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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris ... two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn't played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they'll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I'll live that long ... lol)
I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8
My OG NES is quite possibly my most played out of all my retro consoles. It's currently loaded with Duck Tales, for meme purposes.
Mine also has an emerald green power light (because I can), the lockout chip is clipped, and I modified the cartridge connector so you don't have to press the carts down to play them anymore (because that blows people's minds).
Wow ... what a setup ... it's something I've dreamed of building myself but I have far too many other projects on the go and my own collections I have to maintain ... my other passion is motorcycles and I have five of them on the go and need constant maintenance, parts, service and repairs ... not to mention a bunch of other work I have to do to make a living and work on my own house and garage.
I envy you and wish I could just sit down to have a break with an NES, switch to an Xbox, then a Sega Genesis and on and on ... I love all those old units as they remind me of being a kid and being around all my old friends and younger times. I'm taking out my NES tonight just to make myself feel better .. lol
Thanks for the images ... I'm actually very happy for you .. nice one!
lol .... that's amazing ... I store all my old bikes in a cramped little shed and garage with not enough room ... I sometimes wonder why I have all these bikes but I love them. I'm sure you feel the same about your stable.
Love that KLR 650 ... a friend of mine has one and is really enjoying it. Neat to have that scooter mixed in with those offroads. What's the Suzuki? Beautiful Yamaha at the start. What are the two cruisers at the end? Nice Yamaha dualsport too! Wow what a collection! I really like the variety and types of bikes you keep. You must really love riding.
Mine are:
1998 BMW K1200RS
2001 BMW R1100R
1978 Honda Goldwing
1976 Honda CB750
2002 Kawasaki Vulcan
Here is my main ride - 1998 BMW K1200RS - a beast of a machine but I seldom get her going fast because she is 26 years old and although I have faith in her, I don't have enough faith to test to see how well the parts will hold out. When everything is tuned, she cruises without effort at 120 km/h and I've brought her up to over 240 a few times but scared myself so badly that I won't do that often. The bike is rock solid at speed, it feels like the faster it goes, the more stable it becomes, its amazing .... but she's showing her age and I have to take everything apart to service her again in the spring.
The little Suzuki is an RV200 Vanvan. It has a rear tire on the front and an ATV tire on the rear... actually the same tire sizes as the TW200 and similar displacement and power (a widowmaking ~13 HP) but it's lower, less dorky looking, and fuel injected rather than carbed.
A while back a friend of mine offered me custodianship of a CB750 Four from the late '70's, but I declined owing to already having a small mountain of bikes and I was not relishing the thought of owning something with four inline carbs. I un-mothballed the thing for him after it had not run since 1997 so he could sell it, and taking it apart once was enough for me. I got the bastard starting on the first kick, though. I don't know where it went after he wound up selling it to a local dealership.
At the moment I have:
Yamaha FZ6R
The KLR650
Honda Shadow A.C.E. 750
Suzuki RV200 Vanvan
Honda CH50 Metropolitan (the scooter)
Orion/Nicot RXB250L
Bashan/Raven BSR250 "Enforcer" (actually 229cc, but who's counting)
The Sportster on the end of that lineup is my neighbor's, he stores it in my garage over the winter.
These all recently reached the point of having released closer to the PS3 launch than to today:
Rainbow Six Siege, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Battlefront (2015 version), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Black Ops III, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Broforce, Yoshi's Wooly World, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection, Concrete Jungle, Soma, Super Mario Maker, Tearaway (PS4 version), MGSV Phantom Pain, Armello, Goat Simulator (PS4 version).
I know I can emulate, but there are times when I wish I still had my old Playstation. I left mine behind when I had to make a sudden break from an ex of mine about 20ish years ago. Somehow I ended up with a controller and the mouse, but I have no idea how they got separated from the system itself and ended up in my possession.
Yes, but not many games used it or supported it. I think mine came with the game Discworld or perhaps I bought it separately for that game, I don't recall.
Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!
Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.
There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.
You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.
Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?
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.
Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.
Off I go doing a crime again
But... anime-girl buried them, so they're kinda hard to access.
That's lain you heathen
Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?
They stole all of her Reese's Pieces.
I can hear that Ocarina of Time screenshot.
🎹🎶
OWOOOOOOooo
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
Are there still? Did they leave most of em? I thought a bunch got sold off to patrons of that dig attempt.
Oh shit! You’re right! I never read about that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-desert-sold-108-n418971
We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.
Yeah nintendo still sues communities trying to port oot to a more modern engine xD.
Shit, I still have a working Genesis.
Same!
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.
The 8bitdo wireless Genesis controller is pretty good and faithful to the original.
Gave me nostalgia whiplash, there.
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.
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.
I hear emudeck for the Steam Deck is amazing too, but I never got around to installing it.
I think I have three of the damn things.
They just keep popping up like mushrooms. Same thing with Gamecubes.
I've had a hard time finding cheap working GameCubes.
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Monty on the run, can you hear the screenshot?
My blood pressure goes up just looking at the Space Taxi loading screen. Space Taxi is why I don't have any patience left to try Dark Souls.
Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged...poorly.
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.
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.
I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I'm surprised how well it holds up
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
Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.
I'm playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren't dead.
