I did the same thing over the July 4th weekend. I watched someone play Mario Kart 8 on youtube and decided that that title plus Smash Bros was enough to get me to get into it. Mario World 3D has really impressed me so far and it has the added benefit of actually being able to play Wii games and all the retro games from the Wii store. Well worth the investment, I'd say. As for tournaments, I've had the most fun competing with Smash Bros and Mario Kart titles. They've really done a good job.
When I seen an "all time" list, I base my judgement on how the console impacted the market at the time. Thus, here is my list (with explanations). Magnavox Oddyssey (first home video game console) Atari 2600 (greatest globally-embraced console) Intellivision (first and greatest competitor to Atari, helping establish a true market for home video game consoles) Colecovision (competitor to Atari 2600 and Intellivision with better graphics and vision toward console-based computing) NES (First Nintendo home console and preserving home video games after atari crash) Sega Genesis (competitor to NES, had vision toward game memory beyond cartridge cards) TurbogGrafx-16 (competitor to NES, recognizing increased video bitrate for better game quality. Although the CPU was 8-bit it continued to compete against next-gen 16bit systems) Sony Playstation (ushered Sony into the console gaming market) Microsoft Xbox (ushered Microsoftinto the console gaming market) Sony PS3 (first to expand consoles to include household media) Honorable mentions: Nintendo 64 (utilizing 64-bit graphics and 3D modeling) Nintendo Wii (utilizing motion-sensitive controllers) Xbox 360 with kinect (first mainstream motion-capture in a console)
Not intentionally. But let's face it, each of those consoles dramatically impacted, formed, or transformed the market for one reason or another. I was there to see how the Atari impacted the world.... and the NES ... ...each of those consoles. If you weren't around then, you have no idea what it was like, culturally, to see the market being created, shaped, and developed. An Atari 2600 is not a better console than a PS4 or an Xbox One. But the 2600 had a much greater impact on culture at that time than the PS4 or Xbox One have on today's culture.
sure the market was created with some of those early consoles but video games were never a mainstream thing for both adults and kids until the Xbox and the PS2 came out... and Xbox pretty much created the online console revolution so imo it should be higher on your list. Xbox Live revolutionized the industry just as much as anything else
Have owned pretty much every major console going back to the Atari 2600. PS2 wins in a landslide. Nothing competes with PS2's library.
That's absolutely NOT TRUE. The beginning of home console video games started with adults and children both enjoying the Magnavox Odyssey and the Atari 2600. and yes, the xbox live and sony ps3 should both get credit for their networked play, (although I wouldn't call it "revolutionizing the industry").
People are so quick to forget the Dreamcast, granted it never took off, but it is the console that launched online play, I don't think that can be forgotten. And I would say the Playstation is where the generation shift started. Part of that was of the course the natural aging process of lifelong gamers, but it was the first console that started targeting adults. That was the console where video games "grew up" if you will.
oh yeah i get that its just i wouldn't really give that much credit to them for revolutionizing online gaming just like I wouldn't say the GS88 revolutionized smartphones... that being said it was that type of creative thinking that lead us to to the games of today.
That would be why you excel at the game haha. But I think I could probably keep up...as long as we had items on.
