Awesome games you played years after their release

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PostAwesome games you played years after their release
by Jazzem » Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:02 am

Yeah yeah, nostalgia's good and all, but the real test of a great retro game is if it's still fun today. Taking off the 'new' sheen of a title can be revealing; behind once-stunning production values, can the game still shine through?

So let's go on about gems we've played years after their release that still managed to entice and charm the pants off us. Gogogo!

I'll start:

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Scrolling shooters in general are something I discovered late (apart from a brief memory of playing Biohazard Battle over a friend's house), but this remains my favourite. A £7 treat in an indie shop usually full of sports games no one wants any more, this is honestly one of my favourite games for the almighty Mega Drive, and I didn't even grow up with it! Level design's inventive, enemies are creative and challenging, and the music...sweet God the music! I've gone through the trouble of converting weird sound files to get it in my iTunes library. That's the ultimate sign of nerdom lovin' I can supply to a game \o/

Samples of my favourite tracks:


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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Christopher » Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:57 am

Oh man, Thunder Force IV is such an amazing game :wub: Have you played V on Saturn or PSone? It's good, but no where as good as IV.

I'll have to think if any games I played where years after release, with me being old and everything :shifty:

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Uppa » Mon Jul 19, 2010 12:49 pm

Pilotwings 64. I played it last year, having foolishly avoided it at the time of release. I was absolutely astounded at what the N64 could pull off with regard to draw-distance. Considering the title was released so early into the machine's lifespan, that game was one impressive feat. I cannot fathom why some sources scored it as low as they did; the game is simply spell-binding.

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by NickSCFC » Mon Jul 19, 2010 2:37 pm

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Carlos » Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:01 am

Im currently engaged in Sands of Time which is a fantastic game yet I had yet to play it.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Dandy Kong » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:04 pm

All 3 Donkey Kong Country games (1 and 3 on my SNES which I bought around 2000 or so and 2 on the Virtual Console).

The Legend of Zelda - when it was re-released as a NES classic on the GBA.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Squinty » Wed Jul 21, 2010 1:41 pm

Chrono Trigger and Super Metroid. Both were fan-fucking-tastic.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Christopher » Wed Jul 21, 2010 3:18 pm

Damn it James!! I wanted to get into a Thunder Force chat with you :x

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Jazzem » Wed Jul 21, 2010 5:37 pm

suzzopher wrote:Damn it James!! I wanted to get into a Thunder Force chat with you :x


...sorry :shifty:

The only one I've played is IV sadly, am very keen to track down II and III though. VI interested me, but I heard ehh things about it :/

Any other Mega Drive shooters you recommend Chris? :)

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Christopher » Wed Jul 21, 2010 6:34 pm

Musha and Gley Lancer and the next best shooters. PC Engine on VC has way more great shooters. There is a compilation on PSP(Japanese import) which has loads of great ones on too.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Lonely Angel » Thu Jul 22, 2010 3:14 am

Chrono trigger.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Carlos » Wed Sep 01, 2010 10:57 pm

I have only recently started playing Prince of Persia: Sands of Time and I discover its fantastic!

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Dr. ogue Tomato » Thu Sep 02, 2010 12:17 am

Chrono Trigger, the best RPG of all time.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Uppa » Thu Sep 02, 2010 8:34 am

I've just got my hands on Metroid: Zero Mission. It is a tremendous bit of software--absolutely delectable, and a game that makes me wish I'd been more adventurous with GBA software at the time.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by consolegaming » Thu Sep 02, 2010 3:07 pm

I played Super Mario World properly a good few years on the GBA after it was released on the SNES, but then I never owned a SNES. I guess the same goes for Yoshi's Island and the original Pilotwings, which I only just recently downloaded on the Virtual Console.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by TheTurnipKing » Thu Sep 02, 2010 4:37 pm

Uppa wrote:I've just got my hands on Metroid: Zero Mission. It is a tremendous bit of software--absolutely delectable, and a game that makes me wish I'd been more adventurous with GBA software at the time.

Buying a Nintendo Metroid game is hardly the height of adventure.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Trelliz » Fri Sep 03, 2010 10:06 pm

The Soul Reaver series - absolutely awesome! A sprawling, verbose and gloriously gothy and pretentious time-travel dark fantasy series with lots of DENSE PROSE between Raziel and Kain about existentialism, fate etc. Wish they'd finished the series off rather than leaving a cliffhangar.... :cry:

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Ironhide » Sat Sep 04, 2010 3:53 pm

Earthbound - played it via emulator last year, one of the best RPGs I've ever played.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by The Grassy knoll » Sun Sep 05, 2010 11:28 am

Pong! Never had the chance to play it untill about 5 years ago.

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PostRe: Awesome games you played years after their release
by Cyburn2 » Wed Sep 08, 2010 12:00 am

Ristar, quirky platformer shame SEGA never made a sequel.

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