I also grew up in that magical era of the 80’s 90’s, old, fat and jaded now. But what a glorious time we had! I was lucky, my father was in a very good job, I was rather spoilt. Perhaps I didn’t appreciate it back then, but I look back with gratitude now. I started out with an Amstrad CPC, which I loved. But later lusted after the glorious Amiga 500, I was lucky enough to get one, one Christmas, I was so happy I shed tears. I had consoles, Mega Drive, SNES. I am so happy there is now such a good retro scene, people just like me, enjoying nostalgia.
I play these old games now, I do own the cartridges, discs, etc. Don’t want to be in shady legal territory.
At the moment, I think I have the most fondness for Bubble Bobble on the NES, and Rainbow Islands Extra on the Megadrive/Genesis. I play Rainbow Islands on normal mode, keep to the original. The games for the computer systems work but I can’t get my controller working properly, Open Emu is fine. I have ROM’s for the Spectrum (not popular I think in the states). And the Amiga. Owing to the controller difficulties, I only have a couple of ROM’s for the Amiga, Arkanoid, and Lemmings.
I have latterly come to appreciate the Atari ST, always there was competition between it and the Amiga, both very popular here in England. I love that the ST boots into it’s operating system, on the Amiga you needed a boot disc. And if you lost it, or it became corrupt, you had a gaming console. Not so great.
I can remember the hype when the Super Nintendo came out, the games looked amazing for the time. My favourite Mario has to be Super Mario World. Such fond memories of it.
