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Played Streets of Rage 2 yesterday with my 5yr old son. We beat it in about 20 minutes on easy mode.

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Did you ever build your own MAME arcade? That would be awesome!

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Loved Contra III. Stage 4 was where it started to get hard for me.

I gotta find some of my old consoles and get them running again.

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You were good to make it to level 4, Hootie. Did you ever beat it?
The only Contra games I've finished were Contra (with the code) and Contra: Rebirth.

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I came close to beating it without codes but I have only mastered it with the game genie.

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I'm going to be doing some oooooooold school gaming in a week. Heading back home and my friend has a basement set up with a bunch off old arcade stand ups including a working Aferburner with the moving booth :noon

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The Game Genie, one of the greatest innovations of the 80s.:tu

EDIT: You gotta change the avatar, Hootie. I thought I was reponding to Tom's post. I thought it was a bit weird that he was talking about Contra and the Game Genie.:)

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Me and my buddy get a best of 7 series in bad news baseball for nes. It has an excellent rabbit umpire. Never misses a call

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Played some Guardian Legend on NES the other day.
Also played the Sonic CD demo on the PS3.

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For old CivII fans (like me,) thought you'd find this interesting:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comme...vilization_ii/

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MY SNES has been collecting dust for the past 10 yrs b/c I got mad and threw the tv at the wall (I'm well beyond that point in my life) and ripped the coaxial cable in two. I realized this week that the composite cable for the Gamecube works with the SNES, so I dug the SNES and games out of the garage (took me 5 hours to find it all) and I'm having the time of my life! I always hated Starfox and Super Star Wars b/c they were too daggum hard, but now they have been a blast and maybe due to my age, a whole lot easier. Who knew?!?

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Holy cow, Guardian Legend really brings back some memories!

Here is a pic of 2 of my young`ens with their first attempts at Mario. I had the bug to hook up the NES after sitting for years in a closet.

https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...50862624_o.jpg

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I felt that way about the Castlevania games from the 80s, early 90s. They used to torment me when I was little, brutal difficulty curve. But for whatever reason, one summer two years ago I dusted off the old NES and SNES and tore through ALL of them. Aside from having to check the internet for a little help with Simons Quest (WTF, kneel randomly at a lake for a tornado to come and take you away!?), I crushed all of them. it was incredibly satisfying, like tying up a loose end from my childhood :tu

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I remember having some gaming books and that was in there. By far the most obscure and crazy way to get to any final boss. Since that game was so wide open and no real mention on how to do anything it was F*cking hard!

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Just dusted off the old NES a couple days ago and have been wearing these two suckers OUT:
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You pretty much have to have a strategy guide to get through that game. It did have an epic soundtrack though.
I've got Skate or Die 2 and hate it. Probably b/c I suck at it.



I picked up a couple games for the SNES and NES this week:
SNES -
T2: The Arcade game
Batman Returns

NES -
Vindicators
Jeopardy

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Do you remember which ending you got for Simon's Quest? That one had one good ending, and multiple bad endings if I remember correctly.

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Still rocking a lot of NES/SNES games. But lately have been playing PS 1 games
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Taking a break from Uncharted 3 to play Majora's Mask. I got it for free on the VC, and it's definitely NOT my favorite Zelda game by any means.

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Contra and Castlevania for Nintendo :u and pretty much all 75 games I have :noon
Love Atari (old school systm) too but my sister has that, we trade every two years!

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Yeah this game has always been impossible for me. I always get to the level where you have to ride around the beach and pick up all the halfpipe plans and they're blowing away....f'ing impossible. Must have spent hours trying to beat it as a kid. :c
And so it is with most NES games for me it seems...either beatable within a few hours or completely impossible no matter how much I played it. Never really seemed to be much in between.

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Some games took me years to finally beat, but some I think are impossible due to poor controls. I think both Skate or Die games fall in the poor controls category.

