Old School Games

**naikou** · 03-02-2007 05:20 AM

Originally Posted by Infraredkelp

What are your favorite old school games? I like:

F-Zero X
Super Smash bros.
Mario Kart
Duke Nukem
Starfox
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Ugh. Those qualify as "old school", already? They are only like... oh jeeze, ten years old. Good point. Well, I've played the lot of them, and I quite enjoyed them all (minus Duke Nukem, but I've never been much of a FPS guy).

Since the release of the Wii, I've been a supporter of Nintendo's virtual console idea and I download one or two "old school" games a month (yes, I know I could emulate, but, well... suffice it to say I'd seriously consider selling my soul to Nintendo for a couple of useless accesories and a Zelda remake). I've enjoyed playing many of the games that were before my generation - Gain Ground and Kid Icarus in particular were very entertaining. I intend to continue trying out older games on the virtual console (Military Madness is my next purchase).

As for "old school" games that I actually played in their heyday (SNES era), my favorites would be Donkey Kong Country (particularly the second one), Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy VI.

**Infraredkelp** · 03-02-2007 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by MemoriesofTomorrow

... Oregon Trail.. wasn't that a PC game?
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Yeah. I've never played it though, I only heard about it.

**Dallian** · 03-02-2007 04:48 PM

Okay, then yes, I've played it. If I'm not mistaken, I probably still have it somewhere in my house.....

**Artelis** · 03-03-2007 02:51 AM

lemmings ftw

**Geves** · 03-03-2007 02:52 AM

mike tyson's punchout = awesome

ninja gaiden 1 & 2 were great, 3 not so much. and the xbox game had zero story. slap in the fact to the original.

contra, jackel, monster party, wall street kid, nobunaga's ambition, iron sword, gargoyles quest 2, hogan's alley, river city ransom, blades of steel, faxanadu, life force, final fantasy 1 (one of 3 good ones imho), fester's quest, star tropics, mega man (all of them), zelda (of course), rescue:the embassy mission, and many many more.

i grew up in the NES era, which is why all these games are NES. best system ever. :yumdumdoodledum:

**Oneironaut Zero** · 03-03-2007 03:04 AM

Originally Posted by Geves

jackel, hogan's alley
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I knew I left a couple out.

And nice job on the Piston Honda avatar. Haha.

**CoLd BlooDed** · 03-03-2007 03:43 AM

Kings Quest, bitches! Now that's old-school.

**Infraredkelp** · 03-03-2007 03:55 AM

www.gametap.com

Did anyone subscribe to this? It some of the best old school games.

**Geves** · 03-03-2007 04:41 AM

[Edit: Link deleted by Oneironaut]

yeah piston honda rocks.

**CoLd BlooDed** · 03-03-2007 04:49 AM

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.

**Elwood** · 03-03-2007 05:08 AM

Smash TV
Zelda:Link to the past

Nuff said

**Infraredkelp** · 03-03-2007 05:09 AM

Originally Posted by Geves

[Edit: Link deleted by Oneironaut]
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Looks like u have to download every game you play

**Geves** · 03-03-2007 01:02 PM

Originally Posted by Infraredkelp

Looks like u have to download every game you play
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yeah. but it's ok. it saves your state and everything. to keep it legal you can simply download the game, save state, delete game (within 24 hours) and get it agian.

make sure you try to get the version with ! next to it, as those are the versions known to work properly.

EDIT: i'm not sure if this violates the rules by posting the link. but since it's legal to have the roms for 24 hours. i thought it'd be ok.
sorry mods if you disagree. i'm not trying to break any rules.

**Kaniaz** · 03-03-2007 04:10 PM

and legal, if you delete the rom within 24 hours.[/b]

(It isn't legal).

**Infraredkelp** · 03-03-2007 05:56 PM

Does anyone have Super Smash Melee?

**Geves** · 03-04-2007 11:27 AM

Originally Posted by Kaniaz

(It isn't legal).
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yeah i know that now. i PM'd the admins to delete my posts. but no response yet.

oh well.

**gregash** · 03-04-2007 12:13 PM

Originally Posted by Infraredkelp

Does anyone have Super Smash Melee?[/b]

Like I said before, best fucking multi-player game ever made! 'Nuff said.

**Goldney** · 03-04-2007 03:47 PM

Yeah you can't disagree with that. Somehow, even unknown to myself, I've managed to delete 2 save games where I had unlocked every character including the elusive Mewtwo and Mr. GameandWatch. i can't be bothered to unlock them again. Who's looking forward to Smash Bro's Brawl on Wii?

**naikou** · 03-04-2007 06:20 PM

^ That is nothing.

I've managed to delete 2 game saves where I had ALL 290 trophies... including Diskun. Took me forever to find another freaking copy of freaking Pikmin so I could get the Captain Olimar trophy again.

Smash Bros Brawl looks really fun... it's my most anticipated game, at the moment.

**Goldney** · 03-04-2007 07:13 PM

One word:

Sucka

**Kaniaz** · 03-04-2007 08:52 PM

That was three words.

Also, is MDK old enough? I loved MDK.

**Identity X** · 03-06-2007 02:14 PM

Originally Posted by naikou

Smash Bros Brawl looks really fun... it's my most anticipated game, at the moment.
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My interpretation of the Super Smash series has always been "hit the A button a lot and prentend you have a clue what's going on whilst staring at miniscule dots on your cousin's 12" TV screen"

**Burns** · 03-06-2007 03:51 PM

I've got an emulator on my computer with games from:

Gameboy - 500 games
Gameboy Advance - 170 games
N64 - 150 games
NES - 800 games
Sega - 50 games
SNES - 740 games

I love being able to play my fav Nintendo games right on my computer - it's way better than having all those different consoles and all the individual game cartridges.