What is your best loved console games from the earlier game consoles? For example super Nintendo?
NintendoNES: Dr. Mario, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros. 3, The Legend of ZeldaGB: Link’s AwakeningSNES: Super Mario All-Stars + Super Mario World, Super Mario Kart, A Link to the PastGBC: Oracle of Ages, Oracle of SeasonsN64: Diddy Kong Racing, Mario Kart 64, Ocarina of Time, Majora’s MaskGBA: Minish Cap, Mario Kart: Super CircuitGameCube: Twilight Princess, Wind Waker, Mario Kart: Double Dash!!PlayStationPS1: SpyroPS2: Katamari DamacyXbox: Midtown Madness 3, Halo: Combat EvolvedSega Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog, Phantasy Star, Ecco the Dolphin
What video games have stood the test of time that despite the new game technologies introduced are still fun to play?
Battlefield 4. It’s considered old by many of my friends with it nearing 6 years old but it’s still amazing. The campaign isn’t as good the third or fourth time around but the multiplayer keeps me coming back. For me I could play the base maps for the next twenty years and still enjoy the game even if I had the dlc (I only got the dlc when they became free). To me the multiplayer has always been amazing and stellar, I hated BF hardline because it was different and then BF1 came around and I felt the similarities but I also loved the new mechanics with reviving and the weapons were exciting. But for me I could always go back to the AKU or my the G36C and run around the map killing others, shooting down helicopters, being a tanker, and so on. It was the game that got me into the franchise (BF3 was what made me want to play a Battlefield title), to this day I will get on with friends and goof off. Sniping at enemies from 400m+ while prone hoping you aren’t seem by the enemies, being able to juke bad tank drivers and burning them with the repair tool, or even having that person jump out to kill you and get themselves killed and give you a tank.Parachuting for a massive flank. Omg I need to get the disk put back in..The game mechanics were amazing! Many of my friends agree and most have regretted selling their disks because they miss out on the excitement of tanks, APCs, helicopters, jets, and so on in one battlefield causing chaos with the maps being massive.Omg I can’t stop sounding like a fanboy.. But yes BF4, it’s definitely worth your $$
What was your first video game system?
March 18th 1984 I was 6 and this was months before my life got turned upside down. I got this for my birthday. I was ecstatic! A TRS-80 Color Computer with 16k of ram and extended basic. The picture below is missing the extended basic emblem but elsewise is identical. This would be hooked to a TV as your monitor.I had two games one was Mega-Bug and the other was Skiing. Both came on game cartridges that plugged into the side of the TRS-80 much like an Atari cartridge did.I can't even describe how hard this game was. The magnified portion of the maze covered up part of the level so you never exactly knew where the bugs were. In order to get all of the white dots you often had to go down long dead ends which meant that you might turn down to get the last ones in a corner and not realize that several bugs were already on your tail and there was no escape. You could sometimes fool the bugs as they would eat the little blue dots you left behind so if you went around in circles sometimes they would follow the wrong way around the circle and loose you. If not you would get pinned and eaten. It would then say "We Gotcha!" and restart after playing a short version of La Cucaracha. It was like a huge, super hard version of Pac Man but with no Power Pills!At six years old I had already fallen in love with computers. I was copying programs out of the basic and extended basic programming manuals and then running them. To save your programs the computer would export the program to an audio tape drive as sound then you would play the tape to load it again.It was basically this.Yes, it was just a basic tape recorder and you could use the recorder to copy music off the radio and play it too just like any other recorder. There was nothing much special about it except the computer could plug into it and control it.To anyone that asks yes I was pretty smart for a six year old. I had a 12th grade reading level and was able to understand how to write programs. Mostly I was just coping the stuff out of the book and following instructions but occasionally I would try to write my own stuff too based on the examples and lessons in the books.