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anyone in retrogaming, here? for those who don't know, retrogaming means to play older videogames. how old, it depends on personal preferences: to me, from the origins to playstation 2.
you can do retrogaming in two ways: the first, very cheap and often completely free, just by playing roms on an emulator on pc. or you can play old videogames on their original consoles.
while i have played almost all old consoles, i am a sucker for nintendo NES, the first and unimitable. my heart beats in 8 bits.
why play older stuff with so much amazing, new stuff available? well, nostalgia factor plays a role. also, inferior graphics, which would be usually considered a drawback, are considered a plus by retrogamers, because when you can't offer a flashy graphic like modern videogames do, you have to offer a more enjoyable game. also, i think history in itself is very fascinating and whatever comes from the past looks precious. finally, a form of admiratio for the programmers: it's hard to create a good and lasting game with the very limited techinical possibilities offered in those years.
it's not like i spend much times on videogames, but when i do, it is usually NES games. recently, my nintendo nes broke, i brought it to a friend of mine who repairs computer and videogames and he told me a piece of it burnt, but he cannot repair it because he just wouldn't know where to find that single piece. so i'm buying a new console.
i am going to write a post a week here, every time dedicated to something different but related to retrogaming. this time, it will be a videogame, batman for nintendo NES, which arrived in europe anno domini 1990.
back then, it was considered an extremely good game. first of all, it offered an amazing soundtrack. well, "amazing" for the criteria of those years, of course. second, it's Batman, and Batman is cool by definition. but more than anything else, it was relatively simple at the beginning, but increasingly harder. by the time you got to the more challenging parts you were already totally caught up in the game, so it was almost addicting. the last challenge, against Joker, was exceptionally difficult and it took me months just to defeat him (well, i was 8, so give me a break in recent times it took me a lot less blivious: ).
a guy posted a video about this:
i don't understand why this video got so many downvotes. :fffuuu: however, it may look simple because this guy is very good, but: 1. poker had an advantage, because he had full energy, while you usually arrived there with, like, half energy; 2. it was a hell of a problem to avoid the lightnings, because the only way (and it didn't always work) was to stay very close to the Joker, at the same time avoiding being shot by him. all of this required a very good timing.
to me, this game is a 9/10. they could only have done better, if it had been a bit longer, like teenage turtle mutant ninjas 2 or super mario 3. overall a classic and still a very enjoyable game experience.
you can do retrogaming in two ways: the first, very cheap and often completely free, just by playing roms on an emulator on pc. or you can play old videogames on their original consoles.
while i have played almost all old consoles, i am a sucker for nintendo NES, the first and unimitable. my heart beats in 8 bits.
why play older stuff with so much amazing, new stuff available? well, nostalgia factor plays a role. also, inferior graphics, which would be usually considered a drawback, are considered a plus by retrogamers, because when you can't offer a flashy graphic like modern videogames do, you have to offer a more enjoyable game. also, i think history in itself is very fascinating and whatever comes from the past looks precious. finally, a form of admiratio for the programmers: it's hard to create a good and lasting game with the very limited techinical possibilities offered in those years.
it's not like i spend much times on videogames, but when i do, it is usually NES games. recently, my nintendo nes broke, i brought it to a friend of mine who repairs computer and videogames and he told me a piece of it burnt, but he cannot repair it because he just wouldn't know where to find that single piece. so i'm buying a new console.
i am going to write a post a week here, every time dedicated to something different but related to retrogaming. this time, it will be a videogame, batman for nintendo NES, which arrived in europe anno domini 1990.
back then, it was considered an extremely good game. first of all, it offered an amazing soundtrack. well, "amazing" for the criteria of those years, of course. second, it's Batman, and Batman is cool by definition. but more than anything else, it was relatively simple at the beginning, but increasingly harder. by the time you got to the more challenging parts you were already totally caught up in the game, so it was almost addicting. the last challenge, against Joker, was exceptionally difficult and it took me months just to defeat him (well, i was 8, so give me a break
in recent times it took me a lot less blivious: ). a guy posted a video about this:
i don't understand why this video got so many downvotes. :fffuuu: however, it may look simple because this guy is very good, but: 1. poker had an advantage, because he had full energy, while you usually arrived there with, like, half energy; 2. it was a hell of a problem to avoid the lightnings, because the only way (and it didn't always work) was to stay very close to the Joker, at the same time avoiding being shot by him. all of this required a very good timing.
to me, this game is a 9/10. they could only have done better, if it had been a bit longer, like teenage turtle mutant ninjas 2 or super mario 3. overall a classic and still a very enjoyable game experience.
how fucking young are you?
