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Let's face it, most of that list is absolute nonsense and I'd say its very difficult not to put Mario top, regardless of what platform you normally play.

Personally and not necessarily in order, some of the most iconic game characters would be

Mario
Sonic
Pac-Man
Donkey Kong
Sub-Zero
Chun Li
Ryu
Lara Croft
Crash Bandicoot
Link
Luigi
Master Chief
Doom Guy
Nathan Drake
Megaman
Leon S Kennedy
Cloud
Pikachu

He's probably just rounding the number up, if those other numbers are correct, it's highly doubtful it sold the extra 5 million but referring to 157 million as 160 is quite likely

My personal top 10 would be

1. Resident Evil 2 (PS1)
2. Resident Evil (Gamecube)
3. Resident Evil 2 (PS4)
4. Resident Evil 4 (Wii)
5. Resident Evil 7
6. Resident Evil Code Veronica (DC)
7. Resident Evil 4 Remake
8. Resident Evil Village
9. Resident Evil (PS1)
10. Resident Evil 0

@Goat_FromBOTW I've been seriously tempted to get a Quest 3 partly for things like this but also to connect to PC and some of rhe mixed reality stuff looks like a lot of fun

This console will never exist and who do they think is going to buy that awful controller just to play some rubbish touch screen mobile games? Almost nobody has even downloaded their app.

These crooks or Phil and whoevers left to make the tea should be in jail for stealing all that money from investors

I'd much rather have a skippable splash screen that I'm never going to pay any attention to than it being censored. That said if you're genuinely getting upset about a 25 year old video game and how it may depict someone, then you need to get over it

I enjoyed this even more than FFVII and it remains my favourite in the series. The junction system whilst easy to exploit, was a lot of fun and allowed for great customisation and I've probably spent more time playing triple triad than many full releases

I've not played enough of the new one yet to score it but I will say its very good so far.

Yakuza 0 is currently my favourite overall with some truly brilliant side stories and I really enjoyed Like A Dragon Gaiden and it's story tieing everything together, plus it's great arcade games

Sega's arcade output was ridiculously good and picking an absolute favourite is nearly impossible. Sega Rally would probably be my personal favourite but there's no denying how incredible Daytona USA was upon release

Best soundtrack ever

@GeneJacket that's weird, I just remembered seeing pictures of it when I bought their Saturn adapter a while back. I wonder if it just got cancelled then

@GeneJacket Mayflash did make an adapter for Dreamcast controllers to work on PC, I've no idea if it's still available though. It's certainly the forgotten one by and large

@GeneJacket retrobit themselves showed off one a few years ago which looked closer in design to the Saturn 3d pad

It's kind of pointless as a 3D Saturn controller if it doesn't work properly for those games, if the triggers are disabled then that renders Panzer Dragoon Zwei unplayable with this.

Have they fixed the battery drain issue from their previous Saturn controllers? On those you have to manually turn them off before turning off the console, otherwise they appear off but the battery will be dead before being able to play them again

@michaelf yeah basically this, back then it was all about the bit wars separation generations albeit woth some outliers such as the Atari Jaguar but for the more popular consoles it generally worked. I've never once thought of them as a number outside of Playstation conveniently numbering theirs and its fairly obvious what existed alongside each. Before that I just think Atari 2600, then Master System/NES and on to Megadrive/SNES

It really is a fantastic emulator and for me actually preferable to real hardware, at least on modern displays as many games had interlaced resolutions, making them blurry regardless of upscaling. This is easily eliminated on this emulator and makes games like Virtua Fighter 4 look amazing

Golden Axe Revenge of Death Adder should have come to the Saturn and is one of many I'm surprised hasn't made it to home consoles in a compilation

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Easily the best announcement I've seen for some time. I'm a huge Sega fan and cannot wait for all of these games

I always preferred the Megadrive version, not necessarily just because of this but the (6 button) controller was a much better fit for such games

One of the greatest consoles ever made and the last one I played at launch that was truly a big leap over what we had before. It really was like having an arcade machine at home with the likes of Crazy Taxi, F355, Soul Calibur, Virtua Tennis and many more. But also having deeper experiences and Shenmue, much like the Dreamcast being years ahead of its time.

As I write this, I have a small collection of Dreamcast games to my left and just a couple of weeks ago played through Resident Evil 2 on it. It may be 25 years old but I'll never grow tired of it

This has been obvious for a very long time and frankly these scammers should be in jail for effectively stealing all of that money.

None of those involved should ever work in the industry again. Especially Tommy

Like A Dragon was already very high up on my list but now it's pretty much at the top. Whilst I can already play Daytona USA 2 via emulation, it'll be great to finally have a true home port. Fingers crossed it releases standalone at some point down the line

I use CEX fairly regularly and have done since the 90's where they had one in Leeds near Virgin Megastore. The one near where I live at the moment seems to be pretty good for the condition of the games they have. I've also been very lucky with some online purchases and recently received Ecco the Dolphin on Dreamcast in immaculate condition and very well packaged too

@BulkSlash I wonder if you can use the loose file method to swap out some of the music for the PAL tracks?

