Top 10 Reasons Why Retro Gaming is Awesome
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For this list, we'll be ranking the most positive aspects about retro or nostalgic gaming practices, notable facts about old school gaming which should not be forgotten by modern generations of players. We'll be taking into account all sorts of retro gaming medium during the course of this list, from stand up arcade machines to home consoles from Atari, Sega and Nintendo.
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You forgot the most important thing: NO EFFING MICRO-TRANSACTIONS!!!
Probably not on this list because those technically *did* exist way back in the arcade days. You have to keep putting coins into the machine to keep playing... but then again, you don't have to pay 60 bucks up front for the game either.
+ladytanuki you make a good point about adding quarters to an arcade game. However, it's still not the same, or at least in my opinion, as buying in-game currency and accelerators. Arcades were something you did at Pizza Hut. Now, the PS4 and XBox in your living room wants you to buy season passes and crap like that. It's out of control.
yesssssssssssssssss!!!!
@@ladytanuki i.e double dragon 3 😠😠😠
True. There is pros and cons to each era but I could do without those fuckin pay to win micro transactions especially. Assassins Creed Odyssey took it way too far for me and 15 hours in I sold it. Its either grind out menial tasks or just pay. Fuck that.
I freakin love old games man! I'm only 14 and I have a Donkey Kong arcade machine in my room and tons of other old game consoles and games such as my NES, Genesis, GameBoy original, and more! Anyone else have a passion for old games like me!
DAMN!!! I wish I could have a arcade machine!!! 😩
Me too I freaking love retro gaming!!! I own 16 retro consoles and I am only 15 years old
TheCrazy8Gamer Retro gaming wasn't all that good. There was a lot of LJN games and action 52.
I have a gameboy does that count
Junior Blitz are you fucking dumb NOT GOOD GAMES?!? THE NES SAVED THE VIDEO GAME INDUSTRY
No. 1 No unnecessary DLC
Yeah, I'm surprised that wasn't on the list....or "no microtransactions".
I despise microtransactions. >cough!< Candy Crush >cough!
+Narwhal (Cough) Nintendo (Cough)
>cough< WB games >cough
They can be good you hippie
why do i like these games?? because im 45 yrs old...i was there man!!!!
I'm thirteen and I still love my old nintendos TO DEATH. (I have NES, SNES and N64.)
20 and still lovin that Wily Castle 2 music from MM2
I’m 38, and I feel the same way. I love the games of today too, don’t get me wrong. But I’m always going to love retro.
I am only 18 but somehow i got into these games i love them more than these moderns
Me to. I'm 31, had the original NES.. before that the ATARI. Still it was kinda fun back then. Not anymore tho. Gaming evolves for a reason.
no 1 isnt fucking broken when it comes out "oh we'll patch it later"
amen
Actually back then, if the developers released a broken game, they would fix it later and you would have to pay full price for a fixed version.
Exception: Hydlide. NO fixes for that, broken from day 1.
Actually, that wasn't always true. More often then not, if a game was broken and they created a fixed version, you could usually call there company on this mystical thing called a land line telephone and have one delivered to you through a magical courier called the post.
Or more likely than not, that shit just stayed broken and you just played it anyway.
Lookin' at you, Pokemon Red/Green/Blue...
#11: NO Internet Requirement! No servers to worry about going down. Games from 30+ years ago can still be played, yet there are games from PS3 era that are no longer playable b/c they required internet and their servers are down. Yet, if I wanted to, I could still play Pong on the Atari 2600 with no problem....Some games of this modern day require internet that SHOULDN'T.....Need for Speed 2015 and The Crew are two examples. Online should be an OPTION for these games
That is true a lot of games depend heavily on their servers and internet connection and when there’s no internet or the servers are acting up or are shut down the game doesn’t work as it should
Thank God for the Wii U, making local multiplayer still relevant.
And to search for hints WHILE playing! Do the PS4 and XBOne do that too? No, seriously. I don't have either.
Halo mcc...
Plus Nintendo still targets the younger generation.......so uptight parents can find kid friendly games
god isn't making local multiplayer still relevant, developers are
+RedXavier It's just an expression, I'm an atheist
I’m a proud retro gamer!!!! Nothing is better than a good old retro game, whether it’s a classic or an obscure hidden gem there’s an amazing world of retro gaming! The packaging art, and soundtracks were also amazing!
