The Retro Gaming Thread

[syz]

Somehow ended up in a situation where I had 30 minutes to kill in a mall and ended up in an independent game store that was basically just all old trade-in stuff... interesting seeing a bunch of (used, open box) games that I had copies of at home with $200+ price tags on them. Guess some of those PS2 JRPGs didn't get a lot of copies printed.

 

[Hierso]

Dungeon Keeper was great even if the balance was garbage. You could perma-stun the final boss (Avatar) with 4 level 4 spiders.

 

[Nemesis Prime]

Added a few grail games to the collection recently, very happy to have them.

 

[No Fun Shogun]

My six year-old son can now consistently do the shortcuts in Wario Stadium and Rainbow Road in Mario Kart 64.

I've literally never done either, he picked up on them by himself off YouTube.

That game holds up.

 

[TheDoldrums]

Don't want to make an entire thread for this but had to post it somewhere and this is as good a place as any. Look if someone recommended a 6 HOUR video essay to me I might tell them to screw off, but I watched this over a week and was blown away by the quality and thoroughness. This documentary is to videogames as Ken Burns is to the Civil War and baseball. Watching the NES to PS2 generations felt like reliving my childhood.