What are your favorite games, and did you get into the "mini" system craze that started with the Nintendo Classic a few years back?

A buddy of mine "hacked" my Nintendo Classic a month ago and added about 700 games. I got a shitload I never played before!

And for Xmas, the wife (not to be confused with The Wife of UMD Forum fame) got me the re-released Turbografx 16 that came loaded with 50 games.

So, lets talk some old school gaming!

I play a lot of classic games and collect classic arcade machines (real hardware not emulated crap lol) and most of my body mods center around classic games. I also played mortal kombat competitively and street fighter 2 as well. I never got into the mini consoles as I have a handful of the classic consoles hanging around. Attached are my Pac-Man and donkey Kong tattoos and street fighter 2. They're roughly a decade old. Also my Pac-Man and ghost implants. I sold a lot of my arcade machines when I moved when my brother and I decided to buy a house together as they would have been a pain to relocate so now I'm down to street fighter 2 hyperfighting edition, altered beast and asteroids

That's dedication!

Pong.

And I reprogrammed in Basic so that players could advance towards the net.

That's super rad. Basic was the first language I learned. Did you ever play pong kombat way back when?

My first console was a Magnavox odyssey 2, then I got an NES and later a Sega master system and much later a super nes and genesis (megadrive in UK).

I've never owned a console, but as a teenager I had a ZX Spectrum and when not trying to write complex adventure games in BASIC I used to play Chuckie Egg, Jet Set Willy, and the series of "Ultimate Play The Game" games, which did amazing things given the hardware limitations.

In the arcades I loved Quartet, where I always played the very capable female character, and Operation Wolf. One of the regular arcades I went to had a slightly hacked version in that someone had mounted it in a standard arcade chassis with the machine gun hand-held, rather than on the fixed quadropod it was meant to be on. This made the game easier to play and I got so good at it that one 50p play would last me almost an hour - I once got chucked out of the arcade half an hour after closing time because I just kept on succeding the missions.

I am heavily into the old school games. Got everything to build a gameboy zero and then a move happened and by the time I got back to it, it was too outdated. I have a GPD XD that I used to play from time to time and the NES mini. But now I just play on my phone. My girlfriend got me a bluetooth controller for christmas that my phone fits in from the folks at ipega. I have loaded on my phone everything from arcade emulators to PS1 and nintendo DS and they run great. I have not tried the wii or gamecube emulator that I found yet. With the disappearance of the micro sd card slot it has limited the number of games I can store on my phone. There is a developer that put out a bunch of emulators under the name Nostalgia that have been better than most of the ones I have found.

First console was Atari 7800. Lost my shit as a kid over Legend of Zelda. When SNES hit, I was pretty sure it couldn't get any better. Part of me was right. Graphics kept getting better, but the game story/qualify sort of started to plateau and downturn into the shit we have today with "unfinished games", "on disc DLC", and "Season Passes".

My consoles are all gone now. What ones I didn't lose in a fire in 1994, I had to sell in desperation for way less than they were worth for my divorce.

Oh well, I got some stuff on Steam and I got my old SNES emulators, for the rare occasion I have time to play something.

I really started playing when I was 6 and received a Game Boy for my birthday. Next year I got an SNES, and fell in love with the games there. Funny enough, though, that was 1997, and so the N64 was already out at that point. My favorite games at the time were the Donkey Kong Country games, and I couldn't get enough of playing them. Playing those early on really shaped my love of platformers. However it was Christmas 2002 when I received the newly-released Metroid Prime, and that game kickstarted a whole new love affair with the series and every future installment of it. It quickly became my favorite game of all time, and still is to this day. I just love exploration in games, and finding secrets, so that game really held my attention.

These days I have a Switch, and am looking to buy an Xbox Series X. My job also involves buying and selling old video games, so I get to be immersed in this kind of stuff in all aspects of my life. So much for video games getting me nowhere!

Mega Man will always be my jam. I love those games. I grew up playing Mega Man 1-3 on Nintendo constantly, the others I didn't really get a chance to play until later. Mega Man X I got to play over a friends house (I had a Genesis). And later I would play Mega Man X4 on PS.

Now thanks to modern technology and updates I have them all through the various collections on PS4.

Commodore 64 gang here. That was the first "console" in my house, growing up. I definitely was a NES nerd growing up too, after we got one of those. Contra, Solstice, Zelda, Mario Bros, RC-Pro Am... a dozen other games... I would master every one we bought.

I won the local "blockbuster video game championship" for my town's blockbuster store in 1994. That was on Donkey Kong Country. I was the same way with SNES, no matter what the game was, I would play it a little obsessively til I knew I had mastered it.

Got into fighting games around the PS1-PS2 era, and now I have a Tekken tattoo, after I won a few tournaments on Tekken 3. Really got into Soul Calibur as well, especially the PS3 versions.

Over the years I've definitely waxed and waned as far as my gaming interests go. I pretty much enjoy all genres, rpgs, adventure, action, strategy, sports, racing, fighting... but it's harder to find time to play as responsibilities get in the way. Nowadays, we just have a Nintendo Switch at the house. Mostly I just play Magic The Gathering Arena anyhow on my laptop.

Mario Kart may be my favorite game of all time. All editions. I am ridiculously good at it, no matter what the version.

Megaman is for sure in my top tier of games. I played the heck out of mega man 1 on NES despite its being WAYYY harder than it needed to be. Megaman 2 still holds my favorite spot in that series because of the novel game play features and the AMAZING music

As a slight aside but still mainly on topic: (Clix made me think of this)

Speaking of game music, there is a community of musicians online who exclusively do game music remixes. Check out https://ocremix.org/ if you're interested!

My really good friend Andy would perform at lots of my raves. He plays a full set on software modified game boys. A mix of original tracks and chip tune covers

https://youtu.be/Yd8HstVGFtA

Lemme know if you want his full album (released for free) and I'll dM u a dropbox

I've long been a gamer, right from the days of the Spectrum and the Commodore 64.
Some of my old school favourites include the "Dizzy" games (the anthropomorphic egg with boxing gloves), Rainbow Islands, Target REnegade, New Zealand Story (to name a few).
Moving through all the consoles I ever owned after that, I went to SNES, Playstation, PS2, Wii, Xbox 360, Switch and XBox One.
Some favourites from those consoles include Final Fantasy series, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, REsident Evil, Tomb Raider, Secret of Mana. I could go on

Update: I'm adding one more console! This one has 40,000 games, emulating every console of the last 40 years. I'm buying it from retrokat.ca

For me astroids and roll-coaster tycoon really where mastered I loved the simplicity and engagement

Old school? Lol. I'm 54 so my high school was 1981 - 85. That back when there were no consoles (Atari was coming out but no mass adoption yet) so we had video arcades. We plop in a ton of quarters and play games like Asteroids, Centipede, Galaxaga...

I've been revisiting some old games my self, back on Quake's 25 anniversary which was in June I ended up playing through it again on hard. I forgot how much fun it was! Also played through Mario World, Mario Kart and Star Fox earlier this year on SNES. I rarely play games anymore but something does come along here and there that gets my attention.