Thread: Oldskool Gaming

Anyone into their retro shit?

I've never been able to afford a new console, plus i dont have the room either...so i rely on a sega gamegear/gameboy these days...still got the old megadrive knockin about somewhere too i think..anyone else? What were your favourites?

Megadrive & SNES for me m8e (and 80s/early 90s coin-ops); just can't be done with all this 3D stuff. Guess I'm hopelessly oldskool

My younger bro has an obsession with all things Mega-CD, and has tried to collect every title ever released for it, despite his disapproving girlfriend

look youtube for MAME its basicaly an old console emulator with 1000s of games available,from spectrum 48k to commadore 64 through to snes games,all free to

Would have to be the really old skool games from these - speccy, c64, atari 800xl, atari 2600, amiga, St.

been using something called Steem (Atari STE Emulator) myself lately, runs on the PC and you can download about 1000 old ST games for it, just for a bit of nostalgia really. It's not bad, but I dunno how I used to play these games for hours and hours on end as a kid, cos they just seem shite now, lol.

the neo geo emulator is top! snes9x is great too with the amiga probably my favourite

Playstation 1, Playstation 2 EMU, sometimes Amiga
.. occasionally Street Fighter 2 Super Turbo (on MAME)

SNES, Mega Drive and PS1 emulators for me

I grew up playing N64 and PS1

where to start lol i still have a

nes 2 snes 2 n64 (one limited addition) 2 gamecube gameboys of all shapes sizes and colours lol

sms megadrive saturn gamegear

ps1 (chipped) ps2 (chipped) ps3 psp slim (flashed)

xbox (chipped) xbox 360

and a fookin shit load of games

as for old games all the modded stuff runs emus for lots of stuff lol just flashed my mates kids psp's and put snes emu and hogs of war (a ps1 game on it for them they should be good for tonight at least

cant beat a bit of retro fun i love it got it all on my xbox 360 aswell from xbox arcade

most fun i would say is still snes cant beat it
best use i would say is psp & ps2 (flashed&chipped) just because they can both run emulators well
i dont like psp games lol just got it for handheld emu fun

and all still at hand to set up in 5 mins im such a kid

Not so much into retro myself but I came across these recently

SEGA Ultimate Portable with 20 Games £39.95 :: www.svp.co.uk

SEGA Megadrive Handheld - Streets Of Rage Edition £34.99 :: www.svp.co.uk

if you google you will find those blaze sega megadrive potables cheaper
£27 to £31 is the going rate for the newest version with SD Card slot

but you dont get a cable inc. for the TV out

i ordered one on amazon will let you know if there any good when i get mine

I started on the Atari 65XE was later nes but the real play began with when I bought a Playstaion One.
In the meantime it was snes / amiga / PC / Megadrive, but this little gray console shown what it means to play.

Originally Posted by J3D

if you google you will find those blaze sega megadrive potables cheaper
£27 to £31 is the going rate for the newest version with SD Card slot

but you dont get a cable inc. for the TV out

i ordered one on amazon will let you know if there any good when i get mine

nice one, yeah svp isnt the cheapest place to buy from but i got the info from their newsletter and was too lazy to do anything else but link it

Used handheld in good condition can also buy cheap ....Ebay

Originally Posted by delta9

nice one, yeah svp isnt the cheapest place to buy from but i got the info from their newsletter and was too lazy to do anything else but link it

its good plays most of the roms ive downloaded but some crash
i couldnt really play on it for more then 10 minutes as the screen size hurts
your eyes esp. fast paced games

bought a av cable for it but isnt the right one gone onto the blaze site
and they havent any in stock just says coming soon so i wont be using it
untill i can hook it up to big screen

i downloaded the fusion emulater fro the megadrive and zsnesw for the snes ive mostly been playing street fighter 2, they certenly bring back sum memorys from my childhood
oh the road rash series what a game and golden axe and streets of rage theres too many good games to name.another thing my 3 year old nephew has no problems playing cod but when it comes to the old games hes finds them too hard

I grew up with my beloved Commodore 64, then my sister got a Megadrive for her birthday, the bitch
I was glued to my PS1 for years, then got a PS2 & then an Xbox 360.
Got disillusioned with my 360 and fell out of love with gaming (plus I haven't got the time now) and found emulators for the Sega, SNES, PS1, C64 and most importantly MAME (which runs Neo-Geo) where I downloaded every Goddamn game available

The games back then were simple, repetitive, but a challenge.
Not some £44.99 15th sequel with 4 hours gameplay completion time and you have to pre-order it because every other bugger is gonna buy it.

Without trying to put on the rose-tinted glasses on, games were much better then, great memories from playing them and that's probably why I prefer them as I associate it with my childhood.

Wizball anyone?

right got that blaze sega mega drive working on my Big Screen LED now
if anyone wants the right cable it's the 3m [Sony Camcorder] cable.
available at maplins.

the other branded cables dont work as they're wired differently

Some of the games look quite good on Big screen but other look well stretched
i guess it works better at [4:3] but i use [panorama] using [16:9] [14:9] are a bet silly !

some of the games that didnt work on the portable work on the big screen
so i guess some of the roms require a different screen resolution to that of the
built in screen.

all in all i just spent 3 hours playing and it flow by !

NES & SNES i use a emulater to play these games on my laptop..and MAME emulater to play coin op games on computer.

I love me a bit of retro gaming. Got the NES, SNES, Megadrive somewhere back in the UK. Not exactly retro but brought my Gamecube back with me recently. Eager to play Zelda on it again as that game was fucking superb!

i use a snes/nes emulator for my pc to play all my old favs on computer and its excellent
playing my fav games like - defender/ defender2/galaga/galaxian/astroids/space invaders/scramble/donkey kong/gradius/marios/R-TYPE/original zelda..

and its all free just google snes emulator or nes emulator and then do the same for the games

you can do this for all retro games inc
MAME for coin op machine games
PSX good old playstaion

including ols zx games or commadore

Love the retro gaming thread and agree with all comments about using the emulators to save clutter

I started with a Spectrum 48k with the separate tape deck, what we put up with just to load one game even worse when you had to find the start on a tape with more than one. Good old Load ""

Far of games to mention but here are some of my classics

Arkanoid, Yie Ar Kung Fu, Paperboy, Football Director, Sensible Soccer, Track N Field, Out Run, APB, Shinobi, Road Blasters, California Games, Alex the Kid.

Happy gaming!!

Originally Posted by RiverBeat79

I started with a Spectrum 48k with the separate tape deck, what we put up with just to load one game even worse when you had to find the start on a tape with more than one. Good old Load ""

I had one of them, used to love playing Paper Boy & Jet Set Willy

Took fookin' ages to load a tape & more often than not it would come up with an error & you'd have to start again

Aaaaaaah, the good ole days

Originally Posted by swipezster

Wizball anyone?

I forgot about that one... I fuckin' loved it

Bounty Bob - C64. Classic!