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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Luckily those things aren’t dead, you can still play them!

[–] cybervseas@lemmy.world 49 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Those companies do everything they can to make it as hard as legally possible.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s a pretty thriving retro scene… you can buy any of the consoles listed here fairly easily.

[–] ogeist@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You can even get better and new alternative retro consoles. As in consoles with HDMI out and upscalers that will run old games.

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[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Konami and Nintendo? Yeah I agree they’re too litigious. Still, it’s trivially easy to emulate though.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

you can still play them!

Off I go doing a crime again

[–] Empricorn 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But... anime-girl buried them, so they're kinda hard to access.

[–] zirconium886@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why did Lain bury all the Atari 2600 games, tho?

[–] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

They stole all of her Reese's Pieces.

[–] something_random_tho@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I can hear that Ocarina of Time screenshot.

[–] dirtySourdough@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

OWOOOOOOooo

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[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You got classic video games buried in dirt and forgot about Atari? There are more copies of ET in the ground than anything else. Lol

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are there still? Did they leave most of em? I thought a bunch got sold off to patrons of that dig attempt.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago

We still talk about how many of your cartridges got buried in a landfill.

[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago

Yeah nintendo still sues communities trying to port oot to a more modern engine xD.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 14 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Shit, I still have a working Genesis.

[–] CPMSP@midwest.social 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mkhopper@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

LOAD"*",8,1

Monty on the run, can you hear the screenshot?

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

My blood pressure goes up just looking at the Space Taxi loading screen. Space Taxi is why I don't have any patience left to try Dark Souls.

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Old video game nostalgia can be easily cured by trying to actually play them today. A lot of them have aged...poorly.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

Many people still play OoT, especially with mods.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm playing through Jade Cocoon right now. These games aren't dead.

[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 3 points 1 month ago

That game was so cool! So many wild combinations of monsters to make, such a neat setting

[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

”RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!”

—Altered Beast (Sega Genesis)

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

You didn't need the attribution line. With just your quote we all heard it in our heads.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

AH AH AH AH!

[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

I don't know what you're talking about, I play three of these systems regularly.

[–] heavy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Love MGS1, but Yell Dead Cell is one of the best boss themes of all time.

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago

I'll let you go out in style.

[–] purrtastic@lemmy.nz 7 points 1 month ago

Amiga I still love you

[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This picture is way too sinister, unrelated to this being a meme

Every time i see it i have tears coming

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

Mega Drive is still getting good mileage here. Recently played MSG on a ps emulator. I have the discs and a PSX but played it on my odroid go ultra. Got stuck figuring out how to change the discs virtually so that's how far I got in the game.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Is that Lain?

[–] _sideffect@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

"You're all together on one piece of plastic smaller than a thumb!"

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Last year I bought an original 8 bit Nintendo system with Super Mario and Tetris ... two games I grew up playing for hours and hours. I hadn't played them in years and I thought I should buy one just to have on hand because they'll probably disappear and become unavailable in the next decade or two (assuming I'll live that long ... lol)

I bring it out once in a while just to play it and get frustrated as I try to remember where, when and how to run and jump through level 8

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[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

I got a Miyoo Mini very recently and have been playing a lot of games since. I can't put the thing down for long at all!

[–] Spider89@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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