Any old school gamers here

[gdogghenrikson]

Any one here play any old school games (1980-1990 era consules)

[Hellcat]

held on to my NES until '98 when it finally failed, been playing the SNES since it's release. Amazing the SNES still works 100%, nothing beats the rush of Star Fox :D

[gdogghenrikson]

yea starfox was good

[Sailor Steve]

I still have my old Atari 520ST and Silent Service, Their Finest Hour, Oids and WizBall to play on it.

I had to vote NO, though, as it's been several years since I actually got it out and played any of those.

[blue3golf]

Still play the old intellivision every now and again, some sega.

[Egan]

PLay the occasional Text based rpg and a very occasional blast of stuff like Elite and Lords of Midnight on a Speccy Emulator. Them were the days...sigh.

I remember way back when you got free games with computer magazines - only problem is that they were 50 pages of code at the back of the mag and you had to program them in yourself!

[Squires]

I have SNES I still play regularly. I never got into the new systems. MY college roommate had an Xbox and a Gamecube and I just could never handle the controls very well(but I can hold my own on a PC with a keyboard, go figure). Still have a working atrai 2600 at my grandparents house as well as one of these:
http://www.consoledatabase.com/images/consoleinfo/ballyastrocade/ballyastrocadeconsole.jpg

[sonar732]

For the ultimate collection...

http://cgi.ebay.com/Atari-Coleco-Nintendo-Sony-Intellivision-Systems_W0QQitemZ8279378753QQcategoryZ4315QQrdZ1QQ cmdZViewItem

:rock:

[HM.Medico]

Yehu

I often play Snake, Battle Of Midway (yea the old top down one) and mortal combat...when I'm not playing brand new games (half often-ish)

[Sailor Steve]

I still have my old Atari, but I never use it any more.

I do, however, still play the same tabletop miniatures games I've had since 1977.

[d@rk51d3]

Play all the old consoles and pc's on my PSP. And recently picked up an old fluoro mini-tabletop u-boat game. 1 Player plays as the destroyer, the other side plays the u-boat. Made by Namco-Bandai, picked it up off ebay for $10.:sunny:

[NiclDoe]

O God this has to be hard. I remember the Early games like Centipedia or the milli version. And who could remember missle command 92 verision. i feel very old inside and think i need a cane. :doh: Rampage was another classic and i loved to attack NYC. Pong is he oldest to date and loved it even though i played the PC vesion with the old grphics.

[Stealth Hunter]

TONS of old games:

-Pong
-Mario Brothers
-Super Mario
-Red Baron
-Red Baron 3D
-Aces Over Europe
-Achtung! Spitfire!
-Sim City
-Command: Aces of the Deep
-Beyond the Titanic

AND MANY MORE...

[THE_MASK]

A pinball machine is what i want .

[STEED]

Atari 2600 was my first then the Sega Mega Drive which I still go on from time to time but no new modern one on the grounds of cost.

[SUBMAN1]

Had one of the first NES consoles way back when through a trial type program. Games were hard to find back then, so I ended up selling it, light gun, and gyro robot as well for about $130. I didn't sell it before I put countless hours on Super Mario Bro's though.

-S

[Janus]

I still have my NES console, but there are emulation programs and lots of ROMs for the NES ;)

[SUBMAN1]

I still have my NES console, but there are emulation programs and lots of ROMs for the NES ;)And Nintendo still makes a mint off these old games. You can even buy them for the Wii now through their online service.

-S

[Janus]

NES games emulated on the Wii? That's funny, I wish old PC games would always work on newer operating systems so well but that is a different sotry.

I wonder what is the price for a single NES game for Wii, or are they sold bundled in packs of 3 or more games?

[NeonSamurai]

Ok lets please steer away from the "emulation scene" discussion as it is technically not legal (even if you previously owned the games and did not sell them, the legality of that is very gray indeed.) unless the game has been officially released by the license holder as a form of freeware. Last i checked the copyrights had not expired for any video game ever made yet (I believe the copyright lasts in the neighborhood of 50 years or something to that effect).

[Captain Vlad]

Was a big adventure gamer. Still have copies of Police Quest 1, 2, 3, and (alas) 4, Liesure Suit Larry III, and a few others. All time favorites were the Quest for Glory games. Have all of them, replay them about once every two years or so.

Have very fond memories of Deja Vu for NES. Wasteland for PC was another favorite, as were the old SSI 'Gold Box' games...especially the ones using the Buck Rogers license.

Anyone remember SEAL Team?

[Melonfish]

the game that got me into SH3 was Silent Service II on my amiga, i still love that game. every so often i dig out my emulator and play it. class indeed. gone are the days of my beloved amiga however, she sits forlorn in the cupboard dreaming of happier days when lemmings exploded, strange blue putty fought numerous animated food items and saddam felt the might of my power through the apache gunship.

*sigh*

pete

[Kapitan_Phillips]

A couple I've been playing recently:

Police Quest 1-4
Sam and Max
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis


and Maniac Mansion.

My entire family couldnt complete that when I had it for Commodore. Thats about 12 years, and no-one could. Bastard of a game.

[Ilpalazzo]

I still have an Atari 2600 and an NES. I also have a Sega Genesis but I dunno if that's old enough for this discussion. My atari controllers don't work so good and the hookup cables are a mess. I can usually get the NES to work by blowing into the console or cartridges LOL, classic.

Don't really play them anymore because they don't work so good, but every now and then I seem to 'rediscover' them and enjoy myself for an afternoon.

[nikimcbee]

I like Close Combat series (3-5):up: 5 was too easy though. 3 is timeless!

[nikimcbee]

1984 best games:
http://gotcha.classicgaming.gamespy.com/1984n.htm

[HunterICX]

Panzer General and Close combat series come to my mind of good old games :D

[Reaves]

Atari here and we had some weird thing before that.

First PC was an XT with CGA monitor.

[NefariousKoel]

I have SNES I still play regularly. I never got into the new systems. MY college roommate had an Xbox and a Gamecube and I just could never handle the controls very well(but I can hold my own on a PC with a keyboard, go figure). Still have a working atrai 2600 at my grandparents house as well as one of these:
http://www.consoledatabase.com/images/consoleinfo/ballyastrocade/ballyastrocadeconsole.jpg

OMG! I remember playing that one! Had the pistol-grip joysticks with the knob on top and a trigger for a button.:rotfl:

[nikimcbee]

I played my first sub game on a VIC 20.