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'OpenEmu' for OS X Now Supports Nintendo 64, PlayStation 1 and More
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Because today's video game are garbage in comparison. Ever consider the fact that some people like things that you don't like?
Because today's video game are garbage in comparison. Ever consider the fact that some people like things that you don't like?
They aren't all garbage, Diablo 3 was really good I spent a lot of time playing F1 2012 and Tomb Raider was really cool too. Starcraft 2 is good but I've gotten to a point where the missions are just annoying.
There's plenty of good games out now, I just wish more of them were on Macintosh.
Well there you have it. Backwards compatibility is nice, but it's not always an option and isn't a result of lazy development ... especially considering how many different emulators this has in it.
Yeabut,
Super Mario Bros 3.
Somehow still my favorite game after all these years.
Do wuh? Bag phones cost about $400, and cartridge games cost at least $60 when they first came out. Hell, I paid $85 for Final Fantasy III when it came out.
$85 went a lot farther back in those days. Had to mow a lot of lawns, and do a couple of contract killings to earn that much. Life was rough in the 90's.
I guess I'm not a gamer. I should chuck my Atari, NES, SNES, PS1, PS2, PS3, and PS4 and go do jigsaw puzzles.
At least. I have a few Atari boxes with a $50 price tag on them.
I could. My point is, it's tough to make a sweeping statement based on one game. I lost interest in gaming after the SNES. I got back into it after the PlayStation one. Didn't bother looking back.
Yup. I think everyone forgets how expensive games were back before CDs and Steam sales became a common thing. If it weren't for rental stores, I probably wouldn't have played more than two new games a year.
It'd be more of a case of looking sideways for you then. OOT came out on the N64, which was the PS1's contemporary.
Though I'd recommend getting the 3DS version if you were to play it now. Time hasn't been kind to the original.
Forget the peripherals. I may have been the only person who genuinely liked E.T.
I'm not against. Too many I'm playing now. I can always add it to the list.
It was the only game I had to play at my granny's house. I learned to love it.
edit: take that back. She also had Cosmic Ark.
That's the problem with all those damn Steam sales. I have so much to play right now, I could literally not buy a single game for the next two years, and still have plenty to play in the meantime.
Hahaha. I'm behind a whole system. I only console game and I still have unopened PS3 games. My biggest issue is ironically nostalgia. I could play the Bioshock and Portal series over and over and never tire of them. I always find myself picking them up now and then. So instead of playing something I haven't I'm running through Rapture or Aperture.
I'm not that much different, actually. For some reason, I've become absolutely obsessed with the Dark Souls games (and take any chance I can to talk about them, too). More often than not, I'm finding some excuse or another to fire them up again over playing some newer game that just came out.
It's why I think the "games were better back when..." argument is a pretty shallow one. I think some of the best games I've played have come out within the last 5 years.
yeah i remember when mowing a big lawn would net you all of $10 if you were lucky in the middle of summer.
I'm much the same way. I liked the Mario bros. I liked Tetris and all that. I enjoyed GTA3 and Baldurs Gate. The PS3 was the first system that had games I was enthralled with.
Anyone who is able to actually play these games please to let me know why I see the startup screen but none of the keys does anything to actually start or control the game? For example trying Asteroids for Atari 2600... any games for Atari 2600 in fact so far.
Best reply to that post yet.
Sometimes I need an RPG fix and either I can play something on my computer that is buggy when not laggy, on a tablet that is freemium (designed misery), or on a console that I don't have.
Graphics-wise, games like Xenogears or Valkyrie Profile for PSX or Robotrek or Harvest Moon on SNES look awful now, but they are still much more fun to play than most new games out there. On demand progress save makes action games for NES such as Karate Kid, Kid Niki, or Ninja Gaiden actually playable. Also no offense, but the early FF games (1-3 in US) are actually as good as any of the new ones.
Lastly, there is something about SimCity for SNES with C-tops and R-tops that just trumps the later Mac/PC versions. It is WAAAY better than the newest SimCity which is just a monstrosity.
I'm kind of bummed they emulate the Atari 5200 and not the Atari 800 (and Atari 400). The 5200 was the game machine, but no keyboard/floppy drives. But (if I recall correctly) the hardware was pretty much the same except they mapped the graphic/sound/etc. chips in a different section of memory but conversation was pretty simple (although the joysticks might have been analog).
Point being, besides the few super popular cartridge games they likely converted for both, there are a few Atari 800 games I wouldn't mind checking out after a few decades of not playing them...
I liked the 7800 but never played one once they came out, I remembered seeing it at CES one year.
(Atari 5200 + 2600 = 7800)
Gary
Point being, besides the few super popular cartridge games they likely converted for both, there are a few Atari 800 games I wouldn't mind checking out after a few decades of not playing them...
I liked the 7800 but never played one once they came out, I remembered seeing it at CES one year.
(Atari 5200 + 2600 = 7800)
Gary