Classic & Retro Gaming Thread (7 Viewers)

[trevelfarandwide]

Since most modern games leave me unstimulated, bar the odd bash on MGS or Dead Island 1/2 etc, I really have no time for contemporary gaming. It's just my preference, not a statement.

I have a few Emulators on my laptop, since sadly ALL of my classic consoles were destroyed by a leak in my attic: SNES, Megadrive, NEO GEO, Dreamcast, NES...all gone. It was tragic. But anyway:

This afternoon, as a Sunday tradition now, I've been playing on my SNES Emulator with my eldest child: she loves the retro games like Mario Allstars, Mariokart, Donkey Kong and Pop n' Twinbee. She's actually better than me at Mario platform games, somehow.

Anyone else enjoy a spot of retro gaming, here?

 

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[speedie87]

Yeah still enjoy playing on my spectrum emulator

 

[Nick]

I put PlayStation now on for the older games, the only one that I could keep playing was mortal kombat.

 

[ccfc92]

Unfortunately, game company's seem to be regurgitating games, rather than thinking of new ideas. (Like COD 4 remastered for example)

We seem to have stalled in the gaming world for the time being

 

[Adge]

Mame multi arcade machine emulator. All the classics on there, Pacman, space invaders, Phoenix, Asteroids, Mr Do etc etc. Some newer games aswell-check it out!

 

[Adge]

You have to find the rims though that make it work, but plenty of them sites out there too.

 

[Marty]

I'm bored of newer gaming too. Had my ps2 out and been on SSX Tricky lately.

 

[ccfc92]

I'm bored of newer gaming too. Had my ps2 out and been on SSX Tricky lately.

A week after I bought my PS4, I was playing Godfather 2 on my PS3 :/

 

[trevelfarandwide]

Yeah still enjoy playing on my spectrum emulator

Now that's serious retro gaming.

I know it's not strictly legal, and I won't promote their use, however emulators are just the ticket for those who love old games, but no longer have the consoles or resources to play them.

Speaking of arcade gaming, Adge, ever own a NEO GEO? The emulators are still glitchy, but it was a quality console; pricey games, but well worth it.

 

[skybluedan]

Now that's serious retro gaming.

I know it's not strictly legal, and I won't promote their use, however emulators are just the ticket for those who love old games, but no longer have the consoles or resources to play them.

Speaking of arcade gaming, Adge, ever own a NEO GEO? The emulators are still glitchy, but it was a quality console; pricey games, but well worth it.

My bro had the neo geo , ok but a few issues here and there

It will always be track and field for me, quality with a few of ya
And I had it on me old Xbox 360 but then it went and don think you can get it from them now
And mariokart was quality as well

 

[smouch1975]

Mame is the go

There a retro game communities here on tap a talk

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[Adge]

Now that's serious retro gaming.

I know it's not strictly legal, and I won't promote their use, however emulators are just the ticket for those who love old games, but no longer have the consoles or resources to play them.

Speaking of arcade gaming, Adge, ever own a NEO GEO? The emulators are still glitchy, but it was a quality console; pricey games, but well worth it.

No never heard of it-is that another emulator?

 

[Corrado]

fair few old school games here, keeps me amused on slow days at work https://archive.org/details/internetarcade&tab=about

 

[trevelfarandwide]

No never heard of it-is that another emulator?

Neo Geo (system) - Wikipedia

It's an arcade simulator, mate, a pretty hefty console system for 1990. The emulators were still glitchy, but I think the neoRagex5 was probably the best.

It has a good catalogue of games/ROMS if one has the time to look.

 

[covmark]

Sensible soccer, the best game ever made. Had it on the Amiga 1200. Still have it on my PC. You can get updates to get more recent players.

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[Covstu]

Classics like paperboy, golden axe, street fighter, MK, elite 2, cannon fodder. It's endless!

 

[stupot07]

Loved many of the games mentioned above (sensible soccer, MK, paperboy, street fighter, etc), would also add Lemmings into the mix!

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[trevelfarandwide]

It's also worth mentioning, a lot of games of that era were feckin' well hard to complete.

Anyone remember The Chaos Engine for PC, Amiga and SNES? Took me 3 months to get through that, and 6 weeks of that was solid gaming through the summer holidays.

Also, I borrowed a Japanese Famicom from a friend once, he had some quality imported/exclusive titles on it, but the toughest was Gradius 2 or 3. Serious button mashing.

Also, and I know some of us will always remember our first time doing this: the first controller I smashed in frustration was playing MK on the SNES, bloody Shang Tsung...I gnashed on the thing first, then hoyed it up the wall.

 

[Covstu]

Loved Chaos Engine, top game on the Amiga. Also Zool was good, always loved Monkey Island was a top game that was. Syndicate was another amazing game! Speedball 2 I used to play for hours

I remember buying Beneath a steel sky and it come with about 13 floppy discs. You were forever changing discs on every screen!

 

[Nick]

Won't beat Cool Spot or Toe Jam and Earl

 

[Marty]

I got a mega drive 2 for Christmas when I was about 7. The only game I had was called 'super skid marks'. Absolutely class racer.

 

[Covstu]

super skid marks was great!!

 

[trevelfarandwide]

Anyone remember Gain Ground for the Sega Master System? Alex the Kidd? Cloud-Master? Addictive is the only word I can use that describes those games.

 

[skybluedan]

Sensi soccer , outrun , power drift , California games, the way of the exploding fist and double dragon

 

[Covstu]

IK+ was cool as well

 

[covmark]

Sensi soccer , outrun , power drift , California games, the way of the exploding fist and double dragon

Yeah!! Double dragon what a game! Forgot about that.
Anyone play Road Rash 2?
Bubble Bobble?

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[skybluedan]

Shinobi, altered beast

 

[skybluedan]

I had a game called kickstart 2 for the spectrum 48k or Commodore 64 and I loved it
Actually thinks it was the 64

 

[trevelfarandwide]

Anyone remember the arcade in Gosford Street? Full of quality arcade games, even a retro Outrun at some point, oh my weekends were expensive as a kid.

Sega Saturn was a tidy little system as well, I loved the Panzer Dragoon games and Nights. Fighters Megamix was, in my opinion, THE underappreciated beat-em-up of the 90's.

 

[skybluedan]

Used to love leisure land near parsons nose , first place I ever played kick and run was quailty

 

[Covstu]

Spent most of my dinner money on street fighter 2 in the mini market on ball hill! Used to love arcade games. WWF was another classic, playing legion of doom at the end

 

[Adge]

Anyone remember the arcade in Gosford Street? Full of quality arcade games, even a retro Outrun at some point, oh my weekends were expensive as a kid.

Sega Saturn was a tidy little system as well, I loved the Panzer Dragoon games and Nights. Fighters Megamix was, in my opinion, THE underappreciated beat-em-up of the 90's.

Yep-paradise amusements! The bunk off from schoolers would always congregate there.

 

[ajsccfc]

WWF was another classic, playing legion of doom at the end

Now you're talking.



I shudder to think how much pocket money I put into that, never would have believed that years later I could just download it and hundreds of others for free on an emulator

 

[Covstu]

That's the badboy!

 

[vow]

Anyone remember the arcade in Gosford Street? Full of quality arcade games, even a retro Outrun at some point, oh my weekends were expensive as a kid.

Sega Saturn was a tidy little system as well, I loved the Panzer Dragoon games and Nights. Fighters Megamix was, in my opinion, THE underappreciated beat-em-up of the 90's.

Remember it well, they had Tron in there, which I loved as a kid, the movie too!
Dragon's lair (not everyone's cupo'tea) was down my local video shop on Rotherham road and played it a lot.