Friday OT: Favorite NES 8-bit Games
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This thread reminded me of a story from my high school years. I was never even decent at video games as a youngster, and I got demolished in pretty much any game versus a human opponent.
One of my HS friends had an NES with a pile of games, but pretty much all he played was Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball. I hated baseball and I sucked so I rarely played that with him, but I loved football so I played TSB with him...and I also sucked at that. I constantly got drubbed.
We got together one weekend and for no reason whatsoever, I was good at it. He was always nice enough to play with a crappier team so I'd have a chance, but on this day I gave him two good beatings. He said "ok, now I get to play with my team." So I played against him while he used his good team. Whooped him again. Then two more times.
After the fifth consecutive ***-kicking, this conversation happened.
Him: "Let's play again".
Me: "Nope, I'm done."
Him: "C'mon."
Me: "Nah."
He begged and pleaded, I kept telling him no. After the umpteenth time, I said "you know, I don't think I'm ever going to play again. I'm going out on a high note."
And I never did play again.
That was in 1993. He's still asking for a rematch. Maybe when I retire I'll find the time.
One of my HS friends had an NES with a pile of games, but pretty much all he played was Tecmo Super Bowl and RBI Baseball. I hated baseball and I sucked so I rarely played that with him, but I loved football so I played TSB with him...and I also sucked at that. I constantly got drubbed.
We got together one weekend and for no reason whatsoever, I was good at it. He was always nice enough to play with a crappier team so I'd have a chance, but on this day I gave him two good beatings. He said "ok, now I get to play with my team." So I played against him while he used his good team. Whooped him again. Then two more times.
After the fifth consecutive ***-kicking, this conversation happened.
Him: "Let's play again".
Me: "Nope, I'm done."
Him: "C'mon."
Me: "Nah."
He begged and pleaded, I kept telling him no. After the umpteenth time, I said "you know, I don't think I'm ever going to play again. I'm going out on a high note."
And I never did play again.
That was in 1993. He's still asking for a rematch. Maybe when I retire I'll find the time.
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Yes, some games have visuals that sometimes are not amazing (in comparison to today's games) but pretty unique. Ones that I had a lot of fun playing with what I considered to be great visuals at the time (non-polygon based) were Dragon Force on the Saturn and Alundra on the PS1. Another very unique looking game is Odin Sphere on the PS2.
I've done this multiple times with fighting games: SFII, MvC2, and Capcom vs. SNK 2 (hands down my favorite fighting game of all time). My brother would ask for a rematch after a 3 hour session of beatdowns and I would eventually fight him again - a couple of months later!
One I haven't seen so far that I really likes was 3D WorldRunner.
I played that for so many hours:
I think your picture link is broken. I'll load some images. I have actually never played this one, but it looks very interesting. I'll definitely give it a go on my emulator.
we are game kindred spirits. I'm playing shining force III on saturn right now with the fan translated burned discs of scenario 2 and 3 that weren't released in the US. If you like strategy RPGs the translation if the import parts make it an epic 120 hour force of a game. Dragon Force is a fav of mine too and I think there's a translation patch for the sequel now.
Nice! I knew they were working on the Dragon Force II patch a few years ago, but didn't know it was available now. The Sega Saturn had a small number of RPG's, but they were very good. I would say my two favorites were Albert Odyssey and Panzer Dragoon Saga (huge fan of the series). All the Shining series games were good in the Saturn. I finished Shining the Holy Ark, but still need to complete Shining Wisdom. For a totally underrated, visually unique game, try Legend of Oasis (and Beyond Oasis on the Genesis). I'm kind of a Sega Fanboy and still have my Saturn and Dreamcast along with any imports/SHMUPs I can get my hands on (plus new games being released on the Dreamcast). Rare to meet another Saturn player!
I bought PD Saga when I was a senior in high school working at toys r us. We got two copies and only one ever hit the shelves. Sold it in '01 for $180, seems closer to $300 today...friend chipped two saturns for me and it's about all I play for the past 10 years since my favs are arcade games and strat/rpg. Never got to oasis (yet) but played the genesis one. Saturn bomberman gets a lot of play.
