Console killer apps

[Big Seany]

I think, looking back on it now, that I was lured to the PS1 by Tekken.A good few years on, and with my import gaming head on, I can't believe I was so excited by such a dire PAL translation. Still - it kicked ass back then, and made me get a PS1. As it goes I didn't buy the console, but my good friend who happened to be the son of former Acclaim CEO Rod Cousens got one for me, bless him.

Teh killa appz on 16 bit were Ghouls & Ghosts and Golden Axe on the MD, because they were at that point the two bestest arcade conversions I had seen, although when the SNES came out, I can remember being very excited by Final Fight, Super Ghouls & Ghosts and Street Fighter 2. These were the titles that made me want the consoles.

Others that have made me wanna: Amiga - Sensible Soccer, R-Type
Dreamcast - Streetfighter III series and wealth of Capcom goodness
Saturn - teh Capcom 2D goodness, particularly X-Men vs SF
Neo Geo - 2D fighters (what else!?!)
N64 - OOT

[spagmasterswift]

Agree with seany1979, it was the arcade conversions that got me buying consoles back in the day. Strider and Golden Axe were a huge part of that.

More recently I got my Cube so I could do the trench run and blow up the Death Star and my PS2 to play Rez. Feel the Magic sold me the DS. VJ Battle Carnival could well sell me the PSP.

[bingowings]

Halo made me buy an Xbox, and nothing else has come close. god knows how many hours i've lost to Silent Cartographer - even thinking about it makes me want to go home and play it pity the same can't be said for the sequel though. and Ninja Gaiden/DoA3/DoA: XBV - just for the fact they are shiny and nice to look at.

WipeOut for the PS1 was, and still is, a wonderful racing game despite the PAL border mania.
Powerstone for the Dreamcast is stupid fun, and i got my GC to play Metroid Prime but that was overtaken by the Biohazard remake.

and i'm seriously thinking about shelling out for a PSP, only to play Ridge Racers. poor the bingowings

[djjimbob]

Snes: Super Mario World
N64: SM64
GC: Super Monkey Ball
DS: SM64 / Wario Ware Touched
DC: Crazy Taxi
PS: GT and RE
XBOX: GTA

[Scythe]

Soul Caliber for the DC...

[the_dude]

Master System - Thunder Blade
Megadrive - Shinobi
SFC - F-Zero
Playstation - Ridge Racer
N64 - Mario 64
Dreamcast - Jet Set Radio
PS2 - Zone of the Enders
Gamecube - Super Monkey Ball
Xbox - Halo
PSP - Lumines

[PeteJ]

I was always going to get the Xbox for Halo years before release. It was already my killer-app before anyone knew how good it was.

PS - Ridge Racer
Dreamcast - Sonic Adventures
Xbox - Halo
Gamecube - Resident Evil\ Monkey Ball
PS2 - Ico, I think
PC (current gen) - Half-life 2\ Fear\ Battlefield 2

[muse hunter]

snes- super mariokart
saturn- nights
dreamcast- sonic adventure and powerstone
GC- animal crossing
Xbox- jet set radio future
ps2- vice city

[mattSix]

gb - kirby's pinball land
gbc - pokemon yellow
gba - super mario kart
snes - street fighter 2
n64 - mario 64
ps2 - DDR
cube - pikmin

[Prof Frink]

snes - street fighter II
md - castle of illusion
n64 - goldeneye
ps - resident evil 2
ps2 - devil may cry
cube - rogue leader
xbox -halo

[eastyy]

I always wonder why console manufacturers fail to get a killer line up at launch.The dreamcast/psone/saturn/ps2/gamecube/xbox none of there launch lineup excited me it was many months more i bought any of them.

For example the gamecube eventually it did have some killer games but i always thought what would have happened if the gamecube launched with zelda/mario/fzero/metroid prime/viewtiful joe.

[Izayoi]

snes - Super Mario Kart
md - Revenge of Shinobi
ps - Tekken
ps2 - Metal Gear Solid 2
cube - Resident Evil
xbox - OutRun 2
gba - Super Mario Kart: Super Circuit

[Sabreman]

In the past I've usually got new consoles simply because they were new, and I was sufficiently interested to just buy them regardless of launch games or whatever.

The two exceptions - consoles where I held out and wasn't particularly bothered until I saw or tried particular games were the PS2 with Frequency, and the Dreamcast with Soul Calibur. One session on Frequency and a couple of minutes staring at the demo modes on SC and I simply had to have those games.

[Grimlock]

DC-Shenmue,JSR
MD-Sonic
Psone-FF8
Xbox-JSRF,Gun Valkyrje,Halo
GC-SMB

[mt50]

anything pre dreamcast time my mum got me them so they don't count.

dreamcast- the fact that it was ?99 with 3 games one christmas when i was in toysrus.
N64 the fact it was about ?30 with a game.
xbox- seen the videos of halo, amped and pgr was enough for me.
PS2- the fact it dropped to ?99 and the fact i could play pro evo, GT3 ect
gamecube- star fox the 1st time the 2nd,3rd and 4th times it was because they were cheap with a few games