General Discussion

[balsawood]

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jai163 wrote:

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Oldest_Ancient wrote:
1. I'm pretty sure one of the versions had blood with the other being censored. I think it was the megadrive version that was uncensored?

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Yup! The megadrive version was uncensored, but only with a cheat code entered at the start.

Any guesses on question 2?

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I believe one version of street fighter had the original arcade music whereas the other had a brand new score. I'm guessing the Megadrive version had the original soundtrack?

The megadrive had a 6 button controller too which makes it closer to the arcade version (if the shoulder buttons weren't used on the SNES?).

I think the first console I owned (after playing my dads when I was young) was a SNES, it still works and I still play it. I recently bought an N64 as mine seems to have gone missing and I found Goldeneye and an expansion pak in my loft. I'll probably go and find Zelda and Super Mario tomorrow.

[TheMethod]

You cheeky little sh....actually yeah, I geuss you're right - hey retro is cool.

I'm gonna dress in brown chords with orange stripes, might dress a bit like Napoleon Dynamite.

[EvilC]

Retro for me was probably coming on here 6 years ago and signing up and coming back every so often to see if people remember me. Place has changed alot again I see. Nice to see it going on to bigger and better things.

Console wise you couldn't go wrong with a dreamcast...thats a console that still holds the test of time today. Had a nes and gamboy when I was a wee nipper, Mario was the first game I ever touched and completed...soon became a sega fanboy though and <3 sonic on everything. I even got a 32x...all for one game haha. From then on I picked up my ps 1 and well here we are now. Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are still legendary in my eyes imo.

[xHeatherx]

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TheMethod wrote:
Amiga...just Amiga!

I had a 500+ and a 1200 (edit - and a CD32 too!) and they were awesome! I started out back with a rubber-keyed 48k spectrum though, also had a BBC Micro for some time as well as Nintendos and every Playstation.

But the golden era was Amiga...

Shadow of the Beast
Canon Fodder
Sensi Soccer
R-Type
Walker
Dark Seed
Monkey Island
Treasure Island Dizzy
Chuck Rock
Lotus Turbo Challange

The list is endless...

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Yep, the Amiga was a great machine!

I remember Monkey Island being a good game and Cannon Fodder... Well, I used to cry to that. The music was so sad. When someone died, it made me feel bad.

[XLOOX]

The  best retro console for me was the NES hours of fun i remember playing mario for the first time just awesome.

Oh and the master system, i loved the fact that even if you had no games you always had alex the kid on there.

[Mus-D]

I like to call them "The Golden Ages" when all the great games were "out on da block" i played Dreamcast - Megadrive whatever it was called, it was great, still own an N64.

Would never throw away all my old games, so much memories.

Thanks a lot Heather you made me cry.

[techwondo]

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TheMethod wrote:
Amiga...just Amiga!

I had a 500+ and a 1200 (edit - and a CD32 too!) and they were awesome! I started out back with a rubber-keyed 48k spectrum though, also had a BBC Micro for some time as well as Nintendos and every Playstation.

But the golden era was Amiga...

Shadow of the Beast
Canon Fodder
Sensi Soccer
R-Type
Walker
Dark Seed
Monkey Island
Treasure Island Dizzy
Chuck Rock
Lotus Turbo Challange

The list is endless...

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I spent ages playing Lotus Turbo Challenge... and not just because i twas a local - ish game.

[LordRoss]

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XLOOX wrote:

The  best retro console for me was the NES hours of fun I remember playing mario for the first time just awesome.

Oh and the master system, i loved the fact that even if you had no games you always had alex the kid on there.

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I loved Alex the Kidd! Well except when I didn't want to play it and it wouldn't stop loading up aaah the stress that was caused!

I did have a lot of memories with both those consoles, both great stuff!  Used to wake up ridiculously early every morning so I could play on them.

The Vectrex has to be the oldest console I own, where to make it colour you have to put colour panels in front of screen.  Have some top games for this too, perhaps my favourite was the game I lent to mate who then sold it

P.S I remember when you was a noob evilC

[GrieverLioness]

My first console was the SNES, I was 4 years old (now 19 lol) and my cousin gave it to me to make room for his new PS1. The only games of the ones he gave us that my parents allowed me to play were Super Mario All Stars and some Golf game I cannot remember the name of, it was so basic but I thought it was brilliant and could be played 2 player. When I got a bit older they let me play Killer Instinct and some other fighting game I cannot remember the name of that we had been given.

Honestly if I hadn't gotten into gaming at such an early age I don't know which routes I would have taken in life since as gaming is such a bit part of my life now and I have met some incredible people from it and I am now studying Games Design at Uni lol. I think it has in some cliched way made me a 'stronger person', as I have always had people around me with a - 'you're a girl, and you play games?! Why?! (that's wrong!)' - mentality; something which has changed in the past few years meeting more and more girl gamers... a total relief to me =D

[willow-mouse]

Mine was a toss-up between my NES:
Mega man
190-in-1 cart from singapore
Zelda 2
Power Blade

or my A600:
Superfrog (all team17's stuff)
Valhalla
Dreamweb
Delphine games (they were tough!)
Silly putty
Chaos Engine
Walker
Uridium 2

Man, it's scary when you think about all that you've owned: (platform - highlight)

Pub table - moon patrol

Atari 2600 - pitfall

286 - Xenon 2/Wolfenstein

NES - Mario 2/megaman

NeoGeo (very briefly) - Samurai showdown

Amiga 600 - rtype 2/flashback/putty

Jaguar (briefly) - AvP

Game gear - sonic chaos

Megadrive - Fifa 95/micro machines

Mega cd - snatcher

Playstation - tekken 2/mgs

Nokia 7100 - tennis

Playstation 2 - MGS2/ico/SotC/r-type final

Snes (ebay boredom) - mario kart

N64 (ditto) - mark kart 64

PSP - ...

Playstation 3 - no particular highlights yet

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Mus-D wrote:

I like to call them "The Golden Ages" when all the great games were "out on da block" i played Dreamcast - Megadrive whatever it was called, it was great, still own an N64.

Would never throw away all my old games, so much memories.

Thanks a lot Heather you made me cry.

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My mum sold all my NES stuff without me knowing when I was younger. I was GUTTED, and I still can't remember one game that I loved and have never been able to get hold of since.