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1st gen (Pong) 20 3.55%
 
2nd gen (Atari 2600) 5 0.89%
 
3rd gen (NES) 113 20.04%
 
4th gen (SNES) 190 33.69%
 
5th gen (PS1/N64) 24 4.26%
 
6th gen (PS2/Xbox/GC) 128 22.70%
 
Last gen 65 11.52%
 
Current gen 19 3.37%
 
Total:564
Pemalite said:
Starting with the 4th gen/SNES era there were games that aged stupidly well... And others. Not so much.
Case in point: Donkey Kong and Killer Instinct have aged well. StarFox? Not so much.

On the Nintendo 64, Smash Brothers still looks decent. Golden Eye? Nope.

On the PS1, Final Fantasy 8 still looks great, mostly thanks to the pre-rendered backdrops.

So for me, it's not really the generation so much as the art and technical techniques used to render the games... Besides being a PC gamer you tend not to look at things in generations anyway.

but picking games that were innovative for their time would be silly. Of course the first of its kind often looks poor. Star Fox for the SNES was extremely ambitious at the time and even had a unique chip component added (SFX?) to make it possible

Goldeneye was essentially the first home console game of its style and arguably built the FPS genre. I would also argue that Goldeneye is extremely replayable and views fine.

Now if you play 007 Goldeneye on a giant television toay that stretches the resolution, yes, it will look terrible. but the same applies to practically any games from that era. It looks pretty good on a CRT TV to me today

FF Viii has good cutscenes. main game appearance? ehhh. I would argue the PS1 Final Fantasy games have aged poorly. Most PS1 titles have



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Alex_The_Hedgehog said:
Goodnightmoon said:

The 3rd gen already have some very nice looking games.

I prefer the 4th gen myself, but... Dude, Little Samson, Kirby's Adventure, Batman, Super Mario Bros. 3 and the late Mega Man games are masterpieces on NES.

I agree totally with you.I would even go as far to say that all NES Megaman and Castlevania games still hold most of their value to today(graphic and gameplay wise9



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Third gen for sure, and maybe a little earlier. River Raid in 1982 looks really good.



NES. While not as detailed as the SNES, they are still plenty okay to enjoy. Mario, Megaman, Zelda, Kirby, Castlevania, and so on, these games can be enjoyed even today. Games during the N64/PS era..... maybe not so much.



 

              

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Older than Snes is a no go for me.



NES and beyond



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SNES - Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger still look good to me.



4th gen is fine for 2D games

I'd say for 3D games every console since N64 is acceptable, but most PS1 3D games look awful.



Snes, ofc.