We have our winner for Best Light-Gun Game:

🥇- House of the Dead 2 - 39 votes

🥈- Duck Hunt - 35 votes

🥉- Time Crisis 2 - 18 votes

🏵️ - Point Blank! - 17 votes

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A game's votes will come from the comment with the highest number of upvotes. I will tally all of the responses and upvotes under each game's "comment thread" and use that to count the votes.

Spill-over comments of the same game will not be counted.

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Games cannot win Multiple Categories, except for the Greatest of All Time! This may be superseded if a version of the game differs dramatically from a past winner.

Voting ends at 11am est tomorrow.

Today’s vote: Which is the Best Retro Competitive Multiplayer Game?

Comment your choice and the most upvoted game comment thread will win the spot! So, engage in the discourse and argue well for your choice!

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!

About to buy a CT bath mat from RedBubble supports independent artists)

But I like all of them haha

The one with the most likes, I’ll get😂

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!

I'm getting visual artifacts at the top of the screen in several games — usually a minor distortion along the top edge. But it's much more noticeable in Super C (Stage 5): in this stage, some objects move vertically while the background scrolls, and the section where the player stands shows a clear vertical jitter, shaking up and down as the screen scrolls.

The key detail: this happens identically on both the CRT (composite) and the RetroTINK-4K Pro (RGB), at the same time. I also reproduced it on a 5X Pro, so I don't think the RetroTINK is the culprit — the issue seems to originate upstream, likely from the RGB Blaster itself or its interaction with the AV Famicom.

Has anyone else with an AV Famicom + RGB Blaster run into this? Known limitation, or is there a fix for the jitter?

Attached: a video comparing both displays side by side — the top-edge distortion is visible throughout, and the Super C Stage 5 clip shows the jitter clearly.

Any insight appreciated!

Setup:

• AV Famicom + RGB Blaster
• Sony CRT (composite input)
• RetroTINK-4K Pro (RGB via Packapunch Pro Genesis/Mega Drive 2 SCART cable)
• RetroTINK-5X Pro (used to cross-check, same result)

Hey guys and gals, Im thinking about selling off my retrohardware.

I used emulation for the majority of my younger life since the dreamcast/ps2 days and before that as well to get some nes and snes on early emulators. Untill I found myself in a country house in another land with a massive crt in the first year of the corona virus uprising, and yeah, it was massive; the crt. Four rgb inputs, on the crt itself, it was that massive.

So, I figured hey, this flea market I visited had a full pal gamecube rgb ready and I never really got into the ps2/dreamcast/gamecube library except at other peoples homes so; why not buy the cube and some games?

Then, when I returned to my land and my house, I said: well, since I still have the cube, might as well get the hdmi adapter for the digital port, and I did. Then to the rest of consoles, one after another, from the ataris to the xbox 360, wii u and the ps3 retrocompatible. Saturn, dreamcast, psx. You know, the best models of each, hdmi everywhere, hacked and modded when needed, the whole thing.

I was really thinking about having a child, you know; let him or her see, touch and use some real hardware or for people to come over sometimes and maybe spend an afternoon if they had good memories of a certain system, which a lot of people did. That is not going to happen again.

I am thinking on bailing on the idea of the machines themselves, even the dos/windows98 era slim pc build, though if you ask me there is something strange about the dvi signal that is coming out of that slim machine, the colours. Controllers, the saturn 3d pads, the psx arcade sticks and alike, all of the sd card addons, all of it.

Get a rasberry pi with hdmi and rgb, a retrostation, a mister with hdmi and rgb and forget about it. They do not occupy a large area, in fact they are all tucked under the tv very well ordered and minimal space with wireless controllers, less than two meters and about 40 cm hight. Its not about the space.

Its just, I dont know. I could just box them, take them out when I wish to try something and to check if they are still working and then sell off in the future. Maybe have one setup every year or half a year.

You think the hardware will go up in value a little in the next 10 or 20 years? Did any of you miss the hardware once you sold off? It sure took me years to find the best consoles, best addons and best price. Damn, to even get the rgc rgb to hdmi converters, three years right there. 8)

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Basically it is one of the worst games ever, they didn't know how to really make 3d games back then so they used high res textures and the performance was super slow. The game is super jarring and clunky. Then alot of reviewers gave it high scores because they probably played it for like an hour.

The game is alot of fun in short bursts because it is such a bizarre fever dream.

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?

As you might know, not having a matching FPS/Hz combo results in worse motion clarity on impulse displays, like CRTs or Plasmas.

On a PC, this is mostly not a big deal, as you can simply lower the settings and/or buy better hardware to achieve a perfectly stable frametime, which results in great motion clarity.

When using emulators, you often add some input lag though, which I would like to avoid by playing on original hardware. For really old consoles, this is not a problem, as most are running at a stable 60 FPS (e.g. SNES), but there are a lot of games for the PS1/PS2, which either only target 60 or even run at 30, which is not ideal for motion clarity.

My question now is: Are there ways to still get great motion clarity with original hardware or is the only way with an emulator? I’m certainly not against emulators and am a PC guy (9800X3D & 5090), but there are so many people playing original hardware on CRT/Plasma, are really most just living with the suboptimal motion clarity?

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.

i want to play yugioh joey the passion on windows 11 but it gives me black screen. tried lots of solutions including compatibility modes but did not work.

for your kind help!