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BrookM wrote: I still think fondly of the many hours I've spent playing the game or one of the many, many mods.
They Hunger is still one the better zombie games that I have played despite its crudeness (I'm absolutely sure that in reality it will fall quite short of the memory but I'm not going to check so...)
My first multi player FPS was Action Half Life on a LAN with a friend of mine who would utter annihilate me with dull monotony.
BrookM wrote: I still think fondly of the many hours I've spent playing the game or one of the many, many mods.
They Hunger is still one the better zombie games that I have played despite its crudeness (I'm absolutely sure that in reality it will fall quite short of the memory but I'm not going to check so...)
My first multi player FPS was Action Half Life on a LAN with a friend of mine who would utter annihilate me with dull monotony.
Yes! The They Hunger trilogy was well done for the most part (third one was a bit weird, plus that horrible credits song!), his first project, a singleplayer story on a spaceship was also great fun. USS Darkstar or something was the name. There was also Heart of Darkness, which was Apocalypse Now, but with zombies.
Another yes for Action Half-Life, that mod was just good fun. Guns akimbo, diving everywhere, my brother always playing as Hans Gruber from Die Hard.
Hmn, I guess I came too late for the Atari and what not. I grew up with the Sega and Nes. Though it was the Playstation which I really remember. Final Fantasy 7 was too complex for me at the time, though oddly Grandia and Alundra gave me no issues. Actually I think Alundra was the first game I ever played on that system.
I have a gym bag in my loft filled with my old consoles (...the Sega games have a literal crate to themselves however). I pulled out the Super Nintendo years ago, but I never did have many games for that and only bought it after the PS2 was long out. Nah, I'd rather play my Rayman 2 stickered Playstation. ...Or youknow, one of the other seven of the things I have up there. What? Gotta keep some spares.
...We shant speak of the hundred off 8Mb memory cars I also have there. Blockbuster was literally selling them for pennies.
And now I'm remember how much I hated those fancy 32Mb memory cards for the Playstation which you'd need to perform blood magic to have them actually read right. I just want to play Spyro!
FFS now I'm listening to the bloody Driver soundtrack. Love that menu screen.
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I went to a friend's house for an early Christmas dinner/sleep over a few years ago. Her boyfriend was at work the next day so we had to find something to do.
Turns out she had a SNES and Super Mario World. We completed the game and found every exit within a few hours, and I decided it was time to go home. Turned out my car's battery was flat as I had left the light on all night/morning.
We ended up playing a few trash games while waiting for the recovery van to come jumpstart me. None of those games were as nostalgic for me as Mario!
While I was living in Manchester, nearly 10 years ago, one of my housemates had a SNES and we played so much Street Fighter and Donkey Kong Country. These games were nostalgia at the time so I guess remembering this is nostalgia^2!
While I was in Manchester, a different friend took me to the Contemporary Museum (I think it is now a soccer museum?) for a computer games exhibition. One of the exhibits happened to be a SNES playing Donkey Kong, so of course we unlocked a few levels on that, got stuck on the mine cart level. In the end she convinced me it was time to go get a drink instead!
Thinking about it I think my housemate gifted me his SNES when he had to move out, and I left it at my parents while I was moving around quite a bit. I think it will be time to get that thing out again and play some SFII, DKC, SMW again!
nareik wrote: I went to a friend's house for an early Christmas dinner/sleep over a few years ago. Her boyfriend was at work the next day so we had to find something to do.
Turns out she had a SNES and Super Mario World. We completed the game and found every exit within a few hours, and I decided it was time to go home. Turned out my car's battery was flat as I had left the light on all night/morning.
We ended up playing a few trash games while waiting for the recovery van to come jumpstart me. None of those games were as nostalgic for me as Mario!
While I was living in Manchester, nearly 10 years ago, one of my housemates had a SNES and we played so much Street Fighter and Donkey Kong Country. These games were nostalgia at the time so I guess remembering this is nostalgia^2!
While I was in Manchester, a different friend took me to the Contemporary Museum (I think it is now a soccer museum?) for a computer games exhibition. One of the exhibits happened to be a SNES playing Donkey Kong, so of course we unlocked a few levels on that, got stuck on the mine cart level. In the end she convinced me it was time to go get a drink instead!
Thinking about it I think my housemate gifted me his SNES when he had to move out, and I left it at my parents while I was moving around quite a bit. I think it will be time to get that thing out again and play some SFII, DKC, SMW again!
