Retro Gaming

[gwillybj]

Do table-top wargames from the 80's count as retro?

[Flux]

i should be getting a genuine Sega Genesis soon.

[Flux]

I got a Genesis model 2 and  three games.
Guess which ones?

[Buster's Uncle]

...They all got a hedgehog w/ superspeed?

[Flux]

...They all got a hedgehog w/ superspeed?

Well, yes, but one of them controls like crap.
Now list 3 and you have a really good shot of getting it right.

[Buster's Uncle]

I do not keep track of the Speedy Gonzalez porcupine.

[Flux]

I do not keep track of the Speedy Gonzalez porcupine.

Okay.
One of them is Sonic Spinball.
Now you don't need to know anything but english numerals.

[Buster's Uncle]

Not Roman?

[Flux]

Not Roman?

Well, the top row of my keyboard is not Roman?

[Buster's Uncle]

You tell me.

[Flux]

You tell me.

Huh, this is really stupid.
Sonic, Sonic 2, Sonic Spinball (spinball is a loose cart)
There was also this one game I knew nothing about that was a loose cartridge. I almost got it for $4.
The only thing is that I had to use 6 cue tip ends to make Sonic Spinball work. 6!

[Buster's Uncle]

Have you tried pencil erasers?

[Flux]

Have you tried pencil erasers?

And rubbing alchohol?
No.

Also, upon hearing that I had gotten a Genesis I got a free Atari 2600 from my uncle. And there was a copy of River Raid in it.
That makes me happy.
But it was even filthier than Sonic Spinball.

[Unorthodox]

There was an off-brand fantasy game, something about a tree, that I was very fond of, and a war game, I think the name was Desert Fox...

I think you're thinking of Desert Commander.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_Commander

Fond of that, but my favorite wargame on the NES was Conflict.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_%28video_game%29

HEXASOURYOKUSEN  In case anyone has a copy and needs to access the hidden last level.  (from memory, might be a SLIGHT misspelling somewhere.) 

[Buster's Uncle]

Yeah; that's the one.  I reinvented the pike square playing that, only with artillery.