Findmartin

Interesting read, I must say I agree with all of them for the most part. 
 
12 Things We Miss The Most About Retro Gaming - Goliath
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Happy belated to  @IRaMPaGe @Findmartin @CookYouVillain @BoroVC @Plumbers Crack @jordie1892 @Commander_Undies and @ChaosGladiator !! 🤘
 
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Cheers folks!  I hope you all had and have great days!

Thank you folks 🙂

So my current focus is gameboy related as i am a bit skint atm so looking out for cheaper games that i want in my collection (hoping for a big splurge on retro stuff when my wife returns to work in january).
 
My last purchase was this -

 
The gbc version is more of a traditional rpg in the mould that I quite enjoy and this cost me less than a fiver (i have just put a bid on chamber of secrets gbc on ebay as well). The games went in a different route once they hit the gba

Picked up a few SNES games last week. Final Fight is an absolute must. Was kind of a lesser game to Streets of Rage but it was still great to play. Always wanted to get into The Lost Vikings too.
 
And any old golf game is a steal. 😎

My younger brother and I used to do that with Retaliation. Two PS1s linked up, was hours of fun. 
Mammoth tanks OP. 
I loved the V2 Rocket Tanks as well and the Tesla towers of course. 
Sometimes we would have a 20 minute buildup No Attacking. Then it would be chaos. 
We used to throw in a few Ai as well sometimes, but it was always obvious who the Ai was by the way they built and what they built. They played a certain way, was always a dead giveaway. 
We wouldn't tell each other which colour we were at the start and turn the tvs the other way so we couldn't see. 

I played Street Racer once around a random mate I had back in Secondary school. Underrated I must say, especially when you could play a Mario Kart football gamemode. Track and Field is absolute iconic. I had a chipped version of a PS1 so my Dad would just grab this game from my Uncle who would do it as and when. I lost my disc for this but managed to find it online for £3.09. Absolute steal. Already tried to do Weightlifting and then Rowing. I always felt like i'd do well until someone looked at me and made me laugh cos i was likely pulling a ridiculous face concentrating and smashing the buttons as fast as I could 🥴🤣

EXACTLY THIS!!!
 
Although I won't lie, beating the CPU other 2 teams were a nightmare so what would happen was after 30-45 mins, @Findmartin  and I would just ally up and then make a huge army to take them both on 😎
 
I feel like this would be amazing at a meet up for us all. In fact, I should find a way to build a shed at mine just for this. Amazing memories.

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Yeh the 80s seemed such a cool era but I was 84 so was only a kid of course. I still love the music now though. I like the idea of how professional sports people just mingled in with the public a bit more. And yes I think what you mean about the sports lee is that even the ones who made it lived a more normal lifestyle it seemed, eg snooker and darts players swigging pints and having a fag between games and footballers getting on the sesh every weekend 😂 but there were no camera phones to capture it back then

Yeh the 80s seemed such a cool era but I was 84 so was only a kid of course. I still love the music now though. I like the idea of how professional sports people just mingled in with the public a bit more. And yes I think what you mean about the sports lee is that even the ones who made it lived a more normal lifestyle it seemed, eg snooker and darts players swigging pints and having a fag between games and footballers getting on the sesh every weekend 😂 but there were no camera phones to capture it back then

Yeh the 80s seemed such a cool era but I was 84 so was only a kid of course. I still love the music now though. I like the idea of how professional sports people just mingled in with the public a bit more. And yes I think what you mean about the sports lee is that even the ones who made it lived a more normal lifestyle it seemed, eg snooker and darts players swigging pints and having a fag between games and footballers getting on the sesh every weekend 😂 but there were no camera phones to capture it back then

Yeh the 80s seemed such a cool era but I was 84 so was only a kid of course. I still love the music now though. I like the idea of how professional sports people just mingled in with the public a bit more. And yes I think what you mean about the sports lee is that even the ones who made it lived a more normal lifestyle it seemed, eg snooker and darts players swigging pints and having a fag between games and footballers getting on the sesh every weekend 😂 but there were no camera phones to capture it back then

Yeh the 80s seemed such a cool era but I was 84 so was only a kid of course. I still love the music now though. I like the idea of how professional sports people just mingled in with the public a bit more. And yes I think what you mean about the sports lee is that even the ones who made it lived a more normal lifestyle it seemed, eg snooker and darts players swigging pints and having a fag between games and footballers getting on the sesh every weekend 😂 but there were no camera phones to capture it back then

I've signed up for the beta. Used to love playing the first Overwatch with you guys, so satisfying when you won a game getting the payload over the line in the dying seconds or holding on to a capture point in amongst all the mayhem of a team fight. Like others have said though it seems to have lost its appeal so be interesting to see what OW2 brings.

