Old games, nostalgia

[Snotnarok]

I have the original Mario and Sonic games on my Wii aswell as Donkey Kong Country. Bloody hell they are alot harder than I remember!

Anyone own a Wii? Recommend me a game on virtual Console.

If you're into Zelda games try Beyond Oasis for Genesis, if you like Sonic/Mario games try Rocket Knight Adventures. (if these games are not on Virtual Console I don't know, I have the games so I never had to buy them)

 

[Dommyboy]

I have been playing DOOM a bit. Does anyone know of a version of DOOM where you can use your mouse to aim? That would make the game so much better for me.

 

[Jandau]

Bahamut Lagoon - Best SNES Game Ever!
Then comes what little Super Robot Wars got translated into english.
Assorted JRPGs for SNES

That's before I even get started on my collection of NES games, some of which are in german. I don't know proper german to this day, makes them more challenging

And then my assortment of GBA games. Sadly, my GBA and most of my cartridges were lost several years ago in an accident involving a backpack and a large body of water, so I'm stuck with ROMs and emulators. It's just not the same...

Let's not forget the old PC classics. Every few years I sit down to the good old games such as Tie Fighter, X-Com, Monkey Island, etc.

Oh, and that's before I touch on my bargain bin diving and used game browsing. Yesterday I sat down to the PC version of FF7. Assuming I can grow to accept the horrible character design, I might get to enjoy the game.

So yeah, I'm pretty nostalgic...

 

[naftali1]

God I miss those games. I still play them on the original consoles when I can. My neighbor has a Sega Genesis that I still play old Sonic and Mortal Kombat games on.

 

[Kermi]

I haven't honestly played any of them past silver but I heard it's at like 300 or something now??

Ha! You wish it was only 300!

 

[Graustein]

Honestly, I still sometimes play Pokemon red on my game boy. It's too much fun!

I could play that again I think, it was a great fun game from what I recall and it didn't seem to be as ridiculous as these new ones. I haven't honestly played any of them past silver but I heard it's at like 300 or something now??

493 at last count, not including the different forms that some of them have these days.
I've had the urge to play Civilization 2 again recently. That game was part of my formative years and is very dear to me.

 

[Hithel]

Xcom: Ufo-Defence and Jagged Alliance 2.

To this day there are no better turn based tactical games that has surpassed these games despite both being 10+ years old. Sadly a dead genre.

 

[bkd69]

Xcom: Ufo-Defence and Jagged Alliance 2.

To this day there are no better turn based tactical games that has surpassed these games despite both being 10+ years old. Sadly a dead genre.

I absolutely love WH40K: Squad Command on the PSP, but yes, that's the only recent turn based tactical I can think of, though there may well be some smaller PC titles out there.

 

[Antiparticle]

Do you think playing them on the original controller would make the whole retro gaming more fun? Or it doesn't make a difference.

Oh yes, indeed! It's much better with the original controller. It just doesn't feel right to play retro games with a clunky 360 controller or fancy Wiimote. The Wii Virtual Console pause menu or Xbox 360 achievements popping up also really disrupt the feeling of nostalgia. But like I said, I'm lazy, I usually don't feel like hooking up my old consoles just to play a quick game of Mario or Sonic. From time to time I will have a 'retro day' though, hook them up and play many games from days gone by for hours, that's always very nice.

 

[Snotnarok]

Honestly, I still sometimes play Pokemon red on my game boy. It's too much fun!

I could play that again I think, it was a great fun game from what I recall and it didn't seem to be as ridiculous as these new ones. I haven't honestly played any of them past silver but I heard it's at like 300 or something now??

493 at last count, not including the different forms that some of them have these days.
I've had the urge to play Civilization 2 again recently. That game was part of my formative years and is very dear to me.

493?! Holy crap, no, I'm glad I ended my journey at only 151 pokemon, they were far more ...collectible?...Unique?...Less stupid? Anyway yeah red or blue, would be good enough for me, I'm fine with skipping the pokemon zillion edition.

Do you think playing them on the original controller would make the whole retro gaming more fun? Or it doesn't make a difference.

Oh yes, indeed! It's much better with the original controller. It just doesn't feel right to play retro games with a clunky 360 controller or fancy Wiimote. The Wii Virtual Console pause menu or Xbox 360 achievements popping up also really disrupt the feeling of nostalgia. But like I said, I'm lazy, I usually don't feel like hooking up my old consoles just to play a quick game of Mario or Sonic. From time to time I will have a 'retro day' though, hook them up and play many games from days gone by for hours, that's always very nice.

