Retro! Sonic! Megadrive!!1

[Dukat]

Hey all

I just bought a sega mega drive, haven't had one since I originally owned one when they first came out(I looked it up, apparently was christmas 1989, so over 15 years ago!), and I was about 5-6 at the time. I've spent the last hour or so completing sonic 3, and messing around with sonic spinball, hopefully I'll be adding sonic and knuckles to my fledgling collection in the next few days, and maybe if I can find it sonic CD

I've always been a fan of the sonic games, Im rather sonic obsessed nowadays, but the newer games (imo) dont seem to compare to the original four/five games, sonic 3/sonic and knuckles being my favorites I just love the games for some reason, can play them for hours on end without getting bored at all.

I was wondering, does anyone else here own any of thier favorite retro machines (not just consoles) from thier youth? the mega drive was the second console I ever owned, the NES was the first, but for me it lacked the 'flash' and 'cool' feel the megadrive had and in some ways still has. I also owned a BBC basic before the NES came out, but at the time I was so young that frogger and chucky egg were the only games I was capable of comprehending

 

[tris-]

i have 2 of those Ataris somewhere that you push a cartridge in the top.

 

[Lollersausage]

i have 2 of those Ataris somewhere that you push a cartridge in the top.

I threw one of them out my windows the other year, big fucking mistake. However they do seem to be able to take a helluva f*cking beating, had to throw it out the window many times before it even got a dent xD

 

[evzy]

I have a playstation 2 still somewhere that I use in the summer to wedge the door open.

 

[Naffets]

I have a playstation 2 still somewhere that I use in the summer to wedge the door open.

Weaksauce, my amiga > ps2 as a door wedge, much more streamlined design.

 

[evzy]

Its a big door.

 

[Blackjack]

I miss my sega
I really really miss Ninja Gaiden and ofc Sonic.

Jurasic park, Golden Axe, Air rescue, Alex the kidd, Alien Syndrome, Black Belt, Castle of Illusion, Great Football... OMG Come back to me, please!?
I miss you so much <cry> i'm sorry! sorry for everything! please come back!!
WHYYYYYYYYY!??

/sing "Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine or ten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love and ABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it's hard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the hills that we climbed
were just seasons out of time." /sing off

 

[Thadius]

Theme Park and Meglomania on the snes

My mate used to have one, spent a fortune at Blockbuster renting those two games

Theme Park on the old consoles(mega drive and snes) was so good because it was simple compared to the versions which had stuff like share prices and more rides

Retro gaming, Sonic 2 was the best megadrive game, closly followed by Desert Strike(that helicopter game )

 

[tris-]

shit, theme park. i forgot all about that on the mega drive. omg, how could i forget that

i remember buying my mega drive, well my mum got me it. was at a table top sale at school. think it cost £30 at the time with about 4 games, still had the box and controllers. this was 10 years ago mind, £30 was a lot of moola.
then one christmas i got a PSX so i traded the mega drive and everything in to get more games for it. the PSX ruled my life for years. i would go trade the games in and get £7 and think i was rich.

 

[Raven]

when i had my mega drive i used to trade my games in at the market in Northampton, used to stick my £5 pocket money ontop and get a new game nearly every week, /rose tinted glasses, favorite mega drive game was probably Zero wing or Mercs.

 

[Lollersausage]

when i had my mega drive i used to trade my games in at the market in Northampton, used to stick my £5 pocket money ontop and get a new game nearly every week, /rose tinted glasses, favorite mega drive game was probably Zero wing or Mercs.

omg Mercs! you bitch, gotta dig out my mega drive now.. been wondering the name of that game for ages! ^^

 

[Raven]

got them both on an Emu, mercs still rocks!

 

[Lollersausage]

got them both on an Emu, mercs still rocks!

too right, just reminded myself about the game Ottiphants aswell, another class imo

 

[Thorwyn]

I own a Sinclair Spectrum (omgwtfpwns! ), a C64, an Atarti ST as well as an Atari 2600. Omg.. I`m old

 

[Yshynsin]

got a atari somewhere, got the original game boy, game boy colur and advance sp. Got PS2, N64(Amazing console)

 

[- English -]

can just download emulators of them and play em on the pc

 

[confused]

Duck Hunt @ the Nes!

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

Heheh , on the sega mega drive, get italian 90 and score a own goal , the game crashes \o/, also another thing me and my bro's figured out that when the ref runs over to book you for a foul , just run away , he will chase you around the pitch , untill you stop he won't book/send you off =).

Hmm whichis my fav though , now that is a toughy,

I've had

Atari Game system ( I personal believe it was made out of the same stuff Black box's are made out of.)
Atari 400 , 600 800 - all great , but the 400 stand sout in my mind as it was the first with a keyboard, but it was rubber , and no keys as such , there was a mat you could replace ( and wash if needed).

Atari ST 520 and 1040. Man now this was when i seriously got into games ( even programed a few), Everything from Akira Warriors to Wing sof fury ( still my fav game of all time).

Amiga - well again a fantastic machine , really kwel , with that and a ST i was all set for a summer of fun , and boy did i have it.
My dad would always come home from work on a friday with at least 1 WHOLE floppy disk full of cracked games. of course he would tell us that if we went to bed early we could play on Sat moring. Hence us going to be at 9 ish and waking up at 6 am

PC - well , started out with crappy games , but has gotten better , I used to be addicted to PGA tour golf , i just loved playing it. and let snot forget Doom , Decent , Half life, CS .. loads , and alot of them considered classic.

Console wise , I've had just about any1 that you can shake a stick at.
but PS2 simply because we had such fun with it and multi-tap player game son it.

Well that's me all done with memory lane for now ...


I'm off to find some Coffee

 

[Job]

Got Megadrive emu on my Nokia N70, no sound on most games ,but you can play all the games, favourites Ghouls Ghosts, Outrun and Golden Axe.

Crazy eh, a phone can push an emu to run games that were cutting edge in the 90's

It's Picodrive by the way

 

[Chronictank]

Ninja Gaiden is on the xbox too now, duno about the rest of the consoles

I have a commodore 64 somewhere and a Amiga 1200 :x
Cannon Fodder ftw

 

[old.Tohtori]

I pwn all jool consoles with my "Creation!", a nintendo ripoff game console that had "omgwtf" 258 games in one cart

And it fitted normal nintentumando games in it too!

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

I pwn all jool consoles with my "Creation!", a nintendo ripoff game console that had "omgwtf" 258 games in one cart

And it fitted normal nintentumando games in it too!

Aye i got that as well =).


It didn't last to long though .. aparently Standing on it isn't good for it

 

[~Latency~]

I havn't played my Xbox 360 since I downloaded a megadrive emulator + sonic : - (

 

[old.Tohtori]

Aye i got that as well =).


It didn't last to long though .. aparently Standing on it isn't good for it

Nor does microwaving one

But i got a new one and it's minty fresh in a closet...somewhere...

Ah the memories of being the "coolest" kid on the block 'cause your parents were chea, but you got the bestest/strangest games.

EDIT:also i bought an amiga 500 just like, err, 3 years ago just because

 

[[SS]Gamblor]

i used to make extra pocket money by upgrading St520's to 1040's and the same with Amiga's =).

Ahh it was great, best was when i did it for the local video store, Free rentals =) , but if the call lasted a weekend it was free rentals and money =)

 

[Jai13]

any sonic fan with a PS2 click here for all the old sonic games on PS2 also avalible on Xbox

 

[DocWolfe]

my megadrive is still plugged into my tele... I got hypersonic the otherday when I was bored