Our Retro Consoles. n___n

[Mesz]

So what old consoles do any of us still have that work? I've still got my SNES which works perfectly and I even go a few rounds of Super Mario Kart with my dad now and again XD. I did have my N64 until about 8 months ago when I tried turning it on to play it and nothing happened. After opening it up I found paint in there from where my parents re-decorated my room and forgot to take it out. The paint must've gotten in from the vents. Needless to say my heart was broken as that was my first ever console (apart from my Master System which broke after only about a year for some unknown reason.)

[VictimOfScience]

I have a working Atari 2600, 7800, NES, SNES, Genesis, Turbografx-16, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 (because it is now last-gen). They are all great, but all the wires are a pain in the arse. Thank goodness for emulation and the Virtual Console.!! :thumbs:

[Aki]

Old Sega Gensis (with that Sega CD thing!), N64, PS1 (the small, white PS thing - not the original PS) annnd Dreamcast.

[Warbie]

Pretty much all the old Nintendo consoles/handhelds and various others in the loft. I found my parents old Atari 2600 and my Spectrum 48k (the power!!) the other day, and both still work. My Atari Jaguar and Game Gear have died :(

Above all of them, the snes is the daddy.

[Mesz]

I have a working Atari 2600, 7800, NES, SNES, Genesis, Turbografx-16, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2 (because it is now last-gen). They are all great, but all the wires are a pain in the arse. Thank goodness for emulation and the Virtual Console.!! :thumbs:

Yeah the wires can be a real pain sometimes and my mum constantly bitches at me to tidy them up. But yeah emulators are a lifesaver, I've got loads of them on my other PC. Still waiting for a decent Pokemon Diamond/Pearl ROM though...either that or I'll just go and buy the damn thing...

[theholygod]

Sinclaire ZX Spectrum
Prinztronic Micro 5500

[Mesz]

you know what I find funny? All the old consoles have all these big space-age names ie. "UBERTRONICMAZDAXONONIC 36740XE" And nowadays it's just, "PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox, Xbox 360, etc" Just simple names... :p

[Loke]

I still have a working SNES, since the day I got it, with load of classic games.

[Mesz]

I remember with my Gameboy everybody used to buy me Tetris for Christmas for nearly 3 years until I ended up with around eleventy billion copies of it and then I decided to say something...

[Rapstah]

I still remember my first Gameboy. It had a wierd japanese game cardridge with eight japanese games in only japanese on it.

[Mesz]

I remember this one kid i was camping with once had the japanese pokemon silver and we all hated him cos he was annoying as hell. So one day we buried his pokemon silver and it got so full of soil he couldnt play on it again.

[Sliver]

I have my old gameboys, a n64 and snes. I'm gonna hook them up for my ultimate tv setup soon.

[lePobz]

Still got my 128k Spectrum +2 (although hardly a console, but very retro), and also still got my N64.

[ríomhaire]

I've got my Mega Drive and some brilliant games for it: Soliel, Sonic games and Ristar. Those three are my favourites. Go download now. GOGOGO!

[Jintor]

I only have a Playstation and a version of every Gameboy except the Advance. The original 'Brick' Gameboy, however, doesn't work - I think the batteries inside have actually melted.

[i am HOLLYWOOD]

Genesis
Saturn
Dreamcast
Nomad (oh ya, that's right kids, with the battery pack)
Game Gear
GBA/Color/GB
PS1
N64
Snes

Genesis was the very first gaming console i ever played and it will always be cherished by me because of it. . .

[Mesz]

A Nomad must be really old as I've never even heard of one.
The name, being so original, kinda suggests it was one of the first, or the first ever, portable gaming system(s).

[Adabiviak]

I have an Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 2600 & 7800. I play all the games I still like on emulators though. (Does a JAMMA cabinet count?)

[Unfocused]

I've got a Gameboy (the gray, fat one) and a SNES. Both working perfectly.

Kinda funny actually, seeing as peoples' relatively new X360's stop working.

[kupocake]

Oldest console I still have lying around is the Playstation now, so not very impressive. My Master System II died, my Mega Drive II got car-booted (was unreliable anyway) and my Gameboy suffered a similar fate (the GBA played all its games after all).
(apart from my Master System which broke after only about a year for some unknown reason.)
The most likely reason is that it's a Master System tbh :P Their build quality never seemed too hot, and the people I knew with them went through a few consoles while they were still manufacturing parts. I personally went through many output cables...
A Nomad must be really old as I've never even heard of one.
It never made it to the UK, and was part of SEGA's 'hey let's release 20,000 different consoles and console add-ons!' strategy that sunk them during the mid 90s.

Nomad was a portable Mega Drive btw. Played the actual MD carts. Of course, the major flaw was the battery life.

[ríomhaire]

Oh, I forgot to mention earlier but I have a Game Gear lying around here somewhere. That thing ate batteries.

[joule]

Oh yes it did. It took like SIX AA batteries and powered maybe 8 hours of play.

[Shippi]

I have a SNES (but I think my brother is borrowing it), a Game Gear, a gameboy colour and advance, one of the small PS1s and a Dreamcast

[leib10]

I have a Sega Genesis, N64, a Gameboy with colorless screen, and a PS1.

[joule]

I guess I exaggerated a tad, it's been years. Nevertheless, I bought an AC adapter because of it.

[ríomhaire]

If you didn't want to spend a fortune on batteries you needed a plug for that thing. I remember I had a disney game before, I think you played as Mickey Mouse and you went through all fairy tail type scenarios. I remember meeting Goofey in a toy-themed level and shrinking in the game. I think there was a beanstalk too. It was a fairly long game and there was no saving so I only finished it once. God I loved that game. Anyone remember it? And the name?

[joule]

Oh yes! I had that game for the Sega Genesis.

/me does some research

*Mickey's Ultimate Challenge (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey%27s_Ultimate_Challenge)

Upon further research, I didn't have that for the Genesis. It was Mickey Mania.

[ríomhaire]

Hmmm, some of that seems familiar but I don't remember the challenges mentioned. There was also fighting in the game I remembered.

*searches wikipedia*

It was actually Land of Illusion starring Mickey Mouse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Illusion_starring_Mickey_Mouse). ****ing epic game.

[Solaris]

Yes i played that.

[i am HOLLYWOOD]

for the record. Nomad played Genesis cartridges, not megadrive cartridges,

and ha Mickey Mania is insanely cool ftr.

[Bob_Marley]

Sega Mastersystem II

[Tuskin]

Lets see, what do i have.

2 NES (One Doesn't Work)
2 SNES (One Doesn't work)
1 Game Boy
2 Game Boy Colors (One Doesn't work)
2 N64s (Cartage slot broken in one)
1 GBA
2 GBA SPs (I have 2 because the later models actually had a backlit screen and not lit from the bottom)


And the Motherboard from a PS1 (Found a Broken one in the trash and took its insides)

[kupocake]

for the record. Nomad played Genesis cartridges, not megadrive cartridges
Same thing, pedant.

[ríomhaire]

Same thing, pedant.
I think the base of the Genesis cartridges were more square than their Mega Drive counterparts (To fit in with the ugly console itself) so that the cartridges for one console would not fit in the port of the other.

[kupocake]

Doesn't matter. There was a Japanese version and the Japanese used the 'Mega Drive' name.