Yeah, it’s beautiful. My PVM is jealous. I need to figure out what to use with those BNC connectors though.
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Been meaning to try Battle Golfer.
Nice. Intellivision Demon Attack and 2600 River Raid are some of the best '80s shooters.
Agreed! I actually haven’t played the intellivision version, but the VIC-20 port is a terrible amount of fun.
Had a few gems come in this week for my CPS2 collection. I really loved playing Marvel Super Heroes when it was out in my local arcade as a kid. My wife and I played through some D&D tonight and had a lot of fun. Can’t wait to get 4 players going at once. The original Street Fighter Alpha is one of my favorite fighters ever. I love picking Akuma as a secret character.
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I really need to play some 2600 games again. I also have a BIG hole in my gaming past because I never owned either a ColecoVision or a 5200. I have a 7800 that I didn’t give much love to.
I may have to look for a 5200 locally…
I’ve never owned anything pre-NES other than a game and watch. I wouldn’t even know where to begin honestly. There’s a lot out there.
My first console was an Atari VCS, pre-2600 branding. I bought it with some of my own money (mostly Christmas earned IIRC) and brought home Combat, Asteroids and Missile Command. I own something like fifty carts for the system and many are still excellent today. Those arcade conversions were the deal in the early '80s, and there were so many great originals too. I think it’s harder to go back to than NES to the present because it’s so abstract at times, but the playability was there even if the graphics weren’t.
The 5200 was a big miss for them obviously and I did play a lot of those games on Atari Computers which had similar hardware capability to the 5200. I’d still like to own one. A friend had a ColecoVision and it was pretty awesome for the time. It still suffers, as does the 5200, from being pretty abstract compared to what we got with NES and the 7800.
I like playing with authentic controllers as much as the next guy, but I think to really enjoy a 5200 nowadays you have to use something that’s NOT the original controllers haha
VCS is the only system I do raw carts instead of CIB. Got an old wooden box full of carts. But it’s pretty cheap to grab carts for, there just isn’t the same nostalgia for it and never was that NES and later.
It’s honestly my go-to system for silly drinking games. Human Cannonball!
Coleco is this weird clunky thing. Pretty cool for 82, clearly a generation between VCS and Famicom, but an annoying system to actually use. I love though it because it was the west/east transition console - it has great Sega AND Nintendo and Konami games on it!
I was looking for Legend of Kage 2 for a while… a local game store posted on IG that they got a copy traded in and I was so happy! Until I got there and they had already sold it lol.
at that point I was just happy to have finally found a copy in the wild because I’ve never seen it out there before. So I said F it and just bought a copy on ebay. $14 for a brand new sealed one, can’t complain there lol
Bomb Chicken was overpaid for tho… game is like $7 on eshop, but I just had to have it physical and paid the price for missing out on it when it first went on sale lol
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Pleased to see Legend of Kage 2 get a pickup, I bought a copy to play through two years ago and really enjoyed it, still need to do a playthrough with Kage, my first was with Chihoiro only. I found it easier to chain combos with her.
Whoa, that’s pretty crazy for the head of a retro game site. 
I think the 2600 is a good place to start (the controllers won’t be as foreign as Intellivision or ColecoVision, plus you can use Genesis controllers if you want). Games like H.E.R.O. and River Raid are timeless and easy to pick up and play.
Vectrex games (mostly shooters) are really smooth and the analog stick is much better than the 5200’s. It’s an expensive system now, though, but worth checking out emulated.
The Odyssey2’s joysticks are more comfortable/less stiff than most pre-NES first party controllers. It doesn’t have as many good games as the 2600 or InTV but stuff like Killer Bees and KC’s Krazy Chase holds up well.
And 8-bit computers like the Commodore 64 have a lot of great “transitional phase” games that bridge the early to mid '80s styles: Bruce Lee, Impossible Mission, Archon, World Karate Championship, Aztec Challenge, Epyx sports, Ultima IV, etc…
That’s a console I prefer to play emulated because of the uncomfortable/worn down controllers. Donkey Kong Jr. and Mr. Do’s Castle are quite addictive on it, still worth playing even with easier access to the arcade versions today.
The Vic and 2600 games are good but the InTV remake’s boss battle is so satisfying.
Oh man, that’s sweet! Thanks for showing that to me, as one of my all time favourites from when I ws a kid, discovering this is very cool.
I need to boot up my IV to play this ASAP.
I just use a Sega pad. You can leave player 2 plugged in and select modes with that.
I tried that a few years ago but my controller port broke. I wasn’t sure if that was related.
I stopped using Sega controllers on Commodore computers as I read it can damage them somehow. I never had a problem, though.
Pepper 2 is fucking amazeballs on Colecovision. I’m lucky in the controllers on mine are still hanging in there knock on all the wood around. It looks great with the rgb mod too.
Yeah, Genesis controllers are not wired the same, and can cause damage. If you use one button only, it will work as intended, but if you use the other buttons by accident. you’re feeding 5V directly into the CIA chip, which can destroy it. (this is on the C64)
There are cheap adapters you can buy that will make them okay to use.
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