1/18/2024 0 Comments Shmup gamer lingo![]() I decided to give it another try, and I’m glad I did. I was going through a breakup in my mid 20s and just needed a light hearted adventure to cheer me up. Paper Mario - I had this one as a teenager, but couldn’t enjoy it until I was an adult. I loved it so much that I imported the original cart complete in box. Sin and Punishment - I always loved treasure but couldn’t access this game until the Wii VC version. What a game!! It’s another one that needs no intro. It’s one of the best on the SNES.į-Zero GX - cue the gif everyone loves. Enough has been written about this game that I don’t need to say much. Super Metroid - I didn’t get into this one until my 20s due to its slower sensibilities and more atmospheric approach over the types of games I typically enjoy. ![]() I just wish it had some more variety and boss fights. It’s the complete package.Įlevator Action Returns - I recently got to play this when a friend brought it over and, let’s just say, I was again blown away by what was capable on the Saturn. ![]() I love just about everything this game has to offer. My reflexes from Metal Slug games translated in a way I never knew they could. Layer Section - I this only two years ago and it made me a newly minted Shmup guy. In the mean time, post yours! Everyone’s lists will look different because we all became adults at different times (2008 for me) Those are what came off the top of my head - I’ll post more as I remember them. Most retro gaming fans haven’t played these games in my experiences but I’d definitely recommend them both, as they’re fun and teach you how to play the TCG if you haven’t played it before. This is great for me because I was tired of using the same limited pool of cards in the first game. It plays like the original, only it has more expansions (primarily the Team Rocket expansion from the real life TCG). It’s the dueling I’m there for ultimately, and that’s where the game shines. The story in the 2nd game is pretty lazy admittedly, as the game uses a lot of the same environments and the story is comically lame. As with the first game, the second game has a story mode where you walk around the environments and face duelists to save the world somehow (I think). I finally decided to play through it last year, and it’s exactly what I hoped it would be. I hadn’t heard of this game until 7-8 years ago but it’s a Game Boy Color, Japanese-only followup to the very underrated Pokemon TCG for GB/GBC (black cartridge). Fortunately, this game is surprisingly cheap for a quality Saturn game so I took the plunge and was happy I did. B) are interested in playing it with you over a more popular multiplayer game and C) are at your skill level. I’m always hesitant to buy old fighting games because they often lack modes outside of Arcade and Survival and it’s hard to find people locally who A) have heard of the game. It’s fast and fluid like a 90s Capcom fighter and has a cast of weird and interesting characters. I picked up 3 on Saturn last year and was pleasantly surprised about how good it is. series of games, but I never thought to play the actual series. I had heard of the Darkstalkers games and had played as a few of the characters in the Capcom Vs. I could go on but I imagine many people on this forum have played the game before so I’ll move on to the next game The 6 different types of bullets are perfect for the 6-button Saturn controller, which puts it above the Xbox 360 with its standard 4 face button layout in my opinion. I’m not an aficionado of the genre so I don’t know all the lingo, but the graphics are great, it’s always clear what you need to hit, and the hit detection feels right - in short, it just feels good to shoot stuff. A lot of expensive games end up disappointing in my experience but this is one of, if not the best shoot em ups ever. Anyway, I got the game a few years ago and it was definitely worth the hype. “Wow, a game costing over $100? Who would pay that much for an old game?” Little did I know, retro game prices would skyrocket and $100 would be considered “cheap” for many Saturn games :P. It was one of those games that was famous for being expensive. Radiant Silvergun: This was a game I had always heard about but didn’t get the chance to play until a few years ago. ![]() What are your favorite retro games that you discovered as an adult? I gained interest in retro games at a fairly young age so I had at least sampled most games you would see in “Top 10 X” games lists, but these are some of the games I can think of: However, there are some retro games that we really get into in our adult years, whether it be because certain games are too expensive for most kids to obtain or we dig deeper into game libraries and find out about more obscure games. I would imagine that most of our favorite retro games come from that period. Many of the retro games we most enjoy come from our childhood/teen years as our gaming tastes were developing. ![]()
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