What's your favourite "old skool" game?

[Lace Neil Singer]

The game that sold me on the Megadrive was Sonic 1. Yup; way before Sonic got all those other characters behind him. XD It took me ages to master that game; I was able to complete it by using the cheat, but took me a lot longer to do it without. I used to cheat to mess around and to learn the game; it was brilliant fun. The Labyrinth level had me screaming with frustration as once more Sonic drowned, with that scary drowning music. O_o And the Starlight level had the most fantastic music.

High point is a toss up between Streetfighter 2 and Streets of Rage. Tho I played the second SoR a few times, I never owned it, just borrowed it from a friend, and so I liked the first one better. Again, fantastic music, and also bosses that were really hard; like Freddy Kruegar in the second level, and Mona and Lisa the Blaze clones on the boat. I used to like getting the bad ending, where you end up running the corporation. XD

Streetfighter 2 taught me how to irritate my opponants; my middle brother was always a very bad loser and hated it whenever I beat him as Vega (Claw). I never got hated for beating him with Chun Li tho; wonder why. XD

[Jack T. Chance]

Lessee... my favorite old school games... which includes anything made BEFORE the current generation of systems...

• Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
• The original Metroid Trilogy, especially Super Metroid!
• Chrono Trigger, AKA The Greatest 16-Bit RPG Ever Made!
• Lunar: The Silver Star and Lunar 2: Eternal Blue
• Red Faction (the original, not the vastly different and inferior sequels!)
• Diablo II, very probably the most addictive action RPG ever made... well, until the late 2009 release of Borderlands, anyway!
• Neverwinter Nights, the first Bioware game I ever played and the game that made me fall in love with the Dungeons & Dragons franchise!
• XIII (Thirteen)
• Bionic Commando (even though it sucked having no save system and having to leave my NES powered on for DAYS each time I played through it! )
• Flashback: The Quest for Identity
• Shadowrun for the SNES
• Shadowrun for the Genesis
• Spider-Man for the Sega CD
• Super Scrabble for the Gameboy, a very rare, very good adaptation of the board game classic!
• Uno for the Game Boy Color
• The Holy Grail of NES games... Tengen's version of TETЯIS, with its 2-PLAYER CO-OP & COMPETITIVE gameplay modes! And yes, I AM lucky enough to own a copy! Only took me 5 years of searching to track it down in the days BEFORE the internet and eBay came along and made it much easier!

[Andara Bledin]

<twitch> I like the idea of MMOs, but hate MMOs, because no one has done one 100% right yet.

I used to like WoW, but I just can't get into it any longer. Even for free.

As for TOR, I prefer not to follow games coming out that I might be interested in until at least late beta. And I completely ignore the "look and feel" until I actually have a chance to play with them myself. Because sometimes something looks great with someone else playing and when you finally get your hands on it, you find out it's really crap, and some things just look like crap when you're not at the controls, but when it's actually you doing things, it actually works far better than you expected.

Seriously, the only thing that bothers me overly much with games is bad physics and bad motion animation. Another thing to consider is that there are only so many ways for a humanoid or quadrupedal figure to move, so once you've had one game do it reasonably well, all other games will "look like" that game, despite the fact that they're all actually copying reality to some degree.

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[lordlundar]

High Point:
Ocarina of Time. No contest. Any gamer alive in the 90s can hum at least one Ocarina tune from memory. Right this second. Do it.

How about the zelda theme with Tesla Coils?

The original Tetris on the NES was the first time I realised, as a kid, that grown ups liked video games too. >.>

Original tetris being for the NES? Who are you fooling?

[Andara Bledin]

How about the zelda theme with Tesla Coils?

I prefer the Mario theme with bottles.

Though Tesla Coils have an automatic cool factor that's hard to beat.

Original tetris being for the NES? Who are you fooling?

He wasn't saying that Tetris was originally on the NES, only that it was the NES version that led to the realization that adults could like video games as well.

Although I do have to ask, which NES Tetris was this? Then Tengen version, which was very close to the arcade version, or the official Nintendo version, which was inferior in pretty much every way?

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[HYHYBT]

The original Ninja Gaiden. I've logged easily over 500 hours into that game (despite the fact that it only takes about 15 minutes to beat it without dying or continuing.)

I *hated* that game. Well, no, I liked it very much... up to a point. That point was level... six, I think? I don't know, but it just plain got too hard/frustrating. I think one of my brothers finished it once, but then it went into the box and never came out again.

[Gravekeeper]

Seriously, the only thing that bothers me overly much with games is bad physics and bad motion animation. Another thing to consider is that there are only so many ways for a humanoid or quadrupedal figure to move, so once you've had one game do it reasonably well, all other games will "look like" that game, despite the fact that they're all actually copying reality to some degree.

