Old school video games

[niftypebble21]

I'm feeling very nostalgic thought about some old school childhood video games i used to play with my bro on his commodore amiga computer the games were on retro floppy disk

I looked up online free commodore amiga computer games awesomely found a web site where can play some fun 80s / 90s games free online here:

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2019/0...-your-browser/

I have lots of fond sentimental memories playing 'Nebulus' , 'Lemmings' , Batman, Test drive and so many others

If you want to share dicuss chat about any old school retro video games y'all are welcome to post here on this thread

[tumbling.dice]

Ha! Great thread idea!

Mid 80s we had the Atari 2600. My brother, two cousins and I would stay up until sunrise playing that thing. Great memories!

Pitfall!


Yars Revenge


Frogger

[niftypebble21]

I like to play the Pitfall game looks lots of fun!

[niftypebble21]

One of my fav karate amiga games 'IK+' 'International Karate' and love the super retro electronic looping 80s music too😎💕

[niftypebble21]

[Din Djarin]

Ha! Great thread idea!

Mid 80s we had the Atari 2600. My brother, two cousins and I would stay up until sunrise playing that thing. Great memories!

Pitfall!


Yars Revenge


Frogger

Same, we also had an Atari in the late 80s. Only recall Frogger though, and some singleplayer racing game. It was fun at the time but am over these kind of games now. In fact, I almost forget about the Atari if I think about when I got into gaming: usually take the N64 and games like Duke Nukem on (my dads work) PC as starting point. Oh and Prince of Persia of course

[Din Djarin]

Then, somewhere in the 90s they made a 3d game of Prince of Persia that I was eager to try out of nostalgia. Freaking loved that one! Also had a very solid story and a heartbreaking romantic ending :-D

Hm, it was already 2003 when that one came out I see..! Definitely a hoot. Prince of Persia - The sands of time

[neonspectraltoast]

Commodore 64 was my first console. Mom picked one up at a garage sale sometime around 86 or 87. Gorf, Q-Bert, Seawolf, and Blueprint were all games I liked to play. It wasn't til around 89 that dad surprised us one afternoon, out of the blue, with a Nintendo. In the 90s I was all about the Sega Genesis.

[lode]

Commodore 64 here too. I loved this game Archon which was like battle chess a bit. Must have been 5, it was before I got a Nintendo.

[tumbling.dice]

...It wasn't til around 89 that dad surprised us one afternoon, out of the blue, with a Nintendo. ...

My bro got a Nintendo around that time, but it was after I had left home. I remember playing the first Legend Of Zelda when I visited.

[neonspectraltoast]

Zelda is probably my favorite series. I owned the second one, Adventure of Link.

[niftypebble21]

love Legends of Zelda classic series🧝💚

[Undies]

NES was my first console. Although I did have a floppy disk for our original MS DOS computer that included a lot of those Atari games too.

As a general rule, I like to play really old games or relatively new games. New games are great for obvious reasons, but they tend to be so huge they require hours of learning and it takes literally days to get through. Old games are great for a quick pick up and play experience. Games in between, while they were great at the time, now they are too big for pick up and play but too outdated for the things that make newer games great.

The main exception I can think of is RPGs. Try playing any JRPG on NES now and you'll consider suicide before you're done. Those really started to get good around the PS1 era and have generally just kept improving since.

[neonspectraltoast]

Do you know about emulators, nifty? You can play old games on your computer.

[niftypebble21]

hi neon,
yup i've heard of emulators but i've not done much research looking it up online🤔

[neonspectraltoast]

It's not too complicated. Emulators are different consoles and roms are different games.

[tumbling.dice]

Do you know about emulators, nifty? You can play old games on your computer.

I've never gotten those to work well. I've never gotten a joystick perfectly calibrated. Also, the screen will freeze for inexplicable (to me) reasons.

[Mustard Tiger]

Barbarian was a cool game on Amiga I think.
Sword fighting and if you did a spinning strike you could chop off the opponents head then a little dude would come out and drag the body off while kicking the head off the screen.

[Undies]

I've never gotten those to work well. I've never gotten a joystick perfectly calibrated. Also, the screen will freeze for inexplicable (to me) reasons.

in my experience, they work great for old consoles, but as the console gets more advanced you run into more and more problems with the emulators. there's also so many different emulators for each console, i'm sure some work much better than others.

i haven't had great luck with joysticks either. luckily, i mostly use emulators for games that were meant to be played with the old fashioned d-pad. although even that can be troublesome with diagonals.

[tumbling.dice]

For Zelda / OoT my joystick trouble was trying to make sharp turns. My character would kind of get "stuck" or something, slow down and shit. Very frustrating. I'm totally old school on that now. Gradually buying used N64s and Zelda V1.0 cartridges as I find them. Got some great glitches on that one.