Old console that have aged poorly iyo

I am going with the Dreamcast yeah it was the shit back then but now it’s just plain shit the controller is abysmal and not many games have aged all that well either

Atari 2600 I guess. Controller caused literal pain and not much of anything that I’d be interested in playing again on it.

The N64 is the easy answer. Obviously a couple/few games aren't all that bad these days, but overall the early 3D has aged like fine milk.

Every console before the NES.

Yup, as soon as we hit 8 bit, and especially 16 bit we started getting some timeless classics.

Probably the Atari 2600, PS1, N64, Saturn. There are a lot of great games on all of these systems, but much of what was considered decent to good at the time has aged terribly. They were growing pains generations. In Gen 1, folks were just figuring out what even constitutes a good game, and had to work with severe hardware limitations. And in Gen 5, they were trying to wrap their heads around 3D. These games crawled, so the next ones could walk.

N64. Some of my favourite games are on that system but gosh the graphics and performance aged poorly.

The Atari 2600 was poor in the early 80's TBH. While it had some gems, it was awful against the 1983 NES. It didn't take a number of gens for it to have poorly aged as it was quite poor (fun though) against competition during its time.

@Solaryellow: Yep.

The Wii has aged miserable for the most part. Upon having ugly 3D graphics as par for the course I cant believe I have to use motion controls just to use the menu ui just to play a gamecube game. And I have to set it up. With the ir bar. No built in ir. Looks primative next to my Switch and oculus 2

No hdmi support either.

If it werent for it's slick interface, the Wii would be a fucking Dinosaur along with the Atari 2600 and Windows 95.

Nintendo 64. I hated that console,if not for the PS1 I’d probably have taken a break from gaming.

Echoing others, but yeah pre-NES is pretty rough. Nothing on those boxes I genuinely enjoy playing. Occasional trip through memory lane, like last year I booted up Jungle Hunt for a quick run through.

After that, the gen 5 consoles. A few real gems here and there, can easily bin the rest.

I always thought the Dreamcast glazing was over the top (or at least it used to be), but I couldn't have it in the running for worst aged. Still has a good selection of games that play well, perform well, and look just fine.

3DO error heck it didn't age well the day they came out lol.

Just talking old consoles that were great in the day but just...no...not for today. Of course the Tiger Game.com was terrible then and it remains terrible now.

I don't think I could play games on an OG gameboy any more. No backlight being the real kicker. Some games: yes I could definitely play them (Think I have Mario land on my 3DS). But the hardware itself would be hard to play games on now.

The N64 would be rough too, due to the controller mainly. Loads of great N64 games...but best played elsewhere...literally on anything else.

While the NES was before my time, I came from the SNES/Sega Genesis era, I personally live the N64 games and despite most here can't go back and replay few 3D games that didn't aged well, I can tolerated it as the N64 is still my favorite Nintendo console as it made Rare look like what gamers wanted and that's to have fun in the long run. Granted, the Dreamcast is another console I can go revisit if I want to.

Even though my parents got me the Atari 2600 in 1994, I only had just one game for it and that was E.T game. Didn't like it but that's probably due to me that I never watch the movie until it came back to theaters, it was a shit ass movie but that's a story for another time. I can totally agree with everyone that the Atari 2600 was a shit console, it aged poorly.

Are there any N64 games you really can't go back on the one's that have aged like soy milk? A game like Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, and probably Banjo/Kazooie I can revisit them.

Consoles don't really age poorly, games and controllers on the other hand.

& even then I'm a strong believer it's not that they 'aged poorly' it's more that it was never good but some people eat shit and realise it later.

So in that aspect a lot of those fugly joysticks before Nintendo came up with the gamepad. Because they barely have any input function and are stiff as a board.

32-bit gaming with low resolution and more blurred imagery was pretty jarring to look at but I felt that way as a small child too.

With filters to clean up the blur, many are still very playable and enjoyable games. I'm not a graphics snob and I like games older than myself quite often. Many the generally beloved classics hold up nicely. Noted elsewhere I played Soul Reaver and that game is before my time. It's an amazing game, I like it more than the original Devil May Cry, a 3D Slasher game that came out a console generation later.

As someone who was born in the 1970s and started gaming in the early 1980s prior to the gaming crash of 1983, I felt that consoles from the Magnavox Odyssey to the Atari 5200 have age poorly, whether their controls, graphics, and the games they play. It was not until the release of the Famicom (the NES outside of Japan) that consoles begin to age well and its games have longer legacies.

N64. Very unfortunately. It happens to have some of my favorite memories of any gaming console.

Good summary. A lot of great games these days are built on the groundwork layed by some, at the time revolutionary, but to modern standards clunky games.

@R4gn4r0k: Heck, things came a long way within generations back then. Just look at Need for Speed or Ridge Racer, and compare them to High Stakes or Type 4. Or like, any skateboarding game pre Tony Hawk. Massive improvement in just four years.

The n64/PS1 generation is the most dated and likely has very few games worth revisiting from a gameplay perspective.

@icrackurnuts: You've obviously fell out of a tree and hit every branch on the way down if you think the Dreamcast has aged poorly, let alone aged the poorest out of every console.

Damn you have to be trolling at this point as no one can be that bad of a judge, but wait a minute, we are on SW, so I take that back 🤣

The problem most gamers have now is that they're used to shiny graphics and not much else that they complain about retro aging poorly, when it's them that has aged poorly.

@last_lap: it’s my opinion so stfu and yes it has aged poorly there may be some hidden gems but not many and the controller is ass even if you think it’s a good console you got to admit the controller sucks sorry you’re butthurt but I don’t give 2 shits what you think also I have been gaming since the 70’s so I think know better than you

Consoles and games don't "age," expectations change. I reject the question.

