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Avid millennial gamer here. Wasn't raised with games. Can someone recommend a good classic game to try?
by noeatnosleep 2y ago
Avid millennial gamer here. Wasn't raised with games. Can someone recommend a good classic game to try?
- nosrepa 2y agoIt's always good to see usernames I recognize from the other site.
- johnisgood 2y agoI know right. :D
- aussieguy1234 2y agoThe game boy Tetris was the first version I played, it was pretty good. Nowdays for a mobile Tetris option i'm using a SNES emulator on my phone (Snes9x EX) and Super Tetris. Meanwhile, there are companies creating on the web and mobile app versions of Tetris, inserting ads and charging money for what should be free.
- gwbas1c 2y agoSuper Mario Land, 1 and 2. Dr. Mario. Game Boy games tended to be limited due to space constraints.
- xtracto 2y agoI has SML 1 and OperationC in the original game boy. Such great games. Also links awakening!!
- lxgr 2y agoThere are definitely limitations, but later games have a lot more depth than these. Link's Awakening feels like it shouldn't be possible in a single megabyte of mask ROM, for example. The fact that it was makes it almost more impressive by today's standards.
- djtango 2y agoGames back then were a bit of a dark art... I feel like I don't really encounter stories of heroics in making games work on their hardware anymore. Even at the end of PS1 with Final Fantasy their hand drawn backgrounds were too big to fit into VRAM iirc Or in the PS2 era Jak and Daxter using the principle of hot reloading from lisp to figure out open worlds without loading screens
- Narishma 2y agoThe limitations nowadays for game development are more on the budget side than the hardware.
- wing-_-nuts 2y agoThe fact that a single dev used to be able to complete an entire game really makes me wish I had come of age back in the day when that was possible. I feel like you can only approach something similar with pico-8 or another fantasy console these days.
- RetroSpark 2y ago> Link's Awakening feels like it shouldn't be possible in a single megabyte of mask ROM Half a megabyte, even! (For the original monochrome game - the later color version is a full megabyte.)
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- s369610 2y agoKirby's Dream Land is pretty fun too (esp after watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBRt2D2YN44 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBRt2D2YN44 which is where the creator talks about the concepts of the game)
- bityard 2y agoI always played games growing up but didn't play Kirby until much later in life. Kirby is easily my favorite platformer, even ahead of Mario and Sonic. I wish there were more like it.
- frosting1337 2y agoPokemon - Red/Blue or Gold/Silver, and Legend of Zelda: Links Awakening.
- matcha-video 2y agoseconded! I also enjoyed Zelda: Oracle of Ages / Seasons
- MyOutfitIsVague 2y agoGame Boy, or any classic game? Wario Land 3 is a really really good Game Boy Color game.
- 999900000999 2y agoTetris or Pokemon Red. Pokemon is actually a really difficult game before modern QOL. No DLC!
- dpedu 2y agoDragon Warrior 1, 2, and 3 are all awesome official ports - they were originally for the NES.
- Xenoamorphous 2y agoFor the original GameBoy, without a doubt: Zelda Link's Awakening.
- kibwen 2y agoBut get the DX edition for the GBC.
- andrepd 2y agoPokémon is the quintessential Game Boy game
- kibwen 2y agoFor the Game Boy/Color, I recommend Wario Land II and Donkey Kong (1994) as sleeper hits.
- coldpie 2y agoSuper Mario Land is a good place to start. The music is great, and it is very short and pretty easy. Link's Awakening is my favorite Zelda game. The original Pokemon games (Red/Blue, Gold/Silver) that others are recommending are pretty rough these days, but it's fun to see where it all started if you have the patience for them. If you want something a little less well-known, Bubble Ghost is a fun little puzzler. Regardless of what you try, remember that this is the era when game manuals were required reading since they rarely were able to fit tutorials & instructions in-game. It's good to scan through the manual first before you play something or you might be missing some critical information.
- philips 2y agoMole Mania
- jaredhallen 2y agoSuper Off Road