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[Gamer79]

Occasionally a modem day bright spot surprise like ASTRO Bot comes along. I find myself less and less enjoying modern games. Bottom line is despite the eye candy they are less fun in my opinion.

I play my retro games on my phone with the razer kishi and my ser 5 max mini pc.

More and more I find myself playing 6th generation games. Games like Crazy Taxi, burnout revenge, speed devils, skies of Arcadia, metal gear solid the twin snakes, marvel vs street fighter, ready to rumble, just so many more.

Then having the whole nes, snes, Genesis, arcade libraries.

No patches, no advertisement, no politics, no formulas, the real golden ages of gaming
.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Finished Quake a while back and playing through Kings Field 4 right now. That said i still play modern stuff on equal measure.

 

[Ozzie666]

I'm a sucker for Analogue products and reliving the 8-16 bit days, the Pocket is a great FPGA device for so many arcade systems and cores.
I also breakout my Neo Geo ASP and Amiga mni often and get my fixes with those.

 

[kevboard]

my Steam Deck has PCSX2, DuckStation, Retroarch and Dolphin installed...

also Heroic Launcher to install GoG games...

so... yes lol

 

[Killjoy-NL]

No.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

These days you have to play retro games in order keep your sanity.

 

[vaibhavpisal]

When burnt out from modern games.

Nintendo games and retro games are my go to.

 

[intbal]

I still play Magic Square on my Merlin.

Fewer than 5% of games from the past ten years are as good as that.

 

[bender]

Most of the new games I've enjoyed the most or am looking forward to in the near future or re-releases games in that age range.

 

[Verchod]

No, I played them when they were new. No need to revisit them. I just keep praying for modern games to be less shit.

 

[simpatico]

Yes on original hardware and a CRT TV. It's cozy beyond measure. I picked up F-Zero a few months ago and it's amazing how fast that muscle memory comes back. Even when it's decades old.

 

[existensmaximum]

Oh yeah, regularly. NES, Master System, Genesis, SNES, PC-Engine etc. Only on original hardware and on a CRT TV.

Great games don't stop being great, just like older books, music and movies don't. For me it's never about nostalgia, it's about quality.

I don't even really like calling them retro games, they're just games.

 

[Nemesisuuu]

Yes, Skies of Arcadia on Dreamcast currently.

 

[ConkerTheSquirrel.]

In this gaming climate? Yes.

 

[Porcile]

I play retro games I didn't play back in the day. I don't go down memory lane.

 

[MujkicHaris]

Yes, all the time. Currently Ring of Red (2000) and Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell (2002).

 

[Pelao]

2004 and earlier?
Sure. In fact it feels like too recent of a cut, to be honest.

 

[Deerock71]

also Heroic Launcher to install GoG games...so... yes lol

I have over 100 GoG games...

 

[Fess]

Yes it’s where I find most of the joy to be honest, the older I get the more nostalgic I get. Playing lots of Amiga, have the original hardware, C64, have the new The C64 full size, and there is a cabinet for arcade emulators in the living room, love 80-90s shmups and beat’em ups.

Just found a The Last Ninja collection Kickstarter, wonderful

 

[kevboard]

I have over 100 GoG games...

Heoric Launcher + Steam Deck
perfect combination to play some retro games.

just recently played through XIII on it.

even tho the game has zero controller support, with some quick keybinds through Steam's controller settings I had it set up to feel better to play than both the original console release and the mediocre remake.

WHAT WAS KINDA CRAZY, the game has officially no widescreen support whatsoever. but somehow, going into the game's properties inside of the Deck's library, and then forcing "native resolution" makes the game run flawlessly at 16:10 and 1280x800. no UI or HUD stretching, no issues whatsoever. no idea how steam did that, and it's not even a steam title lol. it felt like a native port to the steam deck after all was configured.



StarWars Battlefront 2 plays great on it as well once you got the keybinds set up. also feels better to play than the official console releases.



I also played through MDK on it. and while you can run into some graphical glitches (which somehow fixed themselves after a reboot ) it too plays near perfectly on the deck once you set it up correctly.

the game allows for full analog movement even! as it supported flight stick inputs natively, which you can map to the left stick.


HILARIOUSLY the Steam Deck is also my #1 way to finally play all those hundreds of free Epic Games launcher titles they gave away for free over the years.
Heroic Launcher lets you install those too.

 

[StereoVsn]

Oh heck yeah. If anything I appreciate the older gena more and more as time passes.

I have been playing Saturn and Dreamcast games lately. Been practicing my Japanese so going through Grandia on the Saturn lately.

 

[Hoddi]

Yes, I even bought myself a CRT TV around 4 years ago with proper RGB cables and all that stuff. People rag on CRTs nowadays but they really had a certain something that modern displays can't really replicate.

I only played Chrono Trigger for the first time a short while ago. And it's a shockingly good game even to this day.

 

[drganon]

Occasionally.

 

[Laptop1991]

10 plus years yeah, not quite 20 year old games anymore.

