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Mario Party 1-3 board editor is out

Editor: https://partyplanner64.github.io/PartyPlanner64/

Guide: https://github.com/PartyPlanner64/PartyPlanner64/wiki

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Why are there so many genesis threads?

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What's Konami's best Metroidvania game and why is TMNT: Radical Rescue for the GB?

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Recommend me some easy to get into text adventure / interactive fiction games for a novice in the genre.

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Get old Starcraft for Win98 in Windows 7
How i make this thing works?

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I think I hate this game. I used to really love it, but playing it again recently has made me feel really unsatisfied and disappointed.

The pistol is totally useless. The chaingun is unsatisfying and barely ever has ammo. The rocket launcher has horrible hit detection. You're never going to use the shrinker outside of blasting annoying fat commanders and battlelords. The devastator is worthless outside of fighting octobrains. and rarely has ammo. The freezethrower feels annoying and redundant. The only weapon that's really worth anything is the basic shotgun. So basically, one weapon from Doom 1 - except it doesn't even rise to being as good as Doom either. Every enemy outside of the most basic grunt takes multiple shots to kill, meaning most of the gameplay requires awkward strafing at groups of enemies which will inevitably shoot back at you with precise accuracy. While we're on the subject of enemies, this game is a total bore in the enemy department. I already mentioned that almost all of the enemies are annoying bulletsponges, but what's worse is how ugly, boring, and unvaried they are. Any map you play will inevitably boil down to: pig/chaingunner shooting at you. Play any level, official or fanmade and this will always be true. A total joke compared to Quake, Blood, and Shadow Warrior- which are all far superior games in terms of variety, levels, weapons, etc. Those games were released after DN3D? Sure. But again, original Doom is still way better. I cannot stand to fight more groups of bulletsponge pigs and chaingunners, with a shotgun, with no ammo, in an ugly gray environment. I'm going to be sick. I think the reason why everybody likes Duke Carribean so much is because that expansion actually has personality, despite the flaws.

Thanks for reading my stupid rant about a 20 year old game. I hope you understood my complaints. Feel free to nitpick this apart, or tell me I'm bad at the game, but I don't think you can convince me otherwise.

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It's a favorites thread. Grenade Launchers in particular. I love the Q2 launcher even if it is one of the more useless weapons in the game. It was visceral, it was blunt force, it had a neat reload animation. But the sound of the grenades clattering wasn't as good as Q1.

So what is your favorite GL?

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Whats the best way to play this game? Would you recommend a guide?

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Trying to find a game:

It was a game contained in the disc pictured here, called: The Ultimate House of Games for Windows 95/98. Not The House of Games for Windows 95, though.

The game itself was a sort of space 4x game with very early graphics. You started out on earth after learning that what was once a pretty flourishing human empire is now reduced to you, basically, and a cloning center for reasons I can't remember. You build up on earth, eventually getting spaceships and colonizing other plantes in the Solar System and even the asteroid belt. You also start exploring the galaxy and discover two races, as far as I knew, the Rigelians and the Abaddon. You can attack either one if you wish, but if you sweet talk the Rigelians (who were lead by a pretty hot nordic looking chick) you could team up against the Abaddon, who are basically Hitler. Combat was only ever ground combat, turn based and consisted of a top-down view of a field in which your mechs were deployed. they had action points and could fire lasers or rockets. Sometimes an Abaddon ship would come to the Solar System (Venus, usually) and literally destroy everything in the planet. I never really beat the game since I was too young and the last battle against the Abaddon was too hard and you got no help from the Rigelians.

That's all I can remember really. I've tried looking for a place to buy the CD but found none and no game I've ever tried to look up around that time seems to be similar. The CD contained a bunch of obscure and unknown games, after all. I would really appreciate any help in this, since I definitely want to finish the goddamn game.

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Are tamagotchis retro? Need some name ideas

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>tfw you are a retro-faux

I have a load of fun with retro games. It is not that i see old games 'superior' to new games, but they are done in a different way that i prefer and that it is no longer there.

But, as much as i enjoy these games, i cannot shake the feeling and fact that these games belongs to a different period of time, and that it shows:
- You cannot feel the excitement of expecting the game and finally get it.
- You cannot fully appreciate what a game actually can offer because you have experienced thousands of games that were built upon that foundation. Limitations mean nothing to you.
- You can access every single game, including modern games, just for free. As soon as you feel bored, you have no incentive to keep playing, which contrast bastly with how would feel a person that actually had to pay for a game at the time.
- You cannot discuss the game with your peers for the first time.
- You cannot even discuss the nostalgia today because you weren't playing the game at the time.

Muh feels, does anyone understand them?

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Anyone else get the Japan versions of nintendo games to save money?
I sanded the corners off this bitch just to save 20 bucks from buying the usa one

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So, I see a lot of discussion about the uncanniness of early 3D games, like Super Mario 64. But have you ever gotten that sort of feeling from a 2D game?

I've always felt there was something really off about Pokemon Red/Blue. Maybe because I started with Pokemon Silver and mechanically it felt like going back to the stone age (even though I probably only played it a year after playing Silver). Maybe it was the bizarre off-model sprites that looked weirdly shoddy and unprofessional. Or maybe it was the fact that I was that kid with the GameShark and I spent a ton of time fucking around with the game and looking up glitches online. (Which ended up causing a lot of nightmares, I might add.)

In any case, when I play Red/Blue nowadays I have this nagging feeling that the game is going to fall apart at the seams at any moment. It's really unnerving and I hate playing the game because of it.

Has anyone else felt similar about a 2D game?

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I got most of these for very cheap/free over the years with a few exceptions, I've only really played the fighting games and a little chrono trigger and castlevania which was awesome. Help me choose

Mk trilogy
Castlevania:sotn
Marvel superheros
ff 7/8/9/chronicle/anthology
Alundra
Darkstalkers
Hexen
Doom
Darkstone
Legend of mana
Diablo
Megaman x4/5/6/legends 2
Ogre battle
Castlevania chronicles
Marvel vs sf
Thps 2
Vigilante 8
RE 3
Super puzzle fighter 2
Frogger
Reloaded
Mk subzero
Oddworld
Oddworld exodus
Wild arms 2
Re: directors cut
Azure dreams
Duke nukem: time to kill

What should I play tonight?