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Does anyone do T-shirts themed around 8/16 bit retro games, but the weird British ones? I want a Fat Worm Blows A Sparky, Ant Attack or Spindizzy T-Shirt dammit
Looking for this stuff just leads me to a ton of Nintendo IP and like, have you any idea how late/expensive the NES was here? About 3 people bought one. We were all playing Pyjamarama and Hovver Bovver
@sinbad I don’t think I’ve ever played on an actual NES. A friend eventually had a SNES which seemed pretty alright (mostly because of Street Fighter 2). Otherwise there were a few megadrives, master systems and gameboys, but mostly home computers: Speccies, BBCs, C64s, Amigas or Ataris. They were more interesting because you could mess about with them way more too. To this day, I don’t really “get” what’s quite so appealing about a chubby Italian plumber… 
@drakeblue I got a SNES when it came out but it doesn’t feel properly retro to me, since I wasn't a kid anymore by then. Love the look of your game, reminds me of Oids on the ST
@sinbad Speccy lad myself. I think my "retro" line runs somewhere between the Amiga/ST and the SNES/MegaDrive. I do think every 8-bit thing counts - we were really wrestling with the capabilities back then. It was an achievement to make anything even recognisable. Actually getting to "art" was basically impossible. But it also means those games are... hard on the eyes.
The ST/Amiga was the first time things actually looked somewhat like the box cover.
@sinbad You can still clearly see the limits, and that's the "retro" part - grappling with those.
SNES/MegaDrive had less CPU power, but more hardware, and for some of those games I think they got to "good enough" graphics to lose some of that "retro" feel. But I am absolutely open to debate on this.
Of course, as soon as you want to go 3D it all looks terrible again. 3D stays "retro" all the way up to the N64/Saturn/PS1 - all of which look eye-scorchingly bad in their own ways.
@TomF yeah I’m thinking retro more in the sense of “from my childhood” which is of course entirely subjective. A lot of stuff that's filed as “retro” feels not massively different from modern 2D games to me, compared to the weird shit we played 