Modern games still have cheat codes.
They are just called microtransactions now.
Schwarzer Ritter
What about Skyrim, they still have legitimate cheat codes
@🚀Kalle🚀 He was being sarcastic.
@🚀Kalle🚀 A cheat code is a code you enter in with the controller to give you advantages. Microtransactions are a way to suck money that shouldn't be considered cheat codes. When you said "not really" that made me think that you thought Ritter was being genuine even though he wasn't. The way he says "just called" shows that, instead of saying like, "Microtransactions are new cheat codes." Cheat codes aren't a bad thing, but microtransactions are. @Schwarzer Ritter can you just tell us if you were being sarcastic or genuine? I might be wrong, but the way he said it just looks like it is sarcasm. Sorry if I'm wrong we are just humans.
@🚀Kalle🚀 I did read your comment, and I'm just saying, that RITTER was saying that sarcastically. You can think what you want, whatever is your opinion, but I was saying that Schwarzer Ritter was saying that microtransactions are equal to cheat codes, even though his opinion is (probably because of the sarcasm) the opposite of that. You have made it apparent that that is not YOUR opinion, but it IS Ritter and my opinion. (Also thanks this has actually helped me with debate skills and I want to be in the debate class at my school.)
@🚀Kalle🚀 I honestly don't care anymore, so let's just leave it at that and say that you have won because I have more important things to do than explain to someone why microtransactions aren't cheat codes.
I'm shure most people are smart enough to agree with me.
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You know, you should make top 10 reasons why traditional animation and retro cartoons are awsome.
I kind of disagree with number one, local play ability is still going but not that big. Like borderlands handsome collection with 4 player to loot and shoot, COD zombies 4 players to survive more, and super smash bros 4 8 player mode with crazy game play. I think mario kart double dash is the best local player game i ha fun with.
Thats what they are saying that fewer games will have that feature with the times to come and in the end probably will sease to exist.
why do i love to play retro? because i played some really awesome games as a kid, and i find that most of em are better then a lot of the games today.
Gaming was so much better back in those days.
agreed!! no patches,fixes or updates just good ole buy the cartridge and whammo...let the fun begin, well most times..
i play retro because at times they're better than anything new that comes out
Amen, brother!
Except Super Smash Bros. That is the only modern game that feels like I am playing something from the nineties that is far ahead of its time. The remixed music, roster, original music, 2D characters recreated in 3D. Honestly, I hate how the guy who made the series is probably the one guy at Nintendo that has very strange opinions.
Admittedly, he understood some of this video, as he did not want people to share TSE on RUclips and instead wanted gamers to experience it for themselves like the old days. But, thing is, everyone loved it and I feel the cut was unnecessary for the next entry to even have to deal with at all.
Oh, and let us not forget how, thanks to Nintendo screwing themselves over with Square Enix, that we could not have characters like Black Mage, Crono and more join the fight. As for Konami, well, they just hate video games by this point so that makes sense.
Super Smash Bros. The only modern game where I feel every single thing it adds is actually significant.
Yeah, old school game really do leave a lot to the imagination. That and these days it is getting more and more difficult to find a game that you, as this list says, pick up and play.
Yeah!
I Agree =PPPP
What I miss about retro gaming is going to a local video store and renting a game. That's how I got into video gaming.
fun.😉 but I remember going to the arcades and playing these games I'm talking about joust Donkey Kong Miss Pac-Man Pac-Man bubble bubble and a lot more I just can't remember them all
R.I.P. Local Blockbuster Video... :'C
Can still do that technically with services like game fly... but I get what you mean.
The games were actually games rather than movies. Now most of them are too heavily story driven that they could pass off as animated movies.
Correct me if im wrong but people have their preferences like it not not, you might like games that do not have a storry driven tours them but others might like games that do have that type of content and yet mario had a story behind he's videogame you need them to tell a how and a why stuff are happening around the character a Technic developers use pretty often.
I am agreen on you on the fact that old games pretty much didn't needed that type of content added just back then. :) evolution LOL
yea same feeling
One of the reasons I love so much to play retro games is that 8 - 16 bits songs are so awesome! I also prefer retro games' plot and gameplay, for some reason. Good old times :D
this made my childhood
Nice. The experience is what matters.
