/vr/ - Retro Games

>>1029845
>what was your top "feel" moment?
I was given a broken genesis and a copy of Sonic & Knuckles before I moved across the country, and I didn't think much of it for a while. After my brother had been playing Sonic Advance Flash for a while, I decided to give Sonic & Knux a try through emulation, and how good the game looked blew me away.
>at what moment did you finally realize that gaming just wasn't what it used to be (dat "aha" moment)?
After playing metroid for a bit, recommended thingys kept on telling me to play Mega Man, so I played the first game on an emulator, but forgot it. A bit later I decided to legitimately play a game, so I got roms of Megaman 1, 2, and 5, and played them through. They blew me away. Even though constant death frustrated me to the point of looking up a walkthrough, I loved the games. I then played Megaman X and Battle Network, and those games were similar, and I then went through the rest of the series (except Legends. N64 emulation tired me out after finally beating Mario 64 with the Arrow Keys.) and I loved even the batshit hard Zero games. I later was talking to my brother, and found out that he had traded a copy of Mega Man X for another game when I was really little, which made me wonder how my childhood would have been like if I had discovered what is probably my favorite retro series early. That caught me thinking about how much more I had enjoyed playing MM5 and X than every FPS ever, and here I am.

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