Retro Gaming

[NAzu]

The title says it, this thread is about retro gaming. Games and game consoles. What consoles do you own and games for them? What was your first gaming console?

My current collection consists of Megadrive model1, model2 with Mega Cd model 2 and Sega Saturn.

Megadrive games: Sonic 1, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Sonic and Knuckles, Sonic Spinball, Phantasy Star 2, Phantasy Star 3, Light Crusader, Alisia Dragoon, Streets of Rage 2, Colums, Super Hang On, Super Monaco GP, F1, Aladdin, Lion King, World Of Illusion, Jungle Book, Wrestle War, Primal Rage, Battle Toads, Dynamite Headdy.
Mega CD games: Road Avenger, Cobra Command, Sol Feace, NBA Jam, F1 Beyond The Limit, Thunderhawk.
Saturn games: Wipeout, Sega Rally, Panzer Dragoon, Shining The Holy Ark, Virtua Fighter 2, Sonic 3D, Daytona USA, Nights into Dreams, Virtua Cop 2.

My first console was the Megadrive. Well actually it was not mine but my brother's cos he got it for christmas. But that was the first console I played and I still have it and it works like a dream 

[arun.yothin]

I don't know what the first system I had was. It was something with 5" floppies and cartridges. My favorite games for it were "Star Raiders", a space flight-sim kind of game, and K-Razy Shootout, a game that had robots shooting each other in a maze-type level.

I only had Nintendo systems until the Playstation, though I wanted a Genesis since my friends had them. I had the most fun with either the SNES or the Game Boy. The only retro games I have now are some Zelda games and Marble Madness for Game Boy. Tetris and Super Street FIghter II Turbo are still some of my favorite games.

[TeriyakiBoi]

I actually have an Atari 2600 that we recently spent a little money on to get it working.  I personally haven't touched that thing at all (my brother and dad "restored" it).  I can't name the games off the top of my head but there weren't a whole lot.  Personally, my first gaming system consisted of a 386 PC with DOS and a large collection of floppies of games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Stellar 7, Budokan, Ultrabots, Home Alone, Wayne's World, Arachnophobia, John Madden Football (way before EA Sports), Street Fighter II, and a whole slew of other games.  As far as consoles go, we had an Xbox which is now busted (the system does nothing but whine and grind when you turn it on and there's no video despite plugging it in).

[Asmodai]

Unfortunately, I don't have most of my old consoles - college and need for money saw to the end of my original Atari 2600, Game Gear, SNES, Playstation and Dreamcast libraries.

I still have my Gameboy Advance and a lot of classic style titles for that - Metroid, Castlevania, Mario, Final Fantasy all had pretty good iterations on that one.

I still have a lot of my old PC games though - the original XCOM, X-Wing, Wing Commander Privateer, etc.

[Leighh1]

I've still got my Sega, wish it was working but alas it's not in useable condition anymore .

My childhood was pretty much spent on that machine, Sonic, Streets of Rage, Super Monaco GP, Shinobi, NHL 92 (i think), PGA Golf to name a few of the games that I relentlessly played haha. The Ice Hockey was the one that got the most play, mainly because i'm the worst side scrolling game player ever, so Shinobi, Streets of Rage and Sonic were basically never completed.

Can still remember a cousin came over one day and we were playing Sonic, he put in the unlock all levels cheat (you pressed a series of buttons at the Sonic/Sega screen) and I finally got to play the later levels.... naturally I forgot the code and never got to play them again haha.

[dejablue20]

My first "console" was the original GameBoy... I got it used to it didn't come with Tetris, but my parents let me pick out any two games I wanted so I got Kirby and Ninja Turtles.   Anybody remember this relic?

[JFC]

^
I remember my one buddy had one, one day he and I were out on my front stoop taking turns playing it after school, when all of a sudden I heard a *POP* come out of seemingly nowhere. Neither of us gave it a second thought at first, but then after playing a few more stages of Super Mario Land we noticed some smoke coming out of the back of it. So we opened it up and discovered that one of his batteries had exploded. Luckily, his Game Boy didn't suffer any damage from it.

[SomethingWild]

Still have my NES set-up. Some of the best games ever on it and I still play it regularly 

Also have an Atari Lynx. It was in color before the Nintendo Gameboy, yet it never really took off 


Some recommended YT channels for some retro game hunting, talk and reviews:
http://www.youtube.com/user/RetroLiberty
http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyConsoleGamer
http://www.youtube.com/user/NESComplex

[Masa]

[JFC]

Ah Tetris, one of the few games I could decently play.

[Masa]

This just came out today:

[JFC]

Ever want to see the opening screens of those NES/Famicom games you never got to play? Got 3 hours to kill?

Published on Jan 21, 2014

This is a collection of EVERY SINGLE Nintendo (NES) start screen in alphabetical order!!!
How many of these games have you actually played?!

 

[Masa]

My latest retro gaming purchase:


I guess it's time to do some game chasing

[JFC]

The rumor's have been circulating for years that this was real.

Well...'tis a rumor no more.

Atari's E.T. the Extraterrestrial cartridges found in landfill
Atari buried thousands or millions of copies of failed game in a New Mexico landfill
The Associated Press Posted: Apr 26, 2014 1:38 PM ET Last Updated: Apr 28, 2014 9:16 AM ET

A documentary film production company has found buried in a New Mexico landfill hundreds of the Atari E.T. The Extraterrestrial game cartridges that some call the worst video game ever made.



Film director Zak Penn showed one E.T. cartridge retrieved from the dumpsite and says there are hundreds more mixed in the mounds of trash and dirt scooped by a backhoe.

