WhoDestroysTheGond

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

Ghost Manor for the 2600 is a fun game with lots of atmosphere. However it's also pretty simple and will only occupy you for 10-20 minutes. It sure was a blast when I was a little kid, though.

There's also Monster Bash, the 1982 Sega arcade game.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ocarina of Time. After the action and increasingly beautiful pixel art of the first four Zelda games, I found the 3D one boring and ugly.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Like those occasional illustrations in Alice in Wonderland or Narnia, game manuals provided a window into a world you couldn't fully see (in the case of old consoles, due to low res or low poly graphics) and served as a jumping off point for so many children's imaginations to fill in the rest of the details.

https://atariage.com/manual_page.php?SystemID=2600&SoftwareLabelID=128&ItemTypeID=MANUAL&currentPage=0

Screenshot of Defender for the Atari 2600 with a spaceship flying around with blocky pixel graphics

Cover of the Defender manual, featuring a realistic painting of humans being abducted by alien spaceships

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Wonder Boy 3: the Dragon's Trap, a simple "Metroidvania" style platformer with fun action and enemy design. No deep story, but one of my all-time favorite game soundtracks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thirty cents is an absolute steal. Evoland does well as an homage to multiple generations of CRPGs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Agree, the lack of tactile feedback was awful. It's like playing on a mobile phone screen today

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This doesn't answer your question, but thank you for the love and patience you have for your son.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That games goes great with a real NES controller, so you can throw it across the room after dying.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Ultima Runes of Virtue 1 & 2 for the Game Boy. Great action-adventure-puzzle games. But very unforgiving, every dungeon is filled with fatal errors. I couldn't get to the end when I was young!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This is the gallery app I use. I'd love to use Simple Gallery, but F-Stop has a key feature that Simple doesn't: selecting all the images in one day. It's such a time saver, I couldn't give it up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Sorry, I accidentally duplicated this post from @[email protected].

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