View Full Version : Discovering yesterday's gaming classics... Today!
Raedon
04-30-2003, 11:27 AM
So you just got a box of "unknown" carts at a garage sale for $5.00. Some VIC-20 carts, some C64 carts, a box of old DOS floppy games, a few NES games. It's fairly likely more then one or two of those are classics in someone's eyes but they are new to you. Hell, you didn't even own a (insert system) back then!
Now you have for the first time a game like Startropics or INTV-AD&D and you have discovered a lost treasure! A game that took you 20 years to play that people were raving about when parachute pants were cool (ok ok.. parachute pants were never cool..)
So, have you discovered any classic classics lately?
NE146
04-30-2003, 12:55 PM
Dracula X.. never got to play it "proper" but now that it's emu'd relatively good on the xbox, I'm all over it :)
Kroogah
04-30-2003, 01:21 PM
I didn't really "discover" it, but I did finally beat the original Legend of Zelda (yes, for the first time ever...I got bored with it at age 4) recently. Working on the damn 2nd Quest now.
ICE CLIMBER! I've been playing the Hell out of that game!
Kid Fenris
04-30-2003, 02:06 PM
This happens to me all the time. It was just last year that I finally got to play The Guardian Legend. I have since decided that it's one of my favorite NES games.
Strangely enough, I had the chance to buy TGL on the cheap from some kid waaaaay back in the sixth grade, but I didn't want it because a) the kid wrote his name on the cartridge in huge, permanent-ink letters and b) no one knew what the game was about, since the label only showed some angry alien's forehead.
"Ah, pointless nostalgia."
leonk
04-30-2003, 02:13 PM
I went from NES -> PC -> becoming an NES collector -> XBOX..
so with my GBA I'm discovering alot of the SNES games.. mostly the popular mario games.. they're GREAT!!
Adventures of Lolo. Freakin' loving it!
Captain Wrong
05-01-2003, 11:04 AM
There's a ton of NES era stuff I've discovered. During that time, I was mostly playing my Apple ][c, and I didn't get a Nintendo until later. Other kids in the neighborhood had the NES but we all had old school "why don't you play outside" parents, so I didn't get to play them much.
Plus when I did get a NES, I still stuck to the ][c mostly because I...urm...had a much larger libray of games and could "aquire" them much cheaper. It didn't matter to me that I wasn't playing the newest and best because I had Pooyan and Spy Hunter and I was happy.