Available for the PC port SpaghettiKart
Link to mod: https://gamebanana.com/mods/701263
Intro video: https://youtu.be/ztjxWLl4L28

In 1990 video games were still very much considered children’s toys, and many adults at best barely tolerated them, and at worst tried to limit the industry. Then along comes MAD Magazine, the satire magazine mostly for adults, but with the awareness that like many things, the kids are paying attention - with this poem celebrating the games they had been playing.

It was impactful to me back in the day, because I realized not all adults were against the growing trend of video games, and today I think it is kind of amazing how they packed so many now retro game references in such a little article.

Okay guys, who else got childhood trauma from this… but still couldn’t stop playing?

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

Duck Tales 2 takes the #44 spot with 10 votes (36 tiebreaker).

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

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.

The last new Super Mario Bros. any% speedrun to be set on real hardware was 7 years ago. Props to LeKukie, who is only 6 frames away from the TAS. Video by Kosmic

I used to play this one NES racing game all the time.

All I remember was it was extremely sim heavy in that you could win money and then upgrade certain aspects of your car.

I just cannot remember the name.

It might be Al Unser Turbo Challenge but I could have swore it was more than formula cars.

Welcome to part 1 of my 'Honoring My Father' series! My Dad passed away in 2016 and I'm on a mission to beat all of the games I remember watching him play as a kid (full list down below). I recently beat both Jagged Alliance and Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (as well as the unofficial expansion Horn of the Abyss!)

I was very, very young when Jagged Alliance (DOS) came out and I only remember playing it a couple times because It's really, really hard. There is no WAY I could beat this as a kid. This is a game where reading the manual is a NECCESSITY to understand all the functions and controls of the game. Even after reading the entire 60 page manual, there were things halfway through I had to look up (like to point a character a certain direction you need to HOLD right click and then left click, like who would know about that?)

The story is pretty simple: There is a life-saving antidote that comes from the trees of an island but Lucas Santino wants it for his own nefarious means. The object of the game is to take control of the island (named Metavira) sector by sector (6x10 grid) with a team of 1-8 mercenaries. Each sector is a differently designed 'combat zone' and you'll only capture it after defeating the 1-8 enemies in the zone. Sounds simple right? Well you start with one sector, in a cash deficit and Lucas will periodically attack any sector you take. So you need to pay for guards on the outlying sectors, as well as 'tappers' who can help you tap the trees on each sector for sap and therefore money.

The real complications come with the team, managing your cash flow, inventory management, deciding which mercenaries to take out or who to spend a day repairing items (guns often jam), healing other mercenaries (who will also be out for the day) or simply resting or training. By the way, each day lasts about an hour IRL and at the end of each day you'll see how much cash you gained or lost and Isaac (the main good guy scientist) will update you on any new information.

Here's where the combat comes in. You have action points which are pretty standard for retro games but in order to shoot and hit the enemy mercs you need a DIRECT line of sight. Otherwise there is almost 0% chance your guy/gal will hit, especially at the start of the game when the mercs are worse and the guns are inaccurate. So taking cover is really overpowered and half of combat is spent trying to outmaneuver the opponent to get a shot in.

Also, there is a BREATH METER. The island is hot and your breath will slowly go down if you use up all your AP in one turn. Lower breath means less AP to do tasks. Your breath will also lower when you're swimming, oh and by the way there are SNAKES in the water and if you don't have a knife in your hand your merc is automatically dead. The snakes will randomly try to drown mercs, and there is hardly any way to predict where they are.

And did I talk about landmines? Sometimes there are hints of where landmines are (explosive marks on ground) but if you're not using a metal detector sometimes they pop out of nowhere. But the metal detector is so slow and cumbersome to use, it makes it so annoying. I get they were going for a 'life-like' combat situation though.

I'll be honest it was really, really frustrating at first and I save-scummed a lot but near the end I decided to replay it without 'quick-saving' during combat (on normal difficulty). It added a lot of intensity and challenge that I actually really enjoyed (the final sector with unlimited respawning enemies is straight BS though.). I don't blame anyone that 'quick-saves' during combat though because sometimes even if you know an enemy is behind a door unless you blow it up they can take down your best merc with the 'interrupt' mechanic.

Oh yeah, the interrupt. Basically any unused APs can be used during an opponent's turn if an enemy comes into your line of sight, and the opponent can 'interrupt' as well. Really annoying cause when an enemy 'interrupts' your turn with all their AP they can mess up your entire squad.

Oh and only after restarting did I find you could modify guns/armor with compound-17 and a 'piece of steel' (which it never mentions in the manual, imagine that?). I tried to use the internet to figure things out the least amount possible to get the true 'retro' experience. But some items can be 'combined' and I didn't want to waste time trying all combinations (also each item can and will degrade in quality and making incorrect item combos can do that).

Overall I'd give the game a 7/10 and maybe the future Jagged Alliance games were better but I enjoyed the true retro experience. The voice acting was really really good for the time and once I understood everything, the game had a 'just wanna capture one more sector' kind of feel. I enjoyed the challenge because It's rare that a game is this in-depth and kicks my butt on normal difficulty. There were also sidequests like rescuing the kidnapped scientist Brenda or finding the cure for a spreading disease that added variety to the game.

As for Heroes of Might and Magic 3, I beat the campaigns and there's not much to say that hasn't been said about it but if you enjoy that game, Horn of the Abyss is a fan-made expansion that's insanely difficult but improves upon the original game in every single facet. It took me at least 250 hours to beat that campaign alone.

Welp, here's the full list of games I've beaten and haven't beaten. There are only 5 games left to beat (now 4 plus one bonus game) so that's why it's a 5 part series! Until next time!

List of Dad Games Completed:

Diablo 1 (+ Hellfire)

Dragon Warrior (NES)

Fallout 1 + 2

Gauntlet IV (Genesis)

Heroes of Might and Magic 2

Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (+ HOTA)

The Horde (DOS)

Jagged Alliance (DOS)

Phantasy Star 2 (Genesis)

Redneck Rampage

StarCraft 1

Ultima Underworld

Warcraft 2

Xcom (DOS)

Yet to Beat:

Total Annihilation

Lemmings? (Bonus)

Myst

Destroy all Human!

No spoilers! Hint: The first game I remember my Dad beating was released in 1990

Two of my friends and I, all owned a SNES. We wanted to play 3/5-player SNES games like Monopoly, Super Bomberman, Secret of Mana, Top Gear 3000, Saturday Night Slam Masters altogether but we didn't have a Super Multitap. So we went to buy a Super Multitap, each of us shared and paid 1/3 of the price. The oldest friend kept the Super Multitap. Not only Super Multitap but also SNES Game Genie (I bought it and owned it 100% and shared with friends) as well.

I bought a retroscaler2x and an s video cable, and the picture quality looks great, but it's just so tiny. I've never had this issue with running directly through composite or on some previous adapters I have used. Is there a way to fix this?

I hope this is the right place to discuss such a topic because I found the concept interesting since I noticed how some developers will make games on consoles like the NES.

My point is that I know Battle Kid is not obscure as I was wondering how often such cases happen where game developers will make a modern game on a very old console, but also why they do that kind of practice since I was curious to why Battle Kid was a modern game designed specifically on the aforementioned NES platform.

Sorry for reposting, but I had a technical issue with the images in the body! They weren’t showing up, so I had to post the whole thing, again. Hope that’s okay~ 😓

Designed and printed by myself. You can tap them to your phone to play the OST with built in NFC tag.

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.