I've just given this a go and agree the new collision makes it too easy, though more pleasurable to play

@smoreon spot on , Saturn emulation is much more demanding than PS1and as you say, ultimately this needs to be affordable

I love my Sinden Lightgun with Virtua Cop 2 and House of The Dead 2 being my personal favourites, though a bit of Jurassic Park is another regular that I play

I've certainly seen worse and can see where the confusion came from as Nintendo got a license from Magnovox for its own pong consoles

Whats worse is people claiming the Playstation was the first CD based console which is just plain dumb

I did exactly this a few years ago as I noticed I was just one trophy away from the Platinum and whilst not as bad as this, the docks around Windhelm decided they weren't going to join me on my adventures. They were still there as a physical presence but I couldn't see them but then again it barely worked on PS3 at the best of times

@belfastgonzo what people like @Retrogames seem to forget or just ignore, is that the Megadrive/Genesis actually increased Sega's home market share and Sega's problems there after came more from Sony than Nintendo (as well as themselves)

To an extent yes, growing up in the UK for example, the NES was almost non existent and I never met a kid who had one but the Atari 2600 and then the Master System were common, as were the Spectrum, C64 etc. My memories of gaming from the 80's and 90's are of a wide variety of platform holders and publishers.

One thing that is seemingly often forgotten is how truly massive the arcade scene was as well, with Nintendo barely being a fixture in that. Sega were huge and it cannot be underestimated how many were playing their games and then the likes of Street Fighter 2 which grossed and estimated $10 billion, then there's Namco, Taito etc.

My point is that in general far too much emphasis is put on the likes of Nintendo, Playstation and Xbox when in reality they would all be nothing without Capcom, Konami, Square, Namco and many, many more. Even today you see the fanboys arguing purely over PS or Xbox exclusives but had it not been for Capcom, I wouldn't have played my PS5 this year

A great little game and I wish Nintendo would actually make more smaller Zelda games like this and the look of it's Switch remake, perhaps get Capcom back on board

That Duke Nukem Evercade is very tempting

@Axelay71 I think that's their plan, at least on mobile for the ones that actually got finished

And both games look dreadful, my only hope from Intellivision is that they squeeze enough sales out of their pretty poor and tiny lineup of games, so they can at least pay back the investors that they have conned money out of

He's just being a troll but on the subject of how it looks, Tears of The Kingdom is one of the most visually appealing games I've played, even more so than many I've played on significantly more powerful hardware.

Art style > tfolps any day of the week

I've had mine for over a year now and think it's fantastic, it works great with the Model 2 and Model 3 emulators and stuff like Redream, you can even play Virtua Cop 3 through the Xbox emulator

That's cool and it sounds like it'll be fun to play assuming you had a decent enough TV back then and the 2600 outputted stereo sound. It kind of reminds me of a game I played with my stepson when he was younger. I hid a toy Boo alongside a wireless speaker and played its sound effect so he could find it but I also hid a second one and played it through the other channel occasionally to make it seem like Boo was moving

To be fair that is a great list, though I would include the original Daytona as apart from its looks, it does play better amd Grandia should be on the list as well.

Ha, I've just realised it's a republished article, good to see my opinions haven't changed

The Sega Saturn for me, when taking into account it's huge Japanese library it has an amazing selection of games, many of which are still exclusive. And the combination of VDP1/2 created a look that is still unique in gaming.

That said the Megadrive was a 16Bit dream and the Dreamcast felt like having a truly high powered arcade machine at home as well as feeling like the last truly huge generational leap

Tough one but probably N64 for me, it didn't have the biggest library but does have a few excellent titles, such as Mario 64, Goldeneye Ocarina of Time and Quest 64

This won't be popular but the Switch is one of the weakest in the sense that there isn't that many games I've played on it that weren't on previous consoles or just play better elsewhere but it's still a great console overall

I can't say I've seen JRPG used as a negative term and I get what he's saying about from their perspective they're just RPG'S and to be fair back from the 8/16 bit era's they were just that. I think I only started using the term when more action style RPG's came around to differentiate turn based ones.

These days as the scope of games have become so vast, terms like JRPG don't make much sense anymore, is something like FF7R really like Octopath Traveller for example? Whilst FFXVI seems to share many elements from games like The Witcher and even Devil May Cry and I certainly don't hear either referred to as JRPG's

Well deserved, few games have had the impact on the industry that Doom has had

@gojiguy I'm with you, this is just bizarre and I doubt their emulator has even half the features of Duckstation, let alone the many systems it doesn't support

@Grail_Quest I promise you that the couple of minutes it will take to find the roms (which is very easy) and emulators would be well worth it. Most emulators are already preconfigured anyway and they pretty much all offer the "premium" features here for free and many enhancements on top of that should you wish. On my PC I have pretty much every console you can think of, plus many arcade systems and all my controllers, arcade sticks and even a modern lightgun work with no fuss.

I just about get the appeal of an all in one console for retro games but this is literally just an emulator front end with way less features and compatibility

Maybe it's just me but this seems like a rather pointless service. So I pay for a subscription to emulate games like my PC already can do but I have less control over the emulators, they're cloud based and I still have to provide original software?

I just don't get it

It's certainly one of the very best but I would put Mario 64 at the top as they had nothing really to compare it to, that and it was head and shoulders above everything else at the time

It's been a bizarre and thoroughly entertaining saga (though sadly not for those who were robbed of their money) for a few years now. It started out as a genuine project and could have done ok but has been nothing short of a scam for quite some time now. With lies on top of lies from Tallarico about what games will come, stolen assets, blaming chip shortages for delays and God knows how many rounds of stealing, sorry crowd funding. They've been quiet now for a while so I do wonder if they're just gonna try and vanish because this isn't a viable product anymore

This immediately sprung to mind when I saw the trailer, it seems Nintendo watched people making their own transportation with the tools in the game and have made it part of the sequel

I watched this and it's a great and wide reaching interview and well worth a watch. The Dreamcast is still the last new console that made me truly excited at launch as a big leap over what we already had. Just a shame that Sega weren't really in a financial position to let it run longer and for a console with so little time on the market, it has one hell of a library

A bit of a shame it doesn't have more save space but a nice product. I suppose the bigger concern given this is the battery life in the cartridges as they tend to be the better games as well. I better get practicing with a soldering iron