What's your favorite era of video games?

[ALewis30]

1980's

1990's

2000's

2010's

2020's-present

[NamerOfStars]

The 90's, no question. That's when all the games that modern ones are ripping off came out. It's when the Elder Scrolls got started, and Civilization, and X-Com, and DOOM and System Shock and Marathon, Grand Theft Auto and Wing Commander and TIE Fighter and... well, the list goes on and on.

It was a time when technology moved past the static limits of the 70's and 80's and exploded with real possibilities, but before everything got heinously corporatized and soulless, and rising costs forced everyone to seek mass-market appeal, turning everything beige.

[MCheetah]

2006 to 2012, personally. I say that with no nostalgia bias, as some of my favorite games from the 1998-2005 era don't hold up nowadays. But I think gaming dropped off in the Xbox X/PlayStation 4 era where they started releasing broken games, charging $60 for games instead of $50, and having to download day one patches that take up 5 f*cking gigabytes of space. I don't even play new games anymore. I just own old stuff and retro stuff on Steam and play Pokemon fan-made ROM hacks.

So yeah, the Xbox 360 was the golden age of modern games.

[DizzyDesii]

Late 90s to Early 2000s gave birth to my top 5 babies!! ... nintendo 64, gameboy advance SP, ps2, nintendo DS and xbox 360... I didn't care that much for my ps3 or any playstation after that. My xbox one was a bit complicated as well and i liked 360 and kinect much better. Switch and wii have always been blahh. Psp was pretty to look at but i hated how heavy it was. I still own all my consoles but haven't been big on playing since 2015

[DizzyDesii]

If i ever dust any off, im gonna play my gtas on the ps2 again, mariokart on the 64 if it stops cutting on/off, my sims on the nintendo DS if we stop breaking the top half off, pacman on gameboy if i can find where i placed it, dance central and n4s on xbox 360 if it also stops restarting

[Curmudgeon]

Sure, they are much more sophisticated now, but you just HAD to be there in the Golden Age of quarter coin-operated video games, the 1980s. It was its own subculture.

[TheSpaceGnome]

For consoles, generations 5 and 6, for pc, this generation.