I'm Getting My Old NES, SNES and Genesis Game Back Soon
 

When I get my next disability check (SSI) later this week and I pay off my bills, I'm going on eBay to buy a HyperKin Retron system that supports old games of the NES, SNES, Genesis and Master System games along with the games I had to sell at an estate sale after my dad passed and just as I lost the house.

I can't believe I had to sell my classic game collection in the first place, because my mom felt they wouldn't fit in my current coach house studio. Regardless to what she thinks, I'm going to buy back my games, because I want them. These are the games I want as follows and system:

NES:
Ninja Turtles 1989
Ninja Turtles II The Arcade Game
Ninja Turtles III The Manhattan Project
Mega Man III
Legend Of Zelda (Gold)
Legend Of Link (Gold)
Little Nemo The Dream Master
Super Mario Bros W/ Duck Hunt
Super Mario 2
Super Mario 3
Dragon Warrior
Ultima Exodus

SNES:
Ninja Turtles IV Turtles In Time
Pit Fighter
The Legend Of the Mystical Ninja
Mortal Kombat I
Mortal Kombat II
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Super Street Fighter II Turbo

Sega Genesis:
Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Sonic & Knuckles
Ninja Turtles And The Hyperstone Heist
Tom and Jerry Frantic Antics
Monopoly

I won't get them all at once, because that can be too expensive for me to spend at once. I want to get the ones I can play with my best friend, who is coming over in a week or two and he's from that time period also.

Save the money and just emulate them, man. Download the ROMS and that's it. Most of the time you plug those old games in anyways and the rose colored lens falls away and you play for 15 minutes and are done.

The Steam Deck is great for emulation. So many emulators for it all the way up to the PS3 era (even though not all PS3 ROM's play perfect unfortunately).

I did downloaded the emulator/ROM version of those old games and I don't like having to memorize the keyboard in connection to a gaming controller. Besides, it's not the same as playing on a system cartridge in front of a HDTV which this console I'm aiming for is capable of.

Also, I had those old games as far back as 1985 when I was 3 with Super Mario Bros and it wasn't my fault I was told that I had to sell them in an estate sale after my dad passed away and I lost the house and half my stuff. I had a lot of stuff of my own and I couldn't take it with me to my current coach house studio. Those games brought me fond memories of my family, my friends and my youth and I want them back.

I know it's strange for a 41 year old man like myself trying to chase after his long gone past, but the 1980s and 1990s was a big deal to me, because back then, life in general was better: games, TV, movies, cartoons, bowling alleys, the games we played with our friends during school recess. If I can redo 1985-1999 again, I would.

I thought SSDI was disability. For me I have really painful neuropathy along with frequent migraines and degenerative disk disease. My body doesn't feel too good these days which sucks because I used to be a decent skateboarder. Anyway, sometimes I have found that when life is very hard and I don't want to cope with hard drugs or alcohol, that chasing some of my positive childhood memories can be a great thing for my mind. It's what led me back to the Ninja Turtles and to this web site. I don't know what kinda games IMJ played when he was a kid, but I love replaying through old games like Twisted Metal, Super Mario, Zelda and hundreds of others. All of my best friends live kinda far away these days so if I have to be alone, then I am gonna make the best of it. Chess is my favorite game of all though.

I was coming here to post exactly this. And if you need to have a "legit" NES or SNES controller in your hand I'm sure you can find USB ones somewhere on the internet to order.

Also, you can play most of these games legally on the Switch as well, you don't need emulators. The old TMNT games are on the Cowabunga collection, most of Nintendo's big NES/SNES/N64 and Gameboy games are on the Nintendo Switch Online subscription.

Literally any popular old game is already on Switch anyway, besides some licensed games based on old movies/tv shows. Let alone all the old Megaman, Sonic, Castlevania, Contra collections are all on Switch too. Just play them legally on Switch.

Just get one of those 3rd party emulator consoles that has essentially everything on it. If you don't want to do the PC emulation route, that's the next best bet.

Last night I did a quick research on the Nintendo Wii system to see if it's possible to hook HDMI to it and it is, but you need an adaptor for it. So I'm going to buy a Wii system and my games back.

The games for the Wii I want back are:
Resident Evil The Umbrella Chronicles
Resident Evil The Darkside Chronicles
Wii Sports
Tomb Raider Anniversary
Tomb Raider Underworld
Mortal Kombat Armageddon
Call Of Duty Modern Warfare Reflex Edition

If you are getting a Wii then why not just buy a modded Wii filled with sega genesis, Snes, Nes, and gameboy games from Ebay? That's what I did and I use gamecube controllers to play all of those old games.

Literally all those games have also been re-released in HD versions on modern consoles.

You could buy a Raspberry pi and fill it with all the emulators you want or use an Everdrive cartridge on the original consoles. There are so many options better than spending a fortune to have the original games by feeding speculators on ebay.

Also, your past is gone, there's no reason to try to chase it, you won't get real happyness by doing that. Try to find something good in your present instead. Find new hobbies, try to know people near you. Your can only really live in your present, everything else are just memories and illusions.

If you want to get technical then you could say that the present is an illusion as well. Everything we feel is just chemicals in our brains. I know for a fact that you can achieve some temporary delight in chasing some memories along the lines of games, movies, music, and T.V. shows. Nostalgia has helped me quite a lot while in the depths of depression.

Oh, for sure! But you won't get out of depression through nostalgia, it's a double-edged sword even if it can fell cozy and relaxing. I'm sorry for your hard times, I hope you fell better now.

Well you can say that my past is over, but I want my 1980s/1990s life (except school) back. Life was so much more enjoyable and easier back then than it has been since Y2K and that included video games, TV, cartoons and movies and recreational activities.

