View Full Version : Best classic game out of these?
shadowforte
10-12-2007, 05:23 PM
What do you think is the best?
snes_collector
10-12-2007, 05:31 PM
Is Halo even old enough to be counted as a "classic"?
cyberfluxor
10-12-2007, 05:33 PM
Where's Final Fantasy?! You can't have a poll without that!
shadowforte
10-12-2007, 05:36 PM
Well I am doing a few of these to get more votes for a contest for best game of all time and I though I would get the views of the digitpress.com people. So there will be FF later on. And if PS2 is talked about in the classisc board, then why not xbox?
Richter Belmount
10-12-2007, 05:52 PM
WTF? Wheres terranigma? Castlevania sotn of night? Ys book 1 and 2? Shaq fu?
cyberfluxor
10-12-2007, 05:53 PM
Halo won't be classic for at least a few more years IMO. There are still some that cling onto the Dreamcast as not being classic. I think being 10 years since launch or release classifies nearly anything as classic in the gaming world.
BydoEmpire
10-12-2007, 06:01 PM
Weird poll, but of the choices, SMB. I enjoyed that the most out of the choices (never played Earthbound), and it's very replayable.
Poofta!
10-12-2007, 06:36 PM
Halo won't be classic for at least a few more years IMO. There are still some that cling onto the Dreamcast as not being classic. I think being 10 years since launch or release classifies nearly anything as classic in the gaming world.
it all depends how you define classic. some say its after a system loses its manufacturer's support and/or stops being produced. other say its after 2 generations. some like you give it an age. i guess its a combination of things. and yes, i agree that xbox/ps2 just dont feel that classic, im more leaning towards the 2 generation thing or something like 3-5 years after end of production
people who cling onto dreamcast need to stop. just cause its deader than elvis and 'classic' doesnt make it a bad system. then again it was pretty dead like 2 years after release so i can see how the sentiment can drag on...
anyway, OT: out of these choices i say LttP, but i have to add that this is a horrible poll/selection.
Sweater Fish Deluxe
10-12-2007, 07:03 PM
Being a classic should have nothing to do with how old the thing in question is. Admittedly, classic does denote something old in the common usage of the word, but that's not really what it means. For something to be classic it only has to be a good example of the class it represents and a standard by which other tings in that class are judged. I've never played Halo, but people do seem to treat Halo like that, so it is a classic by definition.
Anyway. Super Mario Bros, for sure.
...word is bondage...
dlopez9069
10-12-2007, 07:10 PM
I think it should be a classic if gamestop no longer sells it. anyway SMB for sure!!!
Sothy
10-12-2007, 07:16 PM
bioforce ape
So did you like just print out a list of all games made in the last 25 years and then tape it up on a wall and throw darts?
cyberfluxor
10-12-2007, 07:32 PM
it all depends how you define classic. some say its after a system loses its manufacturer's support and/or stops being produced. other say its after 2 generations. some like you give it an age. i guess its a combination of things. and yes, i agree that xbox/ps2 just dont feel that classic, im more leaning towards the 2 generation thing or something like 3-5 years after end of production
people who cling onto dreamcast need to stop. just cause its deader than elvis and 'classic' doesnt make it a bad system. then again it was pretty dead like 2 years after release so i can see how the sentiment can drag on...
anyway, OT: out of these choices i say LttP, but i have to add that this is a horrible poll/selection.
The truth is once I buy an Xbox I'll own all three front runners from the previous generation. One of two things should happen:
1) They go classic.
2) The world ends.
:D
But yeah, I say the 10 years deal because once that 10 years has gone by the kids of that gaming generation are then in their 20's and saying "back in the day" and whatnot. Recall that older thread about 19 year olds calling N64 classic now. It is all relative though indeed.
kingpong
10-12-2007, 07:58 PM
IMO, none of these games are old enough to be "classic". Classic = pre-crash.
InsaneDavid
10-12-2007, 08:02 PM
IMO, none of these games are old enough to be "classic". Classic = pre-crash.
No no, that's "vintage."
shadowforte
10-12-2007, 08:07 PM
Keep in mind I am posting 4 news games tomorrow so cast you votes. And you check the offical score here: http://forums.exophase.com/showthread.php?t=3998
cyberfluxor
10-12-2007, 08:46 PM
No no, that's "vintage."
Or retro. :)
I generally use vintage on pre-home electronics stuff, mostly the purely mechanical goodies. Don't know though, it's a fun debate on what's what though (at least to some).
Going back to this though...
IMO, none of these games are old enough to be "classic". Classic = pre-crash.
So how do you differentiate VCS games produced prior to and after the 1984 crash? What about the 5200 and other consoles from the late 70's, early 80's?
Tommy
10-12-2007, 09:20 PM
Well I picked SMB because that started my hobby and probably alot of others also.
dlopez9069
10-13-2007, 12:16 AM
No no, that's "vintage."
I think pre crash should be considered antique cause cars set the age standards really 50+=antique and 25-49= classic and videogames are movin at twice the speed so yeah that sounds about right.
7th lutz
10-13-2007, 12:35 AM
Super Mario Bros.is my vote. It is the game that revived the home video game console industry.
j_factor
10-13-2007, 02:37 AM
If Dreamcast is considered classic, the original Halo can be too. After all, lots of Dreamcast games came out the same year as Halo.
8bitgamer
10-13-2007, 09:18 AM
Super Mario. Bros. Pick-up-and-play, no fuss no muss.
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kingpong
10-13-2007, 02:24 PM
Going back to this though...
So how do you differentiate VCS games produced prior to and after the 1984 crash? What about the 5200 and other consoles from the late 70's, early 80's?
The line there is admittedly a little wobbly. I go more by the system than the games - post crash games on pre crash systems get lumped into the same category as the pre crash games. I also differentiate between commercial releases and homebrews, so I don't count modern 2600 homebrews as classic games despite being on a classic system.
I also stick the 7800 in the classic category, as even though it was released post crash (discounting the few that slipped out during the crash), it was clearly a product of the pre crash industry. After reading the preview in Electronic Games in '84 I spent the next 2 years searching for the 7800 in stores and wondering why there was this silly Nintendo stuff there instead. Though it wound up being a contemporary of the NES and SMS, the 7800 clearly was not their peer.
Speaking of Nintendo, despite the Famicom technically being released pre crash, I don't consider it classic. It was the US industry that crashed, and what was happening in the console market in Japan didn't impact the US, or really, the rest of the world yet (obviously this would eventually change).
theshizzle3000
10-13-2007, 02:58 PM
Were is the love for Earthbound why am I only one of like four people who voted?
I would say easily SMB, halo is hardly a classic yet, maybe in about 5 years we can call it that, but to me most classics are 2d.
Barbarianoutkast85
10-13-2007, 05:14 PM
For a modern-day gamer that plays nothing but new games, Halo could possibly be considered "classic". Now as a collector of older games, I dont consider Halo classic. But even if you do consider Halo classic, then for the poll you should have games that are roughly same age. The poll just seems to jump around from NES, SNES then Xbox.
Anywho im not trying to flame anyone. However, I voted for Link to the Past.
ecresto
10-13-2007, 10:10 PM
it has to be smb , because alot of people started playing video games because of that one single game
suppafly
10-14-2007, 01:22 PM
I voted for ZELDA:LTTP. Its the only zelda game I really liked...