Retro-a-Go-Go

[themightylebeau]

Since Ive been back Ive been playing a lot of older games, particulary on the DC and original Xbox.

Current games on the go are Black (Xbox), which I picked up for £3, Powerstone (DC but NEEDS to be on Xbox live) and TOCA Race Driver 2 (Xbox). I have an absolute ton of games I forgot I had for both systems.

Has anyone played The Thing? I have a copy of that and I think its based on the movie....which concerns me a little.

So is anyone else digging out older games? If so recomendations are welcome, I have pretty much every console back to a NES, and am always on the look out for new old games to play ;D

[meltphace]

Old games are what I play most of the time. Recently I've been playing loads of Amiga and Atari ST games - Shadow of the Beast, The Killing Game Show, Elf, Xenon 2 Megablast, Baal, The Immortal, Chaos Engine, and so on. All are absolutely ace and are a near lethal dose of nostalgia.

Also, I just bought The Thing a couple of weeks ago for the PS2, it's set just after the end of the film. I'd say it's a decent game, though the mechanics seem quite dated by todays standards. When it comes to getting down to action and blowing some... well... 'things' away, it's a auto-aiming system which doesn't fit particularly well, but it works alright. One thing I really don't like about it is if your character dies, instead of being able to load your last save you have to restart the level, or exit the game and go back to the main menu to load. It can be quite an annoyance. Despite its flaws I'd say it was a decent game. Give it a whirl.

Jet Set/Grind Radio and Jet Set Radio Future are must haves, but if I remember correctly you already have those. I would have said Rez and Ikaruga, but those two are now on XBLA in HD.

If you can make a boot disc for your Dreamcast you should see if you can get some old classics emulated on it. If you haven't played The Killing Game Show which was ported to the Genesis/Megadrive under the title 'Fatal Rewind' you should give that a shot. It's nails, but great, both graphically (for its time) and musically.

[themightylebeau]

Well Ive just been rummaging and have found the DLC for the orginal Splinter Cell, pretty good so far.

Your list of ST games reads like Best Of... list there. A cheeky vintage mix of Bitmap Brothers and Psygnosis with an air of ealy to mid nineties shooters.

I do indeed have a boot disc for my DC, so that will be getting looked into.

[AlexY]

Fallout and Fallout 2 from GOG.com.

Probably the best 6$ ever spent.

[Toadkiller Dog]

I've been playing Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth for Xbox lately. This is probably the only videogame (Or any visual media for that matter, with the exception of the works from the Lovecraft Society) to do complete justice to the source material behind the Cthulhu mythos that I've experienced.

I almost beat this game once, but my original Xbox died after several years of solid service...and then I got a 360.

[nureintier]

DC and Xbox count as retro? Now I feel old. Haha. I was about to post that I've rediscovered my NES and atari and have been playing Yoshi, Yoshi's cookie, and Q*Bert a lot.

I still have my sega saturn hooked up and I love the game Dark Saviour, but it seems no one else has ever played it. I got in a bargain bin the day I picked up the console. Even my dad was obsessed with playing it, and my mom would swear at us for staying up past midnight yelling at this stupid game when I was in high school. It had like alternate dimensions and a really weird, semi-RPG storyline, hard to explain, but it was awesome.

Oh, and the original Silent Hill, but you all probably know how obsessed I have always been with that one. ^_^