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What were you playing in good 'ol '96?
I was stilling farting around on my Super NES

>> No.5008269

Streets of Rage 2 on my Sega Genesis.

>> No.5008282

Wild ARMs, Beyond the Beyond, Suikoden

>> No.5008284

Fucking Sega Genesis.

>> No.5008285

>>5008267
I only had a NES back then, so probably TMNT II, Super Mario Bros, or Mega Man 3.

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>>5008267
Me and my buddy played a fuckload of Guardian Heroes that year. It started a long trend of great afternoons.

>> No.5008293

my famiclone with like 300 games and after that the PS, first exerience with the snes was through emulation

>> No.5008294

>>5008285
Pretty much the same, plus StarTropics and Dragon Quest 4

>> No.5008352
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In 1996 I was in my Saturn years and my biggest title for that year was Doukyuusei ~if~.
Other stuff I was into that year were Princess Maker 2, Tokimeki Memorial, Nonomurabyouin no Hitobito, Can Can Bunny Premiere, Sakura Taisen, and Saturn Bomberman

Wikipedia tells me Langrissser III and Guardian Heroes came out in ’96 and I did like both of those but I don’t remember playing them in 1996. Probably didn’t get them until later.

>> No.5008367

staring at the attract mode of Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 at the local pizza place because mom wouldn't give me quarters to play and I didn't have a Game Boy yet

>> No.5008476

>>5008267
At home, still exploring the SNES and MD classics (mostly Sega, Rare, Konami and Nintendo stuff, and also Mortal Kombat 3) because no money to buy a PSX.

At my pal's home who had a PSX: Toshinden (a game we played until very late in the console's life), Twisted Metal, International Track & Field, Tekken 2, Doom, Wipeout, etc.

In the arcades: Street Fighter Alpha 2 and all the Sega games. Then Virtua Fighter 3 became my only interest.

>> No.5008485

>>5008352
Cool games, thank you. I Bookmarked those.

>> No.5008487

Still playing my snes, genesis and nes. Didn't get a n64 till my birthday in 97, along with mario and turok. Won a ps1 from a friend in a game of pool in 98.

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>>5008267
This. And still playing some SimCity 2000.

>> No.5008519

I got both PS1 and N64 that year.

>> No.5008696

>>5008267
playing Shadows of The Empire

>> No.5008702

In '96 i still was rocking the Genesis so probably playing Comix Zone and Vectorman around that time

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5008784

probably, Road Rash on 3DO (I got the console only in 1996) and mainly Close Combat and glorious MoO2

>> No.5008915

I remember when Super Mario 64 was released. Mainstream media, not just gaming media, was praising it as the greatest, most advanced and graphically amazing game ever made. And today, it's... dated, to say the least.

>> No.5008918

>>5008915
>And today, it's... dated, to say the least.
And today it's still regarded as one of the best 3D action games of all time, especially because of the controls and gameplay nuances, rather than the graphics or the novelty of being 3D.

>> No.5008938

>>5008918
But it's certainly NOT praised anymore for the reasons it was back in 96. The graphics haven't aged well at all and the mechanics are very simple and basic. It remains considered as a good game for the same reasons as it's 2D predecessors, it's fun and delivers what it promises to the player spectacularly well.

>> No.5008947

>>5008938
>mechanics are very simple and basic
Depends on who you ask, but I think Mario 64 has better gameplay mechanics than MANY other 3D platform games, including ones from 6th gen that only let you jump and attack, but have 0 actual physics and momentum.
To this day I still think SM64's controls are pretty good.

>> No.5008951

mario 64 is great BECAUSE of its simplicity, you can cover the entire map collecting 100 coins in a matter of minutes while in something like Odyssey or Sunshine getting all the blue coins is a piece of shit boring chore

>> No.5008957

>>5008938
Nigger it's the best 3d scotformer

>> No.5009007

96 was my jump to "mature" games. So Resi Evil and Boob Raider.

>> No.5009023

I didn't get to enjoy the sweet taste of my hideous PS1 graphics until 1997, so in '96, I was still enjoying my delicious SNES sprites.

>> No.5009045

>>5008267
Outrun and Wanted on Master System. Didn't have much else

>> No.5009057

fury 3 demo on a rented win95 pc

>> No.5009082

Still had the SNES and Genesis. Got a GB pocket for christmas. Games I remember playing the most that year: SMRPG, KSS, DKC3, Sonic 3D Blast, SFA2, CT and MK3.

>> No.5009087

>>5009082
>SFA2
This makes me nostalgic, it was the last fighting game I remember being genuinely big in arcades.

>> No.5009162

>genesis was mostly retired and only game I recall playing on it in 1996 was lunar 2 (sega cd)
>SNES I still would still replay chrono trigger and BOF2. Rented star ocean.
>PC was mostly playing tie fighter CD (released the previous year but never really stopped playing it), dark forces, MOO2, and played the fuck out of duke nukem
>played a bit of quake but preferred duke
>when diablo came out that derailed all other games for over a month. Nothing but diablo.
>bought daggerfall and ragequit after 2 weeks due to it being an unpolished piece of shit at launch full of game breaking bugs
>Gave knights of xentar another play though now that I got the R18 patch disk

tl;dr

Maybe 5% of my gaming time was on consoles by 1996. PC had almost completely taken over.

>> No.5009197

>>5009087
Sf3 the very next year is the last game I remember folk going to the arcade for.

>> No.5009975

>>5009045
SMS Outrun is pretty good

>> No.5009976

>super Mario RPG
>earthbound

>> No.5010206

Playing Doom 2, Jazz jackrabbit and some other stuff on DOS.

>> No.5010209

Quake, Yoshi's Island, Sam & Max, Dark Forces, Stunts, and various NES-games.

>> No.5010210

Mario64 on my new n64

>> No.5010218

>>5009975
Shit compared to rad racer.

>> No.5010219

>>5008267
The Marathon and Warcraft games. Also shittons of shareware.

>> No.5010412

>>5010218
How?