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I own one, and my favorite game in Super Smash Bros Ultimate.

Nintendo consoles are the only consoles I've owned (because I do most of my gaming on PC).
I received a Switch for Christmas in 2018 and got Mario Odyssey with it, though I soon lost it, and that is why I buy all my games off the E-Shop. Recently, I have been playing quite a bit of Mario Maker 2, I am finishing building a level on there. Many of my friends play Smash, and I have it myself but I am absolute dogshit at the game and haven't played it in forever.
A friend of mine really wants me to buy Animal Crossing: New Horizons.

The games i have on it is Pokemon Sword/Shield and Dragon Quest XI

I don't. I do most of my gaming on an Xbox 1, but I do still have an old Wii with tons of games. Might want to break it out soon, seeing how this quarantine is going.

Smash is one of my all-time favorite games, though.

Quote from: cwf1701 on April 06, 2020, 09:05:27 PM
The games i have on it is Pokemon Sword/Shield and Dragon Quest XI

Man, I remember when the first Dragon Quest/Warrior game was free with a subscription with Nintendo Power.  Looking back it's amazing that RPGs ever caught on state side, they used to be such a niche thing. 

The last new system I bought was a PS3 back in 09.  I have all my older stuff aside from my Sega CD which a flood took.   I'll still play if sufficiently bored...which is kind of how things are at the moment. 

Yep.  Thee's only one Nintendo console I've not owned, and that's the N64.  I've also owned every Atari console except the Jaguar.

I should get one, but with the current price being $500 due to the pandemic, I'll wait.

Been thinking about it, since our Wii finally gave up the ghost last month after 10+ years...a good excuse to get up and moving on rainy/cold days.

My kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Quote from: formulanone on April 07, 2020, 03:20:44 PMMy kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Ah yes, the dreaded "we'll see" of doom. I fucking hated hearing those words when I was a kid. Whenever I got that answer from my parents, I knew what they were really saying was "no". I fell for it the first couple of times, getting my hopes up thinking they would change their mind later, but they never did. I caught on pretty quick.

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Quote from: formulanone on April 07, 2020, 03:20:44 PMMy kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Ah yes, the dreaded "we'll see" of doom. I fucking hated hearing those words when I was a kid. Whenever I got that answer from my parents, I knew what they were really saying was "no". I fell for it the first couple of times, getting my hopes up thinking they would change their mind later, but they never did. I caught on pretty quick.

I didn't like it either, but they seem to have enough distractions where they haven't pressed the issue, as noted above.

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Quote from: LM117 on April 08, 2020, 08:52:07 AM

Quote from: formulanone on April 07, 2020, 03:20:44 PMMy kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Ah yes, the dreaded "we'll see" of doom. I fucking hated hearing those words when I was a kid. Whenever I got that answer from my parents, I knew what they were really saying was "no". I fell for it the first couple of times, getting my hopes up thinking they would change their mind later, but they never did. I caught on pretty quick.

I didn't like it either, but they seem to have enough distractions where they haven't pressed the issue, as noted above.

The problem is "no"  never shuts kids up about expensive purchases whereas "we'll see"  or "maybe"  butters them up into quietness for awhile. 

Quote from: formulanone on April 08, 2020, 10:54:05 AM

Quote from: LM117 on April 08, 2020, 08:52:07 AM

Quote from: formulanone on April 07, 2020, 03:20:44 PMMy kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Ah yes, the dreaded "we'll see" of doom. I fucking hated hearing those words when I was a kid. Whenever I got that answer from my parents, I knew what they were really saying was "no". I fell for it the first couple of times, getting my hopes up thinking they would change their mind later, but they never did. I caught on pretty quick.

I didn't like it either, but they seem to have enough distractions where they haven't pressed the issue, as noted above.

I remember getting the same response from my parents when I first asked them for an NES back in high school. I just kept asking year after year until they finally relented and got me one for graduation.

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Quote from: formulanone on April 08, 2020, 10:54:05 AM

Quote from: LM117 on April 08, 2020, 08:52:07 AM

Quote from: formulanone on April 07, 2020, 03:20:44 PMMy kids haven't been asking much for it but the question comes up once every few months (followed by our responses of "we'll see"). Then they just play with the computers, iPads, and our old PlayStations so they're more than satisfied.

