Kids these days will never know the simple joy of Word/Numbermuncher lol. I miss my Troggles

XD that sounds like its from the days of math blaster and sim city! lol

I have heard of all of these and finished them all. I suddenly feel old. D:

Also, asdf, Dungeon Keeper. ; - ;

you know, i never played that. i really wanted to when i first heard of it, too.

But my growing urge to play the bad guy in a 'dungeon management' system was fulfilled when i got my paws on Evil Genius. That game was sweeeet, but too new for me to put on my oldschool list XD

beaten most of them but DAMN that list is...well if you owned them you wouldn't really need to buy a new game XD

aw, there are plenty of other older awesome games (that I can't come up with on the top of my head) but yeah, a lot of these have excellent replay value- which seems to be something video game companies are kinda of shying away from these days...

But are joing the "quick time event" bandwagon UGH

i don't know when they were released but i do know that very few people have heard of them

PS2: Dark Cloud and Dark Cloud 2- rebuild the world rpg's, good storyline and good graphics

Gameboy Advance: GoldenSun- Classic RPG with Final Fantasy level graphics. challenging puzzles and interesting storyline and likeable characters

Those are all good games. I really loved dark cloud (1 more than 2).

And Golden sun was ok. I seem to remember its main draw was the really fancy effect graphics in combat. Was good stuff.

Though, all these games were past the year 2000- i was really referring to games that predated the PSX, though it was a 90s console.

i didn't know when they came out and was too lazy to go check XD;; i just knew only few people have heard of them much less played them

I liked Breath of Fire 2 for SNES. it was kind of dark for a JRPG.

ooh thats a good one. BoF2 and BoF3 were awesome games! (didnt care much for BoF1)

Oh goodness yes, the BoF games! 2 and 3 were the best, 1 was alright, 4 I never got around to playing much aside from rentals...

I mean other than some Translation errors 2 (haven't played 3 yet) was just awesome. AND they have a cat girl that could easily kick their current girls ass. I really need to play this one again.

I actually just got into emulators and ROMs myself, and been having a nice big nostalgia bomb for the last couple of weeks.

Downloaded Terranigma, played a bit of it so far, eager to have a chunk of time to play it since it never was released in the States, along with Seiken Densetsu 3. Eagerly looking forward to those two.

My current faves that I'm not sure others have heard of:

NES:
Super Dodge Ball. One of the few sports games I like due to having special moves and such, with the same art style as River City Ransom
Ys I & II. These were also not released in the states, at least not on the NES, I had played Ys III on the SNES, so getting to play these is great.
Rockin' Kats. Silly cartoony furry platformer about a jazz player cat looking to save his girlfriend from a gangster bulldog.

SNES:
Secret of Evermore. If you're a fan of Secret of Mana, give this a try. Same style and menu system, but those are the only similarities. Interesting magic system and kinda short, but fun.
Actraiser. Awesome blend of side scrolling action and Sim-style city building.
Uniracers. Silly racing game where you are a unicycle. Not on a unicycle. You ARE a unicycle.

There are a whole bunch more I've been dabbling in, and surprisingly, these old classics are holding my attention much better than most of the other current gen games I have to play/finish playing...

I've heard of a few of those. Actraiser is actually made by the same people as Terranigma. I think they are even supposed to be distantly related, plot wise.

The only dodge ball ive heard of was on the GBA, lol, and I've heard a lot about Ys. And Secret of Evermore is no strangers to me XD

Terranigma and Seiken Densetsu 3 were freaking fantastic.
I was never a super huge fan of Phantasy Star but I do have to admit that I played each one from start to finish on the Sega.

Superbly epic games that not many people know about?

SNES:
Wario's Woods - Really fun puzzle game
Legend of the Mystical Ninja - Epic RPG/Platformer game by Konami, really challenging too

NES:
Mighty Bomb Jack - Pretty fun platformer, kinda confusing and hard though.
Faxanadu - Boy, lemme tell ya...this game is what Zelda 2 should have been. It plays pretty much exactly like Zelda 2, except there's no world map, and it's not nearly as confusing. I mean, Zelda 2 is so confusing I swear they made it to sell Nintendo Power. Faxanadu is more linear (to an extent) so you never sit there scratching your head, "where do I go now??". The only downside is the bad password system. (what with uppercase and lowercase letters looking like other letters, not to mention being like, 30 letters long in the first place)

Genesis:
YS III Wanderers from YS - This game was actually on a LOT of different consoles, but the Genesis version is the best. (unless you can afford a TurboGrafix CD! :P) Really fuckin' awesome platformer RPG (it plays just like Zelda 2), with some of the best RPG music ever made, even to this day.
Rocket Knight Adventures / Sparkster - Two unique platformers by Konami. The first one is a LOT better than the 2nd though. Again, epic music and a real challenge as well.
Cool Spot - Fun little platformer featuring the 7up Spot. Great controls, fun levels, awesome music.

