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Posted: Jun 02 2009 07:53 pm

Neutral-bob wrote:

I didn't get too far however I liked what little I got to play. Did they also make it for the SNES as well?

Yes, but it's completely different, and lackluster compared to the Genesis version.

Posted: Jun 02 2009 08:12 pm

Damn I really need to learn how to use emulators. Their are so many games I'd like a chance to play again.

Posted: Jun 02 2009 09:17 pm

Greg the White wrote:

Doom 2. Weird, I know, but all of the other first graders either teased you for playing video games, or just played Mario or Sonic. I thought it was pretty bad-ass that I felt like I was actually blasting aliens to pieces in a poorly-rendered Mesquite, Texas.

Man. This post made me feel really old.

Posted: Jun 03 2009 06:21 pm

Heck, pretty much any game on the Game Boy Color or NES; while everybody else I knew in the first grade had Playstations and N64s, I had these.

Joined: May 13 2009 Location: lowell, ma Posts: 289

Neutral-bob wrote:

Damn I really need to learn how to use emulators. Their are so many games I'd like a chance to play again.

It's pretty easy, I don't really know much about computers but I just downloaded "winrar" which extracts zip files (i guess). Then go to like theoldcomputer.com or another site you know and just download the emulator. When you go to open it, run it through winrar. Then finding games is like the easiest part just search roms on google or if you use torrent you can download them off any torrent site. I dunno if that helps, like i said I don't know much but I figured out, i'm sure you can.

Posted: Jun 03 2009 10:53 pm

Ironically I just learned a few hours ago. I have all the necessities and I'm all set to play them.

Posted: Jun 05 2009 05:37 pm

Count me in as one of those fools who thought he was the only one to appreciate Ice Hockey's greatness! We held championships with all my friends from school back then and I used to think I was the only one around who had discovered a treasure of a game. As usual, reality slapped me in the face when I was about 20...

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I second the call on River City Ransom, as well as De Ja Vu... both games were excellents. I sadly never beat de ja vu, though I got far, at least I dont' recall beating it.

I'll list off a few of my other favorites, that i had no perspective of their popularity.

Blades of Steel

Tecmo Super Bowl

Basewar

Mighty Final Fight (equivalent of Streets of Rage for SNES if you've played that)

Ninja Gaiden

Double Dragon

Shingen the Ruler

All of those games we played a lot, and enjoyed... and NES was the console I played on the longest. Next would be Playstation, which I got way late. I remember getting it even though it was going out of date, because I wanted to play FF7 so badly... my friend had that game, but we never finished it. I revisted it shortly after his death, and I beat it. Ironically I remember him telling me, that I would beat the game before he did... I think he said it, because I think tactically i was perhaps a bit better than he was, but sadly i beat it first for a totally different reason. He introduced me to the Final Fantasy franchise with that game, and I still hold it as my favorite, even though I've played the older ones.. 5 and 6 in particular stand out.. and Ive played all the newer ones.

One last comment, I think for my age I was part of the last generation of NES players. I'm 21 years old right now.. born in '87... So I think for me peers of mine, or those who are slightly younger than me say 18, that i may talk to still can't, and don't recognize the game titles I enjoyed as a kid.

I'm actually looking for some new games to play. I've been thinking about getting Civilization I've heard many good things about that game. And the Total War series looks pretty sweet. I recently got into The Orange Box, Portal, TF2, and Half-life 2 etc.. are games I can now play, and I started to play Star Craft again.

Anyway enough rambling... glad to see this site is still active and well.

FYI: Emulators are fairly easy and safe to get through torrents, just have to know a torrent site and have a torrent software like utorrent. It's not illegal to use torrents just copyright material is illegal to download. Technically speaking it would be illegal, i'm fairly sure of this, to download a Emulator, though relatively safe to do so.

And realistically speaking there's no feasible way to play some of those games other than an emulator.