gaming Do you still play video games from your childhood?

[Lucid_Nightlight 923]

No, but I want to. I was born in 2001, but I lived like a 90's kid with Mario 64, Ocarina of Time, and Starfox 64.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I had a GBA emulator, but my computer doesn't work at the moment... :/

 

[Midnight Solace 5,132]

I grew up with NFS, Halo and GTA. They are still great games to return to. Especially NFS Underground. The Soundtrack is ageless.

[Twilight Luna 31,408]

Didn’t grow up on video games. We had computer games. If I had the time, I would play them again but I don’t. 

[Literatel 144]

All of my childhood computer games were released between the years 1998-2005, meaning that most of them (with the exception of one, which I still play very often) won't work on today's computers.

[Arkadios 91]

Most of my childhood video games are Flash games, so I play the stuff I've already played all the time.

Cyclomaniacs forever!

[cuteycindyhoney 13,307]

I didn't play video games much when I was little. Still not really into them. We had an Atari 7800 though, I don't remember which games but I played it sometimes with m y brother.

Back on an edit:

I just looked it up. I did like Asteroids!

 

Edited November 15, 2018 by cuteycindyhoney

[Phosphor 11,529]

I still do. I have a RetroN 2 that plays NES and SNES games. I still play the Sonic games and Earthworm Jim on my Sega Genesis/CD.

[Rainbow Cloud 18,232]

Yes, I mostly play older games these days usually on the original hardware, was playing Sonic 3 and Knuckles on the Mega Drive this morning.

[Once In A Blue Moon 895]

Oh yes - all the Command and Conquer games, Black and White, Stronghold... quite often I'll pick up* an older game I remember for  a weekend of gaming nostalgia (or a month as it turned out to be with The Battle for Middle Earth and Tiberian Sun) in lieu of playing anything newer.

*(sometimes buying digitally, sometimes literally from the shelf of CD games I have)

4 hours ago, Literatel said:

All of my childhood computer games were released between the years 1998-2005, meaning that most of them (with the exception of one, which I still play very often) won't work on today's computers.

There's usually a way to make it work; I'm no technical wizard, but I've managed to get most of my older games running at one point or another. Admittedly Windows 10 has been a bit more troublesome in that regard (and Red Alert 2 still won't work) but old game forums are surprisingly good sources for fixes and patches.

[Literatel 144]

2 minutes ago, Once In A Blue Moon said:

There's usually a way to make it work; I'm no technical wizard, but I've managed to get most of my older games running at one point or another. Admittedly Windows 10 has been a bit more troublesome in that regard (and Red Alert 2 still won't work) but old game forums are surprisingly good sources for fixes and patches.

It's kind of hard to make the buggiest game in history- one that was never patched, only works on certain computers, and in which most of its content causes the game to crash... sometimes the game even struggled to load -work on current gen laptops.

[Once In A Blue Moon 895]

7 minutes ago, Literatel said:

It's kind of hard to make the buggiest game in history- one that was never patched, only works on certain computers, and in which most of its content causes the game to crash... sometimes the game even struggled to load -work on current gen laptops.

I guess if it never worked properly then yes, that would probably be a bit challenging to run on a modern computer.

I'm curious, though - what game are you referring to?

[Literatel 144]

Just now, Once In A Blue Moon said:

I guess if it never worked properly then yes, that would probably be a bit challenging to run on a modern computer.

I'm curious, though - what game are you referring to?

Empire of the Ants - the most glitchy game in history. For the few who could play the game (it even said in the instruction manual that you needed a very specific set-up and type of Windows computer),... it was terrible. Most of the time, loading up the game would cause it to crash. The tutorial would always crash. No one could play the game for more than an hour before it froze and then crashed. The graphics were horrible, the game itself was incredibly hard. But it was awesome, in my opinion.  No bug game like it today even comes close.

Spoiler

 

[Elyrse 168]

I still haven’t beat Soul Reaver 2 from when I started playing it when I was 6. I eventually gave up on it when I was 9 and picked it back up this year. Mortal Kombat is a long timer. I’m always playing it XD

[DixonTheAdversary 1,632]

All the time. Usually if I am unsure as to what I want to play, I just put in a game I had when I was younger.

[Denim&Venöm 19,141]

Not really. i hardly play games at all anymore. 

Last time I tried a child hood one, it was Rogue Squadron for the N64. And it actually felt harder, I guess because I was trying to complete mission objectives rather than just blow stuff up. 

There was also that time I got to the semi-finals of a Pokemon Stadium tournament. Obviously that's as far as I got and never went back. 

What's interesting is finding games I got as a child but never played till much later in life. Got WCW/nWo: World Tour in '98. Didn't play it till like 2014. 

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I would gladly I'd I could. My GBC emulator isn't working right...

[Lucky Star 972]

Sure do~! Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Banjo and Kazooie, Tomba. Those games are wonderful. 
I even bought the remaster of the Crash Bandicoot... Buuut, it doesn't run all that well on my computer so I ended up sticking with the emulator version of the old ones. 
I never did get around to playing the sequels to some of these when I was a kid, I had all the crash games, but I only had the first Spyro game and it wasn't until I started using the N64 emulator that I even found out about Banjo and Tooie.

22 hours ago, ~Dusky~ said:

I would gladly I'd I could. My GBC emulator isn't working right...

 Did you try reinstalling it? 

[PaulBron 173]

No  ____________________

[Nsxile 27,168]

I still play Spyro, Wipeout 2097 and Gran Turismo every once in a while.

[Here No Longer 5,276]

I don't get much of a chance to...   I'm too busy trying to survive at this point. I have my financially incompetent dad to thank for that.

[Phosphor 11,529]

Lately I've been wanting to play 007 Tomorrow Never Dies. I still have the game, but haven't played it in at least a decade. 

I just need to find it. It's somewhere around here  

[Twilight Luna 31,408]

My brother and I didn’t grow up on video games. Our parents didn’t allow them in the house. We played computer games instead.

[Sherem 4,807]

Definitely, I started with doom and I play it still along with the newest version and waiting for Eternal 

[Retro*Derpy 3,186]

Yes, I like to play through the metroid prime games once a year.