Okay, so who here on Bluesky actually PLAYS Retro Games?
If you do, let me know your favorite consoles and titles. 👾
If you do, let me know your favorite consoles and titles. 👾
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Crazy Taxi, Skies of Arcadia, Shadowrun
Bully
Fire Pro Wrestling Returns
Robot Alchemic Drive
True Crime: Streets of LA
NHL Hitz
WWE Smackdown SYM and HCTP
Everybody's Golf
Mercenaries
PS1, Final Fantasy 7 & 8
All the classic Pokémon games, Super Mario World and Super Metroid instantly come to mind 👌
It's also got some of the greatest games like Time Splitter 1-3, Red Faction, Ring of Red, Magic Pengel and its sequel Graffiti Kingdom. Some arcade ports like Crazy Taxi and MVC2, CVS2
Just about every game on the SNES slaps but it doesn't beat the PS2 because..... PS2 did it all and SNES only played SNES games and not even foreign SNES games
But I still mean natively
Like, you can mod a PS1 with a spring and hot swap discs
Fav Console: Sega Genesis
Titles: Sonic 1, CV:BL, Rocket Knight, Shadow Dancer
My fav titres would be Streets of Rage, Quackshot, Golden Axe, Toejam & Earl, Ghouls’n Ghosts, Castle of Illusion... and so on.
I don't know if counts as retro, but I'm playing bunch of DS games currently (recently Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside)
Favorite retro console: DOS, just too many memories.
Favorite retro title: Super Panic Monsters, first local multiplayer I played.
Bonus track: Heretic. Love it. I would love to be able to play it again in my Switch.
NES: Super Mario Bros. 3
SNES: Super Mario World
N64: Super Mario 64
GC: Super Smash Bros. Melee
Master System: Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap
Genesis: Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
PS1: Klonoa: Door to Phantomile
I have LOT of home consoles and games.
SNES — SimCity, A Link to the Past, Super Metroid
Mega Drive — Flashback, Eternal Champions, Sonic Spinball
Retro lineup locked in 🔒✨
Intellivision's Tron Deadly Discs is cool.
Love retro arcade cabinets too (like Tempest). And old Genesis and NES games.
I tried Pitfall and Yars Revenge for the first time recently and was surprised just how fun they still are! 🤯
Fav retro system is probably Sega Genesis or NeoGeo. Close tie there.
Genesis had a lot of good and memorable adventure and RPGs for me, NeoGeo is where I found the Shmups that I still love playing to this day.
Lemmings
Speed ball 2
Defender of the crown
Streetfighter 2 Turbo
F15 Strike eagle
Hired guns
PS2 - Shadow Hearts series
GB - Pokemon Yellow
3/DS - Bravely Default & TWEWY
Current track down goal, FF3 remake for the 3DS. It's a fantastic game and my copy went missing. 😭 FF16 has me itching to play it again.
The DS one had a pedometer feature that was a very fun gimmick with village monsters. I'm not sure how they plan to handle that with the switch 2.
Honestly, the touch screen feature for the switch was severely underused by developers, in my opinion.
As for which game to play... Avoiding stuff that's on most top 10 lists 😉 I recommend you play NINJA GAIDEN SHADOW.
FYI press Up + B for special attack and Up + A for grapple hook.
Metal Gear Solid 1-3 are my favorites, I also loved Ape Escape, the old licensed movie tie-in superhero games, Kingdom Hearts, God of War, Resident Evil and Devil May Cry, Dino Crisis, Castlevania: SOTN, Parasite Eve, Ratchet and Clank, Jak & Daxter, GTA, Max Payne, Tekken, MvC, The Sims
Favourite titles: Sonic 2, Zelda II, Final Fantasy VII. And then a whole buncha others after that, but those are my big three.
🎮 Thunderforce 3 from Sega, NES Zelda & Skyward Sword HD, Mario 3, Mike Tyson’s Punchout, Double Dragon, D&D The Treasure Of Tarmin, Burgertime!, DIABLO 2…
Too many to list 😃
But I'll say that if someone ever makes a reproduction of the Vectrex, I'm buying one because I loved the limited time I spent playing it as a kid and the built in game Mine Storm is still fun today!
But how about making them?
I'm an indie NES dev!
1. Gamecube
2. Playstation 1
3. Either Playstation 3 or Nintendo Wii.
Games:
1. Final Fantasy VII
2. Metal Gear Solid
3. Beyond Good & Evil
4. Deus Ex
5. Link's Awakening
6. The Longest Journey
7. The Wind Waker
8. Ape Escape
9. Spyro 2
10. Life Is Strange
My favourite game has always been Earthbound, to the point where I speedran it (glitchless any% and PJ% specifically)
Other 16bit faves are Chrono Trigger, DKC1-3, ALTTP, Bomberman, Kirby Superstar, SMRPG and I got a little soft spot for Rocky Rodent & Goof Troop
But even going back further I won't be upset, N64 has majora/banjo, SNES has Kirby super star and Mario all stars, and even NES has Mario 3 and Kirby
I don't have the characters to list all the retro games I love! 🎮
PS1 - Crash Bandicoot 2 and 3. Spyro 1-3. THPS 2 and Tarzan.
