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[sympathy4saren]

I still play Golden Eye 007 and Perfect Dark to this day. Once in a while. Also play my dad in a game of Griffey baseball on Super NES when visiting the fam once in a while.

I grew up on ancient pcs and the original Nintendo. Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt.

I've seen gaming's massive evolution.

[Turnip Root]

You know I never found Goldeneye that great. I guess it's because I was spoiled by PC first person shooters like Quake, Tribes and Unreal. Goldeneye was definetly good for a console first person shooter for it's time but I don't think it was until Halo that console first person shooters started to really get good.
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark have both aged poorly in my opinion.

[Metaldwarf]

My main game to this day is still NWN 1, for the amazing rp on the persistent world servers. I eschew more current games in favor of it.

[Chromie]

Turnip Root wrote...

You know I never found Goldeneye that great. I guess it's because I was spoiled by PC first person shooters like Quake, Tribes and Unreal..

You pirated those games right? 

[Rockworm503]

Turnip Root wrote...

You know I never found Goldeneye that great. I guess it's because I was spoiled by PC first person shooters like Quake, Tribes and Unreal. Goldeneye was definetly good for a console first person shooter for it's time but I don't think it was until Halo that console first person shooters started to really get good.
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark have both aged poorly in my opinion.

LOL everything you said was the oposite for me.
It wasn't until Halo that I started hating FPSes on consoles.
Sure Quake and Unreal and Tribes were great but I still have the urge to play Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
Tribes 2 is the best game ever made btw.

[Rockworm503]

Bryy_Miller wrote...

bussinrounds wrote...

    Yea, they're turning everything into a damn action game these days.  Do yourself a favor, get some Jagged Alliance 2 and forget about this new bs X-Com.   www.mcvuk.com/news/read/interview-christophhartmann-2kgames/082216 


That Ray Charles/Kanye West comment was painful.


   I read that Jullian Gollop sold the X-Com license, which means that if you but the old X-Com games the $$$ isn't going to the original creators anymore.  So...

That kind of blind devotion is more dangerous than not buying.

I'm with Spoony on this.  I'm not even that big of an X-com fan and it just screams cheap remake.

http://angryjoeshow....s-xcom-e3-2011/

Modifié par Rockworm503, 13 juillet 2011 - 08:14 .

[elitecom]

Rockworm503 wrote...

Turnip Root wrote...

You know I never found Goldeneye that great. I guess it's because I was spoiled by PC first person shooters like Quake, Tribes and Unreal. Goldeneye was definetly good for a console first person shooter for it's time but I don't think it was until Halo that console first person shooters started to really get good.
Goldeneye and Perfect Dark have both aged poorly in my opinion.

LOL everything you said was the oposite for me.
It wasn't until Halo that I started hating FPSes on consoles.
Sure Quake and Unreal and Tribes were great but I still have the urge to play Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.
Tribes 2 is the best game ever made btw.

Goldeneye made console FPS popular, that wasn't Halo's doing, Halo made a couple of other things popular, such as regenerative health.

[Remmirath]

Whether I am a retro gamer or not depends on your definition - by some people's, very definitely (as in, the people who include games such as Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment in that category). Others, yeah, still definitely (Lemmings, Commander Keen, Zork games, et cetera). Anything much earlier than that, though, no, and I've never owned anything but a PC - so I've never really played anything other than PC games, starting with DOS.

Personally I'd say I probably am, just not as much as some people. I do tend to prefer older games to modern games, and I do keep a computer still running DOS to play old games on (as well as having a DOS emulator for my usual computer, which I suppose is a bit redundant). The first thing I determine before giving in and switching to a new version of Windows is 'can I still run my favourite games?'.

[apunyfly]

I don't know if I woould qualify as one, but I can't say I'm a big fan of the way the whole industry is going, and I mainly play older (but not 'old') games. The last ones I bought for the PC were Thief 3, Descent : Freespace, Sacrifice and No one Lives Forever.