I play retro games because
1. They are fun
2. no bullshit DLC (unless you played PC back in the day)
3. difficulty (have a COD fanboy play some Kontra or Battletoads & see that controller fly right through the tv)
4. simple controller
5. memerable characters & music
6. no patches, you got the freak'n game out of the box 100% complete (sometimes).
I'm playing Startropics (NES) on my Wii U & I have forgotten how hard that game is
*Contra*
8bit and 16bit Nintendo and Sega are awesome
Lets not forget that even if you lose in the old games, you are still satisfied that you had fun playing the game anyway. Not to mention you felt like you kicked some butt, especially in beat-em-up games like Golden Axe, or Streets of Rage.
or sunset riders or tmnt turtles in time and the coop was great
You can still have a blast getting demolished and if the game is great it just makes you want to put in that practice and get better. You just have to have a more patient mindset and not expect to win your first few times playing a game. I use save and load states to practice through alot of old games my first time through. Usually after I practice through a game roughly I can beat the game after 1-3 full attempts (exhausting all lives). For harder games I have to practice sections more thoroughly. That tech really opened up old games for me though. Those games like to make you replay the entire game even when youve mastered most of it, so its very inefficient practice. Luckily I can bypass that and beat the games legit, practicing only the parts I need to learn.
It's so sad that kids will never understand how we grew up with these video games in the past....
I agreed with you more. Yes this was my first video game ever in the 90s
I wish I knew
Yep. And instead they play FPS.
I'm 11, I want to go back then, those times were rad!
The soundtracks are pure gold !
It feels like because they didn't have much to work with technology-wise back then, they really made it count when it came to making memorable and catcy songs with what lityle they had.
Long live the SNES Soundchip...
Long live the SNES Soundchip...
Long live the SNES Soundchip...
ZoCkBoBo So game soundtracks are better than everything else?
Zombiedoodle8 The pro What's the point of that comment? Don't like what I say? Go somewhere else.
ZoCkBoBo shanks stop the war
totally forgot that you bought the game one time and got the whole bloody thing from start to end.. did not have to pay for extra maps and whatever the developers decided to hold you hostage for
long live to genesis and super nintendo era!
Love retro soundtracks
the thing I miss most of all is the smell of the instruction booklets. all games should come with manuals
Smell? You must have bought sone stinky games then.
what do u need a manual for?
Shinigami Reaper they're like a miniature art book. Back in the day they were full of detail beside the information. You can even see some artwork that you would never see in the game.
+Samir Malik oh yeah i remember that, i got some artwork in an halo 1 manual.
@@96Champ994 there were back stories not mentioned in the game. And the world maps were awesome.
I loved when 2d games made you use your imagination. I imaginedt how the scenery in old NES games would look in real life.
I love retro gaming!
Lav Pandey me too indian you are a young guy like me
No micro-transactions and no BS dlc, that's a big one for me. I want to make games someday for the love of making fun, not broken, challenging and complete experiences. Yes I want to get money from making games as it would be my job but it would also be my passion to make games for gamers.
I miss games just including all the extras as unlockables in the game
+Antnj81 me too.
There was "DLC" back in the day, it's called "expansion packs".
For micro transactions, It really depends on the game. It wouldn't matter for CS:GO because the micro transactions don't actually make you better at the game. They are used to decorate the weapons you use.
I was once a fan but now i'm an air conditioner
cringe
lol
Funny and original
+Agent Supersky that has to be sarcastic
This joke is so overused
1:30 Guardian Legend NES
Thanks for remembering this great game.
For once in my life, I agree with watchmojo.
#1 The games were actually different.
I agree todays games are just shooting crap
+Carlos Medina Oh yeah, totally! Take a look at Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Wolfenstein, Blood, Quake, Half-Life, GoldenEye, System Shock and much more. Nothing has changed. You're just old or you think you're born in the wrong generation.
2001WindowsXP yesssss YESSSSSSS
Carlos Medina send message if wanna be fwends ,^-^,
What annoys me about a lot of modern gamers is how nowadays it seems that they brag about graphics rather than actually play the games (I'm looking at you PC Master Race), and if it's not HD it's somehow deemed worthless regardless of how fun the game is to play. Retro 4 Life!!!
