I will list a few. I would love to hear your facts/knowledge/views on gaming history.(I have 7 years worth of learned knowledge in terms of gaming history. If you have any questions for me feel free to ask, though i may not be 100% correct on everything).
3. The virtual boy sold only 770,000 units worldwide, being cheaply made and rushed out, with no good games added. Just to have something before the release of the N64. They wanted something cheap that wouldn’t get them sued (they got none of that).
4. The mario franchise has 200+ titles in the series. (depends on whether you would consider some spinoffs and dlc games into the mix or not).
5. The worst selling console from a mainstream video game company was the Atari jaguar in the 5th generation selling roughly selling 150,000 units. ending the company entirely. Atari went completely defunct on June 26th 1992.
Jeez, what is this thread? “I’m gonna tell you you’re old without telling you you’re old?”
I remember the Jaguar being announced. And hyped. It was the most powerful system that had come out…never saw one in real life. The marketing for it was terrible and the availibility even worse. Not surprised it failed.
Never got to try a Virtual Boy either. Really wanted to at the time they just never arrived at local stores.
I love retro games. I’ve just never felt the desire to talk about them on a yoyo forum before. I grew up with the Saturn and N64, so that’s always been my favorite generation of games. The Saturn especially is my favorite console.
Also as somebody who used to own a Virtual Boy, don’t listen to youtubers overblow the console as being bad. It was a massive failure, but there’s a handful of fun stuff on it. VB Wario Land, Telerobox, Bound High, and Red Alarm are my favorites on the system.
It was my best friend’s childhood SFC actually, he grew up in Japan and gifted it to me when we graduated highschool and parted ways. That’s actually the only console I’m specifically sentimental towards.
I remember wanting a Jaguar really bad, until I got a SNES and forgot all about it.
I got to try a Virtual Boy at a store when they were out and all I remember is it being really hard on the eyes. Everything was red, so it was kinda like staring into a laser pointer.
I remember being surprised that people didn’t like the original ME trilogy ending, and then being shocked that anybody actually liked the castrated Disney ending better. The original ending is still canon to me because it actually elicited emotion when I played it.
Apparently Devil May Cry was originally being developed as a resident evil game. However it felt too different and was split off as its own game. I always thought this was interesting.
