So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

Retr0gamer · 08-04-2011 9:38pm

My advice for majoras mask is to stick with it because it's unlike any other game let alone zelda game. It's tough to get into but once you do it's so worth it.

johnny_ultimate · 09-04-2011 3:44pm

Yeah played up until you get the Ocarina back last night, I'm impressed - certainly a radically different take on the series! There's a real sense of urgency and worry already. I like.

OwaynOTT · 09-04-2011 4:11pm

Lemmings on SNES. Bringing back the memories of playing two player in the dump stage with my cousin. Just digging and building stairs and not even trying to past the stage.
Love the music.

Also been playing Bomberman on the same system. Used to have it on the gameboy. Played it with the missus last night and she just couldn't grasp the concept of it at all. Some people were deprived and didn't have nintendo growing up. I pity them.

megaten · 09-04-2011 11:15pm

Just finished mother 1 today. Lovely little game especially with an easy patch to take out the grinding. Final boss battle is brilliant.

Retr0gamer · 10-04-2011 1:09am

I played with no easy patch and the amount of grinding and the final area were ridiculous but well it is an 8-bit RPG. The finally few scenes when the story comes together are great though. Best thing about the mother series, they seem whimsical but they are in fact very dark. Next up earthbound and mother 3 which are works of genius.

K.O.Kiki · 10-04-2011 10:49pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

My advice for majoras mask is to stick with it because it's unlike any other game let alone zelda game. It's tough to get into but once you do it's so worth it.

This Zelda freeware game is also "unlike any other Zelda"

ondafly · 11-04-2011 8:44pm

playing Minecraft alot on the boards.ie server - although not retro, building Giant Bub & Bobs is

Retr0gamer · 11-04-2011 9:47pm

I used to make loads of pixel art in the boards.ie server. My megaman became a bit of a landmark on one of them. This was back before the cloth blocks so you had to be creative with the colours you wanted to use.

ondafly · 12-04-2011 8:25am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I used to make loads of pixel art in the boards.ie server. My megaman became a bit of a landmark on one of them. This was back before the cloth blocks so you had to be creative with the colours you wanted to use.

was that on Tallons server ? the new boards.ie one is a survival mode, so its a right pain having to trek about trying to get the bits and pieces together, but great fun all the same.

johnny_ultimate · 12-04-2011 11:28am

SNES Pilotwings is surprisingly addictive. It's the ****ing hanggliding sections that get me, and the sarky bastard instructors make me want to shout, put my hands up and shout.

Majora's Mask really is uniquely innovative. Genuinely different from other Zelda games while still remaining loyal to the series. It's strange, dark and compelling.

valleyoftheunos · 12-04-2011 11:39am

Playing Metroid Zero Mission on GBA, really enjoying it which is a bit surprising as I hated the original on NES, although the two are quite different. If I manage to get through it all Super Metroid will be a certain purchase.

pdbhp · 12-04-2011 12:18pm

valleyoftheunos wrote: »

Playing Metroid Zero Mission on GBA, really enjoying it which is a bit surprising as I hated the original on NES, although the two are quite different. If I manage to get through it all Super Metroid will be a certain purchase.

Great game Zero Mission, you should get Metroid Fusion on GBA, I find it better then ZM but it is hard in the later levels

ghostchant · 12-04-2011 12:30pm

Gotta love those "oh fffuuuuu****kkkk!!!" moments when you're spotted by SA-X!

12-04-2011 9:03pm

OwaynOTT wrote: »

Lemmings on SNES. Bringing back the memories of playing two player in the dump stage with my cousin. Just digging and building stairs and not even trying to past the stage.
Love the music.

Also been playing Bomberman on the same system. Used to have it on the gameboy. Played it with the missus last night and she just couldn't grasp the concept of it at all. Some people were deprived and didn't have nintendo growing up. I pity them.

I don't have either of these, but have played them quite a bit over the years. Might get them at some stage. I found Lemmings a bit awkward with the pad (having initially played it on an Acorn RISC OS machine with a mouse) but I like the music on the SNES version. Then again I like a lot of SNES music.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2011 7:20am

I had Lemmings on nearly every console I own, and if you think Lemmings is hard on a console with a joypad, try playing it B&W, on an original Gameboy.
I did and it still rocked!
Didn't like the Lemmings 3D effort on the PS though.
The versions I loved were the Amiga/PC editions and, later, the MD/Snes versions, not to mention the GB one mentioned above.
Little buggers!

Have to say though, those opening levels feel warm and comfortable now, a bit like the first hour of Mario World and most of Sonic...
Doom is a bit like that too, knowing where the secrets are, how to stroll off right to the chainsaw, just like real life!

pdbhp · 13-04-2011 5:45pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I had Lemmings on nearly every console I own, and if you think Lemmings is hard on a console with a joypad, try playing it B&W, on an original Gameboy.
I did and it still rocked!

Play it every week, it's a really fun challanging game thats simple in its design but a whole lotta fun to play.