I've signed up for the beta. Used to love playing the first Overwatch with you guys, so satisfying when you won a game getting the payload over the line in the dying seconds or holding on to a capture point in amongst all the mayhem of a team fight. Like others have said though it seems to have lost its appeal so be interesting to see what OW2 brings.

Yes bud I'm in (fingers crossed i get Bayern 😂)

Haha that is a belter!!

Well, this is the point where my mind would love to go in absolutely every direction but ends up going nowhere 🤣
 
Great start off for the whole new section, I can see many new threads here that hopefully would be worthwhile. I should open by saying I absolutely love older games and enjoy building my collection in the hope one day i have that much spare time, I can start going through all of them and maybe even having people round for retro nights like I used to do even as a kid (17-21 I had 4-5 random TVs in my front room and had multiple all night gaming sessions with friends playing all kinds of stuff).
 
Not sure what pictures wise to share though right now. I have around or just over 30 different types of consoles right now, but by far I love the Sega Mega Drive and SNES the most. No one can beat a game on a cartridge, its just the feeling of uniqueness and wonder when you have to blow the cartridge and slot before putting in and waiting for the relevant loading Sega logo to appear so you know its worked. Plus games back then were all about the fun factor and no extra frillyness that you had to worry about - looking at you loot boxes.
 
One of my other favourite consoles is my Neo Geo CD. Maybe each one deseves their own little thread but for now i'll just say that this console makes you feel like you're back in the arcades playing those games you always wanted/needed £25 to play the whole game through, if you're lucky.
 
Next step for my gaming area is waiting for my turn to have it get updated again, especially with the right storage as thats usually the one thing that stops me playing all my old games. Need a better and slicker system to plug in and play these old consoles without getting stuck with all the wires! 😅

Awesome thread to start dude 😊 thats a cool collection you've got there. I used to love my game boy, i spent many an hour on Super Mario World and Tazmania among mamy others. I never got into the pokemon games though, i just missed that craze lol

nice collection @Luseth , i see you are a fan of pokemon, i think i vaguely remember golden sun, what was it about?
 
anyway here is my gameboy collection, i played these games until i got a pc and later a ps3
 

 
zelda and warrioland though were kicking my ass so much when i was younger, they had some very difficult parts, i remember i was completely stuck on some dungeon/puzzle of zelda and had abandoned the game and only finished it very recently after i saw a walkthrough, so yeah that game took me more than 10 years to finish😅

Seeing as there is a little bit of interest (though this could turn into just Lee and myself talking about old games) I thought I would show off a couple of games in my Gameboy collection. I have never had them graded so for all I know they could be fake 😄 (And I realise as I'm uploading this I didn't take a photo of the pokemon crystal box but it's in pretty good condition. The pokemon games made up a good portion of my youth so it's probably one of my favourite parts of the collection (though I find it difficult to play the games / modern games these days with the exception of Arceus).
 
But yeah thought it would get the ball rolling. I have a pearl blue? GBA SP that comes out every once in a while, sadly find it a bit uncomfortable to hold over longer spells.
 
I tend to only keep hold of games I have particularly enjoyed so the bulk of my collection is made up of JRPG's / single player story driven games and a good portion of it still get's some game time every now and again. My megadrive broke so that's on my to get list again as those games are now sat in a cupboard gathering a nice thick layer of dust ^_^

I remember loving playing these turtles games in the arcades!!!! Definitely tempted to get this, especially since its a relatively cheap one to pick up 😃
 
 

Loved turtles in time back on my snes. I will have to pick this up. 6 player online co-OP with you lot would be awesome! 

Ooooooooh is it? 
 
Fuck. 
 
That changes things. Will have a looksee, loved these games as a kid 😄