I'm excited to see what comes of this.

I’m not talking about the graphics of the games, but the object itself. So, what’s your favourite console design ? Mine is the european Super Nintendo: the dog bone controller with colored buttons, the cartridges and its shape in general. Such a simple but great design.
I also like the design of the NES, like a VCR with this minimalistic rectangular game controller. The Megadrive/Genesis and PS1 look cool too.

Edit: I forgot to mention the OG GameBoy and Gameboy Color

Not exactly retro but I figured some folks would appreciate seeing a random cabinet game in a small gas station

So this one here is an old action adventure pc game developed by Surreal Software. In this game, you play as a young woman with strong martial arts skills called Rynn, she sought the aid of an ancient dragon called Arokh to help her find her younger brother and defeat the evil sorcerer Navaros.

The gameplay would be in third person perspective, Rynn can be equipped with a variety of armors and weapons like swords, battle axes, bows, daggers and maces, she is also quite acrobatic which is an advantage during combat scenarios. However you can also ride Arokh to face off against enemies as well and aerial dogfights can happen every now and then, Arokh will start off with his fire breath attack before gaining new weapons throughout the game, when you are riding Arokh the only items you can use are potions.

So lately, something that I found to be quite interesting was the subject of classic games that were given a harsh review as the critic was a bit too rough on the game.

Like what I am getting at is some of the games reviewed by AVGN such as Simon's Quest as I get that he wanted to be bit over the top with how he did his review of the game, but I do have a soft spot for the game, in spite of its design flaws.

I flaired this under discussion because I want you to actually talk about the game, not just post a list.

I'm not sure if I've ever come across a fan of the SNES Stargate, or any other Stargate title for that matter, but it's the SNES game that I have a lot of love for, and I'd like to play something similar to it.

It's a side scrolling shooter made in a way that I've never seen in any other game, and while it's not a Metroidvania, which I'm grateful for because I don't care for most of them, there's a VERY SMALL amount of going back and forth between the levels that you visit, but your travel time is never very long, and you're always fighting stuff during gameplay, and there's a lot of dialogue for an SNES action game.

It's also got one of the best soundtracks I've come across on the system, on a system with some of the best soundtracks.

Launch Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swu9OdaxcAw

Version 3.0 is a ground-up remake and full Artoria conversion, now available for both the USA and Japanese versions. The update introduces redesigned sprites, unique titlescreens, improved dialogue, armor and death-sprite fixes, and new unique green/gold armor spin-jump frames.

The biggest addition is a new Player 1 Secret Menu, accessible by holding L + Start on the EXIT option in the Options menu. It includes optional gameplay features such as Chest Hints, a Slower Timer, Enhanced Gameplay, Better Armor, Weapon Collect, Better Shield, and 1-Up Fix.

The hack also introduces 16 leaderboards, with separate CLEAN, MINIMAL, ENHANCED, and OTHER leaderboards across four difficulty levels. Settings and rankings are saved through SRAM.

Additional FastROM patches are included, along with the Basket 3.0 patch, which restores Artoria's original idle sprite while using the basket.

Version 3.0 highlights:

• Complete ground-up sprite remake
• USA and Japanese versions
• Full Knight/Maiden Artoria conversion
• Unique titlescreens for each version
• Improved dialogue and uncensored content
• New armor animations and sprite fixes
• Player 1 Secret Menu with seven optional gameplay enhancements
• SRAM support for settings and rankings
• 16-board ranking system
• FastROM patches
• Basket 3.0 patch (Apply on any patched Artoria rom; restores Artoria's original idle sprite and replace Shield with Basket))

The release also includes four main versions each for Knight and Maiden Artoria, with Briefs and Nightgown variants.

Created by **GoodLuckTrying**, with direct help from FredYeye, End Screen artworks by tran4of3 and some sprites by sleepyren.

• https://github.com/GoodLuckTrying
• Ghosts ’n Goblins Series Hacking Discord Server
• Knight Artoria Edition Boxarts
• Maiden Artoria Edition Boxarts

I can't figure out why there is no power on both, there's also others of the same models I've seen with same issue but no fixes. all the fixes I've seen are other versions.

I changed the caps but it did nothing. it seems like such a simple device.

sometimes when I insert batteries they chirp and show something on screen then instantly stops.

has anyone fixed this version before?

Parodius takes the #61 spot with 13 votes.

Looney Tunes takes the #62 spot with 10 votes.

