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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Official Retro Games Thread (was: Atarians and other retro gamers assemble!)

richardhutnik on 01 March 2013
thekitchensink said:
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but my favourite of their games is Donkey Kong Country Returns. The Prime games were never my cup of tea.

...am I doing it right?

Going neo-retro?  I don't have a problem with that.



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Veknoid_Outcast on 01 March 2013

I support this thread all the way :)

Here are a few photos my fiancee took at the video game exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum. It was a retro gamer's paradise.



richardhutnik on 01 March 2013

Is that Smithsonian exhibit still going on these days?



Veknoid_Outcast on 01 March 2013
richardhutnik said:
Is that Smithsonian exhibit still going on these days?

It ended in September. The show is now on the road.

Boca Raton Museum of Art (October 24, 2012–January 20, 2013)
EMP Museum in Seattle (February 16, 2013–May 13, 2013)
Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY (February 15, 2014–May 18, 2014)
Toledo Museum of Art in Toledo, Ohio (June 19, 2014–September 28, 2014)
Flint Institute of Arts in Flint, Michigan (October 25, 2014–January 18, 2015)
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, Tennessee (June 6, 2015–September 13, 2015)



TruckOSaurus on 01 March 2013

I love retro gaming. My All-Time Top 50 has a good selection of NES and SNES games.



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Gamerace on 01 March 2013
kain_kusanagi said:
richardhutnik said:
Gamerace said:
happydolphin said:
richardhutnik said:

Every form of electronic entertainment has blanded itself together under the banner known as "videogames".  This includes games, adventures and also interactive fiction.  Because the videogame industry has a longing to be like the movie industry, there is a push for a story, acting, "memorable characters" and whatnot, and hung up on that.  In light of this, the two biggest impact IPs this generation are likely Angry Birds and Minecraft that have NONE of that.

Speaking on Dragon's Lair, I happened to end up seeing a video on YouTube how the single player campaign of the latest Medal of Honor game way WAY like Dragon's Lair.  You had to do things EXACTLY, or you would die.  Was it "Angry Biscuit" or something who did it (British guy)?  And someone can then go and post the modern FPS map vs that of Doom map.  It seems FPS also changed when they got rid of the auto mapping in the game, due to going 3D with the maps (Quake first to change this).  So, you do have things, in effect, where if you add something, you can lose elements of gameplay in there prior.

I was pointing out that key games back then also had a significant portion storytelling and a lesser portion of gameplay. Another example was King's Quest. I'm not sure a forum on retro will eliminate that crucial segment in the industry, as hard as people will try to eradicate it. It is an important part of gaming for many people out there.

It's a valid point but I know for myself I hate seeing a lot of genre's lose their basic gameplay to become more action oriented (Survival horrors, RPGs) and action based games become ever more focused on a movie-like experience often at the cost of the basic gameplay.   For example, I don't want a linear QTE Tomb Raider (not even for an hour) for the sake of character development.  I don't need Lara to have a more realistic character, I want more puzzle/exploration.  It's a game, not a movie, leave it as such.   But I am vastly outvoted because games that leave their basic premise to cater to the biggest audience (Resident Evil) are handsomely rewarded.

I could argue that it seems today that there is a reduction of genres, and an increase blanding to the lowest common denominator, a mashing of things in the name of storytelling.  It has increasely become more of interactive fiction and adventures, with increased dexerity elements, or adventure being mashed with action, and things dumbed down to pulling levers in certain order or hunting the key card.  Action has assimilated adventure, outside of Indie stuff, and then you now see RPG also being assimilated.  The stat building element of RPGs has been getting into about everything at this point.

So, you come out with large scaled budget blanding of genres, that are supposed to appeal to everyone, in the name of adventure.

 

I agree with you on retail games, Resident Evil is the example I always use for the homogenisation of game play. But recently we have seen a new renaissance of gaming with the new explosion of indie games. XBLA and Steam are the place to be if you love games of all the genre's no longer on store shelves. I have three Dreamcast games on preorder right now. A vertical shooter called Sturmwind, a classic RPG called Pier Solar, and a horizontal shooter called Redux. BTW, Pier Solar HD is coming to XBLA , Wii U, PC and Mobile. My point is that the games we all love are still coming out, they just aren't coming in boxes any more.

Haven't play on PC since my PC died 7 or 8 years ago.  My laptop surficed for all my needs (except games) and Wii suited my game fix nicely.

These days I'm finding a similar resurgence of classic genres on mobile as I have RPGs, point and click adventures, arcade, platformers, and puzzlers on my phone now.



 

DaRev on 01 March 2013

Best thread on this site!

I had an Atari 2600 I believe and a ColecoVision, both of which I was too young to really appreciate at the time. Therefore, for me, gaining started with arguably the greatest console of all time, the NES.

I hope the thread gets Official.

So when can we start discussing specific games



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Gamerace on 01 March 2013
spurgeonryan said:
I would like to join! Qatari, NES, gameboy, Apple II, and various early Microsoft and IBM computers were my systems of choice. Loved IBM and the floppy based AppleII.

What are peoples favorite developers from back in the day?



Nintendo (arcade), Sierra (King's Quest), SSI (Pool of Radiance), ID (Doom)



 

JazzB1987 on 01 March 2013
axumblade said:
sethnintendo said:

I don't know about you but my Atari 2600 had some wood on the front!

 

Mine didn't have the wood on the front. I got the later one that was just black. My dads exwife's son had one with the wood on it. 

Isnt this your ex-stepbrother?


Well "my" fist system was a Commodore 64. (we never had the monitor as far as I know we always used TVs)


Then came NES and Original Gameboy.

(I was too lazy to look for 2 pictures so I took this one)



mjk45 on 01 March 2013
Mummelmann said:
I had a Commodore 64 and an Amiga 500 after that, good times! I also enjoyed the Atari Lynx, the only handheld I ever liked.

Been playing a lot of PC games since Ultima and Warcraft 1, but Betrayal at Krondor, Stone Prophet and Lands of Lore was what really made me crazy about gaming! And the old Lucasarts classics of course, point & click was da shizzle back in the day.

Betrayal of Krondor I remember worrying about that since i loved the rift war saga , but they did a good job and Fiest who I have met  was pleased .



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