Classic Gaming Appreciation
 

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Here we can discuss all our favorite adventures of the old school. You know, the good ol days where you just had to turn the system on and play. No day of DLC, updates or multiplayer passes. Just pure gaming goodness.

I was obsessed with a few games such as Mario Kart 64 and Timesplitters 2, I really enjoyed Star Wars Battlefront II as well and SSX Tricky. :)

I was just thinking about some of the old school games I used to play back in the day. I wish the PS network had more of them...I might get a Wii just to get some of these games. There are the obvious classics (Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Final Fantasy VI, all the Mario games). And then games I just plain miss like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles In Time, Double Dragon, Battletoads, Ghosts n' Goblins, Contra...oh man, I'm getting all nostalgic. The next generation is going to miss out on some old school fun...we didn't need graphics.

Yeah I forgot all about that one until I came across it in MAME. Never got very far though.


Asteroids was probably my first gaming obsession.

YES! Now I have a place to vent all my nerdy old-school gaming -related things



Well, firstly: I've been looking at lists of what are considered the best SNES games, because I very much want to expand my collection. I recently bought Super Metroid , having never played a Metroid game, and having heard from many it's awesome. I look forward to playing through and beating it.

Also my other side project is Mario Bros 3, which, despite being a huge fan of the franchise, I've never beat

Ghosts and Goblins, with the night? That game used to kick my ass H a r d.

I also used to have a Super Mario Bros. compilation game, with like the first five games or something, it was wayyy fun. My dad even got all into it. Then I had a Kirby Dreamcourse (like golfing) game, one time i made a hole in one by mistake, it was ill.

You're probably referring to Super Mario All Stars on the SNES

Super Metroid is brilliant, probably my favorite SNES game just after A Link to the Past. I managed to complete the whole game in this minimum amount of time (can't remember how long) that game me the awesomest picture reward of Samus Aran at the end. Basically, you are rewarded with a portrait of her and the less time you spent getting through to the end, the less armor she has on. In the best portrait, she only wears a bikini I think it was.

I used to play a lot of Commodore 64 and AMIGA 500. Particularly the latter had a lot of awesome games, many of which later found their way onto the PC, like the first two Monkey Island games, It Came From the Desert or Lemmings. Besides the first two monkey islands, I think my favorite AMIGA game was Moonstone with the tagline A Hard Days Knight. It was a gory game in which you controlled one of four knights and all you did was slay monsters and other knights with your sword in these one-screen-battlefields. It was awesome!

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Anyone else played it? I hear many think it's hard, but every enemy has its own strategy that they're weak against so you basically just have to learn it and it's relatively easy.

Good! I'm glad to hear. I've heard that from a lot of people! Im excited to finally play it

YEs! I believe you're correct. I would still know but i gave it away. :((((

All these for sure :) Turtles in Time was a good mention. It's probably my favorite beat em up of all time.

FFVI took a couple of tries before I could complete it. The first time, I made it just past the floating island before I was just exhausted from all the damn random encounters :p: I quit then and didn't pick it up until a year or two later and made it through the whole thing.

I love it, it's so ambitious. But the random encounters do get old after a while and on the whole I prefer action RPGs/adventures like Secret of Mana or Chrono Trigger. And none of them get close to the enjoyment I get out of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. The following Zelda game, Link's Awakening for the GB, was also great.

First games I remember playing on anything post-NES was General Chaos and Zelda on the Sega. My two most played games of my youth were House of the Dead (Dreamcast) and Super Smash Bros (N64). I dominate lives using Samus.

There was a Zelda game for Sega?

Chrono Trigger!

I just had to have a Chrono Trigger outburst because I miss that game and the hours that I poured into it attempting to get the different endings.

Also some of those NES games were so unforgiving and hard for no damn reason lol.

Most of the Mega Man games for example. I don't think I ever beat any of them. I loved all the Disney Cartoon video game adaptions like Ducktales, Tailspin, Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck.

Well besides Darkwing Duck, I was designing my own version of how I wanted a Darkwing Duck game to be on numerous graph papers and when the game came out I was soooo heated! I ended up transferring my design into a board game for a school project.

Did anyone else spend countless hours playing that Island Adventure game with the caveman to not get very far? Gah, talk about frustrating.

I never played Chrono Trigger but everyone always raves about it. I have a chipped PS2 I could play it on. Should I order it off Amazon?

Of course you should! but Chrono Trigger was for the SNES. Chrono Cross came out on PS1 I believe but it'll work on PS2 or it should.

I played Chrono Trigger on the ps1..and was blown away how good it is. Great characters, great story, amazing gameplay, soundtrack. So good!


