Topic: Do you remember...?

@Gremio108 I remember AK smash court tennis. In fact I have mentioned it a ton of times on this site. The key to why that's a better game than anything since is the gameplay, other than the wind up power shot there isn't any context related animations in relation to the balls position and as long as you judge the return and are in roughly the right place will hit it back. Its a proper 2 player game of holding your nerve when you get a friend who can play just as well. No stupid special moves although there's a window for skill in how you can control shots to create an opening before whacking it into any space they aren't covering.

I have a ps2 game Everybody's tennis on the Ps4 which is practically the same. I've only ever played 1 player but it's pretty good and worth every penny.

@themcnoisy Rallies went on forever if you had two players of even skill, it was great.

I think it was because we had fewer games to play back then, but me and my mate seemed to get a lot more mileage out of them. Also on PS1, Unholy War and Worms saw similar epic battles. We had the original Soul Calibur on Dreamcast as well. We used to have 100-round matches on there

@Gremio108 likewise. If you like old skool Soul Calibur then Soul Calibur 6 will be right up your street. It's arguably as good, the only negative is any new character since SC3 onwards has been imo a crap design and feels out of place in the roster bar arguably Tira. Luckily there's only a few like Groh and Azwel but all in all its a big recommended from me.

As for getting mileage out of older games, we didn't have psplus and free games coming from everywhere also if your anything like me, probably only get an hour or two a night these days so can't become as competent.

@themcnoisy Yeah, I must admit, I keep getting tempted into playing PS Plus games when I'm trying to get the old backlog down. I suppose if I'm enjoying it, then it's all good, but yeah it does take time away from the games I've paid money for.

I'm hoping SC6 will drop in price towards the summer, because I was thinking about picking it up, for nostalgia's sake

Checking you had space on your memory card to save your new game before starting it. Or forgetting and not being able to save.

@kyleforrester87 When me and my mate first started the original Suikoden, we didn't have a memory card at all. So every time I went round we would just play the first couple of hours of the game. Absolute madness. It was a great day when we finally got one

@Gremio108 That's what it was like back in the day though, you'd never clear Sonic as you'd always get called down to dinner and would have to turn everything off and restart it again afterwards lol.

@kyleforrester87 Not Sonic 3 though..

@Thrillho whys that? I actually never had Sonic 3, I had S&N.. it didn't have a save ability did it?

The only Sonic game I could regularly clear was Chaos on Mastersystem anyway. That game was so easy. Really loved it too.

@themcnoisy we didn't those cases in the UK, we got purpose made cases and they were pretty good

@kyleforrester87 i remember the first time i played FFVII, i got it with my PS1 and didn't realise i needed a memory card so i didn't have one and once i found out i needed one i was unsure what to do, i had to leave my PS1 on for about a week none stop until i got one

@Frigate @FullbringIchigo

Come on, they told you in the box!

I too got FF7 Christmas 97, what a great couple of years 97-98 were for gaming.

@kyleforrester87 honestly i never looked at the back of the book back then i looked IN the book and i loved the info on the characters it gave

i miss those little books

and to be fair it does say "Try and beat FINAL FANTASY VII without it!" and that sounds like a challenge

@kyleforrester87 Whoah, you mean you never experienced Sonic 3 and Knuckles? You only had half the game! I had to regularly borrow Sonic 3 off my cousin because it was the only one I didn't have

@FullbringIchigo I bet you had a pirated version

Edit: oh you said you did look in the book just not the back, fair enough I believe you're legit!!

@Gremio108 haha yeah. I watched a 30 minute YouTube documentary about Sonic 3 and S&K the other week. In a nutshell they were meant to be the same game but due to time constraints they get chopped into 2 games and sold separately. The fans loved it. These days there would be uproar 😂

@kyleforrester87 i have both the Black Bar release and the Platinum release of FFVII on PS1 (same with FFVIII actually)

(old picture)

although i did actually do a no save run of FFVII once, i got to the northern cave where i was KO's in a boss fight

@FullbringIchigo photoshopped

I too have 2 FF7s, only one FF8 mind you (platinum version).

Honestly I did get a pirated NTSC version of 8 initially as I was so excited to get hold of it. That's why my version is Platinum, I picked it up to fill the gap later down the line.

Speaking of FF and remembering, I remember when you could buy a FF game knowing you were getting a A+++ experience, and the franchise wasn't bogged down with weird sub-games and films 😂

@kyleforrester87 so did a mate of mine although it somehow broke his PS1 eventually i don't know how though

in fact he had loads of pirated games on his PS1, i don't think he owned more that 5 real PS1 games

@kyleforrester87 Sonic 3 allowed you to save progress fully (level, lives, number of chaos emeralds).

Not playing Sonic 3 & Knuckles is almost heresy though. Hyper Sonic and Hyper Tails were great.

@Thrillho @kyleforrester87 Which Sonic was the game when you had to use the add on pack for mega drive? Cos I never played that. Think it was S & K.