• thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
        16·
        20 days ago

        There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.

        • ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          20 days ago

          You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.

          • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            20 days ago

            Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?

            • ogeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              20 days ago

              That is entirely subjective but I would say some still prefer CRT and Analog video, which these retro consoles also provide. There are also some benefits for it like no lag and better graphics due to the natural blurring of the CRT but at the cost of space and screen size. CRTs are bulky.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
        151·
        20 days ago

        Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.

    • phoneymouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      20 days ago

      Same — everyone has so many memories of that game. For me, it reminds me of playing games with my brother, he would read the prima strategy guide and help me get through the dungeons. My father bought ocarina of time for us both for Christmas. We got drawn in to the magic of that game for several months after.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    20 days ago

    You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
      14·
      20 days ago

      We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.

    • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      Me too. I like to play Xmen 2: Clone Wars and Bubsy on it. I’ve been thinking of getting an 8bitdo for it so I can play it wireless with my PS4 controllers.

      • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        3·
        20 days ago

        The 8bitdo wireless Genesis controller is pretty good and faithful to the original.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        Xmen 2: Clone Wars and Bubsy

        Gave me nostalgia whiplash, there.

        • X-Men 2: Clone Wars - “Well of course, don’t we all?”
        • Bubsy - “…and some of us are into pain and punishment, of course. It takes all types.” (I never got good at Bubsy.)
        • Omega@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          For me, X-men 2 was harder.

          But Bubsy is just memorizing the layout or gambling. The game dares you to go fast like Sonic, but there are pitfalls every 2 seconds or you’ll be going down into an unknown area that could either be fine or it could kill you, and there’s no way of knowing beforehand.

          • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            19 days ago

            Huh. That perspective could help. I always thought I was just terrible at Bubsy. Which I guess I was. But keeping that in mind might help a lot.

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    20 days ago

    Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged…poorly.

    • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      19 days ago

      I’ve actually found the cure to my old video game nostalgia is watching old lets-plays. Usually I can skip a whole bunch of the creators video and get that nostalgia bug outta my system in a few hours without spending any money.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      41·
      20 days ago

      There are a few rare gems, but gameplay design has evolved a lot. It’s worse than watching comedies from the 50s.

      My first Zelda was BOTW so I decided I would play Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask. Man, the amount of aimlessly walking around and boring empty fields gets old very fast. Puzzles are either trivially obvious, impossibly obscure or super hard.

    • RatzChatsubo@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      18 days ago

      I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I’m surprised how well it holds up

      • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        I first played FF6 when it was already retro(I was a Sega kid) and it bacame my favorite FF, even higher than 7 which holds huge nostalgic memories to me

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      3·
      20 days ago

      That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting

  • InFerNo@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    20 days ago

    Mega Drive is still getting good mileage here. Recently played MSG on a ps emulator. I have the discs and a PSX but played it on my odroid go ultra. Got stuck figuring out how to change the discs virtually so that’s how far I got in the game.