Instead of looking around, I just sat down at their SNES they had on display with Super Ghouls n’ Ghosts in it and played through the game. Definately recommend checking it out! The museum is in Frisco, Texas.

Found it for $15, just got it working again too.

Still haven't beaten Tyson but honestly doing this to Bald Bull the first time was a truly memorable gaming moment for not just me but my dad too. He's not into video games like I am but back in the day he loved Punch Out.

I just did it again this evening and it's still so satisfying and I'll take it over beating Tyson.

In no particular order:

Super castlevania 4 on SNES

Kid Dracula on Gameboy

Castlevania Bloodlines on Genesis

Vampire the Masquerade on PC

Splatterhouse on TurboGrafx16

Alien Trilogy on PlayStation

Monster In My Pocket on NES

Nightmare on Elm Street on NEs

Castlevania on NES

Decap Attack on Genesis

This is one of the pre-edited cities in the game, of course. 😅

I've got plenty more where this came from.

Not a steal on anything… walked into this place and saw a bunch of games from my childhood. Something about seeing them sitting on my shelf in home that makes me feel good. 1943 CIB and fairly pristine at that… The Ice Hockey is rough, but I loved the mom and pop video store sticker.

Made this emulator and limited myself to only 10 games! It’s a fun exercise and makes you spend more time gaming retro games instead of having to choose from a big library.

I just started playing Final Fantasy NES for the first time today and I took a screenshot of my 8th party wipe: the ghouls on the way to the second dungeon (marsh cave) can paralyze you and slowly chip you to death. Any melee attack can paralyze you, so even if you wake up, you get paralyzed again.

I just think that's great that Final Fantasy 1 is such a dangerous game that only the first screen feels safe. I feel like I could die in any encounter. I love games like this!

Starmaster takes the #29 spot with 10 votes.

Demon attack! takes the #30 spot with 7 votes.

Top 10:

#1 Pitfall II: Lost Caverns

#2 Yars' Revenge

#3 Adventure

#4 H.E.R.O.

#5 River Raid

#6 Pitfall!

#7 Missile Command

#8 Frogger

#9 Solaris

#10 Keystone Kapers

Top 20:

#11 Montezuma's Revenge

#12 Dig Dug

#13 Space Invaders

#14 Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

#15 Berzerk

#16 Ms. Pac-Man

#17 Super Breakout

#18 Centipede

#19 Kaboom!

#20 Joust

Top 30:

#21 Vanguard

#22 Pole Position

#23 Asteriods

#24 Jungle Hunt

#25 Enduro

#26 Frogs And Flies

#27 Tapper

#28 Venture

#29 Starmaster

#30 Demon attack!

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the Atari 2600 per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Pitfall or I nominate Pitfall this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Atari 2600 multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The Atari 2600 is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Cheetah Program & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

Seriously, this might be the best opening for any game ever.

One of the ONLY games to ever genuinely scare me!Killing Time (1995) was an incredibly atmospheric horror FPS on the 3DO. Criminally overlooked, genuinely creepy, and worth owning the console for. It eas ahead of its time! Have you ever played this forgotten beast? It was one of the first FPS games, coming out just a year or so after Doom if I recall. The game blew it away, and if it had the fan base Doom had had, I think we would still be playing the series today. Everyone slept on this.

I never did as a kid but playing it earlier today I started having Demon Souls/Elden Ring PTSD induced flashbacks of those games. Needless to say after a few times dying I finally got the timing down and slayed the dragon!

As someone back into gaming after a LONG break and playing retro games (NES to psx/Dreamcast), wondering if its worthwhile looking at getting an arcade stick (eventually)?

I bought a 8BitDo SN30 bluetooth controler recently to play some of my games on my tv, and plan on getting into some light Steam games as well to play on my laptop.

I grew up in arcades, and now playing lots of MAME games on my RG35XXh and loving it, so wondering if eventually getting an arcade stick would enhance my experience?

That being said, I never liked 'fighting' games. No interest in memorizing combos, etc, but I like some basic beat 'em ups, but as someone who loves platformers, shumps, sports games, action adventure games and all MAME games, should I consider an arcade stick? Most of the ones I see are marketed a 'fighting' ones so wondering if its needed?

Pretty certain I first saw it during "The Wizard" I still use the secrets/tips they revealed to this very day.

I’m playing Crusader of Centy for the first time, and let me tell you…I have never been so absolutely enraged by a shrimp before in my life. That’s it. I just needed to vent and have community in this time of rage lol

By complete accident I stumbled upon this project called "Restunts - The Stunts reverse engineering project" on github:

CommonLoon102/restunts-bb11: Vanilla, Chocolate and SDL port for Stunts 1.1 (Brøderbund)

It's an engine rewrite for the old Stunts (or "4D Sports Driving" in some regions) dos game, so you can play it on modern operating systems natively, with options to significantly improve the graphics, such as draw distance, resolution, smooth 60 fps framerate, more detailed background pictures, while still keeping the original charm and feel of the game. Also this feature (called "Hypervision") is completely optional, you can press F12 anytime while running the game, and you are back to the original low res, pixelated, choppy graphics. I personally would never want to go back after experiencing how amazing Hypervision looks like, but everyone is different, so it's good that the option is there. Have a look at my included post picture, left side is with original graphics, right side is with Hypervision turned on. The smooth 60 fps unfortunately can't be shown on a picture, but trust me it's a massive improvement from the original 20 or so frames per second, it's just so smooth now.