I personally love graphics, but then again I have gone back and played alot of older game's because of their gameplay
Because I feel like a kid again when playing retro games.
Why I play retro games? Because of the music! Well that's part of the reason.
My #1, you still need to use your imagination.
right, I mean games had every one wishing the other to stay alive even if there turn followed if that player dies in the current world, man good times with castlevania.
love collecting those old cartridges and beating them, great nostalgia feeling of triumph!
I miss those days of coming home to from school and getting on my Nintendo Entertainment System and just have it. No internet to get through games, But you just played through the game in order to beat it without cheat codes or game genie. Those were simpler times when we could just play without checkpoints. You literally had to play through the whole game. You hope that console will not overheat and blow into the cartridge to make it work. The simple game play and simple game controllers is what made playing video games fun.
Blowing into cartridges is not a good idea. In your breath, there is moisture, and where there is moisture near electronics...
You get the point.
But It has such a cultural impact. That's amazing memories.
User Kev
True, I even done it, until my Super Mario Bros. 3 cartridge died.
Totally miss #7. I was devastated when I bought an Xbox one and realized I had to WAIT after I bought a game and popped the disk into the machine. Also, DISKS. I miss cartridges.
Cartridges weren't 100% fail proof. Like they mentioned, blowing on the cart to clean the contacts before sticking it into the game. That didn't always work. Sometimes a cart just wouldn't work (I found that particularly annoying on the 2nd hand ones I'd picked up at pawn shops. My copy of Activision's "Megamania" was that way. Might start out working perfectly, then after several minutes, the whole screen would start messing up.)
My Vectrex cartridges actually require me to fold over a playing card, slip it into the bottom of the cartridge slot, then guide the cartridge atop of it forcing it to make contact with the connectors. If I try using it without a card, the cartridge seems to hang down a little and doesn't make a full connection, defaulting to the internal "Mine Storm" game loading up, instead. The card acts as a simple spring to press the contacts together. I've actually thought about trying adhesive-backed felt along the bottom of the cartridge slot and seeing if that does the same thing, but the card trick seems to work well enough for now.
I don't miss GameCube mini-discs, though. Those sucked so much ass they have a donkey's head sticking out of their mouths. What's the point of investing in a game system if the media you print the games on DOESN'T FREAKIN' WORK HALF OF THE TIME?! Glad they published the Game Boy Player peripheral so people would have games they could actually load AND PLAY on the GameCube. :)
playing Mario kart,mario party 2 and 007 goldeye with my friends and family was the best, it's no fun to go to a friend's and watch them
johnny yeah I remember playing golden eye 007 n64 on multiplayer for hours and hours on end. That was one of the greatest games ever. Same goes for Mario kart 64.
Memorable music should've been in the top five. Most music in today's games fails to leave a lasting impression and is easily forgotten as soon as one puts the game down to do to sleep at night.
"Local multiplayer" is one of the things in videogames that I miss more. Now I can play with a total unknown player at the other side of the world, but not with my friend or relative who's seated at my side.
Online multiplayer is a lot better than going to a said friend's house. I play with my friends too. Just getting 3-4 people over now is a huge hassle. Time consuming as well. When I was a kid this was not a problem. Now that we are all adults no one wants to go over said friend's houses because we don't all live near each other & it's a lot easier to text your friends on a weekend & play for a couple of hours.
I'm 15 and I prefer retro games (because I'm poor and can't afford games that aren't for sale in a charity shop)
Try out emulation ;)
If you think retro gaming was cheap, then you have no idea what cheap is!
MAHER Same here
I do my own version of the Konomi code just to get on with my day.Jump up,jump up,squat down,squat down,step left,step right,step left,step right,jump back,ascend forward and now I'v got 30 lives,yay!
Instructions not clear, liver stuck in AC Unit.
Darin Rosu ????
+Darin Rosu ??????????
It's a joke.
+Darin Rosu what exactly is a joke?
Retro Games have creativity and we were able to witness a lot of crazy things there. Man I miss those times.
Born in 87, was completely spoils with gaming! Thanks mum x
I'm just here taking notes about how to create a good game...
All game designers should do that!
No. 1 When you bought a game, is the phuckin whole game, not a scrap of it
All the 20c/quarters were removed from jars around the house. Eaten up by games down the local shops.
i still have my NES and Super NES :) i still play with them. nothing can beat the retro consoles
In all honesty, I prefer playing retro games over any modern game. more fun, more challenging, better plots, local multiplayer. There is just nothing now in the gaming world that intrigues me anymore.
