I would say Atari but that’s just low-hanging fruit because it’s a generation I never really got to play as it was before my time. But I am starting to fall out of nostalgia for the NES which is held dearly in a lot of hearts of retro gamers and gamers that have enjoyed what that system had to offer for a few decades.

I know it had offered a lot of classics and gave so many games their start, most of which are still with us today like Final Fantasy for example.

The best guess I can give about why I don’t care as much about that generation is because it is very oversaturated when you start entering the world of retro gaming. For retro gaming I prefer SNES and Genesis, because I technically did start playing those when I was born and they were first released. So I have more favorability towards those than the NES and generations before and during it.

  • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    I would say Atari but that’s just low-hanging fruit because it’s a generation I never really got to play as it was before my time.

    Is there a word for imagined nostalgia? You could play them today, but I think you’d discover that not many Atari 2600 games were actually good.

    • flashgnash@lemm.ee
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      12 hours ago

      Imagined nostalgia is for sure a thing, I felt some kind of nostalgia playing Pokémon blue even though it was made before I was even born, same for the wild west internet days I never really got to experience