Do you still enjoy your old video games?

[jameslofton29]

Tempest

You played Tempest?? Where were you in my youth? Back in the old school arcade days, it was just the geeks and stoners hanging around. No girls whatsoever. I bet it was hard playing Tempest with one hand while beating the guys off with a stick with the other.

[MCT]

Everyone is awful at console shooters.?

Speak for yourself there hotshot...

For the other two boys,

All my games are 10 kill. It's required.

Beyond that it's only a matter of picking the level and the weapons.

And fuck License...

...if you want the one shot kill, play with the golden gun.

As for pistols, yeah, the Complex. But it's a toss-up between that and the full Library. Both are excellent for pistols.

And of course the Archives are always fun every now and again.

And yes to gamer #1; the PC affords a much better chance of mastery than does a console. But you're still as useless as the tits on a bull...

[Jim]

We played time limits, always.

We did play the golden almost as regularly as well, when we first started...

We used time limits because we were big fans of playing either all against all or two on two, and trying to hold the area with the Golden gun. In complex, it was the bit with the ramp that had the window.

Man. That used to be killer.

Pistols would be for serious sessions. You know, marathon limit, aliances formed and broken and friendships lost...the good ol' days.

Mines or Rocket Launchers (yeah, we did Temple to. It was the only one I remember that 'worked' with Rocket Launchers) for a bit of a laugh...

Never played Halo 2? 

Nope. I never owned an Xbox.

The only games I've played properly since the N64 died are 13 for playstation and Elder Scrolls IV on the PC.............

Everything else has been multiplayer, or I've just played for a bit to kill some time.

[Skeba]

Sure.. Just yesterday we gathered at our friend's house and we played summer games, winter games and giana sisters on a C64.

[Skeletor]

just cant get enough of Halo2

I loved that game!! I conquered it last year, and its one of the best xbox games I ever played.

But the question is, did you complete it on legendary? Otherwise you're just a mere n00b 

[AxlsMainMan]

I haven't played video games in a good 8 years probably...my original playstation is still in my closey with all my games ironically...

I just lost entire interest after I started highschool....drugs, slutty girls, and alcohol were.....and still are better than controlling animation on a television

Dont get me wrong, if I go to a buddy's house and he has an X-box or something, Ill still be a worthy opponent at Halo or something...I still am a pro at shooting games from Goldeneye and Syphon Filter way back when..

Good god that was a fun game even if you could beat it in like 2 hours nonstop

Final Fantasy 8 was and always will be the best videogame ever created though. I still remember the very first time I played that game I was absolutely hooked and fuckin' mezmerized at first hour of play

I know Final Fantasy 7 gets the most props in the series, but 8 was just a one in a million game....The love story was brilliantly written too, but that probably doesnt belong in a video game thread

[plasmabeam]

Final Fantasy 8 was and always will be the best videogame ever created though. I still remember the very first time I played that game I was absolutely hooked and fuckin' mezmerized at first hour of play

Awesome... I love FF8, mainly due to how great a character Squall is. It's 2nd only to Zelda: Ocarina of Time as far as I'm concerned. 

I've actually been kinda bored of videogames lately. Sometimes I can be a huge addict of them, but then there's times like now when I can't really get into them. I haven't played a truly *great* one since the summer (Xenogears for PS1). Although, I did enjoy Star Ocean 3, which I beat a couple months ago. I'm just lookin forward to the new Zelda and FF12 now.

[Eclipsed107]

yyeess I play my old systems all the time.

I just finished a qucik run through Super Metroid the other day

Now I'm starting a new file in Resident Evil (PS1)

and I always have either Mario 1, 2, 3, or Super Mario World in the gameboy slot in my DS.

I am a hardcore retro gamer!

[echrisl]

I beat the first Resident Evil with Chris just a couple weeks ago, it was the first time I've ever beat it with Chris (though I've beaten it with Jill at least 10 times over the years).

And not necessarily an old game, but an old school type game I play a lot is Baseball Mogul ... for those unfamiliar, it's a basically a text simulation where you run your own baseball team from an Owner/GM/Manager's perspective.  Oh, and for the last couple years they've included stats from the last 100+ years, which means you can start out long before you'll be drafting Babe Ruth and can play up until women join major league baseball (you can set what year that happens, I believe it defaults to 2020).  Tons of fun, I've bought the new edition for the last four years, and I'm eagerly awaiting the version for this year, which should be out in late March.  Check them out if you're a baseball stat geek like me:

www.sportsmogul.com

[Eclipsed107]

I beat the first Resident Evil with Chris just a couple weeks ago, it was the first time I've ever beat it with Chris (though I've beaten it with Jill at least 10 times over the years).

hmm, I've never beat it with Chris either

[mikegiuliana]

my old games... I still have all my atari & nintendo games rotting away for use some day

I use to have a whole bunch of those mini arcade type games like pac man frogger etx

[jameslofton29]

my old games... I still have all my atari & nintendo games rotting away for use some day

I use to have a whole bunch of those mini arcade type games like pac man frogger etx

Mike, I bought an almost mint condition atari on ebay years ago. It still had the original box. I didnt play it much, graphics obviously suck and the games werent as fun as I remembered them, so I stopped playing it. I would rather cherish the memories of how cool those games were then be brought back down to reality.

