Games that stand the test of time

[Liam]

Basically, this stems from a few youtube videos I was watching, covering games on the NES and Mega Drive.

What games from these eras (so, covering NES/SNES and Master System/Mega Drive primarily, but whatever people want to post about) do you still think hold up? Which games are still worth revisiting, or are games that you yourself check out from time to time?

[MDK]

No Mercy

I still bust out the 64 when my mate comes over, we have to keep the feud going

Oops, didn't see the bit about snes. I'd say any Mario game or desert strike

[Liam]

Not just those - was admittedly looking at the easily acquired......*ahem*......

Desert Strike could be worth a look - wasn't sure if the gameplay would feel quite dated.

[TheLastInLine]

Legend Of Zelda: A Link To The Past:

Nintendo just released a sequel to this game that apart from having polygon graphics and some new mechanics is very similar to the original. They already remade it once for the GBA and they have a whole series of handheld games that are based of the mechanics of this game that people love and play to this day. Just sarch Youtube for Let's Play. I think that is prove enough

Edited December 14, 2013 by TheLastInLine

[Noah]

[gunnar hendershow]

Honestly pre-3D games have generally held up for me with the exception of those that have truly terrible controls and weren't that good then. It's early 3D console games and PC games from the 80s and 90s that have really shown their age in my eyes.

[Liam]

Any particular faves though?

Out at the moment, but will be testing out Speedball 2 on Mega Drive when I get back in.

[Lineker]

Mario Tennis.

Seriously, it's all my friends and I play.

Also, Goldeneye.

[Noah]

Any particular faves though?

Out at the moment, but will be testing out Speedball 2 on Mega Drive when I get back in.

[MDK]

Megalomania was alright, bit like civ but stripped down. Worth a shout.

Sunset Riders is amazing.

Gods was a good platformer.

[King Ellis]

I actually watched a video of Gods on SNES a few months back and it felt so alien as it didn't have the same sound effects or music as the version I had on Acorn. Yeah, that's some niche retroness for you. Felt so alien, not sure how I'd get on with playing any other version. Think SWIV might have been the same.

Oh wow, just looking at the SNES video and something I'd seemingly forgotten since I'd watched it, it looks like the characters been on about 8 cans of Red Bull and he's whizzing all over the place. That is to say running fast, not pissing.

[LUKIE]

Grim Fandango.

[TKz]

Seems a bit silly to limit this stuff to SNES and NES, as by and large, that's the generation of graphics where they perfected a style before they could move on. So as long as the gameplay was smooth, they'll all hold up. A more interesting conversation to me would be stuff from the PS1 and N64 era, where we'd just started mess around with 3D and in retrospect, both gameplay and graphics took a hit for it in a lot of titles. For every Final Fantasy 7, there's a Tomb Raider game where early PS1 textures left everything looking like garbage... whilst you were already struggling to see what the fuck you were doing with the first gen camera controls and extremely precise hitboxes.

[Herr Matzat]

Secret of Mana. I am so sad that i would not even find a gem like this today because there simply are to many games to play and to little time to play them.

SNES Zelda - A Link to the Past also comes to mind, even brings less of the SoM grind but all the same beauty.

[Liam]

Ok - games that are still really worth the time, considering the release of the Xbox One and PS4 and the limited time we all have as we all get older and progress towards the grave - better?
Talk about any time - the initial post was more about narrowing it to games I could easily pick up.

[MDK]

TTDLX

I still play this game

[EddieG]

Goldeneye, still play that every now and again. Any of the older Mario Kart games too.. and GTA all the way back to 1.

[Chris2K]

i saw this thread and immediately thought of Sensible World of Soccer. So I went to find it, downloaded it for £1.90, and have been playing it ever since.

[MDK]

Grim Fandango.

Yes yes yes

And Monkeh Island

[Sousa]

Sunset Riders is amazing.

It really is. One of the really great side-scrolling shoot-'em-up type games. Not much original about it but it is just so damn fun.