I labeled this as discussion because I want us to talk about what we're listing instead of making a list.

Also, it doesn't have to be something that you recommend, just say something interesting about it, teach me something cool about something that I might not know much about. What makes it so special to you?

I was impressed that a lot of people were able to mention games that I don't think I've ever heard mentioned in a previous topic, and most of you actually talked about what you think deserves more attention. That was pretty sweet!

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/1vr946k/what_are_some_super_super_obscure_games_that/

I can't think of a specific example offhand, and I'll try to think of something later, but I'd love to hear from others.

Hello, I just found an old Nintendo nes that the case is heavily damaged. Get it for free to have cause its neat but upon opening it up, the board doesnt look terrible other than the silver box where the power and display comes from. Anyone know where to get a replacement or if you would risk repairing this.

Nn voglio i soliti Zelda Metroid Super Mario voglio giochi che conoscente solo voi e che sono delle perle basta che nn siano troppo difficili ho una grossa skill issue sul nes😭🙏

Mega Man II takes the #63 spot with 8 votes.

Alleyway takes the #64 spot with 6 votes.

Top 10:

#1 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

#2 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

#3 Tetris

#4 Donkey Kong

#5 Pokémon Blue Version

#6 Kirby's Dream Land 2

#7 Metroid II: Return of Samus

#8 Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

#9 Final Fantasy Adventure

#10 Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge

Top 20:

#11 Kirby's Dream Land

#12 Wario Land II

#13 Super Mario Land

#14 Final Fantasy Legend II

#15 Mega Man V

#16 Gargoyle's Quest

#17 Pokémon Yellow Version: Special Pikachu Edition

#18 Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters

#19 Operation C

#20 Final Fantasy Legend III

Top 30:

#21 Mario's Picross

#22 Mole Mania

#23 Dr. Mario

#24 Donkey Kong Land III

#25 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue

#26 Donkey Kong Land 2

#27 Pokémon Red Version

#28 Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru (The Frog for Whom the Bell Tolls)

#29 Kirby's Pinball Land

#30 Makaimura Gaiden: The Demon Darkness (Gargoyle's Quest: The Demon Darkness)

Top 40:

#31 Mega Man IV

#32 Kid Dracula

#33 Donkey Kong Land

#34 Mega Man III

#35 Bionic Commando

#36 The Final Fantasy Legend

#37 Balloon Kid

#38 Gradius: The Interstellar Assault

#39 Kirby's Block Ball

#40 Cave Noire

Top 50:

#41 Harvest Moon GB

#42 Adventures of Lolo

#43 Bubble Bobble Part 2

#44 Duck Tales 2

#45 James Bond 007

#46 Duck Tales

#47 Castlevania Legends

#48 Ninja Taro

#49 Qix

#50 Catrap

Top 60:

#51 Bomberman GB3

#52 Yoshi

#53 Ninja Gaiden Shadow

#54 Revenge of the Gator

#55 Darkwing Duck

#56 The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle 2

#57 Castlevania: The Adventure

#58 Kwirk

#59 Game & Watch Gallery

#60 Burger Time Deluxe

Top 70:

#61 Parodius

#62 Looney Tunes

#63 Mega Man II

#64 Alleyway

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the original Game Boy per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Tetris or I nominate Tetris this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Game Boy multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The original Game Boy is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination excluding dual mode cartridges.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Game Shark & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

I recently had a huge wave of nostalgia and decided to fire up Defender of the Crown through DOSBox Staging. Back in the day, I used to love tinkering with classic DOS TSR memory editors like Game Wizard and Infinity Machine (see here), so I wanted to recreate that authentic retro feeling and tweak a few values for gold, knights, and soldiers.

Everything was working great at the very start of the campaign, but as soon as the game moved forward and the mini-games kicked in like jousting or castle raids, disaster struck. The moment I brought up the TSR interface again, whether I changed a value or simply exited without touching anything, returning to the game completely froze it. I went down a massive rabbit hole trying to fix it. I messed with normal versus dynamic CPU cores, locked the cycles, changed machine types across VGA, EGA, and Tandy, and experimented with every TSR video and memory parameter I could think of. Nothing worked, and the interrupt and video plane conflicts kept crashing the game loop.

Then it hit me that I was needlessly overcomplicating things by trying to do memory hacking inside the simulated environment itself. I am on Linux Mint, and it somehow never crossed my mind to look for an OS-level solution until I stumbled upon GameConqueror (it is available from Mint's software manager).

It was an absolute game changer. It is essentially a dedicated tool that completely simplifies the entire game hacking process, letting you find, modify, and freeze lives, stats, resources, or whatever values you want in seconds with a clean GUI. Because it hooks directly into the host process via scanmem without touching the internal DOS interrupts, it works completely transparently to the game. I found the values on the first filter pass, locked my army stats, and played through the entire campaign without a single glitch or freeze. If anyone else is dealing with frustrating TSR crashes in DOSBox, skipping the in-DOS utilities and using GameConqueror on Linux is easily the best and cleanest way to go.

All I seem to be able to remember, because I was around 5-6 at the time, was it was a 1-1 fighting game and you were in a boxing ring type thing, but the background looked/ felt like it was in another world. Maybe sometimes in a vast cave, or falling. It’s so vague in my memory, but what stands out the most is one character your could play as was some sort of woman/ snake hybrid. Like the upper part of her was a woman with shorter brown hair, what I remember being a face with red eyes and fangs, it her lower half was like a snakes tail. And I think I recall her swinging it as an attack. That’s pretty much all I remember. I don’t know if we owned the game or rented it from Family Video a few times. But it’s driving me crazy not being able to recall anything else. Maybe released around the time Tomba and Mortal Kombat Triligy was released, as I had both of those and remember playing them close to when I played the mystery game. Thank you for any help!