 

[dmaul1114]

Very rarely. I’d generally rather play a new game for the first time, watch a movie I haven’t seen before etc. than revisit things. Yes, I could play retro games I didn’t back in the day, but for me games don’t age very well for the most part.

 

[Topher]

I like to emulate older games that I buy from retro shops on PC.

I still play Magic Square on my Merlin.

Fewer than 5% of games from the past ten years are as good as that.

Good God man. I had forgot about Merlin. Never had one but they looked really fun in the commericals.

 

[Thebonehead]

I own an original Williams defender cabinet from 1981.

Frantic simple arcade fun.

I also have multiple c64s, c128, atari 400/800 , c16, plus4, oric, BBC b, BBC master, Amiga 500, Amiga 1000 plus many more.

I occasionally play on them for a quick nostalgic blast but it would probably constitute less than 2 % of my play time.

Defender about 5% as I love a good session on that

Consoles. I have everything. . All modern plus retro including things like collecovision and vetrex through to xsx, Ps5 and switch.

My play time on those has been zero percent for a few years now.

Last Ps5 have was horizon which I dropped after about 8 hours and the Ps5 hasn't been switched on since.

Xsx was vampire survivors about a year ago I think.

All other gaming is on the pc these days.

 

[Icymanipulator]

I’m replaying Final Fantasy 8 right now

 

[TheDuskwalker]

Regularly. I've been able to keep most my consoles and games.
My SNES may still not be with me, but I manged to keep my original 1993 gameboy and tetris that came with it.

I'm starting to think it's going to outlive me.

 

[Dazraell]

More often than recent games tbh

 

[yansolo]

most of the games ive played recently have been retro

 

[Mattyp]

It’s 90% of what I play, I might finally do a game room reveal and blow some cunts minds on here that I actually own more Sony games and products than Xbox by a large margin.

Before Sony went to shit.

 

[Beechos]

Nope I've played all the retro games worth playing growing up.

 

[Natsuko]

Occasionally. I recently started Link's Awakening (DX?) on the Switch again. I had to have the avatar pictures from the online thing.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

All the time. I just got a Mister Pi and have been playing old space shooters and platformers this week, plus the all-time classic Symphony of the Night in its original version. Plus I have plenty of old games on my Switch, Xbox and PC, legally bought from modern storefronts, and I play them regularly.

People who answer a clear-cut “no” to this question really puzzle me. Imagine going to school and every book school exposes you to isn’t older than 20 years, treating anything older as completely obsolete shit that could disappear leaving the world exactly as it is. Imagine being a movie enthusiast and only watching stuff from the last two decades. Yeah, I know this comparison is made all the time. But it never ceases being legit. A lot of old games are still perfectly playable and enjoyable, and they offer experiences and gameplay that simply can’t be found today. What is in current games that has completely made old games obsolete? Surely not the bloat, the still embarrassing scripts, the overcomplicated control schemes, the awful pacing, and the utter disrespect of your time.

 

[The Cockatrice]

In a few years Crysis will be a retro game. Fucking nuts. We getting old.

 

[NahaNago]

I was thinking about getting into it lately and starting with ps2.

 

[acidagfc]

20 year old games are not retro

 

[chokotoureiki]

Definitely. I have a PC and there's plenty of old PC retro stuff I'll revisit once in a while. Like the other day, I played Gabriel Knight 2 and found myself missing the good days when games had FMV.

 

[KloetenQuetsche]

Yes. Gameboy, snes, gba were my favorites!

For that I bought an Analogue Pocket and a dock.
Perfekt!

 

[Mownoc]

Yeah, I've finished Rayman 2, Diddy Kong Racing and SSX Tricky this year.

 

[Guilty_AI]

In a few years Crysis will be a retro game. Fucking nuts. We getting old.

It already is

 

[SHA]

New Vegaish, it's awesome for newbies like me.

 

[Holammer]

When I want to play something old I usually play some arcade game with MAME. Such games still hold up. Do I want to play some Psycho-Nics Oscar? boot it up! The vertical shmup where you ride a motorcycle and get side carts as upgrades? (intense googling)... Thundercade!
I spent so much time (and money) in the arcades it's my go-to retro fix. Plus the games ran on bleeding edge hardware for the time, so they still look awesome.

 

[The Cockatrice]

It already is

 

[Trilobit]

Retro games are like retro music or retro movies. Still amazing!

 

[Schmendrick]

I very rarely fire up ScummVM and play old adventure games like DOTT or Simon the Sorceror, but in general, no.

 

[AeonGaidenRaiden]

Absolutely, especially on my Steam Deck.

 

[Nikodemos]

There's a shockingly large number of late-90s to early-00s titles that were never digitalized. The only way to play them is to either hunt for a copy on some online marketplace, or download a rip.

 

[GrayDock]

From time to time, but most games that I haven't played or haven't finished at the time.
When some friends come by we try to revive those comfy couch times, playing Mario Kart 64, GoldenEye, MK 2, SF 2, SFAlpha, Contra 3, Streets of Rage, Battletoads, Double Dragon, etc.