/vr/ - Retro Games

For me it's the Sega Mega Drive.

>>9024858
This.

>>9024858
>>9024879
I’ve always preferred the original Genesis model, the maroon looks weird to me. You can tell the Genesis is for the cool kids

This one is definitely up there

>>9024903
this always looks like some prototype to me, like they just took default dummy design for a no-name console and it became the final variant

>>9024827
What retro game is this thread about?

>>9024827
ps2, gameboy pocket/light, wonder swan color, mega drive model 1

>>9024827
for me it's
1. GB Pocket / Light (especially yellow one)
2. PS2—minimalism done right
3. PC-Engine
4. GBA (the original, violet one)
5. Sega Mark III
honorary mentions: Super Famicom, N64, Turbo Duo, PSX

shittiest looking ones: 3DO, GC, XBox (dude X lmao)

>>9024942
good picks, although I never really got the hype for MD model 1. it's good, just a bit bland

>>9024827
>>9024858
For me it's these two. PSX/PS2 controllers are the most beautiful controllers for me.

>>9024827
JP/PAL SNES will always be peak retro console design to me. Though the PS1 and the Mega Drive are up there too, all of them look great.

>>9024929
Jump off of a cliff you pedantic moron.

>>9024963
I'm American and i agree. I'm eternally jelly

>>9024965
just ignore him, he posts in nearly every thread

>>9025147
Never understood this kind of mental illness. It wasn't always like this on 4chan, and I am speaking as someone who started browsing pretty late, i.e., sometime in early 2011.

>>9024953
the md1 is because it looks reallt kitch with that faux gold logo and the retro-futuristic dome shape below the cartridge slot. it likes a jetsons car that a 6 yo drew up. that's what i love about it lol

But I was on /v/ around that time and that's exactly how I remember it.

>>9024827

The N64 is beautiful with its organic rounded shape

There’s just nothing that even comes close

No contest

>>9025326
>a sega genesis but with a conspicuous vaginal wave accross the top and one fucking controller port
yeah, i dont think so.

>>9025310
This and Sega in general

>>9025310
>perfect square shape
>rest is rounded flowing lines
shiggydiggy

>>9025390
I don't see anything wrong with that.

>>9025331
vaginal?

best looking console, in my opinion.

>>9024963
Does the super famicom have the same aging problem as the SNES?

>>9025426
It's cute but the dualshock should've been redone to match

>>9025474
If you're talking about the yellow colorization on the exterior, then yeah sadly, it also happens on those. You're going to find most of them in that state, just like american SNES's.

>>9024827
I’ll also accept the Astrocity arcade cabinet

>>9025474
I have one that has tinged but it’s not disgustingly piss yellow

>>9025426
this one looks too much like a Polystation.
my pick is the Super Famicom.

>>9024928
It has Greek columns. It's classy

>>9024827

>>9025564
my dick

>>9025564
>just a generic 90s PC + a VCR
>C64 fags cream their pants over this

I have always had an affinity for the Neo Geo

not saying it's ergonomically ideal but the colors, the compact scheme, the sort of star trek original series vibe really do it for me

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>>9025426
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>>9025665
>>9024903
>>9024953
ug

>>9025310
>>9025326
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>>9024858
>>9024827
>>9024963
cool

>>9025665
This, on top of the disc system is peak console aesthetics. Don't own one only cause I can't justify the controllers being attached.

1. Sega Genesis Model 1
2. N64
3. Dreamcast
4. PSX Original
5. GBA Original

I don't think anything can top Genesis/Mega Drive model 1 in aesthetics. I always used to wonder why the NES and SNES were so god damn ugly, at the time I didn't know about the Famicom/Super Famicom

>>9024827
I wish it had come in more variety of colors. The PS2 came in different colors, but only for the Japanese market. For some reason Kaz Hirai felt like the US market didn't need any variety.

>>9024903
>Hey Trip
>you know how the SNES controller has six buttons and that made it work great with arcade ports like Street Fighter II
>yeah
>And how Sega basically had to admit that they fucked up and also made a six-button controller because that sees to be the bare minimum going forward?
>Yeah
>so how many buttons should our controller have?
>Less than six, obviously

>>9025664
>sleek
>minimalist
>comes with an arcade stick as its standard controller

such an amazing console, too bad nobody could afford one

>>9024827
In terms of graphics or the console design itself? The latter, I'd lean more to the earlier CD-ROM systems since they had some shape instead of the blanding simplicity that most people love.

>>9024858
I somewhat agree. to me it really is the Mega Drive/Genesis, but the 2nd model. I don't know what it is about it, but it's just perfect to me.

