Retro Gaming
Since moving, I haven’t had any games consoles hooked up (a situation which should be remedied soon,) so I’ve been playing a distressing number of old games:
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A list of 102 free games from 1up. There’s some good stuff in there (King’s Quest, Zak McKracken, Maniac Mansion.)
This Sensible Soccer 2 plug and play dealie has been hooked up to the big TV at work recently. It’s not the same as SWOS on the Amiga, but I haven’t found an image of it for UAE yet. Playing MegaDrive games on a plasma TV feels deeply wrong, for some reason.
Visual Boy Advance. I’ve had to curtail how much I’ve been using this. I’ve already lost too much of my life to tetris…
Of course, let’s not forget the UK Resistance take on retro gaming.
August 9th, 2005 at 9:07 pm
On a similarly old-ish note I’d thoroughly recommend MAME and copies of DoDonPachi, Progear, and ESP.Ra.De. Obviously they’re all pretty much impossible but after the likes of WoW/Xenosaga episode 2/other random bloated tedium, it’s the single minded bullet-hell purity that counts. If you can rustle up a joystick and a monitor that flips vertically they’re even better but then not everybody is as AMAZING as I am. Either way: long live Cave.
Obviously if you don’t legitimately own them you’re funding terrorism and paedophiles and robot-zombie-Hitler but it’s probably worth it. You certainly wouldn’t download them from http://www.romnation.net, that’s for sure!
August 10th, 2005 at 7:03 pm
I’ll have you know that the ~4 Gigs of ROMS sitting on my HDD are absolutely legitimate. In every way. No, really. Ahem.
The problem I always run into with MAME is that the games I really want to play are the ones with weird controllers. Tempest just isn’t the same without a spinner, and neither is Marble Madness without a huge trackball, or Q-Bert without the joystick fixed at a weird angle.
If I had the space I’d toally have a dedicated MAME cabinet though. We had one at the last place I worked, and it was really neat that when visitors asked “What game is that” we were able to answer “Uh, all of them“