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The super duper retro gaming review thread

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  • #102
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Neo Geo Pocket Colour Review:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/10/neo-geo-pocket-colour-best-handheld.html
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  • #103
    OwaynOTT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,563 ✭✭✭✭OwaynOTT


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Neo Geo Pocket Colour Review:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/10/neo-geo-pocket-colour-best-handheld.html

    You convinced me to get one already from what you have said on this forum. Now I only need some games.


  • #104
    o1s1n
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 35,259 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Neo Geo Pocket Colour Review:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/10/neo-geo-pocket-colour-best-handheld.html

    It's such a shame the screen isn't backlit to look like those screenshots!


  • #105
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    OwaynOTT wrote: »
    You convinced me to get one already from what you have said on this forum. Now I only need some games.

    As I said, there's some good bundles out there. It's the best place to start.
    o1s1n wrote: »
    It's such a shame the screen isn't backlit to look like those screenshots!

    Yeah I know, i looks gorgeous when you've got the sun shining on it and you've got a good angle but when does that ever happen in this country :) At the moment I have to angle the desk lamp to see it properly or play it on the bus up to Sarah's which works quite well.

    One thing I've noticed when taking those pictures is that the emulators for the machine are absolutely terrible. There was no option to turn off the rancid bilinear filtering or to even take screenshots so I had to print screen and then crop them!
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  • #106
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    I've been wanting one for the longest time, but the scarcity and expense of the lighting solutions keep putting me off. The worm light looks handy enough and cost-effective, but try sourcing that baby, and I don't know of anyone in Europe offering the GBA SP screen-swap mod.


  • #107
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    The screen swap mod looks really difficult.
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  • #108
    Myrddin
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    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    The screen swap mod looks really difficult.

    It looks tricky indeed, & the risk to the console & screen is high.


  • #109
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yep I was looking at it and every part had a note 'make sure not to touch this with your finger otherwise it's ****ed!'
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  • #110
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,963 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    EnterNow wrote: »
    It looks tricky indeed, & the risk to the console & screen is high.

    Fancy the challenge? Do Retro's first, of course. :pac:


  • #111
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Mr.Saturn wrote: »
    Fancy the challenge?

    Nope :)


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  • #112
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Review of the excellent Project Zero:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/10/project-zerofatal-frame-october.html

    Also not really retro but a review of Catherine, if you haven't bought it then you really should try and change that!

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/10/catherine.html
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  • #113
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Fatal Labyrinth! Sega's rogue a like .
    I like it but its a "marmite" game
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzSCdHxENPw

    oh and not gaming related but
    ANDROID VOICE RECOGNITION HATES DUBLIN ACCENTS!!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEm07BIA54E


  • #114
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Nice to see another Gravediggers fan :) Best pints of Guinness in Dublin.
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  • #115
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    If you want a slightly more playable megadrive Rogue-like then I'd recommend Toejam and Earl which most people don't realise is a rogue-like.
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  • #116
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,633 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    TJ?&E, as the true fans call it, is brilliant, an early MD release and still marvelous.
    What is almost as great is TJ&E3 on the Xbox, a game that miraculously manages to dodge the "games by committee" and produce a great update to the original, aside from the "Poochy"-alike extra character.
    I picked it up for about €8 in 3D-Games back when it was trading, a good deal I say.


  • #117
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=damMnxulEqI

    something a bit different today..Tomytronic 3Ds!


  • #118
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Rule of Rose review:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/11/rule-of-rose.html

    Dreadful combat and would have been better off as a straight up adventure game but as it stands the wonderful visuals and story make it well worth playing.
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  • #119
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    I've posted my 'short but to the point' Ibara review. You can also catch a sneak peek at my blog by clicking the link below.