I agree except with the local multi player. It's a lot easier & better just playing online vs your friends rather than everyone going to all 1 said house.
Finally a video I have no complains... BTW, I was playing with a N64 while I watched this video.
Pretty similar case for me too, except I just finished playing Majora's Mask for 2 hours and wanted to take a break. Geez, getting 100% completion is so dang satisfying in older games. Most likely because you don't have to spend 20+ dollars to "unlock" everything from the "marketplace"
Totally, it was only you and your skill vs the game.
Ya know, sometimes I wish I could have grown up in the 80's. Everything was fun and... 'Real'
I think 80s gaming is shit,and today we are repeating that mistake,the 90s and 2000s where the best days of gaming *kisses his PS2*
80s games arent shit you just not open minded to it
+anthony rotar (gamebasterd69) thank you!
Being able to pick up a retro game and be instantly transported to the nostalgia of your childhood is a feeling all should experience! Damn, it feels good to be a gamer is what we say.
Jim Sterling said it best when he said modern game developers believe there are only three games: Clash of Clans, Candy Crush, and Call of Duty.
Retro games didn't operate under that logic. They didn't want to clone a game's success -- they wanted to either take over the established niche market with a BETTER experience, or they wanted to create their own.
This is why games like Undertale, Fez and Five Nights At Freddy's outright exploded the way they did: Because they were different. This is why games like Star Citizen, Yooka-Laylee and Mighty No. 9 obliterated their Kickstarter goals. And this is why even some of the shitty indie games out there still have fans: Because even the buggy glitchy boring ones are still at least TRYING to be something besides another FPS shooter or Flappy Birds time waster.
This comment, right here.
Best WM list ever!
Thanks to MAME, I still play most of these games. And now I feel very old remembering I've played almost all of the retro games shown in this video on Arcade back in 90s.
Oh yeah, i love retro!!! EVERYONE LOVES RETRO...but I wouldn't talk shit about modern gaming neither!...sure we mostly see extremely realistic (or sort of) FPSs, but there are a lot of quality/creative games, not just on Indies (like Undertale) but also in major company games! (like Slatoon, or the upcoming Cuphead), even some franchises like Kingdom Hearts, and Sly Cooper!
Very true. I am in love with retro. But saying new gaming is all garbage is ignorant. I'm a best of both worlds on the subject.
kingdom Hearts is almost 20 yrs old and Sly is over a decade old they aren't modern franchises
The810kid And I didn't call them "new"; I said that there are some franchises that have potential!
Gustavo Barría Chavarría
yeah i wouldn't exactly use them as examples to be the franchises I'd say it atleast needed to be within five yrs of this gen
Gustavo Barria Chavarria your comment is the only smart comment here,i mean i love retro games because i was born with the nes but to trash all today's games just for nostalgian reasons is just stupid
I had a lot of good times with those game back in the day.
Kinda bummed out I never owned a Nintendo or SNES lol
BUT I grew up with a Sega Mega Drive and it's brought some joy to me and family :)
Number1 = cod didnt exist
AGREE!!!!!
INFINITE THUMBS UP!!!!!!! Seriously, CoD led to the massive FPS boom which, while some of those games are good, it also led to a massive sea of mediocrity. At the same time, it also started the trend of "putting out a game every year." This leads to two problems: quick over-saturation of the market and other companies trying to follow that model when they cannot do so without the game being mediocre at best.
+Billy Bob Joe there were plenty of FPS before Cod
+William Baric exactly this man is just blaming Cod from blind hate
+Dessaw blind hate? seriously??
The clip of guardian legend for the NES warmed my heart. I played that game a lot as a kid, but you rarely hear about it anymore.
same here
Better reasons:
1. cheaper (provided your not going for rare games/consoles)
2. got a complete game without waiting for and buying DLC
3. doesn't require Internet
4. no updates or downloads making you wait to play your game
5. most of the games are better then games today
6. overall easier
7. doesn't have a 87 hour tutorial
8. Nostalgia (only if you grew up with the games, unlike me)
9. there's games that aren't first person shooters
10. games and consoles are a breeze to fix
"Overall easier"?
