#oldgames

[octokaotic]

Toontown Nostalgia posting

[astrorey-king]

WOLOLO YOUR GENDER

[krisrisk]

playing ZanZarah again and omg

oh

the graphics

this is so bad it has me laughing tears

[britemune]

10 Must-Play GameCube Games That Prove 2000s Gaming Was The Best

[pixelarabcom]

تقرير جديد: ألعاب الحاسب الشخصي تواصل التفوق على الأجهزة المنزلية كشف تقرير جديد من وكالة Epyllion عن النمو الكبير لعائدات الألعاب على الحاسب الشخصي مقارنةً بالأجهزة المنزلية خلال العقد الماضي، حيث ارتفعت عائدات ألعاب الحاسب بنسبة تصل إلى 20%، في حين أن مبيعات الألعاب على الأجهزة المنزلية شهدت توقفًا في النمو. هذه الإحصائيات تُظهر تحولًا كبيرًا في تفضيلات اللاعبين، مع استمرار الحاسب الشخصي في

[scott17899]

Some cat asked to borrow my YT Channel to do his Super Mario Bros 3 No Game Over challenge. Here's world 1!

[lotusyiyen]

[oldendaysmedia]

When I was a kid, there was a gardening PC game called "Plantasia." I loved this game. I first got to play it on RealOne Arcade then bought it in adulthood on Big Fish Games. That computer is broken now so I can't play it, and the old computer I bought off Ebay to play this game can download the game but it won't start when I try to play it.

I find it sad that a lot of kids today will never play this game or even hear of it. Not only is it not something they would even know existed, but even if they wanted to play it, you would have a hard time finding a machine that could run it. You could always go the virtual machine route, but a lot of kids would have trouble figuring out how all that works (even I don't really understand how to set that up).

I hope this game never gets forgotten.

[kelvin-666]

Nighttime vibe of playing old games, 🌆🌃🌕

[kei-nova]

Okay, who remembers the 2003 Robocop game? Because I just played it again and... yikes.  I think I'd rather face ED-209 than deal with those controls again.

My full review of this dumpster fire is now live on YouTube. Come cringe with me!

[inkus-plinkus]

I really get a frick-ton of enjoyment out of old games, and I don't know why. A lot of them are so stupid and silly - and incredibly frustrating to boot - but yet I can't seem to hate them.

The first one that comes to mind that has a special place in my heart is Oregon Trail II. Not the text-based one, but the one with a lot of visuals and sound effects and it's very old-timey, not just in the fact it takes place in the oooooold USA, but in the graphics compared to modern-day games as well.

That game is so stupid. And yet it's so genius at the same time. It's infuriating how you can just die for seemingly no reason - that if you hunt animals you are very likely to accidentally shoot yourself - that you can spend so long trying to be as careful as possible on a run all for you to just die suddenly because the RNG decided it.

I still love playing it. The entire experience of it, really. But if we were only taking the player's experience into account and nothing else, it really is a shit game. You will have a miserable time for at least a few minutes out of any run, I guarantee it, and it will likely be a lot LONGER than a few minutes too.

But that's completely by design. The educational aspect of the game is subtle enough to where it doesn't FEEL like it's in your face, but every facet of the experience down to the emotions you experience while you play are, in themselves, teaching you something about what it was like back then. Of course, grumbling at silly migration video game is not nearly as bad as it was actually dying of cholera, starvation, or hypothermia, but it's about as close as the game can legally get to putting you into that experience.

There is something so perfect about Oregon Trail II and yet not a lot of people talk about it, I feel like. It's an exceedingly old game that most systems can't play without an emulator, so I suppose it makes sense. But I, being born in 2002, played it when I was in school, and to me that's also crazy. Oregon Trail II came out in 1995 and I was playing it in, at the EARLIEST, 2007, but it was more likely to be 2008 or 2009. Maybe all three years, actually. I remember loving the game even though I didn't understand what was happening and never actually got to the expedition part. I just liked buying up all the bacon, and the aesthetics of the game.

It's not just Oregon Trail II I like despite being so old, either. I like atari games in general, although many of them are hard for me to figure out. The Nintendo Switch Online thingies have a lot of old/older/oldish games to play and i like exploring those lists and just opening games i know nothing about and trying to figure them out. One of the games I did this with was called Burger Time and it was so hard for me to figure out (because i am stupid) that I had to look up a guide for it... a guide for fuckin BURGER TIME bro.

anyway, when i have my own house i think i will collect a lot of old games and play them. and probably write about them. get ready

-inkus

plinkus edit:

i tried playing psycho dream, i think it was named, on the switch emulator. it was pretty boring. the title screen looked neat though.

i unno about burger time specifically, but older games tend to lack tutorials and stuff, so its prolly normal to look up guides. it might be less authentic to the old games experience though, if theyre from before big internet. i dont think its worth the suffering of trial and error personally, when u can just google it, but its possible that that's fun for some people.

i do like some arcade games a lot, if that counts for this topic. like, the aesthetic of them is real cool. the music's also real cool. i like galaga and the ones like it in particular, but im not very good at them. i also really like dig dug, or maybe it was dig dug 2 that i liked. the green creatures are real cool.

i also like tetris, especially some of the music. i watched a couple youtube videos of a puyo puyo-tetris player that were real cool. i also tried playing a puyo puyo game on the switch emulator i think, but it seemed like it'd be too difficult for me. something about setting up color patterns for chains later is...incomprehensible. maybe theres a secret pattern to it or something.

