Built-in games: quantity or quality?

[Flojomojo]

I'm torn between the question of quality vs. quantity.

 

Flashback 2 and Activision Anthology have a nice round selection, but I wish they had it all in one place. I'm too greedy to be completely satisfied with limits.

 

On the other hand, I'd love to see a huge list of games, but after a certain point, it becomes ineffective to scroll through them all, and you won't really play them all after a certain point. Those pirate Famicom machines and emulators are fun for a while, but in some ways, less is more and it's nice to have someone make a selection.

 

Personally, I like the way Midway and Atari have done it -- largish selections of quality games, lots of variety, and few repeats between releases. I resent the Namco Museum releases, which have milked the same 6 games over and over again, even though we know they have other interesting, less popular games to share.

 

What do you want to see in future compilations?

[Laner]

Give me everything and the kitchen sink, por favor...

[sidcrowe]

Everything. Why the hell not?

[Shannon]

Everything and a favorites menu to make it easy to weed out the bad games.

[Dones]

American mentality would say "Everything you can put on it! Big, proud and loud!" Nothing wrong with that, just ask anyone who has built a MAME cab

 

I think a moderate sized (more big than small) would be the sweet spot. That way you get the best of both worlds: you hopefully get some of the best games, and yet feel that warm, fuzzy feeling when you collect many games.

[maibock]

I don't quite know how to vote on this. As long as the games are original(as in the FB2), I guess I'd prefer a big collection.

 

If the choice was between original/small collection VS redone/huge collection, I'd definitely would go with the smaller/original.. So it's quality over quantity in this instance..

[ATARIeric]

Give me a healthy selection of quality games

[brendano]

I want a sort of library of games when I turn on a tv game or play a compilation disc.

[Lord Thag]

I'd rather have a system with a cart port (even if it's just for 'offical release' stuff) so I could buy proprietary carts with 10-20 games on each. That way, you can get as many games as you want, and the system becomes collectable.