PixlBit

Back in the late 70s and early 80s my neighborhood friends had an Atari 2600, Intellivsion, Colecovision and various Mattel handheld LED systems. That was all I knew about back then. I learned of the Astrocade in the 90s when my friend and I used to go flea market hunting for systems. We never picked one up though. Seems like it had the potential to do well because it was a big thing back then to have a console play games like in the arcade. 

Funny, I was named Ungh in one of my past lives. I wasn't into fire though. Fire bad!

It's an interesting idea to me to "play cars" in a video game. It gets me thinking how, as adults, every game has to have progression, a story, collectibles, loot, and various other ways the developer directs your experience. Why not just a virtual rug with a city on it and you can do whatever?

I, ultimately, have little interest in VR because the whole reason why I game is so I can trash talk with my friend sitting next to me. 

Yeah, if I include stuff like the Vectrex and such things get really messy. 

I was interested in the other Atari systems back in my collecting days but I never found them locally or had enough games I wanted to really pursue them.

It all gets pretty messy trying to define definite time periods for all this stuff. It seemed like 5 years was a generation until gen 7 and then they get longer like 7 years. 

These generation borders are pretty fuzzy especially recently. 

I liked gen 6 quite a lot. I was heavily collecting, magazines were still a thing, I was going to flea markets for deals - pretty fun times. 

Oh darn, totally forgot about handhelds. I'll add them into the appropriate generations. I added three before gen 1: Board Games, Minatures and Pinball. 

I can't decide between gen 5 and 6. It's probably when I had the most fun with gaming. 

Cities Skylines does have a bit of a learning curve. I couldn't get into the console version. Too much on my brain at moment I guess. 

The Psychonauts one sounds interesting. 

I used to be way into Ikari Warriors and those other war games but now I can't put up with their difficulty. Some of the vertically scrolling shooters were interesting but I have the same feeling with those as with the soldier shooters. Crystalis had my attention but no one was at the windmill like the villagers said there was.