I know I am not the only fan of the classic consoles on here and I think we should have our own thread to talk about them, the games and reminisce.

To say I am a HUGE fan of the 80's and 90's cartridge based video game systems would be an understatement. NES, SNES, Genesis, Game Boy (the classic black and white one!) Nintendo 64, Virtual Boy, Turbo Grafix 16 systems to names a few. I loved them all. Hell, I remember every Friday after school my parents would take me up to the local Video Store (back before Blockbuster, the Neighborhood ones) and renting a game for the night. I also remember before the internet when we were trying to figure out the secret codes and cheats like on Contra (up, up, down, down, you know the drill) and the secret's on the Mario Brothers games and when you found one you were the talk of the school! I even still have the first issue of Nintendo Power!

What were some of your favorite games? To name a few (I am sure as we get to posting more will come up as my memory gets jogged).

NES: All three Super Mario Brothers, the original Final Fantasy, Duck Tales (Which they made for the remade Wii U!), The Legend of Zelda, Contra, Metroid, Wizards and Warriors, Balloon Fight, Duck Hunt, Hogans Alley, Kung-Fu, Spy VS. Spy, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Excitebike, Baseball Stars, The Karate Kid, Ninja Gaiden, Top Gun, Rambo, Ghostbusters, Castlevania, Castlevania 2: Simons Quest, 720, Athena, Rygar, WWF WrestleMania. WWF WrestleMania Challenge, Super Pitfall, Superman, Double Dragon, Bad Dudes, Yo Noid, Chip and Dales Rescue Rangers, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mega Man, Mega Man 2, The Simpsons Bart VS. the Space Mutants, The Simpson's Bartman Meets Radioactive Man, The Simpson's Bart VS. the World, Sky Kid, Strider, The Addams Family Festers Quest, Bionic Commando, Rampage, The Goonies II, Golgo 13 (Remember the sex clips lol), Iron Tank, Ikari Warriors and many more that I am sure to remember as the come up!

SNES: Final Fantasy 3 (My favorite video game of all time. I still play it on a regular basis and if your a huge fan I can give you some inside information on how to get unlimited Genji Gloves and other rare items that you can only get couple of during the game), Krusty's Super Fun House (I wish I could find this one too!) Super Mario RPG (I am trying to find this in cartridge format), Street Fighter 2, The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse (I loved that game also!), Chess Master, Demolition Man, Sim City and WWF Super Wrestle Mania! I am sure I will remember more.

Genesis: I never really got into it, I was more of a Nintendo fan. I did Have a Genesis and had the Sega TV channel (anyone remember that?) I had the original Mortal Combat, there was a boxing game that came with the Genesis I wish I could remember, Sonic and Knuckles, I had so much fun with the Sonic games.

Turbo Grafix: Splatterhouse and JJ and Jeff. I miss those two games and if I could find a Turbo Grafix system and those two games I would give anything to buy them. I know they did a remake of Splatterhouse for the PS3 with the original on it. I wish they did something similar for JJ and Jeff.

Virtual Boy: Water World, Wario Land and Mario Clash!

Nintendo 64: Super Mario 64, I could play that game for hours and hours. I also loved Goldeneye. Those were really the only two I played.

PlayStation One: It isn't a cartridge based system and I didn't really get into it except for Final Fantasy 7, Twisted Metal and Top Gun.

PC: I wasn't and am not a fan of OC based games. All though there were a couple I got addicted too. Sid Meier's Civilization 1 and 2 (I would give anything to find a version of either of them that I could make work on my current computer, Star Wars Tie Fighter (Again, I wish I could get a copy that would work on my computer), Mad Dog McCree, and Star Wars Rebel Assault (the first CD rom game I ever got and I remember it would lag because I needed at least a 4x cd drive lol) and The Punisher. I don't remember much about the Punisher other then it was an 80's early 90's version and you could travel in the van I believe and go to mission after mission. I would love to find out the actual game name and see if there is a version that would play on my computer. Also there was Mickey's Space Adventure for the Apple II and Donald Ducks Playground for the Commodore 64 (Wish they had a new version).

Yes, you can download a lot of the original Nintendo games to play on new systems but it's just not the same as putting the cartridge in and the feel and layout of the controllers! I even miss the cheesy graphics. I know when they made the games available to download on the Wii and Wii U a lot of games they updated parts or updated graphics on and I miss the old game and feel.

Over the past few years Nintendo and Sega's patents have expired and they have made a couple of really cool after market systems. One of them if the FC Twin that has two slots that takes both the original NES cartridge and the SNES cartridge. They also have the FC 3 that has 3 ports that takes NES, SNES and Genesis cartridges. The problem with them is the controllers are cheaply made so you need to buy a couple extra because the A and B buttons wear out faster then on the original systems but with the 3 cartridge system it has the ports where you can hook up an original NES, SNES and Genesis controllers. It has 6 controller ports. It also comes with two wireless controllers. It's not a bad deal for $39.99. Check it out, here's an article and pictures of the newest combo system (They have it in multiple colors, I don't know why they made it in the colors in the pictures in the articles.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2454166,00.asp

They also make a hand held video game system that takes SNES cartridges, I bought it and it is an awesome system. You can plug it into the TV and use it as a main system and it has ports for SNES controllers if you have them. Here is the review........

http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/01/20/hyperkin-supaboy-portable-nes-review

It will play any SNES cartridge. Now they just need to do an aftermarket Turbo Grafix 16 and I will be set LOL!

Does anyone know any good places online you can buy new and used cartridge games for a good price?

