Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!
Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.
There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.
You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.
Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?
That is entirely subjective but I would say some still prefer CRT and Analog video, which these retro consoles also provide. There are also some benefits for it like no lag and better graphics due to the natural blurring of the CRT but at the cost of space and screen size. CRTs are bulky.
Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.
you can still play them!
Off I go doing a crime again
OoT actually got new life with the Ship pf Harkinian team
But… anime-girl buried them, so they’re kinda hard to access.
That’s lain you heathen
Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?
They stole all of her Reese’s Pieces.
Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged…poorly.
I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I’m surprised how well it holds up
I’ve actually found the cure to my old video game nostalgia is watching old lets-plays. Usually I can skip a whole bunch of the creators video and get that nostalgia bug outta my system in a few hours without spending any money.
There are a few rare gems, but gameplay design has evolved a lot. It’s worse than watching comedies from the 50s.
My first Zelda was BOTW so I decided I would play Ocarina of Time and Majora’s mask. Man, the amount of aimlessly walking around and boring empty fields gets old very fast. Puzzles are either trivially obvious, impossibly obscure or super hard.
I can hear that Ocarina of Time screenshot.
🎹🎶
OWOOOOOOooo
Same — everyone has so many memories of that game. For me, it reminds me of playing games with my brother, he would read the prima strategy guide and help me get through the dungeons. My father bought ocarina of time for us both for Christmas. We got drawn in to the magic of that game for several months after.
You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol
Are there still? Did they leave most of em? I thought a bunch got sold off to patrons of that dig attempt.
Oh shit! You’re right! I never read about that.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/video-games/those-old-e-t-atari-games-dug-desert-sold-108-n418971
This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme
Every time i see it i have tears coming
I know, I started seeing it a lot after losing my cat recently, and it stings a bit. =(
I got a Miyoo Mini very recently and have been playing a lot of games since. I can’t put the thing down for long at all!
Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.
Yeah nintendo still sues communities trying to port oot to a more modern engine xD.
We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.
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My blood pressure goes up just looking at the Space Taxi loading screen. Space Taxi is why I don’t have any patience left to try Dark Souls.
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I don’t know what you’re talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.
Shit, I still have a working Genesis.
Same!
Me too. I like to play Xmen 2: Clone Wars and Bubsy on it. I’ve been thinking of getting an 8bitdo for it so I can play it wireless with my PS4 controllers.
Xmen 2: Clone Wars and Bubsy
Gave me nostalgia whiplash, there.
- X-Men 2: Clone Wars - “Well of course, don’t we all?”
- Bubsy - “…and some of us are into pain and punishment, of course. It takes all types.” (I never got good at Bubsy.)
For me, X-men 2 was harder.
But Bubsy is just memorizing the layout or gambling. The game dares you to go fast like Sonic, but there are pitfalls every 2 seconds or you’ll be going down into an unknown area that could either be fine or it could kill you, and there’s no way of knowing beforehand.
Huh. That perspective could help. I always thought I was just terrible at Bubsy. Which I guess I was. But keeping that in mind might help a lot.
The 8bitdo wireless Genesis controller is pretty good and faithful to the original.
I hear emudeck for the Steam Deck is amazing too, but I never got around to installing it.
I think I have three of the damn things.
They just keep popping up like mushrooms. Same thing with Gamecubes.
I’ve had a hard time finding cheap working GameCubes.
”RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”
—Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)
You didn’t need the attribution line. With just your quote we all heard it in our heads.
POWER UP!
AH AH AH AH!
I’m playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren’t dead.
That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting
I keep their memories close by, in several hard drives, and frequently play them over my network…
