Gaming Chat

[Dirty Duck]

Honestly, the thing I remember most about the Dreamcast was that it was Arsenal's front of shirt sponsor and it was advertised on ITV's Premier League highlights? I don't think I knew anyone who had one, which maybe says....quite a bit. And just how much Sony owned that generation. Next era, but I remember in 2002 bringing in PES to school and peeps were blown away because they'd only ever played Fifa.

And yeah, I'm also considering getting a Wii-U as I have the opposite issue to you! I have a Gamecube so I don't need a Wii for backward compatibility, so a Wii-U for Wii & Wii U compatibility is...sorta appealing aha. But I get the appeal - I was happy with Indigo as I had an original Gamecube back in the day. IIRC the only games I really remember playing were Smash, Windwaker and The Twin Snakes.

Different note, but my Dad's mate used to bring round a PS1 when it first launched. There was a mech game he had that I've never properly discovered. Could probably do digging to figure it out but it was quite cool in retrospect.

I had the Indigo one as a kid too but when I was wanting to get a new one all my consoles that were out at that point were white and I was liking the vibe...I suppose the Switch 2 replacing my OLED Switch has ruined that already, though! Maybe Spice Orange would be better.

I love my Wii U! I bought pretty much every first party game for it, I think it's a great console and the gamepad was a really good gimmick that just wasn't pushed very well. It did mean there were a whole lot of Switch games that to most others felt very new but to me were £50 re-entry costs, so I decided quite early on I'd just stick with the Wii U version of those games. I sort of used the Wii U like a Switch anyway, so many games that I just played on the gamepad on my bed with the telly switched off. The Wii emulation in it is good though yeah, you can even use the gamepad as the screen + lightbar for tracking the movements!

Not Armoured Core? That's a very obvious one but there's probably dozens of niche ones I have no idea about.