Submitted 22 hours ago by catty@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
Are they the ‘epics’ of their time, or some things that are less well known?
I bloody loved Harry The Handsome Executive. It was an Ambrosia Software shareware game from the 90s and was surprisingly underrated. Will probably run on Infinite Mac but it never got an OS X port or anything
shareware gave rise to some truly original and awe-inspiring games, and then some like this: mattyongames.wordpress.com/2008/…/grandad-quest/
Yes! And that’s amazingly similar to Harry (but also completely different) - Harry goes around the various offices on his swivel chair (backwards, because kicking off things is of course easier) and fires staples at malfunctioning robots
Crash Bandicoot 2: Wrath of Cortex. Original hardware, Muscle memory from childhood. Still a banger 27 years after my first time.
Squarez Deluxe
I still play some of my old school Pokemon games from time-to-time such as Red, Silver, Ruby, and Platinum.
Thunder force 4 or lightning force in my youth was a really fun game. Played it to death on the Genesis. It still holds up. I still play it from time to time.
I’m so happy to see this mentioned. It also has an incredible OST.
The fan stuff is excellent as well:
Heavy Instrumental Metal:
The original Legend of Zelda. I still have it on cartridge and every once in a while I’ll just steamroll the entire game and whoop Ganon’s ass. I can usually do it in about 4 hours.
I don’t use any glitches or speedrun optimizations, I just know where everything is and what order to do things in.
I had a small binder full of hand drawn maps of both overworlds and all the dungeons. I wish i still had that. It got pretty ragged from many friends borrowing it. What a great unlocked memory from my childhood.
I have been considering a second quest play lately. All these years I have never played the second quest.
I started recently. I’m keen to finish it.
Hat-Trick Hockey, World Games etc.
Quite a few, but the one that I’ve played the most is Super Metroid. I do like to play through the different Mega Man games too and a few others, but they are almost all well known games.
I have rediscovered other games that I totally overlooked because I thought they were too kiddy or too hard like The NewZealand Story, Gimmick and so many shmups.
Most of them! Well, not regularly. But I love going back to the games and consoles of my earlier days.
My favourites are the 16-bit and early 32-bit eras
Star citizen
Every so often I will fire up my copy of Mega Man 2 and run through it.
Mega man is SO hard. I struggle to get anywhere. But, that music. I LOVE it.
Yes the music in the Mega Man games is legendary
linkinkampf19@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
I’ve been on a Doom kick for a bit, although it’s modified to retain some more current gen flair. Just finished Going Down Turbo with Project Brutality. Is it faithful to the OG? Not quite, but it’s truly amazing how far the the engine has come despite being heavily modified in its own right.