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Post by combatking0 on Jul 26, 2006 6:57:48 GMT -5
You have probably held this contest before - but which would you consider to be the greatest Nintendo Machine?
The NES was great - it introduced us to Mario, Legend of Zelda, and hundreds of other characters, many of which are still with us.
Then there's the Gameboy (& pocket) - it made Sony wake up (though it took them over 5 years to get into gear) and made games truely portable. It beat off all of its imitators.
Then came the SNES - everything the NES was and more. With the Super Gameboy, well, I need to say no more.
The Gameboy Colo(u)r came next. It took portable games to the next level and did what the Game Gear couldn't - run colour portable games on less power than the original GB.
The N64 was a bit of a flop - but games like Mario 64, Mario Kart 64 and Goldeneye, in my opionion, have yet to be beaten.
The Virtual Boy - lets not even go there.
The Game Cube is a marvel. It lacks the immense number of great games the SNES had, but there are still so many classics you can't find any where else, it is a must have.
The Gameboy Advance is a wonderful handheld, with an OK version of Mario Kart, several SNES re-makes and the first official appearence of Sonic the Hedgehog on a Nintendo machine. Lacks the under-used IR port from the Colo(u)r though.
The DS is probably more powerful than the mighty N64 - and its touch screen has yet to be equalled by any other games machines (not including PCs). Also, how many other games machines can use two screens at once? The only downside is the lack of support for older GB/GBC games, and it won't link GBA games together.
The Wii will feature backwards compatability with all GC games and controllers, all new styles of controller and game play, and the Virtual Console - the chance to play NES and SNES games, all on one machine. And wireless connectivity with the DS. Can things get any better?
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Post by Dances in Undergarments on Jul 26, 2006 8:01:36 GMT -5
SNES immediately jumps to mind, with its wonderful selection of, well, lots of stuff.
But then I started to think - lots of my favourite SNES games (Mario games, DK games, etc) can be found on GBA, which of course can be played in a DS, plus theres a ton of great original GBA games, as well as DS games out, or on the way, too.
So I think I'll go DS at the moment. Just.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Jul 26, 2006 8:34:03 GMT -5
The Game Boy, by far. A Game & Watch mixed with a NES? What a work of art.
Reputedly, a Sony manager (years ago) went ballistic when he found out about the Game Boy - he was furious that his team had not come up with it first. I understand that he sacked some people (or they walked out).
And now look - they finally join the market and Nintendo STILL trumps them! The Game Boy has provided Nintendo with the one thing their home market has not - market leadership.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 26, 2006 10:09:12 GMT -5
It's probably the SFC to me.
I like it because of the followings: >> good audio ability - Nintendo's consoles may not have good graphics, but their audio quality is super-good! And a few SFC games provides great music, like, Sutte Hakkun, FE Seisen no Keifu, Kirby Super Star and Super Mario World. >> not complicated - nothing required other than the adaptor, AV cable, cartridge and the controller. You aren't asked to insert XXX pak like the (FC/64/GC/GBA/DS) - any extra hardware will either replace the controller, or just be embedded inside the cartridge. >> Super-duper-extreme-great.... graphic quality. Consider that this is a 16-bit console and still beats the GBA graphic-wise. Although in my opinion, even the Famicom/NES is better than the GBA (consider its not-as-good-as-even-FC audio quality (the sound's too blunt) and no higher resolution (which even the DS lacks, although the DS is close at it)). >> LIGHT GUN!!!!!! Why SFC but not FC? Because of the games are more varied than the FC. >> Super long life span. There're still new games until 2000, and try hitting the SFC on the floor and you'll find that it is still alive.
That's probably it... I also like other systems like GC and DS and maybe VB... but SFC is now my favourite.
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Jul 26, 2006 11:27:25 GMT -5
For me, It's the N64.
I like it because it has the ability that four players could play at the same time.
It has good 3D graphics.
Loads of good games on it, Super Smash Bros, Ocarina of Time, etc.
I like the SFC/SNES, but for now, I will say the the N64 is my favourite
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 26, 2006 12:59:27 GMT -5
Huh? 4 Players, good games, 3D graphics.... don't they all present on Wii and GC?
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Post by Doubutsu80 on Jul 26, 2006 16:02:10 GMT -5
Yes Young Link, Gamecube does have good games, but there were more good games on the N64 then there were on the Gamecube.
Don't get me wrong here, but Gamecube did have some good games. But there were very few that I actually enjoyed playing.
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Post by wanderingshadow on Jul 27, 2006 9:36:18 GMT -5
At the moment, I'd say the GBA. It has a huge library of great games especially if you include the Gameboy and GBC games. Plus, it's been the techinologically superior NeoGeo Pocket Color.
However, I think the Wii might take the spot of Nintendo's greatest machines. I'll have to get my hands on one and play it first, but between the Wiimote, the third-party support, and the ability to play all of Nintendo's console games along with SEGA's Genesis games and Hudson's Turbo-grafix games, the Wii could quite possibly be the greatest gaming machine in history.
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Post by nocturnal YL on Jul 27, 2006 11:04:25 GMT -5
At the moment, I'd say the GBA. It has a huge library of great games especially if you include the Gameboy and GBC games. Plus, it's been the techinologically superior NeoGeo Pocket Color. However, I think the Wii might take the spot of Nintendo's greatest machines. I'll have to get my hands on one and play it first, but between the Wiimote, the third-party support, and the ability to play all of Nintendo's console games along with SEGA's Genesis games and Hudson's Turbo-grafix games, the Wii could quite possibly be the greatest gaming machine in history. Yea. But you know... I somehow wanted Sega Saturn support.... And I also wanted it to support GB, Color TV and some other consoles... Anyway, I think that GBA is technically superior than NeoGeo Pocket Color, but there's something I don't like much about the GBA: In NGP Color, if you don't put in anything and turn it on, you'll be put to the BIOS and do variout settings. GBA doesn't provide such thing, resulting many people still don't know how to change GameBoy games' color scheme, how to do the download play and so on. And Wii might be superior to all the rest, given the vast range of consoles supported. .... provided that places Nintendo don't have anything to deal with can also download stuff, and the amount of games provided for each console. HOPEFULLY Wii will make itself (ourselves?) a glorious history.
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Post by wheeloffate on Oct 4, 2006 22:48:34 GMT -5
NES and SNES had 4 player capabilities as well,
I think the greatest machine was the original Famicom, wow, what couldn't the original famicom do, it was ahead of it's time. Online banking, gaming downloads, Bar-code battlers, all manners of wild and weird hardware, the foundation of most of the major franchises began on the Famicom or its Disk system.
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Post by Sqrt2 on Oct 5, 2006 4:19:21 GMT -5
N64 for me. Infact I still play it today, maybe even more than my 'cube at the moment.
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Post by parrothead on Oct 8, 2006 19:41:13 GMT -5
Don't forget the Nintendo arcades, the Pokemotion (even though it's not a game console, it counts as Nintendo hardware), the Pokemon Pikachu 1 and 2 pets, the Hello Kitty pet, the Pokemon Mini, the Game Boy Light (not those worm lights nor magnifying lights, the very first back-lit Game Boy), and the N64 Disk Drive.
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Post by Fryguy64 on Oct 9, 2006 3:26:35 GMT -5
I did love my Pocket Pikachus back in the day. Click click feed. Click click play. Click click... you have reached a Million steps! GAME OVER!
*sob* So many memories.
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