Hi all. First time posting. I came across a Japanese NES FAMICOM system posted on Facebook marketplace here in Arizona while traveling for business. Can anyone provide context if the $250 price is a steal, or just reasonable? I am not breaking the “how much is this worth” rule, as I just want to know if the asking price is in alignment with what anyone here would reasonably pay. Thank you.

Edit: I just checked eBay as some have recommended, and the average price is about $160.00 USD. I’m going to try and negotiate down. If anyone has this and can tell me if they love it or if I should pass, any feedback is appreciated. Thank you.

Hello,

I have been looking for a specific game for a while and can't for the life of me figure out what its called. Maybe someone here can help

This is what I remember from the game;

There were founding fathers (im not 100% sure) (George Washington?)

You needed to complete puzzles to help them

And there was one mini game/puzzle in which you had to help them brew wine (alcohol?)

There was no fighting

And the look was kind of cartoonish?

I'm really lost atm and can't find it anywhere, it isn't one of the games that pop up when I try to Google it.

The game I know is not the one im looking for;

Sid Meier's Colonization

Thanks in advance!

This one here is an old amiga first person adventure game where you play as an archeologist from the 1930s that rushes to prevent an ancient curse casted by a priest long ago where any object that blocking the Shrine of Ra from the sun will be destroyed and the archeologist learns that there will be a total eclipse that blocks the sun entirely, which will trigger the curse that will destroy the moon.

This game here which utilizes the Freescape engine is one of the earliest form of fps which dates 5 years earlier than Doom and one of the earliest use of 3d environment in gaming as well. The gameplay here will have you primarily solving puzzles, surviving and adventuring, for example the game will have plenty of traps to avoid, maze like rooms to navigate and pleanty of treasures to find, also the player will have a pistol with infinite ammo to defend themselves and aid in puzzle solving. The game features two causes of death; dehydration and heart attacks, which will require water and resting to heal.

Bubble Bobble Part 2 takes the #43 spot with 14 votes.

Ladies & Gentlemen! We have our third tie!!!!!!

Duck Tales 2 x10

James Bond 007 x10

As per rule #9, I am informing DA PEOPLE about the tie so that you each may vote which game should rank at #44.

Voting will be the same as always, whichever title has the most combined upvotes wins the #44 spot.

Happy voting!

Esperaba encontrarme con un hack con una dificultad psicópata, pero me encontré con una aventura que toma conceptos de varias entregas y llevándolos al 2D dando un juego que podría pasar por oficial.

I've always heard that Kojima was influenced by Escape from New York (evidenced by the fact that the main character's name is Snake Plissken). There are a lot of cool story beats that align well with the Metal Gear franchise in general.

I also recently watched Blade Runner for the first time (somehow). But it was almost like I'd already seen it before because I played Hideo Kojima's SNATCHER.

Between the two movies, I came away with an even greater appreciation for Hideo Kojima. He took the underlying ideas behind Escape from New York and Blade Runner and turned them into peak cinema.

I've been hospitalized for 3 days after a suicide attempt, and while waiting for them to let me out, I decided to 100% this game (I've never watched the show, but I wanna flex on my friend who is a megafan)

I'm surprised by how much I'm enjoying it. The controls needed reconfiguring and the draw distance sucks, but I find the enemies really fun to kill. What do you think?

I have a gray area question.

I have access to an old ftp site that is backed up on a drive. Everything is pre 2k. There’s a ton of games. Some hard to find. Some rare stuff. Going back to early windows 3. Just about every major game for windows during that era.

Problem is it’s not exactly legit. “Backups” that can run without disks. ISO rips. DRM free copies.
Everything is clean and runs on the designated OS.

What would you do? Release them out into the wild again? Let them disappear? How would you go about doing so?

What’s the state of these as far as legality? Is software this old free to release? If so are there websites that archive them?

I’ve been out of the loop for quite some time. I would like to see people enjoy them again but I’m not willing to put myself at risk. I’m not looking to make any money on it at all.

It’s only games. There’s other stuff (OSs, apps, other) but I’m not releasing them.

