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How much of a retrogamer are you?

I play at least one old game a year. 3 8.57%
 
I play three or four old games a year. 7 20.00%
 
I play more than four old games a year. 10 28.57%
 
I own more old games than modern games. 12 34.29%
 
I never play old games bu... 1 2.86%
 
I started playing games a... 0 0%
 
I started playing games a... 0 0%
 
I don't even play modern ... 0 0%
 
2 5.71%
 
Total:35
The_Liquid_Laser 2 days ago

I tend to get on a "kick" where I focus on one system for most of the year and then put it away for several years.  So, there is no single game I come back to every year, but there are quite a few games that I keep coming back to every several years.  The best games never get old.  Some games show their age, but are still kinda fun.  Other games age like wine and seem to get better every time you play them.

Overall, I think console gaming peaked on the NES and then got slightly worse each generation with a few high points like the Wii and Switch.  PC gaming peaked in the 90's.  The most current line of game consoles doesn't have many games that I'm interesting in playing.

Here are the systems I own:

AVS (for NES games)
Genesis
PS2 (for PS1+PS2 games)
Gamecube
Wii
XBox1 (for 360+XB1 games)
Wii U (haven't touched since Switch released)
Switch 
GBA player from Analogue NT (for GB+GBA games)
PSP
3DS (for DS+3DS games)
60-in-1 arcade cabinet
GOG account with a few dozen games
PVM and regular CRT 



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SvennoJ 2 days ago

Technically I guess.

Puzzling Places is one of my favorites, 3D puzzles were popularized in 1991 

First Puz3D puzzle, Bavarian Castle:



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I do have a bunch of older systems but hardly play them. Retro gaming in VR is more fun, Pixelripped for example.



Bofferbrauer2 2 days ago
Pemalite said:

I own a CRT for games made prior to the HD, FHD and UHD eras... Ergo... I am a retro gamer.

17" CRT monitor and a 24" CRT TV for both a Retro PC (AM486 DX-40) and Retro Consoles. Both are however unplugged right now due to space issues.



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Cerebralbore101 2 days ago
The_Liquid_Laser said:

I tend to get on a "kick" where I focus on one system for most of the year and then put it away for several years.  So, there is no single game I come back to every year, but there are quite a few games that I keep coming back to every several years.  The best games never get old.  Some games show their age, but are still kinda fun.  Other games age like wine and seem to get better every time you play them.

Overall, I think console gaming peaked on the NES and then got slightly worse each generation with a few high points like the Wii and Switch.  PC gaming peaked in the 90's.  The most current line of game consoles doesn't have many games that I'm interesting in playing.

Here are the systems I own:

AVS (for NES games)
Genesis
PS2 (for PS1+PS2 games)
Gamecube
Wii
XBox1 (for 360+XB1 games)
Wii U (haven't touched since Switch released)
Switch 
GBA player from Analogue NT (for GB+GBA games)
PSP
3DS (for DS+3DS games)
60-in-1 arcade cabinet
GOG account with a few dozen games
PVM and regular CRT 

What are your model numbers for the PVM and consumer sets? I have a BVM A20F1U and a PVM20M2U. Both are on CRTdatabase. 



HoloDust 2 days ago
Bofferbrauer2 said:
Pemalite said:

I own a CRT for games made prior to the HD, FHD and UHD eras... Ergo... I am a retro gamer.

17" CRT monitor and a 24" CRT TV for both a Retro PC (AM486 DX-40) and Retro Consoles. Both are however unplugged right now due to space issues.

Yeah, CRTs and size - I have 27" CRT hooked up, and I really intend to get rid of it at some point due to size and try to find some 17-19" early 80s set to replace it - like I actually used to play back then.



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Cerebralbore101 2 days ago
HoloDust said:
Bofferbrauer2 said:

17" CRT monitor and a 24" CRT TV for both a Retro PC (AM486 DX-40) and Retro Consoles. Both are however unplugged right now due to space issues.

Yeah, CRTs and size - I have 27" CRT hooked up, and I really intend to get rid of it at some point due to size and try to find some 17-19" early 80s set to replace it - like I actually used to play back then.

The smaller the CRT the better it looks due to higher phosphor density. I would recommend finding a 13 inch PVM or RGB moddable Sony from 1994-2005. 



HoloDust 2 days ago
Cerebralbore101 said:
HoloDust said:

Yeah, CRTs and size - I have 27" CRT hooked up, and I really intend to get rid of it at some point due to size and try to find some 17-19" early 80s set to replace it - like I actually used to play back then.

The smaller the CRT the better it looks due to higher phosphor density. I would recommend finding a 13 inch PVM or RGB moddable Sony from 1994-2005. 

I grew up with ~13" color TV in my room back in early 80s (before that, in late 70s it was even smaller black&white TV), and apart from ~19" in living room, that's where most of my 8/16 bit era in 80s was spent on. 13" feels quite small for TV, but we kids (well, adults as well) were oblivious to radiation coming from them, so we sat very close, pretty much using them as monitors.

I'm not sure I want that close up experience again (for obvious reasons) - my current CRT is 29", which I find to be too big and too...I don't know, not as authentic to feeling of those 80s consumer sets, so I want something smaller, 17-19", but definitively not PVM/BVM. I had some of those at work (I'm in film/TV industry) back in days (SONY, don't remember exact models) and I find them to be too clean and precise for 8/16 bit gaming era.



SanAndreasX 2 days ago
HoloDust said:
SanAndreasX said:

Kinda. I still have my old Atari 130XE, plus all my old Nintendo systems. But for the pre-NES stuff that doesn't have things like Atari 50 to play on modern hardware, like Atari 8-bit, Bally Astrocade, TRS-80, etc, I emulate those.

I also don't have a CRT. I'm not that wedded to the 1980s experience to where I want to lug around heavy tube TVs. The hell with that.

CRT or good CRT emulation via shaders is fairly important for 8/16-bit home console era, though. Not that one must play it that way, but modern panels are really terrible for displaying that old content and make old 2D pixel art much uglier.


Eh, not a big deal to me. I prefer the cleaner presentation of modern displays. Pixels and all. 




xl-klaudkil 2 days ago

80% of my time i play snes/ps1/ps2/xbox games soo...yea!!



 

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HoloDust 1 day ago
SanAndreasX said:
HoloDust said:

CRT or good CRT emulation via shaders is fairly important for 8/16-bit home console era, though. Not that one must play it that way, but modern panels are really terrible for displaying that old content and make old 2D pixel art much uglier.

Eh, not a big deal to me. I prefer the cleaner presentation of modern displays. Pixels and all. 

Fair enough. I'm not stranger to playing on modern displays, I do however use shaders to emulate CRT on them - pixel art from that era was made with all the quirks of CRTs (and composite input, while were at it, to a degree) in mind, so I find that without it colors don't blend as they should, and art has significantly different look to its originally indented representation.