That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting
”RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”
—Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)
You didn't need the attribution line. With just your quote we all heard it in our heads.
POWER UP!
AH AH AH AH!
I don't know what you're talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.
Love MGS1, but Yell Dead Cell is one of the best boss themes of all time.
Amiga I still love you
Is that Lain?
Yes.
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.
!
This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme
Every time i see it i have tears coming
I know, I started seeing it a lot after losing my cat recently, and it stings a bit. =(
Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris ... two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn't played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they'll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I'll live that long ... lol)
I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8
My OG NES is quite possibly my most played out of all my retro consoles. It's currently loaded with Duck Tales, for meme purposes.
Mine also has an emerald green power light (because I can), the lockout chip is clipped, and I modified the cartridge connector so you don't have to press the carts down to play them anymore (because that blows people's minds).
My eight year old self back in the 80s would have seen you as a god among men. I would have been happy to just watch you play on that console.
Here is the current spread. Not everything I have, just what's hooked up at the moment. Never mind the crap lighting in here.
The machine in question.
Wow ... what a setup ... it's something I've dreamed of building myself but I have far too many other projects on the go and my own collections I have to maintain ... my other passion is motorcycles and I have five of them on the go and need constant maintenance, parts, service and repairs ... not to mention a bunch of other work I have to do to make a living and work on my own house and garage.
I envy you and wish I could just sit down to have a break with an NES, switch to an Xbox, then a Sega Genesis and on and on ... I love all those old units as they remind me of being a kid and being around all my old friends and younger times. I'm taking out my NES tonight just to make myself feel better .. lol
Thanks for the images ... I'm actually very happy for you .. nice one!
...I have seven.
Are you sure you're not me?
lol .... that's amazing ... I store all my old bikes in a cramped little shed and garage with not enough room ... I sometimes wonder why I have all these bikes but I love them. I'm sure you feel the same about your stable.
Love that KLR 650 ... a friend of mine has one and is really enjoying it. Neat to have that scooter mixed in with those offroads. What's the Suzuki? Beautiful Yamaha at the start. What are the two cruisers at the end? Nice Yamaha dualsport too! Wow what a collection! I really like the variety and types of bikes you keep. You must really love riding.
Mine are:
Here is my main ride - 1998 BMW K1200RS - a beast of a machine but I seldom get her going fast because she is 26 years old and although I have faith in her, I don't have enough faith to test to see how well the parts will hold out. When everything is tuned, she cruises without effort at 120 km/h and I've brought her up to over 240 a few times but scared myself so badly that I won't do that often. The bike is rock solid at speed, it feels like the faster it goes, the more stable it becomes, its amazing .... but she's showing her age and I have to take everything apart to service her again in the spring.
https://lemmy.ca/post/1543302
Damn, you've got some fine tastes!
The little Suzuki is an RV200 Vanvan. It has a rear tire on the front and an ATV tire on the rear... actually the same tire sizes as the TW200 and similar displacement and power (a widowmaking ~13 HP) but it's lower, less dorky looking, and fuel injected rather than carbed.
A while back a friend of mine offered me custodianship of a CB750 Four from the late '70's, but I declined owing to already having a small mountain of bikes and I was not relishing the thought of owning something with four inline carbs. I un-mothballed the thing for him after it had not run since 1997 so he could sell it, and taking it apart once was enough for me. I got the bastard starting on the first kick, though. I don't know where it went after he wound up selling it to a local dealership.
At the moment I have:
The Sportster on the end of that lineup is my neighbor's, he stores it in my garage over the winter.
I got a Miyoo Mini very recently and have been playing a lot of games since. I can't put the thing down for long at all!
"You're all together on one piece of plastic smaller than a thumb!"
Does PS3 count?
Only if you want to make me feel old
These all recently reached the point of having released closer to the PS3 launch than to today:
Rainbow Six Siege, Just Cause 3, Star Wars: Battlefront (2015 version), Rise of the Tomb Raider, Black Ops III, Assassin's Creed Syndicate, Broforce, Yoshi's Wooly World, Uncharted Nathan Drake Collection, Concrete Jungle, Soma, Super Mario Maker, Tearaway (PS4 version), MGSV Phantom Pain, Armello, Goat Simulator (PS4 version).
Just to cherrypick a few.
GTA V released even longer ago than that.
A surveillance camera?!
A HIND-D?
I know I can emulate, but there are times when I wish I still had my old Playstation. I left mine behind when I had to make a sudden break from an ex of mine about 20ish years ago. Somehow I ended up with a controller and the mouse, but I have no idea how they got separated from the system itself and ended up in my possession.
Hold up, the playstation had a mouse?
Yes, but not many games used it or supported it. I think mine came with the game Discworld or perhaps I bought it separately for that game, I don't recall.
I keep their memories close by, in several hard drives, and frequently play them over my network...
I still rock my Genesis. 😎 I brought it to Europe with me.
Gdamn, had a recent talk about it...my sister remembers! It's so good when you do have someone to play it with as a child...
We did a run of Secret of Evermore with the 2 player mod this december, was super fun. I love rpg's from that era.
So...go play them? yikes ...
So...you go play them too? Yikes ...
So... 4 player Mario kart then at my house? Yikes...