Last game you played?

[UglyJoe]

It's Excitebike, but plays a little bit faster.

[Cam3ron@FW]

well, at least they're putting wiiware to a good use by remaking retro games

[NintendoKing]

I have been playing the game ZEN Intergalactic Ninja,
a game I got as a gift from Jedi!

[Nightstar699]

Ah zen is a good game. I played silver surfer (nes) beat it, kaiketsu yanchamaru (gb) beat it, and grand theft auto san andreas (ps2) beat it. Lots of gaming today.

[Pikkon]

New Super Mario Bros. Wii

[Nightstar699]

Volguard 2 on famicom. Crazy game, so awesome. I gotta get the real cart of it.

[zombiepowder]

Machinarium

[FamicomFreak]

Parasite Eve J(PS1)

Really awesome awesome game!

[Nightstar699]

Tekken 4 (PS2) beat it as kazuya.

[Medisinyl]

Been playing Ocarina of Time for days now.  Had it about 6 years ago and never beat it, then all of my N64 stuff disappeared after a move (finally decided to re-buy it recently)...   I'm now nearing the end of the game.  Not a bad game, but I still think Zelda II is the best.  I'm often left feeling like I'm wasting time with OoT.

[manuel]

If this were a bigger forum, you'd be under attack right now.
Not hailing OoT all the way is a sacrilege!  

[cubelmariomadness]

To tell you the truth, I don't really like Zelda games. They're OK, but way too complex. You're lost in a maze, which have a lot of hidden stuff, like hit the tree, push the rock, then kill a Knight thing, then just to get to a palace. I prefer jumping on goombas over running around a world with way too many well concealed secrets.

[Cam3ron@FW]

Super Mario World 3: Island of mystery

[Medisinyl]

To tell you the truth, I don't really like Zelda games. They're OK, but way too complex. You're lost in a maze, which have a lot of hidden stuff, like hit the tree, push the rock, then kill a Knight thing, then just to get to a palace. I prefer jumping on goombas over running around a world with way too many well concealed secrets.

Actually, my gripe with the SNES and N64 Zelda games are that they don't conceal the secrets well enough at all.  Everything after the NES games just gave you the answers to everything--no real discovery.  As a kid, I loved loading up with bombs and trying every spot possible (was much more fun than bombing an obvious crack, even if I did have to pay for door repair).  The N64 game has a fairy that tells you how to do every puzzle, an item that lets you see the fake walls, ridiculously obvious bomb locations, and unfortunately, mind-numbingly slow text sections you can't speed up, and in some cases (every time you buy an item) can't skip.  And the amount of time wasted on even just listening to the Ocarina songs after playing them must add up to quite a bit by the end.  Also, the map flashes to show you where you should go next.  It just makes me feel like I'm going through the motions to play a drawn out movie (in retrospect, doing something like the 3 heart challenge, etc. would most likely make OoT far more enjoyable--as it stands, I have no fear of getting hit, and all of the bosses have been push overs thus far [I'm currently about to start Ganondorf's castle]).   It's always a disappointment to find that so many games that get rave reviews are unbelievably easy.

Zelda II is the most straight forward of any of the Zelda games IMO, and it's a much more responsive/faster side-scroller.  Aside from some fake walls at the end of the game, there aren't many concealed secrets you have to find, you just might not end up with a full health or magic meter by the end of the game.  On top of that, the leveling system maintains the feeling of consistent progress.  

[133MHz]

Things like that are heavily influenced by the age of the player. When I was a kid I had plenty of time and drive to find all of the secrets in my video games. Now that I'm older and life's responsibilities kick in, I don't have the time to do that anymore, and when I have some free time to relax and play video games, I want an enjoyable and straightforward experience. Even with a ton of free time (which is becoming scarce these days) it doesn't feel as satisfying as it used to when I was younger.

Besides, when you got stuck in the olden days, you didn't have ubiquitous Internet access, YouTube, GameFAQs, or even emulators. Back in the day there was a lot less stuff to keep you entertained. Most of the time when you got stuck on a game, you were on your own and there wasn't really much else to do, other than "bombing every possible square" and eventually beating the game and finding all the secrets. As a kid with no responsibilities and no Internet, you really have all the time in the world for stuff like that. And for the most of us mortals who didn't have rich parents, we had very few games (no emulators!) and so we were eager to make the most out of them.

We've got so many entertainment at our disposal these days that we get bored too quickly because our options have expanded and our expectations are greater.

Damn... this ended up sounding like an old man's rant.