A lot of ubisoft and ea single player games since they don’t need uplay

Case in point Assassins Creed Black flag which requires a login at the start of search session, runs flawlessly on CEMU

Oldest system, by release year its my Hong Kong 6 Switch Atari 2600. Local guy was selling it and it was in immaculate condition. Dust cover on the system, with boxed games.

At the time I was selling games and systems, so I kept the system and 2 games for myself. Don’t use it much since its a 2600, but I have it on my shelf.

Oldest system I own is my GBC, had it since before my youngest sibling was born and I still have it today. Obviously doesn’t get much use since GBA SP, but I still keep it around.

While I understand your argument. I have my own philosophy for what is retro in terms of games.

For me I don’t look at the system but the games. And for games it about 10-15 years after they were first released.

Enough time that kids can be born and never see this game until now. While I wouldn’t call Pokemon Sun/Moon retro just yet. The 3ds/2ds has games on it that I would consider it retro.

Its been over half a decade since Nintendo stopped making games for it, and even longer since people cared about it.

The only time I will argue something isn’t retro is when its still on the store shelf and not in the discount bin.

If you want me to make you feel old the hardware was released in 2013, making it over 10 years old this year.

I use Linux because of the 3D desktop cube. Who doesn’t love the cube!

I’m just going to point this out, I asked for no tech support.

No Pillow… yet, but yeah I’ve tried to look for replacement, but she’s a Gigabyte Clevo so finding parts isn’t easy.

Nah, she’s toast. Ran multiple distros, and the same problem persisted across Fedora, Arch, and Ubuntu. It’s also an Intel machine, and I’ve been eyeing a Framework with AMD. Which is why I’ve stated I am not looking for tech support.

This is true, I wanted to play a game and it looked broken in Linux. When I went back to Windows I discovered that it was a problem with the game. Then I went back to Linux and it ran better than it did in Windows.

Typical Ubisoft experience.

7800 since it can play both 2600 and 7800 games. But most importantly Ninja Golf

In North America the NES isn’t a top loader and due to the mechanism they used the pins ware out, especially after 35-40 years. On top of that there is very little in the NES Library that’s only on the NES these days. If I hadn’t already invested in an NES and games, I’d just get the NES Classic and be done with it. If I wanted extra games I’d get collections like the Castlevaina Collection, The Mega Man one, and Disney Afternoon. You can extract the ROMs from these collections and put them on the NES Classic if you are willing to fiddle.

Meanwhile the master system is often times forgotten, but has a similar library for third party games. And what unique games does have are rarely found elsewhere as the master system version. Let alone the European releases like Sonic the Hedgehog.

With that said, I prefaced this with “Find games first” for a reason. The master system has a smaller library of games, and if OP was looking for games more like Dragon Quest Warrior or Final Fantasy, then a system with only Phantasy Star would be a bad choice.

I think you should find games first. No point in owning an NES without finding something to play on it. But if you are looking for opinion on the hardware itself.

I own all 3 systems.

Atari 7800: isn’t fare to compare it to a NES or Master System. Think of it as a suped up 2600. Great system if you use the European controller or a Sega 9pin controller. Game selection is good but limited. Best way to play 2600 games. Rf only sucks but can be modded. I’d get it if there are 2600 or 7800 games you wanna play. But the Atari 50th collection has pretty much everything you’d want to play on it.

NES: is a good system for the time, but hasn’t aged well. Getting games to work has turned into a ritual for me. But when they work you’ll have access to the best games from the late 80’s and early 90’s. Controller has aged like fine wine. Most of its non-nintendo library can be found elsewhere for cheap while the Nintendo games are behind a subscription service. Not many games exclusive these days but worth playing anyways

Master System: the NES we have at home. Mostly a similar library of games to the NES but are sometimes better, sometimes worse. Depends on the publisher. In north america it was forgotten and game selection was limited. Controller is mushy but a genesis controller can fix that.

Out of the 3 the master system is probably the best experience, but the NES has the best games.

Hey I back up my games.

That’s what I’ve heard too. Though Crash isn’t my cup of Tea. Hope we get a new Spyro game, but with the issues around Toys for Bob I’m doubtful.

I figured that out by the end of the game, the first warp room is a breeze.

For the rugrats game. This one is a 3d platformer with some mini games. It mirrors actual episodes of the show. I believe there is also an Angelica game which is a mini games collection only.

The device looks like it’ll be good to play most games upto the PSP. While I can suggest the usual suspects, Super Metroid, Metroid 4, SotN, Pokemon I’m going to suggest odd-ball games which I like

Game Boy

• Super Mario Bros Deluxe (NES Mario 1 & JP Mario 2 with saves and bonus features)
• Harry Potter 1,2,&3 (Turn Based RPGs, bit rough but an excellent sound track)
• Mickey’s Speedway USA (made by Rare, fantastic soundtrack, top down racer, GBC game so controls are wonky)

GBA

• Crash Nitro Kart (smoother and plays better IMHO than Super Circuit, controls require some patience to master)
• Spongebob Squarepants the Movie the Game (Made by Wayforward, and is better than I’d expect a license game to be)
• Jurassic Park Operation Genesis (Zoo tycoon with Dinos on GBA)

Genesis

• Ren & Stimpy Stimpy’s Invention (beautiful and painful platformer)
• TMNT Hyperstone Heist (Turtles in Time, but legally distinct so Nintendo didn’t sue)
• Scooby-Doo Mystery (A point and click adventure on the Genesis, yes they made one)

SNES

• Top Gear (It has a soundtrack that slaps)

PlayStation

• Pac-Man World 20th Anniversary (3D Platformer that’s aged well)
• Scooby Doo and the Cyber Chase (A 3D Platformer that hasn’t)
• Harry Potter 1&2 (We have the Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time at home)
• Rugrats Search for Reptar (if you like the show you’ll like the game, otherwise it makes PS1 Hagrid look like the monalisa)
• The Emperor’s New Groove (3D Platformer that’s aged a lot better than it should’ve)

PSP

• Star Wars Battlefront II, Renegade Squadron, & Elite Squadron (same concept, 3 different implementations, all have their pros and cons)
• Modnation Racers (yes they ported a PS3 game to a portable with less power than a PS2, and it’s not half bad)
• LittleBigPlanet (same deal, just with a platformer)
• LEGO Star Wars II/LEGO Indiana Jones (PS2 games ported to PSP)

OK hear me out, I’m going to install boxes on my arch install since I use arch btw, and install Windows 11 in a VM.

I’m then going to sign in with my Microsoft™️ account and give them all my data. Then after my free trail of McAfee™️ and Norton are install, and I play the free games that are included like Candy Crush Saga™️. My VM will evolve from just a VM to a M. I do this until the FBI van arrives as Microsoft sell my data to to Government, or until my beast of a machine slows to a crawl as Microsoft™️ takes more data trying to find a buyer.

Then I will install Oracle™️ VirtualBox™️, and try out new OS’s like Ubuntu and Linux Mint. And when I settle on POP_OS I will free my M (since its prolonged suffering has evolved it from a VM), and install Linux.

Then I will find something wrong with the install, probably complain about SNAPs being an option, or that not all of the software is FOSS. Remove POP_OS and install arch.

TLDR I use arch BTW in both my ssd and my fake HDD on my ssd

I was playing super star wars. But the lava kept killing me

By my definition, the Vita is Retro. In which case that since it can emulate everything I want to play and more.

If I have to go pre 2010 probably a DS or PSP due to the vast library of games I like

Pre 2000… PlayStation 1 or Super Nintendo leaning heavily on PlayStation