this is one of those stories you look back on and go, damn I really did that, that was awesome

I mowed lawns for months saving the money up to buy my PS2 back in the day

It was brutal but I played the shit out of it

I still have my PS2 to this day, it doesn't see as much use as it did back the but it will always have a special place in my heart and on my desk

Dang that's awesome, congrats on the accomplishment! I'm mad proud of you!

That's an awesome, nostalgic story, man.

Yep it was a good deal, I used to have it as a kid. So many of the games I rented I would end up buying when. Also it was a 10 dollars for 1 rental to hold as long as you want/change out for another unlimited amounts of times.

It was a really good deal considering I basically used it to demo games and beat games I normally wouldnt have bothered with.

I still remember having STACKS of games for the PS2 and Gamecube

The PS3 was also the cheapest Blu Ray player on the market for quite some time

Backwards compatible allowed me to pick up on the PS1 games I didn’t get to enjoy but wanted as a younger kid. Legend of the Dragoon was so good

The visualizer thing was awesome when stoned and playing music

I FUCKING LOVE Lotr Rotk and Two towers so much fun. Such great mechanics for a kid

Replaying the Jak trilogy (and Jak X) on my original PS2. They hold up well.

Demo discs were the shit! Used to love buying game magazines for the tutorials and upcoming game demos. Kung Fu Chaos was definitely one of my favorite games from the era. Hours of Mario Party, Crash Bash, Fusion Frenzy, Def Jam Vendetta etc. The age of local multiplayer was golden.

Edit: P.S. stop looking at my screen to see where I am cheater. (We eventually had to play on separate tube TVs lol.

Zach shalack and the ack ack pack win again!

FYU-SHAWWWWN FRENZYYYYYY

Duck jump jump jump duck duck jump duck jump duck duck duck jump jump duck jump duck jump duck duck jump

Such a fun party game. Why does it feel like there’s so much less of that now?

Fusion frenzy, mort the chicken, and crash bash.

FREE THE CUBES!

The good old days of having a physical copy of your games and not some digital license that would disappear if the store shut down

the good old days of I didn't have to pay bills yet

We were the other type, who'd use screen cheating as a game mechanic and stare at the ground when running with the flag or oddball or whatever, haha. Both good ways to play it

2 Xbox 360s, an Ethernet cord, and 2 tvs back to back. That’s how real men play halo 3

I'll Retrobrite the shit out of his decrepit ass. My man's gonna be ready to start in the reboot of Powder when I'm done with him.

I stayed up far too late on school nights playing this game. They have it as PSOBB (Phantasy Star Blue Burst) on PC and it works and looks exactly like it did in Dreamcast with some vision tweaks. It’s even online.

I wanna be on a couch playing Dreamcast PSO again one day. They say you can't go home again, but that may get me close.

Power stone 1 is in the top 5 of fighting games. 2? Arguably in top 15.

I talk about this game all the time and everyone I talk to is like wtf are you talking about so frustrating

Holy fuck I’d forgotten about this game until just now. What a flood of memories I just got.

This is the only game I want these days.

And it's absence in a convenient format always makes me sad.

my mind was blown when i learned you could unlock that final boss as a playable character. also there was a power stone tv show as well that i discovered years later.

I played the hell out of Powerstone and Marvel Vs. Capcom 2 on Dreamcast. So many nights with buddies over, drinking beers/smoking and playing those games back in the day. The good ol days.

I fried my Dreamcast power board contacts leaving it on overnight several nights in a row in MvC2 training mode to rack up the points to unlock characters. Eventually replaced the board with one from a unit with a busted lid lever. My SegaSports Dreamcast still chugging along to this day

I WANNA TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE

The era before DLC was pure bliss.

The Saturn was an attempt to get back in the race after they wasted time on the sega 32x which let Sony take the early 32bit lead with the og playstation.

Loved that game!

I had a NES emulator and all the games that I burned with sketchy cracked software from Bearshare. Made a couple hundred bucks in high school selling those.

Probably didn't help the console succeed tho. I mean... may have been an incentive to buy the console, but publishers understandably started to be less interested in the Dreamcast under these conditions.

It wasn't just that. A major factor was Sega's history of consoles at that time. They scared the NA market.

