Your Favorite Non-FPS Video Games

I just finished watching the documentary. Very entertaining! (The Internet Archive is a wonderful resource at times. ;-))

After watching the documentary (Atari: Game Over), I think I might be starting to go down another rabbit hole. Apparently, someone patched the original E.T. ROM and fixed it up to a large degree, *and* the download is available.

Here's the Wikipedia page for the video game: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial_(video_game)

Here's Reference #83 from the Wikipedia page: https://web.archive.org/web/20190508201629/https://www.pcworld.com/article/2032869/how-hacking-fixed-the-worst-video-game-of-all-time.html

Finally, here's the web page containing the download link for the hacked ROM: https://web.archive.org/web/20190512105620/http://www.neocomputer.org/projects/et/

I'll have to install an Atari 2600 emulator, but I think Stella is the emulator most recommended. It's available in my Linux repository. :-)

Strangely, no. The guy who did the hack said that it was one of his favorite games as a child. But I'm glad he hacked it anyway...

Yeah, it's a FPS, so I'm not really interested in it. But you could start your own thread and gush all over it if you want to. :-)

Super Metroid.  I never managed to get 100% items.  There was one misspelled expansion that I always had trouble getting too.  (Or something above the ship.  You had to use bombs to get to it.)

I might be confusing with another item, I got that one.  I thought there was something else you had to get on top of the ship, morphball, jump, bomb, and keep placing bombs until as they blast you upward.  (I don’t think you could jump directly up because of the ship). And spin jump would fail too.

I never did well on time though, I got to where she removed helmet at the end.

Yes.  It’s been a while, I don’t remember what was up there but I think that’s the spot

If you guys keep suggesting FPS games, I might have to start blocking people. lol

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Wikipedia doesn't classify either one as a FPS, so I guess they're okay.

I imagine that there are grey areas, but I think anything's fine, as long as it's not directly classified as a FPS.

I tried playing Doom long ago. I think I played it maybe 5 minutes or so, and I just couldn't understand the attraction. I liked the original Duke Nukem, and I guess it was somewhat similar to a FPS (shoot anything that moves), but I guess the sidescrolling arcade format made it different enough.

I've always wanted to try out Legend of Zelda, but I've never owned any consoles. I'll experiment with the emulator path.

I've been playing Legend of Zelda recently...it's just as fun as I remember...my kids think it's too difficult. I wish I could play Contra...I used to play that game all the time...still remember the code to start with 30 men instead of 3. Commando was another fun game from the og NES days. Some of the og games can be downloaded on the switch like Punch Out. I beat the game back in the day but I can't presently

I remember Oregon Trail...if we finished our typing practice on the computer at school

Then we got to play that or Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego