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I honestly do sometimes feel a kind of nostalgia for the diversity and exploration offered by classical console systems. It felt like any unique, but great, har
by justinjlynn 6y ago
I honestly do sometimes feel a kind of nostalgia for the diversity and exploration offered by classical console systems. It felt like any unique, but great, hardware architectural idea could take the world by storm. Now it feels like everything has become fairly uniform - an application specific personal computer with essentially the same design. But then again, nostalgia is never what it used to be... So... Eh. You know.
- JohnBooty 6y agoI know what you mean. Things are objectively better now, but they used to be weird and a lot of us love that about the Saturn. (I just started exploring this wonderful mess of a console this year) What's tragically hilarious about the Saturn is that despite the deep weirdness and absolute gobs of silicon, it's still not particularly good at anything. ...relative to its contemporary peers, I mean. The Saturn was an absolute beast at traditional 2D games, but even then, due to the paltry onboard RAM it required the 4MB RAM expansion cart to really shine and do things that the Playstation couldn't. A good counterexample might be the original Amiga, which was "weird" and employed gobs of custom silicon and was indeed actually a generation or so ahead of its peers when it came to graphics and sound.