CiDeRmAn · 13-04-2011 7:51pm

Going from the GB to the Pocket, going from green/yellow+blackish green blur-o-vision to beautiful, crisp mono lcd goodness, this is what St. Paul must have felt like when God spoke to him on the way to Damascus!

Must have been a match on or something...

I fell off a donkey once in Bundoran, must have been similar.
My epiphany was to never go there again though....

Sparks43 · 17-04-2011 4:30am

Street Fighter Zero on the Cps changer Through Mess

Bloody good game:D

Pyongyang · 17-04-2011 7:54am

Guwange and DoDonPachi Resurection on XBLA and iPad respectively. I can't stop playing them, especially DoDonPachi!

The good news is these are tiding me over until my copy of Mushihimesama Futari is dispatched (current dispatch wait time is 1 week from Play Asia apparently).

CiDeRmAn · 17-04-2011 12:19pm

I saw Deathsmiles yesterday in Game in Blanky town.

Only 17 euro!

But wife/game censor was with me

Went home, empty handed

Feck!!!

Pyongyang · 17-04-2011 8:43pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I saw Deathsmiles yesterday in Game in Blanky town.
Only 17 euro!

But wife/game censor was with me

Went home, empty handed

Feck!!!

Get it bought quickly and regret nothing!

Retr0gamer · 17-04-2011 9:05pm

Can't believe you gave up so easily. Did you not try and explain the intricate attack patterns and how it also includes new modes for mere mortals and how it's an excellent game to really test out that joystick? I'm sure she would have understood then that you needed the game.

Either that or say you need to make a long visit to the toilet and hide the game up your jumper.

johnny_ultimate · 17-04-2011 10:47pm

Look, who's more important to answer to in terms of gaming purchases? Your wife, or people on the internet? We all clearly know the answer to that one.

CiDeRmAn · 18-04-2011 7:53am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Either that or say you need to make a long visit to the toilet and hide the game up your jumper.

Well I wasn't wearing a jumper so it wasn't an option and I ain't hiding it up anything else!

I will have to dress appropriately next time, combats with big pockets!

CiDeRmAn · 18-04-2011 7:57am

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Look, who's more important to answer to in terms of gaming purchases? Your wife, or people on the internet? We all clearly know the answer to that one.

You lot are, of course, very important to me but she does things you simply can't, like let's me live in this house and hang onto a sliver of sanity!

pdbhp · 23-04-2011 4:13pm

Being playing a lot of Super RC Pro AM layely on Gameboy, what a great little game it is lots of arcade style fun and frustration:D

CiDeRmAn · 23-04-2011 4:46pm

I have played them on Nes via emu, oddly enough on the GB Micro through a flashcart, fun!
RC Pro Am 2 is brilliant, another little Nes game boxing above its weight.

pdbhp · 23-04-2011 6:31pm

Well the RC Pro AM games are great so are the Super off Road Racer games, I think it's the simplicity of them thats makes them os good

CiDeRmAn · 23-04-2011 8:04pm

I used to play a lot of Super Sprint and Championship Sprint back in the day, glorious 4 player cabs!
Of course none of that means I was any good!

pdbhp · 23-04-2011 8:16pm

Played a fair bit of super sprint myself but it was a stupidly difficult game, lots of fun though.
Super off Road Racer was my favourite game from that genre and what a game it was, just so much fun and hard enough to bring serious frustration on without ever taking from the game as it was fair(ish)

johnny_ultimate · 24-04-2011 2:08am

Playing Terminator 2 on the MD and got further than I had before, woo Cyberdyne! But the difficulty curve in the game is a bastard, and suddenly boom title screen. Garr!

Also Super Hang On. Cursed other racers! Keep getting near perfect runs on beginner until a last second mistake costs me dearly. Lots of fun, but had forgotten how hard it is!

CiDeRmAn · 24-04-2011 8:29pm

Ah Terminator, the first one anyways, on the MD, one of the most hyped pieces of crap ever.
I mean, with Rise of the Robots, you kinda had a feeling, deep down, this was going to suck, but with Terminator you still had hope that it was going to be epic,
The previews were glowing, the articles on the animation, the music, the scenes from the film...
Expectations growing into knuckle gnawing excitement!
And then!
Pants, big grey pants with a brown gusset!
What a terrible game!
You try to do that thing, when you haven't much money to spend on games or a game shop that has a gamer friendly returns policy, and you try to convince yourself that it is not so bad, that you could grow to like it..
But no dice!
The Terminator is a stinking rotten turkey!

Retr0gamer · 24-04-2011 8:44pm

Terminator on the megadrive was ok. Way too short though. Only 4 levels that weren't very long and the last level doesn't really count as a level either. Oh also it was the worst last level ever made. Basically you ran from a half dead terminator crawling along the ground and if you took the wrong route it was instant death. So i came down to playing the game enough to memorise the route. Really cheap way of extending the lenght of a game that was about 20 minutes long without it.