>>9024827
>>9025287
PS1 and the clear N64s
When did we all switch to calling them a PSX?
>>9025426
this is what we used to call a 'PSX'
>t. 1993

Apologize.

>>9026359
It's got a really nice color and a fun design.

PlayStation 2 - Model 70000

>>9025530
For me it's a beat to shit and yellowed Versus City cabinet.

>>9026359
it's shit. looks like some kitchen appliance or a toy. chubby shape is hard to take seriously. handle in the back for no reason. i suspect GC's design is part why it sold like shit

>>9026525
Always wanted one of those since I first saw it in one of the gaming magazines of the time.

>>9025768
>For some reason Kaz Hirai felt like the US market didn't need any variety.
If the games are anything to go by, he was right.

>>9026640
Me too. Was it in NexGen gaming magazine? That's the only one I can think of that really showcased the black PS1. I remember reading it had a read speed that was twice as fast, although I imagine that's just for dev and not for actual gameplay.

>>9025665
Man, I feel the exact opposite. It looks like something you'd buy for a toddler .

>>9026269
The real psx

>>9024827
I admit the tv tuner throws off the symmetry but you take that off and this thing is pure SOVL

It's way too fucking cool and you know it.

>>9027106
>>9027118
brutal mogging

>>9024827
I am biased but the original PlayStation is absolute perfection. It's pure functionality while being a timeless design. You could place it among 80s hardware or 2020 hardware, in the first case it would fit in perfectly, in the latter case it would mog everything else on display. Another thing I liked is that the controller perfectly complemented the aesthetics of the console unlike things like the N64.

>>9026269
How the FUCK did they manage to run that absolute magic on 3 MB of RAM?

>>9027785
?

>>9026359
I really admire the gamecube's cubular shape

It's incomplete without a gameboy player though

>>9025331
>and one fucking controller port

3do controllers could be daisy chained. the system only needed 1 port.

>>9027084
I think nips have a thing for compact machines, see PC-Engine (which was redesigned to be bigger for US market). Also at the time what did it even compete with? Atari was a huge and bulky box.

>>9025635
Commodore fans fucking hated the CDTV in the 90s. It was an overpriced midrange amiga with accessories you had to buy separately, and I'm not even sure if it could be expanded.

The case looked really nice though, that I admit, but that's about the only good thing about it.

PS2 is the best looking console ever, including the logo. Absolutely timeless design.

>>9027893
I am surprised by how little RAM the PS1 needed in order to display its (at the time groundbreaking) 3D graphics. Generally speaking I am amazed to see how even new pseudo-16bit "indie" games still need like 2GB RAM in order to work while the actual console games they're aping were running on potato hardware. Actually fuck it, all old software was perfectly functional on extremely low specs. I just booted LibreOffice Writer and it's taking 200+mb of RAM, idle. What the fuck happened?

>>9028050
it didn't need as much ram because it didn't have the z buffer
also there is plenty of issue with slowdown on the PS1, not comparable to the 64 though obviously

>>9028060
>there is plenty of issue with slowdown on the PS1
yeah of course but the point still stands
why is everything today so damn resource intensive? I'm not a programmer but shouldn't programming have become more polished/efficient?

>>9028070
because higher polygon count
larger textures
higher draw distance
lower pop in
more animation
more detailed shadows
global illumination
the list goes on with more resource usage
it also is bottlenecked from decompression to a degree so yes, it often is actually optimised

>>9024827
>Nobody posted Dreamcast yet

The fuck?

>>9028083
looks like a tackle box

>>9024827

>>9028070
>>9028050
you're forgetting many things.
—4-8mb RAM was standard for a PC in 1995. PS doesn't have an OS like Windows to keep in the RAM at all time, so it can have more RAM just for games.
—video output was obviously lower res, same with textures, polygon count, etc.
—modern OSs are quite bloated, on an 8gb RAM machine Win 10 will occupy 3.7 gigs.
—note to the thing above though: modern OSs adjust to amount of RAM you have. they keep things in RAM to make access to them faster. same with apps—that's the reason Chrome will consume a lot of RAM, it basically stores whole rendered pages uncompressed in the memory for snappy switching between them, at the cost of RAM.
—modern indie games also will be written using many libraries etc, not just coded straight in C (let alone Assembly).
and so on and so forth

I know in recent years it has become cool to hate on the US SNES design, but I always loved it. That light grey tone mixed with the purple is just aesthetically pleasing to me.
I also find it weird that people obsess into hating this one "because the SFC looks better" and yeah... I dunno both look good IMO, but what I don't get is why the NES doesn't get more hate, as there is an actual huge difference with the Famicom (which I think looks definitely better).
SNES and SFC are about the same size, FC and NES are vastly different and NES is bigger for no reason.

