So many people have been looking around for great and old games that have been ported/remade to the appstore. I got some of these that are good, i cant put vvvvvv, slayin or any other of those games because they are more of a modern old school game. And i wish i could put Rayman 2: The great escape on the list but since it got removed on the appstore then it wont be added. 1. GTA San Andreas 2. GTA III 3. GTA Vice City 4. Secret of mana 5. Chrono Trigger 6. Activision antholigy 7. Sonic the hedgehog 1,2, CD 8. Namco Arcade ( brings a few retro arcade games) 9. Midway Arcade ( same as above ) 10. Sonic Spinball 11. The bard's tale 12. Baldr's gate 13. Tomb raider 14. Pac-Man 15. Tetris 16. Snake 17. Doom Classic 18. Duke nukem 3D, 2 19. Double Dragon Trilogy 20. Metal Slug 1,2,3 and X 21. Earthworm Jim 22. Prince of persia classic 23. Crazy taxi 24. Jet set radio 25. Soul calibur 26. Sonic CD 27. Tony hawk's Pro Skater 2 28. Final Fantasy 1,2,5,6, tactics 29. Streets of rage 1,2,3 30. Golden Axe 1,2,3 31. Street fighter 2 Collection 32. Marvel Vs Capcom 33. R-type 1,2 34. Final fight 35. Riven 36. Myst 37. Mortal combat 38. Strife 39. Raiden Legacy 40. Alone in the dark 41. Shining Force 42. Altered Beast 43. Phantasy star 1,2 44. Ecco the Dolphin 45. Gunstar Heroes 46. Chu Chu rocket 47. Fur Fighters: Viggo on Glass 48. Monkey Island 49. Ghosts n goblins gold knights 1,2 50. King of fighters 97 51. Alone in the dark Anyone got a few others?
I think these are ports, not necessarily retro. And i dont think the Final Fantasy titles in 3D remakes would count as retro at all.
Well most of the games in the original list are from the 90's (or 80's) with some like GTA being over 10 years old. I mean retro changes, to me retro does mean 80's/early 90's but now it seems to suggest 10+ years old which is fair enough. Plus many of those other games were on mostly dead systems (Eg Genesis/SNES/C64/Spectrum/Atari) etc so its great to have these retro games on iOS
We're getting old now,Remember we are special though.Lucky enough to know what it was like before the internet took over.
For me i love looking over all the years of gaming. When i was very young in the late late 70's my cousin had an Atari VCS, amazing seeing that. Then as a kid the home computer boom of the 80's so i loved playing games (via tape !) on my ZX Spectrum and programming some basic short games. Then the arcades were an amazing time in the 80's. 90's and consoles and the rise of the PC. Mid 90's the internet and so on. It really makes you appreciate a lot of old classics, all these years later i'm buying games for a pound or two every week to run on a mobile device, full of classics from the 70s/80s/90s and 00s. Amazing !! (And its great theres a monthly magazine for retro fans - Retro Gamer, love this mag)
Yeah,I had friends come over during the evening every day after school and we would be playing old classics like double dragon,contra and all other coop games like TMNT series all day long,The great thing was we never got bored of them even if we played them day in day out there was something about having no cutscenes or dialog,You had to figure out every thing yourself.Then there were passcodes which were basically your saves which were what 20 digits long sometimes which you had to write down on paper.My good ole Nes still works just as good it did all those years back sturdy system that one,Great times.
Because it's not a retro game ! It's an iOS game released in the last few years. It's not like it's a port if a 90s game etc
Why ? Its only a few years old, its on a modern device. Its not retro, its not a remake. Sorry not trying to start an argument but its not 'retro'. Retro is really games from the late 70s/80s and 90s. Granted you could say some games in the early 00's are now retro as the likes of Vice City are now 10 years old (only seems like yesterday) But how is Infinity Blade retro ?
Well, if you just consider the life cycle of the App Store, it could be a retro title in that aspect (App Store starts in 2008, Infinity Blade releases in 2010, so that's 2/3 of the App Store's life cycle it's been out) It's definetly not a retro title if we consider the entirety of gaming history...to me, a game is retro when it's been out for at least 15 years
I get what your saying but I still can't make my head think like that, it would be like saying the first iPhone is retro kind of thing when they still seem modern to me. I'm not saying your wrong, just I can't make myself think that way, but then I have trouble making myself think at all most days lol
Granted it might be an old iOS title. But retro in gaming terms means a game which is at least least 10 years old. The problem is a lot of kids seem to think retro means a game which is a year old. Retro is an old game previously on a format which may not be available anymore. Too many people seem to think we never had games before the year 2010 or something ! Be honest, retro means an old game, whether its Mario Land from the 80's, Space Invaders from the late 70's, Sonic or Doom from the 90s etc or even Vice City from 10 years ago (And its weird thinking of Vice City as a retro game). Looking at the list of 'retro games' on the first post people must realise what we're getting at here rather than a 3 or 4 year old iOS game which still gets the odd update. When i look at any retro website or a retro magazine, NONE of them say Infinity Blade is a 'retro' game. Thats just laughable
