old school games

for the most part all newer games are easier to get through than the older ones. With the exception of a few rare ones (like MDK 2) that come out once in awhile.

With EA's sports games you can adjust the hell out of the slider bars to turn your measily farm team into a multiple dynasty monster. Or, other games that give you complete freedom to save and reload your game anywhere you want...kind of the way they made Hitman 2 easier than the original.

And if worse comes to worse, you got prima and gamefaqs holding your hand from start to finish...if you choose to let them do that.

As for old school games. The only game I can think of that infuriated me the most had to be The Last Starfighter for the NES.

bionic commando

that game never got the love it deserved.

Yeah they are usually harder. It is more often than not a lack of save points and no story elements to add to game length though.

Bionic Commando is one of the best games of all time. I didn't have an NES when it came out but one of my friends brought his over with a brand spanking new copy. I played it for about 14 hours straight.

A lot of old games just never ended. I played Spy Hunter for about five hours solid before I realised that.

that and bump n buggy...

Where did you get an NES or SNES Emulator for the Dreamcast? I have PC emu's but I want one for the DC. Thanks.

Check out <a href="http://www.zophar.net" target="_blank">www.zophar.net</a> Agent. But you have to have one of the DC's that can read CD's, and the burn process itself can be a little tricky. It's great to have though, as my NES has been dead for a while. Just make sure you save right. Playing Zelda 2 for 5 hours and then forgetting that is less fun than it sounds like.

River City Ransom on NES is a must.

You got that right, Dan. You've just described one of the big evolutionary leaps in video game design.

Back in the hey-day of arcades, the concept was simple: Create an easy-to-understand game that could be infinitely played, and thus, always enticing a gamer to pluck down more quarters. High score lists helped to fuel the need to hit the exponentially improbable "perfect game". Even if you scored 1,000,000 points, there was always a chance of scoring 1,000,020.

By the time Nintendo entered the console market, they realized that its business model made these types of games unfeasible. Since they make ALL of their revenue on a particular game at the moment it's purchased (and not a penny more once they walk out of the store), they felt the need to create a "goal" or "end point" for their games whenever possible, to give the gamer the satisfaction that they've "beat" or "completed" the game, which leads to the urge to go buy ANOTHER one.

That's why instead of running and jumping endlessly in their respective games:

• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial"> Mario saved Princess Toadstool
• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Samus killed the Mother Brain
• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Link defeated Gannon
• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Kid Icarus killed Medusa
• <font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Little Mac beat Mike Tyson

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Sure, there was some replayability (Zelda's 2nd quest), but the emphasis was shifted from "Highest Score" to "How many games have you beaten?".
This philosophy change was initially made for business reasons, but it inadvertently led to more detailed backstories, avatar characterization, and plot twists (hell, actual plots for that matter!) that make today's games feel like cinematic storytelling devices as opposed to the pure hand-eye coordination exercises we were playing 20 years ago.

Another good site is <a href="http://www.dcemulation.com" target="_blank">DCEmulation.com</a> . There are tools to make the burning process easy, tutorials, and more emulators. (Game Boy anyone?)

If you want some help burning them, AIM me at CBirdsong64. At the very least, you'll need a CD burning app called DiscJuggler.

Yes! My favorite NES game, and I never acutally owned it. I play through it on emulator at least once a year.

Considering I can't afford any of the new systems (nor would have the time to play the games), I almost exclusively play old school games on emulators, or just <a href="http://www.the-underdogs.org" target="_blank">old computer games</a>. Usually I find the old ones to satisfy my game cravings just fine.

For the record, I loved the fuck out of this game, too. Bionic Commando was SO addicting, I'd daydream about it in school. If I could only have ONE superpower/special skill, what would it be? I would debate the merits of being able to fly, being a Jedi Knight, becoming liquid metal, and at one point, I entertained the thought of having Bionic Commando's arm.

That's quite an achievement for a video game.

Classic games take up the majority of my time, and I enjoy reading about the history of gaming almost as much as playing them. The latest game to occupy my time is Tecmo Super Bowl, which has one hell of an online following. The version I'm playing right now is the same classic game, but updated with 2002 rosters.

Bubble Bobble.

&lt;Crickets chirp.&gt;

Why the hell is everybody staring at me?

Dude, I LOVE Bubble Bobble! I used to always play it at the pizza place downtown when I was a kid, and a couple years ago my sister and I got an NES so we could play old games, and that's the main one we made the effort to track down.