Robocop vs Terminator had an equally disappointing last level. At least RvT was an ok game if nothing special. The was only 3 things keeping me playing this poor excuse for a euro contra (basically turrican except in this case, turrican but mediocre). Frist was the lincense, which they really didn't do much with at all. Second was the gore which disappeared one third of the way into the game. And lastly I was told the last boss was Skynet. I really wanted to see what it looked like. What I got was a giant terminator head on the left side of the screen

johnny_ultimate · 26-04-2011 5:32pm

This is the T2 game I'm playing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y22LriXmfE

It's a game I inherited from my cousins, and it is most certainly a piece of crap. Yet a fiendishly difficult piece of crap. The vehicle levels have the most bizarre compass ever, making it occasionally an exercise in frustration. There's bits you wouldn't guess how to do without the aid of the internet / instruction manual (I don't have the latter). And the most irksome gameplay flaw of all is the scattered 'future items', pointless collectibles you must find to complete a level.

It, however, is something I'm now determined to complete, having finally got further than my feeble childhood reflexes could handle. BRING IT CYBERDYNE.

The mini-gun's cool though.

Retr0gamer · 26-04-2011 5:44pm

You poor guy, I went through the urge to complete ****ty game recently with Actraiser 2

It's not worth it. You finally complete it and then realise that you have 3 Y's games for the PSP and Valkyria Chronicles that could have been getting played at the expense of this ****ty game.

chopperbyrne · 27-04-2011 2:25pm

Final Fantasy IV The Complete Collection.

In a word, definitive.

Retr0gamer · 27-04-2011 2:33pm

I'll probbaly pick that up when it's cheap. I've played FF4 in it's various iterations way too much and think it looks a little cheap when I look at it now. Would be interested in the after years episodes though, do you know if you have to complete the game to play them?

chopperbyrne · 27-04-2011 2:39pm

You do not, freely available from the main menu.

Not going to play it until I've completed IV (again) though.

CiDeRmAn · 27-04-2011 2:58pm

I wonder if my PSN a/c has been hacked, I hope the theives gave some good taste, if they only buy Fifa titles I'll be well disappointed!

valleyoftheunos · 28-04-2011 6:45pm

Anybody think Sony might compensate us all for having our accounts hacked? I doubt it but its a nice thought.

CiDeRmAn · 28-04-2011 8:05pm

Now I'm gonna have to cancel my credit card and get a new one and change all my passwords, I am not amused!
Better be some freebies to say sorry Sony!
You can give one of those PSP Go consoles out of the skip I see behind you there, thanks!

Atavan-Halen · 28-04-2011 9:02pm

Now I never used a credit card on PSN but I need some compensation!

o1s1n · 28-04-2011 9:04pm

I dont have a ps3, but my new ps2 has been emotionally scarred by this development and we also want compensation.

Retr0gamer · 28-04-2011 9:11pm

A copy of God of War 3 would do me nicely Mr Sony.

I've just realised that nearly halfway through the year and I've not played one game from 2011 yet, other than tried some 3DS games :O

Sparks43 · 28-04-2011 11:37pm

PS3 is not Retro

Please Discuss any matters with hacking/Idiots who give there CC details in the appropriate forum

link removed,

o1s1n · 29-04-2011 11:28am

Sparks43 wrote: »

PS3 is not Retro

Please Discuss any matters with hacking/Idiots who give there CC details in the appropriate forum

link removed,

Wow, didn't know you were made a mod sparks, congrats :pac:

PS1 games are available to download on the PSN, right? That could be considered Retro...

johnny_ultimate · 29-04-2011 11:33am

o1s1n wrote: »

PS1 games are available to download on the PSN, right? That could be considered Retro...

Actually, noticed that Play-Asia have started selling digital delivery Japanese PSN credit at reasonable prices, not having to use slightly suspicious Ebay sellers. Good for picking up the wealth of great PS1 shooters available on there.

Some ****ing good it is now!

Sparks43 · 29-04-2011 11:42am

Sparks43 wrote: »

PS3 is not Retro

Please Discuss any matters with hacking/Idiots who give there CC details in the appropriate forum

link removed,

Lol

How can posting a link to the mustard forum be considered a back seat mod

Sparks43 · 29-04-2011 11:49am

o1s1n wrote: »

Wow, didn't know you were made a mod sparks, congrats :pac:

PS1 games are available to download on the PSN, right? That could be considered Retro...

I cant be a mod m8 i have a sense of humour

I dont really consider the Ps1 to be retro at the moment maybe after the next gen comes and goes

18 years plus is retro imo

o1s1n · 29-04-2011 11:52am

Sparks43 wrote: »

I dont really consider the Ps1 to be retro at the moment maybe after the next gen comes and goes

18 years plus is retro imo

Either do I, but a lot of people do. Retro is a term which is very relative to the person using it. I generally find that if something is on a media which is still in use (in this case cds) then it's not really Retro for me.

So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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