Road Rash. Best video game intro vid ever

Oh man...badmotorfinger is going on the playlist today...Well done!

Droog....bored by 4 p.m

Actually there's still plenty of quality gameplay in the 16 bit era. I've got literally ever game ever for the megadrive and a lot are really good still, Castle of Illusion is timeless. I sometimes fire up with 2600 section in my arcade machine and play for 3 minutes before the rose tinted spectacles come off and I remember all the games are actually shit. Same with ZX spectrum, some amazingly original stuff mixed with 90% guff.

My favourite arcade game is Wonderboy in Monster Land. What a stupid arcade machine.....if you were good you could stay on for 40 minutes!!

Worst arcade game ever - Dragon's Lair.....arrrrrrgggggghhhhhhhhhh ....dead again!!!

I completed Space Ace back in the day. It at least told you what to do! Dragon's Lair was a guessing game.

I also completed Super Don Quixote but that was on my arcade machine with free credits.

Must say I don't really game any more. Sim racing isn't really gaming in VR with force feedback. I play Arma 3 a bit but that's a military sim. Bought God of war and that Horizon zero dawn game on ps4 last Xmas and only played a few hours of them.

Won't be getting a ps5 or xbox. First time I've not bought new consoles in over 30 years since I got a mega drive on jap import in 89.

Everything up to the Dreamcast era seems to be pretty nicely emulated now. I was playing that PS2 bike game Tourist Trophy on an emulator it was mostly ok but not 100%. Amazing that 360 and ps3 has some half decent emulation though.

I did buy a game called Session for the PC, it's skateboarding. It demands zero continual hours and I can just pick up and play. It's hard as fuck though, one leg per stick on the controller. Hard but quite realistic.

That's the key I think, time. Don't have time. Some of the modern games have pretty good stories and I'm glad I played The Last of Us and a few others but modern games are narrative monsters now. Not chuck in 20p and see how you go.

The last console I was really excited about was the dreamcast, it had some original stuff and was the last of the consoles that relied on arcade game conversions. I fucking lived in Shenmue for a bit. That was also the last gasp of the indie game shops as well. Fucking Electronic Boutique fucked small sellers by hogging all the new stock deliveries and then the supermarkets and GAME fucked them into oblivion.

I think my biggest 'whoa dude' gaming moment was seeing Tomb Raider on the Saturn and then playing it on Playstation. It was first time I'd really seen anything like it. Ok Doom has come out and a few like it but this felt like an actual world and the gap between that and 2d stuff was immense. I knew gaming was going to change forever after it.

The arcades still held a small attraction for me but the flood of Street Fighter and various clones created a sort of boom and bust with only viable machines being fighting games or physical attractions like side by side driving games. Obviously the Playstation versions of Tekken and Ridge Racer also were the death knell for arcades - why bother with them?

The first 3D PC graphics cards like the 3dfx were cool where the came out. I remember paying stupid money for that sort of shit to play stuff like Quake. Don't want to think about how much money I've spent really. Ducati money.

If you added up all the cash I have spent on just gaming computers from 2000 to 2015 I conservatively estimate around £20000. Probably a bit more because most of those rigs would have had a graphics card and memory upgrade in their 2.1 year life span.

I remember playing TOCA on the Playstation. It was a good game.