• NOT_RICKEnglish
    65·
    8 个月前

    Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!

    • cybervseasEnglish
      511·
      8 个月前

      Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.

      • thejml@lemm.eeEnglish
        17·
        8 个月前

        There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.

        • ogeistEnglish
          5·
          8 个月前

          You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.

          • grueEnglish
            3·
            8 个月前

            Which is better for 8- and 16-bit games, HDMI out with an upscaler, or analog video out with a real CRT?

            • ogeistEnglish
              3·
              8 个月前

              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.

      • NOT_RICKEnglish
        161·
        8 个月前

        Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.

  • disguy_ovaheaEnglish
    27·
    8 个月前

    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

    • Albbi@lemmy.caEnglish
      15·
      8 个月前

      We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.

    • OmegaEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      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.

      • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        4·
        8 个月前

        The 8bitdo wireless Genesis controller is pretty good and faithful to the original.

      • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        8 个月前

        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.)
        • OmegaEnglish
          3·
          8 个月前

          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.

          • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            8 个月前

            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.

        • ValmondEnglish
          5·
          8 个月前

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          Monty on the run, can you hear the screenshot?

        • MajorHavoc@programming.devEnglish
          4·
          8 个月前

          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.

  • RootyEnglish
    141·
    8 个月前

    Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged…poorly.

    • InputZeroEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      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.

    • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      41·
      8 个月前

      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.

    • RatzChatsubo@lemm.eeEnglish
      31·
      8 个月前

      I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I’m surprised how well it holds up

      • Calavera@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        8 个月前

        I first played FF6 when it was already retro(I was a Sega kid) and it bacame my favorite FF, even higher than 7 which holds huge nostalgic memories to me

  • SkunkWorkzEnglish
    12·
    8 个月前

    Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.

  • OmegaEnglish
    11·
    8 个月前

    I’m playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren’t dead.

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      4·
      8 个月前

      That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting

  • pjwestinEnglish
    10·
    8 个月前

    I don’t know what you’re talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.

  • make -j8English
    7·
    8 个月前

    This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme

    Every time i see it i have tears coming

    • The Picard ManeuverOPEnglish
      3·
      8 个月前

      I know, I started seeing it a lot after losing my cat recently, and it stings a bit. =(