Any modern era gamers love classic games?

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22 Apr 2012, 7:00 am

Stargazer43 wrote:

I do! I'm a big fan of the old Sierra-style point and click adventure games...I used to play those for hours when I was younger. I also really like a lot of the old super nintendo games, that was probably my favorite console system ever released. It just had so many fun and innovative games!

God I'm old. I played hero's quest: so you want to be a hero before it was remade with a point and click interface.

Heh, good old CGA chipsets

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22 Apr 2012, 7:01 am

you bet i like classic games. some of my favorites just to name a few are the orginal legend of zelda, the first three mario games, donkey kong, punchout, kid icarus, and legend of zelda ocarina of time

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22 Apr 2012, 11:46 am

Bun wrote:

My favourite to play on MAME is The Simpsons. There IS a PC version of the same game, but it'll never be as good.

QFT heh

Inyanook wrote:

I'm curious: MAME?

Sorry, just seeing this now. Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator.

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25 Apr 2012, 8:36 am

i seriously thought about buying a older game system but i cant afford it

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25 Apr 2012, 9:40 am

angelofdarkness wrote:

i seriously thought about buying a older game system but i cant afford it

Which one? You know MAME is free, right? You can play with your cursor keys if you don't have a PC controller.

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25 Apr 2012, 6:01 pm

ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:

angelofdarkness wrote:

i seriously thought about buying a older game system but i cant afford it

Which one? You know MAME is free, right? You can play with your cursor keys if you don't have a PC controller.

it was either an nes or nintendo 64

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30 Apr 2012, 1:27 am

80% of what I've been playing has been classic games from the NES, SNES, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, Master System, and Genesis
so many great games
I actually got the NES for christmas this year :lol:

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30 Apr 2012, 7:41 am

Kurgan wrote:

I love old point and click games.

Point and click games are having a revival at the moment.

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11 May 2012, 9:34 pm

I'm a vintage gamer who played Atari back in its glory days, but I can't understand why other people from that era get all excited about a bunch of blocky pixels and barely any sound and only maybe three stages of difficulty. Some really old games (Atari, Colecovision, Intellivision) are entertaining for maybe a few minutes but I can't see myself spending hours in front of the screen. Usually my mind starts to wander after the first minute or so. A lot of older action games like Sonic were awesome but often drove me crazy with frustration because they were so hard, like when I got to the Wing Fortress Zone in Sonic 2, and kept plummeting to my untimely death if my timing was off by a nanosecond. A lot of older games don't have continues or save points and I was lucky not to dissolve into tears if I finally got to the last level boss after about 3 grueling hours of game play only to run out of lives and have to start all over again! There are a lot of older games I do like, such as Bubble Bobble, Q*Bert, Mario, Pac-Man to name a few, but it annoys me when classic game fans trash all modern games.

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11 May 2012, 10:45 pm

angelofdarkness wrote:

ZX_SpectrumDisorder wrote:

angelofdarkness wrote:

i seriously thought about buying a older game system but i cant afford it

Which one? You know MAME is free, right? You can play with your cursor keys if you don't have a PC controller.

it was either an nes or nintendo 64

NEStopia (NES Emulator)
Project64 (N64 Emulator)
You'll have to search for the games ("ROMs") on your own.

You're welcome

BTW, It is good to see younger gamers still interested in the games I played when I was a kid. (That was an old man statement, wasn't it? I feel like an old man now.

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11 May 2012, 11:05 pm

Well I'm not really a "modern era gamer" as I was born and raised during the time of the older consoles, but I vastly prefer the games of the SNES and n64 to the games of now. So little originality and fun nowadays.

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11 May 2012, 11:21 pm

Xenu wrote:

True. Although I would argue that neither came close to the NES in originality.

Nearly every genre or long-running series started on the NES.

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12 May 2012, 4:22 am

I'd disagree, the majority of old NES games originated in the arcades.

Highly unlikely, but did anyone here have an MSX?

I don't mean to sound like a broken record, but I know a lot of people play NES/SNES/GENESIS/MEGADRIVE emus to play arcade conversions, when they could just play the actual arcade game instead.

I'd love to try that N64 emu for Sin and Punishment, but I doubt I'd be able to find a decent controller for it.

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