Time to play some Ogre Battle 64

Last week, I beat Super Mario 64 for the first time in almost 30 years. 120 Stars, almost all of them from memory.

Even without any kind of remake, still so colorful and stylish. Still one of the best video games ever made.

(Rainbow Ride can still eat a dick. That level is dumb.)

I did that recently too! Although it was the version they recently released with Sunshine and Galaxy on the switch.

The game holds up.
- Super Mario Super Collection, same here!
  
  thumps chest
  
  Now I'm working my way through Sunshine because I NEVER FINISHED IT!
- It's the movement. Just like Super Mario Bros. before it, Mario moves much more smoothly than characters in other contemporary games at the time.
Did you drop the penguin over the edge?
There's a fan remaster! And it's really fucking good!

Rerez - Super Mario Remasters Nintendo Didn't Make

This was Star Trek The Next Generation for me during the pandemic. Everything was so bleak, and a familiar and hopeful future brought me back from the edge of depression.

TNG is like medicine to me too. There's just something uniquely comforting and reassuring about it.
- I heard someone describe it as "Competency Porn," and now it lives rent-free in my head

Apparently at least 1 person here is not of lordly caliber

1942 didn't have the same feel for me. That game is maddening.

Was that the NES airplane bomber game?
- Yes. Vertical scroller.

Twisted Metal 2, my old friend....

I’ve come to drive with you again…

Damn good taste, I don't know many folks that remember that one

I never knew anyone else who played it back in the day. It's one of my favorite n64 games though!
- I replayed it recently on an emulator and it really holds up, the only other person I know that played it played it with me as kids. Unicorn Overlord caught my eye recently and looks really similar, I’m pretty excited about playing it

100% this has been my last two years in gaming. Xcom, Warcraft I and II, Outpost 2, Stars!, Cave Story, Sim Tower/Sim City, Darklight Conflict and now working through Chrono Trigger

I still frequently play the newer xcom 1-2. I really want to play the originals, but I feel like I need to read some guide of the basics, since it's not very clear. I assume back in the day there must have been a manual or something to reference.
- Check out Xenonauts 2. It's basically a modern version of classic X-Com, not what it's become. It's still early access, but it's pretty solid.

I just started playing Age of Empires II again. The soundtrack really brought me back in time.

I am currently playing TOME4 on a 64GB machine with NVIDIA RTX A2000 GPU. Although technically this is more like uni for me not childhood, I could probably play this game on a calculator.

I have a friend who just consumes his video games and moves on. I like to replay over and over really wring out that dopamine. He ridicules that I still fire up StarCraft 2 for some co-op maps from time to time, eww he says a 20 year old game?

Your friend treats video Games like TV & movies. Most people only ever watch something once.

You and me, we treat video games like music. We find something that resonates with us and we play it on loop, never getting tired of it.
- Also guilty with music. I’ll find a new ear worm and just play it on repeatpeatpeat.
StarCraft 2? I mean I still play Total Annihilation or Beyond All Reason, StarCraft 2 is practically a totally new game!

The nice thing about old things is that generally people only bother to keep returning to the good old things and the bad old things fade away and are forgotten, also the communities around old things while small tend to be very friendly and toxic people are muchhhhhh less common than with popular new games.
- I mean Battle.net chat is still a trip but somethings never change.
I just played sc2 co-op for the first time in 3 years a couple nights ago. Something about making a giant army and smashing it against another giant army is just fun.

I’m playing through Pokemon Blue right now. I started when I had knee surgery last year and I just made it back to Pallet Town. Next stop Route 22.

Man this game brings back memories. I first played through on my original Game Boy. So many batteries because I needed that light attachment.

I have such fond memories of that game and how widespread the Pokemon craze was at the time.

Chasing down pre-internet rumors, learning how to catch missingno, the cards, the show. It's my favorite generation of Pokemon.
- I learned about MissingNo back on the playgrounds and read about how to catch him. It said it was risky, but me a kid, tried it anyway thinking what could be the harm.
  
  I caught it! I was scared of losing it, so I hit Save and turned off my Game Boy Color. Booted it up, and my save file was gone. Kid me was crushed, and I chastised myself for being so stupid to risk it despite all the warnings.
  
  My first play through of Pokémon Red was wiped out completely. My first party, my certificate of getting all Pokes (that I desperately wanted to print with a Game Boy Printer my folks never got us), all gone. I spent HOURS trying to find Mew under that damn truck. All of it - gone.
  
  Thanks ~~Obama~~ MissingNo!
You never went back to visit your mother even though you have fly?
- Uh oh. Am I a bad son?

Star Ocean 2 R, with original music ofc