- plinkus

inkus edit / reply:

i have disliked tetris for a majority of my life, as a result of my "hating mainstream things" arc; that's a wall im slowly trying to break though. what *I* liked from back in the day was the pokemon puzzle league, which was i think the equivalent to tetris nostalgia that others play. puzzle league is also on the nintendo switch online - and it might be the nostalgia talking, but thats good shit. anyway, i think i would enjoy the original tetris if i played it. i've played tetris clones and enjoyed them but i dont enjoy them as much as i think others do. i think some other puzzle types are more enjoyable to me.

i dont kno what puyo puyo is adandans and i also dont know what galaga is but i have DEFINITELY heard the word galaga before

i might try psycho dream if i can find it, mostly out of curiosity. i think a lot of things u think are boring are things i find fun sahdasndna

i am glad you mentioned that its just a thing where old games lacked tutorials; i thought i must be crazy, because every game from that era i've tried, they just... start.

like for one example stepdad got a gift one year from me and my mom that was an atari console with like a "150 built in games" type thing or something? I know ones exist where it apparently has like 2600 games and they're like $300-400. i could really spend hundreds of hours just exploring those worlds. like, if i had the money to do so i would definitely buy one of those if they ACTUALLY had 2600 fricken games in there.

but the fact you just get thrown into it without instructions can, for the most part, stress me out. like it makes me feel a bit stupid that i can't understand what's happening, because i just imagine some 6 year old in the 80s laughing at me for not being able to get it even though i'm 21. and, obviously, it isnt that i "can't understand" or "CANT get" the games, because i enjoy them actively. it's just me needing instructions. maybe its autism related? or just me being a lil dummy

anyway to continue my previous thought im glad u brought it up because i didnt want to do the "walk of shame" to the google search bar to type 'why cant i understand how old game do :(((((((((('

[reviewgazette]

Having a lovely afternoon playing Duke Nukem 3D brings back so many memories, especially for an old git like me.

[40splishsplash]

Today I'm talking about why I believe that many of the older fps games are much better than the new ones. It's been hard recent years to find a good and solid fps title in order to have fun playing for a longer period of time! Agree or disagree?

[britemune]

Retro Game Of The Day

50 cent Bulletproof

https://www.britemune.com/item/4011/8

[noticiasarquelogicasjaponesas]

Sean bienvenidos, japonistasarqueológicos a una nueva entrega, en esta ocasión os voy a explicar que significa Tenshu y su relación en la arquitectura de los castillos japoneses, dicho esto pónganse cómodos que empezamos. - Seguramente que lo hemos visto alguna vez en el famoso videojuego Shogun 2, en alguna película, dorama o anime, ¿Cuál es su principal función? La podríamos definir como lugar de residencia del daimyō (だい みょう), ya que en Japón el concepto de castillo del que se tiene en Europa. Porque pasaron a ser sitio de residencia y el Tenshu era la estancia del daimyō, “Cuando se estableció el régimen Tokugawa y se promulgó la Ley One Castle One Castle en 1615 “(Keicho 20) a partir de entonces a cada daimyo se le permitió poseer un solo castillo y el Tenshu perdió su función. - Espero que os haya gustado y nos vemos en próximas publicaciones de historia y arqueología nipona que pasen una feliz semana. - Welcome, archeological japonistas to a new installment, in this occasion I will explain what Tenshu means and its relationship in the architecture of Japanese castles, having said that, make yourself comfortable that we started. - Surely we have ever seen it in the famous video game Shogun 2, in a movie, drama or anime, what is your main function? We could define it as the place of residence of the daimyō (だい みょう), since in Japan the concept of a castle is similar to that of Europe. Because they became a place of residence and the Tenshu was the stay of the daimyō, "When the Tokugawa regime was established and the Law One Castle One Castle in 1615 “(Keicho 20) thereafter to each daimyo was allowed to own only one castle and the tenshu lost its function. - I hope you liked it and see you in future publications of Japanese history and archeology have a happy week. - ようこそ、考古学ジャポニスタの新作へ。 天守の意味とその関係を説明します。 そうは言っても、日本の城の建築は快適です 私たちは始めました。 - 確かに有名なビデオゲームで見たことがあります 将軍2、映画・ドラマ・アニメでメインは？ 関数？ 大名（だい）の居住地と定義することができます。 みょう）、日本の城の概念はヨーロッパのそれと似ているからです。 彼らは居住地となり、天守は天守の滞在であったからです。 大名「徳川政権の成立と法制化の時」 1615年「一城一城」（慶長20年）以降、それぞれに 大名は一城しか所有できず、天守は機能を失った。