Do you like older video games?

[Archae]

I mean ones from 2000 or before.

I'm playing "Spyro: Ripto's Rage" right now.

[Broken_Hero]

1. Yes

and the Game Boy advance, is why...well, I want one of them! My brothers/sister all have them, and they have a lot of the old school nintendo games on them, like Metroid, Zelda, Super Mario 1-3...:)

The game i'm looking for now, is the Castlevania game for the ps1...I can't remember its full name, but I do believe, there was only one Castlevania game for the ps1...that game rocked, and I would love to have that one back, as well as Tenchu Stealth Assasins...

[CanuckAmok]

2. Yeah. I have a Mame emulator on my PC.

favourites are Burger Time, Shinobi, and Scramble.

Tetris and Pac-Man, too.

[mark414]

6. burger time holy shit

i hadn't played that game since i was 5, until i walked into a bar in milwaukee about a year ago and saw that they had an ARCADE VERSION of it...

[CanuckAmok]

10. I know!

Fucking food chasing you.

You drop buns on them, and temporarily freeze them with salt.

What the fuck?!

[Archae]

11. You can't help but wonder...

Back then what they were :smoke: :-)

[mark414]

13. it was probably my favorite though

i didn't have atari but i had intellivision...if anyone here remembers that

i remember having a lot of badass games for my apple IIe as well...

*sigh* i miss em

[RoyGBiv]

16. I remember Intellivision ...

I once played a game of that Space Invaders clone (can't remember the name right now) that lasted for nearly a week because the company was running a high score contest for it that would score you what seemed to be an ungodly amount of money to me at the time or a free copy of some large number of their games. I only ended it then because I thought *no one* else would ever be dumb enough to do that, and my thumbs had developed painful blisters that were turning into callouses. (The only part about the system I didn't like was the stupid controllers. Whoever thought of those hard-to-push thumb buttons should have been shot...or forced to repeatedly press one for a week anyway.)

The score was gi-normous. I took a picture of my television screen and sent it in. Found out later the winners had all played games that lasted from the time the contest was first announced until the last minute they could go and still have time to enter the contest. I severely overestimated my geeky-ness.

I miss LoadRunner on the Apple IIE. There are tons of clones. I even have one for Linux. None are quite the same.

[Giant Robot]

29. Lode Runner!

Wow I have not thought about that one in forever. Thanks for the memory trip.

[WoodyTobiasJr]

38. Intellivision was great

Intellivision baseball was the best!

[Frank Cannon]

24. I have Burger Time on my cell phone

It was far and away my favorite arcade game as a kid. Yeah, while all my friends were defending the universe in starfighters, I just loved being chased around by pickles, hot dogs, and eggs.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

36. It's all about Asteroids, with me. Although I've gotten into Centipede on

MAME recently too.

I was a Defender guy in the 80's but haven't figured out a button/control setup that works well yet.

[TheFriendlyAnarchist]

3. Super Mario Brother's 3 ftw!

[ghostsofgiants]

8. One of the all-time greatest.

:thumbsup:

[querelle]

4. PONG?

Pong is the extent of my video game experience. Oh, and PacMan. I wasted many quarters playing that game when I was in university. That kinda dates me doesn't it?

Q

[zonkers]

5. Dig Dug. Centipede.

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. I had so much fun flyin' old air combat sims

Aces of the Pacific and Aces Over Europe. That was in the early-to-mid-'90s.

They were lame as hell by today's standards, but we had no way of knowing that then. And I loved the historical accuracy.

Could never figure out why Sierra didn't upgrade 'em as they did Red Baron. :shrug:

[CanuckAmok]

12. There was this one...

I forget what it was called, but it was a combat sim that had a whole bunch of different planes from different eras; there was a Fokker Triplane, a Spitfire, an F-4, etc, etc etc. What was cool is that you could take any plane from any era and pit it against any number of opponents from any era. So you could, for example, fly an ME-109 against an F-14 and win because of your tight turning radius and lack of a heat signature.

I wish I remembered what it was called, or if it could be played on a modern PC; I think the copy I had was on my old 386 (or 286 even!). It might have even been pre-Windows!!

[Richard Steele]

9. You better believe I do!

We have an Atari 2600 and a first-gen Sega Genesis,
and I have a dozen or so Emulators here on the iMac for games.

My all time fave is 'Crystal Mines II', originally for the Atari Lynx
platform, which I play via an OSX Lynx emulator called "Handy".

2nd fave is Crystal Caliburn Pinball, which I keep on one of my antique
PowerMacs.

It's just amazing how many of the really AWESOME old games are now ABANDONWARE,
and available for free on a few out-of-the-way websites.

[CanuckAmok]

14. Someone I know has a Commodore Pet emulator...

All these games where the graphics are comprised of alphanumeric characters, like "@@@@@" representing water, and stuff.

[Richard Steele]

15. That's one I don't have....YET!

That's the kind of thing that tweaks my interest
enough to have it just for the sake of having it,
even if I don't actually care for the games so much.