Sega Master System - Sonic 1 and 2. Alex Kidd in Miracle World
It’s some combo of N64, Original Xbox, Dreamcast and PS1… and I guess 360 if we’ve reached that point already
Right?
Yeaaaa kinda 😬
He’s actually playing SM64 right now
All seriousness, I love ps1 games, I always get excited to see them ported/remastered/remade
In terms of games give me Project Justice (Dreamcast), Shining Force 3 (Saturn), or Golden Sun (GBA) and I'm a happy gamer
mainly im afraid that 1 day im gonna plug in my ps1 to find it stopped working😰😱
Super Metroid on the SNES
Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast
"Legend of Dragoon"
The story is awesome,
the Additions are [Addicting to try to land & learn!
Even if some party members are obv better than others & it sucks that mechanically Shana is mostly just good for taking down 'special' variety monsters but hey-
[GIF]
And my favorite consoles are PS2, Wii and DS. I love the jrpgs they got like Kingdom Hearts, The Last Story, Solatorobo, Final fantasy and more.
2600 - Private Eye, Galaxian
NES - Contra, Castlevania
Genesis - Virtua Racing 32X, Vectorman, Aladdin
PSX - Symphony of the Night, Ridge Racer, Rally Cross 1/2, Warhawk, Williams Classics
Dreamcast - San Francisco Rush, Soul Calibur, Zombie Revenge, Daytona
As for games.. way too many to list lol, name an rpg from any of those and I probably enjoyed it.
Can't go wrong with Mario, Kirby, Mega Man, Banjo Kazooie, Turtles in Time either, just to name a handful.
Fave titles: Chrono Trigger, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Secret of Evermore
Last year was a lot of SNES play
I play a little San Francisco Rush, WCW vs NWO: World Tour, Mario Kart 64, etc.
I have also been playing some GameCube games: Shadow the Hedgehog, Madagascar, Lego Star Wars, Kirby Air Ride, and The Hobbit.
But,
N64; Quest 64, Kirby 64, Yoshi's Story, Snowboard Kids, LOZ
Gamecube: Final Fantasy CC, SoulCaliber 2, Custom Robo, Amazing Island, Virtua Quest
PS1: Digimon World 3, Megaman X
PS2: .Hack (original series) Dark Cloud
and so much more tbh!
I'm a huge JRPG fan and my some of my favorite titles are Final Fantasy XI, Shadow Hearts 1 & 2, Suikoden 2, Star Ocean 2, Breath of Fire 4, Front Mission 3 and Persona 4.
NES - Mega Man 2&3
SNES - Mega Man X
N64 - Ocarina of Time
GameCube - Timesplitters 2
Wii - WarioWare Smooth Moves
Switch - Breath of the Wild
GB - Link's Awakening
GBC - Pokémon Crystal
GBA - Link to the Past
DS - Resident Evil Deadly Silence
3DS - Majora's Mask
I'll play some ratchet and clank, nba and NFL street, def jam, Tekken, Mortal Kombat, ultimate Spiderman.
1.Pikmin
2. Billy Hatcher
Nintendo 64
1.Diddy Kong Racing
2.Donkey Kong 64
Super Nintendo
1.Power Rangers
2.Super Mario World... or whatever that super mario was called.
Playing Sonic 1, 2, 3 and Knuckles on the Megadrive always feels like home.
Crazy Taxi, always good for a hit of chaos.
Sega Rally because to this day I'm obsessed with trying to beat my own lap times!
Always replaying the mainline Pokémon games, Digimon, Resident Evil, Fire Emblem, Beyond Good & Evil, YuGiOh Forbidden Memories & Duelist of the Roses, Fatal Frame.. ❤️ and many more, of course 😀
NES: Kirby's Adventure, EarthBound Beginnings, TMNT 3, DuckTales
SNES: EarthBound, Chrono Trigger, FF6, DKC, Mario RPG
PS1: FF7, Tomba, Suikoden 1 & 2, Grandia, Lunar 1 & 2, THPS 2
GB/GBC: Link's Awakening, Pokemon gens 1 & 2, Bionic Commando Elite Forces
GBA: Drill Dozer, Mother 3, Golden Sun 1 & 2
Saturn: NiGHTS Into Dreams
Dreamcast: Skies of Arcadia, Project Justice, Sonic Adventure 2, Grandia 2
Xbox: Jet Set Radio Future, Jade Empire
PS2: FX-2, KH2 (+ I have a lot of memories of playing PS1 games on the PS2 when I bought stuff like Tomb Raider and FF during the PS3 gen lol)
PS1
Saturn
NES
Mario, Mega Man, Final Fantasy, Street Fighter, Resident Evil.
