Retro Gaming Recommendations

[Jiehfeng]

I'm getting a wii and for Christmas I plan to play some retro games.
Any suggestions? Any awesome oldies for me to try out? Cause I haven't played a single retro game in my life except for super mario and donkey kong.

 

[emigre]

Lunar Silver Star Harmony/Story Complete -PSP/PSX
Lunar 2 Eternal Blue -PSX
Popfull Mail- Mega CD
Strider 2- PSX
Snatcher- Mega CD
Gunstar Heroes- Mega Drive
Streets of Rage- Mega Drive
Famicom Detective 2- SNES
Crystalis- NES
All early Crash Bandicoot- PSX
Spyro the Dragon- PSX
Metal Gear Solid- PSX
Final Fantasy VII- PSX
Castlevania Bloodlines- Mega Drive
Ys I and II- Turbografx version is avaiable on Wii, I think
Metal Max- SNES
Shocktrooper series-Neo Geo
Metal Slug series- Neo Geo
Garou- Mask of the Wolves

That should be an okish start.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Hmm any others? And they should be playable on my wii

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Yeah, buy a PSP.

Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection + PSX support + emulators = retro games.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Check my sig.
Just wanna play using my wii. I especially wanna play gamecube games.

 

[emigre]

I actually use my PSP over my Wii for retro shit...

For Gamecube just read the Dios Mios thread.

 

[Jiehfeng]

To use dios mios, I need good gamecube recommendations.

 

[no_chocobo]

Technically not retro, but check out the new excitebike on wiiware

 

[DS1]

River City Ransom

 

[Chary]

NES:
Super Mario series
Ducktales
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers
Contra
Castlevania
Dragon Warrior
ExciteBike
Metroid
Legend of Zelda
Mega Man series

Sega Genesis:
Sonic the Hedgehog series
Gunstar Heroes
Bubsy
Revenge of Shinobi
Earthworm Jim

SNES:
Donkey Kong country series
Chrono Trigger
Earthbound
Kirby SuperStar
Fzero
Secret of Mana
Super Mario World
LOZ Link to the Past

 

[Jiehfeng]

Oh thnx guys! Excite bike is another type of game I like.
I was thinking of meteoroid in the gamecube, good?

 

[Chary]

Oh thnx guys! Excite bike is another type of game I like.
I was thinking of meteoroid in the gamecube, good?

Metroid Prime? If you have a Wii, I'd suggest the Metroid Prime trilogy collection, that puts all the games on one disc.

 

[Jiehfeng]

Metroid Prime? If you have a Wii, I'd suggest the Metroid Prime trilogy collection, that puts all the games on one disc.

Thanx!

 

[Chary]

This might help you a bit:
http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/GBAtemp_Essentials

 

[PolloDiablo]

mmmm do you like shooters? not that shit fps that people play these days, I'm talking about shmups... you cant go more retro than that

I can recommend you the entire Treasure library:
- Ikaruga (GameCube)
- Gunstar Heroes (Genesis) (tecnically, not an shmup, but you shoot things)
- Alien Soldier (Genesis)
- Sin & Punishment: Earth Successor (N64)
- Sin & Punishment: Star Successor (Wii) (not retro a game btw)

Also, you should play:
- Wild Guns (SNES)
just to name a few

A great website dedicated to retro gaming is RacketBoy. You should check it.

 

[Taleweaver]

Retro city rampage!

...and just about any game it makes references to.



And I think the gamecube is a bit too young to be called "retro". But even then...I may be wrong, but I think retro is more defined by technical limitations than by age (which means first-generation 3D stuff at best).

 

[Celice]

Breath of Fire, if they have it.

emulators

 

[weavile001]

mario kart double dash
mario power tennis
super mario sunshine
zelda twilight princess
metroids(wii/gamecube)

 

[Chary]

Gamecube:

WindWaker
SSB Melee
Resident Evil 4
Paper Mario TTYD
Luigis Mansion

 

[Jiehfeng]

Whoa man! This is gonna be a retro christmas
Now to start downloading