So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

CiDeRmAn

Me, I'm playing a bit of Metal Slug X, Micromachines, Einhander via PSP and about to play some Daytona on the Saturn, anyone else?

o1s1n

Lethal Enforcers 1 & 2. After all these years I finally got my hands on the rare pink player 2 justifier lightgun. Dual weilding is way too much fun!

Most recent MVS games are Magical Drop 2, Metal Slug 4 (Just need 3 & 5 now) Viewpoint, Shock Troopers (So much better than the sequal!) and Blazing Star.

batari

All week playing Smash Tv on the Nes, mad for a go of Fable on the xBox sometime soon though.:pac:

While travelling to work on the bus, Mario Kart Advance and Sonic Advance.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

Lethal Enforcers 1 & 2. After all these years I finally got my hands on the rare pink player 2 justifier lightgun.

Are they worth much, have two justifiers for the megadrive?

For me I'm playing a lot of Warcarft 2 expansion pack and Warcraft 3. Also finally got around to playing system shock 2 after all these years and it hasn't disappointed.

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Are they worth much, have two justifiers for the megadrive?

The blue one no. The pink one yes. I paid 45 euro to get one from the states. Might sound expensive but I saw one sell for 89 sterling about two weeks ago on ebay.co.uk.

It's rare because it wasn't released in stores. You had to fill in a card and send off to Konami for one.

As far as I know it was so they could have one generic pink gun that would work for the Megadrive and Snes. The box doesn't mention either console.

Retr0gamer

Used to have the box as well until recently when my mam threw it out

CiDeRmAn

I think I have lethal enforcers for the MegaCD somewhere, must dog it out, while I still have a TV that can play it!
Retro games I simply must get back to:
Formula1 '97,
SkullMonkeys,
Perfect Dark,
Super Metroid,
Super Mario Land 2

Atavan-Halen

I'm playing nothing retro and it's depressing I'm seriously missing my collection, however I'll have a week off next week so the PS1 is in for a bit of loving with some theme hospital and gran turismo. I'll also have some money left on the aul 3v card after booking my theory test, so going to get a vmu so that I can finally get into the games I have on the 'cast

norrie rugger

Star Trek: Birth of the Federation.

Micro management at its worst but I love that bloody game

Crowman

Parasite Eve (The first one) on PS1.
Not that far in as yet, but it's ok so far...

norrie rugger

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Ah brings me back to the days of carpet bombing the Cardassian homeworld with 30 Defiants class starships. Its such a good game that sucked days out of you.

Indeed, I have lost weeks to that game.
I am jumping up and down waiting for the fan made sequels

I loved once that I had 60 Klingon birds of prey at legendary, in 1 fleet. Was taking out Borg cubes for fun

norrie rugger

LIGHTNING wrote: »

I did the same thing I was chasing a borg cube halfway around the galaxy and I didnt notice that the crystilline entity had wiped out most of the Romulan empire:) Made my job a lot easier (as you can see I didnt do diplomacy!)

Diplomacy in the game is broken anyway

as is intelligence. i hate that it is near impossible to instigate wars, between two other powers

Retr0gamer

Stupid parents moved all my PS1 and Saturn games up to the attic yesterday and achieved nothing because I just took them back down. I was a lot more worried when I thought they might have brought them to the market and sold them

norrie rugger

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stupid parents moved all my PS1 and Saturn games up to the attic yesterday and achieved nothing because I just took them back down. I was a lot more worried when I thought they might have brought them to the market and sold them

You have got to hope that they do not read this thread and get ideas

o1s1n

Is there any particular market your parents frequent?

>_>

<_<

norrie rugger

LIGHTNING wrote: »

Yea they also have a tendancy to gang up on you early on. Hence why pretty much every planet in my empire produces starships!

Playing at the moment. Got the Edo and the Benzites early on. Edo guardian is defending that planet which is my major research base and the Benzites are pumping out ships

davrho

The psp is handy to play the retro games on.

Seem to spend hours playing Pheonix.
I bought arkanoid from xbox live and thats a disaster once you start playing it. Next thing you know its the middle of the night. Speedball 2 still gets played when the lads come round for a few beers.

I still have an amiga and kick off2 comes out once in a while too.

CiDeRmAn

I'm playing a few bits and boobs on the PSP as well, Super Mario World, again and Kirbys Dreamland, fantastic, and after commenting on it the other day, I started playing a spot of Defender II on the 2600 emu for the PSP, its great, I own it proper too, but the PSP is a tad more portable than the 2600! I tried the original Defender port to the 2600 as well, mother of god, it sucks almost as much as Pacman did, amazing how bad they made it, and yet, like Ms Pacman, the sequel is far far superior.
Reckon Atari just rushed them out, flooding the market with that kinda crap, sales returns indicating that they should try harder next time, which they did!
Didn't stop it all crashing in 83 though.

