AMA To heck with it, why not?

[TheGamesArchivist]

May as well throw my hat in, just know I ain't answering anything incriminating or too personal, dig?

I'm a long-time Archivist who's been emulating since '02 (my high school days were filled with people asking "How in the hell?" and I even got a few of the faculty in on the fun), and have more or less dedicated myself to the cause of digital preservation of gaming's past.

Go buck wild, I suppose, I'll answer what I can, when I can.

 

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How was your day?

 

[TheGamesArchivist]

How was your day?

I can't complain, think I may have gotten a sunburn during my walk to/from a place to grab a quick snack.

 

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Favorite game?

 

[TheGamesArchivist]

Favorite game?

Going strictly into older games, that's a tricky one to answer, 'cause I can't really narrow it down to just one...I have more of a broad range of games I feel nostalgia towards, and enjoy playing, however.
(If it's missing, I haven't really dipped my toes too deep into the platform)

Atari 2600 - Yar's Revenge

NES - Super Mario Bros. 3 / The Legend of Zelda / Metroid / Contra

Famicom - Kyatto Ninden Teyandee / Getsu Fuma Den / Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffitti

MSX2 - Metal Gear

Game Boy - Operation C / Fortified Zone / Pokemon Red/Blue / Kirby's Dream Land / Donkey Kong / Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3

Game Boy Color - Pokemon Yellow/Gold/Silver/Crystal / Dragon Warrior Monsters / Yu-Gi-Oh! Dark Duel Stories / Monster Rancher Battle Card GB / Harvest Moon 2 + 3 GBC

GBA - (Too fucking many to count, that shit was PEAK handheld gaming)

Genesis/Mega Drive - Rocket Knight Adventures / Toejam & Earl / Splatterhouse II

TG16/PCE - Splatterhouse

SNES - Demon's Crest / Secret of Mana / Chrono Trigger / Final Fantasy III/VI / Super Metroid

SuperFami - Kamen Rider / Assault Suits Valken / Magic Knight Rayearth / Gundam Wing: Endless Duel / Clock Tower

PSX - Einhander / Xenogears / Wild ARMs / Gex (trilogy) / Tomba! 2 / Resident Evil 3: Nemesis / Metal Gear Solid / Monster Rancher 2 / Harvest Moon: Back to Nature / FFIX / FFT

N64 - Banjo-Kazooie & Tooie / LoZ:OoT + MM / Goldeneye 007 / Jet Force Gemini / Hexen 64 / Conker's Bad Fur Day / Turok 2: Seeds of Evil / Harvest Moon 64

PS2 - Zone of the Enders / MGS2 / MGS3 / DmC3 / Graffiti Kingdom / Fatal Frame II: Crimson Butterfly / Silent Hill 4 / REC:V X / The Suffering / Psi-Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy

Dreamcast - Gunbird 2 / The House of the Dead 2 / MvC2 / Power Stone

Gamecube - MGS:tTS / LoZ: Twilight Princess / Metroid Prime / Sonic Heroes / Shadow the Hedgehog

(And so many more)

 

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Your most hated game dev/publisher?

 

[TheGamesArchivist]

Your most hated game dev/publisher?

In the West - it's a hard tossup between EA, Ubisoft, and Gearbox, but that last one is more of a personal vendetta against its showrunner.

EA is known as the studio killer, taking well-established names under their wing, then quietly gutting their franchises, and taking them out behind the woodshed, ol' yeller-style (see: Westwood, Bullfrog, etc.), while Ubisoft...honestly, feels like something tore the guts out of their company and is now wearing its skin like an ill-fitting suit.

In the East, it's another tossup, but between Greed and being a shithole Litigant.
See: Konami and Nintendo.

Konami whores out their IPs to studios that don't know what the fuck they're doing (See: Silent Hill for the last god knows how many years), while Nintendo sics their litigation hounds on anyone trying so much as to preserve a hint of what they built decades ago...or anyone daring to take their aging mold, and making something successful out of it.