/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6932623
I buy them a Sinclair ZX Spectrum and over 50 games for the same price.

>>6932629
>The fact that so many gamers still name the ZX speccy as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" video game console ever only tells you how far video games still are from becoming a serious art. Video game developers have long recognized that the greatest consoles of all times are the NES and SNES, which were not the most graphically advanced or acclaimed or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. I myself rank the highly controversial Commodore 64 over consoles that were highly popular in households around Europe. Gamers are still blinded by good graphics. ZX spectrum had better graphics than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore it must have been the greatest. Music enthusiasts grow up listening to a lot of music of the past, film enthusiasts grow up watching a lot of films of the past. Gamers are often totally ignorant of the video games of the past, they barely know gameplay mechanics. No wonder they will think that the ZX Spectrum is anything worthy of being played.
– Shigeru Miyamoto (1995)

>>6932623
Kirby 64

Only 1 game? What about controllers?
If I can get him 3 more controllers, or at least 1 more, then Mario Kart 64.
If not, then it has to be a single player game (not that you can't enjoy MK64 as single player, but...), in which case I'd go with Mystical Ninja

>>6932623
Mega Man to raise a fellow waifu enthusiast

>>6932629
haha such a funny post

>>6932623
Three of the biggest autists on /vr/ right now were the first replies. Look at that autism avalanche. To answer your question though Mario 64 as it's a game I can't see any kid disliking.

>>6932663
This, Super Mario 64 is the correct answer. That and Pilotwings were literally the only launch titles, but nobody cared because 64 was that good.

>>6932623
>why should poor people be sterilized
ftfy

>>6932623
Hmm Pokemon Stadium 2 perhaps so I can play with him. It will challenge and sharpen his mind more than most games once you teach him the meta.

N64, and Mario 64. It'll last the kid for a long time.

Get him a PS1 instead
Fuck those N64 prices, it isn't worth it

>>6933093
Damn I'm a filthy Zoomer and I never realized that N64 games were so expensive. How come one N64 game back then is more expensive than a triple A game now, after decades of inflation?

PS prices look pretty chad, though. I know the Saturn itself was expensive but were the games at least cheap?

>>6933093
next thing you know someone will be insisting it's called N64 Super Mario

>>6932623
I'll get him Tony Hawk's pro skater so he can be a skatechad. His friends can bring over controllers and mario kart, goldeneye, etc. for sleep overs.

>>6933116
>imported

>>6933116
Cartridge production costs. Going with cartridges was Nintendo's biggest mistake for the console. Cost more to produce than CDs but with a fraction of the size, the largest available was only 64mb

>>6932623
I will get him an apple pippin so it will discouraged him from ever wasting is time in the pointless pursuit of video games.

>>6932623
Mario 64, it's what every kid wanted
Otherwise I'd probably want to get him a PS1 and Crash

Banjo kazooie is a straight upgrade from mario64 by every metric

Orcarina of time

PlayStation the chad console and this of course.

>>6932676
>but nobody cared because 64 was that good.
Nice larp kiddo, even N64-dedicated magazines were asking what the shit was up with the laughable number of launch title releases and the amount in the next six months.

On topic I will say 007 Goldeneye. Ocarina of Time would be a close second consideration, but I think a complete videogame should have an element of dexterity and demand reflexes and OoT lacks that. Buying both of them would actually complement each other nicely.

>>6932663
I disliked the game on release. Clunky controls and way too easy compared to SMB3, Super Mario World, and Yoshi's Island.

4 hits to die and coins that regen health is babbies first Mario tier.

If I could only get one game it'd be Goldeneye hands down. A rich SP experience with tons of replay value, and good MP if his friends bring over their controllers.

>>6936732
Yea, these Zoomers don't remember the slow trickle of games. Which was fine because at $75-85 a pop you'd only get 1-2 games a year anyway.

Nintendo's biggest mistake (aside from losing all 3rd party support due to predatory business practices) was not getting OOT out by November 1997.

By the end of 1998 there was a decent library, but the PSX had already released a half dozen blockbusters and had the sports, traditional JRPG, and fighter genres on lock down.

>>6936109
they're pretty different feeling games

>>6936838
Jeremy Parish famously bought an N64 on release day only to sell it a year later to buy a PS1 after there was nothing decent to play.

>>6936867
> Jeremy Parish

Who? More importantly, why do I care about his choice of vidya system?

>>6932623
I buy them one of those cost-reduced NES top-loaders and a library of used games instead.