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I thought it should warrant its own thread, being that it covers such a wide scope and all...

By retro I mean anything that came out six months past the date you're posting, or earlier. what can i say? video games grow old fast like that. the exception is games that are still widely popular or still have a highly active community backing it, such as DotA, Starcraft, or CS. because lots of people are still playing those games rather frequently, they can hardly be classified as retro.

So, what were your favorite retro video games? Mine are...

Family Computer: Galaxian, Galaga, Pac-Man, Circus Charlie, Contra, the thing with the kid on the island

SNES: Street Fighter, DBZ fighter games, Super Mario World, Super
Mario Bros. 3

PSX: oh man... where to begin?! FFVII, FFVIII, FFIX, FFV and FFVI and Chrono Trigger (originally for SNES, but I never played 'em 'til they came out on teh PSX), FF Tactics, Xenogears, Legend of Dragoon, Legend of Legaia, Grandia, Suikoden II, Tomba! 1 and 2. I like to think the best console RPGs came out on the PSX (or were imported on the PSX from other systems like the Sega Saturn or the SNES), and for the most part, I daresay that I'm right. Smile

Arcade: Tekken Tag Tournament, Project Justice, DDR! XD

Game Boy: Pokemon (in all its incarnations)... and that's about it.

PS2: FFX, Burnout Revenge, MGS2 and 3, Suikoden IV and V. There are a lot of others I can't remember just now, being that PS2 games are fairly recent and all, but this will do.

Looking for nes double dragon 3 now. I miss my childhood memories.

May old mobile phone that was stolen had lot of family computer games like contra. I was even trying to install converted doom there. It also had supermario bros 1 and 3, final fantasy 1 (i think). I also miss playing pokemon there Sad

waaah ...

I had a megadrive before and my games were MK2, Ultimate MK3, Yu Yu Hakusho, basketball games, shinobi, streets of rage, ninja turtles, and many more. I was not into rpgs. I also had dragon ball there ^__^.

You can't go wrong with Super Street Fighter II Turbo. Very Happy

FTW!!!!
And note that the word turbo is "necessary" here. If you don't buy turbo, you won't get the super moves like Ryu's shinkuu hadouken or Ken's Shoryuu-Reppa. Also, You can't access Akuma.
And don't buy the version without the Super, either, coz you won't get Fei Long (Liu Kang ripoff!!), T.Hawk, Cammy and Dee Jay. Those were the earlier versions of Street Fighter II, and, especially for the Championship edition, those games are belos par.
In hindsight, we should thank the gaming gods that they stopped adding words to the title and just cAme up with Street Fighter III. Very Happy

But what about Hyper Super Street Fighter Epsilon Delta Theta IV EX Platinum Version Zero?

Haha, I jest. I enjoyed the SF series, chief among them SF Alpha 3, but I can only truly love one 2D fighting game series, and that place in my heart is claimed by SNK's King of Fighters. I mean come on, the thing was just ill with combos and gameplay... not to mention the story was teh awesome. Although it's about as complex as SF's bizarre storyline, it was still pretty compelling.

Orochi Iori Yagami FTW! XD

Asobi wa owari da... koko made da! @_@

Jaykie sobra ka di pa retro yung mga ff what are you saying that i'm so old... Sad

Sa snes: miss ko chrono trigger at dbz series
Sega: Sonic series
Psx: chrono cross, megaman series, lahat nung ibang Rpg's
famicom: rockman, galaga, macross

hehehehe

^retro because they're from before the year 2000. some of them, anyway... but your objection is noted, hehe. and don't worry, FF games were my first bread and butter RPGs, so that makes me about as old as you. Razz

retro games eh? well, it can't be helped coz i grew up with my uncle (now residing in Alberta) played Super Mario Bros. (reminds me of the trivia that Mario's surname was Mario ~_~) and Tetris (ahh such games ~_~)

a few years after that, here comes SNES and i was hooked in playing Super Mario World and Killer Instinct (actually, my KI cartridge is the only thing I kept because it's black). also, i played MK3.

then there came N64 and i was amazed (back then) by the graphics...so i bought Pokemon Staduim. since then, i've chronologically grow old and lost interest in console games...~_~

Pokemon is teh rule. Rayquaza FTW! XD

Nah, Pokemon Stadium has only the first 151 Pokemons...i guess i need to finish the damn whole thing first...although Mew is playable there.~_~

^yeah, never really got to play the N64 pokemon games. it was game boy do or die for me, hehehe.

Fighting Spirit Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 9

I'm still entertaining myself with Tekken Tag Tournament at arcades. Then Starcraft when I'm at home.

Tekken is teh best! Tag Tourney in particular. I really enjoyed that system, esp. on the PS2.

Fighting Spirit Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 9

I have some issues with the PS2 port, though. Kazuya's limbs are somewhat stunted, and some character's sizes are inconsistent with the arcade version. There're also combos that can't be done in the console version and vice versa.

But anyway, those are just nitpicks. Still the best fighting game ever.

Will play House of the Dead2 and Virtua Cop2 anytime. ^_^
Also, Starcraft, Any Quake game, Any Half-life, and family com and megadrive games anytime..

Two words: Time Crisis

FTW XD

Time Crisis...yan tlga ang FTW!

especially i like playing TC in arcade...since i am done with TC2 (bored na dahil natapos ko na cya n times) and TC3 (after months of hand-eye-foot coordination, tapos ko na rin!)...Time Crisis 4 naman...yun nga lang 3 Tokens siya sa Quantum...

the one TC thing i've always wanted to do was go through a game solo, but with dual pistols. never tried it, since well, i'd look like an idiot if i did, but these days... hmm, y'know?

well it would take twice the effort that a normal player would do...although i am imagining it, i think it's hard for me to do so (darn it, i gained weight)

I tried dual pistols long time ago (high gradeschool/ low highschool) at Sta Lucia arcade. The game was Terminator 2. lots of fun and more than twice the effort to do well.

