Last week, I beat Super Mario 64 for the first time in almost 30 years. 120 Stars, almost all of them from memory.
Even without any kind of remake, still so colorful and stylish. Still one of the best video games ever made.
(Rainbow Ride can still eat a dick. That level is dumb.)
I did that recently too! Although it was the version they recently released with Sunshine and Galaxy on the switch.
The game holds up.
Super Mario Super Collection, same here!
thumps chest
Now I’m working my way through Sunshine because I NEVER FINISHED IT!
I didn’t play anything past mario 64 back in the day, unfortunately. I was a teenager and had decided to “move on” to xbox games. Playing Sunshine and Galaxy in the Super Collection was really fun though!
It’s the movement. Just like Super Mario Bros. before it, Mario moves much more smoothly than characters in other contemporary games at the time.
Did you drop the penguin over the edge?
There’s a fan remaster! And it’s really fucking good!
This was Star Trek The Next Generation for me during the pandemic. Everything was so bleak, and a familiar and hopeful future brought me back from the edge of depression.
TNG is like medicine to me too. There’s just something uniquely comforting and reassuring about it.
I heard someone describe it as “Competency Porn,” and now it lives rent-free in my head
Conker’s Bad Fur day, is that you? Did you bring my N64, and my best friend from childhood, too?!
I am the great mighty poo…
Now that’s what I call a bowel movement!
Apparently at least 1 person here is not of lordly caliber
1942 didn’t have the same feel for me. That game is maddening.
Was that the NES airplane bomber game?
Yes. Vertical scroller.
Twisted Metal 2, my old friend…
I’ve come to drive with you again…
Damn good taste, I don’t know many folks that remember that one
I never knew anyone else who played it back in the day. It’s one of my favorite n64 games though!
I replayed it recently on an emulator and it really holds up, the only other person I know that played it played it with me as kids. Unicorn Overlord caught my eye recently and looks really similar, I’m pretty excited about playing it
Oh yeah, I’m playing Unicorn Overlord right now! It scratches that same itch, and I’ve really been enjoying it. It’s a little easier than I’d like, so you can pretty comfortably crank up the difficulty to the highest setting for a decent challenge.
If you like this genre (whatever it would be called), you might also like Symphony of War on PC. I played it a couple of years ago, and it’s really good. It was the first game I’d played like Ogre Battle 64 since I was a kid.
Very glad to hear that, it’s crazy to me how few people played that game, it’s a forgotten classic
I just started playing Age of Empires II again. The soundtrack really brought me back in time.
100% this has been my last two years in gaming. Xcom, Warcraft I and II, Outpost 2, Stars!, Cave Story, Sim Tower/Sim City, Darklight Conflict and now working through Chrono Trigger
I still frequently play the newer xcom 1-2. I really want to play the originals, but I feel like I need to read some guide of the basics, since it’s not very clear. I assume back in the day there must have been a manual or something to reference.
Check out Xenonauts 2. It’s basically a modern version of classic X-Com, not what it’s become. It’s still early access, but it’s pretty solid.
Oh wow, I had heard the name of this game, but I had no idea it was like XCOM. Thanks for the tip!
Star Ocean 2 R, with original music ofc
I have a friend who just consumes his video games and moves on. I like to replay over and over really wring out that dopamine. He ridicules that I still fire up StarCraft 2 for some co-op maps from time to time, eww he says a 20 year old game?
Your friend treats video Games like TV & movies. Most people only ever watch something once.
You and me, we treat video games like music. We find something that resonates with us and we play it on loop, never getting tired of it.
Also guilty with music. I’ll find a new ear worm and just play it on repeatpeatpeat.
You people are my people. Thank you
StarCraft 2? I mean I still play Total Annihilation or Beyond All Reason, StarCraft 2 is practically a totally new game!
The nice thing about old things is that generally people only bother to keep returning to the good old things and the bad old things fade away and are forgotten, also the communities around old things while small tend to be very friendly and toxic people are muchhhhhh less common than with popular new games.
I mean Battle.net chat is still a trip but somethings never change.
but somethings never change.
I wish this could be said about Blizzard but I don’t think this can be said about Blizzard lol
Nothing wrong with a bit of total annihilation… just have to play on metal worlds or it gets too slow for me
I just played sc2 co-op for the first time in 3 years a couple nights ago. Something about making a giant army and smashing it against another giant army is just fun.
I am currently playing TOME4 on a 64GB machine with NVIDIA RTX A2000 GPU. Although technically this is more like uni for me not childhood, I could probably play this game on a calculator.
I’m playing through Pokemon Blue right now. I started when I had knee surgery last year and I just made it back to Pallet Town. Next stop Route 22.
Man this game brings back memories. I first played through on my original Game Boy. So many batteries because I needed that light attachment.
You never went back to visit your mother even though you have fly?
Uh oh. Am I a bad son?
Yes. And if you didn’t let your mother waste all your money in 2nd gen you are even worse of a son.
I have such fond memories of that game and how widespread the Pokemon craze was at the time.
Chasing down pre-internet rumors, learning how to catch missingno, the cards, the show. It’s my favorite generation of Pokemon.
I learned about MissingNo back on the playgrounds and read about how to catch him. It said it was risky, but me a kid, tried it anyway thinking what could be the harm.
I caught it! I was scared of losing it, so I hit Save and turned off my Game Boy Color. Booted it up, and my save file was gone. Kid me was crushed, and I chastised myself for being so stupid to risk it despite all the warnings.
My first play through of Pokémon Red was wiped out completely. My first party, my certificate of getting all Pokes (that I desperately wanted to print with a Game Boy Printer my folks never got us), all gone. I spent HOURS trying to find Mew under that damn truck. All of it - gone.
Thanks
ObamaMissingNo!Tragic! I luckily never lost my save, as far as I can remember.