[RoyGBiv]

17. Definitely ...

I was chatting with my daughter earlier about her taste in video games and how they differed from mine at her age. I mentioned that if I ever found someone selling a Galaga stand-up that I could afford, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. LOVED that game.

The computer games I play tend to be older as well.

[Benfea]

18. Fallout. Best CRPG ever made, in my opinion. -NT

[Mojambo]

19. Fallout was darn good

But it's not even the best post apocalyptic game ever made.

That honor goes to Wasteland.

What I wouldn't give to have a remake of Wasteland using a similar game engine to Wizardry 8.

They could even take it in a Balder's Gate type of direction, but I'd prefer to stick closer to the orginal Wasteland experience, which is why I think the Wizardry 8 engine is ideal.

Somebody make this happen!

[Benfea]

23. Never played Wasteland, but I've heard plenty of good things about it -nt

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

20. Yes I do

Ones before 2000! LOL

There's a whole generation of gamers who think the playstation is classic gaming.

Anyways, currently own packed away, a couple of atari 2600, a atari 7800, a couple of NES, couple of game boys, a couple of Sega Genesis, a Super NES and a couple of Nintendo 64.

Due to lack of space and time to spend playing any of them, I have them packed away, I do have a Super NES emulator on my computer. I'm a big racing game fan, so the game that has been getting a lot of play on the emulator has been Super Mario Kart.

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[ikri]

22. Frontier: First Encounters

A game that was only finally patched and finished after it was withdrawn from sale due to technical problems (the usual problems you get when you release a game 6 months too early).

A brilliant open-ended game.

Just wish they'd hurry up & work on Elite 4, supposed to be an MMO version of the Elite universe :)

[Anarcho-Socialist]

25. The original Unreal Tournament from 1999

Very fun indeed.

[Atmashine]

26. Oo fun!

I like Onslaught levels on UT 2004. Also, Unreal 2 had a free multiplayer expansion that was much like onslaught, except with character classes. 'Twas fun too. And Aliens Vs. Predator multiplayer...okay I'll stop now.

[TimeChaser]

27. Yep!

All the older Final Fantasy games. And the older Zelda games

[NewWaveChick1981]

28. I like a lot of the older games, like Pac Man and Galaga...

but hubby's all-time favorite is Dune on Sega Genesis. OMG, he just found the system again in a box of stuff, and I can't get him to stop playing it! :eyes: He played it to death when he first got it, and now he's doing the same thing.... :yoiks:

[Nickster]

32. GALAGA! Heck yeah! That was my game. I was actually playing it

last night.:-)

[NewWaveChick1981]

33. I was a Galaga fiend in the 80s...

:) Haven't played it much since, though.

[cleofus1]

30. when there was dos

before there was 3d

there was hollywood harry...and alien carnage!

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

40. Don't forget Redneck Rampage, and Sam 'n' Max Hit the Road

[JackDragna]

31. "Beware: I live!"

http://onastick.net/drew/sinistar/

[Joe Fields]

34. First video game I ever played was "Catch the T.V." I won.

I picked up my family's 25 in. console T.V. and threw it to my brother, but he wasn't ready. It totally crushed him.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

35. I understand the nostalgia for "classic" video games.

But then when I go and play them I don't think they're really all that fun.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

37. StarCraft (Circa 1997 I believe) is still probably my favorite game, and

I still like to play it.

[WoodyTobiasJr]

39. I totally LOVE all the old school games

Centipede

Robotron:

Joust:

Wizard Of Wor (dahhhh weeeeezard ob waauhr tanks you):

Berzek (intruder alert! intruder alert!):

Donkey Kong:

Battlezone:

Moon Patrol:



They haven't made a decent video game in the last 15 years

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

41. Woody are you hooked up with MAME emulator?

[WoodyTobiasJr]

43. No I'm not yet.

But from what you've said and what others have said, I am definitely going to.
How does it look/play? Are the games pretty faithful to the originals?

EDIT: Where do you get the games from?


Thanks

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

44. It's EXACTLY the same, they ARE the originals. I'll PM you a link,

you can be up and running in no time. The main issue is key/mouse/joystick button configurations which you can tweak.

Occasionally you may need to tweak options for the speed to run right.

Here is the place to get the Windows version of MAME which is easiest to use. You need a free fileplanet or gamespy account to download, then just run the .exe to install, and then you just run the mame32 exe file to run the game. You can run it from any directory or even off a CD. Once you've installed, you just need the ROM files which are the actual game programs, just stick them in the "ROMs" subdirectory, you put them in as .zip files and don't even have to unzip, the emulator just runs them as .zips (in fact I think it doesn't work if you unzip them).

http://mame32qa.classicgaming.gamespy.com/

By the way, I like your user name, brings back fond memories of Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Stewardesses!




On Edit:

There's a MAC version of MAME also:

http://www.macmame.org/

[Phillycat]

42. I am better at Tetris than anyone on earth.

Seriously.