RETRO GAMING
(Posted 2003-11-25 16:31:28 by basscomm)

I first made my foray into legal emulation with _Midway's Greatest Arcade
Hits Volume 1_ and _Namco Museum_, I then moved on toCastlevania and Contra
[ http://crummysocks.com/blog/archives/000081.php ]. and then picked up an
e-Reader (and several packs of cards, of course) and Animal Crossing. 

And it just keeps getting better. Classic _Metriod_ is locked away in
_Metroid Prime_, Nintendo is giving away _Legend of Zelda_ game discs with
the NES _Zelda_ games on them, Midway is releasing a compilation of their
old arcade games, Capcom is releasing a _Mega Man_ collection, and there
are an insane amount of conversions of classic games to the Game Boy
Advance.

This is an incredible trend, and I certainly hope it continues. Maybe I'm
looking at these games through glasses stained with nostalgia, but I
honestly beleive that we are seeing some of the best games from the earlier
days coming out of all this. It gives us who grew up with these classic
games a chance to play them again without having to fight finicky systems,
and it introduces the new generation of gamers to some games that, well,
they need to play.


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