I mentioned it in another thread, but I never managed to beat that big fellow at the end (or half-way point, I guess). It's level 99 or 100, and there's this guy bouncing around that you have to take down with those lightning bubbles. I'd make bubbles all the way up the side of the screen and pop them at once to hit the guy with as many as possible, but always ran out of lives before I killed him.

Still, one of the best games ever, and that song will always be stuck in my head.

Yeah...the end boss was a freakin' MONSTER. One of the hardest bosses I've ever fought. Took me months to beat him.

I only brougt the game up in the first place because I was going through my girlfriend's old Playstation games and found a Bubble Bobble/Rainbow Island disc. Played it for two solid hours, a big geeky smile on my face. Pure gaming nostalgia bliss.

It's on Playstation now? I may have to go shopping... I also like Puzzle Bobble (Bust a Move, whatever), even though every version of it is the same thing.

For Christmas I got a thing I first read about right here on CHUD: an Atari joystick that you plug into the TV and it lets you play 10 old Atari games. It's incredibly cool, though Breakout would be much easier with a paddle controller rather than the joystick. Missle Command seems to dominate most of my time playing this thing, and Pong is actually much harder than it seems. My, uh, line that I control can go all the way to the top of the screen, but the ball is confined within the borders of the playing field, so I keep overshooting and missing the ball completely. Oooh, and Volleyball is quite fun. I kicked that game's butt. Good times, good times...

Abe, the PS2 pack you speak of is a collection of Activision games, not Acclaim. Please never refer to River Raid as just 'ok' again. BEST ATARI GAME EVER. Maybe.

here's a couple picks of mine-

NES-
Shadowgate
RC Pro Am
Battletoads
Castlevania 3 (oh hell, get all of them)
Duck Tales (don't laugh, it's an awesome game)
Mike Tyson's Punch Out
Rampage
Monster Party

SNES-
Actraiser
Shadowrun (not as good as the genesis version, but still damn good)
Super Ghouls & Ghosts
Super Metroid
Zombies Ate My Neighbors
Super Castlevania IV
Super Mario All-Stars

can't go wrong with any of those

Yes, it fucking is.

old school games?

any old text/mouse driven adventure games from Lucasarts (the first two Monkey Island games, Sam & Max, Zak McKracken, Day of the Tentacle, the Indy adventure games) or Sierra (Gabriel Knight 1 and Police Quest 1-3 especially).

SNES: Zelda: a Link to the Past; Contra III; Castlevania IV; Super Metroid; Alien 3; ZOmbies ate My Neighbors.

Sega Genesis (or Megadrive for us Europeans): Alien 3 (god, I loved that game); Flashback; Another World; Landstalker; The Immortal; Buck Rogers - Countdown to Doomsday.

How old is this thread refering to? I loved Pitfall on Atari. Another one was Pac-man on Atari. I was so happy the other day when my husband and I were shopping for our son. I saw the Gamecube Pac-man and freaked out!!! Then my husband had to go and tell me, don't get too excited, it's not Wawka-wawka anymore : (

Yeah, those are great games!! I always enjoyed the hell out of those Sierra games....Leisure Suit Larry, Space Quest, Quest for Glory. Man, those were great games!!

I always look back fondly to my lovely Amiga...
it had such great games compared to the pc's of the time. Cinemaware stuff that's just brilliant, Defender of the Crown, It Came from the Desert...

Some other greats by DMA Design Games (Rockstar North these days), Lemmings (gotta love those furry suicidal critters, Blood Money (it had the best intro ever)....ah, I grow old.

Damn straight!

I remember barely beating this one with minutes to spare before we had to run it back to the video store. Talk about a sense of accomplishment.

Ami I the only one that loved Kid Icarus? I played thta until my fingers fell off...and then used my toes. I also loved the original Metal Gear.

I only played Kid Icarus once (a rental)...when I was severely sick...and Buckley's medicine was being shoved down my throat...and I ran outside into the cold winter fields and vomited my brains out.

Good times.

Sick as it is...I can still remember the taste of my puke as it came out.

I liked Kid Icarus a lot, but never owned it. Just borrowed it a couple of times, and didn't get very far. Neat game.

Lords of Conquest.

Anybody have this game for pc? I played the hell out it of back in the Commodore 64 days.

I know it's available on a couple of different C64 emulators.