Anyone else still play the really old video games?

[Taumpy]

I still play with my original NES. I have had a lifelong love affair with Mario 3, and IMO the Megaman and Legend of Zelda anniversary collections are about the best things ever.

Other games: Rampage, Millon's Secret Castle, Kid Icarus.

Anyone else?

[jali]

TOOT on Nintendo 64.
Turok on Nintendo 64
Spyro the Dragon on PS2.

[Gumby]

Of course, I've got my Old nintendo in the garage for just that purpose.

Sometimes I get the fever for Dr. Mario.

[hatesfreedom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasteland_(computer_game)

I played this recently just because. It was one of the first 'landmark' games I played as a kid on my dads Tandy1000. It came in a vinyl record sleeve. Even thinking about it now makes me kind of emotional in that way that guys avoid unless its a sunset or we're lying to our girlfriends. I was all of 9 back then and each year of my life seemed like an eternity.

[Cluricaun]

I play Mario 3 at Arcade Gangster all the time (they have Super Mario Brothers and Super Mario 2 and a bunch of other old NES games as well for free as flash based games), but you can’t save so you have to really get down on it. I’m stuck as shit in world 4 and since I have to start over every time I lose all my lives I don’t push it too often anymore. I do still rule at Excitebike though. I wreck everyone.

[Pixiesnix]

I have yet to beat Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

I friggin' hate that game.

[puppygod]

I have a bunch of emulators and play old games from time to time. Recently I'm playing Breath of Fire II on GBA. The funny thing is I can have as much fun from this fifteen years old game with small pixellated guys as I have from Fallout 3 with all the graphics and stuff. Maybe I'm weird like that.

[MsRobyn]

We have an Atari 2600. I also got a disk of a bunch of old arcade games for the Xbox. I look forward to playing it.

[Agent Foxtrot]

I play old NES and SNES ROMs more than I play with my new Xbox 360. The new games are pretty good, in my mind, but very few of them can hold a candle to Chrono Trigger or Super Metroid.

I also submit that my generation of gamers and newest generation appreciate different aspects of video games. Newer games focus more on graphics and the "wow" value. First-person shooters and MMORPG's have gained popularity for younger gamers over side-scrollers and single-player RPG's.

[Johnny]

If I had a computer with a slow enough clock, I'd play Blood and Redneck Rampage.

Come to think of it, I do have a 166 MHz laptop I'm not using...

[hatesfreedom]

If I had a computer with a slow enough clock, I'd play Blood and Redneck Rampage.

Come to think of it, I do have a 166 MHz laptop I'm not using...

Search for and download DOSbox and you don't need nothing but what yah got.

[dragonwriter]

I used to have an emulator on one of my old machines and enjoyed playing "Casino Kid," an old NES game, and the original "Legend of Zelda." The dungeon music in that game along with the happy little sound that it makes when something good happens are like the audio version of comfort food to me.

[Johnny]

If I had a computer with a slow enough clock, I'd play Blood and Redneck Rampage.

Come to think of it, I do have a 166 MHz laptop I'm not using...

Search for and download DOSbox and you don't need nothing but what yah got.

Even if it's a Mac?

I've retired my PC. I got it in 2000 or 2001. Whenever a 500 MHz was nothing to sneeze at. Blood would run just fine until I tried to use the 'weapons reversal' orb. (Anyone who attacks you receives the damage he's putting out; you take the damage for anyone you attack.) As soon as I touched it on that machine the game would crash. I was told it was a 'clock' problem. Anyway, the PC is taken apart and is being stored right now. I use a PowerBook G4 for my primary computer, and I have a 2001 iMac G3 as my work/guest/spare computer. Somewhere I have a copy of Redneck Rampage for Macs, but it dowsn't want to run in OS-X.

But if DOSbox will work with my old PC, I might just dig that machine out.

[puppygod]

If I had a computer with a slow enough clock, I'd play Blood and Redneck Rampage.

Come to think of it, I do have a 166 MHz laptop I'm not using...

Search for and download DOSbox and you don't need nothing but what yah got.

Even if it's a Mac?

Yup. DoxBox is ported on MacOS and old PC games should work without too much fussing.

[Johnny]

Yup. DoxBox is ported on MacOS and old PC games should work without too much fussing.

Huh. I was being facetious.

[DocCathode]

I have a Commodore 64 sitting in front of me as we speak. My NES is having pin problems. I love Abandonware, emulators and roms. I play Genesis games on a regular basis. Lately, I've been getting the itch to play Adventure.

[don't call me shirley]

Games I still play occasionally:
Zelda (original)
RC Pro-Am
Pitfall 2 (10k version for the 2600)
Quake 2
Sim Copter
a bunch of Atari ST games I bought in ziplock bags at trade shows
Pirates

I have been playing various versions of Pirates since the Commodore 64. And I still love it. It doesn't get any better. I even like dancing with the governor's daughter's in the Gold version.