I wonder, being age 41, that going after my past is a form of a mid-life crisis, or am I still too young for that?

I disagree that it is a double edge sword for everyone. We will just have to agree to disagree. Different strokes for different folks. I am doing much better than I was. I had extra bone on both sides of my hips that was tearing up my cartlidge along with a multitude of other physical problems without any diagnosis ay the time. Along with my girl of 5 years cheating on me and all of my closest friends no longer near me. My body felt so bad that I stopped going out a long time ago so I was out of the loop socially. Luckily I got surgeries on my hips, but my painful neuropathy will not go away and it also effects my wrists and hands. It makes guitar/bass playing painful. Talk about down in the dumps. Nostalgia and chess is what held me together. I used it as a positive weapon and I still do to this day. I don't think there was ever any negative drawback from my nostalgia indulgence. Some of us have so many problems that it isn't so easy to just go out and socialize and go on adventures. My adventure days are long behind me due to my legs. I feel like I can kinda see where this guy is coming from even though my problems are physical in nature.

Nah, not a crisis. Just a difficulty to adapt to different times, a different phase of life. It's understandable.

Well I got my SSI deposit today and not counting other things I pay for, I made the first game purchases.

NES/SNES/Genesis console
Ninja Turtles IV Turtles in Time - SNES
The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja - SNES
Super Street Fighter II - SNES
Monopoly - Genesis
Mortal Kombat - SNES
Pit-Fighter - SNES
Mortal Kombat II - SNES

Of course I had to buy important things; cat litter, 2 months of car insurance and Amino Energy.

Where are you buying these from, ebay? You're spending a lot of your SSI money if you're on a fixed income.

The only bills I have to pay is my VISA and gas for the house, which is only $29. My mom isn't charging me rent or any other utility. I still have Shell gift cards so I don't have to pay for gas anytime soon. My Visa's limit is $4,450* (I just requested an increase which is now pending).

Even if I don't have enough money from SSI to pay for my bills, my aunt can send me a check from my estate account I inherited from my dad. So no matter what, I'm covered.

I better understand your point now and I like this part of your message. You USED nostalgia and not the other way around. That's good.
I hope you manage to get in touch with friends and go outside for a bit every now and then, even with your physical difficulties. Stay positive.

So I can't speak for other brands, but I can tell about my experience with the Old Skool Classiq N HD console. Don't even think about using it without a game genie. The pins are so tight that it creates a "grip of death" on the game cartridge. You won't last a week swapping the games in and out without breaking the pins. Fortunately my first one broke soon enough that i was able to exchange it on amazon. You have to use a game genie and you never remove it from the console.

Thanks. Every once in awhile I make the hour and a half drive to hang out with friends. So it's not like I am entirely alone. I used to have a whole bunch of friends, but through the years I lost touch with them. I do try to stay positive.

It sucks not feeling the best anymore, I'm sort of dreading hitting my 40s and 50s. Sucks being in constant pain with the mental health issues on top of it.

It does suck. I didn't mean to sound like a Debbie downer, but I just wanted to show how for some people nostalgia can be a positive force that can uplift one's spirit.

Nostalgia makes me feel good. I mean I watch movies from my time period, especially the good ol' 80s and 90s or earlier. I was born in 1982 and I watch The Three Stooges, which is my grandparent's generation.

I played all the same stuff you did but now move the bar back to being very young but still playing Pac-Man and Berserk on the Atari. And I have fond memories of all of them spanning Rygar on the NES, Super Mario World on the SNES and Mega Man 8 on the PSOne. I counted change from a coffee can I kept as a kid to buy Mega Man on the NES.

It's not the games. It's the mentality. In the past I've put them on, revisited them, realized it was great and got my fix in a few minutes of playing. But to dig-in and play through those games all over again, beginning to end? :lol: That's cool if you do it, but I just start feeling like there are other things I should be doing with the time at this stage of life.

I think you should respect that on it's own merits before pointing fingers at people. My input about retro-gaming was positive advice based on my experience, your input was some kind of questioning of my experiences. Big difference. My input was designed to help with perspective, where your input was designed as a defensive, passive aggressive attack. I was helpful, you were rude.

Did I hurt your feelings with my comment? I was only implying that maybe the games you played when you were a kid weren't that great if you only go back to them for a couple of minutes. Go cry me a river.

Today I got the multi-format system and 6 games came in. I played through the Turtles In Time in upgraded 4K on the SNES and it looks and sound amazing. The picture quality is a lot better than it did on those CRT TVs 30 years ago. Not only did I play Turtles in Time (as Leonardo), I also beat it. I haven't played a SNES game off a console in many years but today, I played like I'm still an expert.

I'm so happy that I got this set up. The only downside is that the system came with only 1 SNES; 1 Genesis; 2 NES controllers, but so far the only games I have delivered are SNES games. My best friend is visiting me this week and I only have 1 SNES controller. I have 2 NES controllers, but no games yet. My Genesis game Monopoly comes tomorrow, but only 1 controller. Oh, well, I'll just have to get another controller for the SNES and Genesis for when he comes over in the future. It shouldn't be too expensive.

So if you like old games and want to see it on today's HD 4K TVs, this set up is the way to do it. I highly recommend it to any game enthusiast.

I'm not one of these retro guys, but part of me would kind of enjoy playing old NES or SNES games on a decent-sized CRT TV. There's something about that "softness" that really makes NES and SNES graphics completely different vs. the flat coldness of an LED monitor.

Go for it. What's holding you back? Although those old CRT TVs are obsolete now. Maybe you can get one from a place that sells outdated tech. I still recommend HDTVs because of the sharpness. I just want to see what these old games look like on the A80L XR Processor Sony OLED TV.