What is your retro gaming range?

[retroman]

I saw this on Racketboy, and thought it would be a good topic if it has not already been done before. For me it starts at the Atari 2600, and everything in between and ends with the Sega Dreamcast. That is my main retro collecting.

[ZP3]

I saw this on Racketboy, and thought it would be a good topic if it has not already been done before. For me it starts at the Atari 2600, and everything in between and ends with the Sega Dreamcast. That is my main retro collecting.

I pretty much go NES-Gamecube...that being said, if I see something good from Sega (genesis, dreamcast, etc.) or Atari for cheap
I will pick it up, but I like to stay on the four older Nintendo home consoles.

[PizzaKat]

Its pretty much NES to whatever is the last consoles that are in the retro range.

[Atarileaf]

Pong systems to about the 16-bit era for me

[rmaerz]

Pong to NES

[treismac]

With slight deviation, I have a range for retro collecting from the 2600 to the SNES, but I play whatever with a heavy emphasis on my retro gaming range.

[Tanooki]

I knew this looked familiar. This is what I wrote over there so I'm pasting this.

My first system was the NES at the end of 1985, and my first computer was Christmas 1990 and it had a big free game bundle CD along with also 'The Manhole.' Because of those things, my taste in console games are the refinements the NES gave us, and PC games from 1988-1990 and after though most of the 1990s when it comes to retro.

It isn't just Nintendo though, later years got me a Master System and a Nomad(Genesis) too plus a Turbo Duo. I find most the time I bounce between liking 8 or 16bit the most. I did have a N64 in its life, the PS1 as it was dying and PS2 hit too, but I find it very hard to go back and enjoy much of those. I find that first generation of 3D home systems to be on the level of pre-NES era stuff, where you had to have it as your first or it's just too crusty for most of the games. Making it worse, those systems don't work right on LCDs anyway.

Beyond that I don't have a retro range, I just keep around a few games I like for the Gamecube and try something new on occasion but like the N64 I've only got around 20~ games for stuff post-SNES. As far as portables go, I settled on only keeping a GBA around as I really do like the 8bit Gameboy but it's hard to stick with it long as they haven't aged as well as the NES did.

I'll also add I still draw fun from stuff many do hate like old late 70s/80s LED and LCD games (Tiger, Wildfire Pinball, Mattel Hockey, etc.)

[sloan]

VCS to PS2 and everything in between.

[BetaWolf47]

NES to Gamecube with me as well. I don't really have any desire to get into anything pre-NES.

[The Adventurer]

NES to Modern

For whatever reason, even though I'm old enough to have had one, I really don't care about Atari 2600 or its contemporaries.

[wizardofwor1975]

Atari 2600 to PS2.

[SpaceHarrier]

NES to PS1

There's nothing I'd really care to add to my excellent Dreamcast lineup.

[buzz_n64]

Atari 5200 - Dreamcast. I have games and systems before the 5200, but they don't interest me too much. The Atari 5200, along with a pong clone system my brother had were the first systems I ever played. I'm close to having a complete set of Atari 5200 games, I have 61 out of 69 Atari 5200 games. Still, I enjoy the NES the most, and it was the first system that was mine, and not one that belonged to my brother.

[Damaramu]

5200 through modern consoles. I don't collect everything, though. No interest in Jaguar, 3DO, CDI, or NeoGeo.

[JSoup]

NES to PS2 would be my current range, if I'm understanding the question correctly.
While I like many of the games pre-NES, I've never had much desire to own any of them.

[ProjectCamaro]

Didn't we have this topic a couple months ago?

Anyways I say any console that has cartridages as its medium is retro.

[Tanooki]

I decided to re-establish my interest in the GBA this weekend. Yesterday for $8 I found Dr Mario/Puzzle League along with Classic NES Donkey Kong all loose, and then today a CIB copy of Metroid Fusion (marked $30 but with credit cost me $5.) It should be fun shifting to that again as it has been a few months. I try and not go all over the place but sometimes you have to or you just burn out due to time and life interruptions.

[homerhomer]

2600 to Wii

Wii games are pretty cheap and I've been collecting the games that interest me. Plus it plays my Gamecube games.

[buzz_n64]

Didn't we have this topic a couple months ago?

Anyways I say any console that has cartridages as its medium is retro.

In theory this sounds good, but you have cartridge based systems all the way until the 2000's with the Gameboy Advance in 2001 and the Xavix console in 2004.

By this definition, would the PC-Engine CD from 1988 not be retro? Or the CD-i system from 1991?

[Tron 2.0]

NES to the 16-bit era.Though i consider PS1,PS2 more of modern from that point on.