[Taumpy]

"Casino Kid,"

I love this game, and I still play it when I feel like getting my ass kicked at Blackjack without actually risking any money.

[maggenpye]

We had Snood downloaded for a couple of years, but now our oldest is Sonic.

We also have a few [del:3hdiav9b]ripoffs[/del:3hdiav9b] tribute versions of early games (like Asteroid & pacman), but I don't know if they count.

[Tool of the Conspiracy]

I have a half-assed collection of pre-1990 PC games, but I never play them (no 5¼" drive): Zork I, Summer Games, Midwinter... The one that I'd like to get working again is my Tandy 1000 version of Rogue. I think I ran ChkDsk or Defrag on the disk once, and it tripped the copy protection permanently. I've downloaded Rogue before, but it's never been the exact same version that I played back in the day.

I also have an Intellivision in the garage, with the voice module and a big box of games. I've tried hooking it up, but it was always snowy. I think I later read something about modern TVs expecting a stronger signal than the old consoles put out.

ETA: Oh, and I have a few games on MAME. I tried getting more from Usenet earlier this year, but none of them worked.

[Kaspar Hauser]

NES, SNES, N64, C64, A500... only nowadays I use emulators - my gf doesn't want them all in the flat, so they're stored in the basement until we find a bigger place. I recently replayed all the Zelda games and they were great! Haven't played Kid Icarus in years, but I think I'll give it a go tonight. I play The Secret of Monkey Island on the A500 once a year or so, mostly for the music.
My new job at the Danish Royal Library involves working on how to best preserve and emulate old console and computer games for future generations - I'm gonna be doing this for a living. Yay!

[Taumpy]

Kaspar you may be interested in checking out this page which includes two remixes of music from that game. (I'm unfamilar with both the game and the tracks, so I can't speak for their quality). For the uninitiated, the website is OverClocked Remix. Lots of video game music remixed, and it ranges from excellent to awful. I greatly enjoy the music from Mega Man 2, so that site was like the jackpot for me.

[Tripler]

Yeah, I've got a few DOS-based games lying around here. Still some good adventure games out there if you can find them. I never was one for the Nintendo or Sega, but always did enjoy the PC ones.

Tripler
Man, now I gotta find my copy of the Oregon Trail.

[Real Account]

One day I will buy a real Pac Man arcade game.

[The Logos]

These days I play nothing but what would be considered classic games, games which made an impact upon an impressionable youth, and which continue to be played partly from nostalgia. On my SNES I have Super Mario All Stars, Super Mario World (One and Yoshi's Island), Super Mario RPG (great game), and Super Mario Kart. On the N64 I have Super Mario 64 and GoldenEye. For PC I have Duke Nukem 3D, SimTower, and the most recent editions which are played admittedly rarely, SimCity 3000 and Civ. 4 (good game, but not exactly a classic).

[Control-Z]

I play the MAME arcade emulator fairly often, I love the way it uses the actual ROM files from arcade machines so you're really playing the actual game, not just a port.

Really modern Flash games remind me a lot of early arcade games, simple and fun, but with better graphics.

[Tuckerfan]

Meet some folks who are serious about old school games.

Many of today's players may only experience Atari games in emulation. Indeed, many of my students may have little to no memory of CRT televisions at all. Given such factors, it seems even more important to improve the graphical accuracy of tools like Stella.

In Spring 2009, a Georgia Tech Computer Science capstone group was asked to modify Stella, adding settings to simulate the CRT behaviors described above. The group consisted of five committed and talented CS seniors: Edward Booth, Michael Cook, Justin Dobbs, Will Rowland, and Prince Yang. Take a look at the before/after comparisons and you'll see the difference immediately.

Interview with someone else who's serious about old school games. (Link to BBC interview with a guy who rewires old controllers, etc. to work with new machines.)

[The Original An Gadaí]

Bump

[Zuul]

Whoa. I was really confused when I first saw this thread.

Anyone know of any old zombie games?

[Queen of Hearts]

I have Shining Force and Shining Force II on my Wii; I originally had them on Genesis. Good times!

[AndrewRyan]

I have an emulator on my xbox which allows me to play any Nintendo or Super Nintendo game.

Kung fu and Metroid ftw!

[Taumpy]

Anyone know of any old zombie games?

IIRC, many of the monsters were Zombie-esque:

[The Original An Gadaí]

The game Splatterhouse rings a dim and distant bell somewhere in the dark recesses of my cranium. I think my friend had it. IIRC Japanese games had to be taken out of the plastic case to be played on Euro Megadrives (Genesis in American).

[Trojan Man]

I'm not a computer game person (I'm sure most of you could've figured that out! ), but enjoyed playing Atari as a kid. There's a game on my recently purchased net book called minesweep or something. Something about dodging bombs you can't see, I think. Also, there's an arcade-style pinball game but I can't figure out what the controls are.