    I'm still building it so excuse the mess!

    http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=83


  • #120
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1CEpLB1nuM

    This week its Micro Machines grandad..Rally Speedway!
    (Warning! contains cough bottle fueled rambling about 8 bit computing in 80's Dublin)


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  • #121
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Ys 1 and 2 Chronicles review. Excellent remake of 2 classic games:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/11/ys-1-2-chronicles.html
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  • #122
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Longer, more biled fueled legend of dragoon brain fart:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/12/legend-of-dragoon.html
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  • #123
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmH2CX4B8SU

    (quicky as my voice still isnt fully back and had major gremlins last week doing "corporation" on the Megadrive)


  • #124
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Battlezone looks ridiculously good.
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  • #125
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    My take on Mars Matrix for the Dreamcast. It's good, I promise. It's worth a read, honestly! :pac:

    http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=191


  • #126
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Mars Matrix is a game I want to be good at but my god, I don't think I've every played a tougher shmup!
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  • #127
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    Indeed, the sheer difficulty of the game is its major downfall. :(


  • #128
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    System Shock review:

    http://lifein16bit.blogspot.com/2011/12/system-shock.html

    Amazing game that still stands up today and was way ahead of its time.
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  • #129
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    flimbo's quest on the commodore was fkn brilliant....


  • #130
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    flimbo's quest on the commodore was fkn brilliant....


    Amazing game, played the living shít out of it when I was a young'un. Got really hard on the last level and iff you didn't have the machine gun thingy you were toast almost instantly


  • #131
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    it was on a cartridge too,none of that poxy tape malarky!


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  • #132
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    harry Bailey esq wrote: »
    it was on a cartridge too,none of that poxy tape malarky!

    Yep great cart I got with my C64, it had Flimbos Quest, International Soccer, Fiendish Freddies and another game I just can't remember right now.
    All good games but Flimbos was excellent game all round


  • #133
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Yep great cart I got with my C64, it had Flimbos Quest, International Soccer, Fiendish Freddies and another game I just can't remember right now.
    All good games but Flimbos was excellent game all round

    Klax
    That stupidly addictive bastard


  • #134
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    Klax it is alright, my dad loved that game and would hog the shít out of the C64 when ever he got the chance.


  • #135
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭Doge


    HOW CAN YOU NOT REMEMBER KLAX! LIKE!!!*



    * one of the most fu*ked up tetris clone type games I ever played.


  • #136
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    waveform wrote: »
    HOW CAN YOU NOT REMEMBER KLAX! LIKE!!!*


    Well it was 20 years ago and in the interim I've been destroying my brain cells with alcohol and the like.

    Funny that I can't remember since I played so much of it


  • #137
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭Doge


    pdbhp wrote: »
    Well it was 20 years ago and in the interim I've been destroying my brain cells with alcohol and the like.

    Funny that I can't remember since I played so much of it

    Haha, I was only taking the piss!

    It's not one thats really worth remembering,
    the only reason I can remember it is because its a ****ed up game with a ****ed up name!


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_RZ6heuts




    WHAT A KLAAAXXXXXIIIIICCCC!


  • #138
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    waveform wrote: »
    WHAT A KLAAAXXXXXIIIIICCCC!

    I see what you did there:P

    That vid brings back memories, good memories for a while until the tiles start flying down.


  • #139
    Doge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,059 ✭✭✭Doge


    I'm convinced that if you play the game long enough and work your way through the levels,

    the backround changes to some green vines or something.


    Pretty sure that's what I remember anyway! :p


    Any takers on finding out? ;)


  • #140
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4NuRchbwKs

    The criminally overlooked Terminator Future Shock
    (stick around til the end for a harrowing look at the effects of too much dosbox/terminator related gaming on the fragile human mind)


  • #141
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Needs more Rise of the Robots :pac:


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  • #142
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Great review. Future Shock for a long time was definitely the most advanced game around. Really liked what I played of it and Skynet back in the day.

    Just two things to mention. Firstly you said you wanted to do a review of some other games and mentioned Screamer and not being able to get it working on dosbox. Screamer is available through GoG so that might be an option.

    Also you said that the older Terminator games by Bethesda are simple FPs games which couldn't be further from the truth. Terminator 2029 is a bit naff and plays like a weird wolfenstein clone which crazy movement controls.

