/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3967497
Then go play Castlevania. LoZ obviously isn't for you. See: >>3967552
>It's ok if you don't like Zelda. I don't particularly care for fighting games like Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter. That doesn't make them bad games.

Gamer feels thread.

Born in 76' so I spent my young and influential years in arcades. Back then if you could do something on a cabinet that others couldn't do you were a fucking god. There was always Aladdins Castle at Fayette mall (Kentucky) and Lexington mall and there was a place called the Dream Machine in Turfland mall. The Dream machine was like another world. All the newest biggest games came there. Dragons lair, Space ace, etc. they're all gone now but you. An google those names and malls and find pics. I collect the gold tokens from those places because the memories of those games are so dear. What I miss most are the sounds, tho. Sometimes when I feel nostalgic I go on YouTube and open twenty tabs. I'll find the videos of 20 games with the most distinctive noises pacman, donkey kong, tempest, and set the volumes of each one in a cascading order to give the illusion of proximity. I open each tab and let them all play at the same time. If you close your eyes and listen, you almost feel like you're standing in gaming heaven. Those were simpler times. There's a video on YouTube I visit every few months or so and it almost recreates the aesthetics.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE4S5i6atY [Open]
I get more sentimental about it than most movies. On another note, my dad brought home the first Atari 2600 in the neighborhood in 1981 and pacman sucked ass on it. The first cartridge I was ever allowed to pick out for myself was Legend of Zelda. I picked it because it was the only gold cartridge.
Pic related: Oddly enough, someone made a small comic about the same thing I remember feeling the same way about checking repeatedly to make sure it was still there and that it wasn't a dream. It could damn well have been autobiographical.

Oldfag here,

Born in 76' so I spent my young and influential years in arcades. Back then if you could do something on a cabinet that others couldn't do you were a fucking god. There was always Aladdins Castle at Fayette mall (Kentucky) and Lexington mall and there was a place called the Dream Machine in Turfland mall. The Dream machine was like another world. All the newest biggest games came there. Dragons lair, Space ace, etc. they're all gone now but you. An google those names and malls and find pics. I collect the gold tokens from those places because the memories of those games are so dear. What I miss most are the sounds, tho. Sometimes when I feel nostalgic I go on YouTube and open twenty tabs. I'll find the videos of 20 games with the most distinctive noises pacman, donkey kong, tempest, and set the volumes of each one in a cascading order to give the illusion of proximity. I open each tab and let them all play at the same time. If you close your eyes and listen, you almost feel like you're standing in gaming heaven. Those were simpler times. There's a video on YouTube I visit every few months or so and it almost recreates the aesthetics.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1YE4S5i6atY
I get more sentimental about it than most movies. On another note, my dad brought home the first Atari 2600 in the neighborhood in 1981 and pacman sucked ass on it. The first cartridge I was ever allowed to pick out for myself was Legend of Zelda. I picked it because it was the only gold cartridge.
Pic related: Oddly enough, someone made a small comic about the same thing I remember feeling the same way about checking repeatedly to make sure it was still there and that it wasn't a dream. It could damn well have been autobiographical.
I'll be home in a bit and if I remember I'll post a picture of the tokens of anyone cares.

>tfw

Nostalgia thread! Let's talk about our early gaming memories, because we're getting old and will forget them.

What is the first game you remember playing? The first you wanted/bought/saved-up-for? What games did you grow up with, and are there any that you remember as being terrible (but which you played anyway, most likely)? Are you still a fan of any of your first games or their modern incarnations?