Rhynoplaz

Maybe not that long, but they were long enough. We didn’t have 70" HD screens back then, and if you sat further back than 3’ you couldn’t see shit!

On Super Mario World, did you go through the Star Road and find the alternate exits for every level with a red dot? I feel like that’s the hard mode.

Yeah, Bowser would hit the highest speeds, but if you hit a wall or a shell, it would take forever to get going again.

I’m just commenting here because I have a stack of Master System ROMs, but no idea which ones were worth trying out.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ll be back later to judge each of them.

Where I come from, that’s called the warm up.

The gateway depends on what genre grabs you.

I’ve gone back and played a TON of ROMS in the past few years. Some were old favorites, some for the first time, and 80% of them are trash.

That’s not me hating on retro games, I play those more than anything else, but some companies were cranking out anything they could for those old systems.

On average, I lose interest in most retro games in under ten minutes (because it’s just not good). But the ones that grab me, I play for weeks until I’ve finished it.

Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country are great side scrollers. Final fantasy 5 (translated) and 6 (published as 3 in the US) have been my favorite RPGs. I enjoyed Super Metroid much more than Castlevania even though they get clumped together in the same genre. Tetris & Dr Mario are great puzzle games.

Others have mentioned emulation, and I second it. I have a hacked SNES Mini with everything from Colecovision to PlayStation.

Why buy one console when you can have them all?

I’m with you. I still call him Robotnik, but I also still expect Sonic to sound like Steve Urkell.

We spent SOOO many nights playing Bears and Squirrels!

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Yup. Meets all the criteria. Congratulations!

You really are a hero. I got stuck in Death Mountain and just haven’t gone back. That is not an easy game.

I just beat this game today!

If Atari was the infancy of video games, then the N64 must be the awkward puberty years.

That’s where I was until about 5 years ago when I bought a used N64 so I could play those greats again, and after about a week, I never touched it again. Still playing my Super though!

Definitely SNES. A few years ago I might have said N64, but I’ve realized that there were very few good games for the 64.

Pretty sure I learned about Bagu’s hut in Nintendo Power! 😂

I started a run a while ago and got stuck in Death Mountain. That game is MUCH harder than the first Zelda.

It holds up SO WELL!

Sometime’s you go back to an old favorite and you can’t figure out how you played it for so long back in the day. But Mario World, despite being the first game for it, is still one of, if not THE best SNES game.

Fuck those ghost houses though.

I’ve started Earthbound maybe three times, and I’ve enjoyed it each time, but for whatever reason, I’d forget about it for a few years and start it over.

Right now I’m in the final stages of Final Fantasy V (Translated Super Famicom ROM). So far it’s one of my favorite old RPGs. The pacing is perfect for me. When I get to a new area, I’m leveled enough to hold my own without grinding, but the bosses usually require a few attempts as I learn their weaknesses and tweak my strategy. The Jobs system is pretty neat because you can mix and match abilities.

There was a Tiny Tunes cartoon maker as well.