PS1 has aged pretty vapidly, not gonna lie. Still some stuff I want to look into from that library, but... EEP! Especially it's fighting games pre-Tekken 3.

Those brick game handhelds

Well yeah, there's a reason the 1983 crash happened. Most 2600 games were poor even for their time.

Yes, it is your opinion, an opinion that has not been echoed by anyone else in here, in fact people have argued against it, do you want them to stfu too?

It's a forum and you created this thread for others opinions, but when you don't like those opinions well "sorry you're butthurt but I don't give 2 shits" accompanied by "I have been gaming since the 70's so I think I know better than you" You come across as childish not oldish.

I own a Dreamcast with over 80 original games (and counting) play it very regularly and can say for certain that it hasn't aged poorly, in fact its aged quite well. The controller too is great, the first controller to implement triggers, triggers that haven't even broke once which is something you can't say for any other controller that has had triggers since. It also was innovative in another way with the VMU. It's the best controller of that gen and still holds up very well today. Just in case you want to see my Dreamcast credentials here they are, well Dreamcast and Sega Saturn.

So, while it is your opinion, it's a very i'll-informed one. All I have left to say is...Dreamcast rocks, icrackurnuts sucks.

PS...very mature name for someone who supposedly would be in the 50's at the earliest by now 🤦‍♂️

@last_lap: lol the fact that you’re taking this so seriously it is mind boggling getting all butt hurt bcuz I insulted your pos poorly aged console I am just going put you on ignore and report you

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The Dreamcast is a fantastic console. D-pad hurts my thumb but that's the only complaint.

@davillain: Oh for sure, I can go back and play some of them. It's just the console that the games didn't age as well as any other in my opinion since early 3D was pretty rough.

I would say something like Atari or Colecovision, but the graphics were practically non existent from the start, and they mostly still hold up for what they are.

I still play inverted to this day because I loved playing Goldeneye with my buddies so much we probably put a couple thousand hours on that game, but going back now with just one stick, the low framerate, and blocky low res imagery is rough.

Some of my all time favorite games were on the 64: Obviously Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Vigilante 8, Ready to Rumble Boxing, NFL Blitz, Kobe Bryant Courtside, NBA Hangtime, Turok 1-3, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Cruisn USA/World, Lego Racers, Mario Golf, Mario Tennis, San Francisco Rush/Extreme, Quake 64 (yes I really liked this game and still do), South Park, and probably a few others I can't think of right now.

I know not all of those are 1st party, but that is where my memory of them lay.

You know.. there is one other device that has the N64 beat.. and that's the Virtual Boy.. lol. I'm not really sure that's considered a console though.

@icrackurnuts: You're the one who's taking this too seriously. I merely challenged you and your opinion, gave good reasons why with the controller etc, but you don't like my opinion, but as shown by my DC collection I have proven I own and play DC, yet you've shown nothing other than repeating the controller sucks, the controller sucks 🤣

Oh and go right ahead and report me, but if all you have is me saying you're acting childish because you told me to stfu, and me saying you suck, well it won't work the way you want it to, oh and the bird, nice. Luckily for you I'm not thin skinned either, as I found your comments amusing, especially when debunked, but you have a nice day mate.

Damn. Someone got triggered over the Dreamcast being trash.😂

Mega-CD instantly comes to mind.

All of them. PC has full backwards compatibility with old games offering better graphics, performance and PC can emulate the old consoles too. You can use whatever input device you like and even hook up your PC to a CRT. Also, you don't have to blow on any cartridges, flip your console upside down, have the clutter of multiple consoles and games, don't have to change display inputs, don't have to switch cartridges/discs, etc.. Everything on one PC. No need for the old consoles.

@BassMan: Like a few others in here, you try way too hard man 🤣

@last_lap:

@BassMan: Every time you see a thread about consoles your insecurities go through the roof and you need to post about PC, is soooooooo funny 🤣🤣🤣

So you say. However, I am not stuck in the past like you. I can have an appreciation for the old consoles without using them anymore. I grew up with rotary phones too, but I don't use them anymore because they are inferior. Same shit with the consoles.

These kids dont know what you're posting about bro LMAO

@BassMan: You have to work on your insecurities mate.

@judaspete: yeah I still remember how devs pushed so much out of consoles. The magical 'console optimization'.

Back when ps2 started we barely had 3d shaders, by the end we had dynamic shadows and full reflections.

Heck compare Uncharted 1 to TLOU 1. Same gen and the difference is immense.

So many classic gens and consoles! We can't forget how big these advancements were.

Sega Saturn, Ps1, and of course N64. They aged like milk.

I wasn't around pre-NES times, so I'd say PS1 and N64. So many terrible games. Such crappy controllers.

Wii or N64 gets my vote. A lot of The N64 games have terrible controls because it lacks a 2nd analog stick for camera views, and like most Nintendo consoles, you're given the Nintendo games but 3rd party games are left lacking.

Wii is self explanatory. motion controls, wii motes, no HDMI, and a mountain of dumb peripherals and 3rd party shovelware.

Side note though, you can easily get a handheld that has thousands of old console and arcade games on it, so you could say they have all aged poorly seeing as how you can get it all in one and mobile these days.

What happened in '83 was compounded by a number of things. The 2600 gave us a great deal of solid games but its flaws were exposed when the competition came to the market. Even the 5200 was a giant pile.

@Pedro: people who do stuff like that are called fanboy and @last_lap is one of them says his console has aged poorly and acts like a child.

I've gotten used to 60 fps - so going back to PS3/360 games that often can't hit 30 is rough.

Luckily alot of those games are on pc or in some cases got FPS boost or ported to better hardware.

He is a pretty sensitive lad. The funny thing is that he likes to take jabs at others but the moment you do the same to him, expect a meltdown.😂