    However the first Terminator game from 1990 is anything but simple. It's one of the first free-form open world games ever made. You are dumped into a massive near 8 mile square area of los angles that has been modelled quite accurately for it's time. You can play as Kyle Reese and must find Sarah Connor, protect her and kill the terminator or play as the terminator and hunt down Sarah connor while Reese protects her. How you do this is up to you, you can rob shops or buy weapons if you don't want to be a mass murderer and can even rob vehicles. The engine is fully 3D as well. It's one of the most interesting early PC games out there. It's very dated but work checking out because it's way ahead of its time.
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  • #143
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    Great review. Future Shock for a long time was definitely the most advanced game around. Really liked what I played of it and Skynet back in the day.

    Just two things to mention. Firstly you said you wanted to do a review of some other games and mentioned Screamer and not being able to get it working on dosbox. Screamer is available through GoG so that might be an option.

    Also you said that the older Terminator games by Bethesda are simple FPs games which couldn't be further from the truth. Terminator 2029 is a bit naff and plays like a weird wolfenstein clone which crazy movement controls.

    However the first Terminator game from 1990 is anything but simple. It's one of the first free-form open world games ever made. You are dumped into a massive near 8 mile square area of los angles that has been modelled quite accurately for it's time. You can play as Kyle Reese and must find Sarah Connor, protect her and kill the terminator or play as the terminator and hunt down Sarah connor while Reese protects her. How you do this is up to you, you can rob shops or buy weapons if you don't want to be a mass murderer and can even rob vehicles. The engine is fully 3D as well. It's one of the most interesting early PC games out there. It's very dated but work checking out because it's way ahead of its time.
    cheers ill have a look at it . the terminator game from 1990 sounds good . I had it down as being a bit more like castlemaster or robocop 3 in being a basic 3d game rather than a more modern style fps . Must nab a copy. and yes .. a rise review is on the way.


  • #144
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    as for screamer , I have a boxed copy so id rather not buy it again (broke,!) if I can. also... dont they use dosbox for older games anyway? must have a look


  • #145
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 51,845 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    They do use dosbox for their older games, not sure what settings they use but nearly every Dos game they have runs an .exe that runs a script to run the game in dosbox. Windows games have been re-written to run in newer versions of windows.

    Screamer was only 2.99 dollars a few days ago in their sale, probably back to 5.99 now.
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  • #146
    Dr Bob
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 3,184 Mod ✭✭✭✭Dr Bob


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    They do use dosbox for their older games, not sure what settings they use but nearly every Dos game they have runs an .exe that runs a script to run the game in dosbox. Windows games have been re-written to run in newer versions of windows.

    Screamer was only 2.99 dollars a few days ago in their sale, probably back to 5.99 now.

    yup it went back up
    TBH I'm probably going with plan B for some of the older non dosbox friendly games .(win 98 era laptop outputting to S-video, then vidcapped).


  • #147
    Pyongyang
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,328 ✭✭✭Pyongyang


    New blog post. My review of Prehistoric Isle 2.

    http://www.pinkbullets.co.uk/blogs/?p=386


  • #148
    harry Bailey esq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,814 ✭✭✭harry Bailey esq


    anyone remember leaderboard golf on commodore 64?


  • #149
    unky chop chop
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,206 ✭✭✭unky chop chop


    Yeah leaderboard was the game that got my oulman liking games.
    A classic and i don't think golfing games now a days have strayed far from the formula.

    Remember when you hit the water and the game created a special island for you to hit your next ball off.
    Always a highlight for me and my bros..we called it a jutter
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX5LKcl56HE


  • #150
    D4RK ONION
    Moderators Posts: 8,678 ✭✭✭D4RK ONION


    The way it renders the land is really interesting, drawing the outline before colouring it in.


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  • #151
    Sparks43
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,056 ✭✭✭Sparks43


    D4RK ONION wrote: »
    The way it renders the land is really interesting, drawing the outline before colouring it in.

    Thats the way the 10 year old developers did it in the good old 80s:D


    Still a cracking game though


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