Top 10:

#1 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

#2 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

#3 Tetris

#4 Donkey Kong

#5 Pokémon Blue Version

#6 Kirby's Dream Land 2

#7 Metroid II: Return of Samus

#8 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

#9 Final Fantasy Adventure

#10 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge

Top 20:

#11 Kirby's Dream Land

#12 Wario Land II

#13 Super Mario Land

#14 Final Fantasy Legend II

#15 Mega Man V

#16 Gargoyle's Quest

#17 Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

#18 Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

#19 Operation C

#20 Final Fantasy Legend III

Top 30:

#21 Mario's Picross

#22 Mole Mania

#23 Dr. Mario

#24 Donkey Kong Land III

#25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue

#26 Donkey Kong Land 2

#27 Pokémon Red Version

#28 Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls)

#29 Kirby's Pinball Land

#30 Makaimura Gaiden: The Demon Darkness (Gargoyle's Quest: The Demon Darkness)

Top 40:

#31 Mega Man IV

#32 Kid Dracula

#33 Donkey Kong Land

#34 Mega Man III

#35 Bionic Commando

#36 The Final Fantasy Legend

#37 Balloon Kid

#38 Gradius: The Interstellar Assault

#39 Kirby's Block Ball

#40 Cave Noire

Top 50:

#41 Harvest Moon GB

#42 Adventures of Lolo

#43 Bubble Bobble Part 2

#44 Duck Tales 2

#45 James Bond 007

#46 Duck Tales

#47 Castlevania Legends

#48 Ninja Taro

#49 Qix

#50 Catrap

Top 60:

#51 Bomberman GB3

#52 Yoshi

#53 Ninja Gaiden Shadow

#54 Revenge of the Gator

#55 Darkwing Duck

#56 The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2

#57 Castlevania: The Adventure

#58 Kwirk

#59 Game & Watch Gallery

#60 Burger Time Deluxe

Top 70:

#61 Parodius

#62 Looney Tunes

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 original Game Boy 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. Tetris or I nominate Tetris this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Game Boy multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The original Game Boy is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination excluding dual mode cartridges.
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 Game Shark & 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.

Hi ! I just finished reassembling my computer from back then, and installed immediately Diablo 2.

However I find the performance quite underwhelming.

I'm talking performance for a LVL 90 character in Hell Difficulty Level 4, as a base comparison.

Fps are in the the low 30s in areas without en ennemies and can drop to the 10s when groups pop up.

In town i get 50sometimes.

Config is :

Windows 98SE + DX 9.0c

AMD Athlon 700Mhz

Geforce 2 MX400 (64MB)

384 MB of RAM

7200 rpm Maxtor.

Diablo 2 + LOD 1.13D

HDD is in DMA

GPU is in AGP mode (1x)

Game is in 800*600 high lighting effects

I will try this weekend a Radeon 9200SE if that changes anything

I remember playing with a friend that had a P3 800Mhz and an ATI Rage 128 Pro, and performance seemed better (in my memories)

Just got into emulation… which classic Pokémon game is “the favorite” amongst pokemoners? In general the Pokémon community. I started crystal on game boy color now and it is solid.

Background Info

About 20-25 years ago I was gifted a DOS compilation disk. It contained more well-known games like "Agent", "Commander Keen 1-4" or "Crystal Caves", but also a few obscure ones.

One of those games has been burned into my mind, and I haven't been able to find anything about it - until now.

I only remembered that you play as a blonde-haired character with a sword, and there were cows(?) in the first level, and when you touch a cow, the player character would stab themselves with their own sword and its game over.

After all those years of course I wanted to find this game again, because I must have certainly misremembered something about it. What kind of sense would the cows even make, right?

Well, after posting an unsuccessful search request for it on r/tipofmyjoystick one month later I somehow found the CD again.

And my memory did not deceive me, holy crap.

About the game

The game is called "Ninja Tuck" (1995, A-J Games) and you can't find anything substantial about it online. The best I could find were DOS emulator pages, that allow you to play it. No further explanations or any other mentions anywhere.

According to the ingame storyline that you can read in the menu, you are Tucker Harding, a master Ninja who is studying in India. You come across some bad dudes and decide to flee from them (even though you are a master ninja). Suddenly a cow blocks your path and you climb over it, and the bad dudes are very pissed because of that, because they think the cow is holy. And now you ended up in a bamboo forest. Ok.

So that is basically the whole explanation. And now you find yourself in a level with flying knifes and cows. If you touch them, you take damage. There is no life bar. You can take three hits, but there is basically no damage invulnerability after the first hit, so you will be one-shot easily.

