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Sharing the love for playing retro videogames.
I forgot I pre-ordered a retrousb AVS. looks like orders are shipping September.
💬 2 likes · 2023-07-19 · 3 days ago
What games have you been playing recently? — Lately I've been playing my Wii a ton (feels weird calling it retro, but it's not getting any younger either), which has been a blast. Current games I'm working through are: The Sims 3: runs like garbage, is buggy and convoluted, and yet it's been a ton of fun despite that Pikmin 2: I have no idea what I'm doing, the UI is incredibly extra, the gameplay is very fun so far. Haven't played any other Pikmin games before, but I'm figuring it out.
💬 13 comments · 2023-07-11 · 11 days ago
What are your favorite PS2 titles? — While some may not consider it "retro" as such, as a younger millennial I spent most of my childhood gaming on a Sony PlayStation 2. I was especially fond of the Jak and Daxter and Splinter Cell series. Since re-acquiring a fat PS2 as an adult, I've been eager to check out some of the more obscure (in the US at least) titles out there. I've been working my way through King's Field IV and Nightmare of Druaga lately. I'd love to hear what other folks'...
💬 10 comments · 2023-07-05 · 2 weeks ago
Crusader of Centy (Sega Genesis) — Crusader of Centy just dropped for subscribers to the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion membership! I've seen a few YouTube channels call this out as one of Genesis' best games, including the SNES Drunk channel. It's pretty clearly a Zelda clone, but with it's own twist with useful and unique animal companions. I had a ROM all ready to go, but personally I just don't like gaming on my laptop (and I haven't purchased one of those handheld emulator devices yet)...
💬 2 comments · 2023-06-28 · 3 weeks ago
Terminal games What are your favourite games playable in a terminal? Here are a few I've loved and/or respected: Interactive fiction / text adventure games, e.g. Spider & Web, Varicella, Worlds Apart, Galatea, Counterfeit Monkey, Hadean Lands nethack, crawl, brogue asciiportal alienwave hunt mdg (sadly defunct multiplayer dungeon crawler on sdf) spellbinding and other gemini games (if they should count)
💬 11 comments · 1 like · 2023-06-22 · 4 weeks ago
What is considered retro? I feel like this might be a personal definition in some cases. I've got a 3ds that's been broken for ages, hoping to get it to a repair shop this week so I can finally play a bunch of my old 3ds games. To me this feels retro because the system is 12 years old already. At the same time it was jarring to go to the retro game shop a few weeks ago and see a bunch of wii u games and systems, even though that's 11 years old now.
💬 15 comments · 2023-06-21 · 5 weeks ago