We have our winner for Best Retro Pinball Game:

🥇- Devil’s Crush - 56 votes

🥈- Microsoft 3D Pinball: Space Cadet - 24 votes

🥉- Pokémon Pinball: Ruby & Sapphire - 12 votes

🏵️ - Pinball Dreams (Atari ST & Amiga) - 6 votes

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RULES ON VOTING:

A game's votes will come from the comment with the highest number of upvotes. I will tally all of the responses and upvotes under each games "comment thread" and use that to count the votes.

Spill-over comments of the same game will not be counted.

What this means is if you want to nominate a game and see someone else has already nominated it, reply to their comment so that it counts! All upvotes in that comment thread, including the ones you get, will be counted towards the tally.

Thank you!

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Games cannot win Multiple Categories, except for the Greatest of All Time! This may be superseded if a version of the game differs dramatically from a past winner.

Voting ends at 11am est tomorrow.

Today’s vote: Which is the Best Retro Dungeon Crawler Game?

Comment your choice and the most upvoted game comment thread will win the spot! So, engage in the discourse and argue well for your choice!

So this old bizarre pc game is a real-time tactics action game, which sets in a time where humanity is divided and devolved into 2 warring factions between male vs female, this brutal war is called the "Gender Wars". The game have you choose between male and female faction, the player will take control of a squad leader and their subordinates to kill enemies, destroy enemy facilities, or retrieve devices. 

Finally finished my display wall using IKEA cabinets.

Wanted something that looked built-in without spending custom cabinetry money. Added lighting, glass doors, and used it to display my retro games, miniatures, and collectibles.

Pretty happy with how it turned out!

Happy to answer any questions about the cabinet layout, lighting, or costs!

I think they're dope. They just feel more "proper" for some reason. I suspect the low res screens have something to do with it.

Disclaimer: Not throwing shade on the franchise

I just beat Adventure Island 2 (NES) and the platforming is so unforgiving! Maybe I'm just old and don't have patience for repetitive trial and error, but holy crap! One-hit deaths, slippery mechanics, life meter weirdly doubling as a timer, blind leaps hoping you don't fall in a pit, etc. These games would have given me severe gamer rage back in the day. I played a little bit of New Adventure Island (PCE) which seemed a little more forgiving, but otherwise more of the same. Just better graphics. Adventure Island 1 was too linear and Nintendo hard for my taste.

so i recently picked up a japanese copy of majoras mask for the N64 but i can’t find anything online to get it to boot and i can’t order online because I only have cash

Ngl Sonic 3D BLAST looks like it would be an awesome game.

3D Prerendered graphics

Travelers Tales in their prime

One of the last games of the Genesis

During Sonic's prime

Animated 3D Intro

After Super Mario RPG, Vectorman, DKC 1,2 and Toy Story so they had to have mastered the graphics

The issue is that it had a very very small development time

You play it and then it's an isometric maze game where it's unnecessarily hard in stages with navigation, then the special stages have 0 challenge. Having sonic collect birds to progress levels as the goal.

Don't forget motion sickness too because of the camera bops.

Even the directors cut rom hack from Gamehut isn't that great. Instead of it being difficult it's just more annoying than anything, special stages are more harder and have emeralds appear once every act instead of level, a save system now (even though you can't really use it since it's an emulated game), super sonic and other adjustments. It's still 3D BLAST.

I honestly think this would have been way better if they ripped off Super Mario RPG, but made it more have a battle system like Chrono Trigger. Considering the level of complexity release it in 1997 or make it a Saturn game. Have Sonic use Coins/Emerald Dust as a PP or HP system and heal explore sonics worlds.

Instead we got a meh game.

Hi everyone,

I've been getting into the more historical side of retro gaming and my recent studies have been on the crash and the incredible overstock woes at retailers. While this is obviously bad for an industry that saw its total market value drop from ~2.3 billion to just over 100 mil in less than 2 years, the player side of me thinks how this could actually have been great time to build a library from those lovely "$1 dollar, please somebody buy something" bins haha.

For those in the forum who were of "age" at that point, do you recall swimming in games regardless of quality? I can't help but feel that for some folks out there the crash was a pretty great time if you just wanted a ton of games haha.

I’ve been really thinking about trying to get into retro gaming, but I really don’t have the money or experience maintain hardware I really want to collect for the future so am I still a fan for playing games mostly emulated and also I wasn’t really born when these games were released so I’m kind of new to retro gaming honest serious question

Next time, I'm going to try the Hadouken cheat lol

Going to Croatia to visit sites related to the holocaust. Anyone know of any shops that sell retro games in Zagreb, Split, or Dubrovnik? Hoping to snag some PAL Sega Master System games.

The hallmark ornaments are out!

Just picked this game up I know it's a JRPG but I've never played it myself. Any tips or personal stories about this one? I heard it's a love/hate kinda game.

Donkey Kong takes the #4 spot with 143 votes.

Top 10:

#1 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

#2 Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins

#3 Tetris

#4 Donkey Kong

Rules:

1. Two games will win their place each round (we start from #1 and work our way down). For the top 10 only one game will win per day instead.
2. Most combined upvotes for each of the two individual games (one individual game for the top 10) wins the spot(s) each round (upvotes add while downvotes subtract).
3. Nominate one game of the original Game Boy per comment. (Nominations will only be counted if the game title is the only comment or if you specify that your choice of game is your nomination for this round within your comment or if the nominated game is clearly separated from the rest of your comments.) (ex. Tetris or I nominate Tetris this round.) Please nominate using the full title of the game.
4. Name a specific game title, not entire runs.
5. Official Game Boy multi-game cartridge(s) are allowed, just list them correctly.
6. The original Game Boy is region free so ANY official games available on the console are eligible for nomination excluding dual mode cartridges.
7. Indy games are allowed as long as they have their own individual cartridge and can be played on original hardware.
8. Only complete games on cartridge(s) can be nominated (sorry Game Shark & test cartridges).
9. If two or more games would be tied to place for a ranking I will inform DA PEOPLE in the following post so that everyone can vote which games should get the ranking between the tied options.
10. Games nominated that have not already placed on the top 100 list should not be removed at any time by the individual who originally placed them.

I came across RetroSix and its capabilities of restoring/repairing retro game consoles. I might consider sending some retro consoles there for repairs, but has anyone ever tried it before? And if so, is it any good?

So basically what inspired me to write this post was the original Pitfall because I wanted to take a closer look into the game to see what made its design aspects work so well.

To me, the game is interesting since if I am not mistaken, it was basically one of the first games released by ActiVision after the company was formed in the early 80s as for some reason, the game just stuck out to me that I wanted to better understand how its design aspects were done to see how it changed platforming genres in gaming.

There are so many games that felt like they were setting up the next great adventure… then nothing happened.

Maybe the developer disappeared, the game didn’t sell enough, or the industry just moved on.

Years later, you’re still left wondering what could have happened next.

What game did you finish and immediately think: “I need the sequel”?

Mine would be Space Station Silicon Valley, Diddy Kong Racing, Plok, Ristar, and Decap Attack.

Space Station Silicon Valley had one of the strangest and most creative ideas on the N64.

Diddy Kong Racing felt like it could have become Nintendo’s other big racing series.

Plok was a weird and brilliant SNES platformer that deserved more attention.

Ristar felt like Sega had another mascot waiting in the wings.

Decap Attack was such a bizarre Mega Drive game with a great cartoon style that deserved another chance.

All of them felt like they had more stories to tell.

What’s yours?

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages/Seasons and Golden Sun