retro gaming

[dove grey 64]

anyone else here a retro gamer?
i've always loved gaming, my first console was either a atari 2600 or 7800, next pc/console i had was a amiga 500 followed by pretty much everything else nintendo based until the PS1 came out.
still have every console i've ever bought apart from the atari that got sold at a garage sale.
its a shame that kids these days dont get to experience era's like when street fighter 2 was at every corner store/arcade everywhere, you had to place your 20c coins on the screen to book your turn at fighting some guy with a high win streak.
modern gaming is still good, heaps of hours playing CS:source etc but there was something cool about gaming in the late 80's and 90's, maybe because alot of innovation was happening.

[Nicko]

NES is as retro as I go

Battletoads and Super Mario Bros 3 will keep me busy for long enough. I try to do a speed run of SMB3 at least once a year these days so I stay sharp

[dove grey 64]

i agree its hard going pre nes for retro kicks, i do a play through of super castlevania 4 and the original prince of persia on snes once a year =)
good to see the indie game scene is picking up alot and pixel art is back in form.

[dove grey 64]

shadow of the beast on amiga 500, my first true gaming love. i think it came out in 89, for the time the graphics and music were amazing. i think they still hold up today but i might be biased.
relentlessly hard gameplay, it was the kind of game you would die millions of times in but you'd memorise enemy patterns and on the next play through get that little bit further.

getting remade for ps4 apparently

[Nicko]

OMF2097 is where it was at

Used to work on a 486SX25 with 8MB of RAM and 4MB video card, hah

Even had a serial joystick.

Released in 1993, a year before Tekken was even out That street fighter crap came out in 91, but for a "shareware" PC floppy you coul dget at the market for 2 bucks it was the shit.

[rthy]

playing double dragon 2 roms on my s3... hard on right now

[Nicko]

Test Drive I used to play on my Uncle's 286 Laptop !

[Nicko]

Stunts was awesome. Especially the 5th gear full power "bug"

Spent waaaay too many hours of my life builting custom tracks with jumps

[Nicko]

Street Rod and Street Rod 2 were Epic

[Nicko]

Lotus Challenge. I reckon I killed at least one keyboard trying to clock this fucker