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"Going Retro"

I have had enough of the current consoles and really, think the main 3 have had their time now. I was willing to pay around £30 for games in the beginning, but now i don't feel i need to. many games don't interest me or are basically tosh. I am going to trade my PS2 + about 23 games and just buy a MegaDrive, Mega CD, Snes and many, many games.

I'm not hanging up my control for good, just going retro. I remember as a youth i could never get bored of tirelessly playing Sonic and Mario games and feel sad tht i've been without the golden old games we all were brought up with.

I'll have a hard time searching for games but when i have them, ill be able to respect them for what they are. Games. We don't play games for fun now and the prices and gameplay haven't always been top notch recently. Also, i don't think ill be missing out on any of the new PS2 games, as the next gen of consoles will be out and i have decided not to get any of them.

My Reason? Price,Time i have to use them, getting a job soon, so i wont be able to spend so many hours on games. I have enjoyed them and have no intentions of giving up, but just going to play some fun classics while they are still just about still around.

Thanks for reading, have a good day.

But still, you'll regret this heavily. I did it with my Xbox and loved it for all of about a month. You're better of getting a (cough)emulator(cough)

AfroJoe wrote:
> So you repeatedly and tirelessly argue against Ninendo, dismissing
> Mario games as "for babies", and now you want to buy a
> SNES?

Nintendo were much better back then. FACT.

True, SNES and Megadrive aren't really retro.

You've never had the experience of tape loading computers. Or going away to eat your dinner, to come back and find out that the damn game still hasn't freaking loaded.

I used to love my C64, god knows I'd rather smash my fingers with a hammer than play one now though.

What are you guys on about? Old games don't suck! I was quite young during the SNES era and played on Yoshi's Island, Donkey Kong Country, Star Wing and a few rubbish 3rd party games. I'm now playing all the classics I missed using an emulator, and they are better than quite a lot of recent games I played. To Topic creator: You might as well just download emulators and get a SNES USB socket thing from Lik-Sang, apparently it works with Megadrive emulators too ;)

Edgy wrote:
> I already had the ZX Spectrum 48k + model (no rubber keyboard)

Yeah, I had one of those. I used it far too much and burnt the power pack out. Still got the Spectrum 2 with the tape deck built in and it works. Shame a lot of my tapes don't.

I bought my Speccy +2 second hand sometime in the early 90s. I already had the ZX Spectrum 48k + model (no rubber keyboard) but someone was selling the +2 with 70 or so games for a very good price. I had to get it.

My play button has snapped but I can still load the games by sticking a lolly stick in the gap to use as a lever to play the cassetes.

I had a nice pirate copy of Starglider (I think that's what it was called) - a Star Wars clone game which involved flying through space in first person shooting wifeframe craft and things that represented the Star Wars walkers..but walking through space.

That took about 30 mins to load :P

Retro to me means playing Stunt Car Racer on my Amiga.

Yep.
Pedro The Gardender on BBC Model B with 32k. Or Hunchback on same. Horace goes skiing on the squishy rubber key Spectrum, but I was the envy of my neighborhood because I had the Spectrum 128+2 with built in casetteplayer.
Combat School took 9 mins to load.
THAT is retro

When I think of retro, I think of Granny's Garden on the BBC, Finders Keepers on the Speccy, and Radar Mission on the original Game Boy.

All this, Super Mario World, Sonic The Hedgehog business is still fairly recent in gaming (especially due to the re-re-re-re-re-releases).

Hell, I remember a time when sprites couldn't overlap!

Old games suck.
And being retro is funny as hell when you're 13 and don't remember a time before emails, the internet and PCs.