The RETRO Gaming Thread!

TURBO UNO · Mar 30, 2019

This is great news! No Atgames involved and they have Castlevania and Gunstar Hero’s

krazy · Mar 30, 2019

Man I just bought a Genesis recently, got Ecco the Dolphin, Sonic and some others. I might cop... only if the price goes down.

Nike Jordan · Apr 1, 2019

TURBO UNO · Apr 1, 2019

Nike Jordan said:

Those haircuts took me back :lol:

green rhino123 · Apr 1, 2019

With the screen and controls being so small on the original game boy, and the lighting issues with the screen as well,
I found that game extremely difficult and so did others from what I remember. Too difficult for a Mario game at the time.

TURBO UNO · Apr 1, 2019

green rhino123 said:
With the screen and controls being so small on the original game boy, and the lighting issues with the screen as well,
I found that game extremely difficult and so did others from what I remember. Too difficult for a Mario game at the time.

One of the reasons I never cared for the Gameboy. I was more into the Sega Game Gear but that was a few years later.

green rhino123 · Apr 1, 2019

TURBO UNO said:
One of the reasons I never cared for the Gameboy. I was more into the Sega Game Gear but that was a few years later.

I had Tetris on the NES.
So when offered to play gameboy Tetris...

Nike Jordan · Apr 1, 2019

Tetris on the Game Boy is why the Game Boy sold so well initially.

Nike Jordan · Apr 1, 2019

green rhino123 · Apr 1, 2019

Nike Jordan said:
Tetris on the Game Boy is why the Game Boy sold so well initially.

Right. And I think it released before the NES home version...

vood99 · Apr 1, 2019

TURBO UNO said:
One of the reasons I never cared for the Gameboy. I was more into the Sega Game Gear but that was a few years later.

Nike Jordan said:
Tetris on the Game Boy is why the Game Boy sold so well initially.

I think the system launched with Tetris bundled. Easily the Game Boy's killer app - most of the other games were cheeks. :smh:

DCAllAfrican · Apr 1, 2019

Only played GameBoy games with the N64 Attachment that let me play it on my TV.

Never actually owned a GameBOY

vood99 · Apr 1, 2019

My G

DCAllAfrican I think the only official licensed Game Boy players were for SNES & Gamecube. There was some type of Transfer Pak for the Pokemon N64 games though, but that might've been for save states or some type of cross platform sharing.

vood99 · Apr 1, 2019

Nike Jordan said:

SEGA extremely late to the party but this is a welcomed addition.

I gotta agree with @robpzee612 that bundling the 3 button pads for the US Genesis is a bad move. Looks like the Japanese Mega Drive is getting the 6 button pads though. :smh:

DCAllAfrican · Apr 1, 2019

vood99 said:
My G DCAllAfrican I think the only official licensed Game Boy players were for SNES & Gamecube. There was some type of Transfer Pak for the Pokemon N64 games though, but that might've been for save states or some type of cross platform sharing.

Yea, the one for Pokemon. Maybe that is what I was thinking about. It was only the Pokemon games that I "played."

Now you got me questioning what I remember........damn.

DCAllAfrican · Apr 1, 2019

TURBO UNO · Apr 1, 2019

vood99 said:
Easily the Game Boy's killer app - most of the other games were cheeks.

Besides some of the games being bad, I just wanted to play outside with friends. Wasn’t trying to look like what these kids look like today with a phone attached to their face all day.