The Retro/Vintage thing drives me crazy. Not that I mind words altering their meaning over time, that’s just a fact of language. But searching for things when the two words are used interchangeably half the time is a chore 😂 From what I’ve seen, other hobbies do it a bit better than video games do.

But I’m going to completely agree with the SNES. Early 3D aged so horribly, if you ask me. As much as I loved my N64 back in the day, it is easily my least used console and mostly just collects dust.

It is a Halloween tradition of mine to play through at least one game in the Ghosts 'n Goblins series every October and the past few years I’ve been branching out into ports of the games that I wasn’t previously familiar with.

This list and write up so absolutely incredible and it’s nice to see someone share a lot of my thoughts on them.

Especially with your

I start a lot of these Spectrum sections with “you’ll have to trust me on this…”

This is pretty much what I have to do, too. “I promise, it looks weird but it’s actually really good” is how I have to explain my love for the ZX Spectrum in general.

I think this really is just a personal preference deal. I WANT games with scores and grades. Come on, game, tell me that I'm horrible and that I need to do better! Maybe I'm into the punishment, I don't know. Played too much Bop It! as a kid and got used to the guy screaming when I messed up.

This is why I play so many arcade style games, and so many rhythm games. This is why communities for speedrunning, rhythm games, and high scores still exist - otherwise I would think I'm completely alone in this 😂

Killer Instinct, arcade and SNES Killer Instinct 2 (arcade) which was kind of ported as Killer Instinct Gold (N64)

Those are my top tier without a doubt.

Bloody Roar : Primal Fury was absolutely excellent as well.

I remember these when they came out and were getting passed around on flash sites. It was maybe a couple years later that they remade the animation- my brother and a couple of our friends were so excited we all gathered around a computer to watch it together and we were all floored!

I think the one you linked is, by far, the more recognized one.

Maaaaaan this brought me back. The original animation for this was from 2000.

https://youtu.be/Cp-Ys_iFwnM

The original animation in case anyone who hasn’t seen it is curious.

Right off the bat, the Dead Space series is pretty good. Crazy as it sounds, Dead Space: Extraction (a wii game that no one talks about, although it is also on the PS3) is probably my favorite in the series.

You can’t go wrong with the Silent Hill series, and another possibly unpopular opinion is that Silent Hill 4 : The Room is probably my favorite. >

Now a real oddball pick. Is it the best game? No. Does it have an amazing story? No. But Obscure and Obscure 2 were a lot of fun of you’re cool with “this is like a really low budget campy horror flick” kind of games. Played them with a buddy a few years ago and it was the most fun co-op experience I’ve had in ages.

I believe world let’s your create new communities.

Weird issue that I had, but the name of the community you’re making needs to be in all lowercase letters. Any chance that’s the issue you’re having?