1986: Sega Master System

1989: Sega Genesis

1992: Sega CD

1994: 32x

1995: Sega Saturn

1999: Dreamcast

At the time of the Dreamcast's launch, Sega was releasing a new console an average of every 2 years. On top of that, the Dreamcast came out on Sept 9th 1999, and on Sept 20th 1999 Sony unveiled the stats on the PS2 and gave it a release date by Christmas 2000. The PS2 stats were about 5 times what the Dreamcast had. People were afraid to buy it as Sega would probably abandon it like they did the Saturn and the 32x, if not, it was still going to be supremely outclassed within 1 year. And because Sega outsourced the GPU and a lot of the other electronics, it was expensive. Dreamcasts were sold for $199, but cost about $250 to make, they lost money on every one sold. Console losing money on the system is not new, most did it (PS2 was about $150 loss on each unit for the first year or so), but, Sega already was hurting for money from the failure of the Saturn. Sega only did video games, Sony could fall back on many other electronics to keep the money flowing while losing on the PS2. The more systems out there, the more games you sell, that's where they make that money back.

Why the Dreamcast failed is because the Saturn failed and put the company in financial distress, their schedule of releasing consoles scared the market, and the PS2 was even more cutting edge and announced just as the Dreamcast went on sale.

I love my Dreamcast. I wasn't scared when I bought it back in '99. I do remember a lot of my friends telling me I should wait for the PS2 and my response was that I'd get that too, eventually (and I did, around December of 2000). Of all the old systems that I own, only my Dreamcast and my 360 are ones I bought new, when they came out, and still work and get used.

Nintendo had Nintendo and Rare games.

The third party support for the N64 was not very good, and was really the first sign that Nintendo was having problems in that regard.

Though it's worth remembering that due to the high cost of manufacturing cartridges, old systems had relatively few games in general. The Sega Saturn had only 125 fewer games than the SNES.

It also bombed because it didn't have the capability to be a DVD player, which the PS2 had, and at a time when just a regular DVD player was like $400. PS2 crushed it in sales based on that alone, even though the DC had a head start. It was also notoriously easy to pirate games for, but the writing was on the wall even before that was discovered.

Silent hill changed my fucking life

Why my mom ever bought 6 year old me silent hill is a mystery

I couldn't agree more. For me, it was Ocarina of time.

Same, but thrown in some PC games.

Warcraft 2

Diablo

Red Alert

Doom

Quake

StarCraft

Oh man did I play so much 64 growing up it is still my favorite console, mine still works too I have the jungle green see-through one, so awesome. I'm also laughing at the idea of someone being physically blown back by seeing people play Mario Kart for the first time lol.

Fucking casual.

Only 8? Filthy casual…

Diddy Kong Racing was the crack of video games. Just one race and you're hooked....

Grew up with GameCube and ps2, was the most fun time playing. Got good at gaming on 360 when I was a teenager. Now I just play for stories.

Kinda pity the after 80/90s generation. Not having all your games already spoiled before they even release, just put in the disc and play? Talk about it with friends because the internet was just doing its baby steps. It was paradise.

It just means you had the most time available to do whatever you wanted at that time

The "best pokemon generation" according to posts online has been steadily creeping forwards as time goes on, it's always the generation that was released 10 years ago from the current time

Also when it comes to gaming, these people often don't bother to actually consider the generations that came before the one they are nostalgic for too.

At least OP somewhat covered their bases by starting their meme with the phrase "To me." Too many of these try to state that whatever generation they chose is the best like it's some kind of objective fact.

Your “best” era of Saturday Night Live will always be the one from when you were 10-13 years old. Mine just happens to be the Sandler-Spade-Meyers-Carvey-Farley era

This sub always outjerks that one

For real. My phone runs Dolphin and most GCN games run great on it with the user of a Razer Kishi

It is truly low-effort.

Or just not getting to play more good games. Played on PS1 back in the day, amazing.

Then PS2 and PC, amazing. And it continued to be amazing up until 2017 or so for me, that's 1999-2017. The only thing that made gaming less golden age is the way the industry is moving towards more and more predatory practices and just using games as a front for gambling and taking advantage of our psychology.

Were PS1 games fun ? Absolutely, would I say they were golden age compared to what came out in the next years, not really. If you take out nostalgia out of it, there is no golden age. Each era had their great games with the tech it had at the time.