Wario Woods was also on the NES.
And I loved the Legend of the Mystical Ninja.

Yeah, but the NES version sucks. It doesn't have VS. CPU mode :P

Touche.

The moment though that I read "The Mystical Ninja", the sound effects from the game started playing. I love the music in it.

ohhh man

mystical ninja starring goemon for the N64 is up on that top ten list of my fav games of all time. Rocket knight got a rerelease on the newer consoles (i played a demo, was cool) and cool spot was on my high school's computers XD- one of the most popular games that people would play, lol

Rocket Knight is meh. It just doesn't have the charm that the old games had. (Not to mention, Sparkster doesn't look like Sparkster at all...either version of him.)

I wish I had the chance to play, Terranigma.

Sega:
decap attack
bio hazard

oo and not to forget 2 crude dudes

XD those games are among the ones that sega has been releasing all over the place- like on steam and the gaming systems XD

:P they were awesome when i played them 10 o years ago :P

I never finiched the second shining force... got quite far in it and the emulator deleted the sram save for it....

Thought that only happened to physical carts getting damaged! XD

I remember all except the Sega games.

But here I am, missing the old days.
PC: Paradroid, Impossible Mission (pre-patch, where it really was impossible), the Kroz games, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, the old SSI Dungeons and Dragons games (The ones in the gold boxes), and Sid Meyer's Covert Action.

Guess the console: Air-Sea Battle, Galaxian, Krull, Moon Patrol and Pac Man.

I used to have a few of those SSI D&D games! But never could figure them out- i was too young @.@

and i also miss the carmen sandiego games. I used to love playing them as a kid!

*puts on her nerd glasses*
I've heard of these.
Thought you were gonna say games that were actually old :p
*goes to play on the Commodore 64 like a sad old retro hippy*

Awesome choices all around though, Nil loves a lady with taste :3

*bzzt* Bar... barian!

(Always preferred the ZX Spectrum and Amiga to the Commodore tbh)

I wasn't aware System Shock 2 is obscure. You can't really be a Doom 3 fan without knowing about SS2, due to the constant "SS2 did everything so much better than Doom 3" talk. XD

XD i didn't know that- I almost never hear about SS2, so I always try to spread the word :)

Beyond Oasis (Sega Genesis): A strong, Zelda-like action-RPG. (Video)

The Legend of Oasis (Sega Saturn): A prequel to Beyond Oasis with equally strong gameplay and more detailed hand-drawn sprites and backgrounds. (Video.)

Skitchin' (Sega Genesis): From the people who brought you Road Rash. It's Road Rash... on roller blades! (Video)

Space Harrier (Sega Master System): Space Harrier is a pretty cool guy. Eh flies and shoots and doesnt afraid of anything. (Video)

Wonder Boy 3 (Sega Master System): What is the secret of his power? A side-scroller action-RPG where the player transforms into various animals. (Video)

Yes, I was a Sega child.

I was also a Sega child (got one for christmas despite asking for an SNES) I've played Beyond Oasis, too- got stomped a little while in XD

it's available on multiple platforms now, too- steam has it, and the wii. And probably the others too.

My dad had space harrier on his old Amiga. It used to freak me out for some reason.

And I played wonderboy on one of sega's rereleases... it was ok XD

Shining Force / Shining Force 2.

Oh lord. Loved those games. The first time I got hold of the first, I could not stop playing. Loved so many of the characters, the story. It's a pretty simple game, but I just really loved it back then.

Number two matched that feel and more, that was bliss all over again! Hell, those games mighta been one of the first ones to make me love furry characters. Loved how many of them looked in it for the graphics that were available.

hehe, yeah! the graphics in them were quite good for the time!

I loved the music in the 2nd one, too.

What games I can remember where more common.

NES: Mario(of course), Adventure Island, Chip'n Dale, Duck Tales, Contra, Donkey Kong (of Course)

SNES: Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (cant remember much more besides the ones everyone obviously knows)

PC: Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 3D, M1 Tank Platoon, Top Gun

I'm sure most people have heard of Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem, though they're still great recommendations. XD

I loved Shining Force.

Fun game for PSX: Brigandine.
Also, Suikoden, though most people have heard about that.
The Bard's Tale (the first one!) was pretty classic.
I still break out Civ 2 sometimes.
Starflight and Starflight 2 for the PC were old-school fantastic.

hum, my Civ experience started with Civ3 >.<

and yeah, lotsa people have played suikoden (myself included) I also tried suikoden 2 and 3. They were good games :)

Although Civ 2 is still my favorite in the series, it might be hard to play newer civs and then go back to it.
Other fun games:
Bard's Tale (again).
Wizardry.
King's Quest and Space Quest.
I still have a collection of 20 Infocom text games I'd like to try again.
Monster Rancher (the first one) was surprisingly fun. I didn't like the other games in the series.
Obviously I liked the Final Fantasy games on the SNES and PSX.

