I just hit 10 hours in Earthbound on my Anbernic RG280V. I’m looking forward to trying some more SNES games once I’m finished (Super Mario World, Street Fighter Turbo II, Zelda: Link to the Past, etc.).

Interested to hear what you all are playing? Or, what retro games are on your “to do” list?

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️
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    11 months ago

    Would X3TC count as retro? It’s from like 2005. I tried playing X4 because fans said it was like X3 but better… But it’s not. It’s so much more convoluted in all the wrong ways. The menus are trash. The RNG sucks. The AI economy is even worse. X3 is still a way better game.

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    511 months ago

    Zelda II, I’ve never beaten before so I’m trying to do it with out looking up a guide or using save states. That last one is really hard

    • @[email protected]
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      211 months ago

      That games goes great with a real NES controller, so you can throw it across the room after dying.

    • Rhynoplaz
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      311 months ago

      I started a run a while ago and got stuck in Death Mountain. That game is MUCH harder than the first Zelda.

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        As a kid I could never figure out how to get the river man to let me cross so I couldn’t even get to death mountain. At least I’ve gotten that far this time!

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          211 months ago

          Pretty sure I learned about Bagu’s hut in Nintendo Power! 😂

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      11 months ago

      I did this - on the Zelda Collectors’ Edition on GameCube, so save States weren’t available. I did have to use an emulator to practice the final boss without the 10 min runback 🙄 , but after practicing I repeated the feat back on the official hardware.

      I did the whole game without any guide. It was SO satisfying. On both the NES games, if you can read the context clues, every required secret is fairly clear. And the game is really fair! It is hard, it’s true, but it’s very fair! It felt very good to master the combat. This was a great gaming experience.

      Later in life I felt that Dark Souls had very similar vibes except in 3D (and except for a bad feeling from having a heavy story that it’s hostile to telling you what it is 🙄)

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    811 months ago

    Earthbound - never played this so I’m looking forward to it for my next retro play through after recently finishing a replay of both A Link to the Past and Golden Sun 1 & 2.

    Afterward, it’s the Soul Blazer trilogy. I’ve only played Illusion of Gaia, and perhaps an hour of Terranigma. I loved Gaia, and remember really liking the bit I’ve played of Terranigma.

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      111 months ago

      I played it long ago in emulations in the 2000s it had anti piracy thing where it prevents you from progressing. How do I know it’s a patched version?

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    211 months ago

    Played through the entirety of FFT:WotL via PPSSPP on my tablet. Great game, first full playthrough since the 90s.

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    211 months ago

    Gun Nac on NES, my favourite ever Shmup. It’s fairly forgiving but I still haven’t beaten it!

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    311 months ago

    Ultima Runes of Virtue 1 & 2 for the Game Boy. Great action-adventure-puzzle games. But very unforgiving, every dungeon is filled with fatal errors. I couldn’t get to the end when I was young!

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    611 months ago

    ooooo if you enjoyed Earthbound, may I recommend Undertale next? Not exactly retro, but similar vibes (and there’s some fun fan theories about these two universes)

    • GrappleHatOP
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      211 months ago

      I didn’t realize they are similar, but yeah I’ll give Undertale a go!

        • GrappleHatOP
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          111 months ago

          Ha ha! OK! Funny thing is I actually already own it. My boys (teenagers) got it at some point, but I don’t know much about it.

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            211 months ago

            google

            nothing

            It’s easily my favorite game. Hell, better than any book, movie or story I’ve ever experienced. Undertale messed me up. In the best way

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              11 months ago

              Well, I did it! I played through Undertale start-to-finish last weekend! The ending was awesome! Thanks for the recommendation!

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    511 months ago

    About half way through Mother/Earthbound Zero on my NES flashcart. I’ll have to pick Earthbound up after. I got about half way through years ago but never finished it.

    Most recently finished Crystalis.

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    211 months ago

    I’m playing Zelda Link’s Awakening DX. There’s a fan made patch that fixes annoying things like those text boxes popping up every time you pick up an acorn, or when you touch a rock without wearing the strength bracelet. And I was able to continue playing the same save file.

    I really didn’t think the game would be all that good but it’s great. The whole island feels very alive and every screen has something special about it. I wouldn’t mind the next generation of Zelda being a little bit like this.

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      111 months ago

      On the remote chance you don’t already know - definitely check out Oracle of Seasons and Oracle of Ages. They have the same engine but have much cleverer gameplay and dungeons and much deeper stories.

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    1011 months ago

    With the 25th anniversary update out, I’ve been loving playing through the original Half Life again.

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    11 months ago

    After a pause of several years, I gifted myself all the DLC and went back to playing Dead Cells. I´m also still pretty addicted to Nova Drift, which is on sale atm.