>>9026359
this console is the only console that failed in part because its ugly as fuck.

If the gamecube

>didn't look like a child's lunchbox
>used DVDs
>had a "normal" Zelda game

it would have been a smash hit

>>9028143
>>didn't look like a child's lunchbox
My country doesn't really use lunchboxes, but I thought luncboxes were more rectangular? or they're cubic in some places?
When I got my GC back at release, I got the black one and it looked pretty cool.
All video game consoles are kiddy though, I never really had an adult complex so I never really thought about if certain consoles looked more adult or whatever. None really do.

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>>9028098
>—modern indie games also will be written using many libraries etc, not just coded straight in C (let alone Assembly).
Why? Because it's easier?

>>9028147
He said the lunchbox thing as something figurative. The GC does look very much like a prechooler's toy.

No love for the TurboDuo?

>>9028236
It just looks like a cube to me.
but really, aren't lunchboxes rectangular? as I said, my country doesn't use them, but we use tupperware for the same function... most also rectangular.

>>9028263
anyway yes, lunchboxes are usually rectangular and may also be rather flat unless they're two-tiered.

>>9028230
yes. plenty of them are coded in Unity so that your average tranny could make it
same reason why modern web pages can be so laggy—bloat from all the shitty libraries

>>9026636
the handle is the best part

these don't even have a gun holster, fuck y'all

It's the Saturn, but in terms of Design the Colecovision has had the biggest influence over the past forty years. It inspired the Famicom directly according to Masayuki Uemura, but it also seems to bear a resemblance to the PS2 slim, the Wii, and more recently the Switch. Maybe it looks like an alarm clock today, but who designed the finished product? I know Ralph Baer started the initial brown box concept.

>>9028436
these are not real people, these are actors. they're all unrelated... does anyone ever think about this?

>>9028083
Once the influence of grunge died off in the 90's, there was a big wave of 1950's aesthetics again toward the late 90's. The Dreamcast has the look of a 1959 Cadillac Tail Fin.

>>9025768
Wood grain or lion's mane yellow would be pleasant. It seems reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.
https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-collections/fallingwater/the-colors-of-fallingwater

>>9028038
>>9025768
Light Ochre would've suited it best, but if it had Cherokee Red metal accents it would feel even more like Frank Lloyd Wright's Falling Water.

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-collections/fallingwater/the-colors-of-fallingwater

>>9028114
>I know in recent years it has become cool to hate on the US SNES design, but I always loved it. That light grey tone mixed with the purple is just aesthetically pleasing to me.
Same.

>>9028236
>>9028143
>look like a child's lunchbox
>prechooler's toy
You know those teens that say they were born in the wrong generation because they think they're "more mature" than their peers? Or how kids do things they think will make them look like "big boys"? You're acting like them right now.

>>9026083
I love the way these smell.

>>9026734
It probably was NextGen. I read that and others like Gamefan, Game Player's, PSM, Tips and Tricks, Gamefa, Nintendo Power etc.

>>9028230
You don't seem like a programmer, since you asked this question, but the answer is yes.
If you look up any example of assembly vs any example of a high level language, you'll see that the latter is WAY more readable. If it's easier to read, then it's easier to debug.
Writing in assembly is basically torture.

>>9028593
1. You're talking to 2 different posters.
2. I'm simply talking about how people felt at the time, not how I feel myself. I love the Gamecube but go back and find some forum posts around E3 2002 talking about Wind Waker, people were extremely upset about the look of that game at the time.

>>9028295
>so that your average tranny could make it
he says unironically while possessing even less artistic and programming skills

>>9028646
so how's that LGBT++ visual novel in Unity coming out

>>9028593
be careful, you're speaking with some VERY mature gamers

>>9028656
i don't know, i don't think about homos and trannies all day like you fags do

>>9028593
Those are real complaints that 12 year olds made about the gamecube when it was new

The only reason i want a Game Gear is because of its design

>>9025426
patrician taste

>>9025426
looks like a folded diaper

>>9028038
Yeah, I'm going with this one.
The design language worked well on all of the accessories too.

>>9027097
Dvd in 1994?

>>9028247
I would buy one of these if I had any confidence that the CD drive would still work. I'm not enough of an autist to repair one.

>>9024929
Boku no Pico

>>9025426
Agreed