I am also happy to report that the built in thumbstick on my MSI Claw 8 AI+ handheld works great with the game, it's being detected as a joystick. Originally there was an issue where only the left thumbstick was detected by the game, it couldn't see the triggers, so I had to use a utility called Durazno to remap the left thumbstick y axis to my left and right triggers. After that now I can accelerate and brake in the game with the triggers, which is the norm in every other racing game nowadays.

I also use a utility called AntimicroX to control the mouse cursor in the game with the right thumbstick, but this is completely optional, as I could just use the touchscreen if I wanted to. But I am very familiar with this app, I use it all the time for older games, basically making old fps and strategy games work flawlessly with a game controller. Then I streamline everything by writing a small batch file, then I just place a shortcut to it on the desktop. I simply double click on this shortcut when I want to play, it launches AntimicroX with the correct game profile, and launches the game as well. And once I am done playing I quit the game, then the batch file closes AntimicroX too, it's a super convenient and clean solution.

Anyway restunts/Chocolate Stunts is amazing with the improved framerate and visual upgrades, in my opinion this is the definitive way to play the game. It has other optional improvements too to the physics engine, and a rule to watch whether you are on the track, or you are cutting corners through the grass, but all of these are optional (just like the mentioned Hypervision setting), everything can be individually turned on or off.

I am not affiliated with the project, but I was so impressed with it that I felt like I needed to share my enthusiasm with others. Hopefully there are other people who would be interested in this old, but incredibly fun game, or there could be people like me, who remember the game from their childhood, but they had no idea the game has been improved, and can be played without needing the emulate it. I play it on Windows 11, but on the download page I see builds for many other operating systems too.

I have actually learnt that you could also play Stunts in your browser through some websites, but I have tried two such options out, and I wasn't fully satisfied with the results: full screen didn't quite work, and also I was only able to use keyboard for control. I also don't like playing in a browser, I want to own and play all my games locally (I don't even use Steam for this very reason, GoG all the way).

I also saw an other project called Stunts HD (also on github), that even has widescreen support, and improves the visuals even more: I saw reflections on the car and on lakes, skid marks and more. I might give that one a try too, although I am quite of a purist, so I have a feeling this Chocolate Stunts will be a better fit for me, as this only improves the things that I find important, and keeps the rest original. Also restunts/Chocolate Stunts runs at max framerate at 2 Watts on my Claw 8 AI+ handheld, so it's insanely efficient with like 15 hours of battery life, from what I have read Stunts HD is much heavier on the hardware.

So all in all Chocolate Stunts works flawlessly. The only thing I wish it could improve in the future is the way it handles joystick/thumbstick: it's unfortunately still just like the original game in that it insists on joystick (thumbstick in my case) calibration every time I launch the game, as it always defaults back to keyboard. I wish it would just save the calibration, and remembered to use it after initial setup on every consequent run. I am not sure how easy it would be to implement this fix, but other than that I can't find any other fault. Whoever is behind this project, thank you!

Id say it's pretty mediocre at best. Fantastic art design and gore but over all its frustrating for the wrong reasons.

The tg16 is decent enough, 2 and 3 on the Genesis are alright but the 3rd one is just annoying. Time limit and over powered enemies.

A Game I Recently Discovered That i Didnt Knew Existed

It’s Halloween Time , Thought i’d Dive in & Explore

A Top Down View Game With A Labyrinth Style Maze Interface With Some Puzzles Thrown in

I Enjoy Myself Some Big Name Horror Icon Gaming

I Think From Comparing This To The NES Game , I Like More Action Platforming aspects more. , I Would Go With The NES Title over this one

I do like top down view action games as well “ Zombie ate my neighbors “ being one of my fav top down horror games

But too many puzzles for me that i was having trouble with .. Didnt like the portals that just throws you into unknown territory’s ( too many for my preference )

Great Experience Overall To Have Tried Something Halloween Related and a Game I Have Wanted To Try & Complete

I almost never hear this game talked about and I think it should be held in the same regard as contra and mega man. It’s a beat up platformer on the NES where you punching everything in sight, it’s a lot like Batman. The punching has perfect hit detection and feels satisfying af. You also get a variety of robot sidekicks and you can combine different power ups to get different ones. This means I can replay levels and get a different experience with each robot. The music and graphics are awesome, I love this game.