Retro Gaming Boxes

[Pilner]

Anyone got one of these?? Seen a few sites advertising them and look class for all the games that I used to play in my youth. Was thinking of getting one of the handheld ones but not sure if there any good

https://retro-systems.co.uk/collections/all

 

[Slippery Jim]

Don't bother. All of the games you played in your youth are crap.

 

[Pilner]

Don't bother. All of the games you played in your youth are crap.

Cheers mate, you should think about becoming a motivational speaker

 

[Slippery Jim]

Cheers mate, you should think about becoming a motivational speaker

Have you actually tried playing old games on an emulator? Stuff I loved back in the day is shite now that we have modern graphics.

If I can motivate you to not waste your money then my job here is done.

 

[girojim]

Cheers mate, you should think about becoming a motivational speaker

He's right tbf, it looks a good idea but gaming has moved on so much you'll be bored pretty quickly.

 

[Gene Hunt]

Have you actually tried playing old games on an emulator? Stuff I loved back in the day is shite now that we have modern graphics.

If I can motivate you to not waste your money then my job here is done.

You're right there. Had a look at some Spectrum games I played as a kid and they were beyond shit and absolutely rock hard to play. My kids pissed themselves laughing at Matchday, the FIFA of my youth.

 

[Lexingtongue]

Have you actually tried playing old games on an emulator? Stuff I loved back in the day is shite now that we have modern graphics.

If I can motivate you to not waste your money then my job here is done.

Nonsense. Some of the best games ever are part of the SNES, Mega Drive, and PS1 catalogue. Graphics do not a great game make. Give me Super Metroid over Call of Duty any day.

 

[Slippery Jim]

Nonsense. Some of the best games ever are part of the SNES and PS1 catalogue. Graphic do not a great game make.

Try playing them on an emulator then come back and comment.

 

[Lexingtongue]

Try playing them on an emulator then come back and comment.

I play them on emulators on a regular basis, mate.

 

[Keawyeds]

Anyone got one of these?? Seen a few sites advertising them and look class for all the games that I used to play in my youth. Was thinking of getting one of the handheld ones but not sure if there any good

https://retro-systems.co.uk/collections/all

Pardon my ignorance, but do you plug that into your TV or what? I used to have an emulator on my old laptop for Gameboy games etc, but nowt like this

 

[Slippery Jim]

I play them on emulators on a regular basis, mate.

My favourite game back in the early 90's was XCOM. I would start playing at 6pm and not stop until 4am. I loved it.

I recently played it using DosBox and I was bored within 10 minutes.

 

[Wilfy]

I'm halfway through making one of these.

http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Player-Bartop-Arcade-Machine-Powered-by-Pi/

 

[Epping]

some of the old games on emulators are shit especially if they are old 8 bit spectrum ones but I can happily play games on MAME for hours

Mr Do, Asteroids, Gauntlet

some great stuff out there

 

[LondonBlackCat]

Wondering how they get away with openly selling copyright material...

 

[Slippery Jim]

I'm halfway through making one of these.

http://www.instructables.com/id/2-Player-Bartop-Arcade-Machine-Powered-by-Pi/

Well it keeps you off the streets.

 

[Lexingtongue]

My favourite game back in the early 90's was XCOM. I would start playing at 6pm and not stop until 4am. I loved it.

I recently played it using DosBox and I was bored within 10 minutes.

You can't pass one personal opinion off as a blanket statement, man. Games like Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, among others, still get ported as-is to newer devices and sell well. One of the biggest wants on the Nintendo Switch is the Virtual Console which allows users to play all the old games from NES, Game boy, SNES, and so on.

 

[Carteron]

A decent Android box and games controller, and join Retromania on Facebook for a fiver. Gives you loads of tutorials and pretty easy to get set up yourself.

 

[Slippery Jim]

You can't pass one personal opinion off as a blanket statement, man. Games like Super Mario World, Yoshi's Island, among others, still get ported as-is to newer devices and sell well. One of the biggest wants on the Nintendo Switch is the Virtual Console which allows users to play all the old games from NES, Game boy, SNES, and so on.

I can't but I'm going to!

 

[hypersonic]

For the money they're asking you'd be better off paying someone on here to do it for you.

Or doing it urself for nearer £80. With top notch pads etc, not their generic shite.

 

[Malloy]

I've not read the original link, but be careful as a lot of these types of machines are more sort of fan made remakes of games and not the actual originals. Ive read a lot where people have been dissapointed saying the games are nothing like the originals.