...but still i think it's possible...in other shooting games i mean.

i don't know if Terminator 2 has pedals or not, but Time Crisis had. which reminds me last Saturday, i was playing Time Crisis 4 and i think i got pawned in Stage 1! argh...not to mention i never finished playing TC2 on that same day. but what i could say about TC4 is, it was worth playing it. i could aim more precisely in TC4 than in TC3 (it has something to do with the position of the screen...)

Here's a list of my fave retro games.

PC Platform (Includes emulators)
Chrono Trigger - 'nuff said
Mario Teaches Typing - silly at first, but its challenging at later levels!
Bomber Man - try beating level 20th!
Half-Life - the original arguably has the edge over the sequel storywise...
NfS: Underground 2 - edgin' for reckless speed?
NfS: Most Wanted - feed the red-and-blues some smoke!

Family Computer
Street Fighter - it used to be 8 characters...or am I smoking crack?
Super Mario Bros. - ya just hafta luv those mushrooms and sunflowers
Battle Tank - I can't recall if this is the right title, just a couple of tanks trying to shoot down the eagle insignia.

PS (Includes PSOne and the box-type original)
Final Fantasy VII - who can forget?
Final Fantasy VIII - aahh, whenever sang my songs, on the stage...

PS2
Devil May Cry 2 - linear and repetitive, but ass-whoopin' action!
RAW vs Smackdown - I'll see ya tonight, on Wrestlemania!

*Last edited by gold saint on Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:37 am; edited 2 times in total*

Nakaka-miss na yung mga classic games. Those were the good ol' days!

Here are my fave old games (marami dito sa listahan hindi sikat pero wala akong pakilam kung hindi sila sikat)

NES - Super Mario 3, Contra 1-2, Megaman 1-6, TMNT 2, Double Dragon 2-3, Balloon Fight, Lode Runner, Ninja Gaiden 1-2

Turbografx - Castlevania: Dracula X (direct prequel to the PS1 Castlevania)

Sega Genesis - Altered Beast, Shinobi series, Fighting Master, Streets of Rage 1-3, Sonic series, Eternal Champions, E-SWAT, Phelios (damn hard shoot 'em up), Alien Soldier, Gunstar Heroes, Yu Yu Hakusho

SNES(By the gods where do I start!) - Final Fantasy VI (the best Final Fantasy of all time along w/ FFTactics & I've played FF4-FF9), Demon's Crest, Castlevania IV, Contra III, TMNT 4: Turtles in Time, Super Mario World, Zelda III, Starfox, Royal Rumble, Metal Warriors, Macross (japan-only), Lost Vikings, Blackthorne, Batman Returns

Sega Saturn - Guardian Heroes, Virtua Fighter 2

Playstation1 - Final Fantasy Anthology (FFV-FFVI), Final Fantasy Tactics, FF7 (despite that overhyped albino), Suikoden 1, Vandal Hearts, Tactics Ogre, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night (japanese version lang yung nilaro ko), Twisted Metal 2, Loaded, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain (forget all that time-travel BS in soul reaver), Guilty Gear, Megaman X4 (japanese version din), Resident Evil 1-3, Silent Hill, Clock Tower, Metal Gear Solid, Tenchu 1-2

N64 - Super Mario 64, Legend of Zelda, Starfox 64

Sega Dreamcast - Capcom vs SNK 2, Project Justice, Soul Calibur, Guilty Gear X, Resident Evil Code Veronica

Playstation2 - All WWE games, Devil May Cry 1, Onimusha

XBox - Halo 1-2

Gamecube - Resident Evil series(w/ remakes), Eternal Darkness, Legend of Zelda, Smash Brothers, Metroid Prime

teka patapos na ako

Arcade - Metal Slug series, King of Fighters series, Fatal Fury series, Captain America & the Avengers, Bucky o'Hare (beat 'em up), Captain Commando, Guilty Gear XX, DnD1: Tower of Doom & DnD2: Shadow over Mystara

PC(singleplayer) - Planescape: Torment (best DnD setting!) Baldur's Gate series, Icewind Dale 1-2, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones & the Fate of Atlantis, DOS-based DnD games(Forgotten Realms Archives - Silver Edition 97 for an idea of what they are), Heroes of Might & Magic 3, Disciples 2, Syndicate Wars, Warhammer: Shadow of the Horned Rat & Dark Omen, Pacific General (where the japs won at Iwo Jima), Diablo 1

PC(multiplayer) - Battlefield 1942 & Vietnam, Serious Sam, Unreal Tournament, Diablo 2, Starcraft, Age of Empires 2, Dungeon Siege, Counterstrike beta (before it turned too mainstream), Rainbow 6, Ghost Recon, Warcraft 3(pre-DotA)

Metal Slug, KoF series, the street fighter movie game that kind of looked liked the first mortal kombat game and the classic castlevania

Does anyone remember paperboy? do you guys still remember the 2D pixellated Metal Gear? or the Judge Dredd game?

yes, yes, and no.

I need FFXII... @_@

Very Young Dragon Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

FF6 in one of the best RPG's ever! played it in snes emulator,(pero di ako nagssave state!!).
Chrono Trigger follows.

graphics is nothing when you dont have a good story.

hail the pixels!

true, true. i do love them great story, bad graphics RPG's.

along this vein (although they may not qualify) i've always considered Xenogears and Suikoden II as my two favorite console RPG's of all time. no amount of graphical muscle can replace these two in my book (although if only for the fact that it is a continuation of the series, Suikoden V comes pretty darn close).