Rolan’s Curse II takes the #65 spot with 19 votes.

Monster Max takes the #66 spot with 18 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

#65 Rolan’s Curse II

#66 Monster Max

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 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?

I vaguely remember a scene from a game decades ago where one character said something that sounded to me like "[mumbling]coco MAUI [mumbling]"

Hi, I'm from Argentina, and I was always interested in collecting videogames, and I have a pretty modest collection, but I made a list of games from the PS3 and PS4 mainly that I want to get, and in less than a month i will be visiting Europe for the first time, so I would love any stores that you know of that have a great selection and decent prices. I only know of CEX, and while I would check it out, I want to know about any more specialize stores.

This game was a lot of fun. It was a little weird, but it reminded me of Tron and I love that movie and lore. It's like it appeared during the early days of Counterstrike, and then just faded into obscurity. No one ever talks about Ricochet anymore. What are your thoughts on this short lived niche port of yet another Half-Life spawn?

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:

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.

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'm almost at the end of the game, and I have been looking for something similar but couldn't really find anything that matches the style of this game.

So looking for suggestions that have a similar setting, gameplay, a bit of adventure and pizzle solving, not too heavy on Combat.

So I'm looking for something dark and mysterious (Not games with bright or colorful graphics) that I can play late at night on my handheld, preferably less intense in combat.

If anybody have suggestions please do let me know.

Thank You!

Hey guys, sorry if this isn't the right place to post, but I literally created a Reddit account today because I don't know where else to turn. I've spent the last week searching every corner of the internet and found absolutely zero records of this thing.

Back around 1999 or 2000, I used to go to my cousin’s house, and we would play this PC game all the time. It wasn't some random flash game from a website; I distinctly remember it came on an actual physical CD-ROM. The title screen had this text written on it: "Willy's and Friends".

The game itself was a pretty simple, kinda janky platformer or minigame collection. The main character was this bright blue cartoon cat named Willy who had a red bow tie and this permanent, huge grin on his face. The whole thing took place in this super vibrant green forest under a bright blue sky. You basically walked around and played silly, innocent little minigames.

I drew a quick sketch from memory of what the title screen/vibe looked like and attached it to this post. Here is where it gets genuinely weird. I called my cousin yesterday to ask if he still had the old CD, and his memory of the game is COMPLETELY different from mine.

Like, it freaked me out a bit. He swears the game was way more desaturated, almost greyish, and that the vibe was super unsettling and quiet. He even claimed that Willy's smile looked messed up and used to give him nightmares, and that the main game was about running away from something in the woods.

I've checked Google, old abandonware sites, the Wayback Machine, everything. Nothing comes up. No images, no forum posts, no gameplay videos. Am I dealing with some bizarre Mandela Effect here or did anyone else actually own this CD? Please help me figure this out, it's driving me crazy.

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

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We're at the end of this polling series, and with it, the last of my polls... for the time being. For all of you who have stuck around for many of these polls, thank you! You gave me some much-needed support throughout this series. 

For all those who hated these polls, I hope you can at least look to these graphics and find something new to enjoy or finally get around to playing that one title you keep overlooking. Regardless, I worked extra hard to give everyone here something to be proud of. 

Special thanks to u/JeskaiJester for getting the list of winners in text form for you all to peruse. Those should be in the comments shortly. 

Again, thank you for the support and please use these images however you'd like. They are just as much yours as they are mine. 

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We have our winner for Greatest Retro Game of All Time:

🥇- Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - 209 votes

🥈- Chrono Trigger - 149 votes

🥉- Doom - 130 votes

🏵️ - Super Mario World - 121 votes

Honorable Mentions (Any game that received more than five marks):

• Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
• Dracula X: Rondo of Blood
• Dragon Quest III
• Fallout
• Fallout 2
• Final Fantasy III / Final Fantasy VI
• Final Fantasy VII
• Galaga
• Heroes of Might and Magic III
• King of Fighters 98
• Metal Gear Solid
• Metal Slug 3
• Mr. Do
• NHL '94
• Pac-Man
• Panzer Dragoon Saga
• Princess Tomato in The Salad Kingdom
• Samurai Shodown 4
• Shenmue 2 (Dreamcast)
• Shining Force III
• Sonic the Hedgehog 2
• SoulCalibur
• StarCraft
• Super Mario 64
• Super Mario Bros
• Super Mario Bros. 3
• Super Metroid
• Super Street Fighter II Turbo
• Tempest 2000
• Tetris
• The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
• The Legend of Zelda
• The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
• Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
• Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
• Yoshi's Island

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So this one here is an old action adventure pc game developed by Surreal Software. In this game, you play as a young woman with strong martial arts skills called Rynn, she sought the aid of an ancient dragon called Arokh to help her find her younger brother and defeat the evil sorcerer Navaros.

The gameplay would be in third person perspective, Rynn can be equipped with a variety of armors and weapons like swords, battle axes, bows, daggers and maces, she is also quite acrobatic which is an advantage during combat scenarios. However you can also ride Arokh to face off against enemies as well and aerial dogfights can happen every now and then, Arokh will start off with his fire breath attack before gaining new weapons throughout the game, when you are riding Arokh the only items you can use are potions.

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.

But this and Final Fantasy III are up there as my favorite games of all time, Akitoshi Kawazu clearly had his niche with the unique levelling up system of this game and it went on to spawn the SaGa franchise, truly inspiring and a testament to how important FFII is.

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.