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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time?

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By *S2004Man
over a year ago

Bromsgrove

"Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time? "

Need to ask what emulator and what phone

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By *partharmonyCouple
over a year ago

Ruislip

Phoenix.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I’ve got my spectrum somewhere still

manic miner horace goes skiing jetpac daley thompson decathlon etc brilliant games!

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By *P994Man
over a year ago

Travelling

Yoshi’s island, ghouls and ghosts, metal gear solid, GTA 3, golden axe, street fighter and so many more great games on PS1 and Sega Mega Drive from my childhood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Phoenix. "

used to play that when the fair turned up near us. happy days!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tetris, Sonic, Pac-Man, Super Mario Land, Street Fighter II Turbo all still hold their own.

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By *edGrayCouple
over a year ago

Swindon

Sonic the Hedgehog.... as students sharing a house,we we're addicted or procrastinating, I still haven't come to a conclusion!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tekken, Super Mario, FIFA, Crash Bandicoot, Sonic

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Started with a nes but wasn’t mine was my mums and dads but I played on it

First game thing I owned my self was a game gear

But my true love off gameing came in the ps1 days

Need for speed MGS crash spyro the original gran turismo

Top down gta and who could for get tenchu stealth assassins

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time?

Need to ask what emulator and what phone"

You can find classic games hosted through emulators online, but if you use a computer you'll have to play with your keyboard.

I downloaded an emulator straight to my phone from the app store (I use the free version of MyBoy!) and then just download the individual ROMs off the internet which I then open through MyBoy. That way it feels like I'm holding an actual GameBoy

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By *ate_BMan
over a year ago

London

Loved playing pokemon ruby back as a kid. Game went on for months.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time? "

I did the same a few weeks back and I'm rocking Pokemon Fire Red

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Imho way too many but nostalgia takes part in that

The old Pokémons, Jak and Daxter, Final Fantasy IX/X, Chrono Trigger are probably my top ones

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

I never had a console etc. I remember Commander Keen pretty vividly.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

Chucky Egg, Galaxian, the original Donkey Kong, Pong, Missile Command, Asteroids - back when games were just a series of square pixels roughly formed into shapes

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By *orbidden eastMan
over a year ago

london dodging electric scooters

From super Nintendo is to Neo Geo. they was the good all days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I still play Space Invaders and Pac-Man from the early days. Then there's Streets of Rage and Super Mario World from the 16-bit era. I've just finished Metal Gear Solid (actually I'm stuck on the bit where you face Metal Gear at the end but I've given up hope of actually beating it). Advance Wars is my favourite game on GBA.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Super Mario

Spyro

Crash Bandicoot

Crash Team Racing

Donkey Kong

Yoshis Island

Mickeys Wild Adventure

WWF Smackdown

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By *iddle ManMan
over a year ago

Walsall

I collect retro consoles, love play them for the nostalgia, I do find the gameplay a bit dated and never as good as I remember them in my head

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

House of the dead (with the guns on mega drive was amazing)

Zelda

Spyro

Pokemon

Ridge racer

Halo

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By *ecrets4everCouple
over a year ago

I’ve still got a Binatone TV tennis game from the late 70s. The black screen and white lines were so hi-tech!

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By *iger4uWoman
over a year ago

In my happy place

I had a nintendo jumping turtle game

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By *viatrixWoman
over a year ago

Redhill

I used to love Jungle Hunt on the Atari 2600. We never had one, but my cousin did.

Then my dad went and bought the most stupid comsole ever- a Vectrex.

So rubbish, but Star Trek was good on it!

Then more modern times, Super Mario Bro 3 is my favourite of all the saga, Legend of Zelda, Castlevania III- Dracula’s Curse... LOVE THE MUSIC! Street Fighter, which my teenage boys like playing now....

In Arcade Consoles I always loved Pac Man and Outrun... loved playing that while sipping a chocolate milkshake at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona where I went to High School

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

"Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time?

Need to ask what emulator and what phone

You can find classic games hosted through emulators online, but if you use a computer you'll have to play with your keyboard.

I think I may have done something slightly wrong….the MyBoy app on iOS is a gay chat app….

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Recently downloaded a GameBoy Advance emulator to my phone and am having a blast playing all the old games from my childhood - Super Mario, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot...

What are some games you grew up with that have stood the test of time?

Need to ask what emulator and what phone

You can find classic games hosted through emulators online, but if you use a computer you'll have to play with your keyboard.