Dozen Wicked Words

Playing Laser Squad on my Speccy emulator, would play on the real thing but its in a box as "its" room has long since been taken over by children. No one warned me about that side effect of having kids.:mad:

Oh and I love Pacman on the 2600 even though its cack. It was one of the first video games I ever played. I think the year we got the 2600, we only had that and Combat to play, my older brother stayed up for 11 hours playing it!

Retr0gamer

Come on Dynamite Headdy is great!

Gunmonkey

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Come on Dynamite Headdy is great!

Gave it a good spin on the UMDC during the weekend, got fairly far into it and it just gets more bizarre with each level

mack flyer

playing sensible soccer on my snes emulator and its as addictive as it was in the early nineties...

o1s1n

Pete Sampres Tennis. I never considered liking a tennis game until I rented that game out. Turned everything on it's head. So much fun.

Heh, just got a phone call from my mam -

'A guy just drove up to the house in a car and handed me a huge box full of cassette tapes...?????'

Must be the Spectrum games!

superfly

dooferoaks wrote: »

Playing Laser Squad on my Speccy emulator

i play that from time to time, but the one i always go back to is Chaos
a nice reimagined remake of it is found here
http://www.scalari.net/chaos/

batari

Super Metroid on the Snes

How come I never played this before?? :eek:

o1s1n

atariman wrote: »

Super Metroid on the Snes

How come I never played this before?? :eek:

I still haven't either. Oh the shame, the shame of it all.

Retr0gamer

o1s1n wrote: »

I still haven't either. Oh the shame, the shame of it all.

FFS sort that out as soon as possible! You aren't a gamer unless you have played that!

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

FFS sort that out as soon as possible! You aren't a gamer unless you have played that!

Right, you just shamed me into buying a copy on ebay. :pac:

I take it the cart uses a battery back up to save progress? Probably have to change that before I start playing. Or could you get through the whole thing in a really long sitting?

Retr0gamer

You could get through it in a really long sitting but you will probably get stuck. And die a lot. So change the battery first.

Gummy Panda

Does the EU copy of super metriod have German subtitles?

Bloody download for wii does :mad:

CiDeRmAn

Yup, my physical copy of Super Metroid has some super freaky german subtitles, not happy with it, but it's better than not having a copy at all.
I played and finished it the first time around in all it's english, big boxed, giant manual glory, finishing that was a good day, oh yes, a good day indeed.

Playing Rogue Galaxy now, not strictly retro I know, but it is not in the current gen and is awfully good, I can see it gracing the DS at some point though.

Gummy Panda

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Playing Rogue Galaxy now, not strictly retro I know, but it is not in the current gen and is awfully good, I can see it gracing the DS at some point though.

DS is becoming the home for JRPGs at the moment. Good thing in my opinion as I do a lot of my gaming on it.

I'm going to try some draqon quest on DS. Hey it's a graphical update of a retro game so still retro

Retr0gamer

Must get into those DS Dragon Quest games. DQVIII was so good.

I'm not sure I could classify Rogue Galaxy as a JRPG. It was pretty good from what I played. Then Persona 3 came along

CiDeRmAn

My bro picked one of those up, and yup it's pretty nice,
BUT

Won't a PSP pretty much do everything it can do but better?
I mean it has a bigger screen, stable emulators, it has tons of great homebrew.

My bro isn't all that impressed with the Dingo at all as a matter of fact.

Retr0gamer

And the controls suck hard.

CiDeRmAn

As opposed to the controls on a Chinese made dodgy media player?
Believe me, the Dingo is no great shakes.
The emulators are not that good and you have to wonder just how long they will be supported, while the PSP homebrew scene is alive and well, not to mention the fact you can convert your entire PSone collection to work on the PSP, so I have Gran Turismo 2 now on the go, can't do that with a Dingo

Gummy Panda

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Must get into those DS Dragon Quest games. DQVIII was so good.

I'm not sure I could classify Rogue Galaxy as a JRPG. It was pretty good from what I played. Then Persona 3 came along

yes you should DQIV is great.

Btw, amazon are selling the roguelike Shiren for £6 on DS. Come on Retro, you know you want the frustration of a roguelike.

CCCP^

I'm trying to clear Zombies Ate My Neighbours on the Snes. Stuck in Splatterhouse 2 for MD. It'll take a serious session to get out of the current bit, you've jumped down some hole and after finding your girlfriend but she gets grabbed by demons.

I stick on Virtua Racing now and again because it's something different and I like the feel of it. I could play a much better racing game for the PSOne but...I just like Virtua Racing for the MD, it's cool.

Tetris Blast is in the Gameboy, love that game, brilliant. Castlevania is in the other bay of the FC Twin and I haven't, shamefully, played it in ages.

Gummy Panda

Castlevania is amazing.

I remember my mother brought me into town and bought it for me. I had to wait to her and my sisters girly film was over to play it. A few months later it was my birthday and a got sanyo portable so I could play it all I wanted. Good times

Retr0gamer

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Btw, amazon are selling the roguelike Shiren for £6 on DS. Come on Retro, you know you want the frustration of a roguelike.

