what old school games do you still play

[dougeff]

Hey, just curious. What NES/SNES (or similar era) games do you guys still enjoy playing? I'm not asking for a top ten list of games, but more about what games have replay value after 30 years.

My favorite games are Maniac Mansion and Zelda franchise games, but I don't actually play them anymore. I like to play short and challenging games like Pac-Man or Galaga. Although they don't have great graphics or music, they are still fun to play.

Also, I think savestates have changed the way I enjoy old games. I can save Contra or Megaman halfway through and play again tomorrow without having to go through the beginning stages again.

[Dwedit]

Are 1993 PC games also that era? I've played much more than my share of Master of Orion and Privateer.
What I still play the most though? Freecell, bloody freecell. Which is totally a 1992 game.

[rainwarrior]

Joust
Super Metroid
A Link to the Past
Battletoads
Blades of Steel

[Drew Sebastino]

Are 1993 PC games also that era?

The PC game from 1993. Anyway, about retro games I still play, I play so many retro games still I probably couldn't just make a list. I usually have it to where there are 5 or so games from different generas I play, like racing or fighting, and when I get tired of those games, I play a new set of games, and I often play the same games again when I get tired of other games.

[thefox]

I don't like replaying games. I play through them once, and then move on to the next one. I've played a lot of NES games this month, but they're all games that I haven't beaten before.

[Drew Sebastino]

The problem with me is that I just don't have enough games to do that. After taking a good break, I have just about as much fun playing a game a second or third time as I did the first. One thing I like to do is try to make myself challenges on games I've already beaten, like trying to beat Doom on Nightmare! (probably never going to happen, due to how impossible it is) or something like that. With many arcade games and arcade styled games, I try to beat them without using one life or one continue. (I can't for the life of me beat R-Type 3 without loosing 1 life, even though I've tried a bazillion times. If it weren't for all the seemingly unavoidable speedups, I might be able to.) One thing I've really been trying to do is get to the Master stages on Super Monkey Ball, (even if it isn't a "retro" game) but I can hardly beat expert without using all of my continues, much less 1. I feel like whenever I die once in a video game, I start to die a lot more, even if it isn't a game where you loose powerups. I think it has to do with loss of self esteem or something.

[whicker]

I can always pick up and play Super Mario Bros. 3, because of the warp whistles, can go to pretty much any world or whatnot I feel like playing. Clever level design. The ongoing joke is to get a "full house" with the end-of-level cards or sideways slot machine, as in any order of one each of star, flower, and mushroom, and then take a drink. Much more of a challenge than getting star-star-star.

Any of the Top Gear games on SNES, kind of a "just drive" feeling being able to think about other things, but not going out for an actual drive with my gas pedal on the floor. I have so many papers around my house with strange alphabet soup Top Gear passwords on them. I've learned to underline the numbers so as not to mix then up with an almost equivalent looking letter.

Final Fight (side scrolling beat-em-up) I still haven't gotten tired of. The SNES version is actually annoying, so I'd prefer it on another system. Since I'm from that time period, it's fun to be metro city mayor beating up evil-Hulk-Hogan and all of André the Giant's relatives. Have to power up the LaserActive or PSP every once in a while, anyways.

Oh god, then there's Cameltry (On the Ball). Not particularly that great of a game, but it's still playable and the engrish translation is endearing. UNFORTUNATE! It has an interesting secret password screen to mess with the game. The later levels where you can only tilt the screen between certain angles starts to suck and then I usually rage-quit.

[Khaz]

I guess I've kinda got Tetris. I can still enjoy a nice long time playing any well-implemented version of classic tetris, though I admittedly have more fun with the 6-player online vs tetris they've got out there. If I could eliminate the latency from that I'd be in heaven. Tetris is a game that MUST be flawlessly in-sync at all times, you can't have it just dropping control inputs randomly like that version does...

Age of Empires II is one I keep coming back to as well. Once again, if they fixed how completely and totally broken the online multiplayer is (just try an 8-player game I dare you), it'd be one of my favourite strategy games ever. Might be a bit late to consider "old school".

And now and then I keep coming back to Supaplex. Been playing it as long as I can remember, haven't finished it yet but I'm going to someday.

[Drew Sebastino]

Somehow, I can play this 1,000 times over and not get too bored:



The thing I look for in a video game is a lot of action, and that's why I like this game and many other Irem games, like In The Hunt. One thing I find funny is that the game was clearly supposed to support 4 players, but was dropped to 2. I'm guessing it's because the game was originally meant for the more expensive Irem M107, but since Irem was approaching bankruptcy, they had to scale back. One thing I've always wanted to do is make a 4 player gunforce 2 port, somehow. That would require disassembling the game though... I doubt I'd ever even actually do this, and I don't have nearly the required skill as of now.

[Zepper]

Rockman (Mega Man) for NES. Mainly 1.
I really have no interest in the SNES/PSX versions (no replay value). They HAD when I was younger.

[mikaelmoizt]

Kid Icarus
Megaman 1, 2
TLOZ some times

Chip 'n Dale rescue rangers, which I pretty much beat blind folded, whitout getting hit even once.

Blood - the fps from -96(?)
Settlers 2

I am not much of a gamer, but when I do play - its all about finishing the game and not focus on anything else.

[Shonumi]

When I was programming my GB/GBC emulator, I basically played through my entire collection all over again. Twitch Plays Pokemon got me in the mood to replay Red and Gold last year. Right now, I'm playing through Jurassic Park: The Lost World (GB version) before I go and see the new Jurassic World movie (I feel like a kid again ) I do enjoy Sonic 1-3 + S&K. I can easily play through them all on a good weekend.

It's not "old-school" (not yet, let it age a few more years) but I play Halo: CE all the way through, at least 4 times a year. I love that game; I know it inside and out.

[Khaz]

It's not "old-school" (not yet, let it age a few more years) but I play Halo: CE all the way through, at least 4 times a year. I love that game; I know it inside and out.

Have you pressed X to flip <need a string entry here> yet?

I remember looking up every last hidden or glitchy thing I could find in the original Halo and taking a look at it all personally, even if it took days to get the setup just right. Anyone who managed to get outside the pillar of autumn by jumping on light fixtures has my respect.

[Drew Sebastino]

I don't care what anyone says, but Halo 1 was the best. I'm more of a Doom person though, and I could care less about Halo 5. Halo 4 was trash, and I don't think it is a mystery why there was a nosedive in quality.

[tepples]

I could care less about Halo 5.

"That means you do care, at least a little."
-- "Weird Al" Yankovic, "Word Crimes"


I played Halo 5 on my Dreamcast...


...and Halo 2 on my original PlayStation.