Retro games?

[Thief Silver]

Joust.. how.. how can you like anything my image of you is ruined

[Nash]

I've been buying and will continue to buy retro games, but only the ones I don't already have in one form or another.

[NeoZeedeater]

While most of my gaming money and time are spent on modern games I do buy retro stuff. I think it's a common misconception here that I prefer playing retro games because of the history threads I make. I love every era and keeping up with the now has always been top priority for me. I buy as many modern games as my measly income will allow.

I prefer the real thing to emulation but I still really like compilations. There's something cool about having them in a collection and I enjoy the extras(like the interviews with Space Invaders creator in Taito Legends, for example).

Emulators on PC tend to be superior to ones in console compilations though because of the wider variety of video options, frame rates, save states, etc..

I think these things should always be available the same way classic albums are.

Agreed. Re-releases are good for music and movie consumers and the same applies to gaming. There's plenty of timeless stuff in each art medium. That's why I like seeing compilations and downloadable games even if they're ones I don't buy. The thought of some ten year old trying out Devil's Crush for the first time on his Wii makes me feel good.

[frostwolf ex]

im going to go pick up the capcom collection 2, it had arcade games that i didnt have time or cash to pay for back when they were in the arcade, especially black tiger. as for virtual console, id probably buy more old, harder to find nes games, like guardian legend, magic of scherezade and faria, if they ever came out, otherwise no big rush for them.

[Korly]

What the fuck?

I've never played Kid Chameleon, but if I bought the upcoming Genesis collection to do so I'd still be playing a retro game on a collection of retro games. Whether or not you've played Gradius Gaiden before is what's irrelevant; it's still an old game.

Exactly.

[gameoverDude]

I'm with K3V and Raystorm on this. I love old games, but unless they add stuff to them (online leaderboards is enough for me, but I'll take whatever) I can just Mame it up.

That's why Virtual Console is gonna suck. You'll be paying inordinate dollars (10 for N64?! WTF?) for ROMS. If I find out that they're adding achievements and online co-op and whatnot, I will change my stance on this.

Since widescreen and HDTV sets can handle 720p, we need Darius, Darius II, and The Ninja Warriors. 16:9 isn't exactly the same as 12:3, but 864x224 could be vertically tripled to 864x672. While it wouldn't stretch out to the edges of a 1280x720 screen, I'd rather take letterboxing over upscaling in this case. This would be one case where the 360 could totally slaughter MAME as far as widescreen HDTV owners are concerned.

More video options would help the XBLA versions of retro games. Generally, 320x240 games in MAME actually look very good in 1024x768 when you set bitmap prescaling to 4. This is something that XBLA retro games could use, but it eats up a chunk of texture memory. However, 360 should be able to handle this since its 512MB GDDR3 RAM can be shared between the CPU and GPU.

[kingoffighters]

Exactly.

Diff definitely had gone crazy on us on this issue... Gradius Collection is a collection of old games. Whether you played it or not or whatever has no bearings on what it is.

[Tain]

If I had a 360, I'd probably buy an XBLA game or two, so yeah. I doubt I'd buy anything on VC, though, given how barebones it sounds, and it looks like I could emulate the games better elsewhere. Same case with most retro compilations.

[Diff-chan]

Diff definitely had gone crazy on us on this issue... Gradius Collection is a collection of old games. Whether you played it or not or whatever has no bearings on what it is.

thats just not true

[mollipen]

As is evident from my XBLA Galaga playing, if you bring in certain new conditions - in this case, a real means of competing in score with friends - that new added element makes a repurchase of certain games totally worth it. Then you have things like XBLA Gauntlet, where I can hop online and always have people to play the game with.

I think it depends on the game, which is obvious. Some games really benefit from newer technologies, and for those games, I'll buy again. Online multiplayer is huge to me if it is a game that stands the test of time. I'd also prefer to have those retro games I really love on a newer console, so that I don't have to keep old consoles around. (For example, I still have my N64 because of two and only two games.)

Sometimes, though, you just buy out of nostalgia, and in those cases, it's pretty pointless. I also, as well, have no interest anymore in retro collections on CD/DVD/whatever. Downloadable retro titles that don't require a physical disc is the only way I want such games at this point.