PS1: Front Mission 3, Terracon, and Suikoden
Mega Drive: Streets of Rage II, Starflight, Shining Force II
Wii: Last Story, Metroid Prime 3, Excite Truck
PS2: War of the Monsters, Onimusha 2, Ace Combat 4
Glad I was wrong. xD Awesome game.
I really should try the sequel, it was never released in my country.
N64: Pokemon Snap, Banjo-Kazooie, Wetrix
PS2: Shadow of the Colossus, Island Xtreme Stunts, EverGrace
Mario, Castlevania, Sonic, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Zelda, Metroid, Street Fighter, Panzer Dragoon, Soul Calibur, F-Zero
Favorite consoles: N64, GameCube, PS2
Favorite games: Chrono Trigger, Mario 64, Wario Land 4, Cubivore, Sonic Adventure 1&2, Half-Life, Katamari Damacy
It's hard to explain why but it's just REALLY good! Like, it's yet another collectathon, but it does everything just a little bit better. 🤔
SNES fave: Secret of Mana
GameCube fave : Xtreme G Racing
Saturn fave: Grandia!
Yes!
My favorite console is the Gamecube, and my favorite game for it is Melee. But my favorite game of all time is Chrono Trigger (which I wanna find time to beat)
I mostly play Dragon Warrior Randomizer and DW2 Randomizer, and occassionally try to speedrun the vanilla games.
I also play Tecmo Super Bowl, I play in several 1v1 online Tecmo leagues, and travel to in person Tecmo tournaments a few times a year.
SNES and the titles would be Mario RPG and Harvest Moon.
PS1 and the titles would be FFT and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Sega Saturn and the title is Dragon Force.
I need to change that.
Have you considered playing more retro games and not embodying hypocrisy?
Nope, not gonna say it.
Gonna take the high road as you have...bc you must be high trying to come for me!
We got scolded for the betting, but we all had fun.
Chrono Trigger
Super Metroid
Final Fantasy III
Earthbound
Soul Blazer
And many more :)
Some of my favorites are: the Castlevania series, Mega Man Series, Zelda Series, Metroid Series, Street Fighter Series, etc. too many games to mention!
But my favourite consoles were NES, N64 and Gamecube. Snes too but I didn’t spend as much time on that generation and had to play most of my favourite games on that emulated (poorly in some cases) since they never released here.
I’m sure I’ve missed heaps but that’s what comes to mind atm.
PS2: Galactic Wrestling, Radiata Stories, Tekken Tag Tournament
Genesis: Aladdin, Fatal Fury 2, NHL ‘96
My current retro game plays are Transformers (PS2) and We <3 Katamari
Favorite games: Street Fighter II, Mortal Kombat II, Sonic Adventure 2, Super Mario World, Halo, Resident Evil 2, God of War and Metal Gear Solid
Some of my favorite retro games are Super Mario World, Sonic 2/3&K, Pokemon Gold/Silver, and Crash Bandicoot Warped.
Came out as a launch title for the US.
I’m even running Dragon Warrior II rando tonight at 10pm Eastern on https://twitch.tv/finalfantasyrandomizer as part of their Summer Rando Marathon.
Also, all those Metroid games on NSO
So for example, I played Red, Yellow, Silver, Sapphire, etc. Now I'm playing Blue, Gold, Ruby, etc.
Currently on a side playthrough of Gold!
Oh, shoutout to Mega Man Legends 1, too.
Sega Saturn: Fighting Vipers and Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
Dreamcast: Jet Set Radio and Project Justice
Xbox: Jet Set Radio Future and Dance Dance Revolution Ultramix 1-4
Xbox 360: DeathSmiles and Portal series
Silent hill 1
Metal gear solid
Spyro
Tomb raider
Medal of Honor underground
Need for speed hot pursuit
Road rash
Medieval 1&2
Bubsy 3D
Dragon Warriors, Final Fantasys, Chrono Trigger…
GB Prince of Persia,Links awakening,final fantasy adventure,castlevania adventure 2
SNES link to the past,DKC 1&2, super metroid
PSX MGS,Wild Arms,Grandia,xenogears
PS2 Ico,FFX&XII
Gamecube Soul cal2,metroid prime,Eternal Darkness
genesis: all Sonic games / Castlevania bloodlines / Comix zone/ all the disney games
Snes: mario all star/ super castlevania 4 / mega man x 1 2 & especially 3 / super metriod
I still regularly use his crystal Xbox that he got in 2004. Plus I've enjoyed a lot of the N64's game library thanks to him.
SNES: Super Empire Strikes back
N64: Starfox 64
PS1: FF8
PS2 Kingdom Hearts 2
Gameboy: Pokémon Red/blue
GameBoy - Link’s Awakening
SNES - Super Metroid
Genesis - Gunstar Heroes
N64 - OoT
GameBoy Advance - MegaMan Battle Network
DS - The World Ends With You
I’ve replayed all of these at some point in the last few years. All classics/favorites. Retro is never out of style!