/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9450002
Kanto is a pretty dense little JRPG world tucked into a modest Game Boy cartridge, it really has a lot going for it, but I do agree that Link's Awakening is yet denser, it's incredible how much value and mileage you got out of these games.
Man, Nintendo's output from the late 80s the early/mid 90s was just absolutely sick, only Sega could actually match them (and then really only with home consoles, the Game Gear was really cool, but not cool enough). Shame that with 5th gen, Nintendo began to lose it, and Sega completely buttfucked the pooch.
There's some great shit on Playstation, I mean some very timeless stuff, but very little can quite match the magic of the SNES and Genesis at their peaks, and some of the first party N64 stuff doesn't have much in the way of counterparts on the other consoles of the time, or even on PC (and that part of the industry was wild and wonderful in its own right). Props to Sony though because the PSP is probably the strongest competitor Nintendo ever had in the realm of handheld gaming, where they remained kings even when their home consoles were doing lukewarm.

What an incredible epoch of gaming, diverse and rapidly developing. Zoomers may be able to look back at old classic games, and the ones who have a serious interest in certain kinds of games are wise to do so (the right ones will carry the torch into the future, I welcome them), they may also have the history retold to them by those of us who were there, but they can never TRULY understand the full experience of actually living through any part of this era.

The mid 1980s to the mid 2000s, that is the renaissance of this medium, and fuck any thundering doublenigger who disagrees with me.

>>4084013
So isn't the GBA a retro system then as it's technically a remake of a retro system?

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