group it is.

I grew up with 8bit, 30 years later I still play 8bit.

my favorite is the 128 bit era specifically the gamecube i remember me and my dad used to play viewtiful joe on it all the time and he was in the middle of playing windwaker before he had to go so afterwards i played on his save for the longest time thinking the arrow was where i was supposed to go and being too stubborn to start my own save because i wanted to play on my dads but i just kept getting frustrated because i wasnt getting anywhere (i didnt know it was the direction of the wind and was a little kid) so i would continuously explore and screw around and sail without end so the game really became special to me and when i was a teenager i started my own save and beat the game then i beat twilight princess on gamecube and etc.

I have the biggest Famicom collection among all my games, and I'm most excited to expand my NES collection, with Sega Genensis and SNES being less important to me..

..and yet, for some reason I voted for 16bit generation.
Just so many great games that couldn't happen on NES.. amazing stuff, but still, for the most part, keeps the classic, simple playability of the 8bit generation.

I love the old stuff, but I think the most complete games, still eye popping today, are in the 16bit generation..   It's mostly downhill from there  :P , or at least a completely different sort of experience for the most part.

Tppybot you've just summed up my voting decision exactly  8)

I also love Gameboy games for the same flipside reason - they took what I love about 8 bit games, reduced the tech and still managed to keep that magic.

Couldn't have said it better myself!