Well I played gba Fire Emblem sacred stones on 3DS on Saturday. But before that on original hardware.... eh. I played Majora's Mask on GC 3 months ago. Oh, I played Rhythm Heaven on DS about 3 weeks ago. Cool shit.
The last really old game I played on original hardware was Jet Grind Radio on the Dreamcast. And damn....I think that was like 2 years ago.
I also played Halo 2 on the Xbox with the original Duke controller not long ago.
I am all for being able to get enhanced versions of old classics and being able to download them onto new machines, but there's something to be said about playing them the original way they were designed to be played. Especially games that were built around one system or another.
I played Breakout and Super Breakout on my Atari 2600 about a month ago. 
Yakuza 2. 
I still have my Saturn hooked up, that is as far back as I go. I played nights on it a few years ago. I play my DC every once and a while. I play my PS1 games on my PS3 as well.
I know.
About a year ago I broke out my original brick Gameboy when i found my copy of Final Fantasy Adventure. I played in for 10 minutes before I decided I could be playing something else much more fun instead.
Last time I played an old game: Today - played about 5 hours of the original PSX Metal Gear Solid (199
but it was on the PS3 not original harware. It looked god-awful. The characters all look like leppers or like they've had vitriol thrown in their faces.
Now on original hardware ... hmm I don't know. I still play my DS regularly despite having a 3DS, does that count as old hardware now? I also played a liitle bit of Mario Picross on my Gamboy Color last summer. I enjoyed it except the cartridge battery was dead so I couldn't save my progress.
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I guess by my own standard the oldest game I played on the original system (not just pick up and play, which I do all the time, but a proper completion) was XIII on PS2 in January.
Is XIII any good? It's one of the free to play PC games on Gamefly, and I was debating if it was something I wanted to mess with the next time they screwed me with a week and a half of downtime.
robio said:Is XIII any good? It's one of the free to play PC games on Gamefly, and I was debating if it was something I wanted to mess with the next time they screwed me with a week and a half of downtime.
I played it on the gamecube, quite enjoyed it. Pleasant enough shooter based on an obscure French comic. It has a great cell-shaded look to it and a lot of the action is done in a true-to-its-comic-roots frame by frame way which is great fun
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It's French? Oh dear..... that doesn't sound promising.
robio said:Is XIII any good? It's one of the free to play PC games on Gamefly, and I was debating if it was something I wanted to mess with the next time they screwed me with a week and a half of downtime.
Very good. Though long by today's standards, and tough in one or two places, I found it to be in the four outta five stars range.
robio said:It's French? Oh dear..... that doesn't sound promising.
David Ducovney voices if that helps unfrenchify it. I think it's Belgian anyhoo.
aspro said:
David Ducovney voices if that helps unfrenchify it. I think it's Belgian anyhoo.
It was sounding promising until you pointed that out.
XIII is decent, the controls aren't quite there but the presentation and story and a few stealthy bits make up for it. There are some difficulty spikes though.
I played Monstania last night. It's a super short tactical RPG for the SNE. I did an entire blind run in about four hours. It was never released in North America, so the emulator I played it on is kind of the original hardware, apart from not being hardware.
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Dvader said:
I still have my Saturn hooked up, that is as far back as I go. I played nights on it a few years ago. I play my DC every once and a while. I play my PS1 games on my PS3 as well.
That's interesting. I find it much easier to go back to the 8/16-Bit games than I do the 32-Bit era games.
Seriously, when was the last time you played a really f'n old game ON THE ORIGINAL HARDWARE?
I'm currently playing Final Fantasy 7 on a PS2. Frankly, it doesn't feel old at all, pretty much like any RPG on a DS I've played recently (only of course much better in design).