[Closed] The Best 16 Bit console was...

Probably.

Though it pains me as an ST owner to say it, in hindsight the best 16-bit platform was probably the Amiga.

SNES.

Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Mario Kart, Secret of Mana etc.

Oh, what joy it was to be young ............

Price of games was a bit salty, mind.

Mega Drive for me

Megadrive, although I was always impressed by the Atari Lynx.

I had a SNES

Mario
Mario Kart
Zelda
SF2
Many happy hours playing Pilotwings

Gutted when I moved house - got it out the loft , borked!

If I was going to have one now, it would be a SNES. With Chrono Trigger and SFII. Back in the day though... I did love Sonic.

Had the MD and the SN and for me Nintendo took it much further with the various fx chip,games and graphics processor than Sega struggled to do with the 32x, Mega CD.

I mean Starfox, Mario Kart, Super Mario World, Streetfighter II, Super Star Wars, etc, etc 😯

Loved my MD too but for sheer pushing on with technology Nintendo really did wring out the good old SN.

Struggling to think of MD classics like I can Nintendo. The Immortal anyone?

Never got into Pilotwings 🙄

Amiga FTW

megadrive + roadrash

that is all

Good point succinctly put yunki lad

I played Mario on the SNES so much at one point that I started to hear the "ching" of collecting the coins even when I wasn't playing... 😯

The Amiga and ST weren't consoles though.

Fair point.

Everyone I knew that had a Megadrive always claimed it was better, but it was always Mario Kart at my place when we got together…

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God knows how much of my student life this devoured. My daughter now absolutely loves playing it on my iphone 😀

PC Engine

R-Type

SNES

Though my PC Engine GT was pretty rad

The PC Engine was actually an 8 bit console, but was almost a match for the megadrive in terms of graphics. I've still got a handheld one and very much enjoy Splatterhouse and PC Kid 2.

For me the ultimate 16 bit console is a Super Famicom or US SNES, running at 60hz through an RGB cable, giving a much clear picture, no screen borders and about 15% faster gameplay compared to a UK SNES.

Favourite games were Castlevania 4, Contra Spirits, Axeley, Super Street Fighter II, Dracula X, Area 88, Geoman Ninja and Super Mario 4.

Although Super Shinobi, Eswat, Steel Empire and Strider were all very good on the Megadrive

SNES + Super Smash TV

Happy times, happy times. Student nights in Leeds, cheap booze + pot noodles & hours of SSTV on a portable telly.

yunki +1 yesssss! 😀

Another + 1 for yunki, although I'd add speedball and super smash tv

chaos engine . . .

Snes for me.

Used to love beating my older brother playing Killer Instinct. Starwing was awesome too.

+1 what Gachet says about the American SN and Jap Super Famicom.

I went through 2 of the purple breeze blocks and the brother in law paid 300 sheets for a Jap SF 😯

Vastly superior experience, the official pal versions actually disgusted me back then.

+1 for SUPER Smash TV

I'm starting one of my favourite SNES games of all time tonight (this time with my boys watching)
Final Fantasy VI (otherwise known as Final Fantasy III).
Watched the intro last night and was instantly sucked in again!

I still have many of the SNES games and an ugly US SNES (although I'm playing FFVI on the PS3 as it's more convenient and was only £3.99!)

patriotpro - Member
Never got into Pilotwings

Disgraceful!

🙂

Yeah it had to be an import SNES, though trying to swap between the two played havoc with one's SFII combo timings...

There're a surprising number of 16bit games that still stand up well today. SFII, Mario World, Mario Cart, Sonic, Chrono Trigger... I think 2d was pretty much nailed at that point. There's not much from the 8bit era that I'd actually play out of choice today, even stuff like Mario Bros feels decidedly dated. And don't get me started on how replaying Spectrum games crushes happy memories...

don't get me started on how replaying Spectrum games crushes happy memories...

Really? I was playing Atic Atac only last week, and it's still ace.

I dug a few out (not Atic Atac to be fair) and I just found them horrendous! I used to love the Dizzy games but now they just enrage me 🙁

Zelda Link to the Past is still massive playable and enjoyable, and not in an ironic retro way.

SNES here.

SF2
Pilot wings
Bomberman
SF2 Turbo
Super SF2 the new challengers
Mario world
Yoyshi's island
NBA jam
Mario cart.

