Old School Gaming

Brandon Rice

Brandon Rice

Distributed Producer
So... I bought my wife an original NES System for her birthday, and it arrived today. She absolutely LOVES the Mario Bros games, and I am looking forward to re-living my childhood as well! We had an NES when I grew up until the N64 came out in 1997. Loved playing Mario, Duck Hunt, Blades of Steel, Double Dribble, Paperboy, and of course Tecmo Super Bowl!

Anyone else here enjoy the old school games? Sometimes they're even more fun and charming than the graphic marvels of today.
 
Why not just install zsnes or snes9x and download all the game ROMs? The games are identical (they are the actual ROMs taken from the cartridges) and you can bump up the resolution, among other things (or leave it as is and play it as it was back in the day).

The copyright on most of those games expired long ago.....it's a dead market as far as the law is concerned as there is no money to be made or lost for the companies since neither the system nor the games are produced any more.

I have close to 10,000 game ROMs for SNES, Genesis, TG-16, NES, Neo Geo and arcade (via Mame). I don't really play them anymore (I just collect them for the heck of it) but every now and then I crack open an arcade shooter since they just don't make 'em like they used to.
 
The copyright on most of those games expired long ago.....it's a dead market as far as the law is concerned as there is no money to be made or lost for the companies since neither the system nor the games are produced any more.
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Are you sure about that? Those games would only be 20-30 years old, I'm pretty sure copyright runs a fair bit longer than that.
 
I've heard Duck Hunt doesn't work with a lot of TV's anymore. I don't remember why, but it was all in how the gun took "pictures" and relayed the information back.

Other than that, yes, I love some old school games. While not as far back as the NES, I played my wife's Super Nintendo one Saturday before we got married (she sent it down to Memphis with me while she was still in OKC). I beat Super Mario Bros, SMB2, and SMB3 all in one sitting (on the Super Mario Bros. All-Stars game). It took me back! So fun!
 
I'll clarify...the copyright may still be active but it would be unenforceable. If Nintendo took you to court for playing a Mario Bros. ROM, you could say "Fine, sell me the system and the game." But they don't exist any more.

I guess technically it's considered a "gray market". You may be breaking the law, but no one (not even ambulance chasing lawyers nor the companies themselves) would ever waste their time suing you. It's all about money, and in this case no one is losing or making any money.

In many cases, the companies that produced the games do not even exist any more. The only thing you want to avoid doing is selling the ROMs for profit....that may raise a few eyebrows.
 
@ the original post: I feel I wasted a good portion of my sophomore year of HS trying to solve Legend of Zelda and Metroid.
 
Phil1076 said:
Why not just install zsnes or snes9x and download all the game ROMs? The games are identical (they are the actual ROMs taken from the cartridges) and you can bump up the resolution, among other things (or leave it as is and play it as it was back in the day).

The copyright on most of those games expired long ago.....it's a dead market as far as the law is concerned as there is no money to be made or lost for the companies since neither the system nor the games are produced any more.

I have close to 10,000 game ROMs for SNES, Genesis, TG-16, NES, Neo Geo and arcade (via Mame). I don't really play them anymore (I just collect them for the heck of it) but every now and then I crack open an arcade shooter since they just don't make 'em like they used to.
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lol. nintendo still sells some of these games as downloads for the wii.
 
Just played through a level. Fun stuff! :) Amazing the graphics difference in 25 years... wow. My wife is such an addict though lol... she would have played for hours, except we only had one hour for lunch.
 
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I just got done playing the single player mode of Call of Duty Black Ops.
Watched the credits and I cant believe how many people worked on that game. It has to be 3-4 thousand people.

Actors like Ed Harris, Sam Worthington, Gary Oldman, etc, graphics that are amazing..
yet with all these people involved they still couldn't (in my opinion) come up with a good storyline.

Was it enough of a story between shooting people sure, but I'm just surprised it was as lacking as it was.

Ah well, I'm not a huge gamer but it is amazing to me how far gaming has come since "duck hunt".
 
I remember the original Prince of Persia, Kings Quest and Leisure Suit Larry
What was the company called? Sierra?
Came on a 360k floppy disk about the size of a CD
 
Phil1076 said:
Why not just install zsnes or snes9x and download all the game ROMs? The games are identical (they are the actual ROMs taken from the cartridges) and you can bump up the resolution, among other things (or leave it as is and play it as it was back in the day).

The copyright on most of those games expired long ago.....it's a dead market as far as the law is concerned as there is no money to be made or lost for the companies since neither the system nor the games are produced any more.

I have close to 10,000 game ROMs for SNES, Genesis, TG-16, NES, Neo Geo and arcade (via Mame). I don't really play them anymore (I just collect them for the heck of it) but every now and then I crack open an arcade shooter since they just don't make 'em like they used to.
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