I also have FFVI, but it's another one of those games that's still sitting in my pile of games to beat. I'll get around to it sometime but I kinda blew my wad on RPGS for a while...so-to-speak

YAY for all the Chrono Trigger mentions!:beer:

That was like my introduction to JRPGs, and it remains as one of my all time favorite games!! The time traveling story is so cool, the music is amazing and Frog is the quintessential bad ass :thumb:

Oh and Misspoptart mentioned getting the port of Chrono Trigger on PS1, I'd highly recommend it. It's also on the DS.

Also Final Fantasy was a huge series for me when I was younger. VI was great like a few peeps mentioned, I also poured countless hours into the ps1 era titles (VII, VIII and IX) Way too much infact, I think I had one VII file that was over 100 hours. Getting a Gold Chocobo was a real bitch haha

As for The Legend Of Zelda, I was a huge fan of Link To The Past as well. It's such a epic game and it's incredible how they fit such a huge adventure on a cartridge.

I really dug The Wind Waker too. The graphics and island setting was a nice fresh change of pace and scenery for the series. It has some of the best combat of the series too IMO.

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i dunno maybe it wasnt on sega i just remember playin TMNT and Zelda a lot when i was young. the games i remember playing on my grandmas SNES were Rage and Little League Baseball (canada ruled in that game LOL). Then dreamcast was all about House of the Dead and the controller that was a gun. Then ps2 was all about that SSX tricky!!!!

Yeah as far as I know, TLoZ wasn't on Sega. Maybe your thinking of the CD-I games? I hope not though, because they were so bad haha You're probably thinking a Link To The Past because you didn't mention anything Nintendo after SNES.

Dude House Of The Dead owns, so much fun. I wish I still had my Dreamcast, there were some kick ass games on it! Soul Calibur, Powerstone, Sonic Adventure to name a few.

Anybody remember Mutant League Football or Mutant League Hockey on the Genesis? Those games were so crazy, I've been hoping for a reboot of that franchise forever.

I was a huge fan of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask growing up (more so the latter, because I feel like it's deeply under appreciated by Zelda fans) but didn't play ALTTP till pretty recently. I was not disappointed. Really great, and really fun game. Great music, gameplay, and for its time, pretty good graphics.

Yessir with that SSX Tricky mention. I spend so many hours on that game it was ridiculous. When you say Rage do you mean Streets of Rage?

I vaguely remember that game but didn't play it too much. I was more of a NFL Blitz fan.


Also I had no idea that Chrono Trigger got ported to PS1. I only remember it being on SNES.

Yeah, it was paired with Final Fantasy Tactics, I think, and put on the PS1. I tried to find it on SNES but it ended up being too goddamn expensive

Blitz was fun too. Street 1 was the ultimate. My friends and I played 4 player with a rule that there were no running plays except QB scrmables. We played with the legends unlocked too so you had old school LT, The Fridge, Barry Sanders, etc. the sequels actually became more realistic although they added some fun mini games but it just wasnt the same.

YES i meant streets of rage, what an awesome game that was!!


There was also a game for Sega (i think) where it was a western shooting game. I remember shooting barrels thrown from a carriage in front of you. And i also remember bonus rounds or something where you were in a saloon and had to shoot as many liquor/beer bottles as possible. if anyone knows that games name thatd be awesome:bowdown:

How far back are we allowed to go with classic gaming? SSX Tricky doesn't feel like it was released that long ago, although it was amazing. Moby was my man.

You just made a bunch of us feel old.

Hey, I can't help being in the PS2 generation.

Seriously though, Pokemon Crystal = the best thing ever. I sunk hours upon hours into that game and I never even figured out the Ice Path.

I made a handheld Donkey Kong emu a few years ago. It needs shockwave and I can't remember if I ever worked on the timer but it's here;

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I think it's shift for jump and arrow keys to move.

-djchamelon
Yeah Mutant League was weird as hell haha, but it was mad fun. I remember playing Blitz on 64 mad long ago. It was great. It reminded me of NBA Jam in a way, I used to play that so much man. So good.

As for Chrono Trigger, it was packaged as Final Fantasy Chronicles along with Final Fantasy IV, which is probably the best damn FF game ever.. My favorite story line in the series, at least.




-Aperture Science
Yeah dude Majoras Mask is definitely under rated. The whole time concept was crazy, it gave the whole game a sense of urgency to it.

It was also really cool getting to be the different races with the masks and how they all played a different instrument when you used the ocarina, always loved that. I used to space out and just jam on the different instruments haha Goron Link was sick nasty at the bongos :beer:



-Circe
Hmm, I was originally thinking anything during and before the psone,N64 era last but last console generation(ps2,xbox,gamecube) is fair game, even though they may not be considered classics yet. I would definitely say though that a lot of games from that era are classics in their own right.

Majora's Mask is OBSCENELY underrated, and here's why. 1) and this can't be stated enough..it had the unfortunate task of following up Ocarina of Freakin' time. That's a goddamn tough act to follow. I suspect that's how FFVIII felt.

