Yes, this is me shamelessly looking for blog ideas...I have a few more posts prepped for my Old Game Tuesday feature, but I need more suggestions. What old video games do you still love? Wish you could play (or do still play)?
pong, the first of the first videogames, I still like it!
Simple games are often the best.
My favorite arcade game is still Tempest.
I never really played Tempest. I do love many of the classic arcade games, before they cost a fortune to play.
There's a site that allows you to play any classic videogame for free.
but only on the condition that you cannot save your game.
one of my favorites is prince of persia.
Has anyone played Contra? thats where "up up down down left right left right a b start" came from.
Contra, you say? Yeah, I've played it and beaten it, WITHOUT the Konami code. Aaaand now the music is stuck in my head.
A buddy of mine and I spent a couple of hours playing The Nightmare on Elm Street NES game last night, and I don't know how to feel about it.
Never tried that one. I hated scary stuff so younger-me would've avoided anything Nightmare on Elm Street related.
It wasn't one I had played as a kid, but he just happened to have a copy. Then we played the SNES game Bust-A-Move (http://www.amazon.com/Bust-A-Move-Super-Nintendo/dp/B000035Y62).
Feeling the urge to play FF3/6 again. Maybe I have some savestates somewhere...
I've never really been a fan of Final Fantasy myself.
They were just the right amount of epic for me, and since I was never very good at twitch games, even when I played them a lot, I could actually FINISH a FF game. 1, 2/4, 3/6. Never finished 7 or 8 though I did play a lot of them. Have 12, never really started it.
I've heard a lot of people count 7 as their favorite.
That's nostalgia talking. I'll grant that FF7 was a milestone product, and made excellent use of FMV when it was new (for consoles, at any rate). It just doesn't hold up. I have it but feel no desire to play it again, ever. Whereas I LOVE playing 6 and 4 and make a point of getting back into them at least once a year. The actual gameplay is a lot more fun in 6, even if it's sprites and not horribly pixelated polygons.
Though a true remake of FF7, with modern-looking characters but that story might work well now. It's not like people haven't been asking for that for a decade or anything.
I remember a friend of mine playing one of the FF games on his PS1. When he went to the bathroom, he put a deck of cards on the action button. It would just go through a battle without any decisions whatsoever.
But it was pretty, at least.
Some people felt you needed to grind levels in some, which may have been what he was doing. I never encountered that in FF6. I think in the first playthrough, I stumble around enough to gain just the right amount of levels. And since I'm a completist, the act of scouring every dungeon and town for loot covers the rest.
Why hasen't anyone mentioned metal slug yet? It's beast!
Never played any games in that series...by the time those were coming out, I didn't go to arcades any more (hated feeding in all the quarters), didn't have a Neo-Geo, and skipped the Sega and original Playstation.
The original Playstation was my first game system. I did get a Gameboy Color around then sometime too I think, and I still use it sometimes to play older Pokemon or Zelda games. I discovered the other day when I tried to trade a Pokemon from Yellow to Red, however, that I've misplaced my Gameboy Link Cable. *hangs head* :'(
Technically, the Atari 2600 was my brother's, my first gaming system was a NES. Played plenty of games on the various computers we had, though, starting with the VIC20, C64/128, TRS-80 and so on. My grandfather used to by junk at auctions, and he found a bunch of old gaming consoles we played at their house, like Intellivision, Colecovision, stuff from that era. Had an original black and white GameBoy, but never ended up getting a new portable system until the DS Lite. Which I've misplaced. :(
First game I ever beat was Street Fighting Man on a Tandy 1000: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o71UHYiQqs Such a bitchin' soundtrack and overt racism.
2nd game was probably The Black Cauldron on the same system: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1YEC5gyzbE
3rd? The amazing, irreplaceable, Defender of the Crown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMr2z_GNzKM The modern version does it no justice.
Then came the game where the name Lot was born. My first true RPG, Hero's Quest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDe04HSP_4 I loved that game. Still do. So epic. I had hand-drawn maps of where each screen was. I still hum the theme and it has been like 20 years. Seriously, play it.
Hmm, first game I finished...tough to say, as many early games just went on and on and had scores. We played the early text adventures (Scott Adams, not the Dilbert guy) mostly as a group so I can't count those as mine alone. Never did finish Impossible Mission on the C64, though I think my brother did. Contra, on the NES, might be the first I did by myself.
First RPGs...Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior. I was one of the ones who got DW free with Nintendo Power. Definitely finished FF, DW I got pretty far in but lost interest. Destiny of an Emperor was another NES RPG I finished, still love that. Heck, love that setting, as the Romance of the Three Kingdoms series is one of my favorites.
My best friend in kindergarten through 2nd grade got Dragon Warrior at some point during that period. I remember watching him play.
Dragon Warrior, the game that taught me how to grind. A Slime approaches!
What about the game Pacman? That game was one of the most popular.