I just did that with my cousin, a retro gaming day to be remembered, my Sega Genesis and his Super Nintendo, we beat Sonic 1, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Hyperstone Heist, Vectorman, Sonic 3. Admittedly we didn't play as much SNES as I'm not big on Mario and we were switching off levels on single player games.

Probably that lack of blast processing (jk).

But yeah it's surprising that the controller/system/inserting of cartridge makes for fun retro nostalgia time, I was curious if anyone else felt that way and lo' I've found someone else who's done it and had fun. Awesome

 

[Antiparticle]

But yeah it's surprising that the controller/system/inserting of cartridge makes for fun retro nostalgia time, I was curious if anyone else felt that way and lo' I've found someone else who's done it and had fun. Awesome

Oh yeah, it definitely needs to be the original console and original controller and such for the true, wonderful retro experience. That's why I'll never ever throw my old consoles away, emulation is merely approximation. Not to mention that most old games (including some very cool ones) will never be released on VC/XBLA. Oh, and it costs money to buy them a second time, of course.. also a good reason to keep the old consoles around.

 

[Fightbulb]

I still play Hyperstone Heist once in a while, and I still play the 2D Sonic games occasionally. Also, Megaman games. My NES and both my Megadrives don't work anymore though.

 

[Snotnarok]

But yeah it's surprising that the controller/system/inserting of cartridge makes for fun retro nostalgia time, I was curious if anyone else felt that way and lo' I've found someone else who's done it and had fun. Awesome

Oh yeah, it definitely needs to be the original console and original controller and such for the true, wonderful retro experience. That's why I'll never ever throw my old consoles away, emulation is merely approximation. Not to mention that most old games (including some very cool ones) will never be released on VC/XBLA. Oh, and it costs money to buy them a second time, of course.. also a good reason to keep the old consoles around.

Yeah, I figured out that some games on virtual console cost as much as buying 60% of the original games on the real console from amazon/ebay.

 

[DethFan666]

SM64 I love that game.

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Why does everybody forget about arcade games?

 

[Snotnarok]

Why does everybody forget about arcade games?

I was asking if you missed games from the home that were ported to another console, I guess that qualifies too but to be honest I've never played in an arcade. That is if you dont cont house of the dead

 

[BallPtPenTheif]

Why does everybody forget about arcade games?

I was asking if you missed games from the home that were ported to another console, I guess that qualifies too but to be honest I've never played in an arcade. That is if you dont cont house of the dead

Must be an age gap thing I suppose. The games I emulate the most though are old arcade ROMS. They are fun, short, nostalgic little bursts of awesome that you can finish in an hour or two.

 

[Snotnarok]

Maybe, I'm going on 23 in a few days. I've been to an arcade but I pretty much stuck to my Genesis and my cousin's SNES when I was a kid. The closest I've come to arcade is emulated but that's only playing it that way, never in an actual arcade so I'm not sure I'd get the same experience you'd have in an arcade.
There is one Arcade game I want to play but it was a ball control, so I'm again losing out on the experience. Sega Sonic Arcade is the only classic sonic game I missed out on, and it looked awesome from what I saw on youtube.

 

[Rajin Cajun]

Oh man this takes me back I remember playing on an old Atari Comp with actual floppy discs. I loved Ghostbusters oh and Defender of the Crown only because I loved the jousting tournies.

 

[vede]

While I'm only fifteen, I have lots o' nostalgia. Not for games I played back then, but to see where games started, what got them going. Turns out, I really love games from back in the NES days.

I love it when games don't try to do more than they really do. Which is why I like old games. The people then knew what their limitations were, and stuck to them. The games were exactly what they claimed to be, and almost always achieved what the developers were going for.

Now we have developers that are always trying to have a world that's supposed to be totally dynamic and have awesome AI and have cool stuff and eight hundred thousand weapons to use and weapon upgrades, then end up having to release all of that, but half-way done.

Can't we just be satisfied with good gameplay and games that don't try to be what they're not?

Oh, right, getting off-topic. Games I like from way back when...

FF1 and LOZ1 are, in my opinion, the best of their franchises.

Xevious was an awesome shoot 'em up.