[plasmabeam]

yyeess I play my old systems all the time.

I just finished a qucik run through Super Metroid the other day

Now I'm starting a new file in Resident Evil (PS1)

and I always have either Mario 1, 2, 3, or Super Mario World in the gameboy slot in my DS.

I am a hardcore retro gamer!

Ahh... Super Metroid. That game got me into gaming. Great memories of playing that thing at my cousin's house.

[Mr. Dick Purple]

Oh yeah I remember that all right. Remember his perverted one-liners when he encountered girls?

Yeah it was "shake it baby, wanna dance?" 

[mikegiuliana]

exctiebike,. spyhunter was a fav of mine when I got nintendo.. Kung fu also, the later one I loved game like the lgend of zelda, mike tyson's punch out, and castlevania, tecmo bowl, etc.... I forget names right now

Atari/coleco.comm 64 I loved games like Joust, popeye donkey kong, .. Fuck I can't think of any of my games right now

[mikegiuliana]

my old games... I still have all my atari & nintendo games rotting away for use some day

I use to have a whole bunch of those mini arcade type games like pac man frogger etx

Mike, I bought an almost mint condition atari on ebay years ago. It still had the original box. I didnt play it much, graphics obviously suck and the games werent as fun as I remembered them, so I stopped playing it. I would rather cherish the memories of how cool those games were then be brought back down to reality.

yeah I couldn't imagine breaking out coleco, or atari, or intelivision They were great during the times because that was cutting edge.. Pong

I remember the football game I had for atari, was 2 stick figures running length wise of the screen and the ball was like a dot of light

[Mr. Dick Purple]

mike tyson's punch out

Great Nintendo game I still remember when I beat that game but only once 

[jameslofton29]

my old games... I still have all my atari & nintendo games rotting away for use some day

I use to have a whole bunch of those mini arcade type games like pac man frogger etx

Mike, I bought an almost mint condition atari on ebay years ago. It still had the original box. I didnt play it much, graphics obviously suck and the games werent as fun as I remembered them, so I stopped playing it. I would rather cherish the memories of how cool those games were then be brought back down to reality.

yeah I couldn't imagine breaking out coleco, or atari, or intelivision They were great during the times because that was cutting edge.. Pong

I remember the football game I had for atari, was 2 stick figures running length wise of the screen and the ball was like a dot of light

One thing that sucked about those old games is how short the game were. Hell, Donkey Kong had 2 levels on atari! Popeye(a great game) had like 4 or 5. And pitfall was just running around and if you could not die for 20 minutes the game stopped. You can see why nintendo killed off atari quickly. Hell, right after the other systems came out after atari, stores had brand new atari games for a dollar. The week before they were $20-$40. They couldnt give that shit away.

[Walk]

Early nes games weren't that great, either. It took 2 or 3 years for the classics we all remember to appear. I've downloaded huge ROM packs of nes games with 500+ games, but 90% of them were absolute garbage. There were only a few dozen great nes games, but that's still more than our current consoles.

By the way, I recommend Clash At Demonhead for nes platformer fans. That's one fine game. 

[mikegiuliana]

my old games... I still have all my atari & nintendo games rotting away for use some day

I use to have a whole bunch of those mini arcade type games like pac man frogger etx

Mike, I bought an almost mint condition atari on ebay years ago. It still had the original box. I didnt play it much, graphics obviously suck and the games werent as fun as I remembered them, so I stopped playing it. I would rather cherish the memories of how cool those games were then be brought back down to reality.

yeah I couldn't imagine breaking out coleco, or atari, or intelivision They were great during the times because that was cutting edge.. Pong

I remember the football game I had for atari, was 2 stick figures running length wise of the screen and the ball was like a dot of light

One thing that sucked about those old games is how short the game were. Hell, Donkey Kong had 2 levels on atari! Popeye(a great game) had like 4 or 5. And pitfall was just running around and if you could not die for 20 minutes the game stopped. You can see why nintendo killed off atari quickly. Hell, right after the other systems came out after atari, stores had brand new atari games for a dollar. The week before they were $20-$40. They couldnt give that shit away.

I loved pitfall... I just remember being underground jumping over scorpions or above stepping on the alligator's heads to cross a lake or swinging on a vine.. Good time..  I had a he man game for atari.... I remember nintendo games like the mario brothers 2 maybe was like 40 bucks in the late 80's.. Games werelike 60 bucks too.. Amazing that shit stayed the same price for 20 years.. Fucking jordan sneakers were over a 120 bucks in 86 yet they are around the same in 06