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Older consoles or handhelds that you regret sleeping on when they were modern

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telekill:
None, really. I was heavy into gaming during the 90's and 00's. I have a couple regrets regarding systems though.

1. I regret getting rid of my PS3 because there are a ton of games that I'd love to replay that haven't been ported to the modern Playstation platform. Motorstorm, Infamous, Killzone 2, Army of Two, Riddick... I could go on. I may look into buying another PS3 late this year or next.

2. I regret jumping on board with the PSV at launch. The one game it had that was exclusive to it and the only reason I keep it is Uncharted: Golden Abyss. Had they added that to the PS4's Uncharted Collection, I'd have sold my PSV. The system never got the support it deserved from western AAA devs during a time when those devs were still good. The one good thing that came from PSV, IMO, is the lesson to not jump onto Sony's side-projects until they're proven. That saved me half the cost of PSVR (my wife gifted it to me when it was on sale a couple years after release) and the full cost of PSVR2 (never bought it).

ssj4yamgeta:
I do wish I had grown up with SEGA consoles (specifically Genesis, Saturn, and Game Gear) instead of the SNES and N64. I would've found more IPs I was interested in that way instead of only playing Pokemon and Mario until 2002. I also wish I'd asked for a Dreamcast on release so I could've been part of that experience instead of waiting until production was cancelled. But most of all, I wish I could've had a Neo Geo AES when I was a kid. There's no way my parents would've bought a $1200 console for a 5-year-old, but damn, those visuals from a home console would've been mindblowing in the early '90s. It released in 1990 and was so much more powerful than its competitors that it was still getting new games until 2005. Fifteen years... that thing hung in there.

bikingjahuty:
This isn't necessarily anything new, but it's still funny seeing people mention Sega so much when it comes to consoles they wish they'd been able to play more back in the 90s. For whatever reason, Sega was far more a part of my upbringing than Nintendo. Most of my friends had Sega consoles, I had a bunch of Sega consoles, and in general we all discussed Sega games mostly. I did have friends with NES and SNES, and I ended up getting an N64 in 1996, but I'd say that was still a minority of my gaming experience back then. With how dominant Sega was in my personal life back in the 90s you'd like I grew up in Europe of South America lol.

telekill:

--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on March 24, 2026, 03:57:57 pm ---Sega was far more a part of my upbringing than Nintendo.

--- End quote ---

Same. I started off with an NES, but quickly moved to Game Gear and then Genesis until the PS1 released. I skipped Saturn and by the time Dreamcast released, I was old enough to buy my own systems and did just that, owning every system from that gen, though the Xbox (OG) was only for about a month.

kamikazekeeg:
I was pretty split on Nintendo and Sega as a kid, I had an NES, then got a Genesis at some point, pretty sure it wasn't new, much like the NES, and then it was Nintendo 64, and so on. Didn't have an SNES, but my buddy had one I played off and on, that was a system I rented from my video store once in awhile when I could.  Loved coming home with a console in a big black protector case lol

After that I played a Sega Saturn at my other buddies house, I funnily enough, thought it was a Sega CD all these years, but just checked that it was a Saturn, because I specifically remember playing Battle Arena Toshinden on it, which isn't on Sega CD lol

Did remember playing a Dreamcast for a short bit of time at someone else's house, pretty sure it was Street Fighter Alpha 3.  It's interesting to think of a lot of systems I played, but never owned, like I love PS1, but never owned one back then, I would play games down at my local card store like Tomb Raider, Crash Bandicoot, Twisted Metal 2, Tekken 3 at that store.  Buddy had a PS1 and I played FF7 with him on it.

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