Modded skyrim is dangerous
Currently replaying A Link to the Past (1991). It’s not even that old.
1991 was only like 20 years ago. Right?
You are correct
I wonder if Lemmy is all Gen X
Highly recommend checking out the Link to the Past Randomizer if you haven’t. It shuffles all the chest contents while ensuring you can complete the game. It’s different each time and even gives you a cheat sheet if you get stuck.
Thank you for the recommendation. This is great. Here’s what I got on a quick first try lol
Yep, that’s the experience! 😂
Thats only an 8 year old game man. I think they meant something old like SpaceWar!
These.
This looks so much like my collection! Very cool
Nice tape collection
Thank you! I’ve fallen in love with physical media again… Fuck Netflix
Dang, how do you keep all those gameboy carts from toppling over every time you launch your controller at your TV?
Edit to finish my thought after accidentally sending prematurely.
3D printed cart holder I got from Etsy. Pretty nifty and very stable. Unfortunately the spacing is such that you can only read the GBA labels stacked. The GB/GBC carts obscure the one behind. The rumble carts hang nicely on top though!
I also do not throw geriatric technology. Would sooner rip my own arm off…
Tetris, the original GameBoy cart.
Yesssssss; still one of the best implementations of Tetris ever, imo.
Super Mario World every year or two. The soundtrack alone cheers me right up.
Would Tetris count if its always whatever new Tetris Ultimate Reloaded DX etc etc edition? I feel like it shouldn’t but its basically the same game just polished up.
Super Mario World is peak Nintendo. I still come back to it on occasion just to remember what games were like when things didn’t seem so corporate.
Super Mario World and Shadow of the Colossus are my timeless games! I will replay them every few years.
Age of Empires 2
Does DE count?
It’s crazy that new expansions are still dropping, and the ranked community is thriving.
I think it does. It’s pretty much the same game (including the engine) with just a new coat of paint on top.
Every so often I’ll have another run at the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure from 1984.
You wake up. The room is spinning very gently round your head. Or at least it would be if you could see it which you can’t.
It is pitch black.
> _
> turn on the light
> get out of bed
> open the curtain
As you part your curtains, you see that is a bright morning, the sun is shining, the birds are singing, the meadows are blooming, and a large yellow bulldozer is advancing towards your home.
Must be a Thursday. I never could get the hang of those.
I slapped myself, and died.
Most satisfying death in a video game I can remember
Adams also wrote the game ‘Bureaucracy’, similarly rather difficult. And later ‘Starship Titanic’, which is a 3d adventure with textual conversations.
Heard of ST, but not Bureaucracy, will need to check that out, thanks! 👍
I go back to play some nethack pretty regularly.
Hell yes!! And you can play it on the nethack site through terminal. So awesome. And watch others play it too
Playing regularly? Minecraft.
There are a few games I revisit as my kid grows up and gets to experience them for the first time, but Minecraft keeps coming back.
That one hits close.
I started Minecraft because my kid talked me into it. I bought him the last Alpha version, then bought myself the first Beta so I could play with him. At the time it just felt like blocks and wandering around, but it stuck.
Now I play with my grandsons.
Last weekend was my oldest grandson’s eleventh birthday. Along with a Steam gift card and probably some Robux, all he really wanted was to spend the day playing Minecraft with his grandpa. So that is what we did.
Not my oldest game, but definitely the one I play most consistently. At least once a week.
Super mario 64, the acrobatics is so fun
I’ve been following the sm64-psx project.
Yesterday I even got the game to compile, AND show the SM64 splash screen on real PS1 hardware
Holding out hope for that GBA port.
OpenTTD (2004), which traces its roots to Chris Sawyer’s Transport Tycoon and Transport Tycoon Deluxe (1994)
And there’s a community of players who have modded the everloving fuck out of the game and the engine itself, one of these patch packs is OpenTTD JGR and we play it like it’s a model railway simulator
MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat (1995)
With a sidewinder joystick?
That thing is made for torso-twist in MW2.
Yeeeess!! I was trying to remember the name of that! Thank you!
Loved that joystick, especially with A-10 Cuba!
“We are clan Wolf…”
“It’s got a lock on me! It’s got a lock on m-” BOOM
Half life and Unreal Tournament
Unreal Tournament is so good. I wish it had more assault maps out of the box.
I know! I had so much fun playing that game!!! Headshot! Unstoppable!
GoldSRC HL? Love those gibs.
Darklands - a cRPG released in 1992 by Microprose. It’s set in medieval Germany; you are a party of fledgling adventurers looking to build fame and money, and somehow you get pulled into a battle against the forces of the apocalypse. Instead of magic, you invoke saints and use alchemy to craft potions. I loved it when I was younger, and I still, somehow, enjoy it today.
If you hate the following things, then I highly recommend checking it out!
- great graphics
- good music and sound design
- easy to understand game mechanics
- stable, bug-free game play
- yourself
I was skimming your comment then i was intrigued with the great graphics, bug free… i was like, what is this amazing game? Maybe i should try. Then i read it again!
I play retro games I missed growing up so I’ll soon be starting final fantasy 6
Currently playing FFVI myself. It’s a treat.
Bit easier than other Final Fantasy games, I’m finding… at least in the early game, Edgar and Sabin are ass-blasting everything in the game with very little resistance, those boys probably don’t even need the rest of the Returners squad. I know that will probably change later but the duo are definitely the MVPs of act 1.
I’m also of mixed opinion about the ability to teach every party remember every spell in the game. It’s obviously not the best idea, that I can’t stop myself from doing. Does Edgar or Gau need to know how to cast Bio or Slow or Rasp? No, not at all, and they’re probably better served leveling up with magicite that gives them useful stats. Will they learn those spells? You betcha.
I’ll be playing this version, no idea how it will compare to the original
Super Mario bros 1 & 3. I still have them working on my old Wii, but I’ve been planning on a retro pi setup for ages.
My OG NES stopped working a decade ago.
