Golden Age Of Videogames

[Gameglitch]

Yes I know that a lot of people will say that the 128bit age is the golden age of gaming, but that would be the easy way out... Me I was at my gaming peak from the 8 to 64bit.. Though I own a Game cube and the games are great graphics and all... It just does not seem quite the same as the good old days when gaming was simple and fresh and I dont even play my Cube that often. Though I find myself on the PC more then consoles anyway. Well I will leave this up for people to speculate and decide which age was the golden age of gaming! Darn.... Good graphics and fancy panty online games have spoiled us rotten! lol

ps: some ways I regret selling the old SNES... Oh well at least I have my trusty Gameboy Advance. ^_^

[Inu-Yasha-fan]

8 bit bitch! final fatasy 1
metriod
mario bros
legend o' zelda
clown kid

[slet]

How about the pc age?

[ragingflea002]

It's Sega.

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[_matt_]

There's no such thing as 64 bit or 128 bit.

Noob.

[Lexar]

he kinda ignored the pre-8bit period didn't he?

But I think the time of the NES and gameboy and also the 16 bit era, is the golden age of video games. Most of the established names, themes, characters, games and brands that stood the test of time were created in that period. The game industry is pretty much stagnating right now, with a serious lack of revolutionary ideas. Online gaming wasn't the revolution people hoped for, and simply better graphics or controls isn't as new and innovative as the game designers make you believe. In that aspect I think nintendo deserves most of our praise, because I think they are most actively trying to find new ways to play games (didn't always work, but at least they tried, virtual boy anyone? ) and although I doubt it, I do hope their new console will be as revolutionary as they make it sound.

[Gameglitch]

[quote="_matt_ (_lee_)"] There's no such thing as 64 bit or 128 bit.

Noob. [/quote]


For no such thing as 64bit and 128bit; Im not sure what you are implying...? :huh:
As the Nintendo 64 had that number pasted right on the system.....


Yes I did not include the consoles before the 8bit age as I know Atari had the famous 2600, and then the not so famous but still good 5200, and 7800. There are other ones like Channel F, Odyssey, Odyssey 200 etc.. etc.. but it wasn't until the the NES and Sega Master system that refined the way games were played. But Also I didn't grow up during the 70's and I guess that makes me a bit bias.

Thank you flea for pointing out the spelling for Sega oops

[_matt_]

Actually I'm wrong, there is such thing as a 64 bit. 128 however, I'm skeptical. You see, bit-rate refers to the cpu (processor), right? Well, the ps2, gamecube and x-box all have different cpu's which are calculated by MHz (mega hertz). I don't know what (if there is) the coversion of bits and MHz, but still I'm skeptical in if there is such thing as 128 bits.

(By the way, the Nintendo Advance is 32 bit too.)

[Lexar]

This poll would work better if the options were years instead of machines. For example:
-pre 1982
-1982 to 1992
-1992 to 1996
-1996 to 2000
-2000 plus

the N64 was a 64 bits processor machine, but even so, it was actually quite slow, comparable to a 32 bits 166 mhz pentium processor.

[Gameglitch]

[quote="_matt_ (_lee_)"] Actually I'm wrong, there is such thing as a 64 bit. 128 however, I'm skeptical. You see, bit-rate refers to the cpu (processor), right? Well, the ps2, gamecube and x-box all have different cpu's which are calculated by MHz (mega hertz). I don't know what (if there is) the coversion of bits and MHz, but still I'm skeptical in if there is such thing as 128 bits.

(By the way, the Nintendo Advance is 32 bit too.) [/quote]
You maybe right about the GC, PS2, and Xbox, but the Dream Cast has a 128bit cpu http://www.consoleinfo.co.uk/dreamcast.html. Oh well thank-you for showing me something that I took for granted as I thought the trend of consoles was to double the bits form 8-16-32-64-128bit... Maybe 256bit is next? And yes I already new that the Gameboy Advance is 32bit.. it just it has a lot of SNES ports coming out for it.


Oh and Lexar I see your point; yes I guess that would have been best. Oh well... what has been done is done.

[slet]

[quote="_matt_ (_lee_)"] Actually I'm wrong, there is such thing as a 64 bit. 128 however, I'm skeptical. You see, bit-rate refers to the cpu (processor), right? Well, the ps2, gamecube and x-box all have different cpu's which are calculated by MHz (mega hertz). I don't know what (if there is) the coversion of bits and MHz, but still I'm skeptical in if there is such thing as 128 bits.

(By the way, the Nintendo Advance is 32 bit too.) [/quote]
Let me explain:
Bits and Mhz have nothing to do with each other. For both goes: Bigger is better, but that's it.
Mhz is the number of calculations the processor can make in 1 second.
Bits is the bandwith the processor uses to get his input in and his output out.

[JediRevan20]

I never really experienced the 8\16 bit eras(I've played some, but not a lot), I'd think 32\64 Bit, because of the expansion of games into new areas.