Video Games- Old vs New

[Matt]

what type of video gams does everyone like.

I love old school 2D games. Sonic, Alex the Kid, Space Invaders (heheh) and all them other kick ass arcade games. Today it's all about the graphics. Sometimes i get the feeling that my friends would rather play 3D tetrus rather than a kick ass 2D game.

Old skool game kick so much ass cos they were fun. These days u got them stupid games that are "realistic". U have think strategy and watch out for your ammo, but back in the day you just go up carelessly blowing things to smithorines....wasn't that fun?

I had heaps of fun playing cool arcade games with that funky music. So what kind of games do u like? I haven't touched any 3D game other than NBA Live, Flight Sim and Fifa games.

[Old School Fool]

Touch a 3D game...FAST

[Riot]

you must be a lonely man.

[Matt]

^^^me or mikey????

anyways i just Dl's Sonic 3, it kicks ass.....i havent played anygame for a month, not even live

[Riot]

of course its you.

[Andrew]

I have to agree with you there, Matt. There was a certain charm to the old school games where realism didn't matter. The NBA Live series is an example of that. When NBA Live 95 was first released people had a lot of fun with it. By today's standards it's primitive and the gameplay certainly isn't realistic, but at the time it was entertaining. People found ways of making it realistic as such matters became more important, but for the most part we simply enjoyed taking control of our favourite NBA team.

One of my all-time favourite games is Pirates! Gold, which is actually a remake of Pirates! a game released a few years earlier. The game allows you to adopt the life of a pirate captain, ignoring the fact that piracy on the high seas wasn't as glamarous as it's often made out to be; it's the traditional image of pirates rather than the accurate historical portrayal, though there are certainly historically accurate elements to the game. A highly entertaining mixture of strategy and action, it's actually be remade again for today's gamers and will be out later this year.

Throwing some other names out there...Doom I and II, the Commander Keen series, Street Rods I and II, Lemmings (and its sequels), the Monkey Island games (which are still going, of course) and other LucasArts games, Super Mario Bros, Leisure Suit Larry, the Donkey Kong Country series and even more recent games such as the two Nintendo 64 Zelda titles and many more. Some of these genres have certainly been phased out or exist in very different forms today.

Sometimes it's nice to get out these old games; after all, nostalgia can be a pretty cool thing. They represent a time when games were simply made to be fun rather than realistic or visually stunning. Today's games are awesome, no question, but there are some old school games that are simply timeless. I think many of them were more challenging as often you couldn't save games in progress so you had to sit down for a while and play your best to finish it.

To be trite, these games had soul, an element that some (but certainly not all) of today's games seem to lack. Some of today's games seem sterile, flashy but lacking substance. As I said before, some gaming genres have become extinct or exist in very different forms.

Realism is nice, and I wouldn't want the NBA Live series to be arcade-ish or revert to NBA Live 95, but yes, there's certainly a charm to the old school games.

[J@3]

Reading OSF's thread made me want SNES Roms for some reason, today I've downloaded:

NBA Jam Tournament Edition
Bass Masters Classic Pro Edition
Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego
F-1 Grand Prix
Boxing Legends of the Ring
Sim City 2000
International Superstar Soccer Deluxe
Jeopardy! Deluxe Edition

I like old games

[Guest]

International Superstar Soccer Deluxe

Thats a genuine Classic!

So is this

[Colin]

t3tr1s, p0ng, and pac-man a43 teh pwn!!!!!!!ONES1!!111!11

[Stevan]

I'd have to agree with Matt and Andrew, old games seemed to have character. Like Street Rod, that game had depth Wish they expanded on in, but then it may have just become one of these new games that's missing something.

I'm tempted to get some roms, but I just don't have time to open up that can of worms farken!

[Andre]

Does anyone remember Wonderboy, a platform game from the 80s? I really loved it.

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A ... 3Fid%3D122

[Stevan]

LOL YES!!!! I had that game on Sega Master system, it came built in. I spent countless hours trying to clock that game, and of course I did eventually

[Donte Thomas]

i wasn't here yet the early 80's, so i don't know.

[Guest]

LOL YES!!!! I had that game on Sega Master system, it came built in. I spent countless hours trying to clock that game, and of course I did eventually

Thats right, im impressed.
Over here in the UK, they renamed Wonderboy to Alex Kidd in Miracle World.
On some Master Systems there was also another game built in, some kind of 3D Snail Maze, did anybody have it?

[Matt]

that game kicks so much ass

[Andrew]

Does anyone remember Wonderboy, a platform game from the 80s? I really loved it.

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http%3A ... 3Fid%3D122

I also remember it as a game that was pretty much ripped off and renamed "Adventure Island" for the Nintendo...or was it the other way around?

[Stevan]

Yeah Wonderboy came built in on Sega Master System 1, and Alex Kidd came built in on Sega Mastersystem 2. I played both and clocked both Damn Alex Kidd, I kept fucking up that part in the water, I started throwing the controlloer until my parents cracked the shits!
On master system 2 I had European Soccer (that was mad fun ), Michael Jackson Moonwalker, some gay Tennis game, Ninja Dragons or something like that, and a few others which I can't remember. Ahh the memories!

Back in the day I also had a commodore 64 that someone gave to us because they wanted to get rid of it. Had a soccer game where every time you shot from the corner of the box, it went in. Also had Batman, and Buggyboy!

[Matt]

I'm gonna try to get Wonderboy

i was playing this Simpsons game at the local gym while waiting for my game and i somehow monaged to download the thing...old school Konami game, ehehe.

anyways, back to Sonic 3

[Andrew]

i was playing this Simpsons game at the local gym while waiting for my game and i somehow monaged to download the thing...old school Konami game, ehehe.

Is that the arcade game where Smithers kidnaps Maggie (ah, how consistent with the show's characters )?

Bart vs the World and Bart vs the Space Mutants for the NES and early Sega systems were pretty fun games too.

[Andre]

I had wonderboy for Commodore 64 and it was on a casette tape. I mean a CASSETTE TAPE!!!!!

Can you believe it?

And guess what? I was able to copy games with my stereo...like I copied music cassettes.

They made a wierd noise, metallic and very acute.

There was even a store in my city selling copies C64 games for 2$. Nobody cared about piracy on those times...

Oh My! I can't believe I'm that old!!!!!!!

[hmm]

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[Stevan]

awww you guys are so "yesterday"... I had a disk drive for my commodore 64! I had the tape drive somewhere too I think, but it was broken. I had a green screen monitor!!

[Boyk]

Yessss!
i have to agree, some of the old 2d games were the bomb.

ive got plenty of emulaters on here and i still enjoy playing them
especially the first simcity

[alexboom]

I wasted my youth on it:

-Civilization II
-Warcraft II
-Command & Conquer
-F1 Grand Prix & Grand Prix 2
-Doom 2
-Duke Nukem 3D
-Commander Keen
-Monkey Island 1 & 2
-Sim City & Sim City 2000
-FIFA International Soccer, and after Fifa 98

[Sauru]

i think its safe to say that anyone who has been a pc gamer for awhile now(10 years) has wasted much time on doom 2. hell i still play doom 2 now and then, even though the graphics start to hurt my eyes after a little while lol.