05-07-2013, 04:26 PM
It's hard just to make one post over retro games, still play them [not always the original console, sometimes collections], sprite rip them for The Spriters Resource [tSR], still consider the Mega Drive / Genesis as my favourite console and don't have many due to the costs of cartridges back then. The last retro games I bought were Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap and Sonic 2 Master System and that was years ago. Well that and a bunch of N64 games. Someone did buy me two Master System games of the same game strangely and another Speccy. Now that home computer is truely retro.
As for me, I did consider retro up to at least PS1/Saturn/N64 but since they are getting old, might as well include them now even though I grew up with them. Still don't class PS2, Gamecube, GBA as retro since they are too new [for PS2 games, you can still get them in stores] plus around about that time the Internet was getting more popular so it wasn't hard to bump into someone who liked Mario & Luigi when it came out and Dreamcast is getting towards borderline retro even though most of the games you can play elsewhere. Basically retro was the present, then it became the past, became forgotten then one day it became cool again. I wonder how long it would take for NES and SNES collectors to forget about these consoles again, after all many collectors don't even play the games.
As for me, I did consider retro up to at least PS1/Saturn/N64 but since they are getting old, might as well include them now even though I grew up with them. Still don't class PS2, Gamecube, GBA as retro since they are too new [for PS2 games, you can still get them in stores] plus around about that time the Internet was getting more popular so it wasn't hard to bump into someone who liked Mario & Luigi when it came out and Dreamcast is getting towards borderline retro even though most of the games you can play elsewhere. Basically retro was the present, then it became the past, became forgotten then one day it became cool again. I wonder how long it would take for NES and SNES collectors to forget about these consoles again, after all many collectors don't even play the games.