Gaming Discussions

[johnnyenglish]

I just lost my nerve and spent 16€ on this, not sure what to expect actually, given its actually really inexpensive.

But nonetheless these old games take me back to my old NES that I couldn't keep 😞 Kept my 1986 Gameboy but not the NES...


Do you play any sort of retro games, Emulator in the phone, PC, Custom Raspberry PI?

I used to go here to relax my mind and play Offroad Ironman, bomberman and streetfighter.

https://www.bestoldgames.net 


When the thing arrives, I'll take some photos of it.

[officialdjdmc]

I am in my 50's so pong was the first game I played at a friend's home.  I think (besides pinball) Space Invaders was the first arcade game I played.  We ended up holding off at our house until the atari 5200 came out, but layed my friends coleco vision and atari 2600 systems.  We used to have two arcades one was called the Fun Factory and I remember that was the best time going  there after going to dinner.  Good memories

[ThreeDee]

I cut my teeth on an Atari 2600 and a black & white 13" console TV

My mom working 2 jobs sometimes, raising me by herself .. she was still able to spoil me while struggling to make ends meet 

[Wally_AMD]

My parents had an Atari 2600 and NES that we used to play with as kids in the 90's. I can remember playing Frogger on the Atari and games like Duck Hunt, Mega Man, and Super Mario on the NES. We also had this Batman game that I thought was SO hard. The soundtrack was killer, though.

[mengelag]

I'm 43 so it was NES era for me for the most part. 

[Kamen_Kaiju]

mid 40's, I went from Atari to Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega, N64, Gamecube, PS, PS1, Xbox, PS2, PS3, Xbox One, PS4, PS5,.. and PS5 pushed me to PC gaming when it forced me to choose between performance or quality.

I've always used computers (since my Commodore 64 as a kid), but always preferred consoles for gaming.

Now I'm always building, upgrading, trying different GPU's and CPU's,.. the tinkering is almost as much fun as the gaming. The performance and quality of PC gaming is pretty great.

[Dimitron]

My very first "gaming platform" was one of those cheapo Brick Games (the ones with Tetris) back in 1993.
I got a NES in 1995 but got hooked on PC gaming during the early 2000s, mostly thanks to Diablo and DOOM.
But I still play a round of TMNT for the NES once in a while.

[RyoGrattius]

A few months back, I played through Chronotrigger for the first time with original hardware since my brother has the original copy. It was such a good experience and really cool playing it on an actual SNES. Retro games have such a charm to them that modern games just can't match.

Additionally, alongside my PC desk in my room, I also have a TV across my bed that my PC is hooked up to that I use for controller gaming, and I have a few emulators set up through steam big picture mode, similar to what people do with the steam deck. Its sick!

[Prince117]

I am 28 I started gaming at a young age my first console was a ps1 then I got ps2, xbox, xbox 360, wii u, psp, xbox one, xbox one x, then finally pc which I love and will never switch back to console.

[johnnyenglish]

AAAAWWWW MAN!!!! TOTALLY WORTH THE 16€

I know people go for Raspberry Pi loaded with emulators and such but this thing is still running on RCA, its so simple.

No HDMI, no WiFi just two remotes and lots of old games.

[Axxemann]

WE had an Intellivision when I was growing up. Some friends had an NES, and my cousin had a Sega. Got a Genesis when I was a teenager (they were cheap at the time, so my folks got one for me and one for my sister) and the last console I ever had was the OG Xbox in my mid 20s. 

[Hiramabiff]

First gaming system Atari 2600

[PersonaFPS]

I have the classics and I love them! Final fantasy 6 and Zelda are my go tos!! 

[CharlieBravo]

Born in '98 but I play old school games mostly on my phone though. Mk3 ultimate, Super Punch Out & Pokémon emerald. 

[otacon]

I was lucky enough to get one of the Nintendo Mini SNES systems, most of the games on it are quite fun. I find a lot of NES titles and other early home console games are too clunky for me. I have some popular PS1 classics on my PS3, namely Metal Gear Solid and FF7.

I don't bother emulating any systems, I find it to be a chore. You have to remap controls, and usually there are all kinds of bugs. I have a PS3, and a Wii, along with a PC so I can get most old games right from the digital stores.

[petosiris]

When I grew up there were different "home computers", not standarized on hardware, so it was full chaos and little games to play on the platform I used, so I didn't play video games, except a basic Breakout game I made myself on a Sinclair ZX 80 home computer.  It was the challenge of programming it that interested me, so I didn't play it for long ... maybe 10 times before I was tired of it.  😅

A couple of years later I started my first job in the IT industry, the same year as IBM launched the first IBM PC.  Then I was busy making professional software for the company I worked for and it was long hours so I didn't have time to spare for playing video games.  Besides, I couldn't afford a IBM PC either, since it costed north of $5,000 at the time.

I played some PC games later in the 80's, like Leisure Suit Larry, but didn't like the block graphics so I quickly got enough.  In the latter 90's I played Wing Commander III, IV and V, plus several Star Wars games.  Liked all of them, but suddenly the Space Sim genre died out ... and I didn't like the alternatives much so I quit gaming again.  I tried a mouse game once (Doom) and never again.  Then, around 2012, the Space Sim genre was reborn and I could use a joystick again. 🙂

I've never owned or used a console as Nintendo, Playstation or Xbox.  When Playstation (1) launched it was supposed to be a standarization effort for home games, the type where the family gather around the TV to play family games with their kids, so I wasn't interested.

[Axxemann]

Leisure Suit Larry!!!!! Tell me what dude growing up in the 90s that did NOT play that game?

As for the Space Sim genre going extinct for a few years... I'm surprised you didn't stick with regular atmospheric flight sims to fill the void. While never as popular as shooters (I'm certainly a shooter player, but my first love is still flight sims, I just need gear for it) it never did die.

[petosiris]

---

@Axxemann wrote:

Leisure Suit Larry!!!!! Tell me what dude growing up in the 90s that did NOT play that game?

I seem to remember I played it earlier, but my memory is not what it used to be ...  I do know that I grew up in the 60's and 70's though.  If the game came out in the 90's I was already a grown-up. 😅

---

As for the Space Sim genre going extinct for a few years... I'm surprised you didn't stick with regular atmospheric flight sims to fill the void.

---

Well, I tried Microsoft Flight Simulator but never managed the landings.  The graphics weren't good enough to judge distances properly and I guess I wasn't good at reading instruments either.  Haha.  😂 BTW, I had the same problem with Descent, always crashing into the bedrock because I couldn't judge the distance to the walls.  So I definately prefer stellar graphics.  😉

[sonuchi]

I'm 38. I don't retro game often, but I still have a functioning PS2 that is in storage at my parent's. I have a backwards compatible PS3, but need it fixed because of the yellow light warning. Some I've recently played has been Super Knock-Out and Super Mario World.

[Dannyboy3210]

32, but I grew up on SNES and GB emulators, so that's what got installed on my steam deck fairly quickly!

[SubtleIQ]

Ok you asked ...

The Odyssey aka pong...

Atari 2600 (Warlords, Yars Revenge)

Commodore 64 (Bard's Tale III, Ultima Series)

Apple IIe (Oregon Trail, Carmen)

Macintosh SE and various PC's of same era... (Strategic Conquest, Civilization (Beta), Wolfenstein 3D)

SNES, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch

PS One, 2, 3, 4

Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One (PreOrder Edition)

in my 50's

[euphoriabuzz]

In my 50s so it was pong for me. Its too hard to describe to todays kids how amazing we all felt it was at the time. Everybody was talking about it at school.  Haha great memories.