Play older games purely for nostalgia?

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22 Mar 2008, 8:51 pm

I'm another Mario 64 fan. I still have my original N64 from April 1997 (although it's on a better TV now). I play it now and then, usually creating a new file and starting over to see how far I can get without a book.

I got all 120 stars on the file I started nearly 11 years ago. It was long and frustrating (the clock!) but very much worth it.

I play a lot of older games because the newer ones don't appeal to me. While I do keep up with Mario (I love Galaxy!) I find a lot of old games just got lost over the years. Examples include Lemmings, Battle Chess, and the old-style Starfox where you fly the planes. Also, does anyone remember Shufflepuck Cafe? Really old Mac game from the late 1980s.

I remember when Pokeymon was the big rage. I never got into it. I thought it looked dumb (apologies to any fans out there) and I thought the same about virtual pets--especially since I had a real dog at home.

Most of the games I play today are sports games like Madden or any of the baseball games.

Ed software, that's another story. I like to relive my glory days, back before I was as anxiety-stricken as I am now, by playing Carmen Sandiego or something.



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23 Mar 2008, 12:21 am

I prefer to just remember old games nostalgically than actually play them. Why let reality spoil a perfectly good idealised memory? In the past, whenever I did replay old games, I started remembering all their flaws. But from time to time I have stumbled across old classics that I missed when they were released. I enjoyed playing emulated SNES versions of Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6, even though they were probably nearly a decade old when I played them.



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23 Mar 2008, 12:31 pm

I am currently buying loads of Gamecube and Xbox games on eBay and most are very cheap. Gamecube games are much more expensive though, Skies of Arcadia cost me 35 Euro.



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23 Mar 2008, 1:46 pm

YES! Skies of Arcadia! I have yet to have anyone around me who's actually played that game! The moment when I got to take control of a state-of-the-art warship (after having been relegated to a glorified fishing boat) is one of my fondest video-game memories.

As far as older games go, I remember playing 'Zombies Ate My Neighbors' on the Genesis back in summer. It was significantly harder than I remembered but at least now I got all of the little horror movie references that went over my head when I was little.



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23 Mar 2008, 1:49 pm

I like to play older adventure-games, especially those from Sierra. Nowadays they could better close down Sierra, to keep something of the real name...

Luckily there are some good fanmade games in the same style as the old adventures.

I really like Quest for Glory.


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23 Mar 2008, 7:25 pm

Asterisp wrote:
I really like Quest for Glory.


Quest for Glory 4: Shadows of Darkness (gotta love that name!) is one of my favourite games of all time. The others were pretty good too.



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23 Mar 2008, 9:12 pm

I played the ocarina of time a couple of months ago when I started it up it actually hurt my eyes.



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13 Oct 2009, 4:10 am

I didn’t have NES but in the second half of the 90’s I was an owner of Pegasus which is popularly called a Polish clone of NES. It was a CULT console here where I live. I got it as my birthday present when I was 11. I had many games and when I got bored with them, I exchanged them for different ones on a market where they were sold. I still keep all my cartridges although I don’t have the console which broke down somewhere in 1999. Yesterday I refreshed my memory on them searching for them in an online version. Majority of them are just as cool as I remembered them to be (maybe but the Pugsley one although back then it was one of my favorite). And these are my favorite games I had (I like them so much mostly for the nostalgic reasons, when yesterday I tried playing the ones I didn’t own in the past, I found them uninteresting) :

http://nintendo8.com/game/638/addams_fa ... nger_hunt/
http://nintendo8.com/game/190/popeye_no_eigo_asobi/
http://nintendo8.com/game/711/ice_climber/
http://nintendo8.com/game/37/arkanoid/
http://nintendo8.com/game/723/jungle_book,_the/
http://nintendo8.com/game/460/adventure_island/
http://nintendo8.com/game/490/little_mermaid,_the/
http://nintendo8.com/game/266/kiwi_kraze/
http://nintendo8.com/game/60/contra/
http://nintendo8.com/game/596/sky_destroyer/
http://nintendo8.com/game/372/pac-man/
http://nintendo8.com/game/662/hook/
http://nintendo8.com/game/629/super_mario_brothers/

Enjoy! :D



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15 Oct 2009, 8:26 am

I'll do this too. Prime favorites are Starcraft, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2, Missionforce: Cyberstorm, and various others that are compatible with Win XP (or if i can get it to work on it).



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15 Oct 2009, 3:08 pm

I don't play them purely for the nostalgia, I mostly play them because they're such great games.

Of course, I make an exception for the Final Fantasy games...I really can't stand forcing myself through those like I could when I was little, so I literally do play those purely for the nostalgia.


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21 Oct 2009, 1:21 pm

Balders Gate 2 :) And not only for the nostalgia. It's generally a great game to come back to anyway. :)



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22 Oct 2009, 12:04 am

I replay lots of Square games, just about anything made for the SNES, PS and PS2. One because they are awesome games, two because I have wonderful memories from being a kid while playing those games.

I have found that many of my N64 and PS games can be rough on the eyes. 2D sprites actually look better now than the 3D stuff does.



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22 Oct 2009, 12:45 am

I love older games, I've got all my old Nintendo consoles hooked up and ready to go whenever I want to play them. My favourite games are still the Donkey Kong games for SNES, I really wish they'd make another platform/adventure DK game. DK64 was the last good one.

I recently went searching for some old DOS games I used to play all the time. Most of them were just as good as I remember.



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22 Oct 2009, 3:43 am

SDFarsight wrote:
Balders Gate 2 :) And not only for the nostalgia. It's generally a great game to come back to anyway. :)


You speak the truth, sir.



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22 Oct 2009, 7:45 am

The Final Fantasies for nostalgia and gameplay are great. And then there's Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. That game has probably the greatest replay value of any game I've ever had the pleasure of playing.


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01 Nov 2009, 12:59 am

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon: Another Story is a really fun game. It is one of the best games I've played hehe mainly because I'm obsessed with the anime.