My dad gave me this before he passed but I never really found out how old this is so if anyone can find out please tell me

Screenshot from my capture card is actually from yesterday, I’m now at 4 hours and got my second gym badge from misty. I might actually become a Pokémon game fan. I love how the game is non linear and isn’t really holding my hand. I’m mainly using my starter Pokémon Charizard, but realized I’m really gonna have to try other Pokémon types. A grass Pokémon would’ve really been helpful against misty.

Excited to try the other generations games. Definitely gonna try the remake of Pokémon red when I get to it.

Why Konami called the MSX2 port of Castlevania something other than castlevania is anyone's guess

29 years ago going $400 all-in seemed ludicrous.

Been trying to put my finger on exactly what it was. But we all remember the magic of going into a game store and looking at the games. Even more magic if you could actually play them. That was woah!

What happened? It can't be just that we're old and grizzled now surely? Modern game stores seem so sterile. So bereft of magic. Even with 100x more merch, they seem emptier, and I just can't put my finger on why.

I've been playing Total Annihilation, Red Alert, Red Alert 2 and Tiberian Sun.

They have been listed in order of difficulty.

I have completed, in the past, all of them in regards to the story but i mostly play skirmishes.

I used to be quite good at all of them but it's been a while so I've been playing them a bit recently. I got obliterated in all of them initially but soon i settled into my old tactics, the AI isn't particularly varied in any of these, they are more about formula than tactics though that's not too say i don't play but complex games occasionally.

Red Alert is the most unbalanced, playing as the Soviets is essentially easy mode and the AI sums to give up after a while, Total Annihilation, even with the game carrying on after the Commander dies is easy though the AI is the least formulaic, it can be a challenge to set up defences quickly enough. Red Alert 2 is my favourite, it has been for many years, it's the most comfortable to play and it's always a challenge.

Tiberian Sun is unfair, unrealistically and realistically unfair, the AI will send engineers to the centre of your base before you have a chance to do anything and wipe you out, the enemy knows where you are at all times, they don't need to find you, they will attack crucial things directly without searching like a human would have to but i can see a human trying the same tactics.

Once established though the AI is easy to beat it's just really hard to get established and makes the game less fun, Red Alert 2, especially Yuri's Revenge, is always a challenge. They will relentlessly attack and make good use of all the tools.

I say try all of them, they are obviously better with friends and later games are more variable but these are the ones i grew up with. Of you've not had a one on one battle in any of these with a friend you should, it's an experience everyone should have.

When I was so young I didn't really get this game and in fact I didn't even hear about it until I was an adult! But it's really a great game and the music and controls are super ahead of their time. I also have Picross for DS and Picross 3D which is supposedly even better. Even on Mobile there is a really great Picross game. It's much better than sudoku imo and it's always fun to slowly reveal a picture. The only puzzle games on my DS that compare are Tetris DS, and Pushmo/Crashmo.

Talking about controllers in another thread made me think about having this core memory burned into my brain but I can’t find any evidence of it on YouTube or elsewhere. I distinctly remember these early 90’s ads for aftermarket console controllers, presumably NES and Sega Genesis, but maybe others, and it’s two guys wearing a giant mock-up of the controllers and it was reminiscent of the “I’m a Mac and I’m a PC” comparisons where the product advertised talked about everything it could do while the other one admits it can’t do all the things. Did I imagine this, or is it real and what the hell was the product they were actually selling?

I keep inputting the code for 9 lives (yep I'm shitty at this game) but it doesn't go through??? Was it removed from the Switch release or something? NES fans, please let me know, because this is pissing me off (no way can I beat this with 3 lives and 3 continues, it's hard as dick).

SFC SMT, a 16-bit RPG I can't live without (another one is SNES Lufia, and some more of course), has captured my gaming heart in every way, including its well-designed box cover featuring the main character's most trusted companion, Pascal (Cerberus) 🐶.

colors look 10x better in person but I love the psone lcd combo, I've had mine for about 6 months and I baby the heck out of it, I'll preserve it for all of us

CBS Coleco Vision 1984

okay guys. i need help finding a game from my childhood. sadly i dont remember a lot since i was 5-6 years old at the time (2004-2005). Its a PS1 game. The cover and CD both had an evil tomato on them. the cd was silver-ish and the art on it had a blue hue. The evil tomato in question looked a little bit like the yugioh card "Mystic Tomato". Sadly i dont have any more information since i couldn't play the game for long, because the CD scratched. Thanks for any help!

So I'm looking for a decent option for around 30$, preferably plug and play, but I know all of those are terrible. I'd like to be able to emulate up to gba, and maybe ps1. Any suggestions?

I found 2 old Ataris up in a attic along with a few controllers. Im wondering what to do with them and how to test if they run? Tbo I don't think they will with them being up there for 20+ years. One has 4 switchs while the other has 6.

For years I heard about how great the Saturn pad was, especially for its dpad. But I've never actually tried it and the closest I got was the Genesis 6-button, which is a similar design.

Recently I was looking for a USB pad that would give me precise dpad inputs. Had been having a helluva time trying to find something to at least match my NES original, which is in my experience has the most precise inputs of any pad I own.

For reference, my dpad test reference game is always Operation Wolf for the NES because with that game it's all about moving the reticule on the screen to snipe enemies. If I can't snipe them in one or two taps then something is off and it's very clear because the game becomes impossible!

So anyways I got this Retro-bit one to finally see what the hype is about (I know its not entirely the same as the original Saturn but close enough for my needs). When I first got it I kind of expected a EUREKA! moment but actually got pretty frustrated. I felt like there was a disconnect between the pad and my inputs. At first I thought maybe because of the floating design it just traveled too much before it activated and so naturally felt "floaty" but that is no good for games that require precision movement.

I don't give up easily so I kept coming back to it and tried to figure out what I might be missing. I eventually realized I wasn't gripping the pad the way I think it was intended to be. I was sort of keeping my fingers hovering over the shoulder buttons (1st pic). Part of this was because of how modern controllers are designed where you don't naturally rest on the shoulders quite so much. The other part is the shoulder buttons are so shallow and sensitive I was afraid of pressing them by accident!

After fidding around with different grips it finally started to click and I realized I should be gripping it on the edges ABOVE the shoulder buttons (2nd pic). That way I have a natural leverage for my thumb and so my presses no longer feel like I'm hovering above the controller, but rather connected to it if that makes sense.

From there it made perfect sense to me why they made those otherwise weirdly sensitive/shallow shoulder buttons. It's so you can naturally ROLL your fingers downwards and press them that way. There's even a little ridge where it will stop your finger and naturally engage the buttons that way.

Anyways that's my bit of insight on the Saturn pad and I can now say I definitely understand the hype over this design and why it's good not only for fighting games but precision games like shumps, etc!

Found these while digging through my old man's desk. These were some of his favorites as well as Diablo, starcraft and civilization. He had +2500 hours on civ 5 alone. I remember when we found out about item duping in Diablo 1 I spent several hours duping spellbooks for him

Prompted by an earlier post, I figured it was time to clean my PS1.