Damn, now that's a lot! By the way, if you do get one again, I'd recommend Super Castlevania 4, Megaman X and Megaman X2. Such great games!
While some games did not age well for me, I still find myself playing and thoroughly enjoying Red Alert 2 and it's expansion Yuri's Revenge an awful lot. Not just a solid strategy game, but also maintaining a fine mix of camp and zany elements that makes it fun to play through.
I also still enjoy the very first Fallout a lot, playing through it from time to time.
A little while ago I dug out the old Sega Genesis to re-play and actually beat some of my childhood games -- Animaniacs, Pac-Man 2, Jurassic Park. Amazingly enough, I still couldn't beat them... But - but I can defeat Star Wolf in one try! I got ALL the Pokemons! I can kill Puppet Ganon in Wind Waker! I'm objectively better at games, why can't I do this?!?
my childhood games that I'll still break out and play from time to time are:
the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy text adventure ultima 4
the bards tale series
masters of magic
heroes of might and magic 3
I have a atari 2600 as well, and who can resist a game of combat
I broke out my baulders gate 2 game as well, all the hype about the remake made me feel like playing it again.
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Theres a guy on youtube caled Kim (kimble) Justice that does a terrific retro set of videos of old games. Everything from the ZX to the amiga 500 covered. Well worth checking out.
Also has some great videos of old companies like Ocean, Infograms etc and their rise and falls.
Dman137 wrote:
goobs is all you guys will ever be
By 1-irt: Still as long as Hissy keeps showing up this is one of the most entertaining threads ever.
Master of Orion, oh the hours and hours I whiled away at that. As well as Castle of the Winds, Golden Axe....Even going back to stuff like VGA sharks and Alley Cat.
Is it wrong to wish for an update of panzer front. With the amount of world of tank players im sure it would shift the numbers and would look pretty good these days. Storming through Normandy would be awsome.
I've got emulators for everything from NES to Wii, with PS1, PS2, the Sega Consoles, and Nintendo hand helds. I set it up with a front end program called Hyperspin to make it look pretty. It runs a preview video for each game, and you can pause the game and bring up its guide and maps (the ones I've been able to locate). I've still got all my hard copies well preserved in plastic totes in my basement. Putting everything on PC cleaned up the jumble of wires and with the use of scanline emulators actually look good on a modern tv. Some games, like Mario 64, have HD texture packs and anti-aliasing that make them look more modern. It took forever for me to set up, but was well worth the time.
Nostromodamus wrote: Got a NES, SNES and Genesis (though I knew it as the Mega Drive) amongst the massive altar of consoles in our bedroom so I can relive my childhood whenever I like! Also got the Genesis Collection on Xbox 360, lots of good stuff there.
Been contemplating playing Mario World, Shining Force and Wonderboy in Monster World lately, but Dark Souls keeps calling...
Oh god, Shining Force. Never beat it, but that game rocked. Same with Shining Force 2, so badass
Golden Sun on GBA is made from the same people. Not quite as awesome but still very good games. I've got a ton of retro things to occupy me. I do a bit of collecting but mostly just play. Have a toaster and a top loader, snes, Atari 2600, Genesis n64, Wii (mostly for game cube games) WiiU ps2 and ps4 and recently bought a retron5 for ease of use and because it plays in 720HD. Games look great on that thing.
Monkey Tamer wrote: I've got emulators for everything from NES to Wii, with PS1, PS2, the Sega Consoles, and Nintendo hand helds. I set it up with a front end program called Hyperspin to make it look pretty. It runs a preview video for each game, and you can pause the game and bring up its guide and maps (the ones I've been able to locate). I've still got all my hard copies well preserved in plastic totes in my basement. Putting everything on PC cleaned up the jumble of wires and with the use of scanline emulators actually look good on a modern tv. Some games, like Mario 64, have HD texture packs and anti-aliasing that make them look more modern. It took forever for me to set up, but was well worth the time.
My friend had a 3D TV that had a 'forced 3d' setting (converting 2d footage into 3d playback real time). We tried using the setting on various snes games, to varying effectiveness. Donkey Kong Country was amazing in 3d though!
The They Hunger trilogy was well done for the most part (third one was a bit weird, plus that horrible credits song!), his first project, a singleplayer story on a spaceship was also great fun. USS Darkstar or something was the name. There was also Heart of Darkness, which was Apocalypse Now, but with zombies. 
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