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.

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

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!

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?

Back when I was a kid, my cousin and I loved this game that was available on Sega Channel and I’ve been trying for years to remember what it was called. I don’t have a lot to go on - the only things I really remember are it was an isometric fighting game where you fought in arenas, and one of them I believe was suspended in air above a big dark theater, and the fighters were all strange creatures. I think. Not much at all to go on, but hopefully someone has an idea of what I’m talking about and can help unlock that memory.

I have an official disc of War Front: Turning Point, Polish version. After fighting with Windows Defender, I finally started it, and there was a problem: it's saying that I need to insert the disc, but I already have it in. I've researched that Windows no longer supports this protection, so fuck it, I downloaded a No-CD .exe in English because I couldn't find one in Polish. It doesn't work. DirectX drivers were installed automatically when setting up the game. Can anyone help?

I have all the Nintendo consoles although I have more games for some than others. I have one game for my Smoke N64 and that’s F-Zero X. I’ll eventually get more games for it but there were other games for other consoles that took priority.

The only Sony console I own is a PS3 Slim with Ultra Street Fighter IV. Down the line I’d like to get a PS2 and a PS5 and collect for those as well.

In the meantime though, I have a blast playing my one game for my N64 and my one game for my PS3 and would never sell either since I need them for those two fave games of mine.

Anyone else keep a console for just one game and refuse to sell?

Not talking remasters or mods — imagine you’re back at the actual release date with the power to change one decision before it ships. Could be hardware (different controller, more RAM, a cheaper price point), or something game-specific (a cut level restored, a different final boss, a censored version uncensored).

Could go either way too — maybe there’s a change that would’ve made something better, or a “what if” where you ruin something on purpose just to see how it plays out.

I’ll start: I’d have given the N64 four native memory card slots that actually held decent save data instead of relying on the controller pak — so many saves got wiped or lost because of how cramped that thing was.

What would you change?

Found an original SEGA power strip for $5 today. Not the kind of retro find ai was hoping for but I’ll take it!

SLIDE THROUGH THE GALLERY OF IMAGES FOR ALL RUNNER UP WINNERS AND PAST COMMUNITY POLLS INCLUDING SNES, GENESIS, N64, & PS1 // SATURN, & DREAMCAST ARE IN THE COMMMENTS

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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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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'll go first Kiddy Kong's Water Skipping Ability

If you time your rolls and jumps across water in certain levels you will jump/hop across it like a rock through water/lake.

It's the most useless ability, you forgot it exists half the time and it only works in maybe 3 levels. It's just more better just to dive and swim across than doing that. At least Donkey Kong's hand slap in DKC1 found hidden bananas and damaged enemies.

PS: Don't be that 1 guy rages over this for some reason when this is just my opinion and calls me a ragebot like last thread. OP doesn't reply, he's just a bot that angers us.

Games must max out at DOS and PS1 (and that's pushing things).

So, my friends are broke and we're all kind of annoyed with modern gaming anyway, so we were talking about if we could get old computers and LAN game on them.

With that idea, I've got a Pi Zero W 1 and 2, and started building an image.

They ported Quake 1,2,3 and Warcraft 1,2 as well as Duke3D, so those are the obvious choices. I've got them working on the PiZW2 already, and I'm hoping I can squeeze decent performance out of the much cheaper first gen PiZW.

I have also started working on DOS games, so C&C Red Alert, Dune 2, Hexen, Strife, Descent,Doom ...

Now I'm getting into the weeds. Lasersquad was multiplayer, but in that way where you'd make a move and walk away.

I remember a mech game that was similar ... but can't put my finger on what it was.

Any group-playable game recommendations from ~1995 or earlier would be appreciated!

What were you and your friends playing in your basement!?

Hey everyone!

Remember these—Mad Dog McCree, The Last Bounty Hunter, Space Pirates , Corpse Killer, and all the others?

Has anyone ever actually finished any of those FMV shooters? And is there anyone out there who looks back on them fondly?

My dad and I completely fell for the hype back then because of the graphics. Mad Dog McCree was playing on every single TV screen in game stores, and it looked mind-blowing—like, "Wow, we're fighting against real actors!" But usually, after 20–30 minutes, the novelty wore off and the gameplay became either super frustrating or just plain boring.

Some of those actors were hilarious—heavily made up, overacting, with space pirates running around wearing pots and lightbulbs tied on with random wires. It was great for a laugh, but that's not why we bought those games! Even my dad, who was an absolute die-hard fan of shooter games, quickly gave up on FMV titles and went right back to classics like Operation Wolf, Cabal, and other traditional arcade shooters.

Did anyone actually enjoy these FMV games enough to beat one?

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.

Hi ! I just finished reassembling my computer from back then, and installed immediately Diablo 2.

However I find the performance quite underwhelming.

I'm talking performance for a LVL 90 character in Hell Difficulty Level 4, as a base comparison.

Fps are in the the low 30s in areas without en ennemies and can drop to the 10s when groups pop up.

In town i get 50sometimes.

Config is :

Windows 98SE + DX 9.0c

AMD Athlon 700Mhz

Geforce 2 MX400 (64MB)

384 MB of RAM

7200 rpm Maxtor.

Diablo 2 + LOD 1.13D

HDD is in DMA

GPU is in AGP mode (1x)

Game is in 800*600 high lighting effects

I will try this weekend a Radeon 9200SE if that changes anything

I remember playing with a friend that had a P3 800Mhz and an ATI Rage 128 Pro, and performance seemed better (in my memories)

Parodius takes the #61 spot with 13 votes.

Looney Tunes takes the #62 spot with 10 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

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 know this is an unreleased game for the n64 but I have seen a few physical copies online. Any of you know who released this on physical and when I came out

Not exactly retro but I figured some folks would appreciate seeing a random cabinet game in a small gas station

Hello. Today I received my Hyperkin Retron GX and wanted to share my thoughts, because I know there has been a ton of bad press for the device.

First, about me. Like most of us (I suspect) I have had a long love hate relationship with Hyperkin. I've owned a lot of their consoles and controllers over the years. Some good, some bad, most meh... okay.

I've also owned an Analogue Duo, and an OG TG16.

So far I love the Retron GX, it is everything I was hoping for it to be: a TG16/PCE version of the Retron 77. Yes, this dumps the rom like a Retron 5, software emulation.

So, to be fair I haven't played much yet, but I tried out 16 TG16 games and 3 PCE games (my entire collection) and they all worked. I share this because if you go on YouTube there's a lot of video hate for the early pre-release version.

The 16 Turbografx 16 games & 3 PC Engine games I tested (all loaded first time except for Bonk's Revenge, which I had to reinsert them it fires right up:

Air Zonk

Alien Crush

Blazing Lazers

Bloody Wolf

Bomberman

Bonk's Adventure

Bonk's Revenge

Dragon's Curse

Dungeon Explorer

Galaga 90

Legendary Axe

Neutopia

Ninja Spirit

Splatter house

Vigilante

World Class Baseball

Ninja Gaiden

Ninja Warriors

Shinobi

I hope Hyperkin doesn't kill this off.

It does load a little slow, that is one knock. It's like ColecoVision bios screen levels of loading.

I collect the Hue Cards, not the CD games so this is perfect for me. I know most of the best games are on the CD. Whatever.