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[–] NOT_RICK 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!

[–] cybervseas 49 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.

[–] ogeist 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.

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[–] NOT_RICK 14 points 5 days ago

Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

you can still play them!

Off I go doing a crime again

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

OoT actually got new life with the Ship pf Harkinian team

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

But... anime-girl buried them, so they're kinda hard to access.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

They stole all of her Reese's Pieces.

[–] Rooty 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged...poorly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I started the pixel remaster of ff6 and I'm surprised how well it holds up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I first played FF6 when it was already retro(I was a Sega kid) and it bacame my favorite FF, even higher than 7 which holds huge nostalgic memories to me

[–] InputZero 3 points 4 days ago

I've actually found the cure to my old video game nostalgia is watching old lets-plays. Usually I can skip a whole bunch of the creators video and get that nostalgia bug outta my system in a few hours without spending any money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

There are a few rare gems, but gameplay design has evolved a lot. It's worse than watching comedies from the 50s.

My first Zelda was BOTW so I decided I would play Ocarina of Time and Majora's mask. Man, the amount of aimlessly walking around and boring empty fields gets old very fast. Puzzles are either trivially obvious, impossibly obscure or super hard.

[–] something_random_tho 29 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

I can hear that Ocarina of Time screenshot.

[–] dirtySourdough 9 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

OWOOOOOOooo

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[–] disguy_ovahea 26 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Are there still? Did they leave most of em? I thought a bunch got sold off to patrons of that dig attempt.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago

Yeah nintendo still sues communities trying to port oot to a more modern engine xD.

[–] SkunkWorkz 11 points 4 days ago

Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] Valmond 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] mkhopper 6 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

My blood pressure goes up just looking at the Space Taxi loading screen. Space Taxi is why I don't have any patience left to try Dark Souls.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago (9 children)

Shit, I still have a working Genesis.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 5 points 5 days ago
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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E 6 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme

Every time i see it i have tears coming

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver 2 points 4 days ago

I know, I started seeing it a lot after losing my cat recently, and it stings a bit. =(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

I got a Miyoo Mini very recently and have been playing a lot of games since. I can't put the thing down for long at all!

[–] pjwestin 9 points 4 days ago

I don't know what you're talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (3 children)

”RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”

—Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)

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[–] Omegamanthethird 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren't dead.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Amiga I still love you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Mega Drive is still getting good mileage here. Recently played MSG on a ps emulator. I have the discs and a PSX but played it on my odroid go ultra. Got stuck figuring out how to change the discs virtually so that's how far I got in the game.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Love MGS1, but Yell Dead Cell is one of the best boss themes of all time.

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[–] aeronmelon 6 points 5 days ago

Is that Lain?

[–] _sideffect 6 points 5 days ago

"You're all together on one piece of plastic smaller than a thumb!"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago
[–] ATDA 2 points 4 days ago

I keep their memories close by, in several hard drives, and frequently play them over my network...

[–] _Cid_ 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

We did a run of Secret of Evermore with the 2 player mod this december, was super fun. I love rpg's from that era.

[–] LovableSidekick 4 points 4 days ago
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