OT, as in not even remotely relevant: Favorite old-school video games
In honor of Rick Snyder's campaign for Governor and Protector of Michigan against the evil robot uprising, I will bring out my inner nerd. What are your favorite old-school video games? Obviously, it's very tough to set any parameters for what is old school, but it probably doesn't include GTA 4. I recently found what is possibly the most awesome website ever: Virtual NES. Tons of NES games you can play through Flash (?).
As a kid, I had and loved NES and SNES. Of course, it goes without saying that Mario 1-3 and Zelda are amazing. Mario 3 and Zelda are definitely among my all-time favorites. When I got SNES, I had Mario World (I got sick of it once I got 96%) and Mario All-Stars. I loved Castlevania games whenever I rented them, and I bought Symphony of Night on the PSN Store a while back. I remember enjoying Castlevania 2, but this guy reminded me of how frustrating it really was.
Other huge favorites of mine, however, were Mega Man 2-4 + X, TMNT 2-4, and Battletoads, even though I could never make it past the pipe level because holy shit that game was difficult (considered by some to be the hardest of all time). I recently found the original Mega Man and Mega Man X collections for PS2 on ebay, so that's exciting. Paper Boy was also great.
What are your favorites?
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:39 PM ^
BLADES OF STEEL!
Donkey Kong
Pitfall?
Pong?
Double Dragon
Duke Nuke'em
Wolfenstein
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
I've spent many-a-day glued to the computer because of the game. Good call.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:44 PM ^
Oooo, how did I forget Wolfenstein? Good call on that one.
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:41 PM ^
spent our entire spring break playing wolfenstein when we were 15...
February 23rd, 2010 at 12:41 AM ^
Were the original Wolfenstein games for the Apple II computers. I would play those right now if I could.
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:49 PM ^
Wolfenstein, Doom, and other early 3D games made me dizzy. I loved Duke Nukem 3D though, and that came out a bit later. Maybe it had something to do with me being older and/or better technology? I had shareware versions of the original 1st two Duke Nukem games and the 2nd one was a lot of fun.
Duke Nukem 3D was hilarious:
"Your face, your ass--what's the difference?"
"No time to play with myself!" hit enter on pinball machine
"Ahhhhhh...much better!" at the toilet
"This is KTIT, playing the breast...er, best tunes in town!"
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:40 PM ^
It was pretty cool for it's time, but once you had to refuel mid-air, it was curtains.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:40 PM ^
I could name a ton, but that one sticks out. Also, TMNT, the arcade version still featured in some bars. Good stuff
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:41 PM ^
I'm sorry, Tecmo Bowl fans, but Mega Man 2 is one of the best video games of all time! Of all time!
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:45 PM ^
mega man was quality. esp the 2nd one, IIRC. it was a bit too easy if you went in the right order tho.
metroid was sweet for gameboy too.
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:32 PM ^
Expanded playbook and rosters were cool, but I nearly nut myself when I found out you could pick a "Dive over the pile" play.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
Days of Thunder was also good
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 PM ^
... Burgertime, Intellivision:
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:55 PM ^
Last year for Christmas I bought my brother an intellivision and a couple games:
Frogger
Burger Time
Dungeons and Dragons
Pitfall
I remember taking a polaroid of my high score on Pitfall and sending it into a gaming magazine. I loved the intellivision.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:41 PM ^
I always thought Atari, with it's joystick and single fire button, was too basic. If you look at the gaming systems now, they resemble the Intellivision ergonomic much more.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:49 PM ^
Deus Ex, baby. Deus Ex.
Happy 10th birthday, old friend.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:52 PM ^
Sega Genesis: NHLPA 93 - I know some people have talked about NHL94 already, but I had 93... Jeremy Roenick was absolutely unstoppable, amazing game.
N64: Goldeneye - First person shooter, multiplayer... we used to just have sleepovers and play this all night. its all about the proximity mines in the complex
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:58 PM ^
Mortal Kombat
Pokemon (don't say you didn't play it because you did)
And seriously the FF series?
Metroid
Metal Gear
Duck Hunt!
Track and Field (with that running pad thing)
Pac-Man
Super Mario Kart
Star Fox!!! (I almost forgot about that that game was sweet)
Tetris
Dr. Mario (like Tetris but with pills)
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:09 PM ^
Did anyone else "cheat" with the running pad thing and get down and use your hands instead of your feet?
February 22nd, 2010 at 5:13 PM ^
would be to ask who didn't? That crap can wear you out faster than DDR ever will.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
"Look out fox its a trap!" I loved that game!
Wave Race 64 was great for n64 as well.
I didnt own the 64 but I played those games at friends houses after school a ton.
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:03 PM ^
Perhaps the gayest game ever made. And I'm not saying it in a derogatory sense. It really was homoerotic in all those film scenes between play. You just couldn't believe all the double entendre's they were getting away with- it was hilarious!
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:53 PM ^
NHL 93 was amazing. Bure and Selane were fun to play with but I loved getting into fights with Domi and Probert. Oh the memories.
