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General / Happy New Year 2025!

« on: December 31, 2024, 06:21:56 pm »

Holla everybody,

since it already slid into 25 here in central europe, I wanted to be the 1st to congrat you all for surviving another turbulent year and wish you and your loved ones a happy New Year! 

May we all play and discover tons of (new) games this year!

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General / FPS, RPG, SIM ... where are you "at home"?

« on: December 01, 2024, 06:20:54 am »

Greetings,

during my life as a gamer, I met countless other gamers no matter if retro- or modern gaming... but I don't really recall meeting any all-genre type of gamers  ...

Name the 2 genres you turned out to prefer the most!

I'd be forced to start with RPGs in general, then First Person Shooters, though I quitted online multiplayer madness about CoD BO2 

How about y'all people?

 

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Classic Video Games / The Best Retro Game Music - 8bit and above

« on: September 27, 2024, 07:02:03 am »

Hello everybody,

a post in a different thread made be start this thread.
Everybody involved in retro gaming has some favourite tunes out of his/her favourite games.

Show us what your favourite retro game soundtrack is!

Post single songs or whole games in which the soundtrack captured you especially.
I hope this thread gets many replies for I think every retro gamer (especially those with music affinity) knows some musical pearls and jewels. And I think it's worthwhile to list those up ! 

Let me start with a whole game, whose soundtrack really captivated me intensely:

GoldenEye 64
Almost every tune in this game is a banger - I like to listen through the remade Soundtrack that's availlable on youtube in many forms. But even the original soundtrack has a certain spiy feel to it and had us play this shooter for years in a row. Besides many RPG-Soundtracks, I consider the Soundtrack of GoldenEye 64 one of my al time favourites.

Now let's go - let us see how many great compositions we're able to round up ! 

Your's stonedly

Bizz

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Classic Video Games / True Lies (SNES): a funny example of 90's Germany's censorship

« on: May 26, 2023, 02:51:40 am »

Hello fellow gamers and collectors,

I'd like to discuss a funny issue, which accured to me while talking w. another collector about Germany's version of the game "True Lies" for the SNES.
A few of you might know, that many games that were free to purchase and play in most parts of europe, were censored in Germany, or completely put on the so called "Index" ... which actually is a list of games/movies/music, that are considered not suitable for younger audiences. A good example for such a game is GoldenEye64, which was retaken from this index just about a year ago.

When it comes to True Lies for SNES, me and my brothers remember to have owned a copy with green blood! 
After asking around in discord servers, we found out, that most of the copies of this game were sold with original red blood in it, even here in Germany, where I live. Almost nobody knows of those versions with green blood in it, but they exist.
Our theory about this is the following: After the first production batch of the game was sold, censorship got aware of the bloodiness of the game and forced the publishers to change the color of blood for further versions to be sold. It seems as if me and my brothers were some of the few people that got their hands on this latter - obviously more scarce - version of True Lies.

Did anybody of you know about this green-blood-version?
I'd like to hear your thoughts on that!

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Classic Video Games / SEGA Master System Converter - playing SMS titles on genesis/megadrive

« on: March 10, 2022, 07:20:38 am »

Hello fellow gamers and collectors,

I'm proud to own a fully equiped SEGA Medadrive II incl. Mega CD II and Master System Converter II.
I started collecting Master System cartridges for the latter one, and I hope somebody out here might be able to answer me a very specific question regarding this little adapter:

It appears that I have 2 games in my collection, that won't work properly when adapted via the Converter. After a friend of mine who owns a Master System II tested them and found them working well on his console, I wondered If some SMS games may not be compatible with the Master System Converter that I use oO ... every other game from my collection works fine, but only those two games don't, while still working fine when played via the MasterSystem.

Does anyone knows something about some games not working with the converter? I don't really care if I am not able to play them as long as I know they're functioning in general, but that situation just baffled me and I'm eager to know more about this, if anyone can help with some information.

Many thanks in advance, and sorry, if this post already existed in some form

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General / Difficulty in games - back in the days & today

« on: September 17, 2020, 09:03:15 am »

Hello everyone!

Me and my gaming friends often discuss about the difficulty of games and how it all changed in the flow of time.
Today's games often seem way more easier to beat than retro-games from - let's say - 1990 e.g.

The most logic explanation on why older games are more difficult is, that this was a very important part on replayability and long time fun. As the games and their programing and graphics where more simple than nowadays, developers tended to make them as difficult as possible to make a player try beating a game a 1.000 times before really finishing it. And when we think even further back, like into the 80's, making a game really hard to beat meant also, that players would need to throw coin after coin in those arcade machines.

What are your thoughts on this matter?
Do you also think today's games are easier than older ones?
And what are your opinions on why they are/were ?

I'm lookin' forward to your replies - thanks a lot!

Greetings

PS: Sorry for my spelling and grammar! I'm no native speaker!