How far back can you tolerate older games?

[Twiggy]

I guess I got myself spoiled a lot in the PlayStation 1 and Game Boy Pocket/Color/Advance era, as I find myself difficult to get to games originally for a system earlier than the SNES in their original forms.

[Luxray13579]

Oh, well I may win this one considering the system I can tolerate is older than our own admins and probably older than 95% of all the VR members. I happen to have a working Atari 2600, and I have no problem playing the games on there, and I even enjoy it!

[Fubab_107]

I can play older games no matter how far they go back. I really have no issue with them. There's maybe one or two I can't play because they haven't aged well. But those are mostly obscure games.

[GalliumGrant]

Seeing as I enjoy the NES and the Commodore 64, I really have no problem with really old games. In fact, I'm actually rather used to them. x3

[Yoshi648]

I got an Atari 2600, a Magnavox Odyssey 500 and Commodore 64 so what do you think?

[Cat333Pokémon]

It's not really the age of the game that matters to me. It's what the developers did with what they had.

[Eagles]

If arcade games count, then I'd probably change my answer to before the 80s. I'm sorry, just not a fan of the Atari. But yeah, mainly NES and up is awesomesauce(except for SEGA CD*shudder*).

[kakashidragon]

I like games when the NES came out, im sort of a old school person as i grew up when the NES was popular.

[JeffTheKiller]

Originally Posted by kakashidragon

I like games when the NES came out, im sort of a old school person as i grew up when the NES was popular.

I actually have a working NES around here somewhere, with the first two LoZ games, both gold.

I don't usually care how old a game is, if it's fun, I'll play it.

[TurtwigX]

I love all of my games and systems. The farthest back I can recall is a mix of the PlayStation and arcade games. On my PlayStation I would frequently play arcade classics like Ms. Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Pole Position, and Phozon. It took a while but I also went to a real arcade and got to experience those, even though I sacrificed plenty quarters/tokens since I was and still am not very good at them
Although I've never owned one, I can tolerate anything from NES onward. Sorry, Atari.

[Quadcentruo]

As Cat has already mentioned, it's not about the console, it's about what the developers did with their games. I could find a NES game to keep me entertained for hours just as I could find an Xbox 360 game to disgust me to the point where I stop playing it in 5 minutes.

[PokeRemixStudio]

Atari 2600 is where I draw the line.

[BluFire1337]

Originally Posted by Luxray13579

Oh, well I may win this one considering the system I can tolerate is older than our own admins and probably older than 95% of all the VR members. I happen to have a working Atari 2600, and I have no problem playing the games on there, and I even enjoy it!

I only have back to a working SNES. I can tolerate all the way back to the 2600 and well quite a bit before actually, but some Atari 2600 games are a bit rough overall, I find that there are some really great titles for it^^

[JeffTheKiller]

Originally Posted by Quadcentruo

As Cat has already mentioned, it's not about the console, it's about what the developers did with their games. I could find a NES game to keep me entertained for hours just as I could find an Xbox 360 game to disgust me to the point where I stop playing it in 5 minutes.

This is dependent on the type of game. For some consoles, a game will handle differently. I'm not saying that as is A person who predominately plays XBox playing the same game he's played nonstop for 5 weeks on a playstation, but like someone (like a let's player) who owns both an xbox and a playstation, the handling may be different. LPs like Markiplier and Pewdie even say this. Don't get me wrong, I totally agree about the devs work on there games. There are a lot of games that I've played where they just through it together like ikea furniture (Fable 3, in my opinion, is a good example.

[blueumbreon]

I very much enjoy NES games. I haven't really tried anything older, even with my presumably working Atari 2600. I think stuff from SNES/GEN era are my favorites.