🌸Retro Games🌸

Last Updated: 2024-07-10

Playing

(yes, the playstation 3 is a retro console. yes, you're that old)

Completed

fuck that special cup! everything else gold!

Planning

Sourcing & Emulation

Pick games for one of the top100 lists on gamefaqs: SNES, GBA, N64, PS2
I tend to stick to the top 20, with some franchise / genre specific exceptions.
Metacritic is a decent fallback for finding good games.

Use archive.org nointro roms: SNES, GBA, N64
Vimm's Lair for more recent stuff like PS2 and Gamecube
I used emulatorgames before I learned about nointro rom sets

Gamefaqs is also by far the best to find walkthroughs if you get stuck.

I now emulate everything on my m1 macbook air.
The exception are PS3 games, I play those on original hardware.

PC

Since the beginning of 2024 I have largely dropped PC gaming in favour of retro games. However in the ~5 years before that I played a fair bit of PC, and as such my favourites deserve their fair mention on my site. The following 6 are games I can wholeheartedly recommend. They are well described and tagged on steam, you'll definitely know if you like them within the 2 hour steam return window.