I was revisting several old games yesterday thanks to the beauty of Xbox and Mame, and for me the one game that still plays superbly today is Shinobi. I loved it the first time round, but playing it again with a Hori arcade stick on a big screen the magic is still there. I adore the calculated and clinical gameplay, and special mention must go to the crisp sound effects. Any others that are as good today as they ever were?
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On that XBox Mame tip, Pac-Land is still suprisingly good, and not as tough as I remember it being.
Gyruss and Phoenix are still great fun, I still love the Gyruss music. Galaga 88 is probably my favourite Space Invaders style shooter ever, and criminally overlooked for the most part.
Gravitar is very cool, especially as more people have played Thrust which is based on it.
Star Wars arcade is still genius, but finding the right kind of controller for it is almost impossible.
Gauntlet and Marble Madness (in particular) are still thoroughly charming.
Crystal Castles and Missile Command are still some of the best track ball games in existance. Surpassed only by Armadillo Racing and Monkey Ball (arcade) I'd say.
Out Run is still as good as ever in my opinion, Space Harrier and Afterburner are a little naff these days though. ukresistance disagree with this:
On XBox Frodo (or whatever the XBox C64 emu is) I've been playing Bounty Bob Strikes Back, Paradroid and Gribbly's Day Out, truly great games one and all.
* edit * spelling is a problem today
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Funny that you mention it. Yesterday, I put Metroid Prime on hold and started to wander with Super Metroid. In the end, I spent 5 hours from the beggining to the underwater world.
I'm planning to finish it tonight. As much as I love Prime, all I can think today is to play Super Metroid (and no stupid scanning all the time)
So yes, Super Metroid is as good today as it was before, if not better.
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Originally posted by dgnr7982Most of the games I remember being good were just cack - anything older than 32-bit I generally avoid.
Anyway, I can't even begin to put a number on the amount of hours I have played Rainbow Islands both on the Arcade on now MAME, and along with R-Type which I can now 1 credit () are two of the best games ever.
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Agree about Metroid, definately the reason to own a GBA although not sure its as good as the SNES version.
Me and my brother has a mad couple of days when we I borrowed my mates Xbox playing hyper sports - miles miles better than Track & Field. The amount of variety in all the different games was amazing rather than just constantly hammering the buttons like in T & F.
Brother still plays Rastan Saga, Ghost'N'Goblins and Green Beret a lot. I thought Shufflepuck Cafe still plays amazing as does Ramparts.
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