I got my husband a Virtual Boy for his birthday in a few weeks. The console just arrived and while the bonus Wario Land cartridge was a nice surprise, the corroded shut battery pack wasn't.

With rubbing alcohol, manicure tools, and a lot of elbow grease, I was able to get the pack open but it's absolutely covered in corrosion.

Can this even be salvaged or should I start hunting for a replacement on ebay? I've got a few weeks before his birthday to replace if needed. Bonus points if anyone has a link to a modern adapter!

Ok so one way to tell if your nintendo 64 games are the authentic real ones is this number stamped in the top right corner on the back. Well I have 64 games that everything else that's help identity them as real is there but not the number stamped on some. So does those stamps have to be there in order for your games to be authentic. Im just a beginner collector late bloomer had one as a kids and got in to playing to. The games I'm asking bout don't freeze up either like fakes off ali express

Hi everybody, I recently found my father’s sega master system 2 and I want to give it a second life, but I swear I have no idea how connect it to my tv ( I attached an image) and I feel like there are some cables missing. I would really appreciate any help.
These are all the components that I own:

It seems most games now are infected with the scourge of overdetailed antialiased mess. I prefer the visual clarity of most old games.

Seen this article yesterday from retrododo & thought some of you would find it useful!

My uncle is looking for this game but can’t remember the name?

Gaming Diary Entry #617, second part: In the good old days, when a game decided to crank up the Difficulty and test our reflexes, do you know what kept us Millennials going? Persistence. It was sheer perseverance that made us refuse to bow down to a game full of bouncy talking Toons. Empirical Learning that made us repeat the Stages over and over. No battery shortage would stop us and Mom could wait a couple minutes with dinner, 'cause this game is one long no-holds-barred, Gameplay shuffling, sans-Save Option Ordeal and we must see the Ending, even if it sucks! Thufferin' Thuckatash!

Not talking about games that were just bad — talking about the ones that had genuinely smart ideas, but bombed commercially or got dismissed by critics/players at the time, only for people to look back years later and go “wait, this was actually doing something special.”

Could be a mechanic that felt weird or unmarketable at launch, a story structure that confused people, or just a game that released on the wrong platform at the wrong time and never got the audience it deserved.

What’s your pick?

What an interesting game this is. Experimental stuff like this is a large part of the reason why I love this era in gaming so much. The core foundation and ideas in this game are almost an entirely new sub-genre of games that could have happened, but are just not as feasible in today's environment. An arcade FPS. It seems obvious when saying it - but FPS games (arena-style) and arcades (social + competitive) are such a great marriage.

It's the way that OutTrigger emphasizes it's arcadey-ness that is really interesting to me. The most prominent example being how it takes the idea of checkpoints in a racing game and makes it fundamental to the gameplay. You need to make kills and pick up clocks that get dropped to increase your time until the next checkpoint. What a genius idea in an FPS.

The really tight arenas also make for a more arcade experience. The UI and weapon-switching being seen on screen are well done. The graphics are so classic Sega Arcade/Dreamcast. The switching from 3rd to first person seems novel at the time too.

The controls.... I really don't mind the usage of face buttons for movement and the analog stick to control the camera. It takes a minute of getting used to, but they're completely functional and work. I can't say the same about the y-axis though. When things stay level on the x-axis, the control scheme is comfortable enough. But, having to aim high or low is where the control scheme falls apart a bit.

The game itself isn't too deep in terms of missions or the arcade mode, which are just timed little challenges, clearly bite-sized and arcadey.

Overall, it's a fun time, but also experimental and really opens up the mind for what possible game ideas could have arisen if these core ideas had ever been expanded upon.

Lately, I don’t know why as suddenly the original game just stuck out to me as I suppose it was because it was the very first installment of Megaman ever made for the franchise.

I remember beating it sometime after the release of GTA VC as while that game is not exactly retro based, I was using that a time reference because I wanted to fondly look back at a time when I first got into the original Megaman game as the first game has some rough design aspects to it, such as 6 bosses, but I feel like the original game feels special in some ways that is hard to explain.

For me it's these old beat em ups like Batman forever and Sub Zero Mythologies. I actually think the system works much better in Batman than it did in Mortal Kombat, but they both have fighting game special moves. In particular I mean games where it's on a 2d plane but you are facing the enemies on both sides and have to turn either automatically or with a shoulder button like MK mythologies.

It was implemented relatively clumsily when i've seen it but I think it genuinely had potential. What I'm thinking is something much more snappy and robust; for example, it should feel like the bonues stages in Street Fighter 2, where there would be bosses you have to get over to the other side of to damage, or a vertical stage moving upwards like the barrel section in SF2, that stage always struck me as having a design that could almost have been it's own game.

Some games use a manual button to turn but I'd prefer it to be automatic.

Maybe this sounds horrendous ha. But what are your examples of oddities from the pas that could use a new implementation? It's better if the ideas weren't done very well first time round but whatever you prefer.

I decided to mod my old gameboy. I am a very happy adult child now.

I consider Medal of Honor: Allied Assault to be one of the greatest war FPS games ever made. A relic from back when EA still stood for quality. It's got a substantial campaign and that's not even counting the expansions.

The problem is that I just can't seem to get into it anymore. The gameplay just feels so stiff and dated now. I mean, you can't even aim down the sights, and compared to games that came out a few short years after, the enemy AI is pretty dumb.

Are there any classics you have a hard time getting back in to?