I made a visit to a video game store in the nearest town (over 40 km from here). To my surprise they are stacking 8 bit game console cartridges! They have Game Gear too!! Castlevania is priced 59 €!!? I reeally wanted to buy it, but I'm not sure would I play it...
For now I'll play Sid Meier's Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword with Caveman 2 Cosmos mod. One more turn...
It's because the only people who buy the actual cartridges these days are the collectors, the people trying to recapture some weird sense of nostalgia, and a famously "NES Hard" game like Castlevania 1 has to be a massively popular choice.
Anyone who just wants to
play the game has emulators or other resources.
Galactic Civilizations 3 is my current annoyance. Thinking of loading up Baldurs Gate II and play it soonish. Want a good RPG to play.
So, I may get lynched for this, but...
Am I the only person that has no fondness for Baldur's Gate?
I didn't like the original and stopped playing within 3ish hours, maybe 4. I tried playing the remake they did recently, and ALSO stopped - it reminded me how much I hate AD&D2e without any of the quirk and charm of Planescape Torment's setting.
So I started the remake of Fire Emblem Gaiden, AKA Shadows of Valencia, on 3DS. It's pretty good, but it does have a beginner's trap of early game, offering an "Equal class change" to four of your starting characters, with the same options (Cavalier/Merc/Mage/Cleric)... but doesn't tell you that two characters get EXCLUSIVE spells as Mage and Cleric, respectively, and the other two suck at those jobs. I guess that is in the tradition of early NES and especially Fire Emblem games, but I am still vexed about it.
One neat feature is that they have a rewind: a timeturner device that lets you flip battles backward. Pretty handy if you've just let one of your most valuable units accidentally stray forward, or a lucky crit just offed your only healer... which happens a fair bit in Fire Emblem, and it means you're not constantly resetting the game. I'm sure next time I play Awakening I'm going to miss this feature a LOT. It has a set number of uses though.
So far the story is pretty generic, but it IS an NES game from the late 1980s. (bringing it back to Matti's post!)