Eight Bit Alien wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 8:37 pm
THE KILL wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:34 am
Does anyone else here play 8 or 16bit games on a regular basis? Or am I talking to myself basically every time I post...
You are not alone friend. I just got the sword of kings in Earthbound - end of a 20-year journey.
I don't play games as much as some of you guys, but when I do it's probably 90% emulation.
I'm actually more into emulation than gaming at this point - a lot of what I do is fuss with my various gadgets and retro-setups.
I was one of those guys with a massive collection of old games for many years, sold most of it off in 2016.
What do you get up to?
Ha yeah I had some games that are pretty sought after today. Have been rebuying them the last couple of years... there's just something about taking a cart out of its box, slamming it into a console and hitting the on-switch. Then flip through the manual when you're lying in bed, looking forward to more gaming...
I love flash carts, I've got Everdrives for the SNES, Mega Drive/ Genesis, NES, and Gamebody Advance. They allow you to play hacks and fan-translations of games on original hardware. I'm also a huge fan of all sorts of crummy emulation hardware, like this:
Or the Super Retro-Cade:
http://retro-bit.com/super-retrocade
I got v1.1 which adds, among else, R-Type 1 and 2! For some strange reason it makes a significant difference for me when games are officially licensed and they put some snazzy artwork on the box, especially if it's the games' logos... it makes me feel like I'm ten again.
Got a raspberry pie once and a nice 3d printed mini NES shell, started learning linux, gave it to a friend when I got the impression the Retropie emulators had massive amount of lag (and got tired of linux). I hear it's a lot better nowadays...
cxwx wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:08 pm
I have some genesis games on my iPhone 6s does that count?
Sure! So, do you have a favourite Genesis game?
spacehamster wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:51 am
THE KILL wrote: ↑Tue Mar 26, 2019 10:34 am
Does anyone else here play 8 or 16bit games on a regular basis?
I played a lot of emulations of old Sega Mega Drive games for a while and I still think there's something special about the 16-bit era that's never going to be replicated - those games have aged really well, and I don't think it's
just nostalgia - vector graphics, like CGI in movies, just don't hold up over time the way the 16-bit stuff has.
Playing all that stuff eventually led to me buying current-gen consoles and a PC, though, and now I don't play them much anymore. I always mostly played games that I already had in the late 80s/early 90s anyway.
No question, nostalgia plays a huge role - but as you said, it's not only that, many games from that time were ace. When I got back into a bit of cart collecting, I first got the games I used to have as a kid, but I've bought many new games (many of which I had almost wanted as a kid) and many of them are still great without the nostalgia-tinted goggles. ALso, there's something about pixel graphics that you won't get with any other style.