Retro gamers ITT

[n8thegr8]

Anyone into collecting old consoles? I brought back my old NES and Genesis when i went to visit my parents, and the nostalgia is overwhelming, so I've been hanging out at vintage stock/ebay looking for deals.

My bro took our N64, so I picked one up on ebay and I'm slowly building my game collection back up. Just finished refurbishing my controllers with new joysticks.

Only thing that sucks is the light guns don't work with my LCD TV

 

[Sanford]

I think I've still got an old ColecoVision, the Atari 2600 adapter, and a bunch of games for it in the bottom of a cabinet somewhere. Haven't powered it up in years, but it was working the last time I did. Maybe I need to drag it out and see one of these days.

 

[NightShade]

Have an old original boxy nintendo somewhere and a N64 in my RV. Have one of the newer Atari's that have all the games embedded but can still be played in a box as well. I just have fun playing the nintendo and super nintendo games on my tablet as well as some sega genesis games.

 

[LightningCrash]

Wiimote and Nesoid with an Android tablet, it's a lot of fun.

I need more Wiimotes for whiteboards and arduino stuff.

 

[okietool]

I still have some stuff. I used to love playing chess on the 2600. The one con for me was it took the board off the screen and flashed colors while it was "thinking". I never throw anything away. ��

 

[XD-9Guy]

I still have NES, SNES, Gameboy, GameGear, N64, PS1,2&3 and my 2600. And I don't even consider myself a gamer. It seems odd that I have them all but they've just accumulated over the years. Most came from my Dad's auction - I picked them up when they were well past their prime, except the PlayStations which were all gifts.

 

[n8thegr8]

I used to do the emulation thing, I even made an NES controller into a parallel port controller, but it's just not the same...

I'm thinking of building a digital AV switch with a ton of inputs and building a nice little cabinet to house everything.

I'm planning on building a MAME cabinet around a raspberry pi for the play room in the next house I buy.

 

[LightningCrash]

I've not found a cart that Nesoid won't play properly. I couldn't even play Clash at Demonhead until this decade. The emulators wigged out. Beat the whole game in Nesoid though.

This is one of the times where I'm glad the performance of emulation is close enough for me.
Like headphones... I can tell that some sound better than others, but not hearing the differences on other cans is fine with me. Saves me over $100 on each set of cans.

 

[Sooonerbob]

If you like those old games, you will enjoy this site.

http://virtualnes.com/

 

[AKJ20]

I pick up this, few months ago! On staff duty last night, rocking the retro system!

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/13f8/