[HiddenKING]

88mphSlayer wrote...

xbox isn't really "retro"...

i grew up with consoles like the NES and PC games like oregon trail and sim city 2000 and wolfenstein 3d and commander keen, and i still enjoy playing these games, so i guess you could call me "retro" some of the time

i used to collect whatever old gaming tech tho, at one point i got an atari 2600 and an arcade machine called "jet fighter" from a yard sale for free, that was pretty cool

Maybe not for you or me. But the Xbox is "retro" for some people. That's why I don't like to use the word "retro" because no two people have the same definition of "retro"

[Warheadz]

I'm playing Suikoden and Tomba atm (PS1) but that's as retro as I'll go.

[bussinrounds]

Halae Dral wrote...

Whether I am a retro gamer or not depends on your definition - by some people's, very definitely (as in, the people who include games such as Baldur's Gate or Planescape: Torment in that category). Others, yeah, still definitely (Lemmings, Commander Keen, Zork games, et cetera). Anything much earlier than that, though, no, and I've never owned anything but a PC - so I've never really played anything other than PC games, starting with DOS.

Personally I'd say I probably am, just not as much as some people. I do tend to prefer older games to modern games, and I do keep a computer still running DOS to play old games on (as well as having a DOS emulator for my usual computer, which I suppose is a bit redundant). The first thing I determine before giving in and switching to a new version of Windows is 'can I still run my favourite games?'.

   Halo making regenerative health popular is not a good thing.  I remember the first time playing it at a friends house and saying to him what the hell is this weak ass **** ?

    And i don't think Baldurs Gate and games that recently should be considered retro.  That should be reserved for the earlier years of gaming , like the 80's.

[Geraldine]

Ahhhhhhhhhh, I remember Workbench. Precursor to Windows, right there!  Also, stable as all hell, it was. The only time it ever went wrong we when I accidentally sort of semi-deleted the operating system.

One re-install (from 14 floppies) later, every was working perfectly again.

Remember Workbench? Heck I still use it! Although I now have OS 3.9.

You must have had a ton of backups and add-ons to install with that many disks. Although this was quite normal for a miggy user to customise their Workbench with stuff like Magic Workbench, No Click, New Icons, King Con, Magic Menus, Eagle Player and of course the "must have" Opus Directory.

Yes Workbench was pure class, to be this good took Microsoft ages

[johnbonhamatron]

Geraldine wrote...

Remember Workbench? Heck I still use it! Although I now have OS 3.9.

You must have had a ton of backups and add-ons to install with that many disks. Although this was quite normal for a miggy user to customise their Workbench with stuff like Magic Workbench, No Click, New Icons, King Con, Magic Menus, Eagle Player and of course the "must have" Opus Directory.

Yes Workbench was pure class, to be this good took Microsoft ages

:O You still use Workbench?? Will... will you marry me?

God, I miss my miggy. S'the machine I first cut my teeth on, doing music production. Great days, great days...

/misty-eyed reminiscence

ETA:
Although in fairness, I may have actually forgotten how many disks it was on, and pulled the number 14 out of my bottom, because it sounded big. It may have been 7.

lol

Modifié par johnbonhamatron, 15 juillet 2011 - 10:53 .

[Remmirath]

bussinrounds wrote...

Halo making regenerative health popular is not a good thing.  I remember the first time playing it at a friends house and saying to him what the hell is this weak ass **** ?

And i don't think Baldurs Gate and games that recently should be considered retro.  That should be reserved for the earlier years of gaming , like the 80's.

I'd tend to more or less agree, on both counts (especially the second - I hate regenerating health) - though I don't think I said a thing about Halo, having never even played it.

I don't think it makes sense to have a set date for what is retro gaming, though, since after all time does keep going forward. Something like twenty or twenty-five years old (or however) would make more sense in my opinion - and currently that would be somewhere in the mid-eighties to very early nineties.

