Video Game Industry Embraces Retro Classics

Newhouse News ^ | 8/14/04 | Laura DeMarco

[Nowhere Man]

Final Fantasy VII and VIII Bump! BTW, anyone remember Adventure on the Atari 2600 with the easter egg?

[qam1]

Even though you were just a square and the dragons looked like ducks this was the best game ever

My other favorites are Asteroids, Haunted House(2600), Gauntlet, Robotron, Pac-Man and Q*Bert

[aruanan]

My three fave games of all time were "tempest", "Banjo Kazooie", and "Final Fantasy X". :-)

When did those come out?

[aruanan]

My other favorites are Asteroids, Haunted House(2600), Gauntlet, Robotron, Pac-Man and Q*Bert

Ha ha. Yeah, I liked Asteroids a lot. I liked how you could go off on the top or side and come in from the bottom or other side. Same for shooting. It's still a great game. The only games I spent a lot of money on were Centipede and Phoenix, which I liked for the graphics, Space Invaders, which was the first one I ever played, and Berzerk, on which I managed to maintain some of the high scores down at the 7-11.

[Technocrat]

I play Gauntlet 2 on my computer every day :)

[RadioAstronomer]

I confess. I really, really liked Defender.

So did I. :-)

[RadioAstronomer]

I do have an old pac-man and Laser Blast, not sure about the rest.

Way cool. There are collector sites that can help. :-)

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

The cool thing is that you can play all these old arcade, computer and video console games on your P.C. using emulation.

That's what I do for my 5 year old, he loves Pac-man, Space Invaders & Mr Do.

[Happygal]

OMG! THe 1980's are vintage!

*depressed*

[RadioAstronomer]

I'm too old for this conversation, but I ahve to say I got the biggest kick out of that game without ever playing it.

Bet you are not too old. :-) I am pushing 50 myself. LOL!

Shhh.... don't tell ANYONE, but I never had kids and still loved playing Bajo Kazooie. :-)

[RadioAstronomer]

When did those come out?

Tempest (Atari) was a video arcade game in the 80's. It is now available on the PC as a retro Atari game.

Banjo Kazooie (Rare) was a really fun game that was made for the Commodore 64 around 1999.

Final Fantasy X (Square Soft) you can still buy in the stores today. It is for the PS2 system.

[RadioAstronomer]

OMG! THe 1980's are vintage!

My first computer was a hand wire-wrapped home built S-100 interfaced to an ASR-33 Teletype back in about 1978. LOL

[Hank Rearden]

As an owner of a Ms. Pac-Man cocktail table, an original arcade Tempest and 4 pinball machines, I pronounce this A Good Thing.

[Melpomene]

I was so excited when I discovered Q-Bert as an available download for my cell phone.

[qam1]

MAME

Best thing since sliced bread.

And there is also Stella for the 2600 and Nesticle for Nintendo

I have them all, I might be an old fogie @34 but I think new games just suck, Yeah they are visually much better but they are just not fun. The end started with Mortal Kombat, Instead of making video games for the fun value, they went for the shock value.

[Sofa King]

I still say that Nintendo should start releasing all of it's old classics for the Gamecube, with 10-20 of them per disc.

[RadioAstronomer]

Whooooops! ZORK/Adventure rates up there with my top ones as well. :-)

Adventure was the very first computer game I ever played. That was on an IBM-360 Mainframe. :-)