Naturally, I remember people were looking for things to complain about. "It's not Ocarina of time" was what the arguments boiled down to. In reality, what you heard was "it's too hard (it may have been a little bit less straightforward than OOT, but after all, it is a kids game..cmon, you can figure it out), the time system is dumb (again, bs. I think that added a really interesting and creative dynamic to the story, and is part of what makes the game work so well), "it's too short" (Yes, there are only four temples, but there was a lead-in to all four..and sometimes those were as time consuming as actual dungeons. Ocarina's "lead in" was "buy a tunic" or "Get an item" which took approximately .2 seconds. I'd argue, with the lead ins, the side-quests (I'll get more into that in a sec) that they were about even, Majora's Mask might even be longer.

Replayability. Ocarina had shiit for sidequests, and in-town games. The sword, bottles, a couple masks, maybe two games in-town, and the skulltulas..that's about it. Majora had so many more sidequests, better stories relating to those quests. Not to mention in-town games, and races, and such. There was so much more to do.

And the last, and in my opinion, one of the biggest thing adding to the replay..was the ability to re-play dungeons (cool if you didn't get all the fairies, otherwise, not as cool I guess), and REPLAY BOSSES. (Very cool)


This isn't meant to dump all over Ocarina.. I love it to death. But [I]Majora's Mask was a step up in almost every way conceivable from its predecessor..minus maybe the recycling characters and models.

It proved a Zelda game can deviate from the usual Mario-type story "save the princess from the evil man, get laid, etc" It was darker, grittier, in a lot of places, much more sad. It's amazing how they crafted a whole unique new world/experience using so much of the same from the last game.




And yes, I'd argue some of the games from the early ps2/gc/microsoftpaperweight era are classic

Grand Theft Auto III - a game that should get way more credit than it does. Sure the story was simple, sure the main character was a mute, sure there were no motorcycles or helicopters, but at least it wasn't a giant scarface ripoff like Vice City. Plus, it lunged the GTA series into 3d, the way Mario 64 did with Mario, and was the template for all future GTA games to come. Credit where it's due plz

Metal Gear Solid 2 & 3

Smash Bros Melee


just to name a handful. I've gone on way too long already

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Ocarina of Time seems horribly overrated to me. The gameplay is great, but the game world seems ugly and uninspired (I much prefer the beautiful 2D of A Link to the Past f.ex!) and the dungeons aren't that great. I admit I haven't finished it, but playing some hours into it, I just never felt grabbed by it like I thought I would, considering the hype.

Majora's Mask I haven't finished either, but I find it more interesting than OOT. And then there's the brilliant Wind Waker ..

i'm very careful to toss around that "o" word. I think, for its time, Ocarina was groundbreaking, and is worthy of the praise it gets. I just don't get when people can't appreciate how well MM built on what OOT set up.

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Charming game with great setting and characters, but I never actually finished this one either. Again, I think I got fed up with random encounters!

Maybe I should pick it up again one day.

^I've never beat that..that's one of the snes 'classics' i wanna come back to beat

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You make a lot of really good points Ap, MM definitely didn't just stick to OoT's roots, it took a foundation that was laid and made it it's own. MM was trying to do something refreshing, and it succeeded brilliantly. There was a looming dark atmosphere through out the game that OoT didn't really have until the time skip.

OoT is definitely worthy of it's glory but it often unfairly over shadows MM.

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tore
This made me all :tramp:

I absolutely loved Wind Waker, it is so much fun. It has some of the best gameplay in the series if you ask me. The battles were so furiously fast paced and made you rely on quick reflexes. The dungeons were all so unique and fun. And you had a talking boat, a talking dragon boat!! :thumb:

I also loved the graphics and how all of Links facial expressions in WW were hilarious :p

That's my biggest problem with OOT and its fans..the way they basically blindly blow OOT, while trashing MM..

Majora's Mask is the Luigi to Ocarina of Time's Mario

Too far man! Scarface is a classic and so is Vice City by association. I loved that game so much. The music, vibrant colors and everything 80s.

*coughs hipster coughs*

No but seriously, I've always wanted to play those but never got around to it.

Majora's Mask just has an interesting concept but OOT is where it's at man. I love that game to pieces and it gets just the right amount of credit for the masterpiece that it is.

So, I've never experienced FFXII, and since it just became available on steam I decided to pick it up. I was for a long time put off by anything FF related due to the creepy fandom associated with it back in the day. So far, I'm liking it, and it reminds me a bit of Secret of Mana in some ways, not so much the gameplay, but something about it seems very familiar.

Speaking of Secret of Mana, has anyone else on MB played that jem of a game?

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Secret of Mana was so good. I loved that it was an RPG that two people could play. I think it was the first co-op RPG.