[Druss99]

I still play old Sega Megadrive games when I get the chance. I played through Streets of Rage 2 on Xbox live recently and would download more if I could afford them. When I was in hospital I spent the whole time wishing I still had my PSP and the Megadrive collection to pass the time.

By the way what is Workbench? I'm having a vague recollection of once having to use something called Workbench but I can't remember where...

[AshedMan]

I just picked up Cthulhu Saves the World and Breath of Death VII Double-Pack on Steam for $2.99. Great games that give the old JRPG feel.

[Wicked 702]

Played Breath of Fire I and I'm about halfway through Breath of Fire II on my Android phone. Emulators are great. (Yes, I own the carts too...) Thinking of maybe tackling Link to the Past again next.

[Geraldine]

LOL

Ok, for the record, Workbench was the operating system on Commodore Amiga computers. It was the first true multitasking OS ever and used many features you will take for granted now like scalable windows you could drag about the screens. Nothing very impressive these days with Windows 7 about, but back in the 80s this was cutting edge stuff.

Much of the OS was contained on ROM chips mounted on the motherboard, which made it a very robust and fast. My Amiga 1200 (for example) can cold boot in about 10 seconds. Microsoft Windows 3.1 and 95 were quite poor in comparison. Of course Microsoft finally caught up with it with Windows XP (kind of), took them long enough though! LOL For efficiency in it's use of hardware, Microsoft could still learn a thing or two.

You had many versions of Workbench, starting with 1.2, 1.3, 2.0, 2.1, 3.0, 3.1, 3.5, 3.9, 4.0 and finally (just out) 4.1. Up to 2.1 the OS had 2 or 3 floppy disks if it included a hard drive installer. Workbench 3.0 and 3.1 had 5 floppy disks. Workbench versions after that came on a CD-ROM.

classic Amigas all use one of the Motorola 68000 series of CPUs (just like Apple Macs at the time did). Workbench 3.9 was the last release for these. Workbench 4.0 and 4.1 are for Power PC equipped Amigas.

Oh, and AshedMan? Good find there!

[VoiceOfPudding]

pffffffff you call those retro games? I'm still playing knucklebones

[Geraldine]

I thought I would give you X Box 1 fans out there a cautionary tale. Do you know that your old Xbox could self destruct with exploding capacitors? Have a look at this picture below



These "super caps" maintain the clock on the Xbox 1. So what you might think? Without them the X Box will not function and there have been cases of whole boards being wrecked by these when they go pop.

So what do you do? These can be easily replaced with Panasonic Gold Cap series 3.3F / 2.5v .
They are really cheap and could save your X Box 1 from a fiery death.

[Mercannis]

Geraldine wrote...

Hi Folks
Was just wondering if there were any fans on here of older games and hardware. I myself have a growing Amiga herd of an A500+, CD32, two A1200s, A4000 and console wise a PS1 and two X Box 1s. I still fire up one of the Amigas regularly for a quick game of UFO, Cannon Fodder, Gloom or Frontier, the PS1 for Colony Wars and the Xbox for Dark Alliance.

So, does anyone else like to re-vist the past?

If you mean the last two decades then yes i do. I sometimes boot up my amiga or i dig out the Sega Megadrive, however if you mean late 70s early 80s stuff like the spectrum zx then no i dont. This is purely for the reason that it took bloody ages to get a game going and half the time the damn tape deck wouldnt work.

[chunkyman]

Mario games never get old. They truly are timeless, being equally fun as modern games. I still play Super Mario 3.

[Geraldine]

Hi Mercannis
Well basically you can go as far back as you like, but you do have a point there about those old cassette tape drives. Why was it those old speccys and such like would crash just as it was about to finish loading !?! Used to drive me nuts at the time! Thank goodness for floppy drives and then later hard drives.

Oh and well done for still having a miggy and megadrive!

And yes chunkyman I do think Mario games will be around for many years to come