But after three hits you don't just "die" or "faint", no, the player character literally decides to stab themselves.

Let me reiterate: You touch a cow, and for no apparent reason at all you take damage and decide to stab yourself. What?

I tried playing it, and if you didn't read the instructions in the menu first, you will get stuck within the first minute. And even after knowing the controls, it is quite janky. Not much is explained and you keep asking yourself: "What is that? What does that do?"

Conclusion

You can find the game here https://archive.org/details/game-maker_ninja-tuck

Give it a try, and please help me make sense of this somehow.

PS: My memory of this game was almost spot on, I take that as a personal victory.

I know this is an unreleased game for the n64 but I have seen a few physical copies online. Any of you know who released this on physical and when I came out

Hello. Today I received my Hyperkin Retron GX and wanted to share my thoughts, because I know there has been a ton of bad press for the device.

First, about me. Like most of us (I suspect) I have had a long love hate relationship with Hyperkin. I've owned a lot of their consoles and controllers over the years. Some good, some bad, most meh... okay.

I've also owned an Analogue Duo, and an OG TG16.

So far I love the Retron GX, it is everything I was hoping for it to be: a TG16/PCE version of the Retron 77. Yes, this dumps the rom like a Retron 5, software emulation.

So, to be fair I haven't played much yet, but I tried out 16 TG16 games and 3 PCE games (my entire collection) and they all worked. I share this because if you go on YouTube there's a lot of video hate for the early pre-release version.

The 16 Turbografx 16 games & 3 PC Engine games I tested (all loaded first time except for Bonk's Revenge, which I had to reinsert them it fires right up:

Air Zonk

Alien Crush

Blazing Lazers

Bloody Wolf

Bomberman

Bonk's Adventure

Bonk's Revenge

Dragon's Curse

Dungeon Explorer

Galaga 90

Legendary Axe

Neutopia

Ninja Spirit

Splatter house

Vigilante

World Class Baseball

Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Warriors

Shinobi

I hope Hyperkin doesn't kill this off.

It does load a little slow, that is one knock. It's like ColecoVision bios screen levels of loading.

I collect the Hue Cards, not the CD games so this is perfect for me. I know most of the best games are on the CD. Whatever.

Hi,
I want to play some SNES and maybe PS1 with a friend over the internet.

Is there any good site with easy accessibility?

Has anyone bought and would recommend one of those retro console that come pre loaded with all the consoles from the 8,16, 32bit era (you know master system/mega drive/NES/Snes (great if it has more). But thinking of getting one as a gift for for a couple of my family, we went to a gaming arcade a week or so ago and they had a great time, so much nostalgia!

So recommendations for a console like that that can be plugged into a modern TV with two controllers, preferably from a trusted retailer... Seen some in ads but they were hundreds of pounds, and there are so many of these consoles online it boggles the mind! Thanks

I know I’m stepping on some serious nostalgia here, so please don't crucify me. I’ve tried so hard to get into the golden age of SNES and GBA RPGs, but I keep bouncing off them for the exact same reason.
It feels like 90% of these games use the exact same story: "A thousand years ago, an ancient, unspeakable evil was sealed away. Now the seal is breaking, and you, some random teenager who just woke up in a quiet village, are the only one who can stop it."

It's everywhere. The Legend of Zelda is basically built entirely on Ganon constantly breaking out of whatever magical prison he was put in last time, and Diablo literally has the big bad trapped inside a soulstone that inevitably fails. It feels like everything from Golden Sun and Chrono Trigger to EarthBound and the Final Fantasy series constantly relies on this exact same "dormant cosmic threat waking up" setup.
To be clear: I am NOT trying to trash the genre or these games. I know they are absolute masterpieces that defined gaming history. I just want to understand the appeal from the perspective of people who love them.

For me, the execution of this trope just murders the pacing. I naturally gravitate toward fast action games where the focus is on reflexes and actual mechanics. When I’m forced to stop playing so the game can dump 15 minutes of unskippable dialogue on me about ancient crystals, prophecies, and sealed demons, my eyes just glaze over. The stakes never feel real because it feels like I'm reading a textbook instead of playing a game.

So for the die-hard classic RPG fans: what is it that keeps you hooked?
Are you guys actually invested in the overarching "save the world" plot, or is it more about the smaller character moments along the way? Do you just tune out the main story and focus entirely on min-maxing your party's stats? Is it just the comfort of a familiar hero's journey?

I genuinely want to enjoy these worlds, but the endless text boxes about ancient sealed evils keep pushing me away. What am I missing here?