Hmm, never played a roguelike but retronauts are always on about that game. I'll have to give it a go some time.

CiDeRmAn

I must say the Megadrive version of Virtua Racing was a fave of mine for a long time, it was better than the Saturn version and somehow better than the arcade perfect version on the Sega Collection on the PS2, the best I have played, outside of the arcade anyhow, is the 32X edition, very good indeed.

marty87

Gummy Panda wrote: »

Castlevania is amazing.

A few months later it was my birthday and a got sanyo portable so I could play it all I wanted. Good times

Whats a sanyo portable?

Gummy Panda

marty87 wrote: »

Whats a sanyo portable?

A 14" TV. For some reason they were called portables when they weren't that portable

back to topic, I've been playing DQIV all day. Got to 4th chapter. I think my eyes are going to fall out. Good game but its got some grinding in it which I'm not entirely use to. In FF games, its more based on progress of story. DQ while good story has some parts which require walking around a dungeon hoping for random drops from mobs. In Super Taisen Robot or Persona its not bad since the fights are really good fun.

I think DQ suffers from your characters not having much abilities so you are just bashing the A button through boring fights which seem very slow as well. I think other games like Super Taisen Robot and FF get away with this due to highly stylised moves.

Its a good game but sometimes it pisses me off and i feel I have to drag myself through it.

CiDeRmAn

marty87 wrote: »

Whats a sanyo portable?

My gods, are we really that old or are they that young?

Personally I'm hoping they're joking, otherwise we'll get more of these questions, like...

What's a cassette?
What's an RF?
Who are Atari? Aren't they the guys that made Driver3, you mean they made consoles too!?
Sonic, isn't he only in crap games?

And so on...

CCCP^

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Who are Atari?
And so on...

Atari made http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_(video_game)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgW6Arf_cO0

They made that cutscence. All Hail Atari.

Bluehair

Currently playing BADLANDS;


It's one of the few games in Mame land that play as good today as I remembered. Brings back those addictive 'just one more go' feelings in spades

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Hmm, never played a roguelike but retronauts are always on about that game. I'll have to give it a go some time.

Ah here, and you give me stick for not having played Super Metroid?


Download Nethack, download it now! One of the best games ever made. And it's free.
The depth to is is just mind blowing. Not to mention the difficulty level. You're dead and that's it, back to the start with you, no amulet of yendor this time.

Actually, whatever you do, make sure you only play it is ASCII mode. And no savescumming.

Red Sleeping Beauty

I was playing some MegaDrive while the Wimbledon was on. I got out Pete Sampras tennis and damn I couldn't play the feckin thing at all so I got frustrated and gave up. I remember a cheat or something where you could get big balls and stuff... coulnd't find it again.

At the minute I've got an N64 switched on and I'm ploughing through a few titles looking for a good 2player.
Looks like WrestleMania 2000 and Goldeneye will be the decider :cool:

marty87

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

My gods, are we really that old or are they that young?

Personally I'm hoping they're joking, otherwise we'll get more of these questions, like...

What's a cassette?
What's an RF?
Who are Atari? Aren't they the guys that made Driver3, you mean they made consoles too!?
Sonic, isn't he only in crap games?

And so on...

Well Ciderman I just thought this was a snes version of the sega nomad or something, got me excited for a moment, is there actuallly any nintendo version? (I'm anticipating someone saying the gameboy but that is nothing like what the nomad is to megadrive)

I was always a mitubishi man myself when it came to tv's. I'm not that young I don't think? my first console was a snes though so I do often ask people " Sonic, isn't he only in crap games?"

CiDeRmAn

Now now, 16 bit Sonic is great, no arguements, move along.
As for a Nintendo Portable, at least a portable version of their home consoles, I suppose they made far too much money reheating existing games for the handhelds, and anyway, the Gameboy was a monochrome NES, many of the games being slightly altered if at all from the home editions, Super Mario Bros on the Gameboy Color, Kirby on the GB, and the GBA seemed to play host to a huge number of Snes ports, again aside from a couple of modifications for the new button count and the smaller screen the games seemed to move over fairly painlessly, so you have the Super Mario Series and the rest.
At least Ninty did release "new" Snes games, the likes of Super Metroid Fusion for example.

But that I'd say is why they never made a portable version of the Snes, although the portable Megadrive, the Nomad, never set the world on fire now, did it?

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

although the portable Megadrive, the Nomad, never set the world on fire now, did it?

Bad marketing and battery life did that. Any time I ever mention it to anyone they go 'oh yeah, the Gamegear'.

'No I'm talking about a handheld you can slot Megadrive games directly in to and has a signal out that you can plug into your tv'

'WTF??? I want!'

A portable Snes with decent battery life would have sold truck loads.

As for Mitsubishi TVs, I have a lovely CRT one that I still play games on. Only problem is the remote has since broken and there is no way of tuning in on the TV. So I can't play my 2600 on it Only scart stuff for the moment.
Got a replacement remote and it does everything bar bringing up the station tune in menu. Any ideas?!