Any retro gaming fans out there?

[chromium]

Well are there? :)

I've been collecting up old consoles and flash carts in the last few weeks. Having a ball :)

[megabyteme]

I had fun scavenging around as stores were doing the final closeouts on the original XBox games. Got a large collection @$5 each. Only grabbed the highest rated ones. Since I am only a casual gamer, most of the titles were gnu to me. Waiting for the same to happen with the PS3... :sly:

[THESIB]

Absolutely a fan!
Love going back and playing old school games, never gets old (ironically)

[atomic5]

SNES rules!

[IdolEyes787]

Spam topics are basically my bread and butter and even I am offended by this one.

[firutger]

Even if it's not THAT old, just think the GameCube is an awesome console with many good games! Don't know if it's considered retro gaming yet though...:whistling

[bboobb1234321]

I had fun scavenging around as stores were doing the final closeouts on the original XBox games. Got a large collection @$5 each. Only grabbed the highest rated ones. Since I am only a casual gamer, most of the titles were gnu to me. Waiting for the same to happen with the PS3... :sly:

and there was me thinking you were talking about retro games - ie spectrum 48k games : )

[stinger69]

I had fun scavenging around as stores were doing the final closeouts on the original XBox games. Got a large collection @$5 each. Only grabbed the highest rated ones. Since I am only a casual gamer, most of the titles were gnu to me. Waiting for the same to happen with the PS3... :sly:

and there was me thinking you were talking about retro games - ie spectrum 48k games : )

Retro for me are Sinclair ZX80 games! (cue the even older gamer with stories of the world's first computer!)

[creeperboy]

I can't help remember my old master system and Street of Rage !!

[driedopiates]

Ha yea recently broke out the nes from the attic. Been trying to complete ninja gaidan.

[jungleself22]

Sadly I have a Dream Cast with no games and an Atari with a bunch however, the main console wont turn on anymore :(

[mjmacky]

Sadly I have a Dream Cast with no games and an Atari with a bunch however, the main console wont turn on anymore :(

Is your home portable and employer someone who sets up tables on the weekend?

[tilly]

yes im playing that 1000 pc game with my some now we both love it and it makes you feel you again

[sci]

Omega Race. Waaaay back in 1980. I spent many a quarter on that game. And am able to replicate it with MAME. Not the same controls though using the keyboard.

Remember Intellivision? That was a pretty neat system. It had a voice module, a steering wheel, and a couple of other add ons.

[megabyteme]

ColecoVision made everything else at the time its bitch. As for arcade games, Tempest (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ATARI-TEMPEST-FULL-SIZE-ARCADE-GAME-EXCELLENT-WORKING-100-/171305063352?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27e293d3b8)was my fav.

[Artemis]

Come on, nobody here remembers the command: Load * 8, 1 :blink:

Back in the day loading a cassette into the drive on my Commodore 16 plus 4, typing in the command, waiting five minutes and having the program fail to load. Wanting to throw the whole thing through a window, calming down, typing in the load command again.

Finally loading Ghosts and Goblins or Tomcat or Manic Miner :yay:

As for arcade, my addiction was Xevious. I liked Galaga and Defender, but Xevious was THE one.

[megabyteme]

I learned how to pirate stuffs, prior to the interwebs, on a C64. Although, I am proud to say I never had to slum it with a tape drive. :snooty:

Note: ,8,1 was designated to the floppy. If memory serves, tape drive was ,4...

[Mr. Mulder]

I fucking loved my Master System II, it was my first console (owning only a C64 before it) and was a hand-me down from a cousin, I remember having it plugged into the TV for me and shitting a brick having the power to move stuff around, ON THE TELEVISION!!! It had Alex Kidd in Miracle World built into it, a dirty Mario knock-off with a sweet theme tune. I still play it now from time to time using an emulator on my phone.

The C64 I had before it, I was way too young to appreciate it properly - I faintly remember having International Truckers for it and I think Short Circuit. I can just about remember putting the tapes in a cassette player and listening to the screeching sounds they made. I also have a faint memory from around that time of pissing down the stairs, but that might be unrelated...

[Artemis]

I learned how to pirate stuffs, prior to the interwebs, on a C64. Although, I am proud to say I never had to slum it with a tape drive. :snooty:

Note: ,8,1 was designated to the floppy. If memory serves, tape drive was ,4...

My C16 had a tape drive, the C64 had a floppy, I remember being uber leet and notching the side of floppies to make them double sided:ohmy:

Then of course there were the sneakernet floppy disk swapmeets where you swapped apps. Piracy in person, much more fun and friendly. :yup:

[megabyteme]

Then of course there were the sneakernet floppy disk swapmeets where you swapped apps. Piracy in person, much more fun and friendly. :yup:

That was when The Shit was R.E.A.L. Cold War times. Never knew if you were trading GEOS (http://toastytech.com/guis/c64g.html) with a neighbor, or a Russian spy. :cool:

[flapstaart]

I still have an old C64 in the basement, dunno if it would still work on my flatscreen tv :S

[Holden13]

God, Commodore... now that brings back memories. Then Intelivision playing baseball with that stupid disk controller. But the pinnacle was Colecovision, you can play Donkey Kong... in your own home... as much as you want. It was the same with Atari Pac-Man but Coleco felt like the real thing.

[monty0924]

Me & my Brother were the Odd Balls we loved Sega CD - Dragon's Lair, Mad Dog Mcree, NFL Greatest, & a Mike Dikta NFL game

[Barniwm]

You can't beat the old rpg games on the snes IMO :)

[thoren]

I'm playing old games on snes

[thecheezer]

Impossible Mission was awesome on C64, along with the original Might and Magic games.

[bmac007]

love the Guantlet and legend of Zelda (original Nintendo)

[keakzzz]

from time to time I enjoy playing old SNES roms. and I occasionally play older PC games, for example just a few weeks ago I completed Vice City again.

[Barniwm]

My favourites were legend of mana and selfs on the snes

Im meant zelda not selfs :/

[richbambam]

think my love of playing games started way back in the early eighties,my grandad bought me a Sinclair spectrum 48k for Christmas & loved it,a few years later I had a C64.Life was great back then :)

[mazo]

I recall having a Sinclair computer many years ago which had no storage device. This meant that you had to type in all the code, debug it and then run it to play the game. So most of our time was spend trying to type in the code correctly and fix any mistakes while trying to make sense of the cryptic error messages. How things have changed! I got an Apple II after that which had state of the art 5 1/4 inch floppy discs - then I could play a game without spending a whole day typing in the code!

[T-Bag]

I Love playing old school games. NES, SNES, old pc games like warcraft I, doom, etc.

[Buzz]

<--- Dos gamer :D

[nickherc]

Huge retro fan, I rarely play modern games. Give me Red Alert 1 over 3 any day :D. Age of Empires 2, civilization 1 2 3, Total war: Rome, Age of mythology, Street Rod :D...

[bluessky]

I've been playing the hell out of X-Wing and Tie Fighter which are on gog now. Just like how I remember them!

[djnemonic]

i been playing Risk Of Rain, Hotline Miami, Conker's Bad Fur Day on the original N64, Shovel Knight too i hope those count :p

[jetpackgorilla]

Absolutely! I just got done playing through Altered Beast (Arcade version on MAME) a few minutes ago.

[wackojacko]

Usually play Exhumed once a year and just broke out the N64 too :D

[fuerstin]

thanks to good old games it is so much easier to play retro games (on PC at least)