/vr/ - Retro Games

Hey /vr/

Just wondering what games you are attempting to master at the moment and how you feel about repeat playing retro games in general?

Me personally I've been playing Metal Slug 1, not trying to 1 credit, as I'm terrible at the game, just trying to see how many lives I can do it in (Best I've done is 26 lives and most of those are the last stage).

Before that I played Wild Guns on the SNES for hours, trying to beat it on the hardest difficulty without continuing.

How about you?

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Another divide. We were thinking about voices to avoid being forced to read text during a mission, but the gibberish is a classic part of it too.

Hey /vr/

Hope you don't mind getting a little personal, but how about a childhood thread?

Describe how you got into gaming, which consoles/games are personal to you and then conclude on why you still play retro games today.

For me personally, what got me into gaming was my dad. He was (and still is) a huge PC gamer and he played games such as Eye of the Beholder/SCUMM engines games and I would watch with utter fascination.

Of course a PC running DOS/Windows 3.1 was a little difficult for me at my age and my sisters to use, so for Christmas we got a Megadrive. I was still fairly young at this point and was terrible at games so I still spectated most of the time. We eventually got an Amiga then a Super Nintendo but I largely ignored them as they seemed outclassed by the PC. So I pretty much ignored consoles for the longest time.

Then that all changed when we got a Playstation.

It was like magic and I finally fell in love with a console.

My dad also fell in love with it and would play it for hours and of course, I would spectate. The playstation felt much more mature in nature and after playing so many adult point and click games, it felt more in tune with what I wanted from a console and the kind of game it offered.

So from there I moved onto the PS2 and pretty much ignored the N64 and Gamecube for the longest time.

Now thats all changed and I try my best to play all the games I missed out on. Especially SNES games as I really neglected how fucking awesome that console is. (living in the UK, I'd never experience FF6 and when I did around 4 years ago, fucking hell. That game has aged well.