About 200 residents and game enthusiasts gathered early Saturday in southeastern New Mexico to watch backhoes and bulldozers dig through the concrete-covered landfill in search of up to a million discarded copies of E.T. that the game's maker wanted to hide forever.

"I feel pretty relieved and psyched that they actually got to see something," said Penn as members of the production team sifted through the mounds of trash, pulling out boxes, games and other Atari products.

Most of the crowd left the landfill before the discovery, turned away by strong winds that kicked up massive clouds of dust mingled with garbage. By the time the games were found, only a few dozen people remained. Some were playing the infamous game in a make-shift gaming den with a TV and an 1980s game console in the back of a van, while others took selfies beside a life-size E.T. doll inside a DeLorean car like the one that was turned into a time machine in the Back To The Future movies.

Among the watchers was Armando Ortega, a city official who back in 1983 got a tip from a landfill employee about the massive dump of games.

"It was pitch dark here that night, but we came with our flashlights and found dozens of games," he said. They braved the darkness, coyotes and snakes of the desert landfill and had to sneak past the security guard. But it paid off.

He says they found dozens of crushed cartridges that they took home and were still playable in their game consoles.


Urban legend
The game and its contribution to the demise of Atari have been the source of fascination for video game enthusiasts for 30 years. The search for the cartridges will be featured in an upcoming documentary about the biggest video game company of the early '80s.

Xbox Entertainment Studios is one of the companies developing the film, which is expected to be released later this year on Microsoft's Xbox game consoles.

Whether — and most importantly, why — Atari decided to bury thousands or millions of copies of the failed game is part of the urban legend and much speculation on internet blog posts and forums.

Kristen Keller, a spokeswoman at Atari, said "nobody here has any idea what that's about." The company has no "corporate knowledge" about the Alamogordo burial. Atari has changed hands many times over the years, and Keller said, "We're just watching like everybody else." Atari currently manages about 200 classic titles such as Centipede and Asteroids. It was sold to a French company by Hasbro in 2001.

A New York Times article from Sept. 28, 1983, says 14 truckloads of discarded game cartridges and computer equipment were dumped on the site. An Atari spokesman quoted in the story said the games came from its plant in El Paso, Texas, some 130 kilometres south of Alamogordo.

Local news reports from the time said that the landfill employees were throwing cartridges there and running a bulldozer over them before covering them with dirt and trash.

The city of Alamogordo agreed to give the documentarians 250 cartridges or 10 per cent of the cartridges found, whichever is greater, according to local media reports.


Game has 'recurring flaw'
The E.T. game is among the factors blamed for the decline of Atari and the collapse in the U.S. of a multimillion dollar video game industry that didn't bounce back for several years.

Tina Amini, deputy editor at gaming website Kotaku, says the game tanked because "it was practically broken." A recurring flaw, she said, was that the character of the game, the beloved extraterrestrial, would fall into traps that were almost impossible to escape and would appear constantly and unpredictably.

The company produced millions of cartridges, and although sales were not initially bad, the frustrating gameplay prompted an immense amount of returns. "They had produced so many cartridges that were unsold that even if the game was insanely successful I doubt they'd be able to keep up," Amini says.

Joe Lewandowski, who became manager of the 300-acre landfill a few months after the cartridge dump and has been a consultant for the documentarians, told The Associated Press that they used old photographs and dug exploratory wells to find the actual burial site.

Lewandowski says he remembers how the cartridge dump was a monstrous fiasco for Atari, at least from the perspective of a small desert town. The company, he says, brought truckloads from El Paso, where at the time scavenging was allowed in the city's landfills. "Here, they didn't allow scavenging. It was a small landfill, it had a guard."

The guard, however, was either away or unable to stop scores of teenagers from rummaging through the Atari waste and showing up in town trying to sell the discarded products and equipment from the backs of pickup trucks, Lewandowski, said. "That's when they decided to pour concrete over."

The incidents following the burial remained as part of Alamogordo's local folklore, he said. For him E.T. the game did not stir any other memories than an awful game he once bought for his kid.

"I was busy merging two garbage companies together," he said. "I didn't have time for that."

FULL ARTICLE LINK - http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/atari-s-e-t-the-extraterrestrial-cartridges-found-in-landfill-1.2623006

[mini*wheat]

I just downloaded NES Remix 2 (It came out 4/25/14) and I'm already have more fun with it than the first one (which I know Masa posted about and I also enjoyed a lot). This time the games included are:

Dr. Mario
Ice Hockey
Kid Icarus
Kirby's Adventure
Metroid
NES Open Tournament Golf
Punch-Out!!
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros. 3
Wario's Woods
Zelda II: The Adventure of Link

It is kind of lame that a lot of the game levels are just snippets of the actual games. I feel like those themselves could've been a little more challenging, but the remix levels that I've unlocked so far have been really, really fun. I also think, however, these games would benefit from DLC a lot. Like you buy the game as is, and later they could keep adding more and more to it.

[Masa]

The ultimate tribute to the NES:


Play the game: http://www.abobosbigadventure.com/fullgame.php

[Masa]

I guess it's time to do some game chasing

Here's what I have gotten so far:


Nothing but quality games and most of those were actually pretty cheap, even the CIB Super Mario Bros. 3. I might do some short reviews later cuz there's a couple of hidden gems that people might not be familiar with

[pikapikapika]

I think I'll try to use my fancy scart to HDMI converter box tonight with some old games

[JFC]

RocketNews24.com - Sturdy enough to survive a bomb and 9 other facts about the Game Boy 【includes video】
- http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/06/03/sturdy-enough-to-survive-a-bomb-and-9-other-facts-about-the-game-boy%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91

 

[JFC]

Retro games comin' back to TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!