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Favorite home computer you never actually owned or played back in the day? I really like the MSX series. Too bad it was non-existent where I grew up.

>> No.8053005
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None if we're talking vidya. Computer games were inferior to Sega-Sony-Nintendo console games in the 80s and 90s.

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>>8053005

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>>8053069
Back to QA containment wojakfag

>> No.8053115

>>8052937
Probably the Acorn series. Very impressive stuff on it like Virus back in the day. Far too expensive for most people unless they could get the educational discount or something.

Maybe the highest end models of the Amiga too, which were unobtanium to a kid. Convincing your parents you needed an Amiga 4000 with all the bells and whistles for uhhh homework wasn't going to happen.

>> No.8053137

I didn't grow up with any of the closed architecture micros (my first computer was an IBM PC clone followed by a Gateway 2000 win95 machine) but I've spent the last five or six years getting into them really heavily. Honestly I haven't found any that doesn't have something I love about it. The ones that have really found a special place in my heart though are the Vic 20 and the Tandy CoCo line. Neither was particularly prolific but both machines have great exclusives and are really easy to love.

>> No.8053142

>>8053005
According to whom?

>> No.8053175

>>8052937
The Japanese X68000 and FM Towns looked really interesting. X68000 had a weird build for the towers. There were versions of games made for those machines that I we didn't see elsehwere. Graphics upgrades and so on. Only until places like mobygames and emulation did I get to see and compare graphics or gameplay differences. Wasn't even aware these existed back in the day.

>> No.8053192

>>8053142
Consumers.

>> No.8053228

>>8053005
>Computer games were inferior to Sega-Sony-Nintendo console games in the 80s and 90s
citation needed on this

>> No.8053234

>>8053137
Have you played Pharaoh's Curse on the Vic 20? Awesome fun.

I can also suggest Mutant Herd. Had some interesting gameplay for its time.

Radar Rat Race was fun if simple. Donkey Kong was interesting. It had some nice shooters too with Gorf and Galaxian.

>> No.8053237

>>8053228
Are you seriously trying to win an argument about different people's entirely subjective gaming tastes?

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MSX2 has some real gems.

>> No.8053248

>>8053237
what did he mean by this?

>> No.8053269

>>8053248
Never mind. He was making an argument that console games > PC games but backtracked when he realized he couldn't actually back up that claim.

>> No.8053484

>>8052937
MSX for me too along with PC-98, X68000, Apple II and the BBC Micro.

>> No.8053813

>>8053005
Scrub.

>> No.8053815

>>8053115
Unfortunately barely had any games for it as well.

>> No.8053823

>>8053228
>citation needed on this
See >>8053192

Doom sales: 2 million
Super Mario World sales: 20 million
I don't remember people lining up to buy computers just to play civilization. But I do remember that happening with N64 and Mario 64.

>> No.8053826

>>8053137
CoCo was kind of like a bizzaro world Apple II.

>> No.8054013

>>8052937
Amstrad CPC ofc. They sold this shitty version made by Schneider here, some atrocity with bad case design God knows how this shit came to be...

>> No.8055583

>>8053234
Mutant Herd is one of my favorites, right up there with Garden Wars and Ape Escape. I would love to find a Pharaoh's Curse cartridge but I doubt I'll be that lucky.

>>8053826
It didn't really do much of anything well, but that analog joystick did make for some quality games. Stuff like Arkanoid plays great. Also had some real fun little exclusives like Temple of Rom and Stellar Lifeline. I have yet to dive into Apple II land but it's probably gonna be one of the next plunges I take.

>> No.8056312

>>8055583
My Apple II list has twice as many games as my CoCo list, but the CoCo definitely has some unique exclusives. And some ZX Spectrum/Dragon 32 conversions.

>> No.8058542

>>8053005
There are some genres that are just more fitting for computers than consoles - like Point-and-Click Adventures, and FPS.