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?
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.
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
That games goes great with a real NES controller, so you can throw it across the room after dying.
I started a run a while ago and got stuck in Death Mountain. That game is MUCH harder than the first Zelda.
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!
Pretty sure I learned about Bagu’s hut in Nintendo Power! 😂
If my mom could do it, so could you! I believe in you.
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 🙄)
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.
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?
Played through the entirety of FFT:WotL via PPSSPP on my tablet. Great game, first full playthrough since the 90s.
Gun Nac on NES, my favourite ever Shmup. It’s fairly forgiving but I still haven’t beaten it!
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!
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)
I didn’t realize they are similar, but yeah I’ll give Undertale a go!
eeeeeee if you do, please try not to google anything about it
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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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
Well, I did it! I played through Undertale start-to-finish last weekend! The ending was awesome! Thanks for the recommendation!
The first Sims game! Good times
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.
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.
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.
Jumped back into Yoshi’s Island recently. So good.
I am playing the Gameboy 3DS and also the laptop with a duckstation
With the 25th anniversary update out, I’ve been loving playing through the original Half Life again.
Same, but I have never gotten more than a third of the way through… and I’ve owned it for 20+ years.
If you missed it, the game was free until the 20th. It’s only ¢99 right now.
I have the PS2 port which I have never completed. I think it comes with Blue Shift as well, so that will be my next game on the backlog once I finish Zelda II
this.
TFW you’re old enough that a game you bought on release becomes “retro”
“A” game? v.v creaky old person noises
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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.