Megadrive and I still play sonic too 😀

Panasonic 3DO. Still got mine complete with the original Need for Speed.

3do was 32 bit bear. Had one of them too. It's version of Road Rash and Need 4 Speed were out of this world at the time. 🙂

Care to share your NFS top score 💡 🙂

I'd have known both of those facts 20 years ago!

Edit: about 17 years thinking about it...

I was only allowed proper computers (pc's) but the megadrive was the one to have at our school. Sonic was the game of choice.

Ataris were (wrongly) the games computer of choice but does anyone remember the ENDLESS disc swapping

Bear, 32bit is written on top of the 3DO... 🙄

SNES, still play it nowadays! NBA Jam is awesome! Fancy getting a copy of Zombies, borrowed it out years ago but never saw it again:(

Super Off-Road

Wow, Zombies Ate My b Neighbours 8)

Is it? Oh heck. It's been sat in cupboard for a long time!

Had both and SNES was the winner.

SF2 turbo
Mario kart
Secret of mana
Super tennis
Contra 3
Final fight

SNES was the greatest console of all time...............

SNES all the way

Some of the games still stand up today.

Yoshi's Island for instance - brilliant.

Out of all the iterations of Super Mario Kart, the original SNES one is still the best

3D0 had an early ARM processor in it, didn't it?

SNES

Mariokart, SF2, Mario World.

Spent far too long playing SF2 Turbo.

remember the ENDLESS disc swapping

Oh good god yes (but on the Amiga). Pointy click adventures were the worst, Monkey Island 2 and Beneath a Steel Sky had like 17 discs each

MD for me with Speedball

and

NBA Jam ... still use the sayings "can't buy a bucket" when I have one of those days where everything seems to go wrong... and of course "from down town" when you hit the bin with a paper ball from distance... 😀

As a random aside, the PC version of Beneath a Steel Sky is officially freeware these days if you want to relive it.

http://www.gog.com/gamecard/beneath_a_steel_sky

I should play it again really, one of the few P&C games I didn't complete. I eventually resorted to a walkthrough and I apparently needed a rubber band to get past where I was stuck (something about stopping a bomb from being dropped out of a plane IIRC), but didn't have such a thing and it wasn't mentioned anywhere else in the guide.

EDIT - just spotted that a sequel was greenlit at the back end of last year, too. Cool.

I replayed BaSS not long ago, and still loved it. Even the copy protection mechanic was rather nicely integrated into the game itself.

SNES by a mile. The games managed to pull you in and always rewarded time put in.

Mariokart - snes version is one of the bast racing games ever imo. Played for years and years and years. Still played with an old friend at least once a year.
Street Fighter 2 Turbo - immense 2 player
Bomberman - frantic multi player
Pilotwings - Ace one player
Zelda - brilliant
Sensible Soccer - Ace two player
Jimmy Conners Tennis - suprisingly good 2 player
Super Off Road - v good

SNES!

Zelda Link to the Past

Unsurpassed

I never really liked the feel of mega drive controllers.

The SNES always seemed to bat above it's own average, I think Nintendo's licensing fees really weeded the wheat from the chaff gmae wise - and Nintendo's own game designers were absolutely on fire in those days.

Regards Beneath a Steel Sky, earlier I said,

I eventually resorted to a walkthrough and I apparently needed a rubber band to get past where I was stuck

I've just dug up another walkthrough and I believe I've merged two games in my head. Was there something else around at the same time that looked / played similarly?

bearnecessities - Member
Is it? Oh heck. It's been sat in cupboard for a long time!

Resurrect it man! 😀

Mine gave up the ghost a long time ago 😥

I had a Mega Drive, but I'd have liked a SNES. Mostly for SF2, which eventually arrived on MD anyway.

MD was massively improved when they released the 6 button pad, which I preferred to the SNES one.

Also, Road Rash 2. Yes.

Sensible Soccer, Speedball2 and first and second samurai took up hours of time on my Amiga.

As did Cannon Fodder, happy days

The SNES was way superior to the mega drive if you ask me. You only had to compare the Mega Drive version of SF2 to the SNES version to see the difference. SNES also had mode 7 graphics which games like mario kart and F zero utilised.

Whilst moving a few weeks back I found my old snes with bomber man, street fighter, mario kart, star fox etc. I'm not sure whether turning it on will spoil the memories. ..

