I feel you there. It’s funny, you described me last night exactly and I played about 10 minutes of sonic 2 haha. Everything is plugged into an old Apple color monitor. I love that thing and I’ve had it all my life.

I’m gonna check that out. I had never heard of it.

I went nuts with retro restores and collecting in the 2010s. Now it’s just a bunch of shit in my bedroom that annoys my wife. It’s nice to have it all though. Here recently I’ve been using my Genesis 6 button arcade stick on the Steam deck and playing classic mortal kombat. I hardly ever have to buy hardware because I have everything that was made between 1980 and 2005.

It’s like the kid in me who only got two games per console and had to borrow the rest or rent them just exploded. I have a game shelf that my 12 year old self would sit before and cry. I don’t have time for any of it which would make him cry some more.

Me too. My favorite memories come from Unreal Tournament on Dreamcast. I had this terrible, ancient LCD projector that overheated and turned off over and over again. It had to be opened, so to block the light I stuck a black sheet over it and stuck a fan in the window.

We had a huge screen that honestly was probably barely visible, and we had a blast.

I feel you. I pretty much exclusively play 80s and 90s games.

You want some fun that is modern, somehow ancient, and beautiful? Oh, and challenging, but if you persist it is very rewarding?

Cuphead. I fucking love that game. I play it and replay it and play it some more. I have waaaaaay too many hours in that game on Steam and on Switch. I think it’s the only game I ever got all achievements on.

I lost my account back then when the big hack happened near the end of the PS3 era. I haven’t looked back. I called, I begged, and as far as I could tell everyone else was good to go.

I only got the PS3 so I could game with my childhood friends. They eventually stopped playing together anyway after a bunch of us died off to the opioid epidemic.

I seen a video yesterday about how people in Japan hire people to quit their jobs. The girl said she spent a lot of time being grilled and felt like she owed the boss an apology.

Not Nintendo, still, I found it interesting.

I was docking the Steam Deck and playing GO, but 2 doesn’t really run that well on there.

I still play the hell out of Source though. My brother and I did nothing else one summer growing up. I spent all of my 20s playing CS:Source and WoW.

I wish I had time for either these days.

I’d like to, that’s for sure.

I’m almost out of certified classics to play though and this loot box, cosmetic, buy this, buy that, always online crap don’t appeal to me.

My uncle isn’t particularly tech savvy, like, at all. I finally had him good to go on Windows XP. The transition to Windows Vista and then 7 went well enough with minor issues here and there. Big problems started with 10, and now that he’s stuck on 11 he is completely lost.

I haven’t used it much because I switched everything over to Linux on my end awhile ago.

I spent over and hour on the phone with him yesterday trying to help him copy a damn file. I had to get him to read every little thing he seen on the screen to make it work and finally realized “show more options” is a thing.

He said, “I swear to you, copy and paste is gone. All I see is copy as path. What the hell is copy as path?”

Older users are totally screwed now. I had him good to go by explaining explorer as a file cabinet with a little bit of magic here and there. Now it takes ages to get anything done.

And getting his printer going the other day over the phone. Good god.

Some of these changes are absurd and they make absolutely no sense whatsoever. For those of us who grew up on computers we can just growl and figure it out. Why should we have to though?

I wish I had started him on Mac OS years ago. I really do.

I skipped the new Zelda for this kind of shit.

I have owned every title since the late 80s, purchased limited edition games when possible, limited consoles, etc.

I’m done.

It bums me out. This wasn’t hurting Nintendo. It isn’t like someone will load up Garry’s Mod and decide, “well, gee wiz, I guess I don’t ever have to buy a Nintendo title again!” It wasn’t hurting them at all.

This move right here has cemented it for me. I am done with Nintendo. I have purchased every console they’ve ever made in my lifetime, stating when my parents got me the NES. I won’t be buying any more. I’ll find something else for my children to grow up with and later be nostalgic about.

I’m the same way and I hate it.

I really really want to enjoy those games.

I spent many years on World of Warcraft. I am a solo gamer too so it didn’t make much sense, but every now and then I’d bump into someone and we’d form a lasting memory.

I met a college professor 30 years older than me and we became very close friends entirely by accident. Hell, as silly as it is I had a very deep love for her.