Sum gud gaems yer talkin bout there.

don't forget skyrim.... know wut i meeeean?

Let me see .....

For the Commodore 64:
Telenguard!
Donkey Kong (which is the first ever appearance of the hero who would later be bought by Nintendo and named Mario)
FROGGER XD

For Windows 3.1:
Star Trek 25th Anniversary - a great game, until the second to last mission, which requires math most adults aren't even capable of, IMHO, much less a teenager in middle school.

Earthsiege (1 and 2) - 2 only failed near the end, where a glitch found in almost every release of the game caused the mission to irrevocably fail immediately upon entering the battlefield, regardless of how well you performed up until them.

Space Shuttle Simulator - an awesome program that allowed one to do all sorts of things, from launch, through completing mission assignments out in space, to re-entry and landing. Also a glitched program, as one mission would never give me a successful completion (recovering a satellite and bringing it back to the ground) despite how perfectly I managed to end up doing it. Which meant I could never progress to the night landings and instrument approach landing missions. Dissapointment doesn't even begin to cover it.

Myst!

For the Sega Saturn:
Space Hulk: Vengeance of the Blood Angels
The Panzer Dragoon serries
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge

those are some old games! kudos for keepin it retro (people keep mentioning newer games in this journal @.@)

I also didn't know panzer dragoon had more than one game @.@

Something like 4, actually. I only played 1 and 2.

wolfenstein 3d, doom & duke nukem 3D: believe it or not, these are the only games I ever played on this entire list.

system shock 2: I do believe this predates when I first started 3-D gaming, I know "OF" it, but I never played it

Oldest pc game I can remember? Either snake bite (on the blue 3 1/2" floppy) or the original sim city, our package had both the 5 1/4" and the 3 1/2" versions. From there... uh... jump ahead to about 1997 for "Comanche 3" and the freespace 2 demo disc in 1999, then there was a period in shooters, mainly unreal tournament 2004, and nightfire, then back to the best game I felt before the current generation: freelancer (2003). Now, I define the generation of PC games by the graphics as you can drive a fleet of garbage trucks inbetween the graphical capabilities of nightfire and doom3, and that's kinda my point. Life before direct X 9, and certainly before direct X 10. Remember when they didn't add shaders so that textures would have a gradient on them? Oh yeah... that's what us youngin's think is the boundary between old and new.

Though for console games... donkey kong country. I never got past that stupid oil drum level in the refinery. I think the next games I played after that were jak & daxter, ratchet & clank and 007 agent under fire.

...so sue me, ok? my parents didn't want me to grow up as a videogame hermit. go figure, they made a porn fiend out of me instead. am I bummed that I missed so much in the way of gaming history? not really, I mean games seem to be either stupidly easy or brutally hard when you approach them from a adult perspective, I'm.... shall we say, equipped to handle most things games can throw at me. I have a solid grasp of the buttons on every single console I've ever picked up (with the exception of pre-gamecube nintendo, how the hell do you hold a n64 controller?) and I've played nearly every genre other then field sports, so why is it that I struggle madly when I play a game on medium difficulty? I mean, for fuck's sake, I've played over 300 games for at least 20 minutes each (castlevania:LOS and similar were forced) but I just seem to keep doing the doom "ahh! run away and find health!" maneuver in every bloody game, from fallout NV to modern warfare to metal gear solid 4 *sigh* I guess I'm just getting old.

A graymuzzle once said: you know you're a graymuzzle when you remember how things used to be different. He also said that you know you're a graymuzzle when you're thrilled they changed the flavor of tums. They did. I'm thrilled. I'm not legal drinking age yet, but I appear to be a 40-year old already, virgin too. Oh fuck....

bah, I need to go to bed, I'll shake my cane at you some other time.
~Motoko

Want a random super nintendo game that was an odd find for me?

Y's 3: Wanderers From Y's... HARD AS FUCK game to begin with.

Speaking of hard games. Playing the original Ninja Gaiden games on the NES? SO MUCH RAGE! Comparing that to today's games... they were much more difficult back in the day.

This just makes me wonder if you ever come across a game called Actraiser.
Just for reference http://www.gametrailers.com/video/v.....ewattack/23437

that game it was so good!


But, these are some of the games I can just go and dig out any time I want. I wanna see if you can dig up anything that you still have.

XD yeah ive played the original ninja gaiden. Got pretty tough! I heard ninja gaiden 2 was even harder though.

And actraiser has been mentioned already! looks interesting! XD

Ninja gaiden 2 on master ninja... TOO MANY DAMN EXPLOSIVE SHURIKENS! I mean EVERYWHERE you go. Bad enough to try and even kill someone and get pelted by 80 million of the damn things. Definitely a controller breaker right there.


As for Actraiser... its just too awesome so it needs to be mentioned again!

SEGAAAAAAAAAAAA!