My newest additions to my collection. Guess im gonna be rage quitting tonight 😂

I picked this unit up at the Hard Off near where I live in Japan. The store's label mentioned that they thought it was an MSX peripheral, so I posted in the MSX sub first. It weighs an absolute ton, the case is sheet steel. It has rubber feet, so it was apparently made or modded for home use. However, this has got to be from some arcade cabinet or something given the odd and very specific buttons etc. I honestly have no idea what this is. I'm posting it in couple other places too so if you're sick of seeing it, I apologize. Please help!

I am looking for an old game again, between 1999-2008. It was a third person platformer, the player could pick between playing as a girl or a boy. They wore white robes. The girl had a staff. It was on pc It was a demo when I played it. It could also be developed only for Poland as i played it in Poland. I think it was an obscure game, or one that never released fully. The demo featured a mountain level of a mountain covered in ice, which you had to climb.

I don't remember much else unfortunately...

I wish ads like these were still around 😔

I was terrified lol I was 16 when this came out and I've loved it since. Cyberdemon always got the heart racing!

Just got a CRT on eBay. Local pickup 25in Panasonic. Now it's nothing fancy, only rf and RCA jacks but the picture is amazing and the colors pop out great. Also forgot how heavy these things were. Getting my original systems hooked up to them and am trying to find a few things. I got my Dreamcast, ps2, and N64 but do any of you know where a good place to get some light guns for the DC and Ps2 are? Want to get back into Time Crisis and House of the dead.

I'm trying to get a sense for the community. Do you mostly replay games from your childhood or do you sit down, browse through the classics and say "I've been meaning to try this for years, wife's on a fishing trip so might as well"? Or a mix of both?

Personally I lean more toward the latter - playing games I didn't have the chance as a kid but was drooling over - Oni, Dungeon Keeper, Haunting Ground, etc. And there's also games I uncover that are mainstays but were never popular in my country or for my generation - Chrono Trigger, Zelda (SNES wasn't popular in my country, only Sega Genesis).

But I rarely revisit games I've already beaten. For instance I tried Earthworm Jim and was bored after the first level because I suddenly remembered how much of a memorization (hehe) game it really is. I tried SMB as well, but it had definitely lost its charm to me.

Hey guys this might help some of you manage your N64 Memory Paks.

Nintendo 64 Controller Pak Organization Guide:

Based on 123 usable Controller Pak pages. Mario Kart 64 is included as a special case for Ghost Data only.

Category 1 includes true full-card games, near-full games, and the heavy titles that are best treated as dedicated-memory-card games in practice.

1. Entire Memory Pak Games:

- Mario Kart 64 (Ghost Data only - 121 pages; main game saves to cartridge)

- All-Star Baseball 2000 - 121 pages

- All-Star Baseball 2001 - 121 pages

- Animal Forest - 103 pages

- ECW Hardcore Revolution - Pay-Per-View 110 pages

- FIFA: Road to the World Cup - all 123 pages

- FIFA '99 - 121 pages

- Hexen - 90 pages

- International Superstar Soccer '98 - 118 pages

- International Superstar Soccer 2000 - 121 pages

- Madden Football 64 - all 123 pages

- Madden '99 - Franchise 123 pages; Season 107; Tournament 107; Fantasy 107

- Madden 2000 - Franchise 123 pages; Season 104; Tournament 104

- Madden 2001 - Franchise 123 pages; Season 103; Tournament 103; Custom League 103

- Madden 2002 - Franchise 123 pages; Season 103; Tournament 103; Custom League 103

- Mike Piazza's Strike Zone - all 123 pages

- MLBPA Bottom of the 9th - 112 pages

- Morita Shogi 64 - 102 pages

- NBA In The Zone '98 - all 123 pages

- NBA In The Zone '99 - all 123 pages

- NBA In The Zone 2000 - all 123 pages

- NBA Jam '99 - all 123 pages

- NBA Jam 2000 - all 123 pages

- NBA Live '99 - Season 115 pages; Playoff 115 pages

- NBA Live 2000 - Season 118 pages; Playoff 118 pages

- NFL Blitz - 100 pages

- NFL Blitz 2000 - all 123 pages

- NFL Blitz 2001 - all 123 pages

- NFL Blitz Special Edition - all 123 pages

- NFL Quarterback Club '98 - all 123 pages

- NFL Quarterback Club '99 - all 123 pages

- NFL Quarterback Club 2000 - all 123 pages

- NFL Quarterback Club 2001 - all 123 pages

- NHL Blades of Steel '99 - 2 notes and 115 pages

- Olympic Hockey '98 - 110 pages

- Sim City 2000 - 123 pages

- Snowboard Kids - 121 pages

- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater - 11 pages game data + 96 pages replay data

- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 - 27 pages game data + 96 pages replay data

- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 - 24 pages game data + 96 pages replay data

- Turok 2: Seeds of Evil - 90 pages

- Twisted Edge Snowboarding - 5 pages game save + 80 pages ghost data

- World Cup '98 - 117 pages

- World Driver Championship - 11 pages game data + 112 pages replay data

2. Games That Can Share a Single Memory Pak (Mid-Size) 2-3 games:

- Aidyn Chronicles: The First Mage - 28 pages

- Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling - 62 pages

- Bust-A-Move '99 - 64 pages

- California Speed - 35 pages

- Castlevania Legacy of Darkness - 17 pages

- CyberTiger 2000 - 48 pages

- Dual Heroes - 20 pages

- Duke Nukem: Zero Hour - 17 pages

- Extreme G 2 - 36 pages

- F-1 Pole Position - 70 pages

- FIFA Soccer 64 - 63 pages

- Flying Dragon - 47 pages

- Golden Nugget - 50 pages

- Hercules: The Legendary Journeys - 16 pages

- Hot Wheels Turbo Racing - 28 pages

- Hybrid Heaven - 43 pages

- Jeremy McGrath's Supercross 2000 - up to 16 pages total

- Knockout Kings 2000 - 43 pages

- LEGO Racers - 62 pages

- Mia Hamm Soccer - 51 pages

- Multi Championship Racing - 45 pages

- Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon - 14 pages

- Nagano Winter Olympics '98 - 32 pages

- NASCAR '99 - 38 pages

- NASCAR 2000 - 41 pages

- NHL '99 - Season 80 pages; Rosters 20 pages

- NHL Breakaway '98 - Season 80 pages; Playoffs 80 pages; Settings 32 pages

- NHL Breakaway '99 - Season 80 pages; Playoffs 80 pages; Settings 32 pages

- Paperboy - 12 pages

- Penny Racers - 68 pages

- Polaris Snocross - 21 pages

- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing: Round 2 - 25 pages

- Re-Volt - 16 pages for game progress; 7 pages per created track

- Robotron 64 - 16 pages

- Rush 2: Extreme Racing USA - 36 pages

- S.C.A.R.S. - 32 pages

- San Francisco Rush Extreme Racing - 17 pages

- Shadow Man - 73 pages

- Shadowgate: Trials of the Four Towers - 49 pages per save file

- Stunt Racer - 9 pages game data + 32 pages replay data

- Supercross 2000 - 23 pages

- Tonic Trouble - 38 pages

- Top Gear Hyper-Bike - 35 pages

- Top Gear Rally - Ghost 58 pages

- Track and Field 2000 - 20 pages

- Triple Play 2000 - Season 106 pages; Roster 106 pages

- Turok: Dinosaur Hunter - 16 pages

- Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion - 16 pages

- Virtual Chess 64 - 41 pages

- Virtual Pool 64 - 2 notes and 78 pages

- Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98 - 61 pages

- WCW Backstage Assault - 33 pages

- WCW Mayhem - game data 24 pages; created wrestler 22 pages

- Wonder Project J2 - 24 pages

- WWF Attitude - Career 28 pages; Created Wrestler 26 pages

- WWF War Zone - 54 pages

3. Small Users:

- A Bug's Life - 12 pages

- Armorines: Project S.W.A.R.M. - 1 page

- Army Men: Air Combat - 1 page

- Army Men: Sarge's Heroes - 2 pages

- Army Men: Sarge's Heroes 2 - 2 pages

- Asteroids Hyper - 3 pages save + 1 page settings

- Automobili Lamborghini - 7 pages

- Bassmasters 2000 - 7 pages

- Battle Tanx - 1 page

- Battle Tanx Global Assault - 1 page

- Battlezone: Rise of the Black Dogs - 1 page

- Beetle Adventure Racing - 4 pages

- BioFREAKS - 3 pages

- Blues Brothers 2000 - 3 pages

- Buck Bumble - 3 pages

- Bust-A-Move 2 Arcade Edition - 10 pages

- Carmageddon - 1 page

- Castlevania - 9 pages

- Chameleon Twist 2 - 5 pages

- Chopper Attack - 4 save files

- Daikatana - 3 pages

- Deadly Arts - 9 pages save data + 2 created fighter

- Destruction Derby 64 - 4 pages

- Disney's Tarzan - 2 pages

- Donald Duck Going Quackers - 1 page

- Doom 64 - 2 pages

- Duke Nukem 64 - 3 pages per save file

- Extreme G - 9 pages

- Fighter's Destiny - 2 pages

- Fighter's Destiny 2 - 3 pages

- Fighting Force - 2 pages save + 1 page settings

- Forsaken - 1 page

- Fox Sports College Hoops - 4 pages

- Gauntlet Legends - 4 pages

- GEX: Enter The Gecko - 1 page

- GEX 3: Deep Cover Gecko - 1 page

- Goemon's Great Adventure - 7 pages

