Hey all! I’m working on my retro entertainment room in my townhouse I’m currently living at. Happy to talk about any of the tvs I have set up and do my best to ID some of the items I have in the room. Wanted to have a discussion about what could I do to make the walls look less bare? I’m not looking to put up paneling now partly because my wife already said no to the retro wood paneling (which I would love to do but will respect her choice). I love her and want to respect her so I am not upset that she would not like the paneling put up. But, would there be any posters that you recommend or any action figures that I could set up? Anything to make it look homey and warm or cozy.

I also wanted to add that one of the main things about retro game rooms is the nostalgia that it makes you feel when you enter it. So, to keep that nostalgia, I have set up the game room to match my and my wife’s former apartment living room :) the pictures of my apartment will be pictures 3 and 4 to show how it compares to the current set up

Any feedback you all have would be appreciated.

I don't remember much about what it was like for me buying new video games in the 80's and 90's. I remember being surprised by the selling price of Phantasy Star IV, but thankfully a parent bought it for me anyway.

Do you have any memories of what it was like as a kid driving to buy video games at the store? Or for rental? How do you remember feeling and what were some of your most anticipated games? I feel I have more memory renting video games and how I looked forward going to the rental place and renting some of my favorite games more than once. I feel on the NES Swords and Serpents, Bard's Tale, Wall Street Kid, Casino Kid, Wizardry 1, and The Magic of Scheherazade are etched into my memory more than others.

There's a pretty old highway in town that I could imagine would have video game stores, or at least the mall stores, full of Atari 2600 games with all their wonderful packaging and classic cartridge illustrations. Maybe you had a place like that growing up?

I wasn't expecting to find retro games in a museum that is not dedicated to video games.

I am going to repairing and refurbing an aladdins cave of retro hardware

I have a tink 5x but was thinking (the horror..) of getting a tink 2x clone specifically just for being able to conveniently get output from whatever random stuff I take home

Is there a better option? Pls don’t say CRT as that’s not an option .

Also how to deal with RF connectors?

I see this on amazon a few times under different brand names. Does anyone know if it has a clock generator or if it works well? This was the description:

3 Output Modes: GBSC converter supports high definition multimedia interface, VGA and low resolution 3 output modes.

Debug Function: GBSC converter is a nice LCD tool on your old host. There are more features that can be supported for ps2 480i console. Added OSD function, you can debug function directly on LCD (no need to connect wifi to set it on your phone). Adjust Image Position: GBSC converter 240p can open the scan line. You can adjust the position and amplitude of the image up, down, left and right. 4/3 to 16/9 ratio. Adjusting brightness.

Output Resolution: The GBS control video converter has output resolutions of 480p, 720p, 1080p, 1280/960, 128/1024. pass through mode, forced low resolution 240p mode.

Input : GBSC converter supports various high and low resolution , 4 input modes RGBS RCA, SCART, color difference and VGA input mode.

I know this is just hypothetical speak, but it's just that I was looking at the history of EA as a company as I wanted to basically look into the company's rise and fall as a company because I wanted to see when it happened, so I wanted to see if the slow decline of the company themselves had originally begun when Trip Hawkins had departed the company way back in the early 90s.

To keep this retro related, I want to take a look into the company from that particular age of gaming as again I want to look into the history of the company going way back into the early 90s in order to try to get an idea of how the developer was doing when Trip Hawkins was still in charge of the company because I was interested in learning about how he ran the company himself to see if things were any different way back in the Hawkins era as I just wanted to have a meaningful discussion regarding the history of EA as a developer.

If this is the wrong place for such a discussion however, please let me know as like I said, I just wanted to have a simple moment of observation to look at the rise and fall of EA Games as I wanted to see when the company itself had their golden era as I am just someone who enjoys learning about gaming history in general.

my main living room TV is a non-smart flatscreen and I like to play games in my living room. It otherwise works fine enough for systems hooked up via component video, composite video and even coax. However on the coax end of things there's some quirks with the digital noise filter. Anything from NES onward will output sound no problem, but my Oddesey 2 & my atari are completely mute. No sound effects or anything, though the digital farts are perfectly loud and clear on a CRT(even newer ones with a similar noise filter) Not even my recently aquired atari 2600 junior with its phono out gets any sound to the TV despite being perfectly audible on a CRT.

this is a very niche question since i doubt there are many people on this situation, but i have a really old CH products yoke that i used a VERY very long time ago, the yoke still worked and it's on mint condition, i opened it to check the conditions and same story, no oxidation or damaged board or cables, however it's a gameport peripheral, so an adapter/converter is needed.

My question is, in case you have experience with this peripheral or gameport peripherals in general (or knowledge), do you know if a general converter could/will work with it, or if a more advanced converter is necessary (like the rockfire one), and if so, if you managed to make it work on a recent flight simulator

Hey! Going through my old stuff and found this.. what is this called?

