Recently, I made an offhand complaint to a friend that ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ was ticking me off with the difficulty of a particular video game mission, only to get an astonished response of “I didn’t know you were a gamer!” She’s now campaigning for me to buy an X-Bone so we can cause mayhem together (I’m seriously considering it, to be honest), but I’m not certain where I would even keep such a thing. With the Wii U and the Playstation 3 on our main HD TV, my N64 hooked up in the bedroom, and a perfectly functional Atari 2600 that won’t interface with any of our televisions gathering dust in my closet, I feel orta maxed out on consoles. Part of the reason I keep them is that I remember having to bike downtown with a roll of quarters to play Robotron or Gorf at the skeevy bar or the local IGA, and it’s great to have access to whatever game I want, whenever I want it. Weirdly, though, I do sometimes miss that arcade experience. This is why Widget and I will occasionally travel to the local laundromat to throw money down the gullet of their Playchoice10 machine and enjoy Time Pilot and other vintage video games the way I did back in ’83, leading us to today’s 8-bit query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) is happy that a local pizza joint has a classic stand-up ‘Roadblasters’ console, and that it still holds up, even against ‘Grand Theft Auto’, asking: What’s your favorite no-longer-cool or cutting-edge video game to play?
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Pretty much every NES game, but especially old side scrolling action games like Mega Man, Ninja Gaiden or Super Mario Bros. Im a big fan of retro video games in general.
That is one of the reasons I love the Virtual Console on Wii (and I believe it is on the newer systems as well). A lot of great old games, and some in their original glory as opposed to re-released updates. I don’t have anything against the updated versions, really, but there is a very different experience playing a game in 8 or 16 bit from playing virtually the same game with modern graphics.
Claw. Ahh, Claw.
Usually the 90’s FPS games like Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem & Blood. Also different racing games from the 90’s like Road Rash, Carmageddon, Crazy Taxi, Crash Team Racing, Driver & etc. etc. Beyond that though I quite enjoy the various emulators for old console games as well.
Since I’m too poor to afford any of the current systems (newest systems I have are a Wii, DS and PS2), pretty much everything I play is outdated if it isn’t on my PC (though I do still play the original EverQuest, which is pretty outdated even with the updates of recent years, and every once in a while a lightly modded version of the original KOTOR).
But I have a number of Virtual Console games on the Wii that were originally for older systems like NES, such as the first few Final Fantasy games and a few other old RPGs and such.
I also like to play several Game Boy Advance games I have on my DS, such as Monster Rancher Advance, most of the old GBA Pokemon games and a few RPGs and Tactics games (I REALLY wish I had a copy of Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, I LOVED that game!).
Even if/when I finally manage to get a 3DS, I’ll still play the older games just because I still enjoy them so much. Probably won’t be rid of them until they break or until I no longer have a system that can play them.
My local Pizza Hut had a Galaga machine that I loved to play. I also love final fantasy 1-6. I have the gameboy advance versions. Lastly the two golden sun games on the GBA that I’ve played through five or six times.
You made me have a flashback to the recent past. Up until about 5-ish years ago, my local Pizza Hut had a whole little area of OLD arcade games like that (including one of those nifty Pac-Man machines that was also like a table and the screen was under the top). But sadly, someone else bought it and renovated the building, and the game area was added to the kitchen.
Asteroids.
I grabbed one of those Intellivision emulators just to play Astrosmash. Still one of my favorite games.