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I got the died from wounds ending :td

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Simon dies in all three endings (I just found out).
Here's a video that shows all three endings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHbGPOdcyuo

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I love this pic! Always a good thing when you introduce the kids to the classics! My kids love all of the original Super Mario games on the NES, but I've tried to no avail to get them to enjoy Pac-man, Burgertime, Pole Position, Dig-Dug, or Frogger. I have gotten them addicted to the light gun games on the NES though (Duck Hunt and Hogan's Alley). My youngest son pronounces Duck Hunt as "Duck kunt".:r

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Pac-man Championship Edition DX is awesome. New game that brings back that old school Pac-Man feel. It's addictive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cjz4EuGBrw

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Didn't see it mentioned, but if you have an Ipad (or iphone, although it's tougher with a dpad control), check out Activition Anthology. Not the same as having the old 2600 system, but for $7 you get 45 old school games, including Pitfall. This is a direct port, not one of the crappy remakes they have tried over the years.

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God bless Activision for all they did for the industry.

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I need to find a light gun to plug into my NES. There is no telling where the original is, but Duck Hunt would be fun and the kids would have fun with it.

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Rogue ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

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Woah. Awesome thread.

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I need to find an old NES somewhere!

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I picked up three games for the SNES from a student today: Mortal Kombat II, NBA Jam Tournament Edition, and Clayfighter.

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Super R-Type (SNES)
Bases Loaded 2 (NES)
Dukes of Hazzard II: Daisy Dukes it Out (PS1)

Thumbs up for all three.

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Grab a Nintendo wii. You can download and play tons of original Nintendo games. Or just click here, and thank me later

http://nintendo8.com/toplist/more/

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Nintendo8.com is good, but retrouprising.com is better. Every game, every console.

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Sonic Adventure 2

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Sled Storm (PS1)

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Taking my time while working my way through "Ultimate Doom":dance:

Always loved this game...

http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:A...uBBNHRRWP4Sp6Q

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I'm up to 61 games for the NES and 23 games for the SNES. Anyone else still playing the classics?

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Yes I am Andy. My NES and SNES are hooked up. Recently hooked my 64 up for a bit. Played Golden Eye and Wave Race for a bit a few weeks back.

I would have to count up all my old games but I got enough to keepe busy.

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I enjoy a lot of retro gaming. I have an Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES, and some of the other pre-playstation era gaming systems. I've been collecting the old games over the years and get a lot of enjoyment out of playing them. This is a cool thread!

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Still got a 2600 too. Need to hook it up again, love to play done Empire Strikes Back again.

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I just moved the NES from my parents house to mine. Haven't had a chance to hook it up this week. I just bought Blaster Master and can't wait to try it out again.

I have the 64 hooked up in the boys room but rarely play it.

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I've been on the lookout for a 7800 for a while. I want one so I can play both 7800 and 2600 games on one system. I'm not paying E-Bay prices for one though. How do you like the 7800?

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If you look around on Craigslist you might be able to find one for a reasonable price. Just make sure that it comes with the power adapter, because those are very difficult to find. I generally just have my 7800 plugged in, and use it to play the 2600 games too.

I do enjoy the 7800 - I think 2600 games look a little better on it and there are just enough cool 7800 games out there to justify owning one.

I have been collecting retro gaming stuff for a while now and have seen a crazy spike in prices recently. I am fortunate to live in Portland because every year we have the "Portland Retro Gaming Expo" and that is a good place to buy games/systems because you can haggle a bit.

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I've been playing Final Fantasy 8 recently. Awesome game. Probably gonna play Seventh Saga and Earthbound from SNES next. The first NES Dragon Warrior games are also on my playlist.

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I'd love to get to the Portland RGE some day. All the Youtube channel guys go to that convention. The Game Chasers and Pat the NES Punk especially.

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I love Earthbound!

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I'm not sure what your guys stance is on emulators, but grab M.A.M.E. and you can play everything your heart desires. Over the years i've compiled quite a collection of roms and even built myself a couple of arcade machines running my favorite games.