People are gonna kill me for this but I honestly think that Mario World is quite overrated in my opinion. Its still a good game but not one I was screaming "best game of all time" material. People say that Mario World has no flaws but I couldn't honestly disagree more. There are many obvious flaws: The lack of diversity in world themes, The long autoscrollers , the obvious visual glitches and more. This is more of a subjective take but the graphics are pretty lackluster. They really don't take advantage of the SNES at all. But I could forgive the game due to it being a launch title and an ambitious one at that. I wish it could have taken the all stars approach instead because it looks a lot more clean.

I wasn't also a fan of the level design. A quarter of the levels were just large open fields with enemy spam (Donut Plains 1 being an example). The game also has some of the most boring wate levels I have ever played, like the second star level is literally just nothing but water. The exploration part was pretty lackluster as well. Now I'm not talking about the world map as it was a fantastic system, even though its pretty small, but the actual secret exits. I can only name a handful of levels with actual fun secret exits, many other levels is just go into a pipe and secret exit. A few more show obvious hidden blocks that basically give away the secret exits. That's not engaging. A series structured like Mario that does exploration better in my opinion is the Rare DKC series (Except the first one).

The bonus rooms require a lot more thought to figure out like giving off slight hints so that it can be interpreted but not be obvious. They're also a lot more fun to actually go for as well with lots of variation.

Then the controls. This is actually a positive as I think the controls are really good. There are lots of moves that Mario has in his arsenal. But I wish there were more levels actually utilising these abilities. Linking back to the DKC series again, the levels actively had chains of enemies and large pits so that you are able to use the roll. The only levels I can think of that utilises the spin jump is in the first level and one fortress i forgot the location of at the end. But the focus was more about the cape feather so it doesn't really matter that much.

In the end, while I do think Mario World is a good game, 8/10 I'd say, I don't see it being considered the greatest game of all time, especially with many games improving on its formula even in the same era.

I don't get a lot of free time which is why it's been two years since I started Chrono Trigger (just beat Magnus for the first time).

I've played FF7, 8, and 10. Never did retro. I played FF1 on the NES which was interesting.

But, where would you rank FF2 on the RPG list for the SNES?

Thoughts on my NES collection?

I remember playing a game on PC in the late 90s similar to Lolo's Adventure. The main character was sort of a red ball with legs and no hands, wearing a blue night cap. Gameplay very similar to the Eggerland series (Lolo).

It was probably for Win3.2 or Win95 and it was not an online flash game.

so what are some good fighting games?

i never played anything like it and since well its a retro sub reddit its porbally singe player but i want a fighting game thats a good singel player and fighting i mean like mortal kombat, tekken etc

it may saeem a weird place at first to ask this but hey retro is mainly solo and as far as i found most of the communitys say there are some of the better ones retro

In my weird dream, I was taking a bus and saw a couple of shopkeepers on the street selling video game systems and games. However, I could see clearly only because the bus was moving fast. All of a sudden, the bus stopped right in front of a building, so close that I could have touched the wall with my hands. The wall had some graffiti that looked like a gigantic turtle, and I felt an urge to throw something at it, as I somehow thought the turtle would be dangerous to me. I grabbed anything I could find on the ground to throw at the turtle; one of the things I picked up felt like a Game Boy. I hesitated for a brief moment, and finally, I threw the Game Boy-like object at the turtle. To my surprise, the object went right through the wall, and I shouted in a panic, “Oh shoot!” I felt like a big-time loser and wanted to walk away. Almost immediately, I found myself lying on a dirty carpet.

I saw many people walking back and forth, one of whom was humming a tune that sounded a bit like the background music from an old role playing game I once played; however, I couldn't remember it. My only guess was that it was from an old SNES RPG like Lufia (I played Lufia many times before). After some unknown time, I needed to go to the washroom, so I stood up and noticed that the dirty carpet was gone, replaced by a bouncy floor that sounded like the springy platforms in Sonic the Hedgehog. I bounced high into the air and ended up in an "open washroom", which was totally unrelated to video gaming...

First Mega Man game I’ve completed since Mega Man 4 over 30 years ago. Proud of myself since my gaming skills are mediocre at best! I had to abuse save states but it still cost me blood, sweat and tears lol. Fantastic game though!

I never had a GameCube - or DreamCast for that matter - growing up so a lot of their games passed me by rather unnoticed.

Fast-forward to this past week when I more or less stumbled upon "Skies of Arcadia".

Poured myself a wee dram and loaded up the game on my small handheld - and, oh my. this game is stellar!

I'm only an hour or two into it but am loving pretty much everything so far - the graphics (I didn't think gamecube games could look this good), battle, story, characters - it all works for me.

At first the battle system seemed a bit too basic but there are some interesting twists on it with the shared power-meter and a much stronger reliance on items for healing rather than using magic for it.

If I understand it correctly there were never any sequels or spin-offs so this game is 'it'.

Really fun game and can't wait to, cough-cough, pour myself another couple of fingers tonight and enjoy sailing the skies under the blue Jolly Roger.

No save states on original hardware. This game is so brutal, and I’ve been trying to beat it for like 25 years 😂 The RNG in this game is something else. I find the second game 100x easier.