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My Childhood favorites:
C64: Gunship, Pirates!
Amiga: Wings
Wings was re-Released for PC some time ago. Found it on GOG and it is still Fun to play. Nice story built around the missions, too. If you haven't give it a try.
SNES Contra III
Rivercity Ransom and most of the variations. Except for the basketball version....no idea why they did it taht way
Earthworm Jim
Although I do still have NES classic
I'm a massive fan of retro arcade games - in fact, I've built 2 of my own arcade machines - I try and play as many of the old games as I can, but I definitely list these as my top 5:
Robotron
Donkey Kong 3
Progear
ESP Ra. De.
Guwange
As you can see, mostly shooters ;-)
Sorry, meant to say, I play mostly via MAME emulation, sadly, I don't have original arcade hardware, just my own home built cab
Come on now you have Mame emu... Donkey Kong/Crazy Kong, Crystal Castles, Defender, Asteroids, Space Invaders, Galaxian, Galaga !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by ghostman
I have it running on my original XBOX no cabinet, because i am getting of age and the eyesight is a bit off, i prefer to play it on a 60" TV:), but i don't play it widescreen, to keep the arcade effect:whistling
For retro games I like whatever came out last Thursday since they are probably already outdated and I now need to spend more money on upgrades.
Me personally, some vintage games will never die, trying to explain this, even know the older games were shooter or repetitive tasks, now games you run around a dessert or made up course looking to kill someone for hours, and not even getting the reward of dreaming you get to schtup the princess once you save her...Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
To be fair, retro games "cheated" a lot by being very difficult, making extra lives scarce, and occasionally creating situations where the player would unavoidably take damage or die. Hardware of the time didn't allow for lots of huge levels or long-winded storylines, so this was the only way to keep people playing.
If you use some invulnerability hack or simply are a very good player, you'll see that they rarely offered more than one hour of gameplay (Contra can be beat in 13 minutes, Super Mario Bros in five).
I loved Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy and still have the old cracked versions. I saw recently that it's being released for the Switch. Does anyone know if it's possible to get these running on Windows 10? I've tried setting various Windows modes (XP, Vista, 7) and just kept getting a black screen. I don't want to resort to a VM but I might because I miss those games so much. It might even be worth digging that old P4 box out of the closet. Especially if I could get it to run 1920x1080.
By default, Windows 10 doesn't include several legacy multimedia components like DirectDraw and DirectPlay. That alone breaks a lot of old games, even if they'd otherwise be compatible.
Anyway, I did a quick search and apparently there's a fork of the engine called OpenJK that runs on modern systems. Check it out.
I'll always buy and play anything zelda or zelda like.
Super Metroid pulls me back in every year or so. Such a good game.
Mario Cart
Donkey Kong and Dragon's Lair.
Ducktales (NES)
Castlevania IV (SNES)
Streets of Rage 2 / Earthworm Jim (Genesis)
I also played the Leisure Suit Larry games more recently and laughed so much (mainly because I didn't get the jokes when I was much younger playing it for the first time)