It's not easier
It can give you an experience of the past
+DATSATOILET Aka the onion cutter i can just play donkey kong over gta5 with ease
Games have never been cheap and they sure as hell weren't any easier. You're just exaggerating, there are tons of non-fps games. Also, updates are a GOOD thing
Ah, the days when all the game's story was on one or two pages of the often-ignored manual...or the starting screen...or a short cutscene...
I sucked at games back then, so I didn't really get any kind of satisfaction (except when I beat Donkey Kong Country, I felt like a badass then).
Top 10 Reasons Why Retro Gaming is Awesome
Because today's gaming is bad.
so mario maker is bad?.
They might do a "top 10 why modern gaming is awesome"
Εφιαλτης Παπαφύλιψ You may as well have played the old Mario games.
Modern Gaming does have it's positives over Retro gaming, and vise versa.
Aya ya i played the old mario games. With emulator.. Do you think that mario maker is bad?.
Wait, people sat next to each other to play?
Yeah people used to actually do this in the time of retro video games. Then again this was the time before Facebook, RUclips and before we had fancy smartphones.
Woah...
+Prince Gray That time was around 80's and 90's times. Other times you spent quarters at places called arcades while standing up. Something you can't do today.
yes and most of the old school games didn't have auto save
the fgc says hi
Why I mainly play retro games:
I can get into it INSTANTLY and many titles can be beaten in an hour or so.
Most modern titles require an INVESTMENT of time out of my life. Waiting on loading times, installing updates, sitting through cut scenes, building up your character, learning all the buttons and items, progressing through the story... I just don't have time for all of that.
Witcher in the nutshell
no preorder bonus crap or dlc / features behind a paywall
robertshuxley Get a pc then. pc master race
I Like Changing My Name For Unknown reasons It's just a suggestion because pc usually has less of those problems for example: you get free online. I hope pc gaming doesn't become too mainstream tho.
You forgot epic soundtracks.
Best VGM Soundtrack Ever: "MegaMan X" (1993) on the Super Nintendo.
I said it. :I
I still play my Nintendo 64 and Playstation 2. Some games are great investments and have very high replay-abilty. =D
Honestly, when I see retro games, it just makes me feel thankful that I wasn't born in the 80s.
Why
Idk about that one
Yeah right, the 80's and 90's kicked ass.
screw you my best days were in the 80s im 23
You'll never know the joy of playing those games when they were new. Most games wouldn't save progress and getting to the end was a real challenge. Those retro games made me the gamer I am today. I actually feel sorry for you that you've not played these games.
Who had C64?
KillerinstinctArcade I'm 32 and I had atari 2600 when I was like 3 then in order, zx spectrum, commodore 64, amiga 500, master system, nes, mega drive, snes, ps1, dreamcast, n64, gamecube, ps2, xbox, xbox 360, ps3, wii, wii u and ps4 lol that's not counting the handhelds.
KillerinstinctArcade lol wasn't trying to out do you just saying what I've had but yeah go for the ps4, absolutely amazing, try bloodborne and stick through all the punishment until you're able to start working your way through the game, it's an absolute masterpiece of a game, then play dark souls 2 and 3. I used to be in the group of people who found the souls games hard then got hold of dark souls 2 and it looked really good so I just told myself no I'm gonna stick at it until I can do it and finally something just clicked and then I couldn't stop playing.
Gaming back in the day wasn't without its flaws, the biggest being you didn't know what was good or bad until you tried it or someone else was (un)fortunate enough to play the game.
Yeah but games were cheap then, so you weren't losing much
Yuu not true at all. Games were still a hefty investment back then, just as they are now. They may only appear to look cheaper because of the value of whatever currency you use changing from then to now.
Not to mention games that were extremely difficult and very short, and many games (especially bosses) are cheap. But that can be said today, too. And just because retro games (often) are awesome, it doesn't mean modern games are not. :-)
Yuu for example, when the NES debuted in America in 1985, it was priced at $199.99. Adjust for inflation, and that is almost $450 in 2016 money.
I believe they had what's called renting video games back then - you could basically try-before-you-buy with a few bucks, not much of a loss. The equivalent nowadays would be free demo/shareware and the occasion Free Weekend on Steam
nostalgia for sure, but it paved the way for modern gaming. I'm currently restoring my old collection and consoles...