Ah yes, the dreaded "we'll see" of doom. I fucking hated hearing those words when I was a kid. Whenever I got that answer from my parents, I knew what they were really saying was "no". I fell for it the first couple of times, getting my hopes up thinking they would change their mind later, but they never did. I caught on pretty quick.

I didn't like it either, but they seem to have enough distractions where they haven't pressed the issue, as noted above.

I remember getting the same response from my parents when I first asked them for an NES back in high school. I just kept asking year after year until they finally relented and got me one for graduation.

By the end of it's lifespan the NES became really affordable too.  I remember a lot of neighbor kids got their NES after the SNES came out since their parents could only afford the former.  There was even some really decent games that came out on the NES late like Mega Man 6 and Mighty Final Fight. 

The above video is called "Parents Upset Over SNES" and contains clips of parents railing against Nintendo for putting out the SNES "so soon"

Looking back, I think Nintendo could have done a better job of explaining that the NES dated all the way back to 1983. Without the internet, this kind of information wasn't widely known. I bet even a lot of the kids didn't know it was out in '85 since that was a NY/LA only release and NES wasn't on a lot of people's radar until the Legend of Zelda came out. Instead, most parents thought that the NES was new for '88 or even '89.

I actually found getting the SNES at launch to be very alienating as compared to the NES which nearly every kid had by '90. In the NES days everyone was swapping tips at school and going over to other kids' houses to play all the time. Even girls liked it. By '92 only the big-time gamers were into games and I didn't get along with the gamers as well as I did with other types of kids. That eventually rebounded somewhat with Street Fighter II and Mortal Kombat, but by that time video games were for wintertime and hot summer days only. And once you got to high school you were done.

People talk about the Video Game Crash of 1983 ad nauseum but are much more likely to forget the '93 Crash where the industry tanked by 50% -- but not down the 90% it was in 1983. It took until 1999 for the business to fully recover.

What are the advantages/disadvantages of the Switch Lite vs the Switch?

Gave into boredom recently and got Doom working again on my computer with the Chocolate Doom Source part.  I just bought a copy of Sonic & Knuckles to attach to my copy of Sonic 3 since mine was lost in a flood.  Fired up the Genesis retro console again for a little recently to play Streets of Rage with my wife.  Still no gumption to buy a modern system at this point.

Quote from: sbeaver44 on April 12, 2020, 01:41:34 PM
What are the advantages/disadvantages of the Switch Lite vs the Switch?

I believe the Lite cannot be connected to a TV, more or less making it a glorified Game Boy.

Also the Joycons are not detachable.

Bumping this thread a bit, but I've owned a Switch since 2018. It's a fine console. I mostly use it for Pokemon (Shield and Let's Go Eevee) and lately Animal Crossing. The A button on the right JoyCon is starting to not work properly from time to time, costing me the occasional bug catch on Animal Crossing.

I loved video games when I was younger, but these days, I don't even own a single gaming console anymore.  I sold/gave them all away when moving last year.  My latest console was a Game Cube, which I loved because of the Game Boy Advance player expansion, and I actually liked "Star Fox Adventures."

Showing my age here, after an NES and SNES, I only bought a Wii after that, and it's because my wife wanted it. It now sits hooked up to a TV in a spare room where it proceeds to go unused. Was also gifted a used Playstation which is the only non-Nintendo console I ever had.

I did buy an SNES Classic and still have my Game Boy Advance, and that GBA is the only thing getting any use.

If I was a kid, I'd probably want a Switch. Looks like a damn good console with some games that will be remembered far beyond the console's life span.

Quote from: SectorZ on July 02, 2020, 01:19:26 PM
If I was a kid, I'd probably want a Switch. Looks like a damn good console with some games that will be remembered far beyond the console's life span.

My dream console would be a Sega All-In-One!  It would have a disc player that plays Dreamcast, Saturn, Sega CD, and Sega CD 32X games, and a cartridge slot that plays Genesis and 32X games, and the cartridge area would be designed in such a way that you could fit the Power Base Converter in it and play Master System cartridge and card games (the Genesis Model 1 was designed like this, but the Model 2 was not).  And it should be packaged with the Power Base Converter.  And, just in case eventual bit rot is a problem, it should come with software that lets you put a DRM-protected copy of all your Master System, Genesis, and 32X games onto discs for your own personal use.  And before the whole cartridge/card library gets bit-rotted out of existence, they should just sell them on discs (you could fit TONS of them on a single disc), and then they can make a new version of the console without the cartridge slot.

Added bonus: SG-1000 compatibility!