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So, what you playing at the mo? Retro Edition

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    #1532
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    About 3/4 the way thru Links Awakening on the Gameboy. Furthest I've gone without getting bored and leaving it. Just on the 6th Dungeon. The temptation to use Google when stuck is hard to resist!!


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    #1533
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    batari wrote: »
    About 3/4 the way thru Links Awakening on the Gameboy. Furthest I've gone without getting bored and leaving it. Just on the 6th Dungeon. The temptation to use Google when stuck is hard to resist!!

    Don't do it man, if a 14 year old kid (me in the day) could clear it then you can :D


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    #1534
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    I ain't gonna lie...I've Googled :(

    Only a couple of times tho..:pac:


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    #1535
    Xluna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,329 ✭✭✭Xluna


    Got Centipede and Millipede on XBLA for 200 points last week. Crazy how some these ancient games are often more fun and addictive than retail current gen' games.


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    #1536
    billymitchell
    Registered Users Posts: 11,996 ✭✭✭✭billymitchell


    Got the Sega Megadrive Ultimate Collection at the weekend, all I can say is that it is awesome. Two player "Streets of Rage" rocks :D


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    #1537
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Was playing Ms. Pac-Man today, Vectorman and now having a session of Rocket Knight Adventures.


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    #1538
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Played a lot of Trials HD, forgot I had bought it, brought back lots of warm memories of watching kids on motorbikes crush their nuts while trying to get across a strip of wood over a ditch...
    70's summer holiday tv on the BBC, good times!


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    #1539
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Had a good stab at Rocket Knight Adventures again tonight and came very close to clearing it I think. I'm up against the evil Possum who is riding in this huge robot trying to step on me and I have to quickly get over walls before he squishes me. Great game, very fond of it!


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    #1540
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    That's one of my favourite bosses ever :) wait until you get to after that bit ;) you've two more levels to go, a really tough shooter section with a really tough boss and the final level. Also there's an extra boss and ending which is amazing if you aren't wussing out on normal.
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    #1541
    Myrddin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 33,733 ✭✭✭✭Myrddin


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    That's one of my favourite bosses ever :)

    And he's fully clothed? Just when you think you know someone...:p


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    #1542
    Balasubbie
    Registered Users Posts: 65 ✭✭Balasubbie


    Street Fighter Alpha 2, the SNES version. Keep forgetting the freezy, glitchesque, loady thingmajig (technical term that) is supposed to happen.
    Class game. Mind, to my shame, I took a bit longer than I should've to floor Dan.


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    #1543
    Augmerson
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    That's one of my favourite bosses ever :) wait until you get to after that bit ;) you've two more levels to go, a really tough shooter section with a really tough boss and the final level. Also there's an extra boss and ending which is amazing if you aren't wussing out on normal.

    Ah man, I knew that wouldn't be the end of it. I think I've been playing on Normal the whole time though, I didn't change the settings before I started, would play through again just to see the extra boss and alternate ending.


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    #1544
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Well I think it's just an extra boss but I thought it was pretty cool. It's quite tough on hard so if you do want to wuss out then I'm sure it's on youtube.
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    #1545
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    I bought Red Dead Redemptions zombie laden DLC, not mad, but in funding the purchase I had some extra credit, so I got myself Chime, and so, no Undead Nightmare for me!
    Chime is fantastic, reminding me of when I got addicted to Lumines back in the day.
    A very very nice puzzle game and with some awesome music as well, in fact the only fault is that there aren't enough, only 5, but a great 5, especially Philip Glass' Brazil in the initial level, also in there is one half of Orbital and another by Fred Deakin of Lemon Jelly.
    Well worth picking up if you haven't already!


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    #1546
    dmcdante
    Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭dmcdante


    Playing eternal darkness and loving it


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    #1547
    batari
    Closed Accounts Posts: 520 ✭✭✭batari


    Playing thru Lemmings on The Master System, just started the Mayhem rating. I hate this game...no wait, I love this game...no I f*cking HATE this game!!


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    #1548
    CiDeRmAn
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 34,528 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Lemmings, awesome sauce, I have an animated wallpaper of them on my HTC Desire, lovely jubbly!

    Lost many many hours to the Gameboy version, you haven't played it until you've played it on a little gameboy yellow/green screen, in monochrome, still great though!


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    #1549
    pdbhp
    Registered Users Posts: 2,041 ✭✭✭pdbhp


    CiDeRmAn wrote: »
    Lost many many hours to the Gameboy version, you haven't played it until you've played it on a little gameboy yellow/green screen, in monochrome, still great though!

    I happen to have it on Gameboy and played it for a bit a while ago, I had forgot how frustratingly fun it was even though I kept messing up what I was trying to do


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    #1550
    martineatworld
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭martineatworld


    Just about halfway through Chrono Trigger... I really dunno if it's all it was cracked up to be...!

    Very, very nyeah characters.
    Story is slowly going all over the place and getting less logical.
    The, erm, battle system? It's sufficient and nothing more.

    Maybe it's just because I'm playing it for the first time so late but I'm definitely left a little disappointed.

    It's no The Legend of Dragoon, that's for sure...


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    #1551
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,426 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    Your mouth is full of wrong!


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    #1552
    Jack burton
    Registered Users Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭Jack burton


    Yeah CT is one of my top snes games, first 16 bit RPG i played the full way through aswell


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    #1553
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    martineatworld wrote: »
    It's no The Legend of Dragoon, that's for sure...

    I hope to god you are just trying to rile me up because if not then that statement is full of even more fail than the sentences that proceded it.
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    #1554
    Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy
    Registered Users Posts: 5,019 ✭✭✭Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy


    o1s1n wrote: »
    Your mouth is full of wrong!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrjwaqZfjIY


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    #1555
    martineatworld
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭martineatworld


    Man, A&R is the easiest place to troll, it's almost too easy!


    But seriously, just not getting properly into Chrono Trigger, despite the fact I'm over halfway through.

    And I just mentioned LoD to bring out a reaction in Retr0. But I do like that game. There, I said it!


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    #1556
    gouche
    Registered Users Posts: 416 ✭✭gouche


    Just got my Wii back from Nintendo after fixing the dual-layer problem and I'm currently enjoying playing through Metroid Prime again on trilogy.
    Lovin it!:D


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    #1557
    Retr0gamer
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,806 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    martineatworld wrote: »
    Man, A&R is the easiest place to troll, it's almost too easy!


    But seriously, just not getting properly into Chrono Trigger, despite the fact I'm over halfway through.

    And I just mentioned LoD to bring out a reaction in Retr0. But I do like that game. There, I said it!

    So you like Legend of Dragoon and don't like Chrono Trigger. Remind me never to take recommendations off you :P
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    #1558
    martineatworld
    Registered Users Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭martineatworld


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    So you like Legend of Dragoon and don't like Chrono Trigger. Remind me never to take recommendations off you :P
    It's not that I don't like Chrono Trigger, it's just I don't like it as much as all the hype suggests I should like it!


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    #1559
    landsleaving
    Registered Users Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    How can you not like it (as much as the hype suggests), it has the greatest character ever - Frog!


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    #1560
    o1s1n
    Registered Users Posts: 34,426 ✭✭✭✭o1s1n
    Master of the Universe


    I love Frog! One of the most likeable Squaresoft characters ever. How they progressed from that to Vanille I'll never know.


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    #1561
    LoGiE
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 2,965 Mod ✭✭✭✭LoGiE


    Not exactly retro but I'm playing phantom hour glass on the ds. I want to like it...but I don't think it's a patch on previous efforts. Think I'll have to power up my gameboy to play Link's Awakening again.


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