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CaptainMac
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I'm another Mario 64 fan. I still have my original N64 from April 1997 (although it's on a better TV now). I play it now and then, usually creating a new file and starting over to see how far I can get without a book.
I got all 120 stars on the file I started nearly 11 years ago. It was long and frustrating (the clock!) but very much worth it.
I play a lot of older games because the newer ones don't appeal to me. While I do keep up with Mario (I love Galaxy!) I find a lot of old games just got lost over the years. Examples include Lemmings, Battle Chess, and the old-style Starfox where you fly the planes. Also, does anyone remember Shufflepuck Cafe? Really old Mac game from the late 1980s.
I remember when Pokeymon was the big rage. I never got into it. I thought it looked dumb (apologies to any fans out there) and I thought the same about virtual pets--especially since I had a real dog at home.
Most of the games I play today are sports games like Madden or any of the baseball games.
Ed software, that's another story. I like to relive my glory days, back before I was as anxiety-stricken as I am now, by playing Carmen Sandiego or something. |
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NewRotIck
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Joined: Jan 17, 2008
Age: 169
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Location: New Zealand
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| I prefer to just remember old games nostalgically than actually play them. Why let reality spoil a perfectly good idealised memory? In the past, whenever I did replay old games, I started remembering all their flaws. But from time to time I have stumbled across old classics that I missed when they were released. I enjoyed playing emulated SNES versions of Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6, even though they were probably nearly a decade old when I played them. |
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corroonb
Sane Anarchist and Pacifist
Joined: Oct 29, 2007
Age: 25
Posts: 1128
Location: Ireland
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| I am currently buying loads of Gamecube and Xbox games on eBay and most are very cheap. Gamecube games are much more expensive though, Skies of Arcadia cost me 35 Euro. |
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Paguk
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Joined: Nov 26, 2005
Posts: 123
Location: Between the Port of Indecision and Southwest of Disorder
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YES! Skies of Arcadia! I have yet to have anyone around me who's actually played that game! The moment when I got to take control of a state-of-the-art warship (after having been relegated to a glorified fishing boat) is one of my fondest video-game memories.
As far as older games go, I remember playing 'Zombies Ate My Neighbors' on the Genesis back in summer. It was significantly harder than I remembered but at least now I got all of the little horror movie references that went over my head when I was little. |
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Asterisp
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Joined: Dec 16, 2007
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Location: Netherlands
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| Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 2:49 pm Post subject: |
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I like to play older adventure-games, especially those from Sierra. Nowadays they could better close down Sierra, to keep something of the real name...
Luckily there are some good fanmade games in the same style as the old adventures.
I really like Quest for Glory.
Playing the different parts of Command & Conquer is fun and Commandos. |
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NewRotIck
Snowy Owl
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Age: 169
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Location: New Zealand
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| Asterisp wrote: | | I really like Quest for Glory. |
Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness (gotta love that name!) is one of my favourite games of all time. The others were pretty good too. |
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darkstone100
Phoenix
Joined: Mar 05, 2008
Age: 20
Posts: 4144
Location: Yuma, AZ
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| I played the ocarina of time a couple of months ago when I started it up it actually hurt my eyes. |
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Irulan
The Borg Queen
Joined: May 18, 2007
Age: 25
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Location: Poland
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PlatedDrake
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Joined: Aug 26, 2009
Age: 29
Posts: 468
Location: Piedmont Region, NC, USA
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| I'll do this too. Prime favorites are Starcraft, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Missionforce: Cyberstorm, and various others that are compatible with Win XP (or if i can get it to work on it). |
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SabbraCadabra
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I don't play them purely for the nostalgia, I mostly play them because they're such great games.
Of course, I make an exception for the Final Fantasy games...I really can't stand forcing myself through those like I could when I was little, so I literally do play those purely for the nostalgia.
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SDFarsight
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Age: 21
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Location: Coventry
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Balders Gate 2  And not only for the nostalgia. It's generally a great game to come back to anyway. |
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roche12
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Age: 26
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I replay lots of Square games, just about anything made for the SNES, PS and PS2. One because they are awesome games, two because I have wonderful memories from being a kid while playing those games.
I have found that many of my N64 and PS games can be rough on the eyes. 2D sprites actually look better now than the 3D stuff does. |
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SamwiseGamgee
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Joined: Jan 19, 2009
Age: 22
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Location: Canada
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I love older games, I've got all my old Nintendo consoles hooked up and ready to go whenever I want to play them. My favourite games are still the Donkey Kong games for SNES, I really wish they'd make another platform/adventure DK game. DK64 was the last good one.
I recently went searching for some old DOS games I used to play all the time. Most of them were just as good as I remember. |
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HAL_9000
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Joined: Nov 17, 2008
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Location: UK
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| SDFarsight wrote: | | Balders Gate 2 And not only for the nostalgia. It's generally a great game to come back to anyway. |
You speak the truth, sir. |
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Vyn
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Joined: Oct 19, 2009
Age: 22
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Location: Classified
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The Final Fantasies for nostalgia and gameplay are great. And then there's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That game has probably the greatest replay value of any game I've ever had the pleasure of playing.
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