Consoles: Bringing families together.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:31 am

So I got yet another console system....2, really. When my wife and I aren't making sweet love, we're playing video games. Life is good.

The Run-Down of Everything Connected to Our TV:

Nintendo
Nintendo 64
GameCube
GameBoy Player
Intellivision
Sega Genesis
Sega Dreamcast (The newest addition to the family for $15)
Playstation
Playstation 2
XBox
Console PC W/Emulators for all systems up to PSX including complete ROM Sets for NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, 32X, Jaguar, Atari, Intellivision, GBM, GBC, GBA, and N64.(Athlon XP 3200+, 512MB RAM, 30GB HD, DVD-ROM, CD-RW, Radeon 9250, SB Live! <---$100, plus $14 for the USB gamepads)

Also have GameBoy and GameBoy Color....Not connected to the TV.

Plus, I've got the "real" computer....Though I play Fallout on the TV now. It's just much prettier and larger.

We're on the look out for a cheap SNES and a cheap Sega Saturn...Nothing over $15, of course, and it must come with at least 10 games like our new Dreamcast..

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:58 am

TV resolution sucks ass. You can't see shit on it. Get yourself a nice 19 inch LCD, congoid! icon_dance

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:20 am

I'm getting out of the console business but right now I have or had an

NES (my dad gave it away a couple years ago)
SNES
n64
playstation(i think i bought it right after the ps2 came out)
gameboy
gameboy color
ps2
gamecube
sega saturn (bought years after it died)
sega dreamcast (bought for like 50 bucks with 10 games when some kid was mad Sega called it quits)

I have my GC, ps2, and the dreamcast recently hooked up. All three of them are on death row for which one to put away since my TV stand can only fit two on the shelf and I dont like putting one on the carpet.

My LCD 19'' came with a dead pixel towards the bottom right with all the toolbar crap. YOu can only get it replaced if you have 8 dead ones. icon_anger

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:49 am

I have never owned, nor liberated a console of any sort. I am glad that this is so. Huzzah. icon_drunk

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 10:18 am

I've never owned a gaming console. My previous home computer passed away about 8 years ago. Since then I've owned and co-owned PCs. The reason is sÃmple: por.. -- I mean the games!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 11:28 am

Never owned a console. Few computers. Simple reasons: work, games and porno. Console games suck so much ass imo.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:07 pm

The thing is, Fallout looks fucking brill on TV.
Fukcin utilize dem TV-out ports you congoids!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:29 pm

I've got a monitor/TV...It looks pretty tight, really. Of course resolution must be set at 800x600. But that's good enough for playing emulators. That's really all that PC is for.

On my real PC, I actually do have a 19 inch LCD.

Congoid. smile

Also, it's much more fun to watch your porn in the front room. Even if it's just streaming videos from MyFreePaysite.com. It looks much better playing on a TV than a crisp resolution PC monitor.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:26 pm

I've still got my N64, but it only gets connected to a TV every once in a while. Gamecube, Xbox and PS2 are connected to the 55" widescreen HDTV & home theater audio system. I also have a PC with a 19" LCD for PC gaming and a 20" iMac G5 for my general computing needs.

I've had a Genesis, PSX, ColecoVision and a Dreamcast over the years, but sold 'em all. I'll keep the N64 until I get tired of firing up Super Mario 64 or Banjo-Kazooie once a year smile

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 3:53 pm

The thing is, Fallout looks fucking brill on TV.
Fukcin utilize dem TV-out ports you congoids!

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:29 pm

I have one connected to my TV.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:29 pm

I've got a SNES, N64, Gamecube, GB color, GBAdvance, broken Playstation and lots of PC games. I've got lots of games for all the consoles.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:33 pm

Anyone play a java game through their cell phone onto the TV? It's not that neat, and it's really boring.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 4:48 pm

I seem to have:

A playstation
A sega megadrive 2
An n64
An gameboy pocket
A game boy color (with amazing self added scratched to hell screen)
An xbox
And at one point i had a sega genisis just for playing the older games

Though i dont have a 19inch i do have a 17inch, but thats just fine its not the size its how much you can lie about it

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 5:24 pm

I've got a SNES, N64, Gamecube, GB color, GBAdvance, broken Playstation and lots of PC games. I've got lots of games for all the consoles.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:33 pm

What's the point of a Nintendo DS, really? For some reason I just don't see a real point to it. What qualities make it worth buying for more than $15?

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 6:54 pm

Interesting new ways of interacting with games. For example, there's a game (which I don't have) called Kirby Canvas Curse, where you have to draw paths with the stylus for the character to follow, instead of running & jumping. With Nintendogs, you can interact directly with the dog. The Wario Ware: Touched game has dozens of microgames that make use of the touchpad and even the microphone.

Besides interaction, there are other nice uses for two screens. For a racing game, you can have the track map & standings on the lower screen, leaving the upper screen free for the game action. An adventure game or RPG could display maps, stats, inventory, etc. in pages on the lower screen at all times, while the action takes place on the upper screen (and you could then interact with the inventory/stat screens without "leaving" the game screen.)

Games could also swap the screens on the fly in-game, so that stats appear above and the game action below for cases when you want to have the player directly manipulate things in the game world. For example, in an RPG, in combat you could normally have the interface on the bottom and the game screen on top. In combat, you might sometimes switch the game screen to the bottom to select targets. The thought of doing stuff like this intrigues me greatly smile

And of course it has built-in wireless, the capability to respond to voice controls, simple PDA functionality, and it plays GBA games as well as DS games. It's just a nifty device with tons of potential.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:01 pm

Nintendogs looks like an outstanding clone of the PC's Dogz. I dunno...I'll have to wait a few years. I don't even have a GBA. I've got the GBA Player for the GameCube so I can play...ehrm......Pokemon. Other than that, I'm lagging behind the times in terms of portable gaming. I'd almost rather spend $150 on a laptop so I can play games and have the functionality of a PC. Then again, I've got a laptop on loan from the state department. Just can't put any of my own software on it because I'd have to transfer all my licenses to the state which then becomes permanent as they re-register everything to themselves and do not give said licenses back.

Sorry...I've had 4 sodas today. I'm usually a water drinker.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:30 pm

I think the nintendo DS is kinda cool, except I dont really dig the tomachgi nintendog stuff. It can do basically all teh things the psp can do, except for multimedia which i dont really care for. Even though the DS lineup is better than the psp right now, it still doesn't have enough games to warrant me buying one. I'm interested in how they do zelda on it, so i can collect ruppies with the touch screen. awesome.

Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 7:59 pm

To Sony's chagrin, it's looking like people are buying the PSP more for the homebrew scene than to actually buy games for it, or UMD movies for it. Sony may have made it a bit to accessible for their own good. Hopefully they'll release more compelling software soon. I'm waiting for Burnout, myself smile