Steam is a "giant updates" offender. Just let me kepp my old version that works like i like it, damnit. Main reason i go GoG and sail the seas.

I'm sorry but when I hear Nintendo gamers talk about all their games it's like "I play a lot of different games like: ‑ Mario ‑ Mario ‑ Mario with a green hat ‑ Mario with boxing gloves ‑ Mario in a car" 😁

The Metroid Prime games were incredible. Also shout-out to Chibi Robo, I loved that game.

• Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem

God I miss Wind Waker. Still waiting for that HD remaster.

Sunshine fucked so hard, I'm looking directly into your soul with that at the top of the list and let me tell you, I fucking see you dude.

And I love it.

Bullshit, there are more high-quality games out now than ever before.

Not only are all the games from back then easy to get and emulate, you also have high quality pay-once-enjoy-forever PC games: indie up to big corporations.

Who cares that mostly indies and mid-sized studios produce non-exploitative shit? There are so many masterpieces constantly coming out.

The golden age is now.

you are charged for every minute of play time

I mean yeah, except that if you were good you could play a really long fucking time on one quarter so your per-minute rate was very low.

Fortune in misfortune though, at least in this day and age it's much easier to play those games without paying for them. Although the DRM on some of the newer games have been a a bitch and a half.

Still, yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum!!

edit, added pic putting my money where my mouth is

*gabecube

I had a GameCube back in the day no one ever moved it around with the handle. Sure you could move the console but you still had all of the wires and of course the controller to move as well so the handle, and of course you would need TV at the destination so wasn't really helpful.

I never understood who they handle was aimed at.

In theory you could take it over to your friends house but realistically all you did was just set it up where you wanted it and then never move it.

I mean they've shown it, so we know it doesn't.

But the community will make it happen.

Had linux too

I have one of the super chunky OG PS3s thats compatable with PS1/2 games as well as DVD and bluray. I don't play it anymore but I'm never getting rid of it.

Gaben is offering us the chance to start up a handle 3d printing business!

Dreamcast because you could just burn a game to CD and run it on an unmodded console

My friend spent summers in Greece with his family. He said there was a shop there where you would give them like a few dollars and you would take the game home, burn it, and bring it back. Of course this is what doomed the Dreamcast. Noone wants to make a game for a system where you can just throw a disc into a consumer burner and copy.

I will always die on the hill claiming Dreamcast as the best console. It was so far ahead of it's time and it had so many great games. I would kill for Sega to release a new console, but I imagine many of the people who helped create the Dreamcast went on to work for Nintendo. I've always considered the Wii and Wii U to be the true successors to the Dreamcast and I've wondered if they were created with the help of people who made the Dreamcast.

The silly part is the GameCube is actually the most powerful console of that generation. The limited storage medium is actually what kneecapped it.

They even compromised the storage medium

They didn't need to compromise. They could have used standard DVD, but they instead designed a whole new format that would be harder to copy. The inner disc tray is recessed to only fit mini-DVD sized discs when it could easily have been made wider and taken full-sized discs.

Man I would love to read about a bunch of luigis mansion romhacking drama