Retro Gaming

[ruskiiVFaussie]

lol???

[505thAirborne]

I Still have my old NES, with Super Mario Bros/Duck hunt, Rad Racer, Castlevania, Zelda, Contra, Mike Tyson's punch out (have all the cheats to that one) and of course TETRIS!! Probably 15 or so other games. I did have a Saturn just for the Macross games, but lost it years ago while moving...

Still have my PS2 as well, anyone have the Battlestar Galactica game and how the hell your supposed to Win???

Edited October 6, 2010 by 505thAirborne

[Keith]

Many years ago, my little brother lost my copies of Rad Racer & Batman for the NES. Suffice it to say, he has never been forgiven...

[shiroth]

Many years ago, my little brother lost my copies of Rad Racer & Batman for the NES. Suffice it to say, he has never been forgiven...

I hope your little brother is able to understand why you'll never be able to forgive him. :3

Finally got my Wii online, and oh my there's no many retro treasures to buy, and decent prices. A trip down memory lane is in order, with Super Metroid being first.

[bluemax151]

Many years ago, my little brother lost my copies of Rad Racer & Batman for the NES. Suffice it to say, he has never been forgiven...

lol

I think I've seen those at a flea market pretty frequently. Sans box and manual of course but the cartridges should be easy to replace.

Not sure if this is retro enough yet..

I actually recently picked up old big box (DVD size) PS1 versions of SF Alpha and Wing Commander III at the flea for a combined sum of $6. WC3 seemingly works fine on my PS3 btw. I've only played the first level thus far so problems could arise at any point I suppose.

Oooh.. a while ago I picked up a super famicon with Albert Odyssey(?) for $10. Don't think I mentioned that yet, pretty surprising find imo.

[Black Valkyrie]

Many years ago, my little brother lost my copies of Rad Racer & Batman for the NES. Suffice it to say, he has never been forgiven...

The same thing happen to me back in 92, when took my SNES Castlevania-IV to school, during the break the game was snatched, I was really abset but now its over, since I took his Saturn, which he doesn't care about and bought for it same games recently.

[Black Valkyrie]

General Question :

Looking back at the last two decades of gaming, do you think many game sound tracks were inspired by famous musical artists ?

[frothymug]

[David Hingtgen]

I think the reverse is true. I hear video games in a lot of recent music---most notably, I swear--Sonic the Hedgehog.

[Black Valkyrie]

For me yes, especially in 80s were many western musical artists became famous in Japan. Here are my some of my opinion :

Mega Man 7, Stage 1 inspires by (Europe - Seven Door Hotels).

Mega Man X, Stage 1 " " (YUNGUIE MALMSTEEN - Evil Eyes).

Contra 3, Final Stage, before the Final Boss (Aliens & Predator themes Remix).

Since Yunguie Malmsteen produced his first album Rising Force 1983 in Japan many of music was the inspiration for many of the games we know especially the RPGs and even in Gradius 3 you can here bits here and there.

[Ladic]

has anyone played the Konami Rebirth series on the Wii? (contra, gradius, castlevania) are they any good? worth buying?

[Black Valkyrie]

Gradius Rebirth is best one from all of the Rebirth series, followed by Contra (Genesis music style) then Castlevania (Genesis game OST).

Where is Salamander Rebirth.

Edited January 20, 2011 by Black Valkyrie

[Black Valkyrie]

Back to my old hobby :

[F-ZeroOne]

This is a little late - I've been away - but recently the Sinclair ZX Spectrum celebrated its 30th birthday. The humble "rubbber-keyed wonder" is widely credited with having created a nation of both gamers and games programmers in the UK, some of whom are still very much active today. Heres to tape loading, "BEEP" and colour clash!

Edited April 28, 2012 by F-ZeroOne

[Dangaioh]

Damnable fun thread.

Now, I just got to find some time to play with my Neo Geo Pocket (only game I have for it is Capcom vs SNK), and Cybernator for SNES.

[Shaorin]

Edited April 28, 2012 by Shaorin

[Black Valkyrie]

Very nice collection Shaorin, its nice that you have Arrow Flash .

Guess which system is getting a remake,

http://www.commodoreusa.net/CUSA_Home.aspx

[Keith]

Even I'm curious about where you got that mini Mega Drive.

[F-ZeroOne]

IIRC, it was a gachapon like collectors/trading item. Thats one heckuva collection, Shaorin!

[Shaorin]

Even I'm curious about where you got that mini Mega Drive.

