These days, Windows PCs that aren't complete potatoes cost as much as some Macs, while even the low-end Macbooks are still very capable machines compared to low-end PCs. That helped facilitate my switch.
I remember my parents played Myst and The 7th Guest together. I played them a bit, but I was more interested in Zelda and Final Fantasy on SNES. I did play Doom, Wolfenstein, and Heretic/Hexen with my dad, though.
My SNES came bundled with A Link to the Past, which was the most amazing game I'd ever played up to that point. I also got Mortal Kombat II, which was one of the best arcade to home conversions pre-PS1, and was a harbinger of Nintendo's reversal of its censorship policies. It was ironically released 1 week before the industry-wide ESRB ratings system went live, so it just had a small warning label on the front of the box. Nintendo had tried to be family friendly in response to Congressional threats to regulate the video game industry, but they lost big on the first MK game.
Super Metroid was another near-perfect SNES game, still arguably my favorite side-scroller of all time. I was disappointed when Nintendo never made a Metroid game for the N64.
Honestly, I don't either. Mac works with my iPhone, and its free applications are as good as Microsoft Office. Plus, the computer has a lot less bloatware.
It doesn't do a lot of games, since a lot of game companies seem to have given up on the Mac market even before Apple switched from Intel to Apple Silicon, though it does include a few. You can even get Resident Evil Village on the App Store, and I have Cities Skylines on mine. But for everything else, I like my Macbook better than I ever did Windows, which now seems hopelessly clunky and bloated by comparison. My Mac never randomly shuts down to update itself.
My cousin had one of these. It had pretty rocking audio, since he had it hooked up to the speaker and the Genesis used a Yamaha synthesizer for its sound. I actually enjoyed Sonic as much as the SNES Mario games, and I almost got one for Mortal Kombat I. Then the SNES came out with a Zelda bundle and an excellent version of Mortal Kombat II.
I discovered a lot of Genesis gems on PC digital platforms like Gametap and Steam, and I have the Genesis Collection on Switch, which has the entire Phantasy Star series and both Shining Force games. I just wish we could get Lunar 1 and 2.
They still are, especially now that Apple is using Apple Silicon instead of a x86 architecture. But I don't really use computers for gaming, and my MacBook is amazing for everything I need it for.
I didn't have a NES. A friend down the street did. His parents got tired of me hanging around all the time, I think. Zelda and Zelda II were the most amazing games I'd ever played, and I still love both of them. Dragon (Quest) Warrior and Faxanadu were my first exposure to Japanese RPGs, and the NES version of Ultima III: Exodus was my first Western RPG (along with Alternate Reality on Atari 8-bits), albeit done with a Japanese graphical and musical facelift.
I'm mostly familiar with the Apple II because it was the default computer in schools when I was in school, and there weren't many of them to go around. And mostly, we were limited to educational applications (I learned how to type 60 WPM on an Apple II at school) and edugames like Oregon Trail. Every once in awhile there'd be something like Montezuma's Revenge or Pulsar II (a Star Castle clone), and I think I saw Karateka for Apple II once. It wasn't as good of a gaming computer as the Atari 8-bit line, but in school, we took what we could get, lol.
Nowadays I am a Mac user and haven't touched Windows outside of work for almost ten years.
I missed the Colecovision. I was a little young, and plus my family had computers at home. I didn't get my first dedicated gaming systems until the Game Boy in 1989 and the SNES in 1994, so I had to mooch off of my friends, who went from the Atari 2600 to the NES. I will say that the Atari 8-bit computer version of Donkey Kong was awesome, and it was one of the few versions that had all four levels from the arcade. Most versions dropped the Cement Factory screen, including the NES version that Nintendo itself made.
The Colecovision games that look the most interesting to me are the ports of Exidy games like Mouse Trap, Venture, and Pepper II, mostly because those are hard to find otherwise. I think there's a Colecovision collection on Steam.
Tears of the Kingdom is my most anticipated game. My second most anticipated game already came out - Fire Emblem Engage.
