Zenya 103 Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Hoi! I was wondering how many people here still play old video games, either from growing up with them or adopting the passion later on. Personally I'm very much a SEGA person myself. I never had any Nintendo consoles growing up. I have later gotten my hands on a Nintendo 64, but at my school we had 2 Mega Drives with Sonic games to use in free time. Please share your thoughts, I'd love to know who else has a passion for retro games. Link to comment
Guest FunkyPresident Posted July 27, 2017 Share Posted July 27, 2017 Count me in! I still play with my Nintendo NES and SNES from my childhood. Even though I could play some of the game blindfolded at least once a week I find myself playing them. Lately I keep thinking about buy a Sega Game Gear or maybe a mega drive or even a master system, because in my family my older brothers always had nintendo consoles and I pretty much adapted. Now I'm curious, do you any favorite game? If I had to choose I'd go with Probotector for the NES and Contra II for the SNES Link to comment
Zenya 103 Posted July 28, 2017 Author Share Posted July 28, 2017 I sure do. Sonic 3 on the Mega Drive. Neko-kun 1 Link to comment
Guest FunkyPresident Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Good choice, I used to play on the Mega Drive at my best friend's house and I confess I was envy because it seemed to me Sega had clearly the better graphics. By the way now that you mentioned I already started digging on eBay for the Game Gear and that glorious game called The GG Shinobi. How's the retro-gaming market where you live? Here in Italy is crazy expensive especially Nintendo :( Link to comment
Neko-kun 31 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Hiiiiii~ I had an Atari of a model I can't remember because on was too young, An NES, a Sega Genesis, and a Nintendo 64. Anything newer than that doesn't really sound retro to me. As far as playing games, I still do all the time. I love emulators. And I have an EverDrive for my N64. I really live retro inspired indie games too! Link to comment
Neko-kun 31 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 23 minutes ago, Anisha said: I sure do. Sonic 3 on the Mega Drive. Sonic 3 and Knuckles was the best sonic game ever made! Link to comment
Guest FunkyPresident Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 19 minutes ago, Neko-kun said: Hiiiiii~ I had an Atari of a model I can't remember because on was too young, An NES, a Sega Genesis, and a Nintendo 64. Anything newer than that doesn't really sound retro to me. As far as playing games, I still do all the time. I love emulators. And I have an EverDrive for my N64. I really live retro inspired indie games too! I always wanted to get a Retron 5, any of you ever tried it? One console with good compatibility with the actual cartridges/modules, seems cool Link to comment
Neko-kun 31 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 17 minutes ago, FunkyPresident said: I always wanted to get a Retron 5, any of you ever tried it? One console with good compatibility with the actual cartridges/modules, seems cool I've read quite a bit about them. They seem really nice if you already have the game collection. Unfortunately, pretty much my entire childhood was destroyed in a basement flood a long time ago so I don't have any of that stuff. And I refuse to pay what people wanna charge for it. Yay emulators. Link to comment
Guest FunkyPresident Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 17 minutes ago, Neko-kun said: I've read quite a bit about them. They seem really nice if you already have the game collection. Unfortunately, pretty much my entire childhood was destroyed in a basement flood a long time ago so I don't have any of that stuff. And I refuse to pay what people wanna charge for it. Yay emulators. Damn, that sucks..and you're right, sometimes people ask obscene amount of money. I was lucky enough because both of my older brothers were, and are, the biggest nintendo fan and every birthday or special occasion they asked only nintendo games so I have quite a collection, especially for the original Nes. Sometimes emulators are the only way, I've seen Nintendo games sold for 150 euros each O_O Link to comment
Neko-kun 31 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 18 minutes ago, FunkyPresident said: Damn, that sucks..and you're right, sometimes people ask obscene amount of money. I was lucky enough because both of my older brothers were, and are, the biggest nintendo fan and every birthday or special occasion they asked only nintendo games so I have quite a collection, especially for the original Nes. Sometimes emulators are the only way, I've seen Nintendo games sold for 150 euros each O_O That's awesome! My older brother wasn't a gamer at all. My younger brother followed in my footsteps quite a bit but he's not as hardcore into it as i am. I'm that guy who was raised by Nintendo that you hear about. Yeah, game prices are insane. Same with original controllers and other things you need for a good experience. I love gaming but I'm too happy with emulators. Link to comment
DespLover9021 66 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Im a retro gamer at heart for sure. Link to comment
MasterXploder 749 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 The SNES was my first console, and I still hold it in high regards today. It's still in my closet ready to be hooked up and played again if I ever feel the urge. Same with every other system I owned; I can't bring myself to throw away any of my gaming stuff from my childhood. In regards to emulation, I avoid it when possible. The only exceptions are when the game is obscenely expensive to acquire or has never been re-released digitally. That was the only way I could play Earthbound for my first playthrough back in 2011. Link to comment
Guest FunkyPresident Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 Ohh..that feeling when you can just hook a console to the tv and start playing the game right away I really miss it, nowadays is just "waiting for update" that sometimes drive me nuts lol Link to comment
Captain L 1,648 Posted July 28, 2017 Share Posted July 28, 2017 (edited) I'm certainly not an old-school gamer by any stretch (first console was the Wii), but there's certainly a handful of older games. Mostly Mega Man. I have my issues with the designs of old games, with a lot of them just being unnecessarily difficult, but sometimes I'm surprised how well they hold up. I stand by the original Zelda has aged horribly, but the original Metal Gear is still pretty fun. And there are other old franchises I enjoy, like Castlevania, classic Sonic (Sonic 1 is the best), Metal Slug, more people need to play Splatterhouse, and please go play Rocket Knight Adventures, best game on the Genesis hands down. Edited July 28, 2017 by Captain L (see edit history) Link to comment
Zenya 103 Posted July 30, 2017 Author Share Posted July 30, 2017 Awesome! Yeah, the times when you turned on a console and the game was already at the title screen in about 10 seconds, because they usually only displayed a few logos as an intro, and even so, you could skip it. Very few games these days allow you to skip that. Link to comment
Superspaced 19 Posted September 3, 2017 Share Posted September 3, 2017 Woah The original Legend of Zelda is amazing!!! Provided you have a map. Yeah it's certainly a guide game, but it's replay value due to the many choices you can make with dungeons and how you play/what items you get make it worthwhile. Link to comment
TVGuy 10,658 Posted September 6, 2017 🌟 OmoOrg VIP Share Posted September 6, 2017 I never had a console as a kid, my parents were too poor. We did, however, have a old, second hand, 386 computer that ran MSDOS. My favorite games on that had to be the Space Quest series. I'm not really into retro games, probably because the nostalgia simply isn't there for me, but sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I'll still play through SpaceQuest using DosBox. Link to comment
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