I think I may have done something slightly wrong….the MyBoy app on iOS is a gay chat app…. "

Yeah I'm on android... Try just searching for "GameBoy emulator"

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By *ikeC81Man
over a year ago

harrow

Gargoyles quest - game boy

Zelda A link to the past - SNES

Super probotector or contra 3 - SNES

Super Mario bros 3 - nes

Love retro games. Being nearly 40 anything from the nes and SNES era is brilliant

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By *inBridgendCouple
over a year ago

Llanelli

Look up RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi. It’s amazing and not to difficult to build either.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not sure if they stand up to time but early games I remember are

Barbarian (wolf from gladiators on the cover)

Alex kid

Eco the dolphin

Golden axe

Altered beast

Double dragon

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By *rHotNottsMan
over a year ago

Dubai & Nottingham

Still play missile command, Galaxians & Phoenix now and then.

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By *tephenBunChowMan
over a year ago

Haywards heath/Waterlooville

Bought a raspberry pi during lockdown and put retropie innit now have all the roms ever imaginable.

Currently playing streets of rage.

Shinobi

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not to mention Maria Whittaker on the cover! Got me through my early teenage years did Barbarian :D

"Not sure if they stand up to time but early games I remember are

Barbarian (wolf from gladiators on the cover)

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By *tephanjMan
over a year ago

Kettering

Still got my playstation 1 use it quite often mostly playing the original resident evil and medieval

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still got my Gameboy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Still got a ps1 and toca touring cars is the go to game

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By *onguesandpunsMan
over a year ago

East Midlands

I occasionally still hanker after playing 'Dungeon Master' on the Atari ST. I remember it being a really immersive and atmospheric RPG which I managed to complete after many hours of play. I can still remember the incantation for a Fireball spell 'Zo Kath Ra' anyone. Also 'Myth' on the Spectrum was a great platform game!

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By *H2002Couple
over a year ago

Burton on Trent

Very much into my Commodore Amiga 1200, loads of amazing memories and games.

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

Worms

Lemmings

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

"Not sure if they stand up to time but early games I remember are

Ecco the dolphin

I bought a retro Sega compendium for the PS3 with Ecco on it because I loved it on the Megadrive - sadly it hadn't aged well

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By *ermite12ukMan
over a year ago

Solihull and Brentwood

Chucky Egg on the Vic20.

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By *nto My ArmsMan
over a year ago

Herts/London

Donkey Kong Jr on the Dragon 32!

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By *resto99Man
over a year ago

Pac-Man, Donkey Kong & Rally-X

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By *inBridgendCouple
over a year ago

Llanelli

Paradroid on the C 64

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By *asycouple1971Couple
over a year ago

midlands

Mr Wimpey on C64

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By *adbod7519Man
over a year ago

Leeds

Gauntlet 2 was my favourite arcade game

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Zelda, outrun, alex kid, desert strike,

Ahhhhh life was so uncomplicated back in those days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I absolutely loved Zelda. Also, Super Mario 64 I think it was. I think those were my two faves.

I loved Resident Evil on PC and Lara Croft where I would always lock the butler in the fridge.

Sonic was always a winner! I was obsessed with Banjo Kazooie! And does anyone remember monkey ball racing? But I think that one was more recent.

And Rolo To The Rescue and Paper Boy if we are going back long long ago.

I definitely don't get to enjoy gaming as much since having my daughter.

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

I've got a few thousand on my raspberry pi. It's amazing reliving old games.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A couple of years ago I downloaded a version of one of my favourite games from my old ZX Spectrum that someone has converted for PC

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By *ealthy_and_HungMan
over a year ago

Princes Risborough, Luasanne, Alderney

samurai and bank robbers

sea wolf

missile command

defender

asteroids

scramble

pliades

frogger

manic miner

wolfenstein

doom

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

Elite

Tetris

Sabre Wulf

Atic Atac

Exolon

Lunar Jerman

Driller

Cybernoid

Ranarama

Run The Gaultlet

Zoids

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By *otsossieMan
over a year ago

local, but not too local

"Mr Wimpey on C64"

Mr Wimpy was great (48k Spectrum)

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

I've just fired up a tomb raider game on a PS1 ..it's pretty janky and Lara is really pixilated

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By *hesblokeMan
over a year ago

Derbyshire village

Sensible Soccer.

That is all.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Got over 1000 retro games and a hyperspin arcade with a near full rom set

Few have aged brillaintly, Stunt Car Racer on Amiga is one and suprised it hasnt been remade

The side scrolling beatem-ups havent so much

The FMV ones are fun, the campness and bad acting has aged well (night trap, who shot Johhny Rock, Mad Dog McCree)

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By *osco78Man
over a year ago

Sheffield

I've just set my old snes back up after 20 odd years and now I can have Gameboy games on my phone....happy days

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dizzy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roadrash, Dangerous Dave

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