Retro Games - Sega, Nes, PS1 and others

[Dannydet]

The Dreamcast was a great console, unfortunately the infrastructure for online gaming wasn't there yet.
NFL 2K was so much better than anything Madden had at the time.

 

[Milo Williamson]

The Dreamcast was a great console, unfortunately the infrastructure for online gaming wasn't there yet.
NFL 2K was so much better than anything Madden had at the time.

I rage quit at one time, broke my fourth slot of the controller plug in.... yeah made the system cracked up a little bit, but still works.

 

[treb1797]

I had a few rage quits myself back in the day when playing a buddy in Tecmo Bowl. He would use the 49ers and use a play where there was a glitch. A slant pattern where Jerry Rice would catch it no matter if you had all 11 defenders on him. He would go all the way down the field using that same play.

 

[Milo Williamson]

I rage quit Beyond two souls, simply because of the Camera's eye could not work right with my t.v., end up breaking the game in two,ironic.
It was Beyond Two halves of the game's disc

 

[Bearsyzf]

Admittedly , i have rage quit Crash Bandicoot and Metal Gear Solid.

 

[Dannydet]

I was playing a friend once back in the day, we were playing NHL 98 on the old PS 1, and I was kicking his ass... Before the 3rd period started, he opened the lid, ripped out the disc, and broke it into shards. I never played video hockey games with him again.... Lol.....

 

[Gemmin]

As a kid loved Dune 2 on the Sega Genesis, passed it more than a dozen times.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Now.... How does one complete Sonic, riddle me this...

 

[nickdalzell]

My first console if you could call it that as the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A Home Computer from '79, which was essentially an Atari 2600 on steroids and played similar games on cartridge. Mine even had the 'speech synthesis' module which, when used on games such as Alpiner, would troll the player when they lost:

The next was the NES, but I caught on late in like 1990. I never could land that damned F-14 on the carrier on Top Gun (did anyone ever figure that one out? I followed the instructions that said stuff like 'up up! and down! down!' but it always overshot or crashed) so I never got to see the second mission and just accepted that there was no second mission at all, and crashing was the game's actual ending. Unfortunately, the 'Konami Code' doesn't work on this Konami game. Believe me, I tried.

Then I had my Sega era. My sister got the SNES but I was sold on the Genesis, and played that thing into the ground, later upgrading to a Saturn and then a Dreamcast. I never forgave Sony for killing any chance that Sega could succeed. Sega had the better hardware but all Sony did was over-amp their promotions in gaming magazines where Sega couldn't even get any publicity which ended their console run. So I skipped PlayStation until the PS3 and then PS4. I still prefer Xbox in protest since I never fully forgave Sony for killing Sega.

 

[Milo Williamson]

Had a ton of fighting games for my gameboy, even bionic commando, and got pretty far into contra... Even with the thirty lives cheat, I could not reach the ending.

 

[nickdalzell]

For the record, when all the 'you need internet to play' and subscription games are long dead, at least I can still fire up a SNES, Wii, Game Boy, NDS/3DS, PlayStation (one), Saturn or Genesis and still enjoy the games. No internet, no subscriptions, no telemetry, no updates. No huge time-wasting day-one patches, no 30GB downloads despite owning the CD.

 

[Dannydet]

Those were also some of the best games ever!
I still play some PS1 games to this day.

 

[nickdalzell]

Anyone remember the original Gamecube "Animal Crossing" game? There's a bug or rather misspelling where Resetti (the mole who chastises the player when they 'reset' the console without saving) has some dialogue and he's supposed to say "You got another thing coming," but it's spelled 'think coming'

 

[Windroid]

Many retro games can be played on Android and iOS, via an emulator app. I play "Pokémon: Red and Blue" on my iPhone, via the "Delta" emulator from the "AltStore" app store. The Apple app store doesn't allow emulators, hence why I needed a third-party app store.

 

[nickdalzell]

It's more fun on period hardware. Emulating a 3DS title doesn't really have the same feeling as playing on a 3DS.

 

[nickdalzell]

we got a store here that is a time capsule unto itself. According to the ads placed on the windows, the 'game boy color is here' and the PlayStation 2 is the next big thing. Secret Castle Toys and Games. That's where a lot of my obsolete gaming rigs came from.

 

[Milo Williamson]

As much as I love the eight bit pixels on virtually every "new ps666" game, I still enjoy the pixelations games from time to time..

 

[joe71]

Came across this at a truck stop

 

[treb1797]

I still play pocket pool a few times a week. Great classic and I win at the end every time.

 

[Bearsyzf]

I guess that's a game you don't need a partner for 🤔

 

[treb1797]

I guess that's a game you don't need a partner for 🤔

Well if you do have a partner it's a lot more fun

 

[Milo Williamson]

The Dreamcast was a great console, unfortunately the infrastructure for online gaming wasn't there yet.
NFL 2K was so much better than anything Madden had at the time.

FWIW though, Phantasy Star online had the same moniker there as well as Dot hack series, sure it was a check in the game the message fourms you get form playing in the game, without an online connection, same as PSO.