Rhynoplaz

also online play has gotten way better(if that even was a thing when you last played)

Thanks for making me feel old. I haven’t played a Street Fighter game since the 1900s, and no, online wasn’t a thing.

Maybe not that long, but they were long enough. We didn’t have 70" HD screens back then, and if you sat further back than 3’ you couldn’t see shit!

On Super Mario World, did you go through the Star Road and find the alternate exits for every level with a red dot? I feel like that’s the hard mode.

You obviously didn’t read the version where the hare gets eaten.

Yeah, Bowser would hit the highest speeds, but if you hit a wall or a shell, it would take forever to get going again.

I’m just commenting here because I have a stack of Master System ROMs, but no idea which ones were worth trying out.

Thanks for all the suggestions! I’ll be back later to judge each of them.

Where I come from, that’s called the warm up.

The gateway depends on what genre grabs you.

I’ve gone back and played a TON of ROMS in the past few years. Some were old favorites, some for the first time, and 80% of them are trash.

That’s not me hating on retro games, I play those more than anything else, but some companies were cranking out anything they could for those old systems.

On average, I lose interest in most retro games in under ten minutes (because it’s just not good). But the ones that grab me, I play for weeks until I’ve finished it.

Super Mario World or Donkey Kong Country are great side scrollers. Final fantasy 5 (translated) and 6 (published as 3 in the US) have been my favorite RPGs. I enjoyed Super Metroid much more than Castlevania even though they get clumped together in the same genre. Tetris & Dr Mario are great puzzle games.

Others have mentioned emulation, and I second it. I have a hacked SNES Mini with everything from Colecovision to PlayStation.

Why buy one console when you can have them all?

I’m with you. I still call him Robotnik, but I also still expect Sonic to sound like Steve Urkell.

We spent SOOO many nights playing Bears and Squirrels!

I found an SNES mini with nearly every system and a complete collection of ROMS (up to and including a few PS1 and N64) on eBay. It was like $200+ but, I just plug it in and it works, which is worth it for me.

They are still out there and I can tell you who I got it from if you’d like.

Probably my favorite piece composed by “The Fat Man”.

I’ve been going through the old Final Fantasies. I finished FF5 and FF6 last year and recommend both. They have great pacing (They change things up before it gets too stale) and if you keep an online guide handy, it’s not as frustrating as it was when I was 10.

Search for some emulating communities and see what sites they have recommended. The ROMs aren’t dangerous, but there are dangerous sites that promise ROMs.

I originally had the mini NES fully loaded with ROMS, but one of the kids factory reset it. I went shopping for another and found the SNES version.

Don’t tell the kids, but I’m secretly glad they gave me an excuse to upgrade!

I have EXACTLY what you need! It’s a mini SNES that’s loaded with nearly every ROM from Atari to SNES, and even a few PlayStation and N64 (but they don’t always ruin quite right.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/115924332838?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=OytX8YxuTRG&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=HqyeR3fCTNC&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

I bought two from this user on eBay. Highly recommend!

You really are a hero. I got stuck in Death Mountain and just haven’t gone back. That is not an easy game.

I just beat this game today!

If Atari was the infancy of video games, then the N64 must be the awkward puberty years.