I thought Segas 5th generation console was the dreamcast, it was just a bit slower to release than the others 😂
There are some real gems on the Sega Saturn. Last game I played on it before i unfortunately had to sell mine was Albert Odyssey which was a pretty decent jrpg with beautiful 2d art. Some great arcade style games were on it too.
One game stuck forever on the console is Panzer Dragoon Saga. It’s freaking incredible considering it’s age.
Is that an SCPH-1002? Nice! 👍
According to Wikipedia they are 5th Gen, along with 3DO and Jaguar.
it was a glorious time
I miss feeling pride in having all the consoles (my dad worked at a retailer, had the hookups!). Even had a Jaguar and a 3DO.
Now, with how hard PS5s were to get, the lack of decent exclusives (excluding Nintendo lol) and the bullshit of hacking to pay for multiplayer, I've become almost entirely PC gamer. I can't even feel good about having one system, let alone all three big ones. :(
Is there a definitive authority on the generation numbers? I'd have classified the N64 as third generation.
Usually 1st gen is stuff like pong (largely single-purpose systems, not general purpose), 2nd gen is pre-crash stuff like Atari and colecovision, 3rd is nes/sms, 4th is snes/genesis/tg16, 5th is ps1/n64/saturn, 6th is ps2/xbox/dreamcast, 7th is ps3/360/wii, 8th is ps4/xbone/wiiu, 9th is current gen ps5/xsx/switch. Obviously stuff like arcade, pc/microcomputer stuff, and handhelds blur the lines so it's not perfect but I believe Wikipedia follows this classification.
That makes sense--I figured Atari would be a generation behind NES, but I hadn't considered single-game machines as a distinct thing. Thanks!
Wikipedia has a good timeline of them, it's been what I've been using when categorizing my ROMs.
Gotta love the old school desk
