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13 Nov 2009, 6:09 am

Basically, share thoughts about older games.

To start off, has anyone every heard of a Sega Dreamcast game called StarLancer?
It seems really well made, seems a shame that it had gone into the depths of obscurity.



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13 Nov 2009, 8:34 am

I've never owned a Dreamcast, but I used to play an RPG called Neutopia II on the TurboGrafx 16. Also a multiplayer side scrolling RPG/Adventure game called Cadash.


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13 Nov 2009, 10:42 am

I think ive heard of it, as it was also out for PC at the time (i think). As far as playing it, no . . . played Crazy taxi, Techromancer, Grandia III, and Power Stone II.


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13 Nov 2009, 11:00 am

A modern freeware game made retro style:
http://kayin.pyoko.org/iwbtg/downloads.php

I wanna be the guy is the single hardest 2d game I have ever played.



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13 Nov 2009, 11:38 am

Anyone remember Paperboy on the NES?

I rented that game many, many times. The whole premise was just nuts (why is the whole neighborhood out to cream you?, and why the hell am I delivering their papers, and God I hope this job includes health insurance because I just got ran over by a jeep) but definitely due for a modern remake.

Possibly a tasteless one.

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13 Nov 2009, 3:15 pm

I remember the Paperboy arcade game in which you steer with bike handlebars.



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13 Nov 2009, 3:49 pm

There's already been a relatively recent thread on retro gaming:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt108745.html.



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14 Nov 2009, 6:26 pm

Panzer Dragoon Saga for the Sega Saturn.

Released just as the console died, relatively very few English translations were produced. But the setting is just so rich and the story so moving that copies usually sell for about $200 on ebay. A bargain price. Anyone play it?


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15 Nov 2009, 2:24 am

Phantasy Star Online and Bobble Bubble, oh nostalgia.