5 Best Ways To Play Retro Games

Retro gaming is popular and with good reason too. Remembering what we played as children or introducing our own kids to the games that moulded us. There has become a plethora of ways to relive our youth, in digital form. These are not in any particular order, just the five ways I love playing the pixel art goodness of yesteryear.

5, Mobile (Not emulated).

Mobile gaming gets a lot of slack, pretty much good reason too. With the microtransactions and the candy crush clones. Yet snk, square enix and

Capcom have made excellent ports of their classic games. With some of their very best games on android and iOS. SNK with their metal slug series, Square Enix released Secret of Mana (which I love now) and Dragon quest, they even updated Dragon quest games to play vertically for a more natural way to hold your phone. The plus side is they are usually quite cheap and fully licenced. So no adverts or anything scary to worry about.

4. Emulation (Including Mobile).

Emulation has the big bonus of being free, with fans of the games bringing life back into their favourites and sharing with the world. You can download the emulator and games, or you can create, your own console with raspberry pi. It requires more work, and not being officially licensed, means they could be taken down anytime. Bugs can also take a lot longer to fix if done by a hobbyist and not a professional. Not putting them down emulating is great. It preserves games for future generations. So it needs more support from the bigger companies.

3. Original Consoles.

This is how the games were meant to be played. The controls, look and everything is usually better this way. It is also the most expensive way to play the old favourites. With games reaching five figures on eBay. I wish I was joking. Though some games can be quite cheap too, if you are willing to forgive a lack of box. With cartridges this is not much on an issue, with disc scratches are almost guaranteed.

2 HD remasters and Collections.

Konami is actually the best for this, they might be pummelling our favourite franchises in to the ground. With their Castlevania and Contra collections being far less than a full price game. Playing them again on modern consoles is great. No need to fill up your living room or man cave with a dozen consoles when you can play them on one. Most of the time too, these games have had graphic and gameplay tweaks making them better to play. Being in a collection you get several games too. Capcom and the mega man collection is another great example. HD remasters are just the same game at higher resolution, so the play better on modern consoles.

1, The Evercade.

The evercade and it's home variant the evercade vs. Is by far my favourite way to play retogames. With fully licenced cartridges, each being a collection. It brings you some real old school classics. When you have the sega mega collection on almost everything, yet there are games, that are missing from the collection. With games like splatter house 2 and 3, booger man and xevious. Not only being portable but can be played on your tv. The evercade has brought home what it felt like in the 90's. I was going to do mini consoles as number one. Yet they always seem to be limited edition. The evercade is not. The consoles are relatively cheap and come with a huge amount of games. They are well made, with a plastic screen, where as a cracked screen on mobile can ruin the fun. Less chance of it happening here. No downloading or emulation problems as the games are on cartridges, which also reduces load times too.

If you want to play retrogames, the evercade is the way I do more often than not.