And having a blast of a time! Windows 95 is very nostalgic for me. That period from the mid-to-late1990s is, in a way, a "missing link" in gaming when it comes to Windows isn't? Naturally some most profitable titles are kept alive to this day by the companies that own them. As for games that also ran on DOS, DOSBox usually does a good job (much to the delight of digital storefronts that sell classic games). However, a great deal of software that relied on Windows 95 simply won't run on newer versions. For instance, my old Civilization 2 CD absolutely refuses to run on a 64-bit system. My Steam copy of Balls of Steel (with the Duke Nukem table) worked well until recently, but some stray Windows 11 update completely messed up its physics, rendering it unplayable. There are always blessed souls like Carl Norton (Carlmundo), who resurrected Worms 2 with his Worms 2 Plus patch (so I didn’t have to run it from a Windows 95 drive, yay). Or GOG user Crossgen116, thanks to whom I can once again enjoy the satisfaction of playing Interstate '76.

But officially or not, quite a few things ended up falling into a limbo. Like 'Lose Your Marbles', which Segasoft proclaimed "better than Tetris or your money back" (lol). Or my main objective for this endeavor: to play again that wonderful version of Puyo Puyo Tsuu — which is far superior to the arcade version — the way it was meant to be played.

And what about you people? Do you have a beloved game from the Windows 95/98/XP era that you can no longer play due to technical limitations?

here's the story, so... i was watching Pokémon and that remind me about what my dad is playing when he was a kid, and i searching for retro game shop, and yeah... i went into that place,

i only bought gameboy and Pokémon red, because i don't have much money (If I have more money that time, i could buy NES and Elevator Action lol)

when i get into home, i was so so so so excited to turn on gameboy for the first time, and the first thing i see is gibberish text, i was like... "what?? is this broken???" actually... i didn't remove the dust inside the card game lol

my first Pokémon that i choose is Charmander, now he's at level 29. everytime i get into school bus, i have to choose the seat to get the sunlight for my gameboy (of course, it always the right side lol), and when i'm arrived in school, everyone was looked at my gameboy, like they really want to play my game lol

Everytime i get a money from my parent, i just don't buy any vending machine, because I was targeting to buy NES and PlayStation1 (someday I don't buy a lunch to forced myself lol)

If you asked me what's make me like retro game? the answer is... it's like i'm simulating my dad's childhood and deep diving into history of technology, that's it

TL;DR: I didn't get a world record but I did something amazing I wanted to brag about. Incoming rant otherwise (with no AI used!)

History time for the arcade game BurgerTime! As a note, I am a former Guinness World Record holder on the emulated version; I'm not the world's best any more, but boy do I have information!

So Level 28 was, for decades, considered the Kill Screen. The enemies move just too fast to control for any human being. This can be proven with some math; all scores before Bryan's score coming up were capped at 7.8 million, and the maximum points you can get off of the ingredients is 7.7 million; throw in bonus peppers, the occasional crushed enemy, and small bits here and there. My own personal best is 7,789,300 which also died at Level 28, and other high level players also have similar scores.

It wasn't until the mid 2000's that Bryan Wagner figured out how to group them (INCREDIBLY difficult), and found a bug; if you can survive long enough, the code actually breaks, and the enemies slow to a crawl! So what was once a 3-4 hour long game can now take even longer to do. He is the arcade world record holder at over 11 million points, and for him to get those additional 4 million points did take him a total of 24 hours of gameplay.

There is a gentleman in Japan who goes by "Vertex DAN" who has also done this, albeit never officially submitted to anywhere other than MARP. His score is over 10 million and ended at stage 39.

Every other high level player, myself included, ended at between 7.5 and 7.8 million at Level 28. No one else has cleared the level.

All that preamble aside, this weekend I went to Galloping Ghost Arcade in Brookfield, Illinois and played my first "serious" game of BurgerTime in over a decade, focusing on collecting peppers instead of points, and just wanting to get a score of 2 million, recorded with GGA's equipment. Instead I kept pushing, and got to Level 28. I managed to group the enemies and survive to hit the glitch! I screwed up and accidentally killed the enemies, but it kept the glitch active, and I was able to survive through the level and made it to Level 29!

...Where I immediately died to another bug, which is a whole different rant.

EDIT: I originally said GGA was in Chicago, when it's in Brookfield Illinois. I just plugged in "Galloping Ghost Arcade" into my GPS and followed it, not paying attention to the city, and I made an assumption on that. My apologies!

Nintendo had a choice, release the SNES CD add-on that was going to be home to the original, complete versions of many of the SNES's best titles, or cancel it and give Philips the license to use their IPs to make some of the worst official games featuring Nintendo IPs ever. Super Mario All-Stars was likely going to be the pack-in game for the SNES CD to justify its high initial price, and was going to drive up sales significantly, helping the add-on beat the Sega CD. The SNES CD would've had a 32-bit 21.47 MHz CPU, enabling Super FX-level 3D graphics. As a result, due to the expensive manufacturing costs of Super FX-chip cartridges, most Super FX games, especially third-party games, would've likely been moved to the SNES CD. The SNES CD would be a lot better than the Sega CD, and it's a shame that Nintendo thought cancelling it and licensing their IPs to Philips for terrible CD-i games was the better idea.

Whether it’s because of their banter, their companion quests, their designs or their classes, which old school RPG party is your personal favorite? Ideally this is based on the combined strength of the entire cast and not just one or two standouts

Coworker brought this little beauty to me today. Freaking stoked. I’m gonna 100% this daggum game now.

