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The point of this thread is to be like Random, where people post a lot on a lot of subjects. However everything should be about classic gaming. For example, you could post about an emulator, childhood memories, controllers, favorite games, re releases, all of that stuff. This thread has potential, it just needs to get started.

Also, classic games here include anything from any system no longer produced, or pc games that are considered classic, and also could be newish like GTA San Andreas.

Before this thread can progress I must nitpick your OP.

IlovetheGamecube Wrote:Also, classic games here include anything from any system no longer produced, or pc games that are considered classic, and also could be newish like GTA San Andreas.

It's good that you made an attempt to clarify what "classic gaming" is defined as in the context of this thread. Your console game definition is strict enough to work well. However you have not defined what a classic pc game is properly. And that last bit "also could be newish like GTA San Andreas" adds more confusion since I assumed that "classic PC games" had to be old. Which would bring up a useful question, how old is old?

IlovetheGamecube Wrote:This thread has potential, it just needs to get started.

Then get is started. So far your OP is incredibly vague and allows us to post a wide range of different content about different subjects. Which tends to drive down interest unless the thread gains a specific purpose/subject or somebody gets the ball rolling with a subtopic.

Yeah, defining "classic" is not something entirely straight-forward when it comes to games, at least in my opinion. How do I know if a game is classic? I do a simple test. If I feel old thinking about a game, it's probably a classic. Case in point, I was playing Star Ocean 2 the other day, saw that it was made in 2000. My brain says "oh hey, 2000 is kinda recent-ish" but the math says "yeah no that was 13 years ago, over half your entire lifespan" :|

Anyway, since I am working on my (as of yet unnamed) Gameboy Emulator, I'm testing it out on various games from way back when (mainly Tetris). Sure takes me back to when I got my Gameboy Pocket as a kid. Once I get the emulator up to speed, I'm going to relive all of my old favorites (Wario Land, Kirby's Block Ball, Jurassic Park: The Lost World, various Pokemon games). Now I could very well do this in VBAM or another more complete emulator, but there's just something alluring about building one yourself to get the experience.

Speaking of GB games, I found a bunch of my old manuals for a handful of GB and GBA titles. The rest I know I have, it's just a question of where are they. I really should rummage around my closet this weekend.

Shonumi Wrote:Now I could very well do this in VBAM or another more complete emulator, but there's just something alluring about building one yourself to get the experience.

I'm the exact opposite. I hate playing any game that I made myself. I can't help but notice all of the flaws, things that could be more complete, or things that I could have added. And it drives me nuts. Every time I try to play one of them I end up spending endless hours improving it rather than enjoying it.

Shonumi Wrote:How do I know if a game is classic? I do a simple test. If I feel old thinking about a game, it's probably a classic.

But I never feel old when thinking about a game. Even the games that I played as a little kid don't make me feel like I'm old. Because I'm not old! 24 is not old and you know it.

(03-15-2013, 03:41 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]I'm the exact opposite. I hate playing any game that I made myself. I can't help but notice all of the flaws, things that could be more complete, or things that I could have added. And it drives me nuts. Every time I try to play one of them I end up spending endless hours improving it rather than enjoying it.

I get the feeling you're a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to certain things. That can be a productive attitude as well as hindrance

Lower your standards, then have some fun. Trust me, I've been where you've described when it comes to creative writing (e.g. this passage could sound better, word choice could be more expressive here/there); it's a good way to get writer's block real fast. Nowadays, whenever I endeavor to do something, I tell myself, "I expect to make whatever I make." It's a bit silly, but it keeps my mind on getting a project going instead of worrying about every minute detail.

Anyway, it's not exactly like I'm making the game myself, just an environment to run a game someone coded a long time ago. It's especially fascinating for me since I always wondered how people could make emulators in the first place (or for that matter how people actually made the original games). It's one thing to use an emulator someone wrote to play your old favorites; I'd say it's something else to use an emulator you wrote to play your old favorites. Quite an experience, imo, even if some things don't initially work 100% correctly.

(03-15-2013, 03:41 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]But I never feel old when thinking about a game. Even the games that I played as a little kid don't make me feel like I'm old. Because I'm not old! 24 is not old and you know it.

Scientifically, time moves at the same rate for everyone (for the most part, relativity and speed and whatnot) but psychologically everyone carries their own perceptions about how "fast" or "slow" life goes. You also have to account for the amount of memorable experiences people have had in said period of time. I think we've talked about this before, but I can remember a great deal of my life during my infancy (started playing video games at 1 & 1/2 years old, so I've been gaming for a long time) whereas you started remembering events around six-ish.

I'm not old in comparison, say, to the newest pope for example; internally though, I've watched the gaming industry grow since the start of the 90s. That's no small amount of time. I am old (or perhaps you prefer just "older") when compared to young gamers whose first experiences came from the likes of the GBA or GC, which equates to a difference of three console generations alone. In my view, age is a number (20, 35, etc), but being "old" is a concept relative to how one sees him or herself. I'm old in the sense that I can remember distant events and experiences. Not terribly old, mind you (I haven't experienced that much), but suitably old enough to consider myself as having been around here for a while.

*watches as thread dies*

On the "no fun allowed" picture, you can do whatever you want as long as it has something to do with classic games. Now for PC games, would you consider Need For Speed Most Wanted (2005) a classic game? I would since a new game has used the title and it has graphics at about the same level as the GameCube version. So I guess anything that doesn't look like a PS3 game?

How about this. If you think it is a classic game, go ahead and talk about it. Like talking about an emulator you made/are making is perfect for this thread. The Legend of Zelda The Wind Waker HD for Wii U would also fit here, since it is a remake of a classic game (in my opinion, but this is all about opinions).

(03-15-2013, 12:46 PM)IlovetheGamecube Wrote: [ -> ]This thread has potential, it just needs to get started.

Then let's do it.

The first console I bought was the NES (in 1990). I bought it to play The Legend of Zelda.
20 years later... the first emulator I tried was Nestopia. And the first game I played was The Legend of Zelda. I almost shed a tear

okay a great classic game for me would be Final Fantasy VIII, it was just incredible!!!
i really like SNES games like Donkey Kong 3,Yoshi's Island,Super Mario World,Super Metroid,Mario RPG,Top Gear,man those were awesome.
on the previous generation i think Resident Evil 4,Metroid Prime 1&2,Mario Kart Double Dash,Final fantasy XII,Ninja Gaiden Black...
those were some of my classic games what are yours

(03-16-2013, 02:26 AM)Bad Company Wrote: [ -> ]okay a great classic game for me would be Final Fantasy VIII, it was just incredible!!!

For PS1 era (FF VII/VIII/IX) I've always prefered FFVII and FFIX to FFVIII. I don't know why.
But FFVIII was an excellent game too of course. I love the (long) scene where we're in space with Squall and Linoa/Rinoa