She seen me jumping into a wall one evening (glitch in Stormwind) and she asked me what I was doing. I took her under the city and showed her my spot. I thought that was that, but a few nights later I was down there and she popped in and said, “I thought I might find you here.”

For months I did nothing but sit under Stormwind and talk to her. She was one of the most incredible people I had ever met. We came from completely different worlds. I was an uneducated, white, hillbilly junkie. She was a very educated black college professor and activist who was in a totally different place in her life.

In no other reality would we have connected like we did. She was legit my best friend in the whole world for a time. We went from text to ventrilo and in my mind, I don’t remember it as staring at a screen and talking through a microphone. I remember it like I was there. (Edit: I remember her actual face in my memories too, because we connected on social media and talked there as well. Crazy how memory works.)

That alone made the service game worth it haha.

We live in an interesting time. That’s for sure.

I’ve played the first one and I’m actually running through it again on the deck. It’s definitely a good one.

I own it but I haven’t played it.

I’m gonna jump in tomorrow.

Thank you. I also love Metroid and SotN so it’s been on my list for awhile.

As soon as I read what the commenter said about PoE I had a mild panic attack. I don’t even know what it is but I know it isn’t for me.

That said, I wish I could find another Cuphead. I have three 300% complete saves on both Switch and PC. I’ve deleted saves and replayed it many times.

That games hits just right for my severe adhd.

Anybody got any recommendations?

Thank you so much.

I hated Windows ME but I loved that time. I’d love to go back and chill for a couple days.

Funny thing though, I hated that time while I was living through it haha.

I went ahead and finished BotW so I could play TotK on the deck. Didn’t work haha.

I hope it gets better. I’m gonna buy the game eventually anyway.

Me too. He is clearly insanely talented and I’m sure that with the right people and ideas he will make a fucking masterpiece. I really look forward to anything he’s a part of in the future.

AM2R is amazing by the way. I enjoyed all three versions of the game. I’ve played the original once, SR twice, and I’ve played AM2R about 7 times now. I expect that I’ll play it several times in the future.

Everybody keeps saying they can get TotK working on Steam deck. I get a solid 19fps.

I wish it would work though.

Oh they’re still getting sued.

https://www.geekwire.com/2023/valve-sued-by-immersion-in-patent-infringement-lawsuit-related-to-haptic-technology/#:~:text=A new lawsuit accuses Valve,corporation based in Aventura%2C Fla.

They’re like 30 bucks on eBay.

I’m using epic on Steam deck.

I have to tweak something every now and then but I just won a Star Wars Resurgence giveaway here on Lemmy and with a tiny bit of work it runs perfectly.

I’ve been using Linux since Redhat 5.2 so I’m definitely used to workarounds and alternative solutions haha.

I’m currently playing it on my Steam deck. Works great.

I have been using http://vimm.net for decades.

It has always served me well. Check that one out too.

I used to wait until consoles started breaking and refurbish them. I got my ps4 pretty early that way. A dude had cockroaches and they fried they power supply. He gave it to me, I put it in several bags and left it in a hot car to kill the bugs, then replaced the power supply and cleaned it out.

I gave it to my niece a few years ago and she’s still playing it every day.

The new ones seem to be holding up. No one has brought me one. Maybe people are just getting better with tech.

I love mine. I have a backlog of games going all the way back to 2005. Plus I emulate anything I want to really.

It’s pretty much the only device I use these days. I dock it and play Counter-Strike all the time too.

I get waiting though. If I didn’t have little ones I would have waited. I don’t get to use my tv any more. :p

This is how I roll.

I’ve never been unhappy either.

Super Metroid is a game I have played over and over again for years. I recently played it again and I loved it so much I’ve been going back and playing all of the side scrolling Metroid games (again).

I actually just beat AM2R for a second time followed immediately by Samus Returns.

When I get through all of them I’m hitting Dread (which I only barely started when it first came out and I haven’t finished yet) and then moving to the Prime series.

I can’t get enough of Metroid, but Super Metroid is the greatest of them all. Even with the slightly dated controls, I find myself playing that game more than any other.

My second favorite game is Castlevania: Symphony of the Night. I play it almost as often as I do Super Metroid.

I find myself beating that game again every couple of years.

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