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Which systems or games you always fawned over when you were younger? (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/retrogaming
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Stuff that, back when you were in the economic clutches of your parents, you could but dream of having.

For me, there were several. The Dreamcast was the first, then the PS2, back in the early 2000s

More recently, I've been completely enthralled by the Amiga and what it offered back in the late 80s. That's a system that was never available around my parts (Brazil), even as a clone product or contraband

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[–] GRENADE_MAGNET 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Only rich kids had a Neo Geo or Turbo Grfx-16.

We were far from rich.

[–] unguided_rehire 3 points 1 year ago

We occasionally rented a Neo-Geo and those times felt like I was actual royalty.

[–] Ace_Addams 3 points 1 year ago

We asked for a SNES and our parents got us a turbo Grfx-16 because it was cheaper. After we went to a game swapper shop and they had a bunch of the games for like 2 or 3 bucks a piece. Still to this day it's one of my favorite systems and it was dirt cheap.

[–] rarkgrames 2 points 1 year ago

Ah I coveted the Neo Geo. I would gaze longingly at screenshots in CVG magazine and dream of having one.

Now I have a multicart for my Jamma cab and I can play pretty much any Neo Geo game I want. Turns out, apart from Viewpoint, metal slug and a few others I tend to prefer other systems.

[–] Zarxrax 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's odd, I thought the TurboGrafx was cheaper than the snes and Genesis.

[–] GRENADE_MAGNET 1 points 1 year ago

I guess it was around the same price although it released in a different year. I guess I equated rarity to price. I think they were late to the game and had a small game catalog.

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[–] AzPsycho 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A friend of mine had the Turbo Grfx-16 and I was extremely envious. At the time it was probably the only one in our tiny town and I would go over to his house and play it. Years later he was extremely jealous when I snatched up a Neo Geo Pocket. Everyone was playing Gameboy but Neo Geo Pocket had some amazing games but no marketing. Luckily I managed to snag a bunch of game sfor cheap at a used game store so I ended up playing it well into 2010 when it was finally destroyed by accident.