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    Retro Arena: 8-bit consoles





    Here we have a collection of popular 8-bit consoles. Choose 3 that you like the most.
    Last edited by Leon Retro; 21-11-2019, 18:03.

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    For me its got to be PC Engine first (small, powerful & mostly arcade perfect games), then NES (large & ugly but has Zelda, SMB's, Master Blaster, Donkey Kongs 1-3, etc) , Master System third with Sonic, Wonderboys, Shinobi's, etc)

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      #3
      Hmm now this is hard as the pc engine & famicom are 2 of my fave consoles, i'd say for me famicom is my fave extremely closely followed by pc engine then probably vectrex as my 3rd but thats mainy because those are the 3 i have mainly played. Never really thought much of the 2600 even when playing ones at my friends houses the games just didn't click even as a kid. Although it would be interesting to actually visit some of these machines via emulation to see what their librarys are like as some i have never played on in any form.

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        #4
        Why such a random collection?

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          #5
          Master System .Never liked the rest, sorry

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            #6
            PC Engine. All it took was seeing Bikkuriman World on display in a computer shop back in 1989.

            I'd literally only played Wonder Boy in Monster Land in a Bridlington arcade a few weeks prior and had fallen head over heels and to see an arcade perfect kinda version blew my astonished mind.

            Spent about eight months saving my paper round money up and ended up buying an import PCE w/TV modulator for a bit under £200 from a company in the back of C&VG called 'PC Engine Services' iirc (never received that Chan & Chan, boys...)

            I was gonna get a NES (purely for Trojan) but I held off when I saw those awesome PCE screenshots in C&VG. Glad I did but at the time I was the only kid in my school who had one, which was a git if you wanted to boz some games.

            That's the worst thing. It was incredible, it could've been MAHOOSIVE over here with the right marketing!
            Last edited by JazzFunk; 22-11-2019, 06:16. Reason: OCD

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              #7
              Is it really fair to compare the Atari 2600 to something like the PC Engine? Everything above the Famicom in that list is its own seperate generation imo.

              Anyway, the NES is the best of the bunch. Nothing else comes close. Mario 1 and 3 are perfection. Faxanadu, Quantum Fighter, Kickle Cubicle, Shadowgate, Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers, Ninja Gaiden, Power Blade... the list just goes on and on. There's so much variety and so many games looked, sounded and played great. It's the king of 8-bit systems in my book.

              After that it's the SMS and then the PC Engine. The PC Engine has a better library but I'm just more fond of the SMS. It was the first system I played and I still love the games, even if most of them are a little janky.

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              Add the SG-1000 and Vectrex to that previous gen list as well.

              I will say that the Vectrex version of Pole Position is ****ing incredible. Almost makes me want to buy one just for that!
              Last edited by Cepp; 21-11-2019, 22:01.

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                #8
                I'm choosing 1. Intellivison and then 2. Vectrex because they are the only 8 bit consoles I've ever owned. When I was a kid I loved the overlays on Intellivision controllers - even though pressing the fire buttons destroyed your hands

                3. NES because I played Super Mario Bros a lot in Dixons.

                Originally posted by Cepp View Post
                Is it really fair to compare the Atari 2600 to something like the PC Engine? Everything above the Famicom in that list is its own seperate generation imo.
                Yes PC Engine is definitely '16 bit'. As an example the Intellivision isn't on that list because it has a 16 bit CPU but a 16 bit processor makes almost no difference in terms of power. It's all about the graphics chip and then clock speed. To me '8 bit' and '16 bit' aren't literal categories. They are just convenient ways to categorise consoles in terms of generation and power.

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                  #9
                  NES / Famicom is my favourite
                  Master System is second

                  Third is the Videopac, or Odyssey. For the time, there were some great games, whose ideas surprisingly don't seem to have been copied. The Pacman game had a level editor, which was brilliant fun.

                  But my favourite was Dambusters, a Breakout clone. It was two-player, or one v the CPU. One person controlled the paddle, and another controlled little men who tried to rebuild the wall. One of my all-time best games.

                  I only tried a PC Engine decades later. Had I played it at the time, it might have made my list.

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                    #10
                    Yeah, I think if I'd known about and owned a PC Engine when it was current I'd have a lot more affection for it than I do. I'm looking forward to trying out a bunch of games on it when the mini comes out next year (and it hopefully gets hacked).

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                      #11
                      Oh come on, as if PCE isn’t going to win this at a canter! I expect NES/SMS to fill spaces 2 & 3 although I think the Vectrex deserves a mention.

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                        #12
                        Originally posted by paulus View Post
                        For me its got to be PC Engine first (small, powerful & mostly arcade perfect games), then NES (large & ugly but has Zelda, SMB's, Master Blaster, Donkey Kongs 1-3, etc) , Master System third with Sonic, Wonderboys, Shinobi's, etc)
                        I was about 18 when the PC Engine was all over the pages of C&VG & eventually ended up with an RGB Modded Japanese original model in white. I bought my jealous girlfriend of the time a used UK Master System plus Wonderboy In Monsterland. When she got bored of that I swapped it for a UK NES plus SMB. Happy times

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by samanosuke View Post
                          Oh come on, as if PCE isn’t going to win this at a canter! I expect NES/SMS to fill spaces 2 & 3 although I think the Vectrex deserves a mention.
                          Not necessarily, it's all about the feelz if you ask me. The PCE was the only 8-bit console I had back around the time of release, I had a Power Base MS converter for my MD a couple of years later and traded in an MD Ecco the Dolphin for a NES wi gamez back in 1993 but I never actually actually had a console til the PCE, it broke my cherry.

                          Hence I played SMS *after* MD and NES after SNES! It's a bit sad, really, as I always felt like they were the 'skipped generation', to me, and I had loads of bloody great NES games...but just couldn't enjoy it as much as I felt I should. Sad.

                          Even had Action 52 for it. MD, too. Worth a bomb these days.

                          I'm most envious of Vectrex owners who had it back in the day. It still looks amazing, it must've felt like black magic back then.

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                            #14
                            (14yrs old doing two bastard paper rounds, an early morning and an evening one, after school. And then bleeding Saturday and Sunday morns. Only benefit was nicking the Sunday Sport, it was a very (ahem) exciting Sunday paper to a 14yr old, at the time).


                            Aaaaaaaah, nostalgia. Anyone remember Um Bongo?...

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                              #15
                              Um Bongo, Um Bongo, I drink it in the jungle, the rhino says “I know, we’ll call it Um Bongo!”

                              Who can forget? I’d use it to wash down a United bar.
                              Last edited by samanosuke; 22-11-2019, 08:29.

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