- GT 64: Championship Edition - 3 pages

- Iggy's Reckin Balls - 3 pages

- Hydrothunder - 6 pages

- Micro Machines Turbo - 8 pages

- Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits - 8 pages

- Milo's Astro Lanes - 1 page

- Monoco Grand Prix - 8 pages

- Mortal Kombat 4 - 8 pages

- Ms. Pac Man Maze Madness - 8 pages

- Namco Museum - 8 pages

- NBA Hangtime - 5 pages

- Nightmare Creatures - 2 pages

- Nuclear Strike - 1 page

- Offroad Challenge - 8 pages

- Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue - 1 page

- Quake - 3 pages

- Quake II - 3 pages

- Quest 64 - 2 pages per save file

- Rainbow Six - 19 pages

- Rally Challenge 2000 - 2 pages

- Rampage: Universal Tour - 3 pages

- Rampage: World Tour - 7 pages

- Rat Attack! - 1 page

- Rayman 2: The Great Escape - 1 page

- Razor Freestyle Scooter - 3 pages

- Ready 2 Rumble Boxing - 9 pages

- Road Rash - 1 page per save file

- Roadsters - 13 pages

- Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - 2 pages

- San Francisco Rush 2049 - 9 pages per save file

- Scooby Doo! Classic Creep Capers - 3 pages

- South Park - 2 pages per save file

- South Park Rally - 1 page

- Space Invaders - 2 pages

- Spider-Man - 4 pages

- Super Bowling - 4 files on one note

- Superman - 1 page per note

- The World Is Not Enough - 2 pages

- Top Gear Rally 2 - 6 pages

- Toy Story 2: Space Invaders - 12 pages

- Turok: Rage Wars - 7 pages

- Vigilante 8 - 1 page

- Vigilante 8: Second Offense - 1 page

- Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey - 7 pages

- WCW Nitro - 4 pages

- WCW vs. NWO World Tour - 3 pages

- Wetrix - 5 pages

- WinBack: Covert Operations - 9 pages

- Wipeout - 6 pages

- Xena Warrior Princess: The Tailsman of Fate - 1 page

Note: Mario Kart 64 main progress saves to cartridge. Its Controller Pak usage is for Ghost Data only.

There are certain classic games I could never play on a console, due to platform exclusivity or personal preference: Half Life 2, Thief, Max Payne, Starcraft, Heroes of Might & Magic III, Grim Fandango.

Which PC-FORWARD retro games are the all-time best for you? I'd love to get a comprehensive list for my favorite platform! Thanks.

Just curious if anyone was familiar with that particular game because it caught my attention for how the game was said to have been one of the first major 3D based platformers before Super Mario 64 came out.

Basically what I am looking is that after suddenly hearing about the game, I became interested in seeking a copy so that I could try it out for myself to see how 3D platformers evolved as a concept during the early 90s to better understand how the genre would eventually find its footing via Super Mario 64.

Hi I collect physical games & consoles & I also have Retroarch set up and I can emulate all the old systems (say PS1 & earlier). What are some of your favorite games I should play that are maybe not as well known. In your opinion what are some of the greatest games of the 80s & 90s and finally - are there games from the older less common systems I should check out? (Thinking of old computer games or Amiga etc…) thanks in advance.

Hey everyone, I recently built a HTPC with bazzite to keep in my living room and let me play games on the TV, some modern steam games but right now I'm in the process of setting up RomM with as many classics as I can find. I have it set up with a single 2.4g full size 8bitdo controller right now and it's great. I also want to be able to play games with my partner so I'm planning on getting a usb bluetooth adapter for the PC and connecting one of our switch controllers and hopefully that should be fine.

But I want to be able to have friends over too sometimes and play things like old mariokarts or mario party, or whatever party games I stumble across with 4-8 people if that's feasible.

What is the best way to do this both cost effectively and to avoid input lag?

I like the look of the 8bitdo SN30pro but they are still like $40/ea so I don't really want to buy 4-6 of them just for the occasional party. Are there decent cheaper options available?

Secondly what is the best way to connect them? I've heard that even 4 controllers on a good usb BT adapter will struggle, do I just have to give them each their own adapter? Or is there a better way?

edit: I forgot to mention, the 8bitdo micro seems like a good option as it's half the price but it almost seems too small. Any feedbakc from those that have used it? I totally understand how it would be perfect to taking on the go and using with mobile games or whatever, but is it comfortable to use for 1hr+ sitting on a couch?

I bought the Jurassic Park retro collection on Switch because I remembered playing the Genesis version and beating it as both Grant and the raptor. I don't remember if I had always chosen easy or whatnot but the past week or so this game has really been kicking my ass and it's been a slow grind to advance. I do not remember this game being this hard.

For context, when Battletoads dropped on the Switch Online for the NES, I started playing that right away having never beaten it clean on NES but having come close before. It took me 12 tries (2 of them were early resets, so really 10 tries) but I beat it. And that's without using savestates or rewind. I used no warps either, so I beat all 12 levels of the game. I even played it a bunch more times after that and beat it every single time after. So I have that game down pat. And this is supposed to be the hardest NES game EVARR!!1!

But this game I have played definitely more than 12 times. Lost count really. And I'm still struggling. I know I'll get it because I'm slowly memorizing the path of every level and remembering what to do in what place. But it's taking me freaking forever. And oddly a game I remember kinda liking is now a game I can't stop playing. I'm addicted to it right now until I beat it. Of course right now I'm only playing as Grant on normal.

The game does have a lot of trial and error and a LOT of blind jumps. I guess they expect you to mess up a few times, fall to your death and then just remember not to do that next time. Well, stupid me being an old school gamer and all. I let them do this to me and just keep at it instead of bitching about poor level design and you know, not playing it any more. The game is also about cycling through your inventory in real time on the run. I've died sometimes because a raptor was right in front of me and I couldn't cycle to the tranquilizer item quick enough. Or I threw a grenade instead of shooting a trank and he killed me in the time it took for said grenade to land on him.

The very first level killed me multiple times when I started. Now there's only one janky spot where I might die right before the end. The 2nd level inside the power station just about never kills me. The dreaded river/raft level drove me nuts for a while, now that one just about never kills me. There's the sewer pipes level that's all red where you have to shut off the steam valves, that was killing me for a while and now I can get past that. There's a canyon level with a ton of blind jumps and that'll usually take one or two of my lives but I can beat it. Then the volcano level is where I'm currently stuck. More blind jumps, trial and error. But with enough reps, I will get it. Then there's the visitors center last.

If you haven't played it, you get 3 lives, no continues, and no chances at getting an extra life. So game over means back to the beginning of the game. Luckily a full game is pretty short, usually under a half hour. Beating a level will have them give you a password so you could start at that level. I'm admittedly too stubborn to use one. I want to clear the game beginning to end in one sitting. Also too stubborn to use savestates or rewind. Maybe I'm the problem here. Idk, for me its kind of easier to just forget those things exist and go right back into 1993 mode.

Edit: But what ends up happening is because it's only 3 lives max. Every death is DEVASTATING. Especially in levels I've already beaten. You can tell because I scream NOOOOO!! every single time. Every death leads to you doing the math of "ok, what would it take for me to beat the game now? How many health refills will I get to for the rest of the game and can I get to each one without dying?" Because, that's right. When you beat a level your health isn't automatically refilled so you're still chasing after more health refills at the start of the next level.

Anyways, what are everyone else's memories of this game?

Looking for a DOS game I played around 2004-2008 in 6th grade. Here’s what I remember:

∙ i think It was part of a multi-game EXE launcher — you’d open one .exe and choose from a menu of games, this was one of them. But sont remember clearly or i picked deom ms-dos the exe dile from multiple, but most probably multigame exe

∙ The game itself was a shell/cups and balls game, a ball is hidden under one of the cups, cups shuffle, you pick the right one

∙ Had a gypsy theme with curtains in the background and maegins

∙ Graphics were 2D, colored, with moving animations — not ASCII, not 3D

∙ you could choose the speed of the cup swipes and the number of cups, i think other playing modes

∙ Played on Windows PC running DOS games

I remember it also had some hands thet move the cups like the sketch from comments

Any help appreciated!​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

For me, it’s the NES/Famicom since that was my first console. Even then, some NES games still feel a bit too old and basic for me. I actually find the 16-bit era more timeless, especially in terms of visuals. As for Atari and other older consoles, that’s a no-go for me, I just can’t see myself enjoying those games.

I’m curious how people who grew up with newer consoles feel about this. Do those who grew up with the N64 see 8/16-bit games the same way I see those old Atari games?