He should have added “looking at you, Metal Gear Solid” in regard to the long cutscenes.
Infinite Warfare is my all time favourite retro game
It's so retro that it hasn't even come out yet.
same
+Michael the Magician that's the joke
Trolls, trolls are everywhere.
You guys are so stupid
im 12 and i like old games
Good for you, you're saving your soul... :)
(Not sure 'bout your Money though... :L)
I love retro games bc they are so much moreof a challenge than the games today.
I agree with this list completely.
i think wacthmojo's list is spot on as to why i like retro. :)
god I miss cheat codes lol there where always the best to help fight a zombie apocalypse with unlimited ammo but now cheat codes have been replaced with greedy mods
True
cheat codes have been replaced by dlc and microtransactions mainly.
Cheat codes lives... but only for PC master race)
Cheat codes still exist on PC
bushido Dragon Yup, pc gaming has never gone down the hill. There's way more games on that platform than console so there's more variety and obscure titles have a chance.
Honorable Mention: Awesome Soundtracks! Mario games, Mega Man games, old school Final Fantasies etc...
I'm an older gamer (born in the 70s). Not all of us look at retro games as fondly as the some people like to do. It's not that the games were bad, it's just that they're mostly too limited. I remember feeling awe at the box art, and then actually feeling disappointed once I played the games.
Do you have these people caged in a room and forced to narrate everyday?
Is retro gaming worth getting into?
it is if you passionate with certain games and consoles. but go with something you know and then get into others as you go
Also some retro games can be pricey but go for cheaper games first and try finding the pricey ones in thrift stores
ok thanks for the help
Emulators are useful as a way to test games out to see if you like them... Or just pirate them cuz you know no one wants to sue a random joe to get payment for a 30 year old game.
Hell ya, that's almost the whole reason I bought a 3DS was to download all the old arcades, NES, SNES, and N64 games.
I play retro games because they are fun, and simple to play! Getting a chance to beat the game I couldn't before, is the icing on the cake for me!
Ahh retro gaming. There was 2.5d games, midi music, physical games, low res screens and no *freakin* microtransactions.
Nothing about the soundtracks??
10 best Retro games please
Where are you even supposed to begin with that. There are whole generations of games that are defined as retro with a Santa's list of titles that are all masterpieces of their respective times and genres. You have the old Ataari systems, NES and SNES, Sega Genesis, Saturn, PS 1 and even handhelds like GameBoy and GBA. All with huge libraries which would make it next to impossible to choose only 10.Plus they already made videos on top 10 games of each generation and System.
That would be nearly impossible since "the best" is practically opinion based and could range in many different ways
+The bearded gamer Another good reason.
local cooperative or head to head play is awesome.
ikr? Why do so few games do this anymore? It annoys the crap out of me!
Same here. They ditched local multiplayer in the last Halo game. Wtf kind of decision is that?
I'm happy I was born in the perfect year to be a gamer. 1979. I was a child for the 2600 and C64's simplicity. A pre-teen for the more complex NES offerings. A teenager for SNES' more mature offerings. I was in highschool for the dawn of the PS1 era of JRPG dominance. And a working man for the PS2 ushering in modern gaming. Now I'm well into my late 30's enjoying The layed back story telling of the modern age (and the gool ol' classic difficulty of Dark Souls games of course ;)
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Kids these days and their 'save state' games will not know what skill it took to beat a classic, like Megaman for example. :)
I used to play TMNT:battle tournament with my cousin and sis. Those nostalgic days...😍
I had a subscription to Game Genie back in the good old days. I would get a new booklet with Game Genie cheat codes every month and would use them on every Nintendo game I rented for the weekend. Good times.
I would say retro gaming is the best, but I love WiiU too much.
I'm watching this, and commented, on a Wii U.
More and more games are getting multiplayer focused soon Story will be a thing in the past
I hope not,because story is the main reason i play games
Like they said independent game developers these day are bring back the past for example undertale is like the earthbound we never got.
The same for me. The only thing that draws me to games in general is to play a story campaign.
A while back I came to realize that a lot of arcade focused games really couldn't hold my interest any more.
another reason why retro games are awesome there wasn't any toxic players and no one to tell you how to play games you just played it how you play it.
This is probably one of my favorite video of 2016.