look what you can download for 500 points!!!

[MK Shrimper]

And for those who remember BINATONE?

What about the WII? I am considering getting one for sheer entertainment....not graphics and all that lark....just fun....anyone got one?

Wii is great fun, especially Wii sports. Zelda is a cracking game and Mario and Metroid Prime are coming out soon.

Also you can download all the old NES, SNES and (some) N64 games on the "virtual terminal".... it's no wonder the Wii is whipping the X-Box and PS3.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

In a way I don't think the Wii is a direct competitor to either - I know loads of people who have a 360 / PS3 and a Wii. The Wii is great fun a a purebred games console while the other two are more games AND multimedia based.

However, the success of the Wii just shows that graphics aren't everything, a fact that sometimes bypasses Microsoft and Sony.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Nintendo have always been the best.

I still go back for a bit of Super Tennis, Pilotwings and Mario Kart on the SNES.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Nintendo have always been the best.

I still go back for a bit of Super Tennis, Pilotwings and Mario Kart on the SNES.

The SNES was the greatest console of all time. So many awesome games... :D

 

[TrueBlue]

Master System and Mega Drive all the way!!!

 

[Mad Cyril]

I am also rather partial to playing a few old classics on MAME.

It's the crack cocaine of gaming.

Recent favourites include:

Kung Fu Master
Galaxian
Nemesis
Terra Cresta
Marble Madness
Robotron
Battlezone
Green Beret
Hypersports
Track and field
Tempest
Gravitar

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Master System and Mega Drive all the way!!!

If you liked crappy sound and an awkward control pad.
Although the MD did have it's redeeming qualities - Sonic and Streets of Rage in particular - it's versions of other games such as Street Fighter 2 were inferior.
Although the graphics were slightly tidier than the NES, the Master System was a very poor competitor.

The Saturn, however, was a blinding console, a shame it never really took off.

 

[Mad Cyril]

If you liked crappy sound and an awkward control pad.
Although the MD did have it's redeeming qualities - Sonic and Streets of Rage in particular - it's versions of other games such as Street Fighter 2 were inferior.
Although the graphics were slightly tidier than the NES, the Master System was a very poor competitor.

The Saturn, however, was a blinding console, a shame it never really took off.

I was forced to eBay most of my console collection when my office was turned into a nursery.

I got nearly £100 for my saturn, analog control pad and a copy of Nights into dreams.

 

[Mr. Benedict]

I was forced to eBay most of my console collection when my office was turned into a nursery.

I got nearly £100 for my saturn, analog control pad and a copy of Nights into dreams.

You can pick up a decent condition saturn for about £30, it's the copy of Nights and the analogue pad that made that go for so much - not bad for an old console!

Mine is still in a box in the loft somewhere, though I'll probably never get rid of my consoles so I can remind myself what gaming was like 'in the good old days' every so often....

 

[MK Shrimper]

You can pick up a decent condition saturn for about £30, it's the copy of Nights and the analogue pad that made that go for so much - not bad for an old console!

Mine is still in a box in the loft somewhere, though I'll probably never get rid of my consoles so I can remind myself what gaming was like 'in the good old days' every so often....

Yeah, still have my N64 and Playstation V1 somewhere.....

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Yeah, still have my N64 and Playstation V1 somewhere.....

Ahhh, the original PlayStation - one of the worst looking consoles of all time!

 

[Beefy]

I've still got my Atari 2600 tucked away. Actually it's in a box with my Spectrum 48k :D

 

[Mr. Benedict]

The earliest console I've got is a commodore 64...

 

[HUTTON]

Still think I have the Atari in the loft some where

 

[MK Shrimper]

The earliest console I've got is a commodore 64...

Minor point: NOT a console, but a fully fledged computer.... you cant type in hundreds of lines of incomprehensible code into an Atari VCS just to get a crappy game of pong.... Kids today, don't know they're born :)

 

[Mr. Benedict]

Still think I have the Atari in the loft some where

Surely you weren't born early enough in the 80's to appreciate the charms of the Atari 2600?!?

 

[HUTTON]

Prob not, but it didnt stop my dad owning one and still have it setup in the early 90's, fun times :finger:

 

[Mad Cyril]

Minor point: NOT a console, but a fully fledged computer.... you cant type in hundreds of lines of incomprehensible code into an Atari VCS just to get a crappy game of pong.... Kids today, don't know they're born :)

Actually Commodore did release a no keyboard cartridge only console version of the Commodore 64.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Actually Commodore did release a no keyboard cartridge only console version of the Commodore 64.

Now that's just lazy. Where's the fun in spending an entire weekend typing in numbers in a darkened bedroom while your mum pushes plates of food under the door and your dad yells at you because "you're not playing out in the sunshine?"

 

[Keep The Faith]

Mate, this looks like heaven, but I can't seem to get anything to work... :(

Any help so I can play Jet Set Willy like it's 1984 again :)

Click on the game till its alone, make it big screen. then i think you press 5 to put the coins in, then 1 to play.. it does tell you to the right of the game.. the keys etc etc..