Does anyone remember the Coleco and Vectrex? No one I know remembers, or let alone owned them. I had both and I remember on the Coleco, I used to play the Smurfs, I was addicted to it and Vectrex where it was a system, monitor and controller all in one where you changed the plastic colored screens on the unit depending on the game you played.

I remember the Colecovision was $300. back in '83. I got one for Christmas, along with the convertor so you could play all you Atari 2600 games on it.

I had the game Smurf for Coleco. I remember jumping, logs, bats and spikes **LOL** Don't remember Vectrex.

First was the Pong console for me. Then came......

Atari 2600, Colecovision, NES, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Sega Saturn, Sega Dreamcast and the original X-box. No console since. I like my PC ;)

I remember Vetrex! It was a game that was bulky and built into the TV thing you played it on. They used to sell them in Woolworths over here. That was about 30 years ago. A crappy asteroids type game was built into it also. Ha ha. We got rid of that and i got a Sinclair Spectrum and my brother the Amstrad computer with the colour monitor, cos we would fight over whatever we were playing games on back then. My mum still has our old Atari 2600 up in her attic, believe it or not? She kept a lot of our toys up there, instead of throwing them out years ago. Gonna have to pop up and see exactly what is still there, as my brother thinks his old Sega Megadrive, is up there also!

Mess..... Any old Transformer toys up in that attic? I'll have to drag a few of mine out and post pics.

Probably, as my brothers Star Wars toys from back then are up there also. I know that cos my mum never threw anything out that was put up there. My brother is 39 and got anything and everything back then, as he was the youngest!

I grew up mostly with my dad. I have 3 siblings. Lil sis, older sis and brother. I know what you mean, my niece gets spoiled rotten by my lil sis.

LP, for old PC games running on new computers, check out: http://www.gog.com/

As a kid I played a lot of Atari 2600 (Games like Adventure, Pitfall 1 and 2)

Also had the handheld Microvision, the beige part was the cartridge, besides Blockbuster, I remember having Bowling, a Star Trek game, some others.


Before the Atari, we had the Coleco Telstar, the cartridges were triangle shaped, each one had about 3 games on them.


When I was in my teens I bought a SEGA Genesis (and later the SEGA CD attachment), I loved Master Of Monsters, Shining Force 1 and 2, Buck Rogers RPG, Cyborg Justice (robot fighting game, you could rip parts off your opponent and use them for your own.) On the SEGA CD I enjoyed the first Wing Commander, Heimdall (Viking themed RPG), the game that came with the CD attachment was Sewer Shark, it was the first game I played that used full motion video.

My first computer gaming was on a Texas Instrument computer in the 80's. I remember playing Hunt The Wumpus. Eventually I moved up to a PC, and have been a big PC gamer since.

I, alas, have never owned a console platform myself. I was raised on the PC, and I've never looked for anything else. (One word: mouselook.) A lot of my friends and family went for consoles, though, and I do remember some great old games...

Mario the First (before Luigi and Yoshi came along)
Sonic the Hedgehog
The Pit of Doom (??) - a game where you controlled a little black stick-figure and had to run through a jungle and jump over pits of doom, pits of scorpions, etc, etc.
Street Fighter
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Marvel Fighter Something - you teamed up with a bunch of Marvel superheroes in your standard dungeon-crawler. That's where I first started liking Gambit from the X-Men a lot.
This may be a little later, but 007: Goldeneye

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They're bringing back some of these really old games for modern platforms (read, PC). I've seen Sonic the Hedgehog, DuckTales Remastered, and really old PC games like Raptor: Call of the Shadows (which I just bought again - seems glitchy) up on Valve Software's Steam service. Steam is making up a console version of itself, so you could probably get all these games downloaded to your modern Playstation or X-Box.

Final Fight and its sequels were always fun when friends were around.

One of my first RPGs was Shining in the Darkness on the Genesis. There was another on the NES I wasn't too good at when I first played it but if I could find it on any of the retro download services I'd get it again just to finish it: Little Ninja Bros.

But I'm always up for Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars on the Wii Virtual Console. So glad they made that available now that my SNES has gone to the scrap heap.

Lol @ final fight...i played it as a kid, was fun & back then i also played gameboy, gamegear, sega master system, sega m�ga drive....but after the Playstation was released i forgot them all

I never forgot them, I just never bothered to try to find a way to pick them up again. Now it's kind of hit-or-miss which ones are available on the new-gen systems and which ones you have to scour Amazon and flea markets for.

You only has the Atari Module? They had a few of them, my favorite we had actually turned the Coleco Vision into a PC Computer, the ADAM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco_Adam

They also had boxing glove controllers, the Steering Wheel and Gas Pedal module and the Roller Controller which was a trackball controller. They were all awesome. Hell, I loved their regular controller with the number pad on the bottom, joystick on the top and two buttons on the side. It just stinks because I had a ton of games for the Coleco Vision and I only remember the Smurfs

I know Telegames released a bunch of Coleco Vision Games on CD-Rom for a windows computer a while back, two editions, one in 1997 and one in 1998.......

You never had any of the Nintendo's or a Trubo Grafix 16?

You would like the Remake NES, SNES and Sega console. I guarantee it!

How could i forget the Atari....first console i ever played but first console like computer i had was the Commodore 64 in the 80s.
anyone heard of it lol?

I listed the NES in my description. Another SEGA...... Heck yea!

How could you not like the Vectrex?!? Here are some awesome photos of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex

I have, as my brother had one for a few months, then he got an Atari 800xl computer with a disc drive. My mum spoiled him rotten when we were younger Romeo!

The Commodore ruled back then!