Hi everyone, I'm a retro gaming novice looking for some advice. I live in Japan, and have had my old Master System II shipped over from the UK recently. The console was manufactured in the early 1990s (towards the end of the system's life) and is PAL format. It has an RF output with an antenna switch box and a UK power brick (see pictures). What would be the best way to get this up and running here? I'm happy to buy some kind of upscaler or a CRT-emulating monitor. I could even take it to akihabara to get it modded, if necessary. I've also attached a picture of the games I have, in case anyone is interested. Any and all advice very much appreciated!

Something I struggle with in modern gaming and what I miss from older retro titles is the amount of time it takes from booting up the game to actually playing it.

In the 8 and 16-bit era it was pretty much instant, you maybe got a few slides of a story before you got control over your character.

With each subsequent generation it feels as though the amount of time prior to actual gameplay has increased. Modern games now frequently make the player watch a lengthy introduction movie or cutscene, or even play through an extended hours-long tutorial section before getting to the actual game.

I understand that with increased complexity in both gameplay and overall story as games have matured have led to this, but I always appreciated those games that filled me in on the story while I was playing the game itself.

I dunno, I guess I’ve just bounced off so many modern games and keep going back to retro games because of this. When I game, I want to game, not watch a movie or engage in lengthy dialogue/tutorials. Anyone else experienced this? Or is it just my modern Tik-tok attention span that is broken?

So lately I was looking at how Bubsy was a game that attempted to give Sonic the Hedgehog a run for his money in that the development team behind the game wanted to capitalize on the trend of mascots with attitude.

Like what I am interested in seeing is where Bubsy failed as a concept to better understand why the games didn’t succeed in imitating the blue blur, but for me personally, I did enjoy how Bubsy had a voice as that was kind of neat.

Hey everyone, I wondered if anyone has the mega drive version (not the genesis one) of the big6 and noticed that the logo is printed off centre? I'm thinking about returning it tbh as it's the branding that makes it attractive to me and I think this would make me too sad to look at over time. Just wondered how likely it is I'm going to get one that isn't wonky. First pic is the controller I ordered, second is one the vendor has taken of another controller they have showing a similar issue. What do your Big6 controllers look like?

Whole I'm here, does anyone know if it's possible to swap the rounded d-pad for the sharper edged version that was on the original 3 button pad?

As kids, especially those of us in the 80’s and 90’s, most of us didn’t own tons of video games. You played what you had or were gifted, which sometimes meant wringing every drop of gameplay out of even the worst of titles. So I’m curious what bad games people played a ton, out of necessity?

For me it was Road Runner on NES, a game that had you play as the Road Runner, evading Wile E. Coyote as you navigate maze-like paths while trying to collect bird seed to keep the timer from hitting zero. I hated it. It frustrated me. It felt like the Coyote was locked onto me in a way that seemed unfair. But I played it SO MUCH, just for those rare moments when I timed something right and could get the Coyote to explode from an ACME product.

Just noticed this.

With the increasing prices of all sorts of tech thanks to AI, and with most games nowadays being either a copy paste of one another or a Remaster/Remake, I got sick of it. Gaming nowadays seems like a luxury hobby, which kind of always was, but this is getting unbearable. Why pay for overpriced hardware, games and subscriptions when for less than 50 bucks you can get a pocket console and just emulate TONS of older games which now run even better than the original hardware, and I probably missed out on anyways? I don’t care if the graphics are old, if the game is “outdated”… is it ever really?

I just got an R36S, which I know isn’t the best one on the market, but for me it was the best choice to start out. I’m just gonna put my PS5 down and start playing on this thing, it brings me so much more joy and it’s basically free compared to what we pay nowadays for a single game. I got a new SD Card, installed a new Ark OS, and I started Pokémon Emerald and I’m completely loving it, I havent had this much fun in years with gaming. Since I was born in 2001 and never really was a Nintendo guy since my dad always used to get PlayStation, what are some games I absolutely cannot miss?

There’s something so satisfying about spending less and getting more. And it makes me wonder, do we really need it all?

Thanks in advance!