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If, like me, you enjoy your daily ramblings about Game Ideas and Retro classics, but are irritated by the fact that this place is usually as void of all intelligent life as a Slipknot concert, then this is the place you want to be.
In a last ditch attempt to save the GIARGF from a horrifyingly slow death from n00bs, I have decided to create this thread.
In effect, a 'longest thread' attempt, this is where you just talk random stuff (No spam, though- newbies take note).
So why have I done this?
This forum is getting as little as, er, no posts a day. If you use this thread as I have intended, we would be getting 4,5,6 or even 7,8,9 or 10 posts a day in here, as well as in the other topics that occupy this place. People will see the forum higher up the list, obviously showing it to be more popular, making people want to come here and therefore re-populating this almost empty forum.
I do, of course, expect this to fail miserably, but at least you can't say I never tried.
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Right, I'm going to need a question to start us off;
"Are retro games better than modern day games, or are they simply too primitive to cut it any more?"
In a last ditch attempt to save the GIARGF from a horrifyingly slow death from n00bs, I have decided to create this thread.
In effect, a 'longest thread' attempt, this is where you just talk random stuff (No spam, though- newbies take note).
So why have I done this?
This forum is getting as little as, er, no posts a day. If you use this thread as I have intended, we would be getting 4,5,6 or even 7,8,9 or 10 posts a day in here, as well as in the other topics that occupy this place. People will see the forum higher up the list, obviously showing it to be more popular, making people want to come here and therefore re-populating this almost empty forum.
I do, of course, expect this to fail miserably, but at least you can't say I never tried.
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Right, I'm going to need a question to start us off;
"Are retro games better than modern day games, or are they simply too primitive to cut it any more?"
I guess that means nobody knows...
On the topic of Doom, when's doom 3 out?
"Are retro games better than modern day games, or are they simply too primitive to cut it any more?"
One word: DOOM
One word: DOOM
I liked the Master System the most. Not sure why. Just felt right.
I can't really say what my favourite "Retro" console is because the first console i ever owned was a Mega Drive which I got in, er...1993. I think.
That was brilliant, though, but I was disappointed by the lack of Doom (As in the game) when the SNES lot were lucky enough to get it.
But the MK games were brilliant.
And Zero Wing.
And Ranger X.
And Super Fantasy Zone.
And Vectorman.
And *continues forever*
That was brilliant, though, but I was disappointed by the lack of Doom (As in the game) when the SNES lot were lucky enough to get it.
But the MK games were brilliant.
And Zero Wing.
And Ranger X.
And Super Fantasy Zone.
And Vectorman.
And *continues forever*
I rather liked the spectrum. I'm not sure that classes as a retro console though, it was more like a computer, although nobody I know of ever used it for anything other than playing games on.
I used to like those text adventires, especially sorcerer's castle. And then their was school daze, that rocked. I also used to like the sports managment games. I had a horse racing manger one that I lost a good chunk of my life to.
I used to like those text adventires, especially sorcerer's castle. And then their was school daze, that rocked. I also used to like the sports managment games. I had a horse racing manger one that I lost a good chunk of my life to.
Hmm...this isn't going too well so I'll spend a while increasing the replies.
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New question:
"What is the greatest retro console ever made and why?"
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New question:
"What is the greatest retro console ever made and why?"
Yeah, I'd go along with that.
I think gameplay was so important in the 80's, there were no 3D accelerator cards and fancy graphics to fall back on, if a game didn't have gameplay it had nothing !
I spent an hour playing Manic Miner over the weekend, what a great game, simple idea, simple graphics but brilliant gameplay and that "one more go" feeling.
I spent an hour playing Manic Miner over the weekend, what a great game, simple idea, simple graphics but brilliant gameplay and that "one more go" feeling.
If, like me, you enjoy your daily ramblings about Game Ideas and Retro classics, but are irritated by the fact that this place is usually as void of all intelligent life as a Slipknot concert, then this is the place you want to be.
In a last ditch attempt to save the GIARGF from a horrifyingly slow death from n00bs, I have decided to create this thread.
In effect, a 'longest thread' attempt, this is where you just talk random stuff (No spam, though- newbies take note).
So why have I done this?
This forum is getting as little as, er, no posts a day. If you use this thread as I have intended, we would be getting 4,5,6 or even 7,8,9 or 10 posts a day in here, as well as in the other topics that occupy this place. People will see the forum higher up the list, obviously showing it to be more popular, making people want to come here and therefore re-populating this almost empty forum.
I do, of course, expect this to fail miserably, but at least you can't say I never tried.
__________________
Right, I'm going to need a question to start us off;
"Are retro games better than modern day games, or are they simply too primitive to cut it any more?"
In a last ditch attempt to save the GIARGF from a horrifyingly slow death from n00bs, I have decided to create this thread.
In effect, a 'longest thread' attempt, this is where you just talk random stuff (No spam, though- newbies take note).
So why have I done this?
This forum is getting as little as, er, no posts a day. If you use this thread as I have intended, we would be getting 4,5,6 or even 7,8,9 or 10 posts a day in here, as well as in the other topics that occupy this place. People will see the forum higher up the list, obviously showing it to be more popular, making people want to come here and therefore re-populating this almost empty forum.
I do, of course, expect this to fail miserably, but at least you can't say I never tried.
__________________
Right, I'm going to need a question to start us off;
"Are retro games better than modern day games, or are they simply too primitive to cut it any more?"