When Did You Realize You Were A Retro Gamer?

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 4:53 pm

ott0bot wrote:It was probably when the only reason i was finally buying a PS2 was for the Sega Genesis Collection

Wow -- that is devotion....
Why that over the real thing though?

Post by **ott0bot** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:05 pm

I always get my favorites in original form, but I wanted the special features and the ability to load up one $20 disk and keep the originals in good working order. Plus I wanted to play Okami...so thats the other reason I bought a PS2. I love that damn game!

Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:14 pm

For some reason, most of the new games don't really have that kind of appeal to me. For some reason the retro games has that certain charm, that the new games have. Plus the games has that nostalgia feeling and it just feels good.

Post by **fastbilly1** » Tue Nov 20, 2007 11:55 pm

Ive always been one. In high school I had an N64, but I also had a 7800 hooked up to the same tv. I also think I was the only one in my college to take an Atari with them, it only got a few hours of gameplay the first year but I blame that on TFC. When I got out of college and realized that people really want to play these games that they never got the chance to play, but I happened to have, well I realized I could help people by working conventions. It all started with my willingness to donate a Saturn and Radiant Silvergun...now I just keep getting more and more consoles.

Like I said in the NiGHTS topic, the joy I get by seeing others eyes light up because it is a game they have not seen in sometime or have never had a chance to play, is indescribable. Granted my family thinks I am crazy with multiple versions of the same console, but they have seen the eyes of the children when I bring out a DDR setup at a nearby outreach area. They have started to accept it.

Post by **The Apprentice** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:04 am

When I asked for a Genesis for christmas instead of an Xbox.

Post by **D.D.D.** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:28 am

I think when the PS1 and Saturn came out and the "1st gen" 3D games really sucked compared to the NES & MS 8-bit/2D games. That's about when I realized that "they don't make'm like they used to"...

Post by **arion** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:18 am

when i finally bought a nes in 2000

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:24 am

arion wrote:when i finally bought a nes in 2000

Someday, I should actually buy an NES.
I have three carts sitting on my shelf and nothing to play them on

Post by **Mozgus** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 11:51 am

racketboy wrote:I have three carts sitting on my shelf and nothing to play them on

Ya know, I've been considering buying a genesis again, if only to use as a basis for quality checking the music emulation on the PC side of things.

Post by **samratty** » Wed Nov 21, 2007 12:07 pm

When I realised that I wasn't enjoying a lot of the modern era's big blockbuster AAA games.
That was around the mid-PS2 era, I sold all my consoles and stopped gaming for a while.

I wouldn't consider myself a retro gamer, I like a lot of modern games. I like games regardless of thier era but I do find I tend to prefer the retro conventions of games, although I do enjoy a lot of games that are based on more modern conventions.