IIRC, it was a gachapon like collectors/trading item.

and an EXTREMELY TOUGH one to find, to my experience.

i was very lucky indeed, that the woman EBAYing the Mamotte Shugogetten "Shaorin Shichiri"

TSUKUDA HOBBY Doll that i had found back in 2008;

(( http://en.wikipedia....tte_Shugogetten ))

- had this 1/6 Doll scale MD console set available at the same time;

- got the whole shebang for about $50shipped, IIRC. the console is definitely a bit smallish for the Non/Off-scale Shao doll,

but, for an exact 1/6 like Mikuru-chan back up there, the console seems perfectly-scaled, to my eye...

Edited April 29, 2012 by Shaorin

[Renato]

Cool, I don't think I've ever heard of Arrow Flash before. But I love shooters, so I'll try it out.

[Old_Nash]

If envy kills XD

[Shadow]

Awesome collection Shaorin.

The oldest console I have is an original Playstation. All of my older consoles (NES, Genesis, first PSX) ended up disappearing in a garage sale or broke. My parents sold my Genesis and most of the games without me even knowing about. Still have the Genesis Jurassic Park game and NHL '94.

Was also really into older PC titles. Played Microsoft FS 5.0, Microprose F-117A Nighthawk 2.0, X-Com: UFO Defense which was hard as hell for me as a kid. It still is.

The list goes on.

Edited May 4, 2012 by Shadow

[David Hingtgen]

Microprose F-117A Nighthawk

Ooooh. Spent many hours with that. Thought it had a much more accurate flight-model than F-15E Strike Eagle. (I still am annoyed at trying to land in Strike Eagle--it's like they completely forgot that the direction you're POINTING isn't necessarily the direction you're FLYING----coming in to land at low throttle with everything hanging out---if you have ONE degree nose up, you'll climb---and that is so wrong, even a 5-year-old has realized that planes can descend with their nose high by watching them land)

[Black Valkyrie]

As for now I'm changing most of my GBA game packages to DS cases. The Euro DS case are the best, you can fit in the GBA game booklet without any stress, including the Japanese GBA booklets, which are a bit longer.

[Black Valkyrie]

The golden era of gaming :

[Renato]

Yay! This thread is back!

Those videos are incredible! It's an odd feeling of nostalgia because I never actually went to any computer and electronics shows, but I did read about them in the magazines.

Great timing for this thread revival, too, as a couple of months ago i bought a SNES and have been playing lots of great games. Right now I'm playing Donkey Kong Land on the (Super) Game Boy and a multitude of variations of Puyo Puyo and Nazo Puyo.

[Shadow]

I think as a 7 year old, I would have been in heaven at that electronics show.

Alot of great nostalgia in both videos. I had some of the most fun with Road Rash 2 back in the day.

[Black Valkyrie]

Nice Renato, latelly I've thinking to get a Super Famicom/SNES, just for Konami's games, especially for Batman Returns.

Last night my White jap Saturn the Capcom's 4 Meg cart and the Universal Adaptor doesn't work with it, try`d so many times but no luck. Any idea.

Thanks.

[Shaorin]

Many years ago, my little brother lost my copies of Rad Racer & Batman for the NES. Suffice it to say, he has never been forgiven...

dammit, just pick some replacement copies up off the BAY or the like, and forgive your damn brother already.

i never forgave myself for years for trading off several of my SEGA GENESIS titles back in the early 90's.

more recently, i scored myself complete-condition JPN MEGA DRIVE versions of every one of those games i had parted with,

and i no longer even bother to look back...

Edited May 11, 2013 by Shaorin

[frothymug]

I loved Road Rash! Good times there!

To celebrate the start of my summer break, I've been playing some rather retro games. I have been playing Descent with the D1X Rebirth mod for modern computers. I plan on playing it through Descent 2 soon. Also, (although it isn't nearly as retro) I've been playing Metroid Prime. Finished the first game and am on the second game now. I haven't played the third yet, so I borrowed Metroid Prime Trilogy from my brother and I've been playing it on the Wii. One of the best games ever made, in my educated opinion.

Edited May 12, 2013 by frothymug

[Black Valkyrie]

[Black Valkyrie]

[Beltane70]

This thread has reminded me that I really need to get around to replacing the battery for the storage memory in my PCEngine DUO!

[the white drew carey]

I just started a job at a school for children 7-18 years old, and overheard two of the students (probably around 13-14) refer to PS2 and Xbox as "retro gaming". I had to suppress a chuckle.