February 22nd, 2010 at 1:54 PM ^
Final Fantasy (the original)
Battle-toads
North vs South
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:01 PM ^
final fantasy
resident evil 1
NHL 94 - sega
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:06 PM ^
I still have:
Deus Ex
Star Wars: Rebellion
Sim City 2000
Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
Hearts of Iron 2
all installed and working on my primary gaming computer. I remember years ago getting Rebellion and being crushed because I needed 8 MB of RAM to run it, and my computer only had 6. It was like the world ended for me.
Now I still have that game and its running on a machine with 12 GB of RAM.
Console Love to:
Super Mario Kart
Goldeneye
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:03 PM ^
Mega Man III for gameboy
Gauntlet Legends
Mario 3
Galaga
The Simpson Arcade Game
Age of Empires/Starcraft
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:42 PM ^
I didn't get a Game Boy until maybe a year before it was replaced by GB Color, and the only game I got was DK Land. I had played my friend's MM 1 for GB before, but otherwise my knowledge of the GB Mega Man games is limited outside of the fact that they have 4 bosses from the previous NES game and 4 bosses from the current NES game.
So I recently played MM3 on Virtual GB and I have to say that I was quite impressed. The scale of the picture is much smaller (obviously), but it's a very fun game that is overlooked in the MM series, for understandable reasons with it being on GB. I like how it used the original NES music (which was amazing and ahead of its time) yet also had new stage setups. Plus I like the thing with the Mega Man hunters.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:04 PM ^
Super Smash Bros, NBA Jam and Goldeneye are my all-time favorites for N64 (old school for me). My friends and I still play SSB on Gamecube regularly, it just never gets old.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:07 PM ^
Atari 2600:
-Indiana Jones
-yars revenge
NES:
-Tecmo Super Bowl
-Super Mario 3
-Duck Hunt
-Tetris
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:05 PM ^
You'd keep getting to the Well of the Souls and not be able to complete it...
Not ET bad, mind you...
February 22nd, 2010 at 8:48 PM ^
I know, and I never got past that part. I sure as hell kept trying, but never beat it.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:08 PM ^
Starcraft. I forgot about that one. few games are more addicting that starcraft. I wonder if they'll ever put out that Starcraft 2?
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:10 PM ^
Beta is out right now. Seems to be addictive as the first one, judging by the amount of time my girlfriend is spending playing it.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:10 PM ^
NHL '94
Battle Toads
Ken Griffey Junior Presents Major League Baseball (SNES)
Secret of Mana
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:12 PM ^
for Intellivision was a great game. Spent hours and hours bombing Germany.
I also loved R.C. ProAm for NES.
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:42 PM ^
I wanted an Intellivision just for that game...
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:20 PM ^
Baseball Stars for NES was the best baseball game around for close to 20 years.
Also need to mention Mario Kart for SNES. None of these youngsters talking about old school Mario Kart and meaning N-64.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:23 PM ^
NFL Blitz 2000 (64)
Doom 1 and 2 (PC)
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:27 PM ^
Toejam and Earl for Genesis. I still play it.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:31 PM ^
I am the WORST Toejam and Earl partner ever. Only play it co-op, and whenever my buddy gets on the screen I open the rocket skates to send him down about 4 levels.
One of the few activities I enjoy just as much at 23 years old as I did at 10.
February 22nd, 2010 at 10:07 PM ^
I wasn't sure if anyone else was bold enough to post that one. Reminded me of another weird title: Earthworm Jim.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:28 PM ^
Just a couple more GREAT ones that haven't been mentioned:
Bonanza Brothers (Genesis)
TMNT: Turtles in Time (SNES)
And one more vote for all the Monkey Island games - that's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:29 PM ^
Turtles in time for the SNES was my fave
February 22nd, 2010 at 3:55 PM ^
That's one game I wish I could have again. They sell it on the PSN store, but it's this "re-shelled" version by Ubisoft (not Konami). It has different gameplay and doesn't include levels from the SNES version that weren't on the arcade version. It's supposed to be vastly inferior to the original.
February 22nd, 2010 at 4:08 PM ^
I liked the Captain America and the Avengers port of that game (which begat the Spider-man one, and the Simpsons, etc.).
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:36 PM ^
Nothing like the super spiral throw from Sam. Plus you got to defeat the evil Russians. USA! USA!
Can't believe no one as mentioned this.
Loved Tecmo Bowl and Tecmo Super Bowl, Battletoads was awesome.
Most impossible game: Blaster Master. All my mgopoints to anyone who beat this game without cheats. Has anyone here? I have never met someone who has. I got to the last guy once. At least I think it was the last boss. Damn that radioactive frog!!
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:32 PM ^
Pong.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:33 PM ^
Sega:
Aladdin - I don't think I ever actually beat the game. As soon as I would get to a part I didn't like I would just Pause+ AABBAABBA to the end of the game.
NFL 95 - I would either run back every kick with Mel Gray or give it to Barry on the next play and just run circles around the D.
NHL 94? 95? - Watching the goalie bang the post after a goal was the greatest feeling when I scored but I would get so pissed when a friend would let that little video play and rub it in my face after he scored.
SNES:
TMNT - No more needs to me said.
February 22nd, 2010 at 2:38 PM ^
It was tough to beat, though.
I really liked NHLPA 93 because when you won a fight, the other guy would bleed on the ice. They took that out for all future versions.