No no, TOR looks bad. Like the animation and physics are awful. Stilted, mechanical, absolutely no sense of impact or weight in anything. Melee doesn't even look like they're hitting each other. Which isn't a good thing when you're trying to replicate one of the most icon forms of melee combat in popular culture: The lightsaber fight. -.-

Original tetris being for the NES? Who are you fooling?

I know it predates the NES ( and that the poor guy that actually created it got screwed out of it. -.- ). But it was the NES/Gameboy versions that really brought it to the forefront of gaming.

I *hated* that game. Well, no, I liked it very much... up to a point. That point was level... six, I think? I don't know, but it just plain got too hard/frustrating. I think one of my brothers finished it once, but then it went into the box and never came out again.

Hahaha, right, Ninja Gaiden. ><

The original was horrifically unforgiving. The sequels were no better. Still remember the awesome 8 bit cut scenes though.

[Andara Bledin]

No no, TOR looks bad. Like the animation and physics are awful.

It's not in release, yet, so I wouldn't write it off for that at this point.

Although, I must ask, what are you basing your assessment on? What are you comparing it to that makes you give it a rating of "awful?"

I know it predates the NES ( and that the poor guy that actually created it got screwed out of it. -.- ).

While he was screwed in the early years, he's one of the two founders of The Tetris Company, which makes money off of Tetris, so he's likely doing very well for himself these days.

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[Gravekeeper]

It's not in release, yet, so I wouldn't write it off for that at this point.

Although, I must ask, what are you basing your assessment on? What are you comparing it to that makes you give it a rating of "awful?"

They did a live demo of 8 minutes of one of the first end game instance ( which I should add was cross faction, the story line was not Rebel or Empire specific ) about a week or so ago at a con and it still looked incredibly bland and generic. If it wasn't for the sound effects you wouldn't know it was Star Wars at all. The guy narrating it did his best to make it sound awesome, but none of the in game effects or animation came close to the level of epicness in his descriptions. -.-

Even the PAX playable build from today looks awful. Characters move like robots ( They walk like they're being held up by a meat hook and just moving their legs and arms. Which they barely move at all. ), twist at impossible angles for human anatomy, etc.

Its not that it looks samey, its that it looks like the sort of animation I'd expect to see from a budget PSX title in the mid 90s. >.>

[Nyoibo]

I very much wish they'd invested into KOTOR 3 instead.

[Gravekeeper]

I very much wish they'd invested into KOTOR 3 instead.

Yeah, last I heard from beta its like Age of Conan. All the really cool story stuff ends around level 15. Then its just a standard MMO full of kill/fetch quests. ><

I r sad. Guild Wars 2 is about the only other big thing coming out. But even it doesn't look like its going to break too many molds.

[Lace Neil Singer]

Since I had a Megadrive, never played Tetris. I did, however, play the Sega equivilent, Columns. The music is epic, and I played it to such an extent that I got into infinity level; you could, in fact, given immortality of both yourself and your console, go on playing the game forever, cuz after a time, the levels stop going up and the game just goes on and on... XD

[MaggieTheCat]

I *hated* that game. Well, no, I liked it very much... up to a point. That point was level... six, I think? I don't know, but it just plain got too hard/frustrating. I think one of my brothers finished it once, but then it went into the box and never came out again.

Yeah, that's why I have over 500 hours into it. When I was in middle school and high school, I spent hours and hours and HOURS trying to beat that game...and then again...and then again, until I all but perfected it. I still play it sometimes and can still beat it without dying most of the time.

It's kind of sad, actually. Sometimes I wonder if I have no life.

[Andara Bledin]

Since I had a Megadrive, never played Tetris. I did, however, play the Sega equivilent, Columns.

Columns was an attempt to capitalize on the Tetris mold. It's not a bad game, but it's very much not Tetris. The MMO Puzzle Pirates has a Columns-like game for the swordfighting. I'm not very good at it, but my boyfriend kicks ass.

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[Fire_on_High]

So many choices...

NES:

Final Fantasy
Might and Magic: Secrets of the Inner Sanctum (this specific port, tyvm)
Dragon Warrior 2-4
River City Ransom
Adventures of Lolo 1-3
The Immortal (again, only this specific port)
Shadowgate (same)
Crystalis
Zelda 1 and 2

SNES:

FF4 and 6
Secret of Mana
Chrono Trigger
Actraiser
Illusion of Gaia
Z:LttP
F-Zero

Genesis:

D&D: Warriors of the Eternal Sun
Golden Axe
Disney's Aladdin
Columns 1 and 3

Sega CD:

Lunar: The Silver Star

PC:

Eye of the Beholder 1 and 2 (never got 3 working)
Hexen
Doom and Doom 2

N64:

F-Zero X
Z:OoT
Super Smash Bros.
Shadowgate 64 (emulator makes the controls much, much easier to cope with)