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The Retro Gaming Thread
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Anyone here played or still play A Bridge Too Far?
It's a Microsoft game made around 1998. Graphics are fine for the era, strategy is ok. There is a lot of fields battles to pick, I prefer Tulip Fields and the Dunes, the last one. I like when I can have tanks. The germans are so strong and efficient with all their units and weapons. If I want to win I need a lot of terrain knowlage, strategy and patience. Make the right move at the right time. The sounds are well made, when there is no action battle, we can hear flyes, cows and dogs barking. It's a good way to learn german, like when they say don't shoot, they say Nich Teasen.
It's a Microsoft game made around 1998. Graphics are fine for the era, strategy is ok. There is a lot of fields battles to pick, I prefer Tulip Fields and the Dunes, the last one. I like when I can have tanks. The germans are so strong and efficient with all their units and weapons. If I want to win I need a lot of terrain knowlage, strategy and patience. Make the right move at the right time. The sounds are well made, when there is no action battle, we can hear flyes, cows and dogs barking. It's a good way to learn german, like when they say don't shoot, they say Nich Teasen.
Finally acquired a CRT and got my retro game systems set up in the man cave after about a year of being in the new house.
The Sega and Nintendo have been sitting in storage bins for years, I’m so glad to finally have them displayed and working.
I had to get an RFU adapter for the PS2, as the CRT I have doesn’t have A/V hookups, so I run it through the Coax port. Works like a charm.
Thanks, the paneling definitely helps fit the retro gaming vibe.
I’d like to get a SNES at some point and a Sega Saturn, prices for Saturns are crazy though. I’ve mostly limited how much older gaming stuff I was getting since I didn’t really have an actual setup yet. Lol.
If you had told me this photo was actually taken pre-2010, I'd have believed you. Nice setup. Have fun!
Are we at the point where PS3 is retro? I guess so... Man I feel old lol.
Great setup though!
That is a compliment of the highest order, man. Thank you much.
Currently I’m playing FF Tactics and NBA Street Vol 2 and having a blast!
I suppose so.... the release of the original ps3 was almost 20 years ago now! god I hate that lol.
Thank you for the compliment though!
'Retro' should be as much style/substance as just calendar years, especially considering with video games compared to the earlier days of rapid progress things hardly change anymore. I mean the PS3 plays Skyrim.
My own personal take but I'd go back one more generation and say anything PS1/N64 and before is 'retro', PS2/XBox and after is 'modern'. Though I understand if others want to shift that one to the right.
I can agree with you on the ps3... It's certainly on the border of "Retro", at best. Even some of the launch titles had decent graphics and a fairly modern feel. It plays GTA 5 as well without many technical differences to the current version.
I'm not sure I'd consider PS2 to be "modern" however. It didn't even have an HDMI port and there's a pretty stark difference between the look and feel of a PS2 game compared to PS3 and beyond.
I think the Dreamcast is the beginning of "modern". Came with a modem and Soul Calibur still looks good 25+ years later. So since it came out after Dreamcast, I would consider PS2 "modern" as well. The jump between the 3d trailblazers in PS1/N64 to PS2/DC is significant.
I'm not sure I can quite get on board with that. I personally would consider the 6th generation pre-HD era to be considered 'retro' by now, in my own opinion.
While the Dreamcast did come with a modem, it was using a now-primitive version of the internet.
I agree with this - the cutoff for me is right when the home consoles started outperforming the arcades, and the Dreamcast was the star pupil in that regard.
Graphics-wise, the N64 and PS1 were understandably rough, 3D-wise, but everything DC-forward could really look fantastic.
The DVD/GD/mini-DVD format provided better read rates, and you didn't have to choose between rough textures (N64) or long load times (PS1).
Online didn't get big until XBOX, and didn't get good until 360, imo. Not a good indicator of retro vs. modern for me.
That's a fair assessment. I'd point out that the PS2/GC/XBOX all had component video out, which really looked phenomenal for the time, if you had the right tv.
Recently there has been awesome development (literally and figuratively) in the world of retro PC ports. The Xbox 360 version of Sonic Unleashed has been ported to PC using a similar method to the Zelda64Recompiled ports, and a tool has been released to help developers do the same with other 360 games.
Would love to see a port of Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts or some other 360 exclusives that never made it over.
Right but so many of the same games were released for N64 and Dreamcast. Tony Hawk, Rayman 2, Shadowman, Hydro Thunder were all released on both N64 and Dreamcast around the same time so it feels weird to say one console is retro and one isn’t. The Dreamcast was sort of a bridge between console generations.
