What Video Games Are You Playing?

[Psycho Circus]

Even though it's going to be obsolete in 2 months...

[HappyGilmore]

I have an enhanced version of Burgertime on my cellphone. I used to play it all the time growing up. The key to getting far in it is to group the enemies to where they all travel in a pack.

That's what I've been doing.  Trying to at least.

BurgerTime was a fun game.  PaperBoy as well.  Paper Boy had the worst route in history.  They better have paid him well, dealing with the tornadoes, dogs, Grim Reaper, grandmothers with knives, etc.

[Torgo]

I loved the arcade version of Paperboy with the bicycle handlebar control method.

[HappyGilmore]

I loved the arcade version of Paperboy with the bicycle handlebar control method.

I'm not familar.  When was that out?

I know it from the home video NES version. 

[Torgo]

I loved the arcade version of Paperboy with the bicycle handlebar control method.

I'm not familar.  When was that out?

I know it from the home video NES version. 

back in the mid 80's.  The NES version was actually an arcade port.  There were triggers on the handles so that you flick those to shoot papers at the subscribers house.

[HappyGilmore]

I loved the arcade version of Paperboy with the bicycle handlebar control method.

I'm not familar.  When was that out?

I know it from the home video NES version. 

back in the mid 80's.  The NES version was actually an arcade port.  There were triggers on the handles so that you flick those to shoot papers at the subscribers house.

I was born after it had been ported to NES, apparently.   

But I used to play the NES version as a kid.

[Torgo]

I started working through Phantasy Star IV again for the Sega Genesis last night.

Here's some gameplay footage from it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuhcZm18z4&feature=related

[Psycho Circus]

So I dug out Shadowman......I HATE THIS GAME!!!! 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynyW6Di1dBs&feature=related

Think I might burn it 

[Neville]

Torgo, if you like console-style RPGs (I certainly prefer them to PC ones), there are lots of Super Famicon RPGs that are ripe for rediscobery. Some of them, like "Seiken Densetsu 3" or "Star Ocean", have been recently translated into English, as they only were available in Japan back then.

[brooky1969]

Space Invaders Extreme DS

And I thought I was pretty good at shooters, but this game is telling me I'm definitely not. Very cool though, they managed to bring it into the new century while still retaining the old school charm of the original.

[Torgo]

Torgo, if you like console-style RPGs (I certainly prefer them to PC ones), there are lots of Super Famicon RPGs that are ripe for rediscobery. Some of them, like "Seiken Densetsu 3" or "Star Ocean", have been recently translated into English, as they only were available in Japan back then.

I had a Super NES back in the 90's and I loved it for the RPG's especially.  Lufia 1 & 2 are great games and the 2 you mentioned are great as well.
I've got a Super NES emulator on the Dreamcast that has about 600 games on the disc and there are a lot of cool RPG's on it that I used to play.

I've always regretted getting rid of my SNES and Genesis stuff when the Playstation One came out.

[Neville]

I've never been a RPG person myself, but the closer I've never been to become one was exploring the SNES library of games through emulation. "Super Mario RPG" is a great one for beginners, and I could rave for hours about "Chrono Trigger".

[Ed, Ego and Superego]

I just got a sale copy of the Half-Life 2 Orange Box.  My gaming needs are good for along time!
-Ed

[HappyGilmore]

I can't express with words how much I love emulators. Lately I've ben digging into the greatest hits of the Amstrad CPC computer, of which I was an avid user during the 80s:






I guess the pics must look hideous to the young people around. Today even the crappiest cellphone can offer much more than this, but I still get a kick out of this games, even more so now that I don't need to load them with a data cassette and keep my fingers crossed through 5 minutes of tedious loading.

These days you can play all of these ancient systems on your PC, from the Apple II to the CBM Amiga, and also most of the videoconsoles, like the Genesis or the Super Famicon. Hell, even N64 or PLaystation, if you have a decent computer. But I still feel the urge to play with my old Amstrad CPC. Go figure.

It's gameplay that's most important as far as I'm concerned.  I'm 24, grew up with Nintendo/Sega, then later the PlayStation.  A lot of the games for NES looked terrible, but the gameplay was great and you could have unlimited plays with it.  Double Dragon looked terrible from what I remember, but had a great system that allowed for numerous replayability.  Some games now look like animated movies but have a horrible system to support it, so you only play it once and never play it again.

[Torgo]

Truly great gameplay will always transcend graphics.  I was born in 1975 so when I started to play videogames it was around the time that the Atari 5200 had come out in the early 80's.  I was able to grow up around all of the classic arcade games which was awesome looking back. 

I still love playing Yar's Revenge on the Atari 2600 as I do playing Metal Gear Solid 4 on the PS3.   I have an eleven year old nephew that I've gotten hooked on classic gaming.  When he's over at my house he wants to challenge me on Donkey Kong Jr. more than anything else.    Couldn't make me happier! 

 He also loves playing Gunstar Heroes on the Sega Genesis with me as well.  He thinks classic gaming is more fun and he's eleven!   I think it's the pick-up-and-play aspect of those games that keeps people  coming back to them.  Easy to play, hard to master.