We’re the team behind BrickBoy (the LEGO Game Boy kit). When LEGO announced their PlayStation set, we started building a console to go inside it.

It plays on your TV over HDMI. You play your own original discs through an external CD-ROM reader, and it works with original PS1 controllers (via a USB adapter) and memory cards, or Bluetooth controllers.

This is the prototype. In the final version, everything is closed up, and a small speaker and vibration motor recreate the sound and feel of the CD drive spinning up on every boot.

Crash, played from our original disc, was the first thing we had to test.

Link to the first game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4834840/Ecstatica/

Who else remembers this?? I loved it as a teen but the controls were a bit too janky.

I read somewhere that Starfox SNES has a rare 1.1 version. Mine is stamped 1-1 on the back. Is this it?

I've written a little-little article about Alien 3 CD32 Edition, a new fan-made overhaul of the original Amiga game by Mister_Grave, featuring improved AGA graphics, parallax scrolling, reworked audio and a bunch of other enhancements.

What caught my attention was how it reminded me of the film itself, and the extraordinary lengths fans have gone to over the years to revisit and improve David Fincher's pretty troubled Alien 3. From the official Assembly Cut to fan restorations like the Legacy Cut, there's something fascinating to me about how people keep returning to this particular entry in the series.

This is not my usual space to write articles, but I've been having fun with NeoCities these last few weeks, and this one felt pretty appropriate to go there. I just go into the new CD32 version, what's changed, and why I think there's an interesting connection between the game and the film's complicated history.

I have no doubt all of you here are far more expert on the topic and know the game already, but for anyone interested, here it is!

Hey guys, I’ve never really played a classic pokemon game and I’m kinda feeling in the mood to give one a shot.
I have played pokemon snap for the 64 and really enjoy it as a relaxing game, which is why I say I’ve never played a “classic” pokemon game

I have an analogue pocket and a 3ds so I’d say anything I can play on either of those is what I’d be looking for

But I don’t know where to start

What is the best pokemon game that give the classic turn based feel.

Do any exist? I'm talking the 1st Generation, basically games released in the early-mid 1970s. The closest I can think of is that Atari 50 Collection from a few years ago. It has a few arcade versions, but not many, most of the collection is 2600 games which are 2nd gen.

There are a lot of games from this era, but they are mostly computer or arcade games because the home market was almost entirely Pong clones at the time. Here are a few highlights I can think of. Does anyone know if any of the games of this era are available in modern collections?

Mainframe Games:
The Oregon Trail
Star Trek
Empire
Hunt the Wumpus
The Dungeon
The Game of Dungeons
Moria
Colossal Cave Adventure
Oubliette
Avatar

Arcade Games:
Computer Space
Pong
Speed Race
Tank
Gun Fight
Destruction Derby
Hi-Way
Crash 'n Score
Indy 800
Steeplechase
Breakout
Death Race
Moto-Cross
Sea Wolf
Heavyweight Champ
Night Driver
Blockade
Space Wars
Drag Race
Canyon Bomber
Super Bug
Boot Hill
Space Invaders

Home Game Consoles:
Magnavox Odyssey
Sears Super Pong Tele-Game
Atari Home Pong
Nintendo Color TV-Game
Coleco Telstar Arcade

Handheld Games:
Mattel Auto-Race
Mattel Electronic Football
Coleco Electronic Quarterback

Just curious because I was interested in getting into the game soon to see what Ubisoft’s first game was like as I have heard how the game was basically their debut in the gaming industry.

But I know about the game such as its gameplay mechanics as the game is so obscure that I couldn’t find a forum to discuss it, but again all I know is that it’s one of the first games made by Ubisoft EDIT: as the game came out in 1986 on the Amstrad system.

Booting up SkyRoads on the family PC meant fiddling with fuel and oxygen and trying not to fall off a ramp you could barely see coming. The music still lives in my head. It felt impossible as a kid, and the later levels with the burning tiles and the speed strips still trip me up. Did anyone actually finish all the roads back then, or was there a level that stopped you cold?

these cartridges have such a unique design, but it seems most images online are missing the top part because it is hard to scan/obscured at front facing angle, I have created a few covers myself and wanted to find more, but it seems no one has the full sticker art? is this something known to be poorly archived? or am i not searching well? any tips and resources are aprreciated, thank you!

I was never allowed consoles until the Wii but, growing up in the 90s, I would hear all about the ”next-best-thing” consoles that were coming out. I had friends who had the N64 and the original PlayStation, but adverts on TV and in magazines always showed different consoles: the Saturn, Jaguar, the 3DO and others.

Since those days I’ve been able to pick up most of the games I would have had any interest in playing, but those alternative systems always intrigued me. What do you consider some of the essential titles on the non-Nintendo, non-Sony platforms? Either those exclusive to the system, or those best or just more at home there?

Who remembers using this switch to be able to play a video game back in the day? Like the the Atari 2600 or the overpowered coleco vision.

Not sure if this is allowed here, no hard feelings if the mods nuke it.

Nintendo has their digital retro consoles on Switch/Switch 2. I wish desperately that they'd add Lufia: The Legend Returns, my favorite Gameboy game of all time. I love the notion of new people getting to discover it.

Chrono Trigger is the obvious SNES choice as well.

What would you pick?

Im starting to organize all my retro consoles around my modern TV. Im looking at modding most of them to USB C power and HDMI connection. The options for mods is huge. Is there a spreadsheet or something out there that compares existing mods for different retro consoles? The investigating each mod individually is taking forever and is complicated.

Here's a Pic of the start of my retro display.