The old ones are still the best.... perhaps
I still own our original 1980s Atari games console. It's the only games console in the house and it's attached to a 38" LCD TV but it's still the business!

We had some friends with their 7-year-old over a few months ago. Now he has games consoles of all shapes and sizes but has evidently never heard of a time when a games console didn't have enough memory for a screen buffer. His dad, however, being a similar age to me, identified the Atari immediately and when I said it still worked was keen for a go.

The three of us spent the next couple of hours playing the original space invaders, asteroids and most importantly "combat" - a game so rudimentary and yet so incredibly fun that you can't help getting into it. I don't remember who won but by the time they were dragged away to head home the little lad was having so much fun he issued a line which can't have been heard in these parts for the last 20 years at least:

"Dad! Can we get an Atari? PLEASE!!!"
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Mon 8 Nov 2010, 11:16, 3 replies)

this
Combat was as awesome game. Invisible tanks and bouncy bullets was the bollocks.
(inflateable, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 7:59, closed)

That's fantastic.. goes to show that a game doesn't need flashing dingdongs and doowads to be entertaining.
(wankymcwankwank Eels, tobacconists, hovercraft and bouncy bouncy., Tue 9 Nov 2010, 9:36, closed)

Exactly!
It's what you put into a game that makes it entertaining rather than the technology behind it. A bit of good-humoured rivalry trumps all the fancy 3D rendering or 15-channel sound in the world.
( Ugi , it's a game of give and cake, Tue 9 Nov 2010, 10:46, closed)

Well, if you liked combat you'd REALLY like battle mode in Rush 2049 on the Dreamcast (best version) could probably pick one up for about £20 and if you had trouble finding a copy of the game I could send you one.
(Benzyl, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 22:16, closed)