As you may have noticed from this site, I am generally in to older/retro things; Music, TV Shows, Vee Dubs, and this trend is especially true when it comes to video gaming. I suppose I would be considered a Retro Games Collector, mainly a SNES one, with about 85 titles as well as about 30 Megadrive and several for the NES. Here is A Full List Of All My Retro Games each with a brief Review.
Don't get me wrong there are some great new games out these days, and I own a PSP. Pro Evo is the most realistic football game ever and is brilliant to play (*especially 2-on-2 4-player madness), but my many hours spent playing the series still wouldn't match the hours i've spent on the all-time classic footy series Sensible Soccer. Grand Theft Auto is great too, mostly because of the massive open environment, as opposed to the insane violence. But while the quality of graphics etc has inevitably improved with time the same can't be said for the actual gaming quality and fun. The simplicity and absurdity of the classics is the real charm and sometimes the possibility of almost true perfection of a game. All I see now-a-days is uni-genre gaming (i.e. one almost identical first person shooter after another), and if someone said "I want to be able to race 4-wheel drive cows, towing caravans round a dirt track - Super Skidmarks" or even "What about two Italian American plumber brothers who eat mushrooms and slide down flag polls to fight a big dinosaur - Super Mario Bros" they'd be thrown out of the building! - Well 40 million copies worldwide tells it's own story!
I first got into gaming when I got a Sinclair Spectrum ZX81. Then I was lucky enough to get an Amiga 500, a top system at the time, and in a way the greatest games machine i've ever owned due to the insanely vast library of games. As my dad was able to get a constant supply of copies I was able to play a wide range of games and find the classics, like: Lemmings, Cannon Fodder, Sensible Soccer, Fury Of The Furries, and The Settlers. However I really wanted to get into the console titles like Sonic, so my uncle gave me his Sega Megadrive, and the rest is history. I bought a SNES cheaply from someone in my school in about 2000 and i became an ebay fiend collecting a large library of classic games for it, as well as some for the Sega Megadrive and a NES I also acquired for next to nothing. Below there are several possibly memory-jogging picture of video game legends of years gone by. There are also links to some good video gamer website and also a short QUIZ, which I wrote. Give it a go and post your score in my guestbook. |
