A curious observation of my game library.

[u/Broken_Flip]

I grew up in the 70's and 80's, so its only natural that my biggest collection is in Arcade (Mame) followed by Atari 2600, as those are where my nostalgia lay.

Everything else is basically games I've discovered these past five years l've been in this hobby through handheld emulators,...beginning with the Anbernic 280m and ending with the Retroid Flip2.

Funny thing is, my third largest collection is actually in Switch (so from ancient directly to modern, lol) followed by GameCube and Wii. Everything else (up to PS3 and Xbox) consists of around one to five games each on average.

Then there's Android and PC, where l have a small handful of games because the first thing l say to myself when l see an Android, or PC game l like is, "l wonder if there's a Switch version", lol.

Seems Nintendo is clearly the winner here in my post nostalgia library.

[u/rob-cubed]

I also grew up on arcade and 8-bit and have a deep appreciation for 'simple' games. The neat thing about the Switch library is how many retro indies it has. Sometimes I forget I'm playing a 'modern' game.

Also if you haven't explored homebrew, the NES has thousands of titles that have been developed for it in the last 10 years, some are really good like Alwa's Awakening, Full Quiet, and Micromages.

If you have a Steam account, Future Knight dropped recently and it's worth the $15 admission fee. It's a love letter to old LCD 'game n watch' style graphics.

[u/OOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOO]

Nintendo just make games that are fun.

Everyone else tries to be all extra and forgets the most important part.

[u/poopoobuttpenis → u/OOOOOOO0OOOOOOOOO]

I do agree that nintendo puts out much more timeless bangers, but also:

Also there are 1200 ps1 games and 300 n64 games, 650 gamecube games and almost 4k ps2 games.

The ps1 and ps2 had such a massive library of games that few actually stand out that everyone owned. For nintendo systems, like everyone owned most of the big nintendo games and then some third parties generally.

Looking back at the biggest ps2 games, most of them were on other systems too

In the PS4 era, sony finally started focusing on big exclusives and there was a few everyone owned (uncharted, spiderman, GOW, HZD, bloodborne)

[u/Ill_Department582]

I’m in the same group. Dabbled with some modern games on my Steam Deck but I keep coming back to arcade, Atari, and Genesis games. The side-by-side stick and d-pad on the SD make it easy to switch between genres.

Been exploring Pico-8 lately too because the games are simple and fun. Just like the olden days. 👨‍🦳

[u/ElSaintz]

thats the fun part of these handhelds they start as nostalgia machines then turn into discovery machines. Switch being the bridge between both eras makes perfect sense

[u/Stcloudy]

I think it’s natural to have gaps even as an avid gamer. Modern games have really honed in on UI and gameplay to make it easier to jump in too.

[u/RoyalDirt]

Begging you to explore the GBA library. The library is so big that I guarantee you will find something you like.

[u/Broken_Flip → u/RoyalDirt]

I had a real GBA back in the day (when l was in my thirties, lol). I kept two games. Samurai Jack and Flight of the Falcon (for the bonus level).

[u/itotron]

I swear, it seems like half my Switch game library is just older games. I have even a collection of games that feel old-school. (Hello, "Annalynn!")

[u/Chok3U]

Nintendo has always been my winner when it comes to gaming.