Poll of the Day > Your favorite old school video games

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2D Zeldas or Chrono Trigger

Sour cream and onion

Sarcasthma posted...

Sour cream and onion

You mean like the half-siblings from that cartoon with all the homosexual magic rocks that assume humanoid form via photonic projection, or the potato chip flavor?

Zelda

Top 5

1)Digimon World- Psx/ps1

2) Resident Evil 4- GC/everything almost

3) Bomberman 64 - n64

4) World of Warcraft - PC

5) Diablo 2 -PC

EclairReturns posted...

You mean like the half-siblings from that cartoon with all the homosexual magic rocks that assume humanoid form via photonic projection, or the potato chip flavor?

You'd know the answer if you actually kept up on your BUMPED lore!

As in from NES or earlier? Probably Castlevania.

FFVI
Wild Arms
Chrono Trigger
Link's Awakening (GB or GBC version)
Majora's Mask
Super Metroid
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
Terranigma
Touhou 7: Perfect Cherry Blossom

Almost all of my top 10 games are from the 90s, save for the Touhou title and Majora's Mask, and even those are early 2000s (03 and 00, respectively). I can't say I'm surprised.

I refuse to vote in this poll out of principle.

No game beyond the second generation of video games (or third at most) should ever be called "old school".

Superman 64. Hope they remake it now with gay Superman

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I refuse to vote in this poll out of principle.

No game beyond the second generation of video games (or third at most) should ever be called "old school".

Legend of Red Dragon? M.U.L.E.? ... Gorilla.bas?

MeatiestMeatus posted...

Superman 64. Hope they remake it now with gay Superman

Superman 69

Tetris

It's a tossup between Star Raiders
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/1/13a5b786.jpg
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/d/d4fc844f.jpg

Or Mountain King

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/946a7ab2.jpg
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HelIWithoutSin posted...

Superman 69

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I refuse to vote in this poll out of principle.

No game beyond the second generation of video games (or third at most) should ever be called "old school".

The PS2 is now older than almost every game that was considered "retro" was when it was released (23 years in October, 23 years prior to its release was 1977). There are now many different "old schools," even if some are older than others.

Other (Super Demon Attack, for the TI-99/4A)

I wouldn't consider much of list to be "old-school" but my favorite would be the Donkey Kong franchise (for the Donkey Kong Country games).

Old school?

Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 (NES)
Super Mario World (SNES)
Street Fighter 2 (SNES)
Star Fox (SNES)
Shining Force 2 (Sega Genesis)
Golden Axe 1 and 2 (Genesis)
Sonic 1,2,3,Knuckles (Genesis)
Vectorman (Genesis)
Streets of Rage 1,2,3 (Genesis)

Chip's Challenge

Spyro the Dragon.

Sarcasthma posted...

Sour cream and onion

lol

Mortal Kombat.

Joust is fun with a friend

captpackrat posted...

It's a tossup between Star Raiders

Oh man, I'm pretty sure I had that game on the Atari 2600. If I remember correctly I could never figure out how to play it.



Metalsonic66 posted...

Joust is fun with a friend

Hell yeah, Joust was fantastic.

My local pizza place had the arcade cabinet at one point, and I used to dump tons of quarters in it. In spite of the fact that I had the Atari 2600 version at home. Loved that game.



adjl posted...

The PS2 is now older than almost every game that was considered "retro" was when it was released (23 years in October, 23 years prior to its release was 1977). There are now many different "old schools," even if some are older than others.

No, it is the children who are wrong.

There is only one "old-school". The rest is just new school, slightly less new school, and still kinda new school.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

No, it is the children who are wrong.

There is only one "old-school". The rest is just new school, slightly less new school, and still kinda new school.

As much as the chronology disagrees with us, I do kind of agree. Games from 20 years ago feel a lot more similar to modern games than games from 40 years ago did to those 20-year-old games. Many of the gameplay conventions that we consider standard now were established in the early 2000's, including the controller designs that have become pretty much universal, and there haven't been any major paradigm shifts like the 2D to 3D jump. I'm sure part of it is just that I make less of a distinction between the games that came out in the second half of my life than the first, simply by virtue of the fact that the second half feels faster and less varied, but the last 20 years of gaming have still definitely progressed very differently from the 20 years that preceded them.

-Mega Man X series. I'd played some basic NES before that (Super Mario/Duck Hunt, Outrun) but MMX on the SNES really boosted my love of gaming. Mega Man 7 was also a driving force.

-Kirby Super Star (SNES). Just an awesome game with co-op option.

BoomerKuwanger posted...

Half-Life, a game from the late 90's

Half-Life is 25 years old, it's a retro game, deal with it.

Robotron was way ahead of its time TBH

BoomerKuwanger posted...

I think that PS2 is unequivocally retro at this point, but the scale isn't linear. Some games that are 10 years old (or more) still strike me as "modern" whereas, say, 1988 to 1998 has a much wider gap of what popular games of the time are like.

It also doesn't help that a lot of modern games deliberately evoke the styles and mechanics of older games. There are still often noticeable differences, like you'd never actually ask if Sea of Stars was a contemporary of Chrono Trigger despite the obvious similarities, but it does mess with our ability to assign an overall "feel" to a given era when that feeling has been mixed with that of prior eras.

Thinking about it, that sort of deliberate retro styling is something that mostly started after 2000 (in part because handhelds were 1-2 generations behind consoles and therefore effectively kept retro-styled games alive without a deliberate effort to do so), so I guess that might be part of why I don't feel like gaming has changed as much in the last 20 years as in the 20 years prior.

Metalsonic66 posted...

Robotron was way ahead of its time TBH

Realtalk... Llamatron is the better game :D

I really liked old school western rpgs like Fallout 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, etc.
I feel like they were more interesting than most modern rpgs.

CrestedTax posted...

I really liked old school western rpgs like Fallout 1 and 2, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Planescape: Torment, etc.
I feel like they were more interesting than most modern rpgs.

I presume you've played Geneforge?

Where is the line for old school games? My answer changes based on where we draw the line. Are the 90s old school? Are the 00s?

Muscles posted...

Where is the line for old school games? My answer changes based on where we draw the line. Are the 90s old school? Are the 00s?

Old school for me is anything pre-n64, since the PS1 and N64 is like the renaiiisauce

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CUppYmq-FQ

Muscles posted...

Where is the line for old school games? My answer changes based on where we draw the line. Are the 90s old school? Are the 00s?

My line is 20 years.

Mega Man 3 and SMB3

Zareth posted...

My line is 20 years.

Is that for every form of media? I feel like most 20 year old stuff is still fairly new, like Lord of the Rings is still feels a new movie to me, I guess my line is anything I can remember coming out is still newish at the very least