Rob: I've played Mario World and Zelda as recently as last year, they totally hold up! Reckon Star Fox might be best left alone, always found that a touch underwhelming at the time as it was.

Just remembered, Shadowrun on the Snes was a cracker too! I remember getting caught by my mum (aged 10) pulling an all nighter on it on a school night. Somehow managed to convince her to phone me in sick but god I got a hiding for it!

http://harebrained-schemes.com/shadowrun/

In a past life, I used to GM the Shadowrun pen & paper RPG.

SNES FTW

I was working full time when these consoles were out and I couldn't afford one.

Resurrect it man!

If I get snowed in and have to WFH Monday, I will 😀

SNES gets my vote.

SNES by a mile.
I remember the day I bought mine in the sale from Toys "R" Us in Teesside Park. It was £70 of hard earned paper round money. I probably only had 10 games, but they were expensive and I bought them with my own money. Wasn't Starwing £60? Seemed crazy but wasn't there 3D hardware in the games cartridge or something?

Super Mario World was and is still is my greatest game of all time. I have probably spent more of my life playing that game than anything else. And it all started at Yoshi's house.

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SNES with SF2 turbo with the up down left right thing that made it faster.

A-dap-dap-doo-ken, indeed.

Mega-drive, I held the level speed records for a couple of the sonic levels in sega power magazine. I can still do them now in my head. I once beat Danny Curly in a head to head, which is very geeky boast. Despite that I have managed to get a girlfriend.

@ ormondroyd - the 3do had a RISC processor I believe.

@ brakes - agree absolutely on Super Mario World. Spellbinding and Nintendo at their world-beating best generally with the SN. 8)

I also think many of the games wouldn't have been possible if it wasn't for the superb joypad.

Didn't it take Sega about 4/5 years to bring out a 6 button pad?!

Shadowrun on the SNES was fantastic, easily one of the best games I've ever played.

I have recently got my SNES out of the loft and started playing on it again. I was disappointed to find that the battery back up had died on my Super Mario World. All 96 levels gone!

It was a good excuse to start playing the game again. 🙂

I also had a go on my old N64 & Game Cube. Of the three, the games and visuals on the SNES are still the best. The N64 & Game Cube seem to have 'dated' more in my option. Where as the SNES was just as I remembered it. Happy Days!

IvanDobski - Member

Shadowrun on the SNES was fantastic, easily one of the best games I've ever played.

I also think my fondness for the SNES is partly due to it coinciding with my student years 🙂

I can't help but think that the remake will try and be too realistic and lose a lot of the charm.

Well, it's got a lot of the original team involved, for what difference that makes.

I'm a big fan of Shadowrun, I backed ...Returns on Kickstarter and everything, but to my chagrin I never played the SNES game. Maybe I should rectify that.

iBaa - Member

I have recently got my SNES out of the loft and started playing on it again. I was disappointed to find that the battery back up had died on my Super Mario World. All 96 levels gone!

It was a good excuse to start playing the game again.

I also had a go on my old N64 & Game Cube. Of the three, the games and visuals on the SNES are still the best. The N64 & Game Cube seem to have 'dated' more in my option. Where as the SNES was just as I remembered it. Happy Days!

Still got my GameCube, complete with GameBoy Advance player - GBA games on the telly, whoo!
Playing Ocarina of Time again at the mo - it's just as good as it was the first time.
GameCube was massively under rated - still has some of the best ever Nintendo games.

Wish I'd have kept my N64 too, but I traded it in for a Playstation years ago. Idiot.

I hope you're all happy - I've spent all day playing mario on the zsnes emulator!

aphex_2k - Member

SNES with SF2 turbo with the up down left right thing that made it faster.

A-dap-dap-doo-ken, indeed.
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I remember completing mario world, all 96 exits inc the secret ones.

I'm a big fan of Shadowrun, I backed ...Returns on Kickstarter and everything, but to my chagrin I never played the SNES game. Maybe I should rectify that.

Oh yes you should with no delay!

SNES with SF2 turbo with the up down left right thing that made it faster.

Up Down Left Right Y B X A. I have muscle memory for that one!

Except its not up down.. good memory..

Out of all the iterations of Super Mario Kart, the original SNES one is still the best

^^ Yes it is!

Except its not up down.. good memory..

Is it not? Are you sure...!

Up left down right...?

Sadly sitting here with imaginary snes pad and using trumpeted muscle memory!

Put me out of my misery!