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Immured
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 Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:05 pm Post subject: Play older games purely for nostalgia? |
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| I no longer play videogames very much anymore, but every now and then, I will download the odd rom for a few days and send myself back to a previous state of mind. Anyone else like to play games they remember from earlier times just for the sake of returning to a state when life was simpler and things evoked wonder? |
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woodsman25
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| Posted: Thu Dec 06, 2007 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Hell ya! My old Sega Genisis I got for Christmas when I was 9 I enjoy more then games out now.
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Anubis
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I do that sometimes.
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TheAPERSON
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I will play through games I've already completed before sometimes, but that's usually because I have nothing to do.
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brfandan
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not a year goes by where i dont play all of the half life games at least once over again.
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SamuraiSaxen
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I play some old games just when I'm nostalgic, and I also play other old games because they are awesome!
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TheAPERSON
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I play my Metroid Prime games again, but that's mainly so I can complete hard mode.
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Dreamweaver
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| I tried installed Return To Zork yesterday but my computer wouldn't have it. I mainly have this for research though (database I'm creating) so games aren't on much. |
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snake321
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When I started playing video games, I was in 2nd grade, the big game at the time was Super Mario Bros. My how far gaming has came, I still like the older games as much sometimes as I like more recent ones, in some cases I may even prefer some older games to some newer ones (depending on which two games they are).
Man, I remember playing monster party, battle of olympus, faxanado, legend of zelda, metal gear (8-bit), boy and his blob, mike tyson's punch out, ninja turtles, ninja gaiden, castlevania, metroid, mega man, when they were all recent games in fact, when I was a small child. |
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wsmac
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| Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:56 am Post subject: |
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| snake321 wrote: | When I started playing video games, I was in 2nd grade, the big game at the time was Super Mario Bros. My how far gaming has came, I still like the older games as much sometimes as I like more recent ones, in some cases I may even prefer some older games to some newer ones (depending on which two games they are).
Man, I remember playing monster party, battle of olympus, faxanado, legend of zelda, metal gear (8-bit), boy and his blob, mike tyson's punch out, ninja turtles, ninja gaiden, castlevania, metroid, mega man, when they were all recent games in fact, when I was a small child. |
Aww, you're just a young'un 
When I started playing video games it was Pong on our brand new COLOR! Television set! 
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rasha
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| Oh Yeah I definetly do this from time to time. I had the old Sega Genesis that I got for Christmas in 92(and I still have it lol it just doesn't work:(. I loved playing the old sonic games the sonic games 3-d games today I really don't like it. I also use to play ToeJam and Earl,Streets of Rage,Earthworm Jim. |
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iamnotaparakeet
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wsmac
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I forgot to say that the only 'old' game I play right now is "Asteroids"... as a widget on my Opera browser.
Takes me back to when my brother and I were carrying on and getting into all sorts of trouble... ahhhh... the good old days!  
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snake321
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| iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | Halo is not even half as good as OO7 Goldeneye! WOOT!!! |
I never understood what the big idea behind HALO is, there have always been a thousand clones of that game, in fact HALO is a clone of the thousands that came before it came out. It's a cheesey story line, just another bionic suit guy running around shooting at people (yeah we've neeeeeevvvvveeeeeeeerrrr seen anything like that before ).
Why don't they just call it "video game"? I mean that is about how generic HALO is..... Sorry if I've offended anyone, I just really don't understand how or why HALO is blowing up so big in the gaming market, I see it as nothing more than trash honestly. |
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iamnotaparakeet
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| snake321 wrote: | | iamnotaparakeet wrote: | | Halo is not even half as good as OO7 Goldeneye! WOOT!!! |
I never understood what the big idea behind HALO is, there have always been a thousand clones of that game, in fact HALO is a clone of the thousands that came before it came out. It's a cheesey story line, just another bionic suit guy running around shooting at people (yeah we've neeeeeevvvvveeeeeeeerrrr seen anything like that before ).
Why don't they just call it "video game"? I mean that is about how generic HALO is..... Sorry if I've offended anyone, I just really don't understand how or why HALO is blowing up so big in the gaming market, I see it as nothing more than trash honestly. |
Halo could be better if it had a real storyline. Anyone read the Halo books? I did a little, but they weren't worth keeping in my opinion. They fell into the trash can...
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