Gaming in the 90s was awesome...

[ReddMcKnight]

90's brought us "cinematic" games (what's it called? FMV?) and 3D games..

I prefer the 80's...

*sighs with nostalgia*

Well, I was born in 1988, so I didn't exactly get to experience the 80s. Heh. To each his own though.

[Lord_Santa]

90's brought us "cinematic" games (what's it called? FMV?) and 3D games..

I prefer the 80's...

*sighs with nostalgia*

Well, I was born in 1988, so I didn't exactly get to experience the 80s. Heh. To each his own though.

glad that you're not only into current-gen-games at least

many people your age have since long passed all "nostalgia" reasons to play anything 16-bit and moved onto... whatever bits we have these days

[ReddMcKnight]

90's brought us "cinematic" games (what's it called? FMV?) and 3D games..

I prefer the 80's...

*sighs with nostalgia*

Well, I was born in 1988, so I didn't exactly get to experience the 80s. Heh. To each his own though.

glad that you're not only into current-gen-games at least

many people your age have since long passed all "nostalgia" reasons to play anything 16-bit and moved onto... whatever bits we have these days

Really? I never noticed that. Everyone I've seen that's my age is still into Retro Stuff.

[Lord_Santa]

Really? I never noticed that. Everyone I've seen that's my age is still into Retro Stuff.

wow.
you are blessed
trust me

I don't even know people my age (ten years older than you) whom are into retro...

*sighs*

guess I'm hanging out with the wrong crowd...

[AppleQueso]

I'm 21, friends my age usually seem to think it's really cool when they see my collection of older systems.

[jfrost]

Most of the people I hang out with do not play games. They did play when they were kids, so if we talk about games it's going to be about the classics.

[msimplay]

90's brought us "cinematic" games (what's it called? FMV?) and 3D games..

I prefer the 80's...

*sighs with nostalgia*

Well, I was born in 1988, so I didn't exactly get to experience the 80s. Heh. To each his own though.

I played some 80s since I was born in 82 my friend had an Amstrad and I played some games in the Arcades but I only really started with in the 90's I got a Gameboy because my area was kind of rough as my first home console the Sega Master System got nicked.
My first real console at home was the Super Nintendo I wanted a Megadrive but since I was naughty that year dad decided not to give it to me and return it to the store instead.
Then at Christmas I got a Super Nintendo and that's where all my first really memorable and enjoyable experiences first started as prior to that with the exception of Super Mario Land 1 and Tetris I never really completed a game.
I did play Nintendo Nes but as a retro experience along side my Snes as some games were so good such as Super Mario World and Zelda they made me want to see what previous versions of the games were like.
The 90's was fantastic because Nintendo and Sega supported 3 consoles at once.
A budget 8bit a premium 16bit and a portable handheld those were the days.

[D.D.D.]

Ah the days when paying for a "lost" rented game was less than the retail price.

That's a low down dirty trick... But I did it too... Once. It was for Ogre Battle on the SNES. Lost fee for that game was $10 and even back in the 90s it was still about $60 used everywhere I saw it. Still kinda feel dirty about that one.

[ReddMcKnight]

I just remembered a game from the 90s called Bucky O'Hare. It was about a Rabbit in space who fought toads. It was a very fun game from what I remember, and it was based off a 90s Cartoon too!

There were two versions: An NES Version with it's own stand-alone story, and an Arcade Version, which was the sequel to the cartoon. I first played the NES Version at my Dad's House, because my brother had it for NES. Wish I could find it again...

Anyway, I played the Arcade Version at a Chuck E. Cheese Restaurant on my Birthday at a later time, which I could never beat, but what can you expect from a kid? Kids aren't exactly good at Video Games as far as I know.

Anyway, my point is: Did any of you have an obscure/not-so-well-known game you used to enjoy playing as a kid?

[Lord_Santa]

Anyway, my point is: Did any of you have an obscure/not-so-well-known game you used to enjoy playing as a kid?

Rags to Riches for the C-64
haven't met anyone but me and my brothers whom have even tried it
not saying that there aren't people who have, but it is a rather obscure title

that being said, there was no way of saving the game and it continued endlessly (AFAIK) with you starting as an unshaved hobo, collecting bottles and money off of the street, avoiding the cops who'd put you in jail for vagrancy (roaming the streets), unless you got a shave

you'd eventually get a shave, a hair-cut and a part-time job, until you'd start educating yourself and then take on higher paid jobs

once you'd reached a certain "status" and aquired enough wealth, the IRS would come and take all your money from your account
needless to say there were robbers whom took all the money that weren't in your bank-account

there were 4 subway-stations which had different kinds of activities (soup-kitchen, hotel, trash-yard with bottles, etc.)

it was/is a brilliant concept, I just never managed to "finish" it

later on (early-mid 90's) I'd get a Final Cartridge III which allowed "save-states" (Freeze-Save) and be able of playing the game for several more hours, only to realize that there probably wasn't an ending to it

still, it's one of the games I have the most fond memories of playing and I still boot it up from time-to-time these days