Who here experienced the amazing 4th gen console wars ?

[Pyro as Bill]

SvennoJ said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Amigas were for geeks who didn't know how to use a joypad.

I convinced my nextdoor neighbour to get a MegaDrive because I already owned a SNES. He still hasn't forgiven me.

Apart from blood in Mortal Kombat there wasn't any console wars, the battle was between geeks and the cool kids.

Amigas and PCs were the preferred choice for the ease of pirating games. Copy parties were rampant, only losers bought games. A stack of 3.25" floppy disks was all you needed. It's still a mystery to me where all those games came from. I didn't start buying games until after high school.

My first system was a C64 but I didn't have a computer science degree so I had to get my older brother to type in the code everytime I wanted to play a game then pray for the next 10 minutes that it would load. Then I had to work out how to get the joystick working instead of using default keys. Every game had a different setup. The NES/Master System were a godsend for us console kiddies. Yeah, the games cost 10-20 times the retail price of C64 games but they loaded every single time (apart from the occasional blow) and you could play half an hr of Mario or Tetris before school while the C64 was still deciding whether it was gonna load up. And most importantly you got the old TV. My early NES years were mostly in black and white but the games still loaded.

Once Street Fighter 2 arrived on the next-gen consoles, every older brother had to concede that consoles were superior to their geekboxes. So while you were having your copy parties and talking about kilobytes we were having real parties where everybody played SF2 because consoles were portable enough to go anywhere we damn well wanted them to go. The